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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Louise Pyne

Is drinking a glass of salty water the ultimate affordable health hack?

In typical British fashion, the weather is all over the place — but with forecasters predicting more record-breaking temperatures, it’s worth thinking about how to safeguard your health whilst making the most of what summer has to offer.

It might sound bonkers, but sipping salty water is the latest health craze that wellness influencers are hyping up as a means of hydrating, detoxing and improving digestion to help prep for summer. The idea is is simple. You upgrade your glass of plain H20 with some salt in order to reap serious wellbeing effects, but before you jump on the TikTok bandwagon, there’s a lot to factor in.

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