We are frequently asked this question, and we know that it can be confusing, so let us take a quick look at the options. You may then decide for yourself the kind of water that you feel will do the most for you.
There are many sources of information about water, some would say too many – and each one may give you a different perspective and make different claims for a product. We have been inundated with correspondence and enquiries about the various waters offered and which one should be the preferred water to drink, also why one might be better than another. The claims for the more commonly treated water supplies – and more importantly – how water affects your body is dealt with below.
First of all we should recognize that water is the basis for, and sustains, all forms of life. In fact, as humans our bodies are 70-80% water, and all body fluids are water based.
Water has three basic functions to perform in our bodies:
1. to transport nutrients to our cells,
2. to carry away toxic wastes from the cells, and
3. to regulate our body temperature through hydration.
Water filters.
Promoters of water filters usually tell us that all the chemicals in the tap water are bad for us and that most water filters will take away the chemicals, leaving the water clean and pure to drink.
Water filters have a place for those who just want to remove unpleasant taste and the chlorine added at the treatment plant. Some more expensive filters will also remove bacteria and a proportion of metals and other impurities. A percentage of each is usually still present after passing through the filter. Filters must be replaced regularly to give the offered protection.
Spring and Spa Waters
Some spring or spa water promoters say that drinking distilled water is bad for you because there are no minerals in the water and your body needs minerals. They claim that spring water has minerals that the body needs.
The promoters of spring waters say that minerals are good for your body. Certainly some are, but they need to be a bit more specific because there is a lot of difference between organic and inorganic minerals. Both types have the names such as calcium, zinc, copper etc., but the organic minerals are the only ones that our body can use. Some waters in this category are acidic.
There is but one natural way to convert the inorganic to the organic, and that is by the plant kingdom. Plants absorb the inorganic minerals and through the miracles of photosynthesis convert the inorganic minerals to organic minerals.
One normally finds that as many as 95% of the minerals in bottled spring water [and in tap water] are inorganic minerals, meaning our body cannot utilize them. Depending on where the inorganic minerals end up in your body, they can be detrimental to good health. In our kidneys such minerals may form kidney stones. If they roll up in the gall bladder they may form gallstones, and if accumulating in our joints they can be the main culprits of arthritis.
Water Distillers
Promoters of water distillers say the best water is distilled water because it removes all additives and leaves the purest form of water for your body.
One Dr.Zoltan Rona wrote an article in which he wants you to believe that because distilled water is so pure that drinking it will leach minerals from your body, thereby robbing you of good health and nutrition. There is no basis of fact to document this claim.
One of the best-selling health and diet books: “Fit for Life II: Living Health” by Harvey & Marilyn Diamond, answers this question perfectly, the authors write:
“Distilled water has an inherent quality. Acting almost like a magnet, it picks up rejected, discarded, and unusable minerals and, assisted by the blood and the lymph, carries them to the lungs and kidneys for elimination from the body. The statement that distilled water leaches minerals from the body has no basis in fact. It doesn’t leach out minerals that have become part of the cell structure. It can’t and won’t. It collects only minerals that have already been rejected or excreted by the cells…To suggest that distilled water takes up minerals from foods so that the body derives no benefit from them is absurd.”
If you see the claim that somehow distilled water leaches good things from your body then you will find that such vendors all quoting from the same source, i.e. Zoltan Rona. However, fortunately sanity has returned and professionals disagree with Zoltan Rona’s views as the following quotes indicate:
“Your question as to whether distilled water leaches minerals out of the body reflects another persistent myth. While pure water helps to remove minerals from the body that cells have eliminated or not used, it does not “leach” out minerals that have become part of your body’s cell structure. Neither does distilled water cause your teeth to deteriorate, a false claim made by a filter manufacturer looking to boost sales. As far as acidity goes, distilled water is close to a neutral pH and has no effect on the body’s acid/base balance. I hope I’ve set your mind at ease. Distilled water not only isn’t dangerous, it’s the purest form of water. It’s also the kind of water I drink.” By Dr. Andrew Weil, author of eight books and Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, as well as the founder and director of the ‘Program in Integrative Medicine’ at the University of Arizona’s Health Sciences Center in Tucson, where he is training a new generation of physicians.
“The expression that distilled water leaches minerals from the body is entirely inaccurate. It does not leach out body minerals, it collects and removes minerals which have been rejected by the cells of the body and are therefore nothing more or less than debris, obstructing the normal functions of the system.” By Dr. John R. Christopher.
“Helps cleanse my body of waste materials. Within the body, water acting as a solvent, reaches into every cell to absorb and carry away the poisons that are formed as a part of the life process. Lots of pure water is needed for this task. We all know that it is easier to wash dishes in a sink full of clean water than in a cup full of dirty water. The blood circulates 400 gallons of water through the kidneys each day. Common sense tells us that when the water we consume is pure, it can do a much better job than when it is already contaminated with toxic substances.” By Dr. Clifford C. Dennison, Ed.D.
