Indy Chicken Soup: Pink salt trick for weight loss...(Bull or What)?

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Pink Himalayan salt gets hyped a lot, especially on TikTok and wellness blogs, but here’s the real deal:

✅ The truth:

Pink Himalayan salt is basically just salt with trace minerals like magnesium, potassium, and calcium, which give it the pink color.
Those minerals are present in tiny amounts — not enough to make a difference in weight loss or overall health compared to regular table salt.
Some claims say it “detoxes the body” or “boosts metabolism,” but there’s no scientific proof. Your kidneys and liver already do the detox job.
Weight loss only happens with a calorie deficit (burning more than you consume). Salt — pink or otherwise — doesn’t speed that up.

🚫 The trick/bull part:

Marketing makes it seem like a magic fat-burner, but it’s not. At best, it can replace regular salt in cooking if you like the taste.
Too much pink salt is the same as too much table salt: it can raise blood pressure and cause bloating.

⚖️ Bottom line:
Pink Himalayan salt won’t help you lose weight. It’s mostly a wellness myth with good marketing.

Do you want the break down where the rumor about it being a “weight-loss trick” even started?

Alright, here’s where the pink Himalayan salt weight-loss myth mostly comes from:

Around the early 2010s, wellness influencers started pushing pink salt baths, lamps, and water (“sole water”) claiming it “detoxifies the body.”
Because “detox” sells, it got stretched to weight loss. The idea was: if it flushes toxins, it must flush fat too. Problem is — fat isn’t eliminated that way. Your liver and kidneys handle detox, not salt water.

People mix pink Himalayan salt into a glass of water and drink it first thing in the morning.
Claims: it boosts hydration, balances pH, curbs hunger, and speeds up metabolism.
Reality: it’s just salt water. You’ll retain more water, and if you’re sensitive to sodium, it may even cause bloating instead of slimming.

Marketers lean hard on the fact that pink salt has “84 trace minerals.”
That’s technically true, but the amounts are microscopic. You’d need to eat dangerous amounts of salt to get any meaningful nutrition from those minerals.

Because it looks different and isn’t processed like table salt, it got a halo effect: natural = healthy = weight loss.
In reality, your body doesn’t care about the color; salt is salt.

👉 So the myth caught fire through wellness blogs, influencers, and detox culture, not through science.

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