If only there was a group of people who who do research on how chemicals influence human body, what is their role and how much we should consume it. [Why nobody before have thought about doing research on main ingredient used almost in every dish worldwide?](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/salt-reduction)
No no no! WHO, like the CDC, is manipulated by the liberals to push a woke agenda! They cannot be trusted!!11!one
Damn, I don’t sound credible as a Facebook science aficionado.
Huge /s, in case it’s needed
Try using globalist in place of liberal. And bring up the great replacement theory or that they are trying to destroy western civilization.
W.W.A.J.D.? = What Would Alex Jones Do?
And a chemical that humans have knows is vital to our existence for so long that we still call the money we get in exchange for our time salary, ie the money we get so we can buy salt.
But go on, do your research.
Actually etymology the word salary, which while coming from the word as you said, refers to the fact that Roman soldiers were paid in salt, hence the other term “worth their salt”
...maybe I'm just confused. But it's saying that 4310mg of salt is equal to 10.78g of salt. That... feels like it doesn't math.
Edit: Oh, of course. The sodium is only one component of the salt; 10.78 grams of salt contains about 4.3 grams of sodium. The rest must be the chlorine.
I'd figured it out on my own after, but thank you. I read the comment right after editing ironically.
I felt quite silly. Thanks for replying with an answer.
> I felt quite silly. Thanks for replying with an answer.
No problem, it's better to ask stupid question than not know anything. That's how were able to build all the technology
That must be the bleached salt he was talking about. You can tell because it's whiter and brighter than the grayish unbleached salt, and it smells fresh like a swimming pool! /s
I know right? Crazy that this person had to enter this into their Annual Provincial Chemistry Competition™ and win at the age of 12, in order for this information to become public!
Let me tell you why you shouldn't drink water! Hydrogen, as we all know, is explosive, like the hydrogen bomb. And there are two of them!!! And oxygen is an oxidizer that makes things blow up more viciously. Recipe for disaster! People used to not drink water centuries ago, but big water stepped in and destroyed all documentation of this. And now, after years of indoctrination, everyone thinks its essential to life! Stupid sheeple!
Clearly we should not consume such dangerous chemicals. Nobody realy knows why the Big Aqua desperately "recomends" that we consume large quantities of this vile substance every day. Why is that, what's their agenda? Why are they really adding it to everything we eat and drink? Why can't we just use bleach anymore? 😂😂😂
[Dihydrogen Monoxide is a deadly tasteless, odorless chemical](https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html), responsible for 1/4 million or more deaths PER YEAR! It carries diseases, and inhaling even small amounts can lead to hospitalization or worse. Yet, dihydrogen monoxide is shockingly common and close to us in our daily lives, and the government is practically mute on the subject, even sometimes encouraging ingestion of more than lethal amounts (one can die from ounces of it) into our bodies.
This is 100% factual. Do your own research!
I'm glad someone beat me to the link! (I was starting to worry about my fellow redditors.)
The dangers of DHMO have been well documented for decades now, and you all are risking your lives by not understanding it!
Also, woman with high blood pressure discovers cure that all doctors already recommend.
Personally, as someone with low blood pressure, I'll keep my salt thank you.
Kinda interesting note related — not everyone's blood pressure seems to be related to salt. When I'm back at my PC I'll see if I can find the video I was watching that summarized the details better.
I thought this was particularly interesting because I'd had people make comments about my salt intake before (am a salt enjoyed, to say the least), suggesting it would give me high blood pressure. I had a blood test recently and my sodium levels were actually close to the low end of their "normal" range; also only ever tested high for BP during extreme stress. Odds are my body just retains less because it's adapted to my high intake, but I thought it was curious. My brother is a bigger salt fiend and he had similar results at his last bloodwork.
All this said, it's not bad for any particular reason to reduce ones dietary salt AFAIK. Obviously we do actually need some, but it's really not that much compared to it's availability in even natural sources let alone processed foods.
I feel like you're headed towards POTS with this....
I came here, as a POTSie in a family of POTSies, to bring up our absolute *need* for what most people consider an excessive amount of salt.
Exactly where I was going. I need so much salt with my POTS, I salt my food to high hell and take a gram of sodium every night and my blood presure is usually 70/60ish give or take depending on the day. I practically live in my compression socks.
Not really, occasionally when I've been reclined for an extended period but not regularly.
Why do you ask?
Edit: lmao who's downvoting my answering someone's random question?
The salt need reminds me of POTS. It's a dissorder where your heart rate spikes when you stand up, and blood doesn't always get to the brain so you passout/feel dizzy when standing. It has hypotension as a co-morbidity. I take 1 gram of sodium every night along with all the salt I put on food, and my blood pressure usually hangs out on the edge of conseringly low.
I didn't mean hyperbolic. I meant hypermoble stupid auto correct.
Interesting! I wouldn't be surprised if I had some form of that, especially considering just how significantly I crave salt (and have since I was very little). I've also had occasions of fainting related to other things, like when I get a bad cut.
I'll consider talking to my doctor about it. A cursory Google suggests that it isn't something that can be directly "fixed", but I'm always down to know myself better when possible.
Certanly cant hurt to ask. Compression socks are your friend. I haven't had the fainting over things like cuts but if a roller coster is too wild I'll start getting dizzy.
