I'm gonna make some Himalayan salt brine but before I do that I just want to talk a little bit about salt about why we need it and about why salt brine is actually a really really good form of salt to take now really all of the bad press that surrounding salt in the sense that it causes high blood pressure it causes water retention and a whole host of other health implications all of that bad press is actually true but it's only true because it's based on scientific studies that have been done on highly processed and refined table salt now this kind of salt really it's been heat treated to over a thousand degrees Celsius it's been bleached it's completely denatured it's had all of the minerals and electrolytes removed from it and really what you're left with after it's been processed is just a complete toxin it's completely unnatural the body doesn't recognize it and doesn't know what to do with it and therefore it causes you know never-ending list of all these health implications and unfortunately this is the kind of salt that most people are consuming either they're adding it to their food or they're eating a lot of processed foods that are very rich in this kind of denatured process that song now it's important to understand that that set of data regarding salt does not apply to all salt and the truth is we need it we need salt regularly there's so many different functions in the body that require salt in order to work properly now really the two main forms of salt that the body can utilize is gonna be either sea salt or certain kinds of rock salt now the reason why these types of souls are so complete is that they have the full spectrum of 84 trace minerals that the body needs and they're very rich in electrolytes which the body also needs now sea salt really there's a lot of suspicion about the use of sea salt simply because of the level of toxic contamination in the oceans and it's a very real consideration I personally don't use sea salt because of that you know because everything that comes out of the ocean now is you know has a high risk of being contaminated with heavy metals with radiation various other things PCBs so ideally you know I wouldn't really use sea salt based on that I'm not saying not to use it necessarily I think it's probably much better to use than table salt it depends really where it comes from as well but generally speaking I don't use it because I use a form of rock salt called Himalayan salt now Himalayan salt is mined from various locations in the Himalayan mountains and it's said to be over 250 million years old so really I mean it predates the industrial revolution by so much that the risk of it being contaminated with a lot of these modern-day toxic pollutants that really are rife in our environment that the risk of that is pretty much nailed like it's a really pure salt and again it's got the whole spectrum of 84 trace minerals and electrolytes and because it's a crystal because it comes as in a crystal form it actually has the ability to store vibrational energy which is really really interesting aspect to Himalayan salt now I made a list here covering not all but just some of the functions in the body that requires solving need and why salt is so essential it's an essential nutrient and we must have it now in terms of the electrolytes they're really gonna go a long way towards improving nervous system function heart function also muscle contraction also hormones require the the right kind of electrical environment in the body in order to communicate properly and brilliant you know electrolytes will create that electrical environment also the pH is a really really big one for salt though pH obviously and you have alkaline the other and you have acid now in terms of the various different areas of our body that require pH if we look at the digestive system as an example in the stomach it's very very acidic we have hydrochloric acids in the stomach to break down nutrients especially protein now in Soul the main ingredient is sodium chloride and the stomach acid is hydrochloric acid so you can see salt actually has a major part of the makeup of our stomach acid now if we just go below the stomach into the small intestine we can see that the small intestine is actually 1 million times more alkaline than the stomach now in order for food to pass from the stomach into the small intestine without there being any kind of acidic damage the first has to pass through the duodenum which is a kind of pH buffer zone where the food that comes from the stomach gets alkalized so it can safely pass into the small intestine now in the duodenum there is sodium bicarbonate sodium bicarbonate so you can see there's salt there too salt actually creates both the acidic and alkaline pH areas of our body so really we need salt for that we need it salt is also responsible for maintaining optimal adrenal function now the adrenals are responsible for releasing over 50 different hormones into our system so really you know we need to maintain adrenal health also the trace minerals in the salt will go very long way to activating all enzyme function in the body that can be digestive enzymes and metabolic enzymes now the minerals and trace elements are actually the cofactors which enzymes require in order to do their job properly now they're the kind of fuel almost that the enzymes will utilize to get their physical work done now the metabolism is largely exclusively the result of the physical work that the enzymes do and so by providing those enzymes with the alkaline minerals that they need in order to work properly were actually up regulating our metabolism improving metabolic function and in doing that we can even go so far as to say that we would enhance sensory perception because all of these things really rely on the work of enzymes now some but not all of but some common problems linked to either a lack of salt or too much of the