The Salt Suite® is best known for its immersive salt therapy caves. There’s plenty to love about them: a 45-minute, more relaxing session; a calming atmosphere; and the option to bring friends and family along.
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For over thousands of years in many parts of the world people have utilized the healing benefits of salt helping people breathe better, build their immune systems, and purify their body from harmful bacteria. Since salt has profoundly impacted the lives of humans everywhere. It’s the time-tested value of salt therapy that has continued to improve people’s quality of life. The Salt Suite® is proud to bring an ancient, natural and proven therapy to US communities and to provide education and choice in how we heal ourselves and our families.
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Surely, if something all-natural, enjoyable and accessible lowered the likelihood of contracting the common cold, flu and viruses, then everyone would do it, right? That is exactly what we think, and perhaps scientific studies will convince more people to add salt therapy to their weekly routine.
From preserving food, to a form of currency, to treatment for various ailments, salt has been used for various purposes for centuries. As far back as 20 million years ago, a shallow sea covered Europe and Russia. As the sea retreated, salt deposits were left between 10 and 300 meters below. We know that the earliest civilizations formed near salt deposits.
Parents seek salt therapy for children for many reasons. The most common include, asthma (Breathing Blog), ear infections, skin conditions (Skin Blog) and an immune boost (Immune Blog) to make catching colds, flu and virus less likely. As a parent, we want to help our child and make certain that we do not cause harm.
In short, the answer is yes. Yes, salt therapy really does improve common respiratory issues like asthma, severe asthma, allergies, bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, COPD, and sinusitis.
It’s a fair question. We often hear that eating too much salt is bad for your health as it can raise blood pressure and potentially lead to heart issues. This happens when excess dietary salt makes the body retain fluid to dilute the salt. The excess water increases the volume of blood and thus raises blood pressure.
What in the world should you do if you find out that there is mold in your house? Icky, yucky, gross black mold can wreak havoc on your entire body. Mold has a tendency to flourish in warm, damp environments. It can feast on wet humidity, growing and multiplying like a living being. This is a specific problem all over the United States, but areas that have higher levels of warm temperatures in humid areas such as Florida and Georgia can be truly problematic for mold to live and grow.
Stress is just a part of everyone’s daily life. In this fast age of technology, families with two working parents, and all the expectation that go along with your world it’s easy to become bogged down with everything you have to do day to day. It’s enough to drive even the most calm person a little batty. There are some healthy ways to deal with stress that don’t include curling up in a ball in bed for hours on end. Here are five of the best and most healthy ways to deal with stress when all you want to do is scream.
Salt therapy or Halotherapy has been around for a long time. Throughout the ages people have learned about what rooms of salt purified air can do for their health and wellbeing. The Salt Suite is a medical spa that offers this very beneficial treatment. In determining if this treatment is right for you, there are a few questions you can ask yourself. First do you suffer from allergies, asthma, or respiratory issues like COPD that could greatly benefit from a trip to the salt rooms? Do you have a hard time managing stress?
You would be surprised at how much our bodies actually need salt. It’s important to have it in our daily diets, and for other reasons as well. Although it’s a fine line to walk of getting the right amount of salt to not overdoing this little element. Athletes primarily need a good amount of salt, since when the body sweats profusely that’s when it loses the most salt.
There are certain cities in the United States that have a much higher pollen count than others. If you have severe allergy, sinus, or respiratory issues than you are going to want to steer clear of this cities if you can, especially during the peak allergy months of April through October. Although if you live in one of these cities there are some general precaution you can take to make your allergies more easy to deal with.
Salt is the little power element that could. Not only is sodium chloride used for a variety of different things, it is also a powerful antibacterial substance. An antibacterial agent is one that inhibits the growth and multiplication of bacteria. Even though salt was used for thousands of years it didn’t officially become an element on the periodic table until 1807 by a chemist named Davy. Hippocrates who is widely considered the father of modern medicine, was one of the first to learn about the antibacterial nature of salt.
One of the biggest supporters of Halotherapy or salt therapy is Dr. Alina Chervinskaya. She is the Head of the Scientific and Clinical Center of Preventive and Rehabilitation Pulmonology of the Sokolov Clinical Hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia. This well regarded specialist , who received her doctorate from the Leningrad Institute of Medicine, has been exploring this important field of work for the past twenty years.
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