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What type of water is the best?
We are frequently asked this question, and we know it can be confusing. Well, let us take you through the options one step at a time and you may then decide for yourself what type of water you feel is the best for you. There are many sources of information – some would say too many - to get your information from, and each one may give you a different perspective, a different set of claims for a product. We have been inundated with correspondence and enquiries about which type of water is or should be the preferred water to drink, and why one might be better than another might. Let us look at some of the claims made for these treated water supplies, and more importantly how water affects your body. Water filter units: Water Distillers: Spring and Spa Waters: Firstly we must recognize that water sustains all forms of life. In fact,
as humans our bodies are 70-80% water. All body fluids are water based. 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. Filters must be replaced regularly to give the offered protection. The promoters of spring waters say that minerals are good
for your body. Yes, 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 water in this category is acidic. One Dr. Zoltan Rona wrote an article in which he wants you to believe that because distilled water is so pure; 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. "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 ." You will find that those companies that sell rival products to the water distiller are all quoting from the same person Zoltan Rona. However you will find that there are dozens of other professionals who disagree with Zoltan Rona's views and I quote some of them here: “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 who is the author of eight books. He is a 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 nor 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." "Distilled water is the only water which is pure - the only water free from all impurities." "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." "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." "We believe that only steam-distilled water should be consumed." "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." "Distilled water is the world's best and purest water!" " Far and away the cleanest water is produced by the new home distillers." Dave Ellis Director of Performance Nutrition at the University of Nebraska Athletic Department Does that mean that distilled water is the best water for drinking? Let’s just look at 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. So consumption of cola, carbonated drinks, alcohol, coffee, or smoking, as
well as ingesting sugar and fats, all rob 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. Another one is loss of calcium We need to drink enough water (the 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 Common
causes of degenerative (adult) diseases ‘Ageing’ - one or more conditions? That was 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 acid waste products in the body. The validity of this newer theory is gaining solid ground. In the Monaro region of the Australia Snowy Mountains, farmers had known for years about the longevity of cattle and sheep (2). The government-run Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation had been researching for 35 years why some animals lived twice as long, and most lived at least 30% longer. It produced long-lived stock. Farms next door to each other produced completely different results. Some had long-lived livestock while on the adjoining property lifespan were normal. This meant the farms on the very edge of the lava flow were on a mixture of basalt and underlying granite. The rest of the farms were either granite or basalt. It was the seven farms that coincided exactly with the seven farms that produced long-lived stock. Nature's freak accident, the right mix of minerals, had produced the natural conditions of the spring water, with its rich natural mix of magnesium bicarbonate which was the agent that has been trial by the Japanese and the Koreans to attack carbon dioxide and ageing. And it had already been created by nature. It was the water. So the old folk of the Monaro who for three generations had insisted there was something in the water only to be laughed at by outsiders, were proved right: there WAS something in the spring water, increasing the life of their farm animals We have already established that processed food like fried foods, soft drinks or refined sugars as well as meat, 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. 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 medicine to cure every kind of disease including degenerative diseases. None of these drugs reduces the acidity of the body. In fact, most drugs are acidic. Since too much acid in our body causes these degenerative diseases, then according to the Japanese, unless the treatment actually removes acids from the body, the ‘cure’ at best will only be temporary. Even if the medicine 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 a treatment would require 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. Growth of Cancer Cells Dr. Sheldon Saul Hendler an American doctor is one of the very few who is advocating oxygen deficiency as the cause of many illnesses as explained in his book, “The Oxygen Breakthrough, 30 Days to an Illness-Free Life”. Ever since Warburg’s discovery, researchers all over the world have been attempting to stop the fermentation process through drugs, radiation and surgery, in some instances with limited and temporary success. At the same time, the Germans were trying to find ways of getting more oxygen to all of the cells. This they believe would prevent the initiation of the fermentation. “The Secret of Life is both to feed and nourish the cells and let them flush their waste and toxins”, according to Dr. Alexis Carrell, Nobel Prize recipient, 1912, and "If our internal environment was changed from an acidic oxygen deprived environment to an alkaline environment full of oxygen, viruses, bacteria and fungus cannot live." Dr. Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize recipient, 1931 & 1944. The True Cause of Cancer Herman Aihara, in his book “Acid & Alkaline”, wrote: Dr. Warburg states that the primary cause of cancer is the lack of oxygen in a cell. He didn’t say what caused the lack of oxygen. Mr. Aihara talks about the acidification of extra cellular fluids that causes cancer. Dr. Warburg was addressing the symptom and problems leading to acid build-ups rather than the cause. For this reason, Dr. Warburg’s solution is to supply more oxygen, while Mr. Aihara’s solution is to reduce the acidity, the very cause of degenerative diseases, and concludes that to reverse degenerative diseases the drinking of water with high alkaline pH can de-acidify the body and help prevent cancer and other degenerative diseases.
