To get a “beneficial” amount of “Trace Minerals” found in some salts (Himalayan, Celtic, Real Salt, etc.), you’d need to eat a lethal amount of salt.
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Additional Reading for Those Interested in This Topic
- The myth of beneficial minerals in salt
- The Lead Safe Mama salt overview article
- XRF testing of a typical salt lamp
- The preferred (low-Lead, Lead-safe) salt of Lead Safe Mama, LLC
- Our original (2013) article about Lead in chocolate
- An overview of the concern for Lead in baby food
- Safer choices for food (from a Lead-perspective)
- Article about the cumulative impact of multiple (minor) sources of Lead on humans
- A link to the documentary feature film we directed and produced
Published:
December 13, 2023
Wednesday
Lead Safe Mama, LLC lost some (Instagram) followers over the salt conversation yesterday 
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It’s so important to realize… IT’s ALL JUST SCIENCE… Science clearly and definitively demonstrates that in order to get even a small beneficial dose of the “beneficial minerals” from these salts claiming to have beneficial minerals (Celtic Salt, Himalayan Salt, Real Salt, etc.), you would have to eat a LETHAL (or nearly-lethal) amount of salt (daily!).
If not lethal in one day, in short order, this amount of salt ingested daily will lead to organ failure.
You can get all of those minerals (in truly beneficial doses) by eating green vegetables with no salt!
Please read the science linked in the article below (science from Harvard, WebMd, Mayo Clinic, and others).
I’m not attacking YOU or your choices as a consumer — I’m calling out salt companies for using a dangerous myth to sell “gourmet”/ “healthful” salts (dangerous because it results in people increasing salt consumption when, as a species, our salt consumption is already at unsafe levels). It is also dangerous because these salts that purportedly have beneficial minerals also actually do have unsafe levels of heavy metals, which are truly toxic (have been scientifically proven to be toxic/ harmful to humans) even at trace amounts (as they add to your cumulative body burden of heavy metals acquired over your lifetime).
This (ad-free) article is on the home page of the Lead Safe Mama website today. Please read all of the links at the bottom of the article so YOU can make an INFORMED decision for your family — a decision uninfluenced by corporate greenwashing.
You can also find this article at this link: https://tamararubin.com/2023/12/the-myth-of-beneficial-trace-minerals-found-in-mined-i-e-himalayan-or-gray-unprocessed-i-e-celtic-salts-spoilers-its-all-greenwashing/.
For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website:
Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead-poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).
- Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
- Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific testing method) using the exact instrumentation employed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic).
- Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for 5 product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
- All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
- Items that Lead Safe Mama, LLC reports on are tested multiple times to confirm the results published (for each component tested).
- Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February 2023 (March 2023 print edition) and The Guardian in November 2023.
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