“If you decide on bottled water, make sure it’s distilled, (however), in the long run you’ll save money if you clean your water at home.” From ‘Maximum Health’. Dr. Robert D. Willix, Jr., M.D.
“Distilled water is the only water which is pure – the onlydiuretic water free from all impurities.” From ‘The Choice Is Clear’ by Dr. Allen E. Banik
“Even tap water invariably contains a variety of poisons such as chlorine, chloramine, asbestos, pesticides, fluoride, copper, mercury, and lead. The best way to remove all these contaminants is by distilling.” From ‘How To Save Your Teeth: Toxic-Free Preventive Dentistry’ by Dr. David Kennedy, D.D.S.
“The home distiller is the best method and also the best way to get distilled water. It is the only reliable home water purification for taking fluoride out of the water.” From ‘Fluoride: The Aging Factor’ by Dr. John Yiamoyuiannis, Ph.D.
“We believe that only steam-distilled water should be consumed.” From ‘Prescription for Nutritional Healing’ by James F. Balch, MD. & Phyllis A. Balch, C.N.C.
“The only type of water that seems to be fit for consumption is distilled water ” Distillation is the single most effective method of water purification.” From ‘A Diabetic Doctor Looks at Diabetes’ by Peter A. Lodewick, M.D.
“Distilled water is the world’s best and purest water!” From ‘Water – The Shocking Truth’ by Dr. Paul C. Bragg & Dr. Patricia Bragg
“Far and away the cleanest water is produced by the new home distillers.” From ‘Optimum Sports Nutrition’ by Dr. Michael Colgan, Ph.D.,
CCN
“Since we started using distilled water, our athletes have been drinking more. We can only attribute that to the fresh, clean taste¦” by Dave Ellis Director of Performance Nutrition at the University of Nebraska Athletic Department.
So distilled water is the best water for drinking?
To a great extent Yes, if you are healthy then all that you need is pure water with the three functions of water as defined above: bringing in nutrients to the cells, taking out waste toxins and regulating our body temperature.
However, since more than 90% of the adult population is eating unhealthy foods regularly and fail to maintain a routine healthy exercise regime, we need to be a bit more vigilant in safeguarding our health. Next to breathing air, water is the most important factor to keep us alive, so perhaps we ought to look into ways of improving our health, or at least slow down our health dilapidation as much as possible through the use of an ideal type of water.
Is there such water?
Yes, there is, but before getting to that let’s take a look at why some of the prevailing conditions in our body that may warrant this type of water.
One is the acidic effect of soft drinks, coffee and alcohol a.o.
The not so innocent soft drink, especially the cola type, is highly acidic. Most people love carbonated soft drink. The word carbonated indicates that it has been aerated with – and now contains – carbon dioxide. We learned at school that we breathe-in oxygen, and breathe-out carbon dioxide. When we consume food, our metabolism creates carbon dioxide which our body then works hard at expelling, so we might ask: ‘why would we want to burden our body with additional carbon dioxide through soft drinks adding to the burden?’
It is estimated that for each glass of a cola with a pH of about 2.5 consumed, you need something like 30 glasses of alkaline water with a pH of near to 10 to negate the effect of the cola drink in your body. Bear in mind that carbon dioxide mixed with water becomes carbonic acid.
So consumption of cola, carbonated drinks, alcohol, coffee, or smoking, as well as the ingesting of sugar and fats, all robs our body of oxygen. These drinks are not water as far as our body is concerned. They are actually diuretic agents that osmotically draw more water out of the cells than they supply to the cells.
The Chinese have for thousands of years been advocating keeping the body in balance, the body will then be healthy and free from diseases (yin and yang, the theory of opposites). Modern Western discoveries maintain that the blood pH values must be within a narrow range of 7.35 to 7.45 for our body to remain healthily alive.
Consumption of highly acidic drinks, such as cola with a pH value of 2.5 is exponentially tens of thousand times more acidic than blood, hence the difference from the cola with a pH value of 2.5 to the blood’s pH is nearly one hundred thousand times more acidic.
Not surprisingly, the body has to act quickly to restore the pH values to the safe range.
Another effect is loss of calcium
When we drink soft drinks with high phosphate content then calcium is drawn from the bones to act as a buffer. Eating or drinking acidic food taxes our bones heavily since it ultimately leads to a calcium deficit that renders our bones vulnerable to brittleness and breakage.
We need to drink enough water (most experts say about 6 to 8 glasses daily) for our body to rid itself of toxins. Most of us do not drink enough water and for that simple reason we are dehydrated to some extent. For the body to function properly, it is imperative that it be properly hydrated. Drinking alkaline water daily assists the body to flush out the toxic and acidic wastes.
