Hydration and Electrolytes

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-

                I hope that you enjoyed your weekend, and hopefully, we’re passed a lot of the heat. I get a kick out of listening to the climate disaster folks, talking about this being the hottest time ever. I’m old enough to remember days that were 105° or 107°, and we bailed hay in it. The main thing is to remember to stay hydrated, which includes drinking good quality water, and getting good electrolytes, again, just a fancy word for sea salt or mineral salt. The body needs both parts to stay hydrated and just drinking water alone flushes the salt out of the body and you can have other problems. A lot of people will have leg cramps and muscle spasms because of the lack of good quality salt. Unfortunately, mainstream medicine has advised people to stay away from salt because they don’t recognize, or distinguish between, the difference between mineral or sea salt and white refined junk table salt. Hydration is such a simple thing and is often overlooked, especially the electrolyte part. Yes, there are all kind of drinks and potions and packages on electrolytes out there, but just using good quality sea salt or mineral salt will fill the bill.

                In this week’s health shop, that were having every Monday night at 6:15 live on Facebook and Instagram, were still talking about Summer Fun issues. We talked before about the hydration issue mentioned above, but this week’s talk will be more about the foods that we choose during the summer. I know that I always thought I had to have a corn dog at least once a year at the fairs until I found out how bad the oils are that these things are fried in. It should be an interesting conversation and I hope that you can make it and tell your friends about it. If you can’t see it live, we will move it to YouTube and Brighteon.com so that you will be able to see it at your convenience. We are also offering to patient groups, a special time for the Patient Education Workshop that goes into a further explanation of what we do here at Natural Health, and is a great time to ask questions about almost anything. Let us know if we can help educate your group and give them some hope towards attaining actual health.

                The article that I’m sending along this week looks at the importance of getting polyphenols in your diet. As you read through the information, you’ll find that if you’re eating good foods, like vegetables, you will have no problem getting these natural chemicals that are healthy for the body. The point here is that if you’re eating good foods, you will get good nutrients, but in eating processed junk foods, you will not, and your health will suffer over time. Another big part of this conversation is your body’s ability to digest and absorb these foods. Just because you put something in your mouth, does not mean that goes to where it’s supposed to go, or is needed. We do a lot of work here at Natural Health trying to get people’s digestive systems back online and working correctly. Because of the poor diets, lots of chemicals out there, large amounts of stress, and even use of antibiotics, many people’s digestive systems are wrecked. And if you add a proton pump inhibitor, like the purple pill, you’re really not absorbing much of the good nutrients in the food you eat. So, at Natural Health, we strive towards getting the body to work correctly, ridding the person of the underlying cause of their issues, and allowing the body to use its innate intelligence to heal itself, as it has been doing for thousands of years. 

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Dr. Mark