The Romans paid their soldiers an allowance of salt called a salarium - hence our word salary, and the phrases ‘worth one’s salt’. Our value of salt has plummeted. Why is salt so valuable?

Without enough SALT (sodium and chloride) muscles won’t contract, blood won’t circulate, food won’t digest, and the heart won’t beat.

Without sodium: nerves don’t function. By the way, that makes it harder for me as a chiropractor to help you.

Without chloride: your digestion will not work right.

James Laragh MD. who published an article on salt and blood pressure in the American Journal of Hypertension, had this to say “…normal blood pressures rarely change when we change our salt intake…”

This is a very complicated system so I am going to try and simplify what the good doctor above had to say in the rest of the article. Salt keeps fluid in your vessels, if you don’t eat enough salt your kidneys kick out an enzyme that constricts your vessels to maintain the pressure levels. If you eat salt, your kidneys don’t make the enzymes. Salt actually eases the burdens on your body, and eases the burden on your heart, because your vessels won’t be so constricted. And it is seen in research, the people with high blood pressure differ from healthy people. How they differ gets even more complicated, so here is all you need to do first. The kidney enzyme is called “renin”. The next time you have lab work done have your renin tested. A low salt diet will only help about 20% of people.

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Let’s say Mr. Faust comes into the office with asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, colitis, and skin rashes and maybe a little lupus for good measure. These problems have one thing in common. I’ll tell you later, hang-on.

Now Mr. Faust was given the usual meds. The steroid inhalers made his asthma go away, his body pains disappeared with the Prednisone, along with the bloody diarrhea and his long-standing skin rash.

Mr. Faust was not too keen about the notorious side- effects showing up. His face was swelling, his mood was unstable, he got stomach ulcers, diabetes, and osteoporosis.

Now his original problems were coming back, too— “up the dose of Prednisone and the other steroids.”

He is now addicted to the medication, why?

Mr. Faust has weak adrenal glands.

The Prednisone takes the place of the adrenal glands. Instead of stealing from Peter to pay Paul, Prednisone turns Peter into a loan shark. You need him now, and more and more in the future. I don’t need to tell you what happens when you stiff the loan shark.

If some form of cortisone works –then the adrenals are weak. Tada problems solved, right!

How Do The Adrenal Glands Poop Out?

Are you tired? Stressed? Work a lot? Sleep little? Do you go,go,go and go some more?

You are frying your adrenals, I know, I’ve done it.

You might remember those early frying pan commercials where they drop some eggs in and the announcer comes on and says “this is your brain on drugs”. Those are your adrenal glands now. Then drugs like Prednisone take your adrenals and put them in the microwave to make sure all the life is cooked out of them.

I can’t help you with the medications but I can start you on the road to healing your adrenals. The bottom line is that if Prednisone makes your symptoms go away or get better, you can bet that you have an adrenal problem. Now if the medics deny this fact of physiology, that doesn’t mean it’s not true.

So What Do Your Tired, Sore, and Stepped On Adrenal Glands Need To Start Making Hormones Again?

1. Fat-Yes the sick, twisted, and wrong thinking low-fat diets are killing your ability to make hormones.

2. ALL, yes ALL, yes, one more time ALL adrenal hormones come from CHOLESTEROL. All those wonderful adrenal hormones that help us deal with stress, inflammation, and even injuries come from cholesterol. You need cholesterol

3. The adrenals can’t use the cholesterol without Vitamin A. So take your cod liver oil.

4. Since the adrenals are also involved in sugar regulation, don’t eat simple sugars. Try keeping your carbohydrate load below 75 grams a day.

5. And lastly I have to step on one more medical myth. Your adrenals NEED natural salt. Not Morton’s, but Celtic Sea Salt. I’ve seen this impressive fact directly. When we do the purification program and someone has weak adrenals, it shows up about in the second week, because there is no salt in the program. They have near immediate improvement in fatigue when they take Celtic Sea Salt. And no, it doesn’t raise blood pressure.