wrong kind of salt would be osteoporosis arthritis gout and water retention obesity and diabetes chronic fatigue lowered immune system function hormone imbalance impaired digestion etc etc etc and the list just goes on no salt really is required for so many crucial functions in the body we really need it and Himalayan salt in particular can actually if consumed in the right amounts and in the right way can actually contribute in conjunction with appropriate diet and lifestyle factors that can contribute towards the healing and reversal of these compatible mentioned conditions it's not cure by any means but within the right context that can actually help alleviate these symptoms and heal them now in terms of salt brine which is what I'm gonna make in a minute what's what brine actually is is it's a salt liquid salt solution it's basically salt dissolved in water it's really quite simple no salt is actually at its most bioavailable form when it's dissolved in water making brine is really excellent for making salt as absorbable as possible and brine has a much higher energetic value than just the salt crystals on their own it's much more potent than just salt on its own so you need to use less of it now really Himalayan salt if you add it to water or if you add the brine to water what it's gonna do is lower the tension of the water and it's actually going to make it more fluid or more liquid like and in doing that it's actually going to make it more absorbable by the body by the cells of the body it's really interesting to note that you know water that doesn't have minerals in it doesn't really have a structure now that kind of water would be distilled water or reverse osmosis water and a lot of people drink this because it really removes all toxins that may be present but it actually removes all the good stuff all the minerals and the electrolytes as well so really if you consume water like that what you're doing is dehydrating the body because the minerals in water act as a kind of password to get that water to enter the cells it's kind of like a magnet that draws the water in and if the water doesn't have that then the cells will just remain dehydrated they can't absorb the water this is where a lot of water attention comes from because people are either consuming dead water even tap waters you know would fall into that category or they're consuming too much of the wrong kinds of salt so really if we want to absorb that water into the cells and get rehydrated it needs to have minerals in it and those minerals and those trace elements are actually as we mentioned before with raw materials that enzymes need in order to function properly so you know really it's important when we consume water that its structured and it's and its remineralized obviously the best kind of water would be locally harvested spring water not everyone has access to that so if you use purified water like distilled of reversals noises if you add salt on it specifically brine to that water you know you can mix it in properly you can really restructure that water give it a good mineral profile electrolytes and really improves the quality of the water now this dynamic with the cells can also really improve trium absorption into the cells and the removal of metabolic wastes because the cell will be kind of volumize by the water and mineral content so really it's you know it's just so important so without getting too much further into all of that you know that's a very complex subject that could be talked about for a long time but really I don't have unlimited time with making the video so I'll just get on with making brine it's really really easy it's simply a case of adding in Himalayan salt crystals now you need a glass jar for this you need a glass jar with a glass lid if it has a kind of plastic rim insider that's fine the plastics not really gonna be in the water anyway so there won't be any leaching but you really don't want to do this in a plastic container and you don't want any metal in the lid on the jar anywhere because the salts gonna rust that and you really you know you don't want to be consuming rust so it has to be glass jar glass lid and if it has a plastic rim it's fine we add a load in you wanna add in a fair amount simply because when you finished making the brine the it's gonna be 26% salt in the water now when that takes about four hours for that to happen now once you've waited four hours you know it's ready if there's still some salt crystals left if there's not then it means that all of them have dissolved and you know you don't know really what percentage the salt solution is if there's still some left then it means it's reached 26% and it stopped dissolving the crystals so you need really after four hours to still have some of these salt crystals left in the bottom of the jar now I'm gonna add some locally harvested spring water that I collected I mean you can just add any kind of purified water to this if you want so yeah after four hours that should be some salt crystals still sat on the bottom of that if that's the case then it's ready I can use it now the best way to use it is with a dropper bottle with a pipette now you can add you know a couple of drops of this through your glass of water or to any drink that you're having except don't put it in hot drinks because the heat will denature the salt so other than that you can add say if you have completely purified water you can add about ten drops into each liter give it a good stir and mix it in and yeah all of the health benefits that we previously mentioned you can really obtain those from consuming brine brine is really the most bioavailable highly energetic form of salt to consume and I would recommend Himalayan salt as the best form of salt so yeah that covers how to make salt brine and why if you have any questions regarding that yeah don't hesitate to contact me thanks for watching take care