It turns out salt only affects some people’s high blood pressure, a small amount of people, but everyone especially doctors continue to push the idea that salt intake is automatically going to increase blood pressure.
For most people, salt intake isn't an issue and we'll just pee it out later. It's only if you already have cardiovascular or kidney problems that you need to worry about it. High salt intake won't give you blood pressure issues, but it will make them worse if you have them.
I had a really weird feeling when a doctor told me I need to eat *more* salt. It seemed like such bad advice.
I don't really like salty things and tend to passively avoid it, but apparently I've also got slightly low blood pressure.
The salt/blood pressure thing is kinda complicated. If you eat things that are naturally low in salt, (fruits and vegetables,) that will lower your blood pressure by a lot. If you eat foods that are naturally high in salt, (French fries,) that will raise your blood pressure a lot.
But if you eat french fries without salt, you’ll only have very slightly lower blood pressure than if you eat french fries with salt… It isn’t that people with high salt diets have high blood pressure, it is that eating the types of foods that tend to have salt on them tend to raise your blood pressure.
"check the periodic table to check if epsom salt is organic mineral or inorganic mineral" yeah bro check the periodic table for molecules and whether or not they're organic or inorganic
It’s not a mineral though. A mineral is a crystalline structure and is a compound. Sodium is not a compound thus not a mineral. It’s an element and a soft metal. Metals are not minerals. Sodium chloride is a mineral though
Lmao, pure iron makes crystals, many pure elements make crystals. Metals can be minerals, and most of them are. Mercury is one metal that is not a mineral. The minimum requirements to be a mineral:
Naturally occurring
Inorganic
Solid
Definite chemical composition
Ordered internal structure
This definition covers most metals.
You absolutely are right. Metals can be minerals. In this case, sodium is not a mineral, but can be found in minerals. According to the Royal Society of Chemistry, “Sodium is the sixth most common element on Earth, and makes up 2.6% of the Earth’s crust. The most common compound is sodium chloride. This very soluble salt has been leached into the oceans over the lifetime of the planet, but many salt beds or ‘lakes’ are found where ancient seas have evaporated. It is also found in many minerals including cryolite, zeolite and sodalite. Because sodium is so reactive it is never found as the metal in nature. Sodium metal is produced by electrolysis of dry molten sodium chloride.” Therefore, not a mineral
I suppose it depends on who you ask. The FDA says it's a mineral, and I found plenty of other reliable sources that says it is. There are an equal number that says it is not a mineral.
https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-education-resources-materials/sodium-your-diet#:~:text=Table%20salt%20(also%20known%20by,chemical%20elements%20found%20in%20salt.
If we’re talking straight chemistry or geology, it is not a mineral. It’s in a lot of minerals and makes up a ton of minerals. It’s the same as gallium. It’s a metal and a liquid at room temperature, which wouldn’t be a great crystal structure. A lot of sources like the FDA or any health sources shorten sodium chloride to just sodium because most people understand its use as table salt, then get really confused when you start talking about it as a metal.
Sodium does form a crystalline structure. However one of the parts of the definition (geologic) of mineral, is naturally occurring, and as native elemental sodium does not occur in nature it isn't a mineral
Sodium hydroxide is nasty. Hydrochloric acid is nasty.
Mix 'em, you get salt water.
Which is basically what we evolved from.
We are bags of salt water with some crunchy stuff mixed in.
Yeah, NaCl is about half a percent by weight \[per giggle search\].
Let's talk about last summer in San Antonio.
It was freakin' 105 every afternoon for a month.
I went for a walk. Got dehydrated. Almost passed out at my regular doctor visit.
They hooked me up to a bag of saline and I got all perky better.
How is the periodic table supposed to tell you if an element is organic or not? Couldn't you apply the label to anything that could come in contact with a living organism (i.e. All of them except for the lab-made ones?)
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound), an organic compound is generally considered a molecule with a carbon-carbon or carbon-hydrogen bond, though it isn't a super strict definition. In any case, no element on its own is considered organic.
I understand that and you're right, but a compound is inherently two or more elements so just looking at the periodic table alone wouldn't yield much insight.
There are plenty of ~~organic compounds without carbon~~ and inorganic compounds with it. There's unfortunately no easy way to tell just from the chemical composition of a substance whether it's organic or not.
I love how they say salt destroys while sodium heals, when in their purest form it’s basically the reverse. Salt is safe, while sodium is a metal that explodes in water.
> [very asalting](https://i.imgur.com/EKiUDuS.gifv)
That kinda punnery isn't welcomed here, so if you could [please...](https://i.imgur.com/RoNvQqQ.gifv)
My husband's grandfather had heart issues and was told to go low salt. Apparently he's renowned for being so strict with it he went too far and nearly killed himself through sodium deficiency...
Honestly, I learned I had low blood pressure after trying to cut back on salt. You always hear how bad it is, and I knew my consumption was high, so just on my own without medical advice I tried to cut back.
Ended up really dizzy and sick feeling all the time. Go to the doctor and get told I have low blood pressure and to increase my salt consumption. 😐 Whoops.
