FAQs Can I drink too much water

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Can I drink too much water?
It is difficult to drink too much water without becoming uncomfortable. Doctors and nutritionist generally recommend 8 glasses a day, but liquid intake is highly dependent upon activity and environment. A better recommendation is provided by Dr. Batmanghelidj in his book Your Body's Many Cries for Water. Studies at the Mayo Clinic offer a formula. Divide your body weight by two. This will yield the ounces you should drink each day. You should not drink anything with a meal or for 30 minutes after eating. The fast-food meal packs promote beverages, but the truth is that liquids (especially ice-cold liquids) with food interfer with digestion.

Soft drinks taste better and they are mostly water. Why not just consume soft drinks and sport drinks?
Twenty years ago beverage bottlers sought the best water sources for their products. A case in point is Coors Beer. Now, they treat the water with RO systems whether it needs it or not. Coca Cola has only had a water standards department for about 7 years because they found that the water from different sources is the single most important factor influencing taste. The bottom line is if they don't start with dead water, they make it!

Add this dead water to caffiene, sugar or sugar substitutes and your organism might just ask why you prefer this stuff. This is especially true of sport drinks. Some schools have even ban them from the school campus. To quench thirst, water beats the soft drinks hands down, and it will spare you extra pounds. Caffiene is a diuretic. It dehydrates your body, which is exactly what you don't want to do. The sugars end up as fat, and the sugar substitutes (aspartame) break down into chemical compositions that reduce the blood sugar to the brain, causing the sensation of hunger and the need to consume more sweetners.

How does tap water compare to bottled water?
It depends on what the label says. Unless it says Spring Water it is probably tap water. Mineral water is any water. The water you buy in the supermarket in those polyethylene gallon jugs is just tap water processed through an RO system or a carbon filtration system. Read the label. They actually take the minerals out, and then they put them back in... can't fool Mother Nature! The moment water is bottled it is suffocated... unable to breath, so in most cases it is better to filter your water at the tap with a good activated carbon filter.

You can easily know when you are buying a premium bottled water. No self-respecting bottler will use plastic. The really good bottled water is always bottled in glass because the crystal structure of the glass actually helps preserve the natural properties of water. Incidently, water dissolves polyethylene containers.

A water filter is far from being a luxury. It is a necessary appliance that every home, office and factory should have. According to the EPA, chlorinated water causes heart disease, and there is ample proof that it causes some types of cancer and birth defects. Why risk it?

Is there anything I can do in my home to improve the quality of drinking water?
The water from bottles and taps is energetically dead. Even after filtering water, you cannot expect it to contribute to your wellbeing unless you activate it using some of the mechanisms found in Nature. One thing you can do is to freeze water in a bottle (the squeeze type bottle). Put it in the freezer at night and take it with you in the morning to sip on. Freezing is one of Nature's activating mechanisms. You will certainly notice the difference. Even better than freezing is the BioCat. It uses the naturally occuring energies from plant extracts to activate water.

What is meant by "Hydrate for Health"?
Hydration is a very complicated subject, but we can identify two types of hydration of the body. The first is tissue hydration. This is basically a measure of the amount of water in your blood and tissue without regard for the fluid content of individual cells. Tissue hydration does not reach the physiological pathways of the organism. It merely keeps everything wet. While a new-born may be 90% hydrated, a person of 65 years will be about 55% hydrated. Most of the difference is cellular hydration.

Cellular hydration is an entirely different story. This refers to the liquid content of the cell and the type of water now becomes very important. When you drink dead water, the body will convert that water to the activated form. This is the water you find in the cells. Brain cells are highly diamagnetic (activated). As you age, or if sickness is a factor, the body will not be able to keep up with the demand. The first sign is a slowing of physiological functions, fatigue, lack of ability to heal quickly, lack of mental alertness, etc. This is usually a direct result of the cell being limited in its ability to adjust to gel/sol states. Let's just say that the cellular mass becomes concentrated... it is less liquid, so basic reactions are retarded.

When we say Hydrate for Health, we mean drink water, and drink the right kind of water.

How can water be therapeutic?
It has always been therapeutic, but this is one of those things we needed to Rediscover. We also had to figure out why it can be therapeutic at the source and show no therapeutic properties a day later. The one thing we need to remember is that water is fragile. The mere presence of a microwave or an electromagnetic wave from the electrical system in the home can destroy these very subtle properties.

Proving the healthful properties of water is basically a labor of love because at the end of the line there is no profit. The pharmaceutical companies are the kings of cure because we are taught to think there is no other way. They don't really cure anything. They remove the symtoms and stop progress. But, as we all know, there is no guarantee the same disorder won't strike again. Nature is slower and cannot always cure, but it can prevent so that we don't have to constantly shake hands with the pharmaceutical companies.

Links
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For everyone: Pixiewater is a book (also on CD and tape) about the water we don't drink, what we have done to our water supply, and how we can make a conscious effort to recuperate this valuable resource. It is brilliantly conceived and written for children, but adults will certainly not be immune to its message.

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For students: We receive lots of email from students involved in science projects. Continue sending questions, but also check out this great website http://howstuffworks.com/. Just type the subject in the search box. The site has a lot of information about everything. You may also want to try this link about steam, water and ice.

For reference:

Drinking water and health - What you need to know. This is the drinking water site of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

The American Water Works Association. A nonprofit organization dedicated to safe drinking water. Also known as AWWA.

Your Body's Many Cries for Water, by Dr. Batmanghelidj is perhaps the most complete reference to the curative properties of water. Some information is available on this website, but we recommend you purchase the book.

Real Water Suppliers: To the best of our knowledge, these are links to companies that make and supply Real Water for which we have been able to find a website. If you know of others, let us know so they too can be included. If you are a distributor for any of these, or have a website about water, we would be happy to review your site and include it if appropriate.

Catalit North America manufactures a line of BioCat batteries which are placed in any water to produce Real Water. The product line has models for a glass of water or an entire city.

Cluster Water or Nanocluster Water The Structure of Water Molecules Appears to Effect Deep Celluar Level Hydration!

Grander Water Grander Water Products are a unique sustainable technology that helps return water to its natural state, by reducing the size of the molecule clusters within the water on a permanent basis.

Hunza Water The process of "Zeta Potential" enhancement in colloidal minerals is complicated but suffice it to say that body and plant cells which have higher, "negative Zeta Potentials" have more robust and healthier characteristics then cells with lower, negative Zeta potentials.

Nikken manufacturers a complete system for filtering and making Real Water... Pi Water. Nikken also supplies the concentrate shown here.

Willard Water Thirty years ago, Dr. John Willard discovered a way to alter the molecular structure of water. The resulting solution, now known as catalyst altered water, has been used to improve personal health, accelerate the healing process, increase agriculture production ...even remove stubborn stains. The claims may seem unbelievable, but the results have been documented. If you are not familiar with our product, we encourage you to further explore the official Willard Water website. We believe that you will come to the same conclusion as our customers -- Willard Water works.

We would not want to forget the skeptical point of view amply expressed by Stephen K. Lower of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada