1. Hydration:
The human body
contains 70% water, and it is essential for our existence. NaCl or common salt
helps sustain the level of water, shoring up extracellular fluid and promoting
optimal blood flow. These properties of salt help us fight infection. If you
have ever sucked on a bleeding finger, you know that blood tastes salty. Thus,
we need water and salt. Salt boosts basic function, growth, and development,
though not necessarily all at once.
2. Detoxifies Key Organs:
Salt water can help
alleviate body pains, purifies blood and cleans the digestive tract. It also
acts as an effective detoxifying agent for key organs. You must remember to mix
the right amount of water with homespun table salt. Excess of salt mostly leads
to dehydration and can sometimes lead to kidney shutdown. Remember to get that
mix right.
3. Eradicates Weakness:
If you are someone who
suffers from persistent weakness, you can consider having a daily dose of salt
water to reduce exhaustion and in some cases even get rid it. Medical professionals
note that a healthy individual loses a good amount of salt through urine.
Having a little bit of salt water can help balance your salt levels.
4. Maintains Blood Pressure:
As mentioned above, urination
causes a loss of not just water, but also salt. As the body tries to hold on to
salt and water, your blood pressure rises. Thus, a dash of salt with water can
help overturn the effects of urination and in turn helps you maintain a steady
blood pressure. It is important that you don’t add too much salt.
5. Decreases Appetite:
Drinking salt water can help
you get into shape. How? Well for starters, when we don’t get the needed amount
of salt in our food, we tend to binge on junk food, snacks and promote all
sorts of unhealthy indulgences. Drinking a bit of salt water can stabilize the
salt levels, helps you avoid cholesterol-high junk food and keeps you in shape.
6. Aids Digestion:
Salt is central to the digestive
process. It triggers our salivary glands to release amylase, an enzyme that
helps break protein down. Salt also stimulates intestinal and liver secretions,
which help the process. A daily dose of salt water thus aids the digestive
process and can help you increase absorption.
7. Combats Insomnia:
Insomnia is the bane of
technology. Most of us don’t enjoy a good night’s sleep anymore. Facebook,
Whatsapp, and Twitter seem to gang up on us making it difficult to go to bed.
However, a little dash of salt and water can help. Salt reduces stress hormones
like cortisol and adrenaline and helps us relax. Drinking salt water helps you get
a good night’s sleep.
8. Improves Bone Health:
Sole, pronounced Solay, is a
concentrated mixture of salt and water. Apart from being intensely unpalatable,
it is also quite healthy. Osteoporosis is said to be the result of a lack of
calcium. A glass of Sole can help you increase the amount of calcium and other
minerals in your blood and in turn promotes healthy bones.
9. Avoid Muscle Cramps:
Salt improves muscle
contraction. This improved muscle contraction helps combat muscle cramps.
Having a glass of salt water daily can help you reduce and even eliminate
muscle contractions.
10. Cures Toothache:
I admit that you don’t need to
drink salt water to help alleviate toothache. However, to cure this throbbing
pain, all you need to do is mix a tablespoon full of salt with a cup of hot
water and gargle the mixture. You can drink the mixture if needed, although
it’s better you gargle and spit
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