— Chris

You know salt is salt is salt is salt and I've you know, I see all those claims too. I you know, I have some fancy salt like the the lava the Khana namal. I can never remember the name of Nama Nala kamak or whatever. The one that has a kind of the sulfur flavors and there's all the other Himalayan so there's always really fancy salts out there, but they really are all salt one of the risks of us switching to all these fancy salts is that we're not getting iodine from iodized salt, especially if you don't eat seafood, so, you know, if you're gonna do salt and most people shouldn't be really adding salt into their diets anyway, Because we're just getting too much salt. There's salt everywhere. But if you're going to add salt, you know use iodized salt. I recommend mostly and just use a very little bit and use it at the end of cooking. So I like to kind of compare this to if you look at my Facebook page what plant-based dietitian I just posted this meme recently of potatoes and if you take a regular potato and then you compare it to a french fry where you're taking the potato and you're dipping it an oil and salt and you compare it to a potato chip or it's really fine late really fine pieces and you're using a lot of salt. There are so much more salt on that potato chip compared to that. Even the French fry because you're able to concentrate the salt. So the point is Oh and if you compare the salt in a french fry or in a chip and you could pair it to a slice of bread. It's almost the same amount of salt only you could taste it on the chip in the french fry and you can't really notice it in the bread. Basically, there's sodium everywhere. We're finding salt everywhere in our diet, you know in every sauce, you know, I mean, there's salt in naturally occurring Foods too. So most of us are consuming too much sodium. So that's my little rant about sodium. But if you are gonna consume a little bit then at least get the iodized version. So it's a source of getting iodine in your diet. If you're not getting salt from iodine because I mean iodine from Salt because you are avoiding salt because you have hypertension or any other kind of salt related issues, then you can get iodine from sea vegetables or you can consider supplementation. If you are on a plant-based diet iodine is one of those minerals those trace minerals that's becoming harder and harder to find with our depleted soils, especially if you're in the middle of the country and not eating, you know, not getting produce from close to the ocean. We're sometimes you can get some more concentrated sources of iodine.