Is it about salt because we’re always going to get asked, «Hey, so I have to drink seawater?» To put it in numbers, seawater has 39.8 g of salt per liter. Our bodies have, on average, 0.6 g of salt per liter. That’s the minimum the body should have. Now we can adjust the amount of salt per liter. Yes, now the kidneys can adjust from 1.5 g of salt per liter down to 0.39 g of salt per liter. Because the kidneys are very intelligent, right? So, in nature, like our bodies, they know that sometimes there will be more water and sometimes more salt. The kidneys, the intracellular fluid, and the blood—that is, our kidneys—life itself originated in the sea. Well, that’s why the salt limit is 0.39 g. Yes, that’s correct. But a castaway can’t drink seawater, a friend of mine in the Army who’s really into sailing. There are many books about shipwreck survivors who used seawater, but that’s another story, and I’m discussing them with another urologist friend. Right now, things are complicated. In nature, you don’t always find water and salt mixed. But in your body, they are mixed because we come from the sea. Our bodies never left the sea. Our cells are still living in the sea right now. But what we learned to do was produce our own internal sea, and the organ or organs that produce it are the kidneys. They are the most important, along with the lungs, which are involved in acid-base balance. Along with the liver and the heart, which secretes natriuretic peptide and other substances, it’s the renin-angiotensin cycle. That’s it—the body’s fluids and its internal fluids are the sea. Now, the fundamental ingredients of the sea are water and salt. That’s why proportion matters. So, if you need to have a minimum of 6 grams of salt per liter of fluid that enters your body, and someone drinks 0.3 liters of water, how much salt should they consume? 6 grams. (3.18 free 18). But nutrition recommendations tell you that you should consume no more than 6 grams. These are the recommendations. There are no internationals all day. Yes, in the story of the day. When they weren’t telling you to drink water, even when you weren’t thirsty. And water. They took away the electrolytes, too, once again, proportionality, yes, but back then, it was fine because people drank what they were thirsty for. If I ate, I drank juice, I ate Iberian ham with a lot of salt, or I ate something salty. My body was going to ask for fluids, and it would compensate. In that case, water also has to have salt. That is, if we eat a very salty food, it doesn’t matter so much; your body doesn’t care because the body will mix it and find its balance. So when you see that the World Health Organization’s recommendations say 6g a day, nobody was saying at that time, «drink water even when you’re not thirsty.» Why did they start recommending that you drink water? I’m confused, but well, the story is US politics. Yes, it’s very complex; no, it’s not very fun. I’m not going to name names, but in the United States,s there was a politician who wanted me to elect him. And what he did was start badmouthing the soda companies. The soda companies, yes, the ones that bottle sodas, and he said that during his campaign, he was going to go after them. And so you’re alone? What they did was say that the state’s water was bad; it wasn’t contaminated. So people were very afraid to drink tap water, and then they started bottling it. But when you isolate it from the water in a container, it spoils; to prevent that from happening, you have to remove the electrolytes. For him, it killed it, because this is brutal. People often ask, «But I opened the bottled water, it’s from a spring, it says so on the label, that natural form is gone.» What the spring had, which are the minerals, are now the electrolytes. Look, everyone’s sweepings collect water. Do you bring it home and leave it outside? Is that allowed? If you take bottled water from the store, pour it, and leave it outside, it won’t spoil. Okay, because even the microorganisms in the environment can’t consume it. That’s why it doesn’t go bad. It doesn’t give life. Prepare electrolyte solutions, and you’ll see how they spoil in two days and how the water is removed by osmosis or other methods from the water to the tanks, by reverse osmosis, by membranes, by different methods, since it’s spring water. No, it is. But we filter them and remove some of what they contain, or most of what they contain. If it says «low mineral content,» it’s often curious that in the world of sports, it’s very related to the world of sports. Water with a medium mineral content is very well regarded, and it’s still suggested that athletes should drink water under my parents’ roof, any elderly person, children, but when you have diarrhea, they give you IV fluids, and when you’re in the intensive care unit, nobody is going to put distilled water in your vein. It kills you, of course. Proportions. So, you need to take 6 grams of salt per liter, and we can prove that 1,000,000 times. I don’t think anyone believes me. Grab any physiology book you want. Are you going to have it in my equivalents per deciliter?

