Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-             I hope that you’re enjoying the heat, we had plenty of it this weekend. This ties into our health shop topic for Monday evening on the Importance of Sea Salt. I have a lot of fun with patients when I talk to them about salt because they invariably argue with me that they’ve been told for decades not to eat salt because of blood pressure issues. Well the truth is that this may be somewhat true for processed and refined white salt but we need mineral salt or sea salt for good health, good kidney functions, and the ability to sweat and control our body temperature. Good quality sea salt or mineral salt also helps with your body’s pH and this keeps the bugs under control as well. Unfortunately, the medics make no distinction between processed salt and sea salt and do not look at the positive effects, only the negative and fearful aspects. At Natural Health, we try to give our patien...

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-             I hope that everyone had a great Fourth of July weekend. We took off Monday as a bonus for everyone’s hard work during the virus business so the email blast this week is a little late. We sure had fun outside enjoying the warm weather and it was definitely warm. I’ve had several patients come in today already showing signs of dehydration and basically because everyone forgets that they need extra salt during these hot spells, as well as good quality water. We’re using a lot of our salt pill product called Cal-Amo and I take quite a few when I’m sweating through my clothes on these hot days. If you start feeling weak and tired, like a wrung out dishrag, usually means you’re low on salt and becoming dehydrated. There’s nothing wrong with sea salt or mineral salt but stay away from the processed white junk salt, especially in packaged processed “foods”.    ...