Unfortunately, in our unnaturally modern and urbanized environment, we are not able to experience this. Water is supplied to us using long pipes. The water is exposed to high pressure and flows straight through the pipes. This causes the water clusters to break down and minerals are lost in the process. This creates water that is unhealthy for the body. On top of that, in the interest of public health, chlorine and a whole host of chemicals are added to the water to kill the germs and other micro organisms. Is this what you want to drink? By the way, boiling your water will not get rid of the chemicals.

Where there is water, there is life. It is no coincidence that the earth is 70% water and the average human body is 70% water. According to Masaru Emoto when he asks, “So how can people live happy and healthy lives? The answer is to purify the water that makes up 70% of your body.”

So how do we get this water that nature intended us to drink?

Over 30 years ago when Japanese researchers were doing research on plant growth cycles, they stumbled upon a form of water they named “pi”. The plants and other vegetation were thriving in this water. “Pi” is the Greek word for “life”. Also referred to as “living water”, Pi water is the closest water to human body water.

At an International Symposium on Preventative Oncology held in France in 1998, the following was reported on pi water:

1. It has high anti-oxidation properties because of its ability to eliminate free radicals.
2. It also provides far infrared energy from the sun and can transfer this energy to other living systems.
3. It enhances anti-body activities.
4. It carries more oxygen throughout the body, creating an oxygen rich environment which destroys anaerobic organisms (cancer is anaerobic).
5. It creates minute clusters which improves the functions of cells and the detoxifying effects of water.
6. It improves cellular adaptation to stress and stressful environments.
7. It neutralizes the pH of water, bringing it to just above 7, which is very close to the pH of the body.
8. It enhances the transmission of information throughout the body.

Don’t you want to know how to get this water? Well, I will introduce this to you in my next post.

In the meantime, the following quote makes a lot of sense.

“You’re not sick; you’re thirsty. Don’t treat thirst with medication.”
Dr. F. Batmanghelidj

Please go check out his website call WaterCure.

I will be back very soon.

In the meantime, this discussion would not be complete if I did not look into the importance of the acid-alkaline or pH balance of our body. The facts in this post has been “distilled” (no pun intended) from the book, “Blood Never Lies” by Ted Aloisio.

Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize winner, discovered the connection between health and pH balance. He also proved that cancerous cells could live and develop in the absence of oxygen.

pH is a measurement of how acid or alkaline a substance is. pH or potential hydrogen refers to hydrogen ion activity. All fluids have a pH from 0 to 14. A pH of one is pure acid and can make a hole in solid steel. Our internal body fluids have a pH level of 7.35 to 7.45 with the exception of the fluid in the stomach which should be acidic. At 7.2, the body experiences acidosis. At 7, you are dead.

The average adult has approximately 45 litres of fluids in the body. Most of these fluids thrive only if they are slightly alkaline. The human body is a group of cells held by magnetic energy. All nerves send signals through electrical currents. Cells and organs require energy to operate and that energy is electricity. This energy is delivered through a delicate balance in our biochemistry. Anything that affects this balance, affects our cells, organs and the whole electro-magnetic processes of our bodies. Excess acid in our bodies creates a biochemical breakdown.

So where does all this acid come from?

Metabolic acid
Your body already produces acid by itself known as metabolic acid. This is produced by us just existing. Everything we do from walking, talking and eating will produce acid, eg lactic acid.

Dietary acid
Adding to metabolic acid is dietary acid. The typical North American diet is almost pure acid; pizza, beer, hamburgers, hotdogs, bread, french fries, deep fried foods, processed foods, preserved foods, rancid oils, carbonated drinks, coffee, sugar, artificial sweeteners, additives, preservatives, etc. This diet is now being rapidly adopted in Asia in the name of progress and it is no wonder we see so many new diseases which did not exist 20 or 30 years ago.

Prescriptive acid
A third form of acid is caused by prescription drugs. No wonder we cannot chew our pills as it is bitter and that bitterness is because they are highly acidic.

How does our body cope with excessive acids?

Use Alkaline Buffer/Reserve
The large amount of acid the body has to contend with greatly overloads its ability to deal with it. The first line of defence is a set of complex systems known as alkaline buffers or the alkaline reserve consisting of substances such as malate, citrate, lactate, phosphate and acetate. Once these reserves are used up, the body has no choice but to store acids.

The favourite locations are the spaces around the cells. If acids keep coming, the spaces will be filled to capacity. Then the acids will be pushed into the cells themselves and will displace potassium, magnesium and sodium. These are three very important minerals for health and their displacement will create a host of problems.

