Health benefits of electronic water softening vs. salt-based systems and relative medical research studies
 Salt-water softening systems remove both calcium and magnesium from the water and replace it with salt. When these two minerals are removed, one of the largest sources in the human diet is gone. The biological importance of these two minerals for human health cannot be over emphasized.
Increased incidence of cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer, kidney stones, stroke, vascular disease as well as other neural diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease have been linked to low levels of calcium and magnesium. Further, both calcium and magnesium bind to the same sites as many toxic elements such as lead and cadmium. When the calcium and magnesium fills these locations, the sites no longer absorb the lead and cadmium, and their toxic effects on the body are greatly reduced.
Calcium is a calming mineral to the body and decreases neuromuscular excitability as well as hypertension. This is the reason a glass of warm milk works as a sleep aid.
Higher risks are reported across the world for drinking water, which is low in levels of calcium and magnesium.
Frantisek Kozisek, MD. Ph.D. of the National Institute of Public Health (Czech) outlines the importance of these two minerals in great detail in a thesis on the heath significance of
drinking water with calcium and magnesium.
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