Water
In nature, there is no miracle cure that can heal all diseases, yet if one had to be named, quality water would come closest. We know very little about water, but water is the cradle of life. Quality water is one of the guarantees of our good health. The cells of the human body live in intercellular fluid (an adult has about 50 liters), which is in constant motion. From this fluid, cells select their nutrients, obtain oxygen, and expel metabolic waste products, which are then transported through lymphatic drainage channels to the intestines and expelled from the body. The faster this process occurs, the quicker the body rids itself of waste. For cells to be healthy and protected from diseases, the expulsion of waste is even more important than intake because every cell (there are 100 trillion living cells in the body) needs to eat, work, and expel waste, which can only be done with water. At birth, a child's weight is more than 90% water. For an adult, it's 75%, and for an elderly person, only 65%. Over the years, we "dry out" much like a grape becomes a raisin. Therefore, to delay the aging process, we must drink water. If quality drinking water is not consumed, it will not be possible to improve health with other means.
Why should we drink water?
For every kilogram of weight, a person following a traditional modern diet should drink 30-35 ml of water daily. If not, the blood will thicken, and kidney function, or the amount of urine expelled, will decrease. As the amount of water decreases, blood thickens, increasing the rate of respiration, arterial blood pressure, the amount of bilirubin, and the level of hemoglobin in the blood. This indicates hypoxia in the cells. Meanwhile, a decrease in the amount of urine expelled shifts the pH towards the acidic side, disrupts liver function, and may increase temperature, sugar levels, bilirubin, and leukocyte count. This, in turn, indicates intoxication. With both hypoxia and intoxication worsening simultaneously, death can occur.
What happens if the body lacks water?
💧1%: If your body has lost such an amount of water, thirst begins. For example, if a person weighs 100 kg, it can be calculated that 0.7 liters of water have been lost, as a person is made up of 70% water.
💧2%: Appetite decreases, anxiety sets in, and work performance drops.
💧4%: Nausea, fatigue, headaches, and emotional instability occur.
💧6%: Coordination and speech disturbances.
💧10%: Thermoregulation is disrupted, and cells die.
💧11%: Drinking water doesn't help, and the body's chemical balance is disturbed. Professional medical help is needed.
💧20%: Death can occur.
Knowing your weight, everyone can calculate their lost amount of water.
About the importance of water
Unfortunately, modern medicine pays very little attention to this factor. No analysis in diagnostic centers determines the degree of dehydration (dehydration) of the body.
When a person loses water, its deficit is distributed as follows. Firstly, the interior of cells suffers - moisture within the cell decreases. This accounts for 60% of the total water deficit in the body. 22% of the water deficit is related to the intercellular fluid, and only 8% to blood plasma. Our blood provides homeostasis - the body's ability to actively adapt to various conditions, maintaining practically constant vital indicators. As the amount of water in the blood decreases, performing these functions becomes difficult. Various symptoms appear, such as increased blood pressure, dry mouth, a desire to drink water while eating, intoxication, excess weight, etc. This indicates a pronounced lack of water in cells and tissues throughout the body. Unfortunately, this deficit cannot be remedied by drinking water. Even drinking water regularly for a week won't work. It's a long process and takes about almost a year to balance water throughout the body.
Water is the basic condition of life!
💚 Water ensures the transportation of all substances in the body.
💚 Water helps to expel metabolic by-products from oxidation processes, the ‘acidic’ side effects, from the body.
💚 Without water, breathing is not possible.
💚 Water is necessary for the production of all kinds of hormones.
💚 Helps relieve fatigue and restores sleep (water is necessary for the production of the sleep hormone melatonin).
💚 It is the best and most effective remedy for constipation.
💚 Water is the best toning drink because it has no side effects.
💚 Adequate amounts of water in the body make the skin smoother and slow down aging.
💚 Water acts as a solvent for many nutrients, as well as maintains metabolic and assimilation processes.
💚 One of the basic conditions for immune system efficiency is enough water.
💚 Can help reduce stress, depression, and anxiety.
💚 Water helps avoid diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, as well as memory disorders in old age.
💚 Water is one of the preventive measures against glaucoma.
💚 Dehydration in the body promotes the formation of toxic deposits in the body, but water promotes their expulsion.
💚 A water deficit in the body rapidly reduces the formation of sex hormones and is one of the main causes of impotence.
💚 It is the most effective weight loss tool. If you drink enough water, you won't eat when you want to drink, but only when you are truly hungry.
💚 The use of water helps distinguish thirst from hunger.
💚 It thins the blood, protects the heart and other arterial blood vessels from blockages, and helps avoid heart attacks and strokes.
