To be totally honest with you

it was an answer to prayer.

As one who has had digestive issues for years, including constipation, I was simply Led to DO the salt-water cleanse.

The subsequent info about the kidneys came during the learning process about iodine.

It just "clicked" and made sense to me, especially when one realizes that "salt" is a very natural part of the body, and natural Seasalt is closest to the natural salt found IN the body, with all the minerals intact. It also made sense, when I looked back and realized that I learned how switching to the RealSalt brand of salt from table salt , actually LOWERED my blood pressure, in a day and age where allopathic medicine says "salt is BAD - salt is BAD" - well yes, TABLEsalt is bad, because it is bleached, and DEmineralized. It is straight salt, NOT the salt in the form that GOD (or mother-nature if you prefer) intended for us to consume.

Then, when one realizes that long ago, when our waters were pristine, that there would have been a more natural amount of natural salt IN the water, WITH minerals, and one realizes that the water we drink NOW, is actually more UNnatural for our bodies.

I simply put "two and two" together.

And, natural Seasalt has NO calories, and NO carbohydrates, so it's really not going to effect the state of ketosis that the body goes into when fasting. I believe I "received" an answer to a prayer about what I needed to do at the time.

I did not abuse the salt-water cleanses. I did not "plan" on them. I only did them when I felt an "inner" need for one. Like when I bloated, or got un-naturally "pained"...if that word makes any sense...lower backache...severe headache, that sort of thing.

So, no, you will not find the fasting experts advising on the salt-water cleanse.

It is a personal issue, and why I said it was something that helped me personally. What you do to your own body still has to be your own choice, based on what "sounds" right to you personally.

Make sense?

If it does NOT, then do NOT do it.

Love to you!