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First,
how much water is ideal to drink? According to the US Government,
everyone is the same and we all need 6-8 glasses a day. Well,
guess what? Everyone is different. We all need different amounts.
As a general guideline, we should drink one quart (32 ounces,
four cups, or .9 liters) of water for every 50 pounds of bodyweight.
A 150-lb person needs three quarts of water a day.
Many
people cannot imagine how they can drink that much water, because
most people do not think of this option: Quit drinking the other
fluids you are drinking. I promise you, if you drink only water,
you will easily, probably without any effort, drink that amount
of water. If you want to keep drinking all the other fluids you
normally drink, yes, it will require more effort and you will
have to go to the bathroom more. But if you give up the other
fluids, it will save you money, because water is much cheaper
than any other drink. This is for when you first begin drinking
water. You need more to catch up, to bring your body back to a
place where it does not need as much water. When you actually
become hydrated and less toxic, you need less and less water to
do everything that needs to be done in your body.
The
quality of the water you drink is just as important as quantity.
So what counts as water? Water. That is it. The only thing that
counts as water to your body is water. If you put lemon, or lime,
or tea, or minerals, or electrolytes, or sugar, or colorings and
flavorings, or anything else in the water, it does not count as
water. Your body does not utilize it the same as it would pure
water, and here is why:
These
next couple of paragraphs are technical, and are only essential
to prove that the only thing that counts as water is water. You
do not need to know or memorize this as long as you just drink
plain water. Here it is:
There
is a process in nature called osmosis. It is when the water moves
across a membrane to balance out the osmotic pressure. Simply
put, it means that water moves all by itself to the area with
the least amount of anything else in it. For example, take a container
of water and put a filter or membrane down the middle of the container.
This membrane only lets water through, not salt. You then pour
salt into only one side of the container and let it set. After
a while, something interesting will happen. You will end up with
a water level that is higher on the side containing the salt.
Water will actually move up against gravity, and be higher on
the side you put the salt into. This is because there was a higher
concentration of "stuff," in this case salt, on one side, and
the water moved to that side. This movement of water from a low
concentration of stuff to a high concentration is called osmosis.
It is a natural process that happens automatically. The greater
the difference in concentration, the faster and more easily the
water moves.
When
you drink plain, pure water, the water goes into the inside of
your intestines. Your blood is mostly water with stuff dissolved
in it on the outside of your intestines. The intestinal wall acts
like that membrane. It will let water through, but not the stuff
in the blood. So the water you drank, automatically, through osmosis,
goes into your bloodstream. The concentration of stuff in the
blood is more than the concentration of stuff in the water you
drank, so the water moves across the intestinal wall, and you
absorb the water.
Now,
guess what happens when you put stuff in the water you drink?
The concentration of the stuff in the water goes up, and the water
doesn't move across the intestinal wall as easily. Now the body
has to actively absorb the water. And in the process of doing
this, the water is used up, so to actively absorb water takes
more water, and your net effect of absorbed water is not very
much.
So,
yes, technically you do get water from sources where the water
has stuff in it. But the amount you get is far less than if you
drink just plain water. To give you an idea, if you drink tea
or soda, you will need to drink almost four times as much in order
to get the same amount of usable water into your blood. I don't
know about you, but I don't want to drink four gallons of liquid
a day. My recommendation is, stick to good old-fashioned plain,
pure water.
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What
is the Best Water?
There
is a debate in the health care community about which water is
best. People will usually recommend one of two types of water,
reverse osmosis or distilled water.
RO
water is sent through a series of filters, and what you end up
with is pure water with nothing in it or added. Distilled water
has been boiled, and the steam condensed back into water. The
pros and cons of each: RO machines take the minerals out of the
water, minerals your body needs that are naturally found in water.
But the question is, how much? How much of these minerals would
you actually absorb and use if they were left in the water?
First,
the minerals found in water are in ionic form, which just means
they are little positive-charged molecules. Your digestive tract
is positively charged also. Everyone who has played with magnets
knows, like repels like. The same sides of the magnets repel each
other. The positively charged ions and your positively charged
intestines mean that the minerals are repelled from the lining
of your digestive tract. And, to be absorbed, they have to not
only come near the lining, but pass across it. This means you
will not absorb most of the minerals in water, even if they are
there. The amount of minerals you would actually absorb from non-reverse
osmosis water is really small. In comparison to the amount of
minerals you absorb on a daily basis, the amount is insignificant.
