Facts about Bonaire Salt

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Salt facts and some other 'did you know's'

Salt has many other functions than just regulating the water content of the body. (see about salt)

Here are some of the more vital vital functions of salt in the body:

* Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and, contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure, it is actually essential for the regulation of blood pressure - in conjunction with water. Naturally the proportions are critical.

* Salt is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the body, particularly the brain cells.

* Salt is vital for balancing the sugar levels in the blood; a needed element in diabetics.

* Salt is vital to the nerve cells' communication and information processing all the time that the brain cells work, from the moment of conception to death.

* Salt is also essential for the prevention of muscle cramps.

* Salt is vital for sleep regulation. It is a natural hypnotic.

* Salt is vital to maintaining sexuality and libido.

* Twenty-seven percent of the body's salt is in the bones. Osteoporosis results when the body needs more salt and takes it from the body. Bones are twenty-two percent water. Is it not obvious what happens to the bones when we're deficient in salt or water or both?