💚 Water normalizes the function of the blood-forming system in the bone marrow.
💚 Improves human work performance, including concentration.
💚 Water protects DNA from damage.
💚 Water improves the ability of red blood cells to absorb oxygen in the lungs.
💚 Water helps to expel toxins from various parts of the body, transporting them to the liver and kidneys for further expulsion from the body.
💚 Helps get rid of harmful habits: alcohol consumption, smoking, coffee drinking, etc.
💚 In the spinal intervertebral discs, water forms cushioning water pads (nucleus pulposus).
Water is the main lubricant in joint spaces, helping to prevent arthritis.
💚 Water is the main element in the body's thermoregulation.
What is ORP (Oxidation Reduction Potential)?
Oxidation and reduction are interrelated processes. If one substance oxidizes, another inevitably reduces. If a substance gives away (loses) its electrons, it becomes positively charged – meaning it oxidizes. Conversely, if a substance gains (adds to itself) electrons and becomes negatively charged – it reduces. The electrical potential difference between substances is also ORP, and it is measured in millivolts.
What kind of water is best to drink?
Water should have a high dissolved molecular hydrogen content, with free electrons, meaning it has a negative ORP and low surface tension. Such water with a negative ORP is a powerful antioxidant containing free electrons. These are donated to damaged cells, which have had an electron taken away by free radicals, allowing these cells to live out their allotted time. As a result, incorrect cell division and errors that may arise are prevented. Accumulation of errors in cells is a cause of rapid aging and the development of oncology. Water with the aforementioned properties is one of the trump cards of centenarians.
Drink water that is similar to that in our cells. The water ingested will stay in the stomach and intestines until it becomes alkaline, that is, negatively charged. The intercellular fluid is alkaline, the cell's internal fluid is more acidic, and ions from a more alkaline solution need to move to a less alkaline solution in the cells. This requires cellular energy. For water to become alkaline, the body saturates it with its minerals magnesium, calcium, sodium, and potassium because while water is acidic, not a single drop of ingested water can reach the intercellular fluid until it becomes alkaline. The intercellular fluid is negatively charged (about -100 mV). Positively charged water (tap water +250 mV) cannot enter the cell until it becomes negatively charged at least -50 mV. ‘Living’ water is possible when the hydrogen pH indicator is above 7.0, and ORP is with a minus sign. When ‘dead’ water enters the body, the body revitalizes it using its oxygen, giving its electrical charge, minerals, and warmth. Only then can water reach the intercellular fluid.
For example, with the help of baking soda, it's quick to make water alkaline, but such water is ‘dead’ and has little benefit. It's also important that water is not hard because if there are many calcium carbonate and other inorganic minerals, fatty acids dissolve poorly. In an acidic environment, when calcium carbonate mixes with fats, it deposits on the walls of blood vessels. Kidney stones form in the kidneys. Cells need neither hard water nor highly mineralized water. Soft and minimally mineralized water is required. Minerals should be of organic origin, not from rocks, that is, in inorganic form. Only plants can convert inorganic minerals into organic or colloidal form, that is, in a form soluble in water.
Why is it not advisable to drink tap water?
Tap water often contains chlorine, which destroys our nerve cells and kills good bacteria, and also increases the risk of cancer. Chloroform, a carcin ogen, forms in chlorinated water. To reduce the amount of chlorine in tap water, it should be left to stand in an open container for 24 hours, periodically stirring it, as chlorine is a gas that evaporates. Water filters cannot remove gas. Boiling water does not eliminate chlorine but converts it into an insoluble compound that is still toxic to the body.
Tap water is also energetically contaminated. Studies show it accumulates information, for example, passing through home water pipes, it collects negative energy from the surroundings. Water, traveling a long and winding path through pipes (often near sewage pipes), becomes energetically contaminated; its structure is disrupted, or the bonds between molecules are broken, drastically reducing its ability to participate in metabolic reactions. Large water molecule clusters (clusters) cannot pass through cell membranes due to their size, so the body spends its energy to structure the water, and this ability decreases over the years. In a healthy body, only structured water is present in cells and tissues.
Why should you not drink boiled water?
Boiled water is dead water because it contains little oxygen, but without oxygen, there is no life. For example, if fish are placed in water that has been boiled, they cannot live. Boiling water starts to break down its crystalline lattice, calcium, and magnesium settle in sediments, which cells cannot use. Many might have noticed that over time, the inside of a kettle becomes covered with hard-to-remove deposits. These are organic minerals in the water that have turned into insoluble inorganic minerals when the kettle is heated above +65°C. The human body can no longer use them; only plants can, converting them back into organic form, that is, into chelates.
