Sodium

Sodium is essential to human health, organic sodium and not the scoundrel of health sodium chloride a.k.a. salt. Salt and sodium are not synonymous as far as our health is concerned. Organic sodium is essential. “Sodium was named “The Youth Element” due to its properties of promoting youthful, limber, flexible, pliable joints.” Chemistry of Man by Dr. Bernard Jensen. Sodium is used in extensive functions of the body. An average man who weighs around 180-190 pounds can contain as much as 2 ¾ ounces of sodium in his body. Sodium is a primary electrolyte important to the pH and water balance of the body.
Sodium is one of the essential minerals that make up part of the body tissues, fluids and plays an assimilable form of sodium, keeps calcium and cholesterol in solution in the body and is found in virtually all fibrous, solid tissue. It is also found in bone tissue, ligaments, liver, spleen, gallbladder, muscles, stomach, blood corpuscles, brain and other body constituents. In the gallbladder sodium is the constituent in the bile that keeps cholesterol liquid. Pathogenic bacteria can also take hold in the absence of sodium
Sodium is highly alkaline and contributes to the alkalinity of the lymph, blood and works with the bicarbonate buffer system if the digestive tract. In this system sodium combines with the bicarbonate to create sodium bicarbonate which neutralizes the hydrochloric acid that is combined with food in the stomach for digestion. It is also found in organic tissue salts in the pancreatic juice. Sodium bicarbonate is found in throat, nasopharynx, larynx and other similar tissues when catarrhal (catarrh is an inflammation of the mucous membranes) congestion’s are present as it acts as a solvent that helps remove catarrhal pus. Sodium bicarbonate also combats bronchial mucus, catarrh and thickened secretions on canal walls. When sodium is lacking and the body is unable to procedure sodium bicarbonate the body manifests problems like gout, diabetic acidity, sub acid blood, stomach catarrh and diabetic coma tendencies amongst a wide variety of other problems.
Sodium combines with other elements in the body to create organic compounds for bodily functions:
Sodium + Phosphorus = sodium phosphate which enables carbonic acids to be expelled more effectively from the lungs. It is present in all parts, solid and fluid, of the body, which helps maintain alkalinity.
Sodium + Sulfur = sodium sulfate which controls humidity in the bodily fluids, enhances performance of the liver, bile secretions and promotes peristaltic action in the stomach and intestines.
Sodium + Carbon = sodium carbonate or bicarbonate which is necessary for normal fat metabolism, breaks down neutral fats into fatty acids, glycerin and works with pancreatic juice to attract and hold fat.
“Heartburn indicates a need for more sodium, and drowsiness following a meal indicates that digestion is slow and more serious digestive troubles are impending,” Chemistry of Man by Dr. Bernard Jensen.
Sodium has pronounced and positive effect on urine, kidney and liver acidity. When we consume excessive fatty, starchy foods (lard, meat, potatoes and margarine) they are metabolized into acetic, butyric, lactic and other fatty acids that are neutralized by the sodium. When the sodium is deficient fatty acids begin producing gastric secretions, muscles, liver, brain, blood corpuscles, fibrous tissue, cartilage, synovia, blood serum and almost all body fluids and solids require sodium.
When sodium is lacking in the body the symptoms of deficiency are wide and varied:
Loss of athletic skills, bone joints crack, numb feet and legs, calves cramp, flatulence, mouth ulcers, germ life flourishes, toxins compound, bacterial and parasitic life flourish, itching, tendons become tight, spleen inflammation, sore and enlarged liver, candidiasis, faulty bile secretions, stone formation, calcium deposits, sluggish bowel, poor hearing, chronic rheumatism, oxygen deficiency, hiccough, nausea, belching, morning sickness, chronic salivation and gallstones.
When sodium is totally exhausted then sodium hunger or starvation occurs resulting in:
Delayed digestion, vomiting in infant, gout or rheumatism becomes increasingly chronic in nature, frontal headaches, bloating, poor vision, nasal passages become chronically congested with catarrh, susceptible to drafts, sense of smell becomes faulty, mental confusion, complexion becomes mottled, daytime drowsiness, dry skin, icy feet, hydrochloric acid is deficient, depression after eating, coated tongue and agitated nerves.
Helps with excretion of carbon dioxide
Counters acidity
Essential in the digestive buffering system
Needed by pancreas, spleen and liver
Stored in the stomach walls, joints and gallbladder
Prevents blood clotting
Active in the organs, connective tissues and bodily fluids