HOME REMEDY: Epsom salts
If you have recently embarked on a fitness regime, you may feel a bit stiff now and then. But don’t worry, it’s the body’s natural response to exercise as the muscles release lactic acid. One of the best ways to minimise this is to stretch out well after exercising, so muscle fibres can ‘lengthen out’, letting blood flow easily and lactic acid disperse quickly.
Another way to soothe aches and pains is soaking in a hot bath containing Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate). A cup or two added to the water will help soothe muscular aches and joint pains, making it a beneficial bath to enjoy after you have been exercising. Both magnesium and sulphates are required by our bodies and we can absorb them via a bath.
Epsom salts can also be taken internally to ‘keep the bowels moving’, as they say – hence the familiar expression ‘went through me like a dose of salts’.
So, is this something else to do with them if you are planning a detox to go alongside your exercise regime? In fact, that all sounds just a little too much.
Sof McVeigh: www.thehomemadecompany.com
Another way to soothe aches and pains is soaking in a hot bath containing Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate). A cup or two added to the water will help soothe muscular aches and joint pains, making it a beneficial bath to enjoy after you have been exercising. Both magnesium and sulphates are required by our bodies and we can absorb them via a bath.
Epsom salts can also be taken internally to ‘keep the bowels moving’, as they say – hence the familiar expression ‘went through me like a dose of salts’.
So, is this something else to do with them if you are planning a detox to go alongside your exercise regime? In fact, that all sounds just a little too much.
Sof McVeigh: www.thehomemadecompany.com