Get from the bones
When the cells have reached a high level of acidity, acid may begin to enter the bloodstream. This is when the body starts to panic as a human being cannot survive very long if the pH of the blood is not maintained in a very narrow range. If the body detects excess acidity in the blood, it will reach for the most alkaline substance it knows, calcium. Guess where calcium comes from, yes, your bones so it can neutralize the acid in your blood and bring you back to balance. No wonder the incidence of osteoporosis and arthritis is so rampant now and people are getting these conditions much earlier than before.

Alkaline Molecules in the Blood
This is not the end of the story. The body can also compensate for excess acidity by placing an alkaline molecule in the blood. This results in the blood turning more alkaline which sounds like a good thing but too much alkalinity is just as bad as too much acidity. The red blood cells in this condition have the ability to become saturated with more oxygen but have difficulty releasing it to the tissues and organs. The starved cells are perfect breeding grounds for cancer to develop in the absence of oxygen.

What a roundabout way of telling this story and it all started with acidity which is so bad for you. That’s why drinking the right water with the right pH can solve a lot of these problems. More to come about this water.

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Did you know that distilled water can endanger your health?

I did not know that until I became a VICTIM.

I changed my water dispenser from mineral water to distilled water in my office a few years ago. Months later, I could not walk. The pain was so severe I was limping to work everyday. Then fortunately, I lost my job and stopped drinking the water. The pain went away but I did not get the connection until I was introduced to a water system that has changed my life around.

I learned that distilled water is free of dissolved minerals and because of this, it has the special property of being able to actively absorb toxic substances from the body and eliminate them. This is good only for a short period of time but over time it can become potentially dangerous.

Distilled Water causes infection, inflammation and CANCER.

When distilled water comes into contact with air, it absorbs carbon dioxide, making it acidic so when you drink more distilled water, your body gets more and more acidic. Acidity in the body causes all kinds of infection and disease including cancer. Cancer cells will only attach to cells which are acidic. Prolonged acidity is also associated with inflammation. That was why I was in so much pain with my knee problem.

Another thing, most of the commercial soft drinks and colas are made with distilled water. Imagine all that being drunk by virtually everyone on this planet. No wonder we are in so much trouble.

It is time that people become aware of such dangers and get informed about the potential dangers of something as “harmless” as drinking water.

Pi Water is “Water of Life”

The ideal water to drink should be slightly alkaline which best matches our body water. I found this in Pi Water. Pi in Greek means “life”. This is water that nature intended us to drink. It is Living Water, pure, clean and has healing properties.

I’ll talk more about this Pi Water in my future posts.

I received an SMS from Vivienne this morning reminding me that today is a good day to start posting my article which I wrote for this website a couple of months ago. She had been on my case to start posting but I had been putting it off with a whole bunch of excuses. So here I am on the first day of 2008 having told her that I would. I consider this a success as I am as computer un-savvy as one can get!

Anyway, I started to do it but instead, I would like to do something else. As I am new to this community, it would be more appropriate for me to introduce myself and perhaps share how and why I made a conscious decision to be well and healthy.

You see, I got into the health industry rather accidentally having been retrenched from my job in 2001. Back then, I did not give two hoots about health and I looked and felt it. I was fat, unfit and unhealthy. I could not even run across the road if a bus was coming at me to save my life. But, of course, I did not do anything about it. Instead, I got depressed and ate some more. Things got a bit serious when I started having pains in my knees and needed help climbing the stairs. At 42, I was behaving like an old lady. The doctors could not help me but suggested I lost some weight.

Lost weight, I did. In six months I lost about 10 kg and since I was so good at it, I decided to train to become a personal trainer and use myself as a testimonial. After all, I had nothing to lose and exercising made me feel good. The more results I gained, the more motivated I was to achieve my goal. Business was good but I was losing my health. I worked 16 hour days having committed to the Sports Council to do sports massage for our national athletes in addition to doing my own personal training and massage business. I did not have any quality of life and I started getting ill. This had to stop.

It’s all about having balance in my life. Once I got that right, things started to change. I reduced the workload and started researching health and wellness. The concept of prevention was never ever in my mind when I approached health. I had to have a problem so I can fix it. That thinking has totally changed and I am so happy and grateful that I got my health back. I am now fully committed to helping other people who have these challenges in their lives. Looks like I am meant to be writing here. I hope I will be able to inspire some folks to re-think their health and wellness concerns.

Stay well and be happy!

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