What is the Secret of Maritime Climate? |
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It is time for summer holidays and this mainly means for travelling to the coast to take some time off from our stressful business engagements and to refill our batteries for new upcoming challenges.
But why do most of the people choose to travel to the coast?
What is the secret of maritime climate and its beneficial effect?
The sea climate does not only act preventive, it heals and boosts our immune system as well.
By residing at the seaside our body receives rare trace elements which are generally lacking in everyday modern nutrition.
Residing at the Seaside Boosts Immunity
Sea water and sea air have a biological impact on our health. Sea minerals such as magnesium, manganese and cobalt penetrate our body and boost our natural immunity.
Walking by the sea is beneficial for our lungs because it enables us to inhale micro-drops of sea water caused by waves breaking on the cliffs.
Those small salty particles in the air, which are filled with negatively charged hydrogen ions and trace minerals, travel to the deepest parts of our pulmonary alveoli that enables us to easily absorb oxygen.
The wind, special sea air, sun, aromatic plants and mere presence of essential oils and minerals is the reason why maritime climate has such a beneficial effect on our health.
Thalassotherapy through History
Beneficial effect of maritime climate has been studied since the beginning of time.
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, was among the first who studied the healing effect of the sea and the seaside of Kos, his native island situated in Dodecanese archipelago of the Aegean Sea.
Observing the beneficial effect of the sea on fisherman’s damaged hands, he realized that sea water reduces the risk of infections while regenerates cells.
The Greeks and Romans have built thermal spas on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. In the 5th century BC, the famous Greek writer Euripides has written that “the sea washes away all of man’s ills”.
Sea Water as the Perfect Medicine
French scientist René Quinton has dedicated his life to studying sea water. In 1879 he came to the conclusion that the human organism is similar to sea water because of the same mineral composition.
In 1906 he published the book “Sea water, organic medium” in which he discussed similarities between blood plasma and sea water.
Sea water has an identical pH value as healthy human blood and contains minerals and elements in exact proportion necessary for human body.
Sea water contains all nature’s elements like sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, silica, even silver and gold. One liter of sea water contains an average of 35 g of various dissolved salts.
One of the most important trace element from the sea water is iodine which is essential for producing the two most important thyroid hormones in the human body.
Those hormones are important because they control body’s energy expenditure. Iodine deficiency can cause chronic fatigue, and also can lead to increased tendency of infection, muscle weakness, increased coldness, slow reflexes, and ultimately goiter.
The sea helps us heal the back pain, circulation problems, sport injuries, skin problems, psoriasis, and sciatica.
The maritime climate helps with all conditions that are related to modern lifestyle, like tension and stress, and it prevents and heals cardiovascular diseases, cleanses and hydrates the skin.
Useful Summer Sports
Diving is a perfect way for your body to receive a “salty” detox therapy.
Sea water contains all healing minerals and therefore sea bathing allows skin detoxification and regeneration.
Due to a water resistance being 10-15% stronger than air resistance, swimming and diving are an excellent exercise. Only two hand strokes are sufficient for our whole body to move including almost all of our muscles, without any articular exertion and with reduced risk of injuries.
Only 15 to 30 minutes of every day swimming is enough for the cellulite to be naturally eliminated by water flux and body massage.
Great benefit from swimming in open sea also comes in the fact that the sea represents a huge electromagnetic energy field which naturally balances human energetic system.
All this contributes to renewal process and accelerates body purification.
If you are residing at the coast during the summer this will increase your health benefits even more.
Benefits of the sea water are increased with benefits of the sunshine and increased vitamin D production.
Breathing Exercises at the Seaside
The phrase “to breathe easily” can be connected with residing at the coast.
Increase sea water effect – practice breathing exercises in the sea air.
Specific smell of the sea water is caused by dimethyl sulphide, which comes from the sea.
In addition, sea air is full of negative hydrogen ions, which help with blood and tissue detoxification, fight free radicals and balance serotonin levels (happiness hormones).
If you want to make your summer vacations complete and maximally benefit from the maritime climate, join our Divine Energy Park summer workshops in many destinations along the seacoast.
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