Wellness and salt

Episode 33: In this episode, host Angie Gust talks about the different types of salts- table salt, and the more natural salts- regular sea salt, pink Himalayan rock salt, and Celtic sea salt. Dr. Steven Lin says that It’s important to differentiate between a natural salt and table salt. Table salt is mostly sodium chloride and heavily processed. Natural salts come in their complete, whole form.  He says to always choose a natural salt, and try to avoid the processed table salt variety.  Now turning to the environment, a recent article talks hopefully about the possibility of changes to address climate change may come about swiftly. It highlighted that the transition in the US from horse-drawn carriages to cars running on fossil fuels took just over a decade and suggests that the diffusion of new technologies tends to be self-accelerating. Let’s be hopeful and support climate-friendly new technologies.

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