As of now, there is no machine I know of that takes out all the
chemicals and leaves in the minerals.
Distilled
water takes out some toxins, and leaves in most minerals, but
is really bad water to drink, for a couple reasons. It is dead
water, and it is toxic water. First, dead water. Water is more
than H2O. Water is two atoms of hydrogen (H), one of oxygen (O)
and energy. This energy is vitally important. Distillation removes
a lot of this energy. What you are left with is dead water that
the body cannot easily utilize. In Europe and many parts of the
world, the idea of drinking distilled water is crazy. The simplest
way to show you why is to do an experiment. Water your plants
with only distilled water. See what happens to them. See how long
they live. The distilled water kills your plants, because the
water is dead.
Second,
distilled water is toxic. Here is how the distillation process
works: The water is boiled; the steam that evaporates is then
condensed into distilled water. In the average water supply in
America, there are over 250 known chemicals poisonous to humans.
On average, about 100 of these chemicals boil at a temperature
lower than water. This means the chemicals boil up into steam,
and then they are condensed along with the water. The resulting
distilled water has all the chemicals that boiled at a temperature
lower than water. So my general recommendation is RO water.
Listen
to your inner knowing. It may tell you to drink some other type
because, bottom line, everyone is different. There are different
filters, and different sources of bottled water, different this
and that, etc. Listen to your inner knowing and what it tells
you to drink. And remember, this might change over time. You can
buy filtration units to make RO water from your tap water at home,
or you can fill up your own containers at most grocery stores.
You
can also buy RO water on the run. Aquafina and Dasani are the
products that Pepsi and Coke put out. They are reverse osmosis
water. There are others; just read the label. If it is RO water,
it will say so. In fact, as a funny side note, Aquafina and Dasani
use the same water they start with to make RO water, then put
additives, flavorings, sugar and other products in it to make
soda. They sell the water with less time and stuff put into it,
usually in the same containers they sell soda in, for twice the
price of soda. Remember, do not buy water with artificial stuff
added. If you do, the body does not get as much usable water from
the same amount of water. Drink fresh and pure water, just like
your food, fresh and pure.
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Why
Drink Water?
Now
that you know where to get good water, why drink water? Here is
my favorite, easiest explanation of why. Electricity travels over
water. Water is the main way that nerve impulses, which control
your entire being, travel over the water in your nerves. Without
water to do this, your body cannot control and regulate itself
correctly, leaving you with less than optimum bazuji, healing
capacity and well being. Ok, actually it is not the water, but
the stuff in the water that conducts electricity. But without
the water, there is no place for the "stuff in the water" to conduct
the electricity, so it's same principle.
How
do you drink water? Room temperature, cold, gulping sipping? Whatever
way you want to drink it. Everyone is different. Listen to your
inner knowing and it will tell you how to drink your water. You
will have a preference of one way over another, and that is probably
your inner knowing telling you what to do.
The
website for Dr. B, the guy who wrote the book I mentioned above,
is www.watercure.com. Some of the things Dr. B says that drinking
water has helped the body heal are: stomach pain, ulcers, hiatal
hernia, false appendix pain, rheumatoid arthritis pain, low back
and neck pain, angina (heart pain), stress and depression, high
and low blood pressure, high cholesterol, overweight, asthma,
allergies, diabetes, sleeping problems, anxiety, mood swings,
bad eyesight, memory loss, poor clarity of thought, and nervousness,
just to name a few. Wouldn't it make sense that if you drink water
and the body healed these conditions, then by drinking water it
could also prevent some of these from happening, and more?
Some
people report that they are not able to drink water, the water
going right through them, they don't like the taste of water,
or they feel bloated when they drink a lot of water. When you
add enough health to your level of bazuji, these symptoms, just
like any other symptom, will go away. Be someone who is bazuji,
and do what it takes to add to your level of bazuji. What about
the myth that drinking too much water is bad for you? What a joke!
My question is, how much is too much? Most of the cases of people
dying from drinking too much water I could find involved athletes
competing in extreme events, or hazing rituals on campuses. I
could not find one case of someone drinking water as you or I
would and dying from it. Not one.
Our
bodies are 70% water. It should be no surprise to anyone that
you need water to function. Everything in your body needs water
in some way or another in order to function. So enjoy. Drink pure
water with nothing added. RO is usually best, but listen to your
inner knowing. After you are hydrated and bazuji, half your bodyweight
in ounces is a good amount of water to drink. Adjust to your needs
accordingly using your inner knowing.
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