Magnesium is a small but important part of your body. It's a component of bones and teeth; it helps in making proteins, blood clotting, muscular contractions and nerve signal transmission.

Potassium is one of the most important elements in your diet. Persons who consume 4,000 mg. of potassium or more per day have a much lower incidence of all degenerative diseases including insulin resistance syndrome, hypertension, stroke, obesity and adult- onset diabetes.

Sodium is an essential nutrient, important to your body's nerves and muscles. It's a mineral that the body cannot manufacture itself but can be found in table salt.

Table Salt is processed from the naturally-found mineral, sodium chloride (NaCl) which is 40% sodium (Na) and 60% chlorine (Cl). It's an easy, inexpensive, and effective method to supplement your body's requirements for sodium and the chlorine compound known as chloride.

Chloride preserves the acid-base balance in the body, aids potassium absorption, supplies the essence of digestive stomach acid, and enhances the ability of the blood to carry carbon dioxide from respiring tissues to the lungs.

Homeopathy: a medical tradition that maintains that the symptoms of disease are the body's attempt to deal with the disease process. Homeopathy teaches that the symptoms should not be suppressed as they are in regular Western medicine (alopathy).

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