What Your Body Needs: Water

Water, carbs, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals. That is how you grow a healthy body.

70% of the Earth's surface is covered in water. 70% of your body is made up of water. Your body extracts water from the fruits and vegetables you consume. When you drink water your stomach processes the unnecessary chemicals (if any) and then speeds the liquid to your kidneys, intestines, and tissues. Your kidneys use water as a much-needed cleanser adding dead unnecessary leftover food to the water and releasing it in the form of urine. Your intestines add fiber to the water and flush leftovers and toxins from your intestines in the form of feces. Your tissues use water to hydrate the skin, oxygenate the muscles and create electrical currents for communication among the cells.

This is a highly unscientific way to describe the use of water by your body but it is important that you get a visual as to the importance of water to your system.

"Water. It's everywhere, from your blood to your
lymph and present in every cell. When the fluids of your body are properly
alkalized and ionized, the process of eliminating your daily waste load happens
naturally. The right water is the foundation for your lymph system, your
liver, your kidneys and your colon to do their jobs."
www.phionbalance.com

Distilled Water. Pure H2O has no minerals, no ions, no electrolytes, no impurities, no chemicals...no nothing! The best type of water to buy in order to mirror the attributes of pure H2O is distilled water. It is available at Tom Thumb, 7-11 and Whole Foods: in other words, everywhere.

Tap Water. You may pride yourself on drinking only boutique water from bottles but remember, you shower in tap water, you cook with tap water and you wash your dishes in tap water. What is in tap water? Lots. Americans decided we needed chlorine to kill impurities and fluoride to strengthen teeth. We decided to add it to the city water supply in bulk. Your are ingesting chlorine when you shower, drink tap water, make iced tea at home with tap water or boil noodles in tap water.

Smart Water. I love Smart water because it is distilled water but contains electrolytes. Electrolytes speed the healing moisture of water to your cells. I can feel the difference. Remember, "365"brand at Whole Foods is a Smart Water product distributed under their in-house label.

Ozarka. Be careful with Spring waters. These are packaged by Coca Cola and Pepsi and can carry as much chlorine in them as tap water. Why is chlorine bad? Because it is a chemical meant to kill bacteria. Don't use water to kill bacteria in your body. Do that some other way.

De-hydration can cause lethargy, cravings, constipation, allergies, asthma, hypertension, heartburn, rheumatoid joint pain, back pain, migraine headaches, and even obesity, depression and autoimmune disease. Do not underestimate your need for water.

Take your weight (120 lbs), divide by 2 (60), and drink that amount in ounces of water (60 oz of distilled water) per day.

Coffee, iced tea, soda pop, starbucks, smoothies, Jamba Juice and any other liquid do not qualify as water. I repeat, if you have not drunk a glass of water, you have not had any water today, capiche?

"There is a medical breakthrough that is not reaching
the public through our medical schools or health-maintenance
organizations: the discovery that chronic unintentional dehydration is the
primary cause of pain and disease in the human body, including cancer. The
reason these traditionally trusted institutions do not celebrate this scientific
discovery and refuse to use it to help the sick and the uninsured poor in our
society is obvious. There would be no money in it for them.

What we in medicine did not realize until very recently
is the fact that the human body can become short of water inside its cells even
when water is available, plentiful, and virtually free. Imagine, more than
one hundred years of serious scientific research has been conducted on the solid
composition of the body - obviously and totally oblivious to the vast
complications that ensue when the body is dehydrated; when its plum-like and
juicy cells become transformed into prune-like and drying cells because of
insufficient water, or due to the additionally dehydrating beverages that are on
the market now.

When the gradually dehydrating body begins to
malfunction and manifest its water shortage, we label these symptoms and signs
of the body's regional and local drought as diseases or syndromes of unknown
origin (diseases of unknown etiology). And since the discovery of DNA
structure, we now blame genes for a patient's health problems - obviously not
realizing that when any cell begins to dry up and get damaged from inside, the
nucleus in that cell, and its DNA structure, are not exempt from the
process."
Water Cures: Drugs Kill
Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.

Water can be a miracle cure. Always drink 12 oz of distilled water at 3pm on an empty stomach for an energy boost. You will be surprised at the effectiveness of this afternoon pick-me-up over the conventional sugar snacks and drinks. If your child comes home from school with upper respiratory stuffiness or congestion, sit them at the kitchen table with 12 oz of distilled water, preferably Smart Water. Tell them they can't get up until it is gone. It will take them forever! Sit and chat with them, kiss their little faces, ask them silly questions, play cards. But watch how hydration serves to break up the mucous in their head. If the child has been on a disciplined diet restricting sugar and preservative intake, the stuffiness can be cleared with just this one exercise.