You may recall that the pH number is an exponent number of 10; therefore, a small difference in pH translates to a big difference in the number of oxygen or OH-ions. A difference of 1 in a pH value means ten times the difference in the number of OH-ions, a difference of 2 means one hundred times the difference in the number of OH-ions. In other words, blood with a pH value of 7.45 contains close to 65% more oxygen than blood with a pH value of 7.30. Consider that in light of Dr. Warburg's research: ‘EVERY TIME HE LOWERED THE OXYGEN LEVEL IN A HEALTHY CELL IT BECAME CANCEROUS.’ You can raise your pH and oxygen level naturally. What is important to remember is that because of our poor life styles, we gradually store large amounts of waste products with acidic properties or toxins throughout our body, slowly causing acidification and problems. Another important thing to remember is that acid coagulates blood that in turn causes poor blood circulation around the places where acids accumulate. Hence, this can cause some organs to act sluggish and then we start to see the indicative signs of aging and disease. Something About Alkaline Therapies Of the two kinds of oxygen, one is in a dynamic form, O2, and the other is in the stable bias form of OH- matched with positively ionized alkaline minerals. The body needs both kinds of oxygen. If you hold your breath, O2 is cut off and you die. If your body pH goes down below 7, OH- is cut off and you would likewise die. When breathing stops, first O2 is used up, and then the body will use up the OH- secondly, after which death will occur. That takes about three minutes. People with high alkalinity, like babies, would survive a wee bit longer. Something About Orthodox Medical Therapies Surgery for a malignant tumor is perhaps more selective. However, even after ‘successful’ surgery where ‘all’ of the tumors were removed, they can all too easily recur because the acidic environment has not been changed to an alkaline one. It is discouraging to see that cancer research is divided into specialties such as cancer of the liver, cervical cancer, cancer of the colon, cancer of the pancreas, and the list seems never ending. The cause of all cancer is a lack of oxygen caused by acidification. When so many medical researchers are specializing in narrow specialty cancer research then finding the magic bullet/pill to cure the cancer is likely to be a never-ending story. They will be forever lost in a maze. Why is there no cancer of the Heart? Cancer is not compatible with a healthy pH environment full of oxygen. Note that primary cancer of the heart does not exist. Why? Because blood flowing from the lungs into the heart is at its highest pH and highest oxygen level than found anywhere else in the entire body. As blood travels through the lungs, acidic toxins are removed from the system, and oxygen drawn in. Cancer of the heart exists as a secondary condition only. As Dr Wolfe says: ‘The acid/alkaline theory is going to be the foundational health decision of people in the next five years. We now have the opportunity to permanently change 75% of our body from an acidic liability and breeding ground for germs, to a natural alkaline state; a state we are designed to live in before we polluted our planet and our bodies’. Cancer Prevention The Transport System Acidification of the body starts in the blood. The blood performs a balancing act in order to maintain the blood pH within the safe range of 7.3 to 7.45. The blood has a buffer pool of sodium bicarbonate to neutralize strong acid compounds coming out of the cells as waste products of the metabolism. When this buffer level is too low, acidosis is developed. High Blood
Pressure, Heart Disease and Atherosclerosis High Blood Pressure and Acidosis There are several probable explanations for this observable fact. Since the higher pH blood contains excess oxygen, the heart does not have to work as hard. Another factor may be that the viscosity of the higher pH blood is low so that the heart does not need to pump as hard. A further reason may be that the calcium ions in alkaline water may be dissolving plaque and cholesterol build-up in the artery walls, thus opening up the passage allowing blood to flow more easily. If you take several deep breaths right before the blood pressure measurement, you can get a lower reading. What you have achieved is to temporarily elevate the pH of the blood by breathing out more CO2 and by breathing in more O2. If you can lower your blood pressure by using this exercise, your high blood pressure may be caused by the one or both of the first two causes listed earlier, and you should be able to lower your blood pressure within a few months of drinking alkaline water. The above example is the case where your blood pressure fluctuates between high and low. However, if your blood pressure is always high, chances are that your arteries are getting narrow (atherosclerosis) and it will take a long time, possibly a few years, for that blood pressure to come down by means of alkaline water. It takes time to dissolve plaque and cholesterol build-up but eventually it will work. This slow process has no side effects. It lowers the blood pressure by eliminating the very causes of the high blood pressure. Blood Pressure and