Today’s environment is not the best to put it mildly, the advert were the guy buys water sachets for large sums of money is not as far fetched as it seems when you consider water supplies and the chemicals that are put in to it or for that matter leach into the water supplies.

So what can people do to try and maintain their health within a toxic environment.

One of the best ways is by drinking Alkalised ion water.

They could take supplements, herbal remedies, homeopathic remedies, allopathic medicines to name but a few ways of trying to maintain their health, but are the supplements etc., being absorbed?

All treatments need one thing for them to have a chance of working in whatever way they are designed to work, and that is a fluid medium.

This fluid is WATER, not tea, coffee or any other beverage that you could name, just WATER. In theory the average adult has approximately 10 gallons of water in their body.

If you filter your water at home then you will be getting some of the benefits of exchanging and cleaning the water content within your body.

If you do not filter your water then you are not refreshing and cleaning the body’s water content.

Rather like you would if you were changing the oil and oil filter on a car.

Lets presume that the oil and oil filter are not changed, then you would get a “sludge” and “clogging” of the engine system with associated engine problems of sluggish running or even eventually break down.

Then it’s off to the garage or call out the roadside repair mechanic to get you going and home as a temporary measure until a proper repair can be done.

Some peoples systems are not “new” systems they inherit predisposition’s from their parents just like a car that may have a design fault except that they have a bodily fault that is waiting to happen.

There is no such thing as an absolutely fit and healthy person, we all have our faults.

With good maintenance the fault will only give minor problems, if at all.

However, our lifestyle is not “geared” to good maintenance we tend to do crisis management and only see a health professional when something is wrong instead of taking preventative measures, the last thing people want to think of, is just drinking water.

Today’s society is in danger of becoming “brainwashed” if they believe the water supplies are OK with the chemicals that are added and that leach into them.

Have you ever thought about the quality of the water that you are drinking and just as important the amount of quality water you are drinking ?

In some areas the water supply is recycled urine with chemicals added.

All tap water has at least chlorine in it, in order to sterilise the water.

Some water supplies have fluoride as well (see chlorine and fluoride).

To further understand some of the processes involved lets look at wine making, please note that pH stands for potential hydrogen.

When making wine all the ingredients are put into a demijohn (a 1 gallon glass jar) and shaken vigorously the pH is checked and then yeast is added to ferment the substances and make the wine.

As the contents and yeast ferment they make sediment, which falls to the bottom of the demijohn, if the sediment is left it would taint and eventually destroy the wine.

So the wine is filtered from the demijohn into another demijohn leaving the sediment behind and it is again left to settle.

Another sediment may fall to the bottom, and again the wine is filtered off into another demijohn.

For this process to happen the maintenance of the pH of the water / wine in the making is quite important, if you want a decent wine.

The sedimentation produced is also called oxidation, the more oxidation (burning of, or spent energy) created, the more sediment there is in the glass demijohn.

The sedimentation process could be likened to “acidic waste” in our body.

As we create more Acid wastes than Alkaline wastes in our bodies the balance needs to be addressed in one way or another, typically people are at least 80% Acid – 20% Alkaline.

Eating a vegetarian diet is a way of starting to Alkalise, that is why people who have had ill health feel better on a vegetarian diet the foods are primarily Alkaline and usually have a higher water content.

However, most peoples fluid intake is still 50% Acid and 50% Alkaline, even bottled or filtered water is still at best a neutral pH which = 50% acid & 50% alkaline.

Distilled water or reverse osmosis water leaches out minerals (see science section by Zolton).

So unless you stay on a vegetarian diet and start to stabilise the environment you will still revert back to an overall acidic environment, most beverages including some herbal teas are acidic.

This will reverse the balance that you are trying to establish back to acidity, unless your beverage is an alkalised beverage.

It makes logical sense to drink alkaline water, as our body is approximately 80% water and needs alkalising as well as hydrating properly.

Acidity causes “dryness”, this can be seen in conditions such as arthritis, skin problems, constipation, the list goes on and on. Alkaline ion water attracts the “acidic ions” and carries them out of the body, if you drink enough alkaline water.

Remember most water is 50 / 50 which makes the water a neutral pH, not alkaline.

Every action has a reaction, so if we go back to the car oil and wine making, we retain sediments that have to be dealt with by the body in one way or another.

If the body can’t get rid of the “acids” it deposits them in various systems, the weakest system (predisposition) of each person is the main target first.

This will not always be the main symptom, we may see various conditions manifesting in people as the body tries to correct them.

It is of no use whatsoever releasing toxins with the excretory systems not being capable or having the ability to deal with them, they need water to accomplish this task, this is PRIMARY in anyone’s health.

As an example think of a flower that has not been watered, it dries up and withers.

One reason why people who are ill and then take up exercise of one form or another feel worse the day after is because they have “stirred up” their sedimentation as well as creating more acidic waste from their exercise.

Even if the exercise has been quite a passive exercise.

Eating and drinking anything causes “ashes” of one form or another, do you think that a person with allergies might have a lot of the “ash sedimentation” of the product that they are reacting to?

It is a well-known fact that most people react to food substances that they like or substances that they have been overly exposed to!

