Lifestyle | Wellness In typical British fashion, the weather is all over the place — but with forecasters predicting more record-breaking temperatures, it’s worth thinking about how to safeguard your health whilst making the most of what summer has to offer. It might sound bonkers, but sipping salty water is the latest health craze that wellness influencers are hyping up as a means of hydrating, detoxing and improving digestion to help prep for summer. The idea is is simple.
You upgrade your glass of plain H20 with some salt in order to reap serious wellbeing effects, but before you jump on the TikTok bandwagon, there’s a lot to factor in. “According to the NHS adults should have no more than 6g of salt per day. Visually, this equates to about 1 teaspoon of salt.
If you consume too much salt it can raise your blood pressure which has its own health risks such as heart disease and heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease,” explains wellbeing expert Chloe Bowler ( chloebowler.com ). So what’s the science behind the salty water trend? As temperatures creep up, you naturally sweat more as your body’s way of cooling itself down.
If you work out in warm weather, you sweat even more, and which can further increase the risk of dehydration. This is where salt comes in. Regular salt is made of sodium and chloride which are electrolytes.
These are nutrients that help to transport water to your cells to maintain the correct fluid balance, which is why you may naturally req.
