Science and Himalayan Salt Crystal

Science offers a solid basis for the unanimous claims by lamp owners around the world about the positive effects which salt lamps and salt crystal bring to us through soothing light and color, the cleansing effect it provides for indoor air, and with powerful negative ions which have certainly been studied enough to be known as beneficial, in a myriad of ways.

However, for ages humans have known of the positive effects of this salt, along with its cleansing and neutralizing effects on your health. Genuine Himalayan Crystal Salt is the most beneficial, most potent salt available on this planet. It was formed over 250 million years ago, when the light and energy of the sun dried up the original, primal ocean; a cycle which repeated itself for millions of years in the region - fill it then evaporate it. This crystal salt is completely pristine and natural, identical in composition to that ancient sea. It also contains all 74 elements found within the human body.

We are not referring to simple rock salt or table salt; simply because rock salt assumes a crystalline form doesn't mean that it is of the superior quality that we have been talking about here. Elements within rock salt are not integral to the salt's crystal grid, but instead cling to the outer surfaces and crevices of the crystalline matrix. This is the fundamental difference between rock salt and crystal salt. A Himalayan salt crystal manifests a superior structure while rock salt is a cheap alternative to table salt - and is at least a natural, wholesome product.

There is no type of salt in this world that can compare to Himalayan salt crystal, including any of the many varieties of sea salt. There are many various "sea salts" sold on the market from all sorts of places, the Dead Sea being one of the more well-known. Sea salt is full of pollution and impurities thanks to mankind mainly; hence nearly 90% of sea salt vendors are selling processed salt rather than natural sea salt.

By evaporating sea water, salt is harvested and normally sent to a processing plant. This process reaps natural minerals from the salt and structurally ruins it. For the few that do not process their sea salt, all the pollution and impurity remains - left from oil and chemical spills, oil/fuel and trash from ships and boats, raw/processed sewage that gets dumped into our oceans by coastal cities and metropolitan areas, aircraft that make it standard procedure to dump jet fuel over the open water before landing...Man is so unkind to it's mother, it's no wonder she's mad now!

Himalayan crystal salt (400x)

Sea Salt (400x)

Common table salt (400x)

In nature, negative ions are created through forces of rainstorms, waterfalls, lighning, sunlight, ocean waves, and wind. In fresh country air we find up to 4000 negative ions per cubic centimeter - the size of a sugar cube. Up to 10,000 negative ions can be found near heavy surf, or close to a waterfall. However the number of negative ions in metropolitan areas often doesn't reach 100! Think about that next time you're stuck in traffic. Consider our salt lamps to get back the energy you've been missing

Do salt lamps really work?

Don't be ridiculous. Of course our salt lamps work! Absotively. Posilutely. These salt lamps work wonderfully, owning is believing. This is why we have an unconditional 30-day satisfaction guarantee...no worries! Anyway, we are well aware of the initial skepticism; in purchasing my first lamp I really didn't think it would make much of a difference, I simply thought they were beautiful, ambient eye-candy and didn't care if it was really "good for indoor air and wellbeing". A month later we began doing homework and talked about possible business venture to share these wonderful products; the following month we were building a site and getting our proverbial ducks in a row. Look at us now!

OK, how do salt lamps improve air and well-being? Simple science; salt crystal is naturally ionic, this goes beyond debate - it is established, scientific fact. Yet, despite many claims, there is no repeatable, verifiable scientific data available for peer review, on the true "ionizing capacity"; or efficacy; or impact on the human mental/bio-physical condition. Scientists in Germany have done studies on salt lamps, but the published data is unavailable or never actually existed - we're looking though. Be careful not to misinterpret this based on lack of evidence. There is a mountain of circumstantial evidence, testimonials, and peripheral, corroborating science data. No specific research found yet, but word is spreading. We care little for what lab instruments might indicate or measure, the results are only as good as the instrument and the operator.

The answer is in the human response and bio-physical changes on a cellular level.

For example, we recently learned that during a one-year period between testing, a genetic, chronic, and de-generative lung disorder is effectively reversing course - and the medical test results to confirm it. This disorder doesn't reverse, even stabilization is a long-reaching goal. Over the past year, this person has been exposed to Himalayan salt crystal all day and during sleep; began a morning routine of taking a shot of sole ("so-lay"); bathes with our bath salt crystal (every bath we believe!); uses edible crystal salt on food. The doctor is a board-certified pulmonary/critical care specialist here in Charlotte, NC - and now also owns a salt lamp. We have sparked discussion amongst him and his peers. We are quite convinced the reversal of this (irreversible) disease is directly tied to daily and nightly exposure to ionized air; and possibly a more unexplainable healing effect of light.

To continue, Himalayan salt crystal is, by it's very nature, hygroscopic. By removing moisture from indoor air, things such as bacteria, virii, mold spores, and respiratory allergens and irritants cannot remain airborne; they fall to the floor by gravity and die... especially in an ionized environment. We recommend these lamps and products for those with respiratory illness or asthma, this is natural relief. Ironically, this moisture that gets naturally drawn to the salt crystal's surface is directly responsible in large part for the negative-charged ionic field build-up around the lamp. In humid regions, salt lamps left unlit can often "sweat" to the point of water puddling around the base.

The various colors of the lamp have positive effects. The therapeutic wavelengths of the colors of these crystals are visible to our eyes and affect reorganization of the epidermal skin tissue (especially in the orange range). These are also used in allopathic medicine for treating skin cancer. Furthermore, testing on young children diagnosed with ADHD (attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder) clearly indicate that exposure to salt lamps dramatically limits these symptoms after just seven days, likely by affecting the balance of serotonin levels. Symptoms returned when the salt crystal lamps were taken away! Europe is well-ahead of the US in alternative medicine research, more specifically in the knowledge and application of salt crystal lamps..

As many of us sit in front of televisions or computer monitors, we are bombarded with "electronic smog", an electro-magnetic frequency of around 100 to 160 Hz. (Hertz). Our brainwaves, however, vibrate at around 8 Hz.; a rate which is equal to the Schuhmann Resonance Frequency. In other words, while watching TV or working at a computer, our bodies are exposed to the vibration of frequencies 20 times faster than our brainwaves. The results are nervousness, insomnia, and lack of concentration. A salt lamp will counter the smog. Moreover, this electromagnetic pollution causes the increased production of destructive, and often cancer-causing, free radicals. In fact, it is widely accepted that many types of cancer result from reactions between DNA and free radicals, causing the cell to mutate thereby disrupting the cell cycle and leading on to malignant cancer.

In conclusion, we're putting the medical, science, and research communities on notice. Himalayan salt lamps improve indoor air and environmental quality; the known and potential benefits to human well-being are enormous and not yet fully discovered.

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