STRESS RELIEF.
Sea Salt – 10 Great Health Benefits
Strong
Immune System
Sea salt naturally
helps you to build up a strong immune system so that you can fight off the cold
virus, the fever and flu, allergies and other autoimmune disorders.
Alkalizing
Sea salt is
alkalizing to the body, as it has not been exposed to high heat and stripped of
its minerals, nor does it have any harmful man-made ingredients added to it.
Thus it can help you to prevent and reverse high levels of acids in the body,
which in turn eliminates the risks for serious and life-threatening diseases.
Weight
Loss
Believe it or not,
but sea salt can also help you in weight loss. It helps the body to create
digestive juices so that the foods you eat are digested faster, and it helps to
prevent build up in the digestive tract, which eventually can lead to
constipation and weight gain.
Skin
Conditions
A sea salt bath can
help to relieve dry and itchy skin as well as serious conditions such as eczema
and psoriasis. The bath naturally opens up the
pores, improves circulation in the skin and hydrates the tissues so that your
skin can heal.
Asthma
Sea salt is
effective in reducing inflammation in the respiratory system. Thus the
production of phlegm is slowed down so that you can breathe easier again. Some
say that sprinkling sea salt on the tongue after drinking a glass of water is
just as effective as using an inhaler. But the great thing about sea salt is
that it has no side effects when taken in moderation.
Heart
Health
When salt is taken
with water it can help to reduce high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure
and help to regulate an irregular heartbeat. Thus sea salt can help to prevent
atherosclerosis, heart attacks and strokes.
Diabetes
Sea salt can help
to reduce the need for insulin by helping to maintain proper sugar levels in
the body. Thus the salt is an essential part of the diet if you are diabetic,
or at risk for the disease.
Osteoporosis
Just over 1/4 of
the amount of salt that is in the body is stored in the bones, where it helps
to keep them strong. When the body lacks salt and water it begins to draw the
sodium from the bones, which then eventually can lead to osteoporosis. Thus by
drinking plenty of water and consuming salt in moderation you can prevent
osteoporosis.
Muscle
Spasms
Potassium is
essential for helping the muscles to function properly. Sea salt not only
contains small amounts of potassium, but it also helps the body to absorb it
better from other foods. Thus it is effective in helping to prevent muscle
pains, spasms and cramps.
Depression
Sea salt also has
shown to be effective in treating various types of depression. The salt helps to preserve two
essential hormones in the body that help you to better deal with stress. These
hormones are serotonin and melatonin, which help you to feel good, and relax
and sleep better at night.
Is salt bad for hypertensive?
What is bad for hypertension is iodized salt,
which is a fake salt. It is made up of only 3 synthetic chemicals, sodium,
chloride, iodine. It does not melt in water (glistens like diamonds), does NOT
melt in the body, does not melt in the kidneys, gives kidney stones, and raises
blood pressure. However, it is the salt favoured by the synthetic she
drug-based doctors who say it is very clean and sanitary, pointing to how white
it is and how it glistens like diamonds. The fake salt is man-made in a
factory. The true salt, which comes from the sea and dried under the sun
and commonly called rock salt, has 72 natural minerals including natural
sodium, chloride and iodine. It melts in water, melts in your body, melts in
the kidneys, do not give kidney stones, and best of all brings down blood
pressure and stops/prevents muscle cramps, numbness, tingling.
If you get muscle cramps in the lower legs
at night, just take half teaspoon of rock salt and a glass of water, and the
cramps with its horrific pain will be gone in 5 minutes. The highest BP that
came my way was in a woman who had a BP of 240/140 and came to my house at
10:30 pm on what she said was a matter of "life and death" because
the high BP was already giving her a crushing headache, especially the back of
her head. She could not walk up the 6 shallow steps to my porch. Two men had to
help her, one on each side, in addition to the cane that she needed to prop
herself up.
I muscle tested her and found that underlying her BP of 240/140 and the
crushing pain in the head, her body's water content was only 6% (normal is
75%), salt content was zero, potassium was 96% deficient, and cardiac
output (blood flow from the heart) was only 40% (normal is 100%). So the
blood supply to the head was 60% deficient.
I gave her one 6" long green chilli (hot pepper), 1 raw ripe saba banana,
1/2 teaspoon of rock salt and 3 8-oz glasses of tap water. The chilli was to
normalize cardiac output and shoot blood to the head, the saba banana was for
the potassium deficiency and to have food in the stomach because pepper will
give a stomach ache if the stomach is empty, and the rock salt and the water
were the first aid for her severe dehydration which was causing her arteries to
be dry and stiff and her blood to be thick and sticky, because they were
dehydrated.
After 5 minutes, she said, "The pain in my head is gone." We took her
BP, it was 115/75, and cardiac output was up to 100%. She walked out of the
house to her car without the men helping her and without the cane.
She has been taking 2.5 teaspoons of rock salt, 15 glasses of water, 6 Saba
bananas and 3 of the long pepper daily since then (beginning September 2009),
and her BP and cardiac output have been normal since then.
Two months later, in November, at a PCAM round table forum on hypertension in
Club Filipino, she gave her testimony, followed by her brother who said that
she grew 2", because the salt and the water had refilled her compressed
disc spaces in her vertebral column. The disc spaces had become compressed
because they had become dehydrated since the fluid filling up these discs are
95% water.
Why salt? Because without salt the body cannot retain water no matter how much
water is drunk. You will still be dehydrated because you will just keep
urinating and sweating the water out.
This is not an isolated case. When BP is rising high but there is little or no headache
but there is stiffness of shoulder and neck muscles, all you need to normalize
the BP and remove the stiffness and the pain in 5 minutes is 1/2 teaspoon of
rock salt and 3 glasses of water. If there is crushing pain in the head, it
means blood supply to the head is lacking, and you will need the chilli to
normalize it and shoot blood to the head and remove the extreme pain. Second best salt is HIMALAYAN ROCK SALT.
-Compiled by Adarsh
