While common household table salt can contribute to the leeching of calcium from your bones, Himalayan salt is quite different. It is a natural salt that contains 84 minerals that are essential for your body, one of those being calcium. All of these minerals aid our body’s natural detoxification process and promote the removal of bacteria. Himalayan pink salt is also rich in iodine, which helps your body create an electrolyte balance. This in turn helps your intestines absorb nutrients and lowers blood pressure.

Before refrigerators, people would preserve their food with salt. Our bodies needed and utilized the nutrients that were in the salt-preserved foods. As we started going away from that, we lost that source of healthy natural salt and essential minerals. One of the reasons we need those minerals so much is for bone growth. Let's say for example, that someone needed a palatal expander and therefore would need to grow more bone in order to help make the palate/jaw bigger and stronger. The minerals found in himalayan pink salt would be crucial for this.

It has also been shown that adding a pinch of pink salt to meals or drinks can help the body achieve optimal fluid balance and prevent dehydration.