decimoles. Thinking about whether I want the right water, choosing 1 liter of any water, whatever I buy, bottled reverse osmosis water, tap water, or whatever, and adding 6 grams of salt per liter, yes, but that’s where we run into problems, because we shouldn’t look at it that way. We have to think about all the liquid that enters your body. Per liter, 6 grams of salt have to enter, including solid foods that contain water; fruit is 99% water; a glass of wine; lettuce; water; coffee; wine; coffee. But you’re not going to put salt in the wine, you’ll… You’ll spit out the coffee with salt, it has to be… What advice would you give to a person who doesn’t know much about Unani medicine, but wants to start enriching with electrolytes because they believe in what you say, they want to try it, and, in their case, how can they manage it? Well, now they should go, familiarizing themselves more with the information, but it would be… Are you going to take the electrolyte solution without anything else? It’s easier because you have very direct control. So, you’re not going to put 6g in 1L; you can’t handle that. Now, if you’ve been drinking a lot of water, then the symptoms are: if your body has more water than electrolytes, it’s unbalanced. Okay, let me just tell you: how unbalanced? Your kidneys can adjust from 1.5g to 3.9g per liter. But if a person drinks 3L of water alone, and eats fruits and vegetables, and the total liquid they ingested is 5L with food and everything, soup and all, and the total salt with their food and what they add is 5g, in 5L, you have 1g per liter. The kidney can’t handle that anymore. Now what happens? The water, outside the cell, gets inside the cell by osmosis. So, when it struggles, that’s called intracellular edema, and that’s absolutely toxic to the cells, and that happens in the brain and causes Alzheimer’s and memory loss.And when that happens in the body, the body has to increase its metabolism; that’s why the thyroid is burning.That’s why they experience panic attacks, because it consumes blood sugar.But they think it’s emotional; it’s not.Unfortunately, the kidneys are affected because the cells of the immune system, the white blood cells, swell and rupture, which is why the immune system weakens. The red blood cells also rupture. Perhaps they rupture, causing anemia? Which organs suffer the most? This is the other crucial point: life is electricity. Life is an electrical phenomenon, but this electrical phenomenon occurs in water. But water doesn’t conduct electricity. Therefore, water is incompatible with electricity; consequently, it’s incompatible with life. Unless it contains electrolytes, which are called electrolytes because they are the electrical components of water, water is not conducive to life.So water alone doesn’t conduct electricity, when you see in the movie that they throw the dryer in the bathtub and it gets electrocuted? No, that only works if it has electrolytes. If you and a Latina with distilled water throw the dryers in, she’s not going to get electrocuted. That happens in the body, and that’s the body’s electricity, okay? The most electrical organs. Which ones are they? The heart and the brain? That’s why they took away salt 50 years ago. There’s still a lot of high blood pressure, but now half the world has Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, which they didn’t before, because if you take away the electricity from the brain, you’re going to destroy it; if you take away the electricity from the heart, you’re going to destroy it. And electricity… Well, salt, you mentioned this to me recently. This really impacted me, and when I was 30 or 31, I had a heart attack, a sudden death, which is an electrical failure, and people ask me, «But don’t you have heart disease?» No, I don’t have heart disease; My electricity simply disappeared. Many cases are due to an electrolyte imbalance, a lack of salt in the body. I tell someone to drink 3-4 liters of water and restrict their salt intake. One of the things that will happen to them is heart problems, problems with fruits and vegetables. Yes, Alex, there’s a new disease that was declared in 1992, which is fibromyalgia. Yes, you see: the history of fibromyalgia and water consumption and low salt intake are identical. Because fibromyalgia is nothing more than an advanced stage of the condition, excess water, lack of electrolytes. What can be measured in urine and in the body as electrical conductivity? You can see it physically if you look in the mirror; if you have too much water, there are too few electrolytes. Yes, having been bloated, puffy, and having cellulite. This makes a lot of sense because at that time I was training for triathlons and competing in Ironmans. Yes. Extreme Fridays. I was a vegetarian, yes. A vegetarian leaning towards veganism, I started moving more towards veganism. And I also drank a lot of water because I spent a lot of time cycling or running. And of course, I couldn’t take certain packets they give out at races; they gave me diarrhea. When you introduce electrolytes into the body, through osmosis, they draw water from inside the cells to the outside, and the body expels it as diarrhea—it’s healing you. Is it a symptom of detoxification? Well, that’s what was happening to me: my blood pressure would rise, and they blamed the 6 grams. I blamed the salt. Well, the salt, not the packets, and now it makes a lot of sense because… Besides, I remember my urine was completely white. Yes, it was transparent, and I was thinking about society. Think of it as a good thing that this kidney isn’t forming stones. Well. Don’t you believe me? We told you we were going to rack our brains trying to figure out what morning pee looks like when you wake up, because it’s disgusting, yellow like apple juice, but hey, you have water and electrolytes, and the kidneys have to compensate. So if I drink 0.5 L of water and 5 g of salt, that leaves 1 g of salt per liter of liquid. Right, so what’s my kidney going to say? Should I retain as much salt as possible and excrete more liquid? Then, of course, my urine will be clear, but I’m going to retain urea. And urea is what comes from protein metabolism and is what forms stones, right? So, to defend itself against my attack, is my body going to ask me to eat more sugar? Because the mathematical formula for osmosis, which is already very complex, involves urea, glucose, and electrolytes. So, the body’s neuroendocrine system says, «If I’m losing electrolytes, I compensate for conductivity and osmosis by retaining either glucose or sugars, and I crave more, which contributes to carbohydrate addiction, or I start retaining uric acid.» You’re retaining uric acid inside the kidney, and the urine comes out clear, but… Is tartar forming in the kidney? When people start drinking electrolyte solutions, the body says, «Ah, now I have the correct salt-to-water ratio.» Now I’m going to start eliminating the salt that was stuck in the kidney, and the little stones start to come out. Do they blame the salt? It’s not the salt; it’s all that time you were eating protein: the protein from the gym. That’s a recipe for kidney stones: 3 liters of water, protein from the gym, and no salt. You’re going to get stones. Salt is essential for health. Check with your salary. And that, with your salary, they gave you your salary. The Romans paid you with bags of salt. It’s a salt of life, it says so in the Torah, in the Old Testament. All the animal documentaries: the mammals that go to lick salt. They relate memory to salt because a mammal or an animal that passes by a salt source will remember it. After all, salt is life. When bears come out in Canada, when they come out of hibernation, they go to the sea. There are some grasslands where they live. I have seen, yes, that when the tide goes out, some grasslands are between grass and seaweed, but a huge amount, it’s the first thing they eat, it’s true, I mean, they are hydrating themselves.