Redmond Real Salt EXPOSED (Why I Switched AWAY)
In a Nutshell
The video exposes Redmond Real Salt's flaws—heavy metals (up to 290 ppb lead, 91 ppb arsenic), mined from deep earth with explosives risking contamination, and poor mineral profile (99% sodium chloride)—prompting the creator to switch to Salter Norwegian sea salt (30 ppb lead, 15.7% trace minerals like potassium and magnesium) for ancestral appropriateness and safety in high-carnivore salt intake. Heavy metals bioaccumulate in bones over decades (20-30 year half-life), outweighing sea salt's microplastic risks. Creator stopped recommending/selling Redmond, now promotes Salter shakers to fund Healing Humanity's carnivore health projects.
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Exposing Redmond's Real Salt. Have been recommending Redmond's for so long but can't in good conscience continue recommending it. Please be open-minded. This video shares what I am doing and the reasons why, especially for people new to this space who have never heard of Redmond salt, Celtic salt, or Himalayan pink sea salt. There's a default tribal thing with salt, particularly Redmond salt. Redmond was my default go-to for a long time.
Saw this with Paul Saladino, Max German's YouTube channel, and other carnivore friends. First time salt was on radar from Paul Saladino. Talking about salt with carnivores is like talking about politics or religion. Learned more and decided to change. If wrong, leave a comment. Paul Saladino highlighted aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, and lead in some salts.
Paul went through major salts and broke down heavy metal content. Viewer frustration: "I can't enjoy any food without risk of dying." Sobering truth in a broken system. Paul Saladino's video got Redmond on radar over a year ago.
Recently saw Max German's video: Popular salt brands contain toxic contaminants that accumulate and inflame the gut. Well-researched with studies. Comments tore him up: "Glyphosate, plastic, and lead is in everything. I'm sticking with Redmond's." Another: "Your listeners are calling you for your BS." If arguments with Max's video, provide reasons. It was a deep dive into salts, effects in body, studies on types.
As carnivores, salt is huge part of diet: meat, water, and salt at every meal. Previously on standard American diet, barely used salt; it was in processed food. Not telling anyone what to do, just sharing for newcomers worried about heavy metals accumulating in bones over decades.
Hesitant to do video. Not sponsored by Salter, though did videos with Scott who runs Meatstock. Learned from Scott about heavy metals; he made his own salt. Initially thought salt is salt, but dug in more after Paul Saladino, Max German, and own research.
People take tribal positions: "I'm a Redmond's guy, that's my identity." If facts or science missing, educate. Barely graduated high school. Sharing reasons for decisions. Can't in good conscience continue recommending Redmond's. Redmond is industry standard for keto/carnivore space, better than iodized table salt, but three specific reasons for switching.
Offered portable travel-size Redmond salt shakers as fundraiser for Healing Humanity since 24-hour live stream over two years ago. Main salt on carnivore until learning more and better alternative.
Eat proper human diet: beef, butter, bacon, eggs, with salt at every meal. On standard American diet, got sodium from processed food; now almost all from supplementary salt. Bigger impact as carnivore.
Reason 1: Ancestral Appropriateness
Default to ancestral rules: meat, fasting, sleep, sunshine, fresh air. Ancestrally appropriate salt from surface of earth or evaporating seabeds. Not from deep mine with heavy machinery, dynamite, explosives, bringing heavy metals from ground.
Redmond's documentation: highest lead found 200 parts per billion. Independent lab: 290 ppb lead, 91 ppb arsenic, unquestionably unsafe for children.
Salter electrolyte mineral sea salt: 30 ppb lead. Not dose that matters, but frequency: consuming at every meal daily over lifetime. Half-life of lead in bones 20-30 years.
Redmond's: 99% sodium chloride, 1% trace minerals.
Norwegian sea salt in Salter: 89.7% sodium chloride, 10.25% trace minerals (magnesium, potassium, calcium).
Salter Electrolyte Plus: 84.3% sodium chloride, 15.7% trace minerals (potassium 9.6%, magnesium 4.8%, calcium 1.4%). Redmond's almost none.
Salter: low heavy metals, abundance of beneficial minerals.
Switching from Redmond's for self, family; no longer offering on website. Now Salter portable shakers with Healing Humanity branding, keychain holder. Proceeds fund marketing main documentary and series on mental health, aging, cancer, depression, children, carnivore.
Salt huge in carnivore diet multiple times daily.
Sea salts may have microplastics vs. heavy metals in mine salt. More concerned about heavy metals bioaccumulating 20-30 years in bones. Microplastics issue less bad with this sea salt. Need more testing on sea vs. mine salt, heavy metals vs. microplastics.
Always learning; if know more, comment. Purchase Salter travel-sized for clean salt on go (restaurants have table salt with anti-caking agents, dextrose). Support Healing Humanity, power of proper human diet.
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