Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures, particularly humans. Water and salt regulate the water content of your body. Water itself regulates the water content of the interior of the cells 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 ---balancing the amount of water 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. When water is available to get inside the cells freely, it is filtered from the outside salty ‘ocean’ and injected into the cells which are being overworked despite their water shortage. This is the reason why in severe dehydration we develop peripheral oedema and retain water when we don’t drink enough water. The brain commands an increase in salt and water retention by the kidneys. 


Initially, the process of water filtration and its delivery into the cells is more efficient at night when your body is horizontal. In this position, the collected fluid, which mostly pools in your legs, does not have to fight the force of gravity to get into your circulation. If reliance of this process of hydration of some cells continues for long, your lungs begin to get waterlogged at night and breathing becomes difficult. You will need more pillows to sit upright to sleep. This condition is the consequence of dehydration. However, you have to be careful not to overload your system by drinking too much water. Increases in water intake should be slow and spread out until your urine production begins to increase at the same rate at which you drink water.

Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the volume of these oceans, and this balance is achieved by salt – preferably sea salt.


We often hear bad press about salt, and indeed table salt which is refined, is not the ideal form of salt for our bodies.  What our bodies really need is natural pure salt.  Taking the wrong type of salt can be detrimental to our health. 

In fact, without the right kind of salt, your body can encounter many different problems.  Is it any wonder then, by eating table salt, your body is actually being deprived of the real salt and minerals?  Here's only a small list of what can happen when your body lacks proper salt:
    •    High blood pressure
    •    Accelerated ageing cellular degeneration
    •    Respiratory and blood sugar problems
    •    Liver failure, kidney problems, adrenal exhaustion
    •    Heart muscles tire and lacerate