5 Reasons to Gargle Salt Water and How to Do it

Are you gargling salt water? You may want to start!
This simple habit is cheap, easy, and effective. Research has shown salt water to be effective in prevention of cold, flu, virus, and bacterial infection as well as soothing a sore throat, reducing drainage, and reducing allergy symptoms.
Taking this beyond just immune support, gargling salt water can also support your nervous system, aiding in grounding the body from the inside out. The gargling sound also stimulates the vagus nerve and some might say opens the throat chakra!
Benefits of Gargling Salt Water:
1. Reduces sore throat
2. Prevent respiratory and viral infection
3. Promotes oral health
4. Vagus nerve stimulation
5. Grounding electrical charge reset for body
Let us know in the comments what you think!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:02 - Reduces sore throat
01:49 - Prevent respiratory and viral infection
03:29 - Promote oral health
03:57 - Vagus nerve stimulation
04:38 - Grounding electrical charge reset for body
05:13 - Salt water gargle
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Products Mentioned:
Redmond Real Salt (05:15)
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Studies Mentioned:
Prevention of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections by Gargling
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retri...
Respiratory Tract Infections and its Preventive Measures among Hajj Pilgrims, 2010: A Nested Case Control Study
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Comparative evaluation of salt water rinse with chlorhexidine against oral microbes: A school-based randomized controlled trial
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28914...
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About us: Ali Miller, RD, LD, CDE and Becki Yoo, MS, RD, LD are registered dietitians using functional approaches to health with a strong belief in food-as-medicine. Ali started her functional medicine clinic, Naturally Nourished in 2011 with the approach that everything you put in your body sends a signal leading to optimal health function or dysfunction and disease.

[@mkrp4]

Some people can gargle the songs. It was the popular challenge a while ago

[@naturallynourishedRD]

haven't tried that one yet ha

[@twistedsoul91]

Please overlook my weird username. I just saw this video and it was really exciting. I was honestly hoping that you girls would gargle much longer than what you did on the video and you mentioned doing it for one minute. I honestly don't think either of you ladies have strong enough lungs to gargle for a whole minute without breath breaks but I would love to see you try it in another video. It seems like Becky can do this better then the other lady but I don't know for sure. I am hoping you ladies will eventually do another gargling video and hopefully you will attempt to do it much longer with one breath. I realize that this is a strange comment and request and I don't mean any offense by it. But I do hope you ladies will consider doing another video like this.

[@naturallynourishedRD]

Thanks for the feedback, prob won't do a separate video on gargling for a min.