Unrefined Salt: Another missing link to optimal health + Related Articles

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Last month we introduced our readers to the miraculous benefits of the

water cure. What wasn't emphasized last month is the importance of unrefined

salt as a key element in realizing the benefits of the water cure. After

all, sodium and other trace minerals found in unrefined salt enable our bodies

to effectively utilize the water we consume as well as utilize the

nutrients in our food.

 

 

The proper ratio of salt and water is the key. The following is taken

straight from Dr. Batmanghelidj's book, “Water: Rx for a Healthier Pain-Free

Life†and is available at: _www.watercure2.com_ (http://www.watercure2.com/)

 

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Unrefined Salt: Another missing link to optimal health

by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D

_http://proliberty.com/observer/20010808.htm_

(http://proliberty.com/observer/20010808.htm)

 

 

Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures,

particularly humans. Water and salt regulate the water content of the body.

Water

itself regulates the water content of the interior of the cell by working

its way into all of the cells it reaches. It has to get there to cleanse

and extract the toxic wastes of cell metabolisms. Salt forces some water to

stay outside the cells. It balances the amount of water that stays outside

the cells. There are two oceans of water in the body; one ocean is held

inside the cells of the body, and the other ocean is held outside the cells.

Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the volume of these

oceans, and this balance is achieved by salt - unrefined salt.

 

 

When water is available to get inside the cells freely, it is filtered

from the outside salty ocean and injected into the cells that are being

overworked despite their water shortage. This is the reason why in severe

dehydration we develop an edema and retain water. The design of our bodies is

such

that the extent of the ocean of water outside the cells is expanded to have

the extra water available for filtration and emergency injection into

vital cells. The brain commands an increase in salt and water retention by the

kidneys. This is how we get edema: not drinking enough water.

 

 

Initially, the process of water filtration and its delivery into the cells

is more efficient at night when the body is horizontal. The collected

water, that mostly pools in the legs, does not have to fight the force of

gravity to get onto the blood circulation. If reliance of this process of

emergency hydration of some cells continues for long, the lungs begin to get

waterlogged at night, and breathing becomes difficult. The person needs more

pillows to sit upright to sleep. This condition is the consequence of

dehydration. However, you might overload the system by drinking too much water

at

the beginning. Increases in water intake must be slow and spread out until

urine production begins to increase at the same rate that you drink water.

 

 

When we drink enough water to pass clear urine, we also pass out a lot of

the salt that was held back. This is how we can get rid of edema fluid in

the body; by drinking more water. Not diuretics, but more water! In people

who have an extensive edema and show signs of their heart beginning to have

irregular or very rapid beats with least effort, the increase in water

intake should be gradual and spaced out, but not withheld from the body.

Naturally, salt intake should be limited for two or three days because the body

is still in an overdrive mode to retain it. Once the edema has cleared up,

salt should not be withheld from the body.

 

 

Salt has many other functions than just regulating the water content of

the body. Here are some of the more vital functions of salt in the body:

 

 

1. Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and,

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.

 

 

2. Salt is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the

body, particularly the brain cells.

 

 

3. Salt is vital for balancing the sugar levels in the blood; a needed

element in diabetics.

 

 

4. Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in

the body. It is used for local power generation at the sites of energy need

by the cells.

 

 

5. Salt is vital to the nerve cells' communication and information

processing all the time that the brain cells work, from the moment of

conception

to death.

 

6. Salt is vital for absorption of food particles through the intestinal

tract.

 

 

7. Salt is vital for the clearance of the lungs of mucus plugs and sticky

phlegm, particularly in asthma and cystic fibrosis.

 

 

8. Salt is vital for clearing up catarrh and congestion of the sinuses.

 

 

9. Salt is a strong natural antihistamine.

 

 

10. Salt is essential for the prevention of muscle cramps.

 

 

11. Salt is vital to prevent excess saliva production to the point that it

flows out of the mouth during sleep. Needing to constantly mop up excess

saliva indicates salt shortage.

 

12. Salt is absolutely vital to making the structure of bones firm.

Osteoporosis, in a major way, is a result of salt and water shortage in the

body.

 

 

13. Salt is vital for sleep regulation. It is a natural hypnotic.

 

 

14. Salt is a vitally needed element in the treatment of diabetics.

 

 

15. Salt on the tongue will stop persistent dry coughs.

 

 

16. Salt is vital for the prevention of gout and gouty arthritis.

 

 

17. Salt is vital for maintaining sexuality and libido.

 

 

18. Salt is vital for preventing varicose veins and spider veins on the

legs and thighs.

 

 

19. Salt is vital to the communication and information processing nerve

cells the entire time that the brain cells work - from the moment of

conception to death.

 

 

20. 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 water that

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

water to manufacture saliva. The “leakiness†spills beyond the area of

the glands themselves, causing increased bulk under the skin of the chin, the

cheeks and into the neck.

 

 

21. Sea salt contains 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 types of salt on the market. Ordinary table

salt that is bought in the super markets has been stripped of its companion

elements and contains additive elements such as aluminum silicate to keep it

powdery and porous. Aluminum is a very toxic element in our nervous system.

It is implicated as one of the primary causes of Alzheimer's disease.

 

 

22. Twenty-seven percent of the body's salt is in the bones. Osteoporosis

results when the body needs more salt and takes it from the body. Bones are

twenty-two percent water. Is it not obvious what happens to the bones when

we're deficient in salt or water or both?

 

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Where to find real salt -

 

 

The difference between iodized table salt and unrefined salt is as great

as the difference between white sugar and molassas or white flour and

stone-ground wheat flour. Below are two sources for quality, unrefined salt.

Redmond Minerals, Inc. _http://www.redmondminerals.com_

(http://www.redmondminerals.com/) , gets its salt from Utah salt mines and the

Grain and Salt

Society, _http://www.celtic-seasalt.com_ (http://www.celtic-seasalt.com/) ,

sells

salt that is hand raked from the Brittany sea. Natural salt is not white

and dry; it is gray with minerals and feels damp. It can be found in some

health food stores or by contacting the companies mentioned above.

 

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