The Importance Of Salt
Salt has so many essential functions other than just regulating the water content of the body.
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- Salt is a strong natural antihistamine.
It can be used to relieve asthma: Put some on your tongue after drinking a glass or two of water.
It is as effective as an inhaler, without the toxicity. You should drink one or two glasses of water before putting salt on the tongue. - Salt is a strong anti-stress element for the body.
- Salt is vital for extracting excess acidity from inside the cells, particularly brain cells.
If you don’t want Alzheimer’s disease, don’t go salt-free and don’t let them put you on diuretic medications for long! - Salt is vital for the kidneys.
It is needed to clear excess acidity, passing it into the urine. Without sufficient salt in the body, the body will become more and more acidic. - Salt is essential in the treatment of emotional and affective disorders.
Lithium is a salt substitute used in the treatment of depression. To prevent suffering from depression, make sure you take some salt. - Salt is essential for preserving the serotonin and melatonin levels in the brain.
When water and salt perform their natural antioxidant duties and clear toxic waste from the body, essential amino acids, such as tryptophan and tyrosine, will not be sacrificed as chemical antioxidants.
In a well-hydrated body, tryptophan is spared and gets into the brain tissue, where it is used to manufacture serotonin, melatonin, indolamine, and tryptamine—essential antidepressant neurotransmitters. - Salt is vital for the prevention and treatment of cancer.
Cancer cells are killed by oxygen; they are anaerobic organisms.
They must live in a low-oxygen and acidic environment.
When the body is well hydrated and salt expands the volume of blood circulation to reach all parts, the oxygen and the active and “motivated” immune cells in the blood reach the cancerous tissue and destroy it.
Dehydration – the shortage of water and salt – suppresses the immune system of the body and the activity of its disease-fighting immune cells. - Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeat.
contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure – it is actually essential for the regulation of blood pressure, in conjunction with water.
Naturally, the proportions are critical.
A low-salt diet with high water intake will, in some people, cause blood pressure to rise.
The reason is simple. The essential intracellular minerals that are the natural components of unrefined salt are vital to keep blood pressure normal. - Low salt diets can cause issues.
As a secondary complication, a low-salt diet can also cause asthma – like shortness of breath.
If you drink water and do not take salt, the water will not stay in the blood circulation adequately to completely fill all the blood vessels.
In some people, this will cause fainting, and in others, tightening of the arteries—and eventually constriction of bronchioles in the lungs—to the point of registering a rise in blood pressure, complicated by breathlessness.
One or two glasses of water and some salt—a little of it on the tongue—will quickly and efficiently quiet a racing and thumping heart, and in the long run will reduce the blood pressure and cure breathlessness. - Salt is vital for sleep regulation.
It is a natural hypnotic.
If you drink a full glass of water, then put a few grains of salt on your tongue and let it stay there, you will fall into a natural, deep sleep.
Don’t use salt on your tongue unless you also drink water. Repeated use of salt by itself might cause nosebleeds. - Salt is a vitally needed element in the treatment of diabetics.
It helps balance the sugar levels in the blood and reduces the need for insulin in those who have to inject the chemical for to regulate their blood sugar levels.
Water and salt reduce the extent of secondary damage associated with diabetes. - Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in all of the cells in the body.
It is used for local power generation at the sites of energy needed by the cells. - Salt is vital to the communication and information
The processing of nerve cells the entire time that the brain cells work—from the moment of conception to death. - Salt is vital for the absorption of food particles through the intestinal tract.
- Salt is vital for clearing the lungs of mucous plugs and sticky phlegm.
This is particularly true in asthma, emphysema, and cystic fibrosis sufferers.
Salt makes mucus fluid and loose—ready to “disconnect”—by changing the physical state of its structure (the process is called charge-shielding). - Salt on the tongue will stop persistent dry coughs; water will enhance this effect.
- Salt is vital for clearing up catarrh and sinus congestion.
- Salt is vital for the prevention of gout and gouty arthritis.
- Salt is essential for the prevention of muscle cramps.
- Salt is vital to preventing excess saliva production.
It helps to the point that it flows out of the mouth during sleep.
Needing to constantly mop up excess saliva indicates a salt shortage. - Osteoporosis and salt
Major osteoporosis is the result of salt and water shortages in the body.
More than 20 percent of the salt reserves of the body are stored in the shaft of the long bones, giving them their strength.
When the diet is short of salt, the stored salt in the bones is released to osmotically balance the content of salt in the blood. - Salt is vital for maintaining self-confidence and a positive self-image.
A serotonin and melatonin controlled “personality output” depend on salt. - Salt is vital for maintaining sexuality and libido!
- Salt is vital for reducing a double chin.
When the body is short of salt, it means the body really is short of water.
The salivary glands sense the salt shortage and are obliged to produce more saliva to lubricate the act of chewing and swallowing and also to supply the stomach with the water it needs for breaking down foods.
Circulation to the salivary glands increases, and the blood vessels become “leaky” in order to supply the glands with more water to manufacture saliva.
This leakiness spills to areas beyond the glands themselves, causing increased bulk under the skin of the chin, the cheeks, and into the neck. - Salt is vital for preventing varicose veins and spider veins on the legs and thighs.
- Sea salt and unrefined salt from salt mines contain about 80 mineral elements that the body needs.
Some of these elements are needed in trace amounts. Unrefined sea salt is a better choice of salt than other refined salt on the market.
Ordinary table salt bought in supermarkets has been stripped of its companion elements and contains additive elements to keep it powdery and porous.
Aluminum is a very toxic element to the nervous system and until recently was used as an anti-caking agent in the preparation of table salt.
Aluminum is implicated as one of the primary causes of Alzheimer’s disease.
If you see aluminum mentioned on the label of a salt container in the supermarket, don’t buy it, and ask the manager to remove it from the shelf. - Unrefined sea salt is now proving to be a pain and anticancer medication in animals.
- Salt is vital for maintaining muscle tone and strength.
Involuntary leakage of urine could be a consequence of low salt intake that has resulted in the weakness of the bladder neck.
