Don’t give salt to your pets; it’s toxic! Give salt; it’s healthy and filled with minerals! What are pet parents to believe? Celtic sea salt is all the rage on TikTok over the past couple of months, but what about for our pets? It turns out that celtic sea salt benefits for pets are many. Let’s break them down.
What’s the Difference Between Sea Salt and Table Salt?
It’s kind of like the difference between a fresh salad and McDonald’s. Table salt is processed, heated to 1200-degrees fahrenheit, bleached and iodine and anti-caking agents are added. None of this sounds appetizing, right?
Sea salt, on the other hand, is unprocessed, is not bleached and retains the natural minerals that are beneficial to us and to our pets. Made by evaporating seawater, sea salt contains potassium, iron, and zinc. One thing to note, based on the state of our oceans, is sea salt can contain trace amounts of heavy metals and microplastics. This isn’t good and, unfortunately, since salt is important for us and for them, consuming the healthiest varieties we have available to us is what we can do.
What’s the Difference Between Sea Salt and Celtic Sea Salt?
Celtic salt is coarser than table or general sea salts. It’s sourced from French tidal pools and features a briny flavor. It’s denser and moister than table salt. Sometimes, it’s gray in color as the result of being allowed to touch the bottom of the pan during harvest.
Here’s the beauty of Celtic sea salt. It includes trace amounts of minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc, iodine, and potassium, and it has less sodium than regular table salt. Those minerals are important and have health properties and benefits we’ll go over here.
What are the Celtic Sea Salt Benefits for Pets?
Celtic Sea Salt has lots of health benefits for dogs and cats. Remember I talked about the minerals contained in celtic sea salt : calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, manganese and zinc? Each of these serve different functions in the body.
- Calcium is important for bone health and development
- Potassium helps regulate fluid balance, as well as heart and muscle contractions
- Magnesium is a key nutrient that’s needed for muscle movement and nervous system signaling
- Iron helps our animals’ bodies make the haemoglobin they need for healthy red blood cells
- Manganese is an essential trace mineral and is important to activate many enzymes required for normal metabolic function. Weak ligaments and tendons can be a sign of manganese deficiency. Manganese activates the enzymes that are needed to build collagen, which gives strength to soft tissue.
- Zinc is important in wound healing and immune system and thyroid function. It plays an important role in enzymes, proteins, and hormones.
- Iodine is essential for healthy functioning of the thyroid. The hormones used by the thyroid, thyroxine and triiodothyronine, cannot be made without iodine. When these thyroid hormones are off balance, it can lead to drastic fluctuations in weight, energy and mood levels.
Celtic Sea Salt also helps to maintain a healthy blood pressure and supports more efficient nerve signal transmission for our pets.
Important Tip About How to Administer
I started giving Sophie a tiny pinch of Celtic Sea Salt 2-3 times a day recently, followed by giving her some water through a syringe. Why am I doing it this way?
This is important, because you’ll read that adding Celtic Sea Salt to your pets’ water is a good idea. It’s not. The magnesium in the salt is a water hungry mineral, meaning it will get dissolved very quickly in the water and not make it in the form needed into the cells.
If you put a couple of grains of the salt onto their tongue, the mucous membranes of the mouth already begin extracting the minerals into the body and the water immediately after will carry those minerals into the cells.
I decided to give Celtic Sea Salt to Sophie on the recommendation of my good friend, Maya, who is a cancer survivor; she cured her own cancer nutritionally and is a wealth of information. One of Sophie’s medications for her Congestive Heart Failure is Spironolactone, which is a mild diuretic but, in the dose Sophie is prescribed, it’s not being used that way but as a way to keep the potassium being excreted out of Sophie’s body by the strong diuretic Furosimide (Lasix), before it’s excreted. Giving Sophie this particular sea salt in this particular way is keeping potassium in the cells naturally and allowing me to wean Spironolactone out of her protocol.
Where To Find Celtic Sea Salt?
The easiet and most financially reasonable Celtic Sea Salt can be found on your grocery store shelves. It is in a bright blue bag by the family owned Selina Naturally, out of North Carolina. It comes in a variety of fine or coarse textures and variations of grey. You can also buy it from Amazon.
You can also go onto Etsy and find Celtic Sea Salt, too.
Summary
Celtic Sea Salt is a little used mineral-rich food that is good for our dogs and cats. Moderation is important, and a couple of grains goes a long way. Giving it directly onto the tongue is important, so the minerals are absorbed immediately through the mucous membranes, where they can be carried to the cells with a subsequent drink of water or squirt of water via syringe into your pet’s mouth.
The minerals found in Celtic Sea Salt – magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, zinc, manganese and iodine each carry their own health benefits for our pets.
Sometimes, the most beneficial natural healing substances can be found in our own kitchens or grocery store shelves.
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To their best health ever!
Jody
