Simple Body Hack - Drink Celtic Sea Salt Water

Most of us are dehydrated, and most of us are short on electrolytes, so try this simple fix

Salt and Water

Every avenue of health research I follow, for a whole range of issues, seems to lead back to hydration, with the associated need for minerals or electrolytes taken with our water to help us hydrate. The video above is a great explanation of what type of salt we need to go with the water we drink, and why. We must not use table salt. Instead we should use celtic sea salt, which is the grey moist looking salt that you can find in good health food shops. It contains the highest range of different salts. Read the article below if you want to understand Celtic Sea Salt.

Top 5 Health Benefits Of Celtic Sea Salt

Grey sea salt and water to increase the volume of the blood

The following article explains the relationship between hydration and blood volume. Did you realise that you can have too little blood flowing around your body, and that low blood volume can lead to the fatigue of CFS and maybe even long covid.

Enhancing Blood Volume in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia

To increase blood volume we have to re-hydrate, and to do that we just have to drink more water and take care with which salt (or electrolytes) we use to support the ability of our cells to take up that water. (Yes, we can drink vast amounts of water and still be dehydrated if we lack the electrolytes to use it.)

What Exactly Are Electrolytes?

Magnesium and grey sea salt and water to reduce the stress hormones

We also need to start with hydration, if our body is stressed. We don’t need to feel emotionally stressed for our physical body to be living in fight and flight mode (controlled by the sympathetic nervous system). We might feel emotionally distressed or we might just notice that we get stress hormone - adrenaline or cortisol - surges in response to the most trivial and pointless triggers like seeing blood on TV. That’s me. I have several surges a day for no really good reason at all.

I asked Dr Google what can stop adrenaline and cortisol production, and what can mop it up or neutralise it once it is in your blood. The answer to both was the same. Magnesium. And celtic sea salt is high in magnesium.

Here is a great article explaining all this for the layman.

Magnesium for CALM: How Magnesium Fights Anxiety, Depression & Stress

Here is a medical research paper that explains all the stuff I don’t understand that leads to the conclusion that we need magnesium to manage our physical stress responses.

Magnesium and stress

Magnesium and grey sea salt and water to reduce insulin resistance

Stress hormones shut down sugar metabolism and interfere with most aspects of the body’s energy metabolism. When we live in fight and flight mode most of the time, our body is not processing sugar and our blood sugar climbs. I even have surges of something (adrenaline, cortisol?) when I prick my finger to do a blood sugar test, which has to be one of the silliest catch 22s of all time - similar to the “white coat factor” of blood pressure surging when in the presence of a doctor doing the test. The test is causing the surge in both cases.

We either accept a diagnosis of diabetes and go onto drugs for life, or we go back one step and try to look at causes. That’s what I am doing now, or part of what I am doing now.

I am trying a lot of different approaches to controlling blood sugar and I have been led to magnesium as significant in controlling stress hormones, which in turn are significant in causing insulin resistance.

“If you're feeling stressed, your body releases stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. This should give you an energy boost for a 'fight or flight' response. But the hormones actually make it harder for insulin to work properly, known as insulin resistance.” (https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/emotions/stress)

I am taking a daily magnesium supplement, and I am consuming a pinch of celtic sea salt with a glass of water before I prick my finger and after any other adrenaline hit I experience. Time will tell.