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It’s naturally very important to figure out our relationship with this element which is something all plants and animals need to survive. Especially in our modern society, there are many types of water, including products and practices which should be avoided because otherwise they can cause detriment to your health and well-being. There are also amazing special types of water as well.
It is amazing to consider that such an incredible substance — which can help to detoxify and clean out the body — is so often turned into a toxic and chemical-filled mixture that actually causes over-toxicity and resulting acidity in the body. Most major metropolitan areas, in their supposedly valiant efforts to sanitize the water, pour massive amounts of chemicals, including chlorine, bromide, and not to mention fluorosilicic acid into the water. Let me tell you — these are not fun chemicals for your body to process and can lead to over-toxicity of the body.
There are other problems with city water as well, including the fact that many cities recycle their water from sewage. This means that the essence of other people’s wastes, including antibiotics from meat products, pesticides, and pharmaceutical drug residues all wind up in the plumbing and back into the water supply.
So what is the solution? Well, you can either
— Get a whole house filter which will filter your water at the source before it comes out of your faucets
— Get a smaller countertop filter
— Harvest rainwater
— Pump well-water
— Buy bottled water
In terms of water filters, there are great varying degrees of quality among different ones. For example, I used a pitcher filter kept in the refrigerator all through college, not realizing until years later that this particular brand (which is extremely common) really doesn’t filter out all the junk — neither do most built-in refrigerator filters, unfortunately. The general public is simply not aware of how thoroughly the water is in need of being filtered, in order to really clean up the water.
There are only a few products out there which will really virtually completely filter the water. You can get filters for your drinking water as well as a filter for your shower. I recommend them here:
RapidRegeneration.com/WaterFilter
You can also use bottled water. Do be careful though about drinking out of plastic which uses BPA. Unfortunately, most bottled water uses plastic bottles made with BPA. This is a harmful and hormone-disrupting chemical that should be avoided. You can look on the bottle to see if it says ‘BPA-free’ in which case you’re in the clear. One issue with BPA and bottled water is that an alkaline water will suck chemistry from its surrounding environment. This is especially true with distilled water. So distilled, alkaline water, put in an environment where it makes contact with BPA will result in those harmful BPA chemicals being absorbed into the water abundantly.
There is much debate over whether spring water or distilled water is better. They’re both good in my view although distilled water is clearly superior for me personally. Spring water or mineral water can be more energizing, containing the minerals of the surrounding environment. Distilled water is generally in my experience better for detoxification, cleaning, and purifying the body. Indeed this is the ticket — distill your water if you really wish to use water to transform your internal landscape.
I am concerned over numerous products which have come out recently which are super-alkaline water. While in my view the majority of health issues are resulting from over-acidity of the body, AKA acidosis, a condition of over-alkalinity, or alkalosis is a very real concern. The blood needs to stay at a certain PH and not become too alkaline, as well as the stomach chamber. The idea of drinking many ounces of a super-alkaline liquid and then just letting that absorb into mouth, throat, neck, chest, and stomach is of some concern.
I have certainly tried super-alkaline water and it’s not the worst thing you could drink, but I use enough of my common sense to largely avoid drinking this type of water. These alkaline waters are a strong as 9 pH, and I do prefer the chemistry to be closer to 7 pH (neutral) or perhaps slightly alkaline like 7.5 pH.
One other piece of information that is constantly transmitted in both the mainstream advice arena and even the natural wellness community is that people should drink tons of water, and specifically they should drink ‘eight glasses of water per day’.
This is quite a lot of water to be drinking, generally speaking, though every case is different, with people having different body weights, body chemistries, and unique situations. For me personally, it’s way too much. I get a lot of hydration and water content from eating a lot of fruits. After drinking a big smoothie, I notice that an hour or two later I need to urinate and a lot of liquid comes out — but I didn’t drink any water. This is simply using common horse sense that I am being hydrated from the fruit which has a high water content.
Do be mindful of drinking water during mealtimes. If you are drinking water at the same time that you are consuming food, you can actually impair effective digestion of your food. You digest your food by excreting certain digestive enzymes, in the stomach, in the small intestine, and with the help of the pancreas. By ‘watering down’ the whole situation down there, if you gulp down a big 12-ounce glass of water right before, during or after a meal, you are diluting the power of those enzymes, causing the body to work harder and for the digestive chemistry not to be as effective.
The same can be said overall with drinking water — not just during mealtimes but in general, in terms of how much water you are processing through your body during the day. Because if you think about it, by means of the lymphatic system (the water-based filtration system of your body) and the kidneys, the body is constantly filtering out acids and toxins and sending them to the kidneys to be filtered and urinated out. Your body uses its own means of chemistry to transmutate this condition, cleanse it, filter it, and make it more alkaline, and is constantly in the process of doing this. It is possible to water down and dilute down this environment too much, to the point where the body is unable to effectively change its landscape using potent chemistry to filter out the toxins.
When you urinate, and your body is filtering effectively and your kidneys are filtering the toxins out of your lymphatic system, you should notice your urine is colored, perhaps yellow or darker yellow, cloudy and bubbly. This is showing you a picture of the acidic sediment that your body has just filtered out of yourself. When you are drinking excessive amounts of water and your urine comes out entirely clear and nondescript, what does that tell you in terms of what is being filtered out (or not being filtered out) of your body?
The name of the game of detoxification is for your kidneys to be filtering the toxins out of your lymphatic system, which is where the vast majority of the toxins in your body end up. So, it is rather important to let them do that job and give them the ideal environment to convert chemistry from an acidic to an alkaline condition. In other words, provide your body with enough water so that it is hydrated, but not so much water where the systematic chemical transformation is diluted down and those processes are weakened to the point where very little is getting filtered out.
Use your intuition and instinct about how much water to drink and when. Dehydration is a real concern without a doubt. Especially if you are engaging in exercise, going around outside in the heat, or using a sauna, you’ll want to replenish your body liberally with water. But I do want to highlight the concept that over-drinking of water is rarely ever talked about. This can actually majorly hold you back from really cleaning your body out. You’ll notice the difference once you start drinking the appropriate amount of water that your body actually needs.
It’s as important as any of the food topics covered here with Rapid Regeneration, so use your discernment and take great care with the water that you choose to drink, when you imbibe, and how you drink it. Love the water that you replenish your liquid essence with, and it will love you back.