The Truth About Himalayan Sea Salt | Joe Rogan

It's one of those things then where it's like I'm probably not going to try to fix something that's not broken. Right, and you're pretty diligent about your supplementation and things on the ground. Yeah, and I mean I definitely am not afraid to salt my food. You know, most of my food is conducive to putting salt on. So, you know, I'm probably getting quite a bit of that stuff just in my day-to-day nutrition too. Do you have specific salt that you like? Do you use Himalayan? Do you use sea salt? Like, what do you like to use? Yeah, I like to get sea salt. Lately I've been using this stuff called Redmond's sea salt. They get their salt out of like, I believe it's in Utah, Salt Lake. Oh, okay. And I don't know like if how accurate or whatever this is, but like I heard that if you can get an inland sea salt, it's better because it's not like, it doesn't have as many potential toxins that you're going to find in like ocean sea salt. Mercury, fusonosal. Yeah, that's what the idea about Himalayan sea salt is, right? Because it's no real fucking sea in the Himalayan. Right. Right. Like, what? Is it called Himalayan sea salt or am I just making that up or is it Himalayan salt? I think it's sea salt, right? Yeah. The pink Himalayan sea salt? Right. Yeah. But how was it sea salt? Explain that. How does that work? Was it an older sea? I wonder if that's what it is and it's just like these big salt. Oh, it is just salt? Okay. Oh, it's just Himalayan salt? No? It both comes out. Oh, yeah, I think I've heard it. Like an old sea that's no longer there and they just have the big salt deposits. Right. Like, that's what a lot of Montana is the great western inland sea, you know, like millions of years ago. Like, they find seashells in Montana. Yeah. So, it's just fucking bonkers. Yeah, it's crazy. I was in Utah earlier in the year. I can't remember where we were. Just out of Salt Lake and apparently that used to be under water too and like they'll find like shark teeth and stuff like that around there. Like, and it's just you're up on this like trail and they're like, there's no water in sight. Think about that next time you see some asshole that spend $10 million on a house on the beach. Yeah. Like, what makes you think that's going to stay there, man? Pay for that eventually. Yeah, that is not going to be here. Something's going to be different in the future. It's always been that way. Like, there's no permanent like place where the water is or the water isn't. Yeah, it is funny how we think of that though where it's like we see the map now and we're like, oh, okay, this is just how it is. And maybe not. Well, look at Pangea, you know, things change pretty goddamn radically. What's up, Jamie? I don't know the accuracy of this, but I just found this. Okay. Himalayan sea salt is a gourmet salt with a slightly misleading name. It doesn't come from the Himalayan mountains. Oh, Jesus. And it doesn't come from a sea. These motherfuckers. However, it's definitely a sea salt. So it's not a total misnomer. Himalayan salt actually refers to exclusively to Pakistani rock salt. They used to be sea salt hundreds of millions of years ago. So why don't we call it Pakistan? If I was Pakistani, I'd be pissed. Yeah, but these motherfuckers are stealing our shine. When a sea spreading over the region dried up, it was covered by geological shifts leading massive deposits of salt scattered throughout the hills. Odd name aside, Himalayan salt has a lot going for it. It's tasty. It's pink and some even claim it as healing prop. Well, those fucking healing properties assholes. Those are the people that like crystals. Yeah, we got that's what we have a big Himalayan salt rock right there. Yeah, well, I'll just go lick that. Like that sucker. Does anybody look at that yet? Someone must have liked it when we're looking. Yeah, I like Himalayan salt though. It's it does. It's nice. But like for cooking like for cooking meat in particular. I like kosher salt because it's got the big big flakes. The flakes. Yeah. What's the when when you put the big flakes on there? Is that help like retain the moisture on it or allegedly? I don't know.