Dr. Jarvis said something to the effect that iodized salt was created commercially after the halogen association came to light with respect to sodium chloride and not neccessarily to create nutritional benefit for the consumer with a new "improved" product.

As to the taste of salt and what is said in the Tibetan Medical Texts, read for yourselves:
" The salty taste makes the body hard and erect. It assists in the evacuation of stools blocked by the wind and clears clogged channels. By applying warm salts in a cloth to the skin, perspiration is extracted from the body. It creates salt and appetitte in the body.

Taken in excess, the salty taste creates loss of hair, a gray hair,and wrinkles. In excess it reduces the energy of the body, produces a thirst imbalance, (polydypsia or thirst illness), hives and leprosy (warts and leprosy are called "tze"). Excess salt causes illness of the bile and blood"

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