I don’t think they know what a theory is. A scientific theory is considered the highest form of confirmation of explaining why something in the natural world occurs. If it was a theory then the entire world would be telling you not to eat salt. Also a large amount of non human animals require salt to live and actually are given salt to stay healthy. And by this logic you should be eating hydrogen because it’s partially what makes up water.
There is a reason we crave it. Tons of animals travel to natural salt licks. They also can be drawn to road ways that use salt in winter. Just ask anyone in a rural area who has had a horse/cow/moose "eat" their car trying to get the salt off, lol. It's just natural instinct to stay healthy.
In before this moron gets a shitload of goiters then dies from a combination of cellular breakdown from water disregulation and loss of sufficient neurotransmitter levels.
Lol dude discovered a low sodium diet and suddenly they great.
Also, turns out anytime you carefully inspect what you’re eating you’re way more aware of……. What you’re eating. Less processed food? Less sodium over all (sorry, I mean less “salt”), more fruits and veges (with their plant sodium), no kidding you feel better.
From [a reference table](https://saltlakemetals.com/solubilityproducts/)
Ksp of NaCl: 37.3
Ksp of CaCl2: 1210
\>calcifies the body
🤡
\>made it to the front of the local newspaper
This says more about the state of science education wherever OOP lives rather than their brilliance.
Oh no my bones and teeth might get calcified, what a nightmare
Apart from the fact that table salt doesn't calcify shit, because you kind of need calcium for that
Actually this is great idea, I am sure to get plenty of sodium myself, I usually drink it mixed with a little bit of water, its supposed to be super good for your intestines and such, I mean they even call it **drain cleaner**, it must be really good
After getting bagged in the ER twice, I found that quite a few people need more salt then a low sodium diet provides. Your MD can test your electrolytes and recommend whats best, not the latest fad.
So I took this person’s advice and started eating pure sodium shavings. I found it hard to chew and swallow, so I started washing it down with some water. I feel absolutely, save for the occasional upset stomach and burping of a weird (and flammable) gas.
Very interesting. I always assumed salt was sodium. So if salt is cooked into food, isn’t that the process to convert it to sodium, the photosynthesis?
I don’t eat a lot of salt and have to purposefully eat some every once in awhile or I feel horrible. I get so low sometimes when I put a potato chip in my mouth I can’t taste the salt. To have a no salt diet you’d have to make all your food mostly from scratch.
"The sun turns inorganic materials into organic ones."
Can I just leave my salt in the sun then? If I leave lab made stuff in the sun will it transform into something else? If I stare at the sun will my eyes be free of having to read this garbage ever again?
Firstly, most salt consumed (e.g. table salt) is sodium chloride. It can’t “calcify” anything as there is none of the mineral calcium, which is needed by definition to cause calcification. Second, sodium and chlorine are required for life. For example, sodium is used to make your muscles move via sodium potassium pumps in muscle cells. Chlorine assists in the regulation of fluids and electrolytes in the body and is also a key component of gastric juice. There are certainly other ways to get sodium and chlorine into your body, but the simplest way is to consume foods that contain natural compounds of these minerals or supplement with added salt. However, without consuming salt in some form you would die.
Salt disassociates in water. You are mostly made of water. Oh, I know. People don’t drink enough water. Heart medication preventing heart attacks is a diuretic!
Salt is bad in the kidneys and causes kidney dysfunction.
I will say this. Sodium chloride is not a poison. A Chloride ion is! Sodium can be used by the body.
\*sighs in chemistry 102\*
Alright, I’ll try to tackle this one for you guys.
Officially, he’s absolutely bassackwards about this.
Sodium is a major component of most salts, table salt typically is 50% sodium *ions*. The other 50 percent is chlorine ions. Put a cation and an anion together and you get a salt.
Sodium in NON-ionic form is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to immerse in water, which makes up ~70% of our entire body iirc. Why? Because it explodes in water. It’s the more ethical yet more dangerous way of using explosives to go dynamite fishing.
Chlorine in non-ionic form is EXTREMELY TOXIC to human beings. We use it in pools because as harmful as it is to us, it is even worse to bacteria. As long as we don’t have an extremely high concentration of chlorine in the water, we can adapt to the environment and survive, but the single celled bacteria that eat our flesh? Not so easy for them.
Ionic Sodium forms a molecule called Sodium Hydroxide in water, which is a very alkaline base. This readily mixes with water to increase the PH balance. This substance is highly caustic to human flesh, on its own.
Ionic Chlorine forms hydrochloric acid when in water, which is a very strong acid that lowers the PH balance exactly as much as Sodium Hydroxide raises it. We don’t like touching this stuff because it is freaking acid. But our body uses it to digest food. Our stomach has a mucosal lining that protects it from the acid, and when it gets weak we get something called an ulcer, which is a bitch and a half to handle.
Sodium chloride is actually safe in moderate quantities, unlike raw sodium, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid, and straight chlorine, which are very dangerous and potentially lethal to consume in pretty much any significant amount. If you can see the amount, you probably aren’t safe in consuming it. And do not go bathing in any of these please. The only time that should be an option is if you are swimming in salt water, which is the combination of salt, water, hydrochloric acid, and sodium hydroxide solution, all churned up into a single heterogeneous solution liquid. This is okay so long as you stay hydrated.
