Remember the potato and electrical current experiment in school? Everything has an electrical current; including humans! Human beings need salt (not the junk salt), to have optimum healing in each and every cell. The proper salt, and the minerals in good salt, help the electrical frequency of your body; helping cells to heal better, helping them to work better.
Here's a list of things facilitated, regulated, and benefited by SALT. Real salt, in pure, unbleached, unadulterated form.
From Yahoo Answers> Health>Alternative Medicine:
1.Regulating the water content throughout your body.
2.Promoting a healthy pH balance in your cells, particularly your brain cells.
3.Promoting blood sugar health and helping to reduce the signs of aging.
4.Assisting in the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in your body.
5.Absorption of food particles through your intestinal tract.
6.Supporting respiratory health.
7.Promoting sinus health.
8.Prevention of muscle cramps.
9.Promoting bone strength.
10.Regulating your sleep -- it naturally promotes sleep.
11.Supporting your libido.
12.Promoting vascular health.
13.In conjunction with water it is actually essential for the regulation of your blood pressure.
One of the best sources of information about Salt, is the Himalayan Salt web site. It details the need for salt, why white table salt is not good for you (sodium chloride), and more importantly, why you need salt, good salt! to maintain health. No if's and's or but's! We are made of the earth, the salty ocean water, and our brains and bodies function with a salty water solution mingling around in us.
Crystal Salt Promotes the Excretion of Animal Proteins (from the web site)
A further study showed some interesting allopathic results. All subjects in this study drank one-teaspoon of sole daily. After four weeks, the protein emission in the urine significantly increased for eighty percent of the one-hundred-twenty-three subjects. This shows that the energy pattern of the sole with its innate, natural antagonism towards the proteins, helps and supports the excretion of animal proteins that are difficult to break down. (This examination was done by Dr. med. Elisabeth Scherwitz-Josenhans.), an excerpt from the Web Site http://www.himalayanlivingsalt.com/salt_facts.htm .
Some of it is complicated reading and some of it is rather clear. It is difficult to summarize it though.
No Thoughts and No Actions Without Salt (from the web site)
Even the simplest processes in our body need salt or its inherent elements in ionized form. For example, it is the task of our nervous system to transmit the stimulation that has been recorded via sensory input to our brain, which in return passes this information back to our muscles in order for us to react to the respective stimuli. An electric potential occurs on the membrane wall of the cells when the positively charged potassium ions leave the cells and the positively charged sodium ions cannot enter due to their size. The outside becomes positively charged and the inside negatively charged. When a nerve cell is stimulated, its membrane suddenly becomes polar opposite and consequently is permeable for the sodium ions. In one-thousandth of a second (1/1000th), the electrical potential is transformed and releases, with every nerve impulse, 90 mill volts of energy. The received stimuli are now being converted into thoughts and actions. Without the elements potassium and sodium in the salt, this process is not possible. Not even a single thought is possible, let alone an action, without their presence. Just the simple act of drinking a glass of water requires millions of instructions that come as impulses. In the beginning there is the thought. This thought is nothing but an electromagnetic frequency. The salt is responsible for enabling this frequency to transmit commands to the muscles and organs.
That is hard to summarize! It's a mouthful of very pertinent information! The best thing is to visit the page and read about salt and your need for it. Do you crave it? That is a sign you probably need it, and the white, .47 cents a box, salt is not what we're talking about!
Use white table salt for cleaning, salting icy walkways, and killing fleas; don't consume it.
From mood swings and depression, to bowel movements! Consider Salt as a necessary nutrient; just don't confuse the poison white table salt with the natural forms of salt. There is a difference!