The Myth of the “Salt Lick”

Is a low-salt diet a deficient diet? Don’t we need
plenty of salt in our diets to keep us in top physical
condition? This is a popular notion, but is it true? People
will tell you that animals will travel for miles to visit so
called “salt licks”. I investigated salt licks where wild
forest animals congregate from miles around to lick the
soil. Although all of these sites were known as “salt licks”,
the one chemical property they all had in common was
a complete absence of sodium chloride. There was
absolutely no organic or inorganic sodium at the salt
licks. But they all had an abundance of other organic
minerals and nutrients which the animals craved.