Salt is vital for our health

Salt is vital to our health. At this point, you have around 250 gr. salt – a cup – work to keep it alive. Without enough of it, muscles contracting, the blood does not circulate, food not digested, and the heart will not beat.

Salt, sodium chloride, is a essential part of the diet of humans and animals and is a part of our fluids, like blood, sweat and tears.

The two elements of salt – sodium and chloride – Play a variety of very important and crucial functions in our bodies as maintaining the balance of fluids, which carry oxygen and nutrients around our bodies.

The sodium it contains is to help keep the fluid in the blood cells and allows the transmission of electrical impulses between the brain, nerves and muscles. It is responsible for our taste, smell and the sense of touch and helps our muscles – including your heart – contract.

Chloride is essential to our process digestion of food, providing chloride hydrochloric acid – an essential element of human digestive fluid – and aid in preserving the balance acid-base in our body. It plays an important role in the absorption of potassium and help the blood to carry carbon dioxide from tissue respiration of the lungs.

Salt is an essential element in our lives and our health. Salt is very abundant and distributed in nature, dissolves in seawater, salt lakes or in solid form as the mineral halite is pure salt and can be found in large warehouses worldwide. In history, salt has been used as money.

Today, researchers have discovered the benefits of salt. They found that increased salt and water intake help people with chronic diseases Fatigue syndrome. Has an important role in respiratory diseases by its anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, mucokinetic and hydrophilic properties, helping to clean and expansion of the airways in all respiratory diseases.

The salt therapy is based on speleotherapy, which is the therapy under conditions the microclimate of salt mines. Being hard to reach them, people have found a way to bring the benefits of salt mines in their homes with devices like Salin and Salt Pipe. Some of the effects of salt therapy in people with respiratory diseases like asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis and allergies are:

* Facilitates the expulsion of phlegm and ventilation of the lungs of patients with chronic lower respiratory diseases

* The treatment reduces the level of total IgE and improves the immune response and nonspecific body

* The relaxing effect of salt therapy in the nervous system makes it suitable for people with disorders sleep, stress, etc. and improving the welfare and sleep is observed after only a few days of use.

* In patients with allergic rhinitis and vasomotor purulent sinusitis improves breathing through the nose and sinus drainage

* Reduces snoring in the street cleaning of roads breathing in the oropharyngeal region

* Facilitates breathing easier cleaning of the airways and improving air quality inside to kill bacteria and mold.

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