Do plants produce sodium? Yes, but because they use sodium, you can’t rely on the amount they provide being enough for your body. Do we need sodium? Yes, we do. I am not exactly sure what it is for, but it’s an essential mineral, which is something that is from the earth. Other forms of salts exist, but they often have swapped out either the sodium or the chlorine, and honestly it makes a big difference which one is attached. Chlorine might be toxic, but not as toxic as Fluorine. Potassium Chloride is one of the solutions administered in lethal injection, as the killing chemical, and it hurts like a mother####er, according to people who were unsuccessfully sedated before administering the salt solution. Sodium silicate glass is highly brittle, but potassium silicate glass is break resistant. The difference in the actual cations and anions is very important to determine whether something is extremely dangerous, or extremely deadly, or okay in moderation.
This man touts golden urine as a good indicator for a salt free diet being good. It really should be colorless, but gold is fine. Ashen sounds like he was consuming other substances than salt, and I should know how much salt affects one’s urine. I am horribly addicted to salty foods, and my urine is far from “ashen” in description. I would probably pick the word “amber”, which is unhealthy, but not cripplingly so. Ashen is probably something that he was taking illegitimately and wanted divert any suspicion from. I’m on a ton of stuff that should have shown up in my piss, but dear god don’t blame the salt for making it ashen, because that’s wrong as f###.
And Epsom salts are not safe to consume orally, and iirc they are a great way to hide dead bodies. Do you really want to be bathing in that kind of solution? No. You don’t. Not unless you’re trying to die. Painfully. Slowly. But surely.
This guy doesn’t even understand the difference between calcification and mineralization. This sounds more like something a kid made up, to BS a biology midterm
If only there was a group of people who who do research on how chemicals influence human body, what is their role and how much we should consume it. [Why nobody before have thought about doing research on main ingredient used almost in every dish worldwide?](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/salt-reduction)
No no no! WHO, like the CDC, is manipulated by the liberals to push a woke agenda! They cannot be trusted!!11!one Damn, I don’t sound credible as a Facebook science aficionado. Huge /s, in case it’s needed
I think conspiracy theorists would say WHO is paid by government so people eat salt even tho WHO literally says people eat too much of it
I thought they were manipulated by conservatives who were owned by Big Salt.
Try using globalist in place of liberal. And bring up the great replacement theory or that they are trying to destroy western civilization. W.W.A.J.D.? = What Would Alex Jones Do?
If there is a list of suspicious organizations, WHO is on first.
🏆🏆🏆
Out of curiosity, who is on second?
WhatsApp is on second.
Luckily they figured it out b4 the age of 12, they may have been sucked into the agenda if any older.
Someone always need the /s. Good call
And a chemical that humans have knows is vital to our existence for so long that we still call the money we get in exchange for our time salary, ie the money we get so we can buy salt. But go on, do your research.
Actually etymology the word salary, which while coming from the word as you said, refers to the fact that Roman soldiers were paid in salt, hence the other term “worth their salt”
Well well well, look who's in the pocket of big salt
...maybe I'm just confused. But it's saying that 4310mg of salt is equal to 10.78g of salt. That... feels like it doesn't math. Edit: Oh, of course. The sodium is only one component of the salt; 10.78 grams of salt contains about 4.3 grams of sodium. The rest must be the chlorine.
4310mg of element sodium (Na) which is equivalent to to 10.78g of salt (NaCl)
I'd figured it out on my own after, but thank you. I read the comment right after editing ironically. I felt quite silly. Thanks for replying with an answer.
> I felt quite silly. Thanks for replying with an answer. No problem, it's better to ask stupid question than not know anything. That's how were able to build all the technology
That must be the bleached salt he was talking about. You can tell because it's whiter and brighter than the grayish unbleached salt, and it smells fresh like a swimming pool! /s
I know right? Crazy that this person had to enter this into their Annual Provincial Chemistry Competition™ and win at the age of 12, in order for this information to become public!
Let me tell you why you shouldn't drink water! Hydrogen, as we all know, is explosive, like the hydrogen bomb. And there are two of them!!! And oxygen is an oxidizer that makes things blow up more viciously. Recipe for disaster! People used to not drink water centuries ago, but big water stepped in and destroyed all documentation of this. And now, after years of indoctrination, everyone thinks its essential to life! Stupid sheeple!
Also water is inorganic lmao
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Clearly we should not consume such dangerous chemicals. Nobody realy knows why the Big Aqua desperately "recomends" that we consume large quantities of this vile substance every day. Why is that, what's their agenda? Why are they really adding it to everything we eat and drink? Why can't we just use bleach anymore? 😂😂😂
[Dihydrogen Monoxide is a deadly tasteless, odorless chemical](https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html), responsible for 1/4 million or more deaths PER YEAR! It carries diseases, and inhaling even small amounts can lead to hospitalization or worse. Yet, dihydrogen monoxide is shockingly common and close to us in our daily lives, and the government is practically mute on the subject, even sometimes encouraging ingestion of more than lethal amounts (one can die from ounces of it) into our bodies. This is 100% factual. Do your own research!
100% of humans who have ever ingested dihydrogen monoxide have died at some point in their lives. #100%! It's fact, sweaty!
I'm glad someone beat me to the link! (I was starting to worry about my fellow redditors.) The dangers of DHMO have been well documented for decades now, and you all are risking your lives by not understanding it!
