03/01/2026
REPOSTED
Mined Salt & Sea Salts Are Pure Poison
AND I HAVE BROUGHT THE RECEIPTS!
I WILL NOT DEBATE OR ARGUE THIS!
Well, a lot has changed since I first started talking about this about 10 years ago, but one thing that hasn’t changed is that so many people have been convinced that these toxic salts are somehow healthy. And boy oh boy, talking about the toxicity of salt is like being blasphemous to far too many people, even though the evidence is indisputable.
When I first presented this more than 10 years ago, the pushback was extreme and unrelenting; however, even the likes of Dr. Mercola and Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, wrote stories about just how toxic Himalayan salt is, but then forgot about all that as soon as they found out how much money they could make from selling it. They might sell out, but I won’t.
When I first presented this, there were research scientists, doctors, etc., all of whom told me I was full of crap, that it wasn’t true, and that they were going to do a spectral analysis on their salt themselves and present it to the people. So, I challenged them to do so. And there were a lot of them! All but one returned and apologized, indicating that the information I presented was accurate.
Even here in 2025, Peer-Reviewed Science, Mamavation, and Medium.com have done deep dives into researching the toxicity of mined salts.
Wait, we aren’t done yet! Let’s talk about the unstable radioactive isotopes in mined salts. While there’s a big push to distract from the radioactive elements, here is a peer-reviewed
Department of Physics, College of Education, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani, Iraq, tested 35 retail salt products, and you are NOT going to like what they found!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0969806X25002592
Mamavation, a Nonprofit Health Advocacy Group, focuses only on lead because there are no listed safe limits for mercury for anything other than fish products, and none for aluminum at all, according to the Codex or the FDA. They had over 30 brands of mined salts third-party tested, and found 78% of them had highly toxic levels of lead. Ref: https://mamavation.com/food/sea-salt-himalayan-salt-heavy-metals-lead.html
Medium.com conducted an AI deep dive in 2025 to let AI find the truth, and they went further, even acknowledging the radioactive isotopes and that regular table salt is the safest.
Ref: https://medium.com/.thornton/ai-research-comprehensive-salt-safety-analysis-heavy-metal-contamination-data-and-health-risk-4cd425e45f00
A ridiculous charade within our community of natural health and living has been playing out for years. Too many people have been buying into outright lies. The facts are hidden right in front of their eyes, in hopes that nobody pays attention to them, or they simply haven't done their due diligence and are just believing what others are telling them.
WHY IS THIS SUCH A HUGE PROBLEM
BECAUSE 82% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION TESTED AS SURPASING THE MERCURY TOXICITY THRESHOLD. This is according to the Biodiversity Research Institute of Maine (BRI), the world's foremost expert on environmental mercury.
Reference:https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/BRI-IPEN-report-update-102214%20for%20web_0.pdf
Before all the detractors, cynics, and armchair warriors start trying to defend their salt lamps or Himalayan salt, I'll tell you right now that scientists, naturopathic doctors, and others have already tried to call me out on this and had their own spectral analyses done of salt lamps and Himalayan salt. Every one of them found that they were highly toxic. If you're looking to argue with me on this, you'll lose because I'm about to bury you in indisputable evidence from the suppliers and manufacturers of these products. The first thing you need to understand is what the safe levels are for these toxic metals in our drinking water. You also need to realize that 80% of it will be cleared through digestive processes, rather than off-gassed by Himalayan salt lamps, which give you 100%.
Supplementing your water with unrefined salt under the currently listed protocols of ¼ teaspoon per glass, twice daily, will result in ridiculously high levels of toxic metals being consumed.
Ref: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/environmental-workplace-health/reports-publications/water-quality/guidelines-canadian-drinking-water-quality-summary-table.html
Now, let’s look at some certificates of analysis from unrefined salt producers!
