You depend on water for survival. Water makes
up over 70% of your body. Every single cell, membrane, and organ requires water
to function properly. You use water to create blood plasma, transfer chemicals
to where they are needed, as a catalyst for various functions, to control body
temperature, eliminate wastes and toxins, and a plethora of other functions.
After water is used, it leaves the body through
various means and processes. If not replaced, you will become dehydrated, which
means your body does not have enough water to function at an optimal level. If
the situation is not corrected, eventually, your systems will begin to shut down,
and your body will accumulate toxins. At this point, if hydration is not begun quickly,
death will soon result. Most people will never experience that level of
dehydration, unless they become stranded in someplace without any drinkable
water for a long enough period of time. Three days without water is enough to
cause very serious health issues, and five days for most people would be fatal,
or very close to it.
There are different schools of thought about
how much water you should drink every day. Most recommendations are for a
minimum of 8-10 glasses of water daily. If in doubt, err on the side of caution
under normal circumstances, you cannot drink enough water to cause any health
problems. As long as you don't try to drink five gallons of water all at once,
you are in little danger, so drink plenty of water.
Just to be on the safe side, you should make
sure your electrolytes stay in balance. Normally this is done adequately by the
sodium in our diet, in the form of salt, but in extreme circumstances, such as
profuse sweating over a period of time, as in bicycling, or running, large
amounts of water consumed quickly can cause the cells to lose sodium. That's
why salt tablets help in very hot weather. That's also why persons who are
dehydrated need to drink slowly, and sip the water over a period of time, to
avoid sodium loss.
The type of water you drink can be as important
to long-term health as the amount. Pure water is not good for you. It does not
exist in nature, or in your body. Water can have different qualities depending
on how the molecules bind to each other. This can also affect the pH. The ideal
structure is a 6-sided hexagonal liquid crystalline form known as structured
water. This is created in nature by the action of fresh water flowing over
rocks and soils, and being exposed to sunlight, as in streams. This is the type
of water your body is designed to use. Any other type of water will be
processed into this type of water, using up valuable, and limited bodily resources. Structured water is at
the correct pH, in other words, alkaline, just like your body, and the
molecular structures are small enough to easily pass through cell membranes. It
also contains the correct amount of trace minerals for proper hydration.
For more
information about hydrating with structured water or Structured
Water Units, please go
to our Structured
Water home page.
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