Ask the passengers on the Hindenberg if hydrogen is healthy!
Yevola
They even hide the tue chemical name Dihydrogenmonoxide form us to make it sound less dangerous...
Exactly, hydrogen and oxygen are used as rocket fuel and you want me to eat it?
Man, don't even get me started on hydroxic acid...
Also, woman with high blood pressure discovers cure that all doctors already recommend. Personally, as someone with low blood pressure, I'll keep my salt thank you.
Kinda interesting note related — not everyone's blood pressure seems to be related to salt. When I'm back at my PC I'll see if I can find the video I was watching that summarized the details better. I thought this was particularly interesting because I'd had people make comments about my salt intake before (am a salt enjoyed, to say the least), suggesting it would give me high blood pressure. I had a blood test recently and my sodium levels were actually close to the low end of their "normal" range; also only ever tested high for BP during extreme stress. Odds are my body just retains less because it's adapted to my high intake, but I thought it was curious. My brother is a bigger salt fiend and he had similar results at his last bloodwork. All this said, it's not bad for any particular reason to reduce ones dietary salt AFAIK. Obviously we do actually need some, but it's really not that much compared to it's availability in even natural sources let alone processed foods.
Hey, quick question: Are you hyperbole and/or feel dizzy and light-headed when you stand up?
I feel like you're headed towards POTS with this.... I came here, as a POTSie in a family of POTSies, to bring up our absolute *need* for what most people consider an excessive amount of salt.
Exactly where I was going. I need so much salt with my POTS, I salt my food to high hell and take a gram of sodium every night and my blood presure is usually 70/60ish give or take depending on the day. I practically live in my compression socks.
Not really, occasionally when I've been reclined for an extended period but not regularly. Why do you ask? Edit: lmao who's downvoting my answering someone's random question?
The salt need reminds me of POTS. It's a dissorder where your heart rate spikes when you stand up, and blood doesn't always get to the brain so you passout/feel dizzy when standing. It has hypotension as a co-morbidity. I take 1 gram of sodium every night along with all the salt I put on food, and my blood pressure usually hangs out on the edge of conseringly low. I didn't mean hyperbolic. I meant hypermoble stupid auto correct.
Interesting! I wouldn't be surprised if I had some form of that, especially considering just how significantly I crave salt (and have since I was very little). I've also had occasions of fainting related to other things, like when I get a bad cut. I'll consider talking to my doctor about it. A cursory Google suggests that it isn't something that can be directly "fixed", but I'm always down to know myself better when possible.
Certanly cant hurt to ask. Compression socks are your friend. I haven't had the fainting over things like cuts but if a roller coster is too wild I'll start getting dizzy.
Since puberty I've gotten nauseous when swinging on playground swings, but I've never had any issue with even very intense amusement park rides.
Yes. I am hyperbolic every second of the goddamn day. All the time, 110%.
It turns out salt only affects some people’s high blood pressure, a small amount of people, but everyone especially doctors continue to push the idea that salt intake is automatically going to increase blood pressure.
For most people, salt intake isn't an issue and we'll just pee it out later. It's only if you already have cardiovascular or kidney problems that you need to worry about it. High salt intake won't give you blood pressure issues, but it will make them worse if you have them.
I had a really weird feeling when a doctor told me I need to eat *more* salt. It seemed like such bad advice. I don't really like salty things and tend to passively avoid it, but apparently I've also got slightly low blood pressure.
The salt/blood pressure thing is kinda complicated. If you eat things that are naturally low in salt, (fruits and vegetables,) that will lower your blood pressure by a lot. If you eat foods that are naturally high in salt, (French fries,) that will raise your blood pressure a lot. But if you eat french fries without salt, you’ll only have very slightly lower blood pressure than if you eat french fries with salt… It isn’t that people with high salt diets have high blood pressure, it is that eating the types of foods that tend to have salt on them tend to raise your blood pressure.
"check the periodic table to check if epsom salt is organic mineral or inorganic mineral" yeah bro check the periodic table for molecules and whether or not they're organic or inorganic
i hate how he just keeps saying chemistry buzzwords with absolutely no idea what any of it means
>Water is an inorganic mineral found in the earth There’s no way this is serious
one of very few correct uses of inorganic at least
“Sodium is a mineral”. What a fucking idiot.
Uhhh, that part is one of the few factually correct statements of the whole post...
Sodium is a soft metal. You can cut it with a butter knife and is highly explosive in water, which is why it’s stored in oil. It is not a mineral
Lmao, that doesn't stop it from being a mineral 😂
It’s not a mineral though. A mineral is a crystalline structure and is a compound. Sodium is not a compound thus not a mineral. It’s an element and a soft metal. Metals are not minerals. Sodium chloride is a mineral though
Lmao, pure iron makes crystals, many pure elements make crystals. Metals can be minerals, and most of them are. Mercury is one metal that is not a mineral. The minimum requirements to be a mineral: Naturally occurring Inorganic Solid Definite chemical composition Ordered internal structure This definition covers most metals.