Desensitising the body to the substance just switches the body’s immune off but it doesn’t take the sedimentation / toxins out. This is another reason why people start with a “new” set of allergies / reactions.

If there is nothing to carry the sedimentation out of their body, then their body refuses to do anything until the sediment has settled or has been removed.

This is why people who are chronically ill have peaks and troughs of energy.

One of the best mediums for carrying these toxins (acids) out of the body is alkalised water.

If the sediment is like a “sludge” do you think that a simple first step might be to dilute it and wash it away before starting any desensitisation, supplementation, medicines, exercise, or anything else which would cause a “stirring up” of the sedimentation, even athletes get stiffness and lactic acid problems!

Some people are so ill that they react to anything, even water ! Why is it, that they react to water ?

The body has been so “dry” that it is for want of a better term on “fire”, in other words the body is inflamed.

The “sludge / sedimentation” that is being mobilised, even by water, leaves the body in a position of having to get rid of the toxic wastes accumulated.

These people will feel worse until they can get enough water into their bodies systems.

They should take little amounts of Alkalised water and slowly build up their bodies ability to dispose of the accumulated acidic wastes / sedimentation.

This will not be an overnight “cure” as they will have to dispose of years of the accumulated acidic wastes.

Healthy cells live in an Alkaline environment.

Unhealthy cells live in an Acid accumulated waste environment.

The nearest that you can get to spring water is alkalised water because that’s what it is, it is not purified water as some people would have you believe.

Osteomyologits, Chiropractors, Physiotherapists, Physical therapists most of the treatments are focused on normalising joint and tissue function, they do this by mobilisation of the associated tissues and joints.

What is the objective of the mobilisation, to get more lubrication and movement coming into the area because it has become “dry”.

Where does the lubrication come from, water, so are these people drinking enough of the right type of water, I think not !

Nutrition one of the main problems with assimilating nutrition is “acidity” either not enough or too much in digestion.

How does alkaline water affect this, by providing the stomach mucosa with water so that it can excrete the right amount of hydrochloric acid for food digestion.

Alkaline water does not neutralise the stomach acid, because there is no hydrochloric acid present until you have eaten.

The water is needed and absorbed by the stomach mucosa in order to make the right amount of hydrochloric acid.

As an ideal, you should not drink at all with your meals, this upsets the acid balance in the stomach and so the breakdown of foods. So why do people take an ANTI-ACID with their meals, when all they need to do is drink alkalised water before their meal, it does not make sense? 1 glass of alkalised water is equal to 3 glasses of ordinary or bottled water in its hydration capability.

Because of its high hydration capability alkaline water also provides the Pancreas and Gall Bladder with the ability to neutralise the acid / food mix coming from the stomach into the duodenum and small intestine so that it will not damage or “burn” it.

One area called peyers patches has a lot to do with the immune system and can be damaged by this acidic mixture. If we do not neutralise, these acidic contents from the stomach with alkaline then we have the makings of an acid environment, which in turn causes indigestion, malabsorption, heat, inflammation and other ensuing problems.

A SIMPLE INTRODUCTION TO WATER IONISATION.

A water ioniser has two chambers one is a positive chamber and the other is a negative chamber.

Alkaline minerals in tap water are electrically positive. Acid minerals in tap water are electrically negative.

As water passes into the ioniser these minerals are mixed together until they pass over the chambers.

The positive minerals are attracted into the negative electrode chamber.

The negative minerals are attracted into the positive electrode chamber.

This is how the ioniser basically separates the water into Acid and Alkaline water, so you get two from one so to speak.

It also essentially tells us why reverse osmosis and distillation are not good for us on a long-term basis, as there are no minerals in the water obtained from these units.

When you drink this type of water it “leaches” the minerals from your body.

Some ions are not good for us because they are acidic, these ions are separated in the ionisation process from the alkaline water so that you are not drinking them, only beneficial mineral ions are in alkalised water.

Bacteria cannot survive in alkaline calcium ion water, however they can in ordinary tap water, unless it is boiled and even after boiling the water will at least still contain some dead bacteria and chemicals.

Filters:  There are many types of water filters on the market we have presented a brief description of their functions so that people will have a basic understanding.

All filters will need changing after a period of time.

Activated carbon filters – will remove chlorine and some chemicals but not fluoride.

However, just having a simple carbon cartridge will still allow bacteria to grow in the cartridge, this is one good reason why they should be changed on a regular basis even if they are not blocked.

Activated carbon, impregnated with silver will do the above and also neutralise most bacteria because of the impregnated silver. This is why cowboys used to put a silver bullet or piece of silver in their water to neutralise bacteria and make the water safer to drink.

Other filtration systems use cartridges made of different substances the primary objective being to remove particulate and the chlorine / chemicals.

Some filtration systems will also remove certain bacteria as well as chemicals, but they will not alkalise the water.

There are no filtration units that remove fluoride completely, fluoride can only be removed completely by distillation.

Purified water is not alkalised water e.g. reverse osmosis and distilled water, they have no minerals in these waters, so you will need to supplement, as to how much, well your guess is as good as mine.