I&#x27;m another person who was avoiding salt - thinking it was bad for me - and then discovered that I wasn&#x27;t getting enough salt. My body&#x27;s temperature regulation was a mess - hot &amp; not sweating with a dry mouth and dry sinus. So I started putting a teaspoon of salt into my morning fruit smoothy - and suddenly all the symptoms went away. I wish I had known sooner.<p>I&#x27;ve started using sea salt exclusively, since grocery store salt is just extracted NaCl - which isn&#x27;t what traditional salt, the salt that&#x27;s been eaten for centuries, really is. Sea salt is said to have a composition of trace elements which closely resembles the human body. Sea salt has a much lower percentage of NaCl than the processed salt.<p>I should add that I don&#x27;t eat a lot of processed food. I cook basic foods and put them in the freezer so I can eat them throughout the week. That is most of my diet. So most of my salt was probably just the occasional junk food I would eat.