CELTIC SEA SALT > CURE ZONE DATA
Let’s look at the corruption that’s now going on within the salt industry! And there may be no better example of that than Cure Zone, which recommends ¼ teaspoon of Celtic sea salt in a glass of water twice daily, with claims that it will cure pretty much everything.
Reference: https://www.curezone.org/foods/salt/Celtic_Sea_Salt_Analysis.asp
In the last few years, they have changed how they present the facts to try to confuse you. They won’t talk about mercury at all, but they will talk about aluminum, and they talk about 0.11 mg per quarter teaspoon, which they want you to put in water twice per day.
The recommended amount of aluminum in drinking water is set at 0.1 mg/l, which is 0.1 ppm.
Their claim of 0.11 mg per quarter teaspoon equates to 167 ppm, and that’s what they want you to put in your water and to drink it twice per day.
Note: They do not even list cadmium, lead, or mercury. They also do not list the typical eight or nine unstable radioactive isotopes in crude salt.
HIMALAYAN CPINK CRYSTAL SALT > THE MEADOW DATA
Now let’s take a look at the Meadow, a seller and producer of Himalayan pink crystal salt!
Reference: https://themeadow.com/pages/minerals-in-himalayan-pink-salt-spectral-analysis
Aluminum: 0.661 PPM (operational guideline 0.1 ppm)
Cadmium: 0.01 ppm (maximum safe limit 0.007 ppm)
Lead: 0.1 PPM (maximum safe limit 0.005 ppm)
Mercury: REDMOND’S ANCIENT SEA SALT DATA
Redmond's ancient sea salt, an animal product. Still, unless they are refining it heavily, this is probably what's really in Redmond's salt. And before we even get into the analysis, Redmond’s clearly states with no alternative context that their salt product is unrefined, mined salt. But magically, the unrefined animal-product salt and the salt for human consumption differ in their toxic metal content.
Ref:https://www.norganics.com/label/Redmond10Analysis.pdf
They don't want to disclose the mercury levels in their salt that comes from the most toxic state in the USA.
Aluminum density: 215 ppm (operational guideline is 0.1 ppm)
Cadmium: 0.27 ppm (maximum safe amount is 0.01 ppm)
Lead: 0.6 ppm (maximum safe amount is 0.005 ppm)
Again, this is not even to talk about the cancer-causing, unstable radioactive isotopes that are listed. And we can’t talk about mercury, because they are avoiding it.
SALT COMPANIES TRYING TO TRICK YOU:
Selina Naturally – Celtic Salt
https://healthfree.com/files/Celtic-Sea-Salt-analysis.pdf
They will not list any heavy metal data except for aluminum. Then they attempt to trick you by listing percentages instead of parts per million, like everyone else. And all they are telling you is there is less than 500 ppm of aluminum in their product because that’s what .05% equates to.
Salt of the Earth Sea Salt
https://www.saltoftheearth.com.au/sea-salt/certification/
In-house testing only. Not third-party analysis. And they don’t want to talk about aluminum at all, while claiming mercury levels are lower than those of every other sea salt that exists, at the same time claiming it is unrefined sea salt. That is impossible!
Redmond – Real Salt Consumer Product
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0031/8606/5475/files/Real-Salt-Elemental-Analysis-Summary-Page.pdf?v=1724702582
Once again, using percentages instead of parts per million and expecting us to accept what they have to say instead of getting third-party testing done. Once again, they will only identify a concentration below 500 ppm, even though the FDA indicates that safe limits are 0.03 ppm.
WHAT SALT DO I USE? NONE! I EAT REAL FOOD!
What salt do I consume? I do not own a salt shaker! I eat organic meat, which I do season but not with salt, and fresh organic fruits and vegetables. But if I did, I would be consuming, on my food only, and very lightly, common table salt, which the unrefined salt industry has convinced the world that it is nasty. It’s not!
If those unrefined salt producers refined and removed the toxic metals and the radioactive elements, I would be writing something very different right now. I would be recommending it! And they can do it!