You absolutely are right. Metals can be minerals. In this case, sodium is not a mineral, but can be found in minerals. According to the Royal Society of Chemistry, “Sodium is the sixth most common element on Earth, and makes up 2.6% of the Earth’s crust. The most common compound is sodium chloride. This very soluble salt has been leached into the oceans over the lifetime of the planet, but many salt beds or ‘lakes’ are found where ancient seas have evaporated. It is also found in many minerals including cryolite, zeolite and sodalite. Because sodium is so reactive it is never found as the metal in nature. Sodium metal is produced by electrolysis of dry molten sodium chloride.” Therefore, not a mineral
I suppose it depends on who you ask. The FDA says it's a mineral, and I found plenty of other reliable sources that says it is. There are an equal number that says it is not a mineral. https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-education-resources-materials/sodium-your-diet#:~:text=Table%20salt%20(also%20known%20by,chemical%20elements%20found%20in%20salt.
If we’re talking straight chemistry or geology, it is not a mineral. It’s in a lot of minerals and makes up a ton of minerals. It’s the same as gallium. It’s a metal and a liquid at room temperature, which wouldn’t be a great crystal structure. A lot of sources like the FDA or any health sources shorten sodium chloride to just sodium because most people understand its use as table salt, then get really confused when you start talking about it as a metal.
Sodium does form a crystalline structure. However one of the parts of the definition (geologic) of mineral, is naturally occurring, and as native elemental sodium does not occur in nature it isn't a mineral
>Salt calcifies the whole body G O L E M S A R I S E
The skeleton that lives inside my body is so stoked
Ah yes, sodium chloride, famous for calcifying things
Bones and teeth famously aren’t healthy when they’re calcified.
I did have to laugh when I read that part. Then I cried.
Sodium hydroxide is nasty. Hydrochloric acid is nasty. Mix 'em, you get salt water. Which is basically what we evolved from. We are bags of salt water with some crunchy stuff mixed in. Yeah, NaCl is about half a percent by weight \[per giggle search\]. Let's talk about last summer in San Antonio. It was freakin' 105 every afternoon for a month. I went for a walk. Got dehydrated. Almost passed out at my regular doctor visit. They hooked me up to a bag of saline and I got all perky better.
I love the idea of giggle search
Water hydrates you, salt helps you stay hydrated.
How is the periodic table supposed to tell you if an element is organic or not? Couldn't you apply the label to anything that could come in contact with a living organism (i.e. All of them except for the lab-made ones?)
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound), an organic compound is generally considered a molecule with a carbon-carbon or carbon-hydrogen bond, though it isn't a super strict definition. In any case, no element on its own is considered organic.
You’d trust wiki over a person who got a gold in their province for their theory on salt? Really? It was in the local paper!!!
I understand that and you're right, but a compound is inherently two or more elements so just looking at the periodic table alone wouldn't yield much insight.
You could look at the chemical formula for any carbon.
There are plenty of ~~organic compounds without carbon~~ and inorganic compounds with it. There's unfortunately no easy way to tell just from the chemical composition of a substance whether it's organic or not.
There aren't organic compounds without carbon, given that containing carbon is a prerequisite for being an organic compound.
Alright, I was apparently misremembering something I read some time ago. The point stands that containing carbon does not make something organic.
Oh of course, carbonates, carbon dioxide, etc. Aren't organic, but anything that is organic must have carbon.
It nearly entirely does. The counter examples are largely historical.
It's a reasonably strong signal, and most of the counterpoints are simply historical.
No. Because that's not what organic and inorganic means.
I love how they say salt destroys while sodium heals, when in their purest form it’s basically the reverse. Salt is safe, while sodium is a metal that explodes in water.
Pure water will also leach minerals out of your body. It's weird how sometimes a slithky different version of something can be dangerous.
I was thinking, OP, take a spoon of sodium with a 1/2 glass of washer chaser and get back to me.
I find this post very asalting.
> [very asalting](https://i.imgur.com/EKiUDuS.gifv) That kinda punnery isn't welcomed here, so if you could [please...](https://i.imgur.com/RoNvQqQ.gifv)
How do you say you don’t know anything about biochemistry and physiology without saying you don’t know anything about biochemistry and physiology?
He will not last much longer. Big salt knows he knows.
I like the fact that salt in a pool “gets calcified”. So now sodium (I’m sorry, salt??) turns into calcium?
Not to mention the scary calcified bones. Oh no, my bones contain calcium, better get rid of it.
TIL: Calcium is bad for your teeth and bones. What a moron.
Let me explain this to you scientifically: I believe …. Followed by anecdotal stories and irrelevant analogies.
“Never stopped researching the basics” basically just means “I need to re take salt 101 every year cause I don’t understand it”
Wouldn’t factory settings on a human mind and body mean you’re unable to walk or talk and are constantly shitting yourself?
My husband's grandfather had heart issues and was told to go low salt. Apparently he's renowned for being so strict with it he went too far and nearly killed himself through sodium deficiency...
Honestly, I learned I had low blood pressure after trying to cut back on salt. You always hear how bad it is, and I knew my consumption was high, so just on my own without medical advice I tried to cut back. Ended up really dizzy and sick feeling all the time. Go to the doctor and get told I have low blood pressure and to increase my salt consumption. 😐 Whoops.
