Salt is healthy right? But I’m not so sure that taking a massive dose of it in order to
detox the body is a smart thing to do. Let’s look into this. But before we get started,
I’m Dr. Nick Zyrowski and I started my holistic health practice in order to help
you take control of your health naturally because true health only comes naturally.
Hey wellness warriors, many of you have asked about the saltwater flush. Is it safe?
Should you use it? So let me first break down what a saltwater flush
is to begin with. A saltwater flush is a natural health strategy that originated all the way back
in 1941. It was part of a master cleanse detox and fasting program. And the whole purpose of
the saltwater flush was to cleanse the colon but also improve gastrointestinal health.
Today we often see it used by doctors when they’re preparing a patient for a colonoscopy
or some sort of colon exam. But we’ll also see it as just a natural cleansing technique
that many people use. Now the saltwater cleanse offers many research proven benefits. Here’s just
a few that I want to mention. It helps clear fluid retention. Okay so if you’re someone who
feels like you’re carrying a lot of water weight around, it helps with that. It improved digestion.
It reduces inflammation in the body. It offers that colon cleansing benefit which I’ll get to
in just a moment why this is. And it eases sore throats, removes toxins from the body,
facilitates metabolic processes, and also decreases bloating.
The saltwater flush is designed to have a laxative effect on your system. Therefore
if you’re somebody who has a lot of bloating, if you have constipation,
it certainly is going to get things moving. But if you’re looking to improve your health naturally,
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Now doing a saltwater flush is actually really easy. You take two teaspoons of either pink
Himalayan salt or pure sea salt, and you put that in four cups of warm water. Basically put that in,
mix it up, and then you drink it. If you’re somebody who’s really sensitive to the taste
of salt which some people are, you can squeeze some lemon in there in order to take the edge off.
Now what you're going to want to do is drink it first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
And after you drink it, it should take about 30 minutes to an hour and you’ll feel that
laxative effect kick in. One of the things that you can do as a little bonus tip is you
can drink this and then lay on your right side. It’s going to really help improve the
mobility of the mixture to the small intestine so that you can get a more thorough cleanse.
Now I will say this too. Don’t do this on a day where you have a busy day,
heading off to the office or you have to keep a rigid schedule. You’re going to want
to do this on a day where you have an open morning and you’re in a comfortable setting
and you have all the time in the world to run to the bathroom when it’s needed.
There’s a lot of hype out there that doing a saltwater flush can actually help you lose weight.
And yes it will cause you to lose weight, but it’s not permanent weight and it’s not weight in the
way of fat loss. When you do the saltwater flush, the enormous amount of sodium that you consume
puts your body in a state where it doesn’t absorb water but rather just excretes it in the way of
diarrhea. There’s two ways that you lose weight during a saltwater flush. You’re going to lose
the contents of your colon but you're also going to lose water weight. During this process it’s
estimated that you could lose about five pounds. This is not permanent weight loss remember. And
this isn't a good weight loss strategy. What it is good for is improving gastrointestinal
health and just cleansing the colon if you’re somebody who is getting a little bit backed up.
Now you’re probably thinking to yourself, taking a massive dose of sodium like this, does it come
with any side effects? Well according to the research there actually are a few that we have
to watch out for. They include things like muscle spasms, weakness, twitching, confusion, headaches,
that’s all we need right? We cleanse our colon and then end up with a big monster headache. Fatigue,
changes in blood pressure, numbness, and nausea. Okay now when I look at all of these symptoms,
it tells me one thing, it tells me that we created a massive electrolyte imbalance
inside of our body. Every one of those symptoms equals electrolyte problems.
There’s a couple things that we can do. First of all we can use an electrolyte powder
in order to help balance everything back out. That would be a very reasonable approach.
Another thing that we can do is make sure that we drink plenty of water in order to help get
our system to absorb these electrolytes, get things moving around properly, create some
balance in our body. There’s another thing that we can do in order to help our gastrointestinal
system as well. One of the things that we’re doing here is we’re flushing out
all the contents of our stomach. And sure you’re going to flush out a lot of bacteria. You’re not
going to flush out everything though. Using a good prebiotic, a good fiber, and a nice well diversed
probiotic, can be really powerful in order to help improve gastrointestinal health.
When I work with patients who have SIBO and different gastrointestinal issues,
I’ll use cleanses in order to help flush the colon, then follow that up with a really good
regimen in order to boost your colon health. Another thing the research said that we have
to watch out for with these saltwater flushes is a vitamin or mineral deficiency. I’m not
really that worried about this. This isn’t something if you’re going to do it in the
first place the should be done on a regular basis. This should be something that is done
on a rare occasion. And I think that after you do it, I don’t think it’s going to be so fun
that you want to keep doing it. I think you would probably go yeah let’s do this
on a very rare occasion after you make multiple trips sprinting to the bathroom.
As long as you’re not doing this on a very regular occasion, I think that you're going to
be just fine and you’re not going to have vitamin deficiencies. Now of course you should follow
all of this up with really good vitamin and nutrient rich food right? A good salad,
some really hearty soups, really really good food and make sure you’re pulling out all of the
junk food. If you’re going to go through this process of trying to improve your colon health,
you certainly want to make sure you’re making the right choices after this method is over with.
Now according to the research, there’s a few particular problems that you may be
having which would lead you to want to do a saltwater flush. These are things like
constipation, irregular bowel movements, skin issues like acne or psoriasis,
and then also severe bloating. And this would be in the case of somebody who’s experiencing
something like SIBO. There’s also reasons you would not to do this. If you’re pregnant,
if you're breastfeeding, if you have kidney issues, you don’t want to go
and just slam yourself with all this sodium. If you have heart problems,
or if you’re somebody who has high blood pressure. Because you could probably imagine that taking
an enormous dose of sodium is not a smart thing to do when your blood pressure is already high.
Now my personal opinion of the saltwater flush is that I’m not a big fan of it, nor would I ever do
one or would I recommend it for a patient of mine. What I actually prefer over the saltwater flush is
a vitamin C flush. If you want to learn more about a vitamin C flush, watch this video right here.
It’s really powerful for cleansing the gut and that’s how I was using it,
I was using it while fasting, I was using it on the last day of my fast,
it just helps cleanse everything out. You want to use a specific type of vitamin C.