However, let's talk about iodized table salt, which is sodium chloride with a natural iodine bond.
We are told in our community to oppose it because of the anti-caking agent and ammonium bleaching. But ammonia is a natural element that occurs in the human body and is flashed off long before the products ever hit the market.
Meanwhile, even though anti-caking agents are acceptable for use in all organic foods, and they are currently used in organic foods. I would not use a table salt with Sodium Aluminosilicate or calcium aluminum silicate. If that is an ingredient, please don't consume it! It has wild levels of aluminum in it,
There is no problem with table salt without anticaking agents. And yes, I know that there is one online influencer who found a single brand of table salt from New Zealand or Australia that was heavy metal toxic. Which means they didn’t refine it the way table salt is supposed to be refined.
CORRUPTION OF THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES AND FOOD REGULATORS!
They are now hiding the severity of heavy metal toxicity in their salt products. Most unrefined salt producers no longer offer access to a certificate of analysis. This has significantly changed.
Another thing that has changed dramatically is that Health Authorities in Canada and the USA are widely increasing the safe levels of toxic metals in drinking water.
If you believe that federal health authorities in North America are making any attempt to protect the people of our countries, I’m going to show you data, and while all of it can’t be recovered with archive.org, much of it can.
Ref: https://web.archive.org/web/20180517155911/https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/environmental-workplace-health/reports-publications/water-quality/guidelines-canadian-drinking-water-quality-summary-table.html
Versus……
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/environmental-workplace-health/reports-publications/water-quality/guidelines-canadian-drinking-water-quality-summary-table.html
2018 aluminum safe level: NONE (maximum)
2025 aluminum safe level: 2.9 ppm (maximum)
When did we learn that any amount of aluminum was safe?
2018 cadmium safe level: 0.005 ppm
2025 cadmium safe level: 0.01 ppm
20 times the safe level of cadmium is now considered safe.
2018 lead safe level: 0.005 ppm
2025 lead safe level: 0.01 ppm
Again, 20 times the current safe level of lead is now considered safe.
While Health Canada maintains safe levels of mercury at 0.001 ppm, salt producers and regulators have now increased it to 0.3, meaning regulators now think that 300 times the amount of mercury is suddenly safe in drinking water. I don’t believe that for a moment.
*For reference, see the citations above.
Do you really think that your health authorities and food regulators are looking out for you and are acting in the best interest of your health?
FINALLY: LET’S TALK ABOUT SALT ADDICTION
Salt consumption is proven to stimulate dopamine release, and when you lower the amount of salt that you consume, versus what you have typically consumed, salt cravings occur.
Further, withdrawal symptoms from lowering salt consumption are the same as other drugs, while they may not last as long, or be as severe, the symptoms are the same.
Lastly, salt addiction meets 7 of the 11 criteria used in the DSM-V psychiatric manual for an addiction diagnosis. Only two criteria need to be met in order for an addiction diagnosis to be made.
References:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938408001054?via%3Dihub
https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0185-33252016000300175
https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/classic-instinct-salt-appetite-linked-drug-addiction
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306987706003100
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3271/9/4/67
https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/582/58246493010.pdf
In closing, the evidence of heavy metal toxicity is overwhelming for unrefined mined salts. It can’t be denied or disputed. And thus, because I know people are going to crawl out of the woodwork to attack this as they have so many times before, without ever reading the evidence, I won’t be responding to anyone.
The proof is here. It comes from the producers, it comes from widespread third-party testing, it comes from peer-reviewed science, it comes from government agencies, and it has come from my detractors in the past, who have also tried to prove me wrong by paying to have their own spectral analysis done and finding the same results.
I won’t debate with you. I have debated this with people for over 12 years, and nobody, and I literally mean nobody, has been able to prove it wrong yet. That includes scientists, lab techs, doctors, university professors, and so many other people who told me I was crazy.
What you put in your body is your business.