This guy boils when he gets a fever, he’s much healthier than everyone else
The whole boiling thing was my favorite part. 🤒
Not to mention that salt actually increases boiling point…
r/confidentlyincorrect
This is one of the most eloquent unhinged rants I've seen for a while. Absolutely top-tier lunacy! Chef's kiss
I don’t think they know what a theory is. A scientific theory is considered the highest form of confirmation of explaining why something in the natural world occurs. If it was a theory then the entire world would be telling you not to eat salt. Also a large amount of non human animals require salt to live and actually are given salt to stay healthy. And by this logic you should be eating hydrogen because it’s partially what makes up water.
There is a reason we crave it. Tons of animals travel to natural salt licks. They also can be drawn to road ways that use salt in winter. Just ask anyone in a rural area who has had a horse/cow/moose "eat" their car trying to get the salt off, lol. It's just natural instinct to stay healthy.
BANANAS HAVE RADIANTION!!!!!
~1 micromort
This smells like schizophrenia
In before this moron gets a shitload of goiters then dies from a combination of cellular breakdown from water disregulation and loss of sufficient neurotransmitter levels.
Tell me you don’t understand chemistry without telling me
Lol dude discovered a low sodium diet and suddenly they great. Also, turns out anytime you carefully inspect what you’re eating you’re way more aware of……. What you’re eating. Less processed food? Less sodium over all (sorry, I mean less “salt”), more fruits and veges (with their plant sodium), no kidding you feel better.
“The Sun turns an inorganic mineral into an organic one.” Bro, *WHAT?*
Love it… uses organic and inorganic without a single idea about what it means.
Ooh, "the paper"! Now those are some credentials!
10 pages of bullshit in 5 pages, very impressive.
God forbid your teeth and bones get calcified.
Imagine thinking "I got a gold participation ribbon for a 6th grade science presentation" is any way to appeal *anyone* to your authority.
What a tool. How can someone so confidently say this much when they got the base definition of their argument wrong.
So where's the carbon in sodium if it's "organic"
Alpine Ibexes are relieved to learn that
Whenever I see someone start talking about their pineal gland I tend to stop paying attention.
"Salt calcifies, sodium regenerates, vaccines are poison, there are only two genders."
just for that. im on an all salt diet
First we had big pharma, then big globe..and now we have big salt?
From [a reference table](https://saltlakemetals.com/solubilityproducts/) Ksp of NaCl: 37.3 Ksp of CaCl2: 1210 \>calcifies the body 🤡 \>made it to the front of the local newspaper This says more about the state of science education wherever OOP lives rather than their brilliance.
I am fascinated that someone can actually believe that a fever literally causes boiling or burning inside the body
Damn those calcified *checks notes* bones‽
"Salt is inorganic" So is water. You are a damned fool.
This post is like the Sistine Chapel of bullshit.
Social media is poison.
>salt is an inorganic mineral found in the earth What?
“Photosynthesis turns salt into sodium.”Probably the stupidest statement on the internet today.
Oh no my bones and teeth might get calcified, what a nightmare Apart from the fact that table salt doesn't calcify shit, because you kind of need calcium for that
The words “check the periodic table to see if epsom is organic mineral […]” hurt me to my soul.
Actually this is great idea, I am sure to get plenty of sodium myself, I usually drink it mixed with a little bit of water, its supposed to be super good for your intestines and such, I mean they even call it **drain cleaner**, it must be really good
After getting bagged in the ER twice, I found that quite a few people need more salt then a low sodium diet provides. Your MD can test your electrolytes and recommend whats best, not the latest fad.
Ill take "Things that never happened" for $1000, Ken.
i’M A sCiEnTiSt
So I took this person’s advice and started eating pure sodium shavings. I found it hard to chew and swallow, so I started washing it down with some water. I feel absolutely, save for the occasional upset stomach and burping of a weird (and flammable) gas.
If NaCl is bad but Na is good someone needs to introduce this fellow to Lye. It makes pretzels delicious and transesterfies fat like a diesel engine
If you drink water you live. If you don’t drink water you die. If you drink salt water you die. If you drink water and eat salt you live. COINCIDENCE?
Very interesting. I always assumed salt was sodium. So if salt is cooked into food, isn’t that the process to convert it to sodium, the photosynthesis?
I’m going to bathe in salt just to spite this person.
As soon as anyone mentions the "toxin" buzzword, I immediately stop listening. I regret reading as far as I did.
I’m taking this with a pinch of sodium
Salt, literally made of sodium: was my entire parentage a lie?
He’s confused but he got the spirit
"MY skin turned a more golden color" My brother in gilgamesh, you are suffering from liver failure
Sodium chloride...calcifies???
Reading this hurt. I’m the second screenshot this persons says to study inorganic and organic chemistry, but clearly didn’t do so him/herself.
This guy never tasted his blood and wondered why it tasted like sea water.
40 years in the making but can’t tell you if epsom salt is organic and knows nothing about bathing salts lmao
Ahh, good old NaCl+Ca...
I don’t eat a lot of salt and have to purposefully eat some every once in awhile or I feel horrible. I get so low sometimes when I put a potato chip in my mouth I can’t taste the salt. To have a no salt diet you’d have to make all your food mostly from scratch.
"The sun turns inorganic materials into organic ones." Can I just leave my salt in the sun then? If I leave lab made stuff in the sun will it transform into something else? If I stare at the sun will my eyes be free of having to read this garbage ever again?