Distilled Water
There's a belief that distilled water leaches minerals from the body. Yes, it does, but it should be added that these are inorganic minerals that neither animal nor human bodies can use. To utilize them, minerals must go through plants and be converted into the ionic or colloidal form. Distilled water never leaches organic minerals from the body but helps to expel only inorganic ones. If your diet is rich in organic minerals, there will never be a problem.
If water contains organic minerals, such as forest spring water, when surface minerals are washed into it, that's a bonus because it makes it easier to charge the water negatively. Only negatively charged water can be absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract because the inner lining of the intestines is positively charged. As known, cells do not have pumps; all metabolism occurs thanks to the difference in electrical charges – like charges repel, but different charges attract. The ideal option would be to structure and negatively charge the water with special devices before drinking. Then the body will not need to spend minerals and cell energy to structure and negatively charge the water.
Is it permissible to use mineral waters for a long time?
Daily, low-mineralized water should be used because minerals of rock origin deposit in the body. Mineral waters should be used only in the form of a therapeutic course.
Why should you not drink sweetened carbonated drinks?
Our blood always has an alkaline environment of pH 7.43. This is one of the most important indicators of the body's health. If this number decreases by 0.01, a person suffers from unrest, anxiety, insomnia, depression, and a craving for alcohol, drugs, nicotine. As it decreases further, the body becomes a favorable environment for parasites (fungi, bacteria, worms, viruses). As the level continues to decrease, we face many of today's popular diseases – fungal diseases, osteoporosis, cancer, etc. If it drops to pH 7.0, death can occur with a diagnosis, for example, of acute cardiovascular insufficiency. The first aid is usually the intravenous administration of physiological saline (0.9% NaCl).
Sweet carbonated drinks have a pH of about 2.5, so our pH will shift towards the acidic side when we drink them. To neutralize the acid and release the bound oxygen (in an acidic environment, oxygen is bound and therefore our cells have nothing to breathe), we need calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium. These are the main minerals for restoring the acid-base balance. And, if there is not enough of these microelements in the blood, the body will take them from teeth (caries), bones (osteoporosis), nails, and blood vessels (atherosclerosis). The brain is about 90% water. Such drinks do not reach there, only pure structured water does. Moreover, these drinks are added with colorants and flavor enhancers, sugar, or even artificial sweeteners. Drinking all this, a person resembles a walking filter.
Why is it not recommended to drink juices from tetra packs?
Most often, they are made from juice concentrate, diluting it with water. And it is naive to believe that you will get natural vitamins. In reality, you get chemically synthesized citric acid, sweeteners, chemical preservatives, stabilizers, synthetic colorants, etc. Why should we further increase the already huge toxic load? The body spends a lot of energy to convert and assimilate this ‘juice.’ Therefore, only freshly squeezed juices should be drunk.
How much water should be drunk during the day?
Experts recommend at least 1.5 liters of water a day. The amount of fluid needed daily can be calculated using the formula: 30 ml multiplied by your body weight. The amount of water to be drunk depends on our diet. If we consume meat, fish, eggs, a large amount of sweets, canned goods, then more water should be used because processing these products produces many different toxins, which can only be dissolved in water. If you eat a lot of vegetables and fruits, drink less.
When should you drink more?
💦 According to the intensity of physical exertion.
💦 Of course, drink more in hot weather because a lot of water is expelled with sweat. Drink more in cold weather too, as a lot of water evaporates while breathing.
💦 Drink well before a long flight. If you have heartburn, drink more water, the acid will not be so concentrated. If your urine smells unpleasant, it means it is very concentrated, drink more water. High urine concentration is also one of the causes of kidney stones (crystallized salts). Drink more when you have the flu and other virus-induced illnesses, as well as if you have diarrhea.
Do kidneys feel better if you drink a lot of water?
Kidneys love thin blood. They don't have to strain to retain water, then toxins are more expelled from the body. If you drink little, the body takes water from cells, and the risk of diseases increases because the sodium in the blood makes all cells give water to the blood. This signal is also received by osmo receptors located in the brain's hypothalamus, where the antidiuretic hormone ADH is produced, which causes the kidneys to retain water and reduce urine production. As a result, we begin to feel thirsty. If we drink enough water, osmoreceptors do not produce ADH, so the kidneys work at full capacity, and the person feels the need to urinate. To make the kidneys feel comfortable, it would be advisable to drink a little after each urination. Compote, tea, coffee, juice, lemonade, unlike pure water, are solutions. Therefore, for the body to obtain water, it must be purified. This is a time-consuming process that consumes a lot of biological resources.