Smoking The peculiar part of her problem was that at the end of a hectic day at the office, she would be sure of the high pressure, but her blood pressure measured normal. However, during the weekend when she had been relaxing at home, watching TV and reading books, her blood pressure measured alarmingly high, so high that the nurse had to call the doctor in. As she was telling him this story, he observed that she smoked. So he told her that the fact that her blood pressure went up and down indicated to him that her problem may be caused by the oxygen level in her blood going up and down. Then he told her that her smoking would lower the oxygen level in her blood. She looked at him with wide eyes and said: “You know, Sang? We are not allowed to smoke in our office!” Her definition of relaxing at home meant smoking and watching TV, etc. He told her that she didn’t have a blood pressure problem, but that she had a smoking problem. She said that she would have to work on that.’ Blood Pressure and Sugar Sugar grabs oxygen with the highest priority. Mr. Gregory Grosbard of Miami, USA received a U.S. patent on improving plastic strength by using sugar. Each time plastic material goes though a heat cycle it loses strength, because oxygen in the atmosphere goes into the material under heat, creating oxygen “holes”. As Mr. Grosbard mixed a small amount of sugar into the plastic material during the heat cycle, the sugar grabbed the oxygen first, making the plastic stronger. Kidney
Disease Diabetes In this form of diabetes mellitus, which usually affects people over 40, the insulin is inadequate for your body’s needs. People who have this form of the disorder usually eat too much and are overweight. Their over-eating causes an excess of glucose to their blood, and the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to cope with it. Heredity is also an important factor. In nearly a third of all cases, there is family history of the predicament. Age is also a factor, because the efficiency of your pancreas decreases with age. Dr. Keijiro Kuwabara of Japan has been clinically treating diabetes quite successfully by the use of alkaline water. He reports that a 49-year-old company employee was diagnosed by the company physician as having a case of insulin-independent diabetes mellitus. After only one month’s use of alkaline water, the sugar count came down to virtually an undetectable level, from 300mg/dl one month previously. The pancreas produces very high pH body fluids, pancreatic juice, with its pH value of about 8.8. A shortage of calcium ions in the body impairs the production and the release of the insulin hormone. This in due course leads to an acidic blood condition. Congested blood vessels caused by excess protein build up also impairs pancreatic function. Alkaline water, by supplying calcium in an ionized form and by helping prevent excess protein build up, can prevent and help reverse this condition. As we age or putting it another way “as we accumulate acidic waste products”, the efficiency of our pancreas decreases. Apparently, we accumulate acidic waste products around the pancreas, men more so than women do. Men initially begin to build up fatty acids around the waist. Heredity here may mean that somehow in that particular family, there is a tendency to accumulate waste products at or near the pancreas first. Until we reach the age of around 40, the amount of acid accumulation is insufficient to slow down the functions of the pancreas. If we prevent wastes from accumulating by means of alkaline water, we may not get diabetes even if we reach say 70 or 80 years old. Heredity here may not have to be related to chronological age. The alkaline water treatment will not apply to diabetes of different causes such as a damaged pancreas, etc. Osteoporosis: Every Woman’s
Nightmare Dr Wolfe says that when we are talking about cancer of the breast, of the ovaries, or liver, or cancer anywhere in the body, these are areas already in the grip of severe acidosis. How Alkaline Water can be of assistance to better health 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. “We age because we accumulate acidic waste products.”
– Sang Whang There are two popular means by which one can obtain alkaline drinking water. One way is to buy the alkaline water making units that has a price range of $1,350 to $1,900 and they are manufactured in Japan or Korea. The only trouble with these types of units is that they use tap water to make the alkaline water. Even though they have a filter in the unit, the filter does not take away the TDS (Total Dissolved Solids, which are mainly heavy metals) and continuous taking of TDS is not the best way to a speedy healthy recovery. A better way to obtain alkaline drinking water is simply buy the ready to drink alkaline water with very little or no heavy metals in the water. 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 we have learnt that acidosis condition of the body is creating a platform for degenerative diseases. Therefore, it makes sense to drink it on a daily basis. After all, it does not cost more than your normal bottle water and according to the experts, 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. References: |
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