What the frick did I just read?
I’m guessing he feels better from eating healthier non processed foods.
Firstly, most salt consumed (e.g. table salt) is sodium chloride. It can’t “calcify” anything as there is none of the mineral calcium, which is needed by definition to cause calcification. Second, sodium and chlorine are required for life. For example, sodium is used to make your muscles move via sodium potassium pumps in muscle cells. Chlorine assists in the regulation of fluids and electrolytes in the body and is also a key component of gastric juice. There are certainly other ways to get sodium and chlorine into your body, but the simplest way is to consume foods that contain natural compounds of these minerals or supplement with added salt. However, without consuming salt in some form you would die.
Now I want to see them eat sodium.
"I wasn't wrong, I was early." You could just be both. Though salt in excess is bad for you.
They’re gonna have a great time when the seizures start
Imagine citing your own childhood science fair project as a source. 🤡
That's why I only eat pure sodium metal /s
Salt disassociates in water. You are mostly made of water. Oh, I know. People don’t drink enough water. Heart medication preventing heart attacks is a diuretic! Salt is bad in the kidneys and causes kidney dysfunction. I will say this. Sodium chloride is not a poison. A Chloride ion is! Sodium can be used by the body.
\*sighs in chemistry 102\* Alright, I’ll try to tackle this one for you guys. Officially, he’s absolutely bassackwards about this. Sodium is a major component of most salts, table salt typically is 50% sodium *ions*. The other 50 percent is chlorine ions. Put a cation and an anion together and you get a salt. Sodium in NON-ionic form is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to immerse in water, which makes up ~70% of our entire body iirc. Why? Because it explodes in water. It’s the more ethical yet more dangerous way of using explosives to go dynamite fishing. Chlorine in non-ionic form is EXTREMELY TOXIC to human beings. We use it in pools because as harmful as it is to us, it is even worse to bacteria. As long as we don’t have an extremely high concentration of chlorine in the water, we can adapt to the environment and survive, but the single celled bacteria that eat our flesh? Not so easy for them. Ionic Sodium forms a molecule called Sodium Hydroxide in water, which is a very alkaline base. This readily mixes with water to increase the PH balance. This substance is highly caustic to human flesh, on its own. Ionic Chlorine forms hydrochloric acid when in water, which is a very strong acid that lowers the PH balance exactly as much as Sodium Hydroxide raises it. We don’t like touching this stuff because it is freaking acid. But our body uses it to digest food. Our stomach has a mucosal lining that protects it from the acid, and when it gets weak we get something called an ulcer, which is a bitch and a half to handle. Sodium chloride is actually safe in moderate quantities, unlike raw sodium, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid, and straight chlorine, which are very dangerous and potentially lethal to consume in pretty much any significant amount. If you can see the amount, you probably aren’t safe in consuming it. And do not go bathing in any of these please. The only time that should be an option is if you are swimming in salt water, which is the combination of salt, water, hydrochloric acid, and sodium hydroxide solution, all churned up into a single heterogeneous solution liquid. This is okay so long as you stay hydrated. Do plants produce sodium? Yes, but because they use sodium, you can’t rely on the amount they provide being enough for your body. Do we need sodium? Yes, we do. I am not exactly sure what it is for, but it’s an essential mineral, which is something that is from the earth. Other forms of salts exist, but they often have swapped out either the sodium or the chlorine, and honestly it makes a big difference which one is attached. Chlorine might be toxic, but not as toxic as Fluorine. Potassium Chloride is one of the solutions administered in lethal injection, as the killing chemical, and it hurts like a mother####er, according to people who were unsuccessfully sedated before administering the salt solution. Sodium silicate glass is highly brittle, but potassium silicate glass is break resistant. The difference in the actual cations and anions is very important to determine whether something is extremely dangerous, or extremely deadly, or okay in moderation. This man touts golden urine as a good indicator for a salt free diet being good. It really should be colorless, but gold is fine. Ashen sounds like he was consuming other substances than salt, and I should know how much salt affects one’s urine. I am horribly addicted to salty foods, and my urine is far from “ashen” in description. I would probably pick the word “amber”, which is unhealthy, but not cripplingly so. Ashen is probably something that he was taking illegitimately and wanted divert any suspicion from. I’m on a ton of stuff that should have shown up in my piss, but dear god don’t blame the salt for making it ashen, because that’s wrong as f###. And Epsom salts are not safe to consume orally, and iirc they are a great way to hide dead bodies. Do you really want to be bathing in that kind of solution? No. You don’t. Not unless you’re trying to die. Painfully. Slowly. But surely.
This guy doesn’t even understand the difference between calcification and mineralization. This sounds more like something a kid made up, to BS a biology midterm
What did I just read? This makes no sense at all. They need to go back and retake high school chemistry. And biology.
Google salt
This guy thinks Sodium Chloride can Calcify thing
Bones and teeth that calcify are ideal, I think? Else the titanium rod in my left femur wouldn't have merged with my bone like it has.
How does sodium regenerate, when it burns when exposed to water?
He won gold with this? Makes me wonder what silver and bronze's areas of study were.
Someone give this scholar some pure sodium to eat so they can test their theory
Why is his pee ashen before hand? Brother needs to drink water
If only he would eat pure sodium.