When do you feel thirsty?
Thirst arises when the body has already lost almost 1% of its weight. This means if you weigh 70 kg and feel thirsty, you have already lost 700 ml of water. But do we drink that much? At best, one cup. As a result, we suffer from chronic water shortage. The brain cells are most sensitive to water shortage. The first sign of fluid deficiency is fatigue.
Tea and coffee are not water!
There's a mistaken belief that if you regularly consume tea and coffee, you can drink less. In reality, all this is food. Moreover, coffee promotes water loss but not assimilation. If herbal tea is properly brewed (poured with water up to +65°C), it enriches the body with minerals, but drinking coffee consumes the body's most important microelements: calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, which are used to neutralize lactic acid.
Is water a natural appetite suppressant?
Often, a feeling of hunger is the body signaling a lack of water. Since the body is made up of 70% water, this ratio should also be maintained when eating and drinking. The mistake is that we have gotten used to replacing water with calorie-rich foods – juice, tea, lemonade, kvass, alcohol, etc. The more we consume calorie-rich nutrition, the faster the body wears out.
Why should you not drink during meals?
Food that enters the stomach should only be moistened with saliva, not drowned in water. To swallow food faster, modern fast-paced people wash it down with water. This is a very bad habit. Food is not fully processed, neither by saliva nor by stomach enzymes, and fermentation and putrefaction processes begin in the intestines, resulting in the release of toxins such as indole and skatole. It is possible to drink, for example, juice or wine during meals. Water should be drunk 20 minutes before eating and 1.5 – 2 hours after eating.
Does drinking water provide more immediate energy?
Studies have shown that if an athlete drinks more than he wants, he drastically increases his endurance. Why? If the main task of food is to provide the body with energy, then the main carrier of it is water, in all chemical reactions that occur in the body, water is needed.
Brain cells use hydro energy the most. They use this energy to communicate with each other. When the body starts to lack water, thirst appears, water leaves the cells, and energy is not produced. Therefore, a glass of water, after two minutes, frees us from apathy and fatigue, but eating a piece of chocolate or bread, we will receive energy after a longer time. Food does not give quick and tonic effects, but water with appropriate physical and chemical properties does. If the brain cells mainly receive only food instead of water, it is a path to diseases.
What diseases threaten if you drink little water?
Here are some of them - excess weight, diabetes, hypertension, depression, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, tumors, cataracts. Drinking a sufficient amount of quality water reduces the possibility of heart attacks and strokes by 40%, reduces the risk of heart attack. Under conditions of water deficit, the body first reduces some of its functions, then proceeds to the dismantling of some structures; thus, with type 2 diabetes reducing insulin production, the body has no other alternative to solve this water shortage in the body.
Water reduces headaches. One of the causes of headaches is a lack of oxygen in the brain cells, but water is a carrier of oxygen. The second cause is an increase in the level of acids inside the body – it is one of the signs of dehydration. Drinking water dilutes acids, neutralizes them, and evacuates them.
Why should you be careful when using water filters?
In everyday life, filters with an absorbent – activated charcoal – are most often used. But it is important not to interrupt its use. If, for example, it is not used for a month, microorganisms multiply, and as a result, such filters further contaminate the water. In fact, if filters are not used, their service life ends faster than the instructions indicate.
Why is thawed water healthy?
Because the structure of just thawed water is similar to the structure of cell water, as freezing water disrupts its previous structure, water breaks down into small microclusters and is easily restructured. Moreover, when water is frozen, many impurities present in it settle out upon thawing.
Do not drink hot water
It is strictly forbidden to drink water with a temperature above +40°C. If you drink +60°C hot water, you will instantly destroy the cells of the esophagus and stomach that produce hydrochloric acid. The temperature of the tea should be such that the finger dipped into it does not have to be quickly pulled out. For this reason, some people suffer from gastritis with reduced gastric juice secretion. If there is no secretion, there is no digestion.
Physical and chemical properties of water
pH characterizes the energy and activity of hydrogen (the acidity or alkalinity of water), because the ‘acidic’ water you drink, the faster you age and the more you get sick. Remember that pH for carbonated sweetened drinks is approximately 3.0, for tap water – pH is 5.0 – 6.0, for carbonated mineral water pH is 5.5, but in blood, pH must be strictly constant at 7.43.