The most important one is Acid.
When we eat food, our body breaks down the food in a process known as our ‘Metabolism’. The process produces carbon dioxide, which in an ideal condition is quickly removed from the cells through breathing and through the skin, kidneys and bowel movements. As most of us are not really in the perfect healthy condition, acidic waste accumulates in our body. This combined with air pollution, eating processed foods and drinking acidic drinks, daily stress and possibly lack of exercise, creates a platform for entry of degenerative diseases.
Common causes of carbonic acid..
Degenerative diseases (in Japan sometimes referred to as adult diseases) are diseases such as high blood pressure, arthritis, gout, diabetes, indigestion, osteoporosis, cardiac disorders, cancers etc. The accumulation of acids in our cells together with poor circulation is the major cause of degenerative diseases as strongly believed by Japanese researchers.
The following conditions can be helped by alkaline water: asthma, angina, migraine headaches, back pain, colitis pain, constipation, heartburn and hiatal hernia, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, high cholesterol, morning sickness, overweight problems and heart problems needing bypass surgery.
‘Ageing’ – one or more conditions?
“We age because we accumulate acidic waste products” according to Sang Whang, author of ‘Reverse Aging’.
There are a number of theories about the causes of ageing. One theory holds that ageing is based on genetics determining the number of times cells can regenerate, or new cells replacing old cells, if you like. When that number of exchanges has occurred, you age and ultimately die. Another theory postulates that the cause lies with a breakdown of glucose, blood sugar. However, none of the many theories do anything to stop, hinder or slow down the ageing process, and none leads to better health.
Until science, medical and natural healing expertise in America, Europe and in Asia looked closely at the developing theory of ageing and degenerative diseases being caused by the accumulation of acidic waste products in the body. The validity of this newer theory is gaining solid ground.
We mentioned above that processed and fried food, soft drinks or refined sugars as well as meat and dairy products are part of acidic diets, and that they contribute heavily to the build up of acid salts in the body. These are stored away from blood flow and can accumulate in the body. Physical and mental stress can also increase the creation of acid deposits in the body. Acid salts thus stored in the body can over the years become a burden to our body system and a potential danger to health. For that reason ways must be found to rid the body of acid wastes.
Fortunately, there is an Answer!
For many decades, doctors in Japan have been researching and testing the effects of an alkaline body condition, which lead them to believe that many degenerative diseases can be treated by alkalizing the bloodstream. Now one simple and effective way to achieve a balanced body pH is the daily intake of alkaline water.
Medical researchers have been looking for medicines to cure every kind of disease including degenerative diseases, but none of the drugs used reduces the acidity of the body. In fact, most drugs are acidic and may have severe side effects.
Since too much acid in our body can cause the degenerative diseases, then, according to the Japanese, unless the treatment actually removes acidity from the body, the ‘cure’ at best will only be temporary. Even if the medicines were successful in moving acid from the affected area, the acid would go to some other place in the body to create side effects there, so any treatment requires complete disposal of acids from our body. For this reason, today’s medical ‘science’ rates rather poorly when it comes to the cure or reversal of degenerative diseases.
Even under the best conditions, a diet of largely fresh alkaline foods and regular exercise, acidic wastes still build up in our bodies because of air pollution, processed foods, pesticides and too much stress adding to the toxic waste burden our systems struggle to eliminate from the body.
Is it worth trying alkaline water?
By now, you would have concluded that alkaline water is not magic water or a medication. It is simply alkaline water acting as a buffer to the acidic conditions of the body, and that acidosis condition of the body is creating a platform for degenerative diseases. Therefore, it makes sense to drink alkaline water on a daily basis. After all, it does not necessarily cost more than your normal bottle water, and we are supposed to drink 6 to 8 glasses of water to assist in maintaining good health. Your health is your responsibility and the water you choose to drink is your choice.
The complete answer and most economical method is to make your own distilled water with a home distiller and add
SH2OT Concentrate at the prescribed rate to your distilled water. This will ensure that you receive the required trace element and minerals including calcium-ions plus the very important Magnesium Bicarbonate [to help absorption of calcium and is the 3rd most important element in our bodies].
SH2OT is alkaline and has been ionized to provide an abundant supply of anti-oxidants. It is also ‘micronized’, meaning that the molecular clusters have become smaller and uniform to achieve fast penetration of cells for neutralizing acidic build-up.
If you would like to read more about
SH2OT Concentrate please check the Special Information menu.
And there is still more information in the full article about alkaline water and cancer causes, high blood pressure, diabetes, atherosclerosis, heart diseases, kidney disease, osteoporosis and a list of references. Go to the importance of Water.
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