There is no life without water! It is predicted that by the year 2020 water will have more value than Gold! Water is the essence of life, nothing living can survive very long without it. You can live up to a month without food, but one can only survive for up to a week without water. Yet, we take this element of life for granted. Water is a natural solvent of body toxins as well as a magnificent cell hydrator. Water also assists in nourishing our bodies by allowing nutrients to flow. Doctors advise us all to drink a minimum eight glasses of healthy water per day. Yet many people do not drink enough water, substituting it with coffee, tea, soda, juice or beer. These liquids do not hydrate the cells; in fact, coffee, tea, soda and alcohol are diuretics, which will dehydrate the body unless more water is drunk to compensate. Many of us are chronically dehydrated, which has many side effects.
Dr. Fereydon Batmanghelidj, the author of “Water For Health, For Healing, For Life” first discovered that drinking water could alleviate pain. He believes that many diseases such as asthma, arthritis, constipation, hypertension and indigestion can be attributed to chronic dehydration. “The body is designed to regulate the water balance, with a drought management program, ready to kick in when our water level is down. We lose about a quart of water per day through breathing. This water needs to be replenished. 17 million children in America have asthma. If these children were given water to drink instead of soda, their asthma will disappear very quickly, in a matter of a few hours, as the breathing becomes normal. “ 1
Hypertension is another disease, which can attribute to chronic dehydration. In his book Water Cures and Drugs Kill, it explains why “dehydration is the cause of pain and disease and how the pharmaceutical industry has camouflaged the information or covered it up instead of letting people drink more water, it advertises the use of their products, which actually do kill. Signs of dehydration are anger, depression and fatigue, which lead to allergies, hypertension, diabetes and also immune diseases.”2
Here are some facts to consider:
• 70% of our planet is covered in water – but just 3% is freshwater
• Less than 1% of freshwater is readily accessible for human use
• 70% of adult bodies are water
• 75% of the human brain is water
• 80% of our blood is water
• Even mild dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 3%
• One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for 100% of dieters
• Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue
• Preliminary research indicates that 8 – 10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers
• A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page
• Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, slashes the risk of breast cancer by 79% and decreases the risk of bladder cancer by 50%
Ten steps to health through water
1. Start the day with a glass of warm water with a squeeze of lime or lemon to flush out the kidneys and detoxify your system
2. Drink at least 8 glasses of water daily
3. Listen to your body. Don’t eat if you aren’t hungry, drink a glass of water instead
4. Learn to recognize what your body is telling you – if you suffer from headaches, stomach aches, fatigue or other common ailments, try drinking a glass of water before taking medicine
5. Drink a glass of water half an hour before a meal. It helps to lubricate the digestive system and prevents excess cholesterol formation. This will also help you lose weight, as you will eat less. Do not drink during the meal. If you drink with a meal, it interferes with digestive processes and may lead to indigestion, acidity or nausea. Drink water between meals.