Oxidation Reduction Potential ORP characterizes how quickly oxidation processes occur in the body, similar to how rust consumes metal in nature. ORP indicates the number of electrons and the energetic potential of water, the higher this indicator, the faster the aging processes occur, and vital organs incompletely perform their functions. Converting such water consumes cell potential energy (each person is given a certain amount of cell energy from the cradle). Water with high ORP takes electrons from cells, thereby damaging them. ORP can be measured with a special ORP meter. Tap water has this number around +200 to +300 mV (millivolts). For example, in mother's milk, ORP is (minus) -70 mV, in the amniotic fluid where the child develops, it is minus -170 mV. Carbonated sweetened drinks have +400 mV and more. There are some places in the world where naturally occurring negatively charged water is found up to minus -700 mV. These are places where people are unfamiliar with today's most popular diseases and where there are many more centenarians. For example, it is the island of Okinawa in Japan, the Hunza valley in the north of Pakistan, and Vilcabamba in Ecuador (Vilcabamba Ecuador). Cells do not have any water pumps. Water exchange occurs based on the potential difference inside the cell and in the intercellular fluid. The more negative the ORP, the better the exchange occurs and the less cell membrane energy, or cell life energy, is spent to negatively charge the water. Cells do not get sick. Cells die when they run out of energy.
Water surface tension is the strength of the bond between water molecules, or, simply put, water is softer or harder. The higher this indicator, the more difficult the movement of nutrients and toxins through the cell membrane and intercellular fluid. Tap water has a surface tension of 73 dynes. In our body, it is 43 dynes. The lower the water surface tension, the less energy the body will have to spend to reduce it. Warm water has a lower indicator, so it better quenches thirst because it reaches the cells faster. But, for example, alcohol is absorbed already in the mouth and stomach because its surface tension is lower than that of the intercellular fluid. The more accessible softer water is to you, the better, but there are also special additives available to reduce water surface tension.
About water structure
Serious studies on water have been conducted by Japanese scientists, and it has been concluded - in nature, water molecules are arranged in a symmetrical pattern, resembling snowflakes. Such water is alive, but negative emotions energy, harsh noises, chemical compounds disrupt this molecular ornament and turn it into chaos. In plant cells, there is always structured water, as well as in melted snow, ice, and spring water. Spring water brought home does not change its structure for at least two weeks. Water's crystalline lattice is restored by classical music (for example, Vivaldi, Bach), prayer, and words spoken with love. To structure tap water, the human body has to spend a lot of energy and time. Water in plants and animals can only be structured.
What water should be used?
If your place of residence is not Okinawa Island, the Hunza valley, or Vilcabamba, but Latvia, you should not immediately fall into pessimism. Of course, with not so excellent parameters, relatively good water is also available to us. You need to search, conduct measurements, and improve water parameters. It would be best to use spring or well water rather than from artesian wells because water obtained deep from the ground will have minerals of inorganic origin, which means the body cannot use them. The ecological situation of the surroundings is also not insignificant. Chemists will say that obtaining alkaline water is very simple - add soda, and it's ready. That is true. Only this water will be very hard, and no entry into the cells will occur. For water to be simultaneously alkaline and soft, other additives are needed, and there are manufacturers that offer such.
It is important to drink water in the morning
During the night, our body loses about 400ml of water at the expense of organs that rest at night. These are the organs of the digestive system - the pancreas, gallbladder. In contrast, water reserves are preserved in vital organs - the heart, brain. In the morning, immediately after waking up, drinking two glasses of warm water not only wakes up and flushes the intestinal tract but also fills the organs that secrete digestive juices with water. The salivary glands are also filled with water. Therefore, the food eaten for breakfast is much better digested.
Learn to drink water!
Start your day with two glasses of warm water. To improve the water's properties, the simplest option is to add fresh lemon juice or special additives. The ideal option is to charge the water with a special free hydrogen generator equipped with proton exchange membranes, allowing the water to be charged in a few minutes up to -700mV and more (such devices are available in Latvia, but this website EKOMEDICINA to not become another internet advertising site, adheres to the principle of refraining from naming specific manufacturers or distributors and their coordinates).
When going to work, do not forget to take a water bottle with you and periodically drink throughout the day. Initially, you may have to force yourself to do it, but over time, you will do it voluntarily. In Latvia, compared to other countries, water is available everywhere and always. Respect water, keep it in a clean container, drink from beautiful glasses, do it with pleasure, there is nothing more valuable than water. If there is no water, there is no life. Drinking enough quality water, step by step, you will gain excellent health. A child is born with an innate reflex to drink before eating. Unfortunately, breastfeeding mothers do not understand or know this. Train children to drink water. If you give children something sweet to drink every time they are thirsty, they will never know how tasty water actually is.