6. You absorb water through your food so try to eat organically grown food
7. Drink a glass of water if you feel stressed. It will help calm you down
8. Do not drink too much tea, coffee or alcohol. Be sure to drink more water to compensate.
9. Eat sensibly. Your liver needs to filter out and destroy any bacteria, so needs plenty of water to function properly
10. End the day with a glass of water
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The cleaner the water you drink the healthier you are. Clean and pure water flushes out toxins from your body. Remember that our skin absorbs contaminants by bathing and swimming in pools treated with chlorine, which many people have allergies to. The best water to drink is from spring water, provided the water is pure and contains all the beneficial minerals to help our bodies function and consumed at the source. Some of the bottled water companies available here use spring water. “The actual process to extract and bottle the water can mechanically alter the waters properties reducing the amount of minerals and reducing its hydrating properties. Unfortunately due to lack of labeling regulations here, the majority of bottled water is often treated or even worse, is reverse osmosis water. Plus all the automation at the factory and the transport required getting it to your door raises its carbon foot prints quite significantly. “4
Many bottled water companies use reverse osmosis to remove all the bacteria but it also removes the beneficial minerals as well. Drinking RO water short term is fine but in the long term, it leaches nutrients from the body without hydrating the cells. Ades, Aqua, Club, Prim-A are all mineral bottled water here. Pristine also contains minerals and is ionized, which means the water is alkaline, which is absorbed into the body faster. Some bottled water brands have been tested and discovered to have high TDS (total dissolved solids), which may be no better than drinking your tap water. Not to mention the huge expense to produce the billions of plastic bottles, which are thrown in the rubbish. Pure unpolluted spring water is naturally structured water. Since most of us have mediocre water quality from commercial water producers or municipal services, we need to return tap water to its original, hydrating, life-giving state. Energized water has had its molecules returned to their original state, which allows maximum moisture absorption into the cells of your body, a major key to healing and the maintenance of health and vitality.
Because we do not know how long the water has been in the plastic bottle or stored in hot warehouses, which causes toxins to leach into the water or how well it has been treated to kill bacteria, there are several ways to improve the quality. The simplest method is to attach a piece of paper with a positive word like love or peace to the side of the bottle. Masaru Emoto has written many books, including the best selling Hidden Messages in Water. His research has visually captured the structure of water through high-speed photography. He has shown the direct consequences of destructive thoughts and the thoughts of love and appreciation on the formation of water crystals. Another way is to use a bio-disk to change the molecular structure of the water and transform it into healthy hydratious water. There are other devices, which can change the structure of bottled water to make it healthier such as magnets and crystals.
“Here are some ways you can structure water; 1: by shaking it while it’s within a magnetic field; 2: you can stir a magnet swiftly enough to create a vortex for 30 seconds. Let the water stand for 6 minutes then repeat stirring; 3: use a funnel method that produces a vortex in a clockwise direction as it empties. Attach two magnets to the outside of the funnel with the positive and negative sides facing toward the funnel near the narrow end. Pour the water through the funnel, making sure of the swirling action. Let stand for 6 minutes and repeat. All of these things will result in varying degrees of structure in the water.”5 One thing to remember, restructuring the water does not kill bacteria.
Unless you have access to pure spring water, a better option is if your house uses well water is to have it tested to let you know what treatment is required then install a water filtration system to provide safe drinking water. “The best methods are fine filtration + silver or UV or ultra filtration. This removes all the bad stuff but leaves the good stuff like calcium and other minerals that our bodies need. There are 3 basic filter systems used, which prices start at as little as 1.5 million”6 at Smart Systems at Kuta Galleria. If you want to go a stage further, alkaline water can be produced for starting at 4.75 million. Silica cleans up cloudy water. Carbon removes all the chemicals and toxins, including chlorine if pre dosing is required. Salt water softener reduces the amount of calcium, which is the white stuff on the bottom of your pans and heating elements, taps and showers, prices starting at 11 million. If bacteria is present, ultraviolet, silver ionization or chlorine pre dosing are the most commonly used methods.
“The present state of water is something that we should all think about. Our relationship with the water that we consume is two-way. We are all made of water and we must respect water in order for it to support us. If handled incorrectly water can become diseased, and then it imparts that disease to all other organisms. So when we put mistreated water into our bodies, our metabolism becomes unnatural, chemically and energetically unbalanced. Our biochemical systems become disturbed, the messages to our brains confused. When our body is out of balance our emotions are constantly reacting according to “fight or flight”, stressing us.”7
1 Water For Health, For Healing, For Life by Dr. F. Batmanghelidj
2 Water Cures and Drugs Kill by Dr. F. Batmanghelidj
3 The Healing Energies of Water by Charlie Ryrie
4 Smart Solutions
5 EMR Labs
6 Smart Systems
7 The Healing Energies of Water by Charlie Ryrie
