Take Control

One of the first steps in taking control of your health is recognizing that that your body requires a constant and consistent supply of healthy water.  I see the amazing benefits of taking that good advice in my practice every single day.  Remember, water is the single most important compound you put into your body.  This should not come as much of a surprise to most of you since our bodies are over 70% water. Health-wise, it can be either the best or the nastiest thing that you consume. 

We live in a new age of health consciousness. There is hardly anyone that is not taking nutritional supplements, trying a new diet or a home exercise machine to make them look better, lose weight or achieve optimum health. Today, tens of thousands of physicians, chiropractors and health practitioners are including such supplements in their practices. It is becoming more common every day to have a patient leave the doctor’s office with a nutritional formulation and exercise routine in hand as part of a particular health therapy. Unfortunately, despite the new openness within the medical community to explore the benefits of nutritionals and natural remedies, most practitioners overlook or under emphasize the single most important element of any health program… WATER.

No matter what the specific health or fitness goal, one cannot achieve the maximum benefit from any health program without drinking the right kind of water in the proper amount. All experts agree, that next to the air we breathe, water is the most important thing we will ever put in our bodies. It is surprising that so much time and money is being spent on supplements, organic foods, and natural remedies (some of which are very subtle and delicate) but little attention is given to the quality and effect of the water with which those items are taken.

One of the reasons for this is that Americans pride themselves in having very high quality water from every tap and assume that all water is the same. A thorough study of water in America and the world in general tells a different story. A few well-placed hours on the Internet show that the world is in an unprecedented water quality crisis as well as water shortage. Depending on what part of the country one lives in, it is easy to find trace amounts of nitrates, pesticides, heavy metals, radioactive compounds, petrochemicals and parasites coming from the local municipal water supply.

The toxins and free radicals in these waters are made significantly more toxic to humans by the addition of chlorine -- a powerful disinfectant used in virtually all public water supplies in America. The US Counsel on Environmental Quality now reports that individuals who drink and bath in chlorinated waters (which includes better than 90% of the population) have a 93% greater likelihood of getting cancer in their lifetime.  I’m sure you will be surprised to learn that you will absorb up to 600% more contaminants in your body in a ten-minute shower than you would drinking the same water all day long.

Two out of every five households now have a water filter or drink bottled water, as I will discuss later, with no assurance of safety. The problem is that the average consumer and even most medical professionals do not know what is the best way to treat water or the best source of water to drink.

The failure to heed what type of water one drinks can introduce a variety of contaminants into the body that can have serious long-term health effects. Oxidizers like chlorine and its byproducts (often called trihalomethanes or THMs) as well as the hundreds of contaminants identified in our water by the EPA can also negate or diminish the benefit of whatever supplements or health protocol is being followed.  However, as I will also discuss, there is a significant difference between water purification systems and the type of water they produce. Depending on the type of system one uses and the way one drinks water, it can positively or negatively affect one’s health.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WATER
Medical researchers report that there is virtually no function or reaction in the body that can take place without the presence of water. Approximately 70% of our body weight is water and water makes up over 80% of our brain and 90% of our blood. Since water is an integral part of everything the body does, there is now evidence to indicate that insufficient hydration of the body can, in itself, lead to or exacerbate specific health conditions and illnesses.

Water therapy (using chemical free, clean, restructured and alkalizing water) has been reported to reverse or minimize such conditions as premature aging, arthritis, heartburn, back pain, asthma, hypertension and migraine headaches… to mention just a few. In addition water has also been shown to provide the following important benefits:

• Water helps the body absorb and assimilate nutrients into the blood stream and internal organs.
  
• Proper hydration helps the body resist the formation of kidney stones, urinary infections, and constipation. Water also accelerates the excretion of toxins and wastes from the body.
  
• Sufficient consumption of clean water has been shown to cut the risk of certain cancers like colon, breast, bladder and kidney.
  
• Drinking water before meals helps with weight loss and weight control since it aids digestion and reduces cravings.
  
• Water lubricates joints and muscles, reduces inflammation, aids in the recovery of injuries and decreases the risk of certain types of physical injuries such as sprains and pulls.
  
• Water boosts mental performance. As little as 2% dehydration can lead to significant short-term memory loss.

With so much to be gained by its consumption but so much risk of contaminants, consumers face a dilemma to find the “perfect water”. For those practitioners who are concerned about the type of water their patients drink, many prescribe either distilled water or reverse osmosis water, thinking the purest is the best. Others recommend bottled natural spring water or specialty waters. All of these have their drawbacks and none offer the patient the optimum source of water. The Western World is just beginning to realize this fact, whereas in Japan they have known this for decades.

DISTILLED WATER AND REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER

The two most commonly recommended types of water by doctors are distilled water and reverse osmosis water. Both types are generally very pure although both can allow the carry over of trace contaminants if boiling points are similar or if molecular size is similar. Unfortunately, many advocates are unaware that ultra pure water is not the best for regular long-term consumption and that it can carry an unexpected long-term health risk.

Distilled water is boiled and evaporated.  It has no minerals in it and the very structure of the cell of each water molecule is also stripped away; depending upon how it is treated, it may contain chemicals like nickel and aluminum.  It is not fit for human consumption.

To understand the reason why the purest is not always the best, one has to look at the basic chemistry of water itself. Water has what some chemists call a “stability index”. This index indicates how stable water is in relation to the chemicals and minerals in its immediate environment. Water naturally seeks to achieve a zero or neutral index. If water has a positive index at a given temperature, it will tend to release or precipitate minerals that are dissolved in it. One can witness the results of water having a strongly positive stability index (for example hard water) when such water deposits scale in pipes or hot water heaters.

Water that is on the negative side of the index is aggressive and prone to dissolving minerals and metals from its immediate environment. One can see evidence of such water when it corrodes pipes or produces rust. The more negative the index, the more aggressive the water is. Water produced from distillation and reverse osmosis has an extremely negative stability index. This water also actively absorbs carbon dioxide from the air and makes the water more acidic. When one drinks small quantities of this water for short periods of time, it has the special property of being able to absorb toxic substances in the body and remove them. This detoxification can be good for the body and can aid it in recovering from long-term exposure to certain contaminants. However, regular and long-term consumption of ultra-pure, demineralized water will also strip the body of magnesium, calcium and trace minerals. The more the mineral loss, the greater the risk of osteoporosis, osteo-arthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and a long list of degenerative diseases generally associated with premature aging.

The longer a person drinks demineralized water, the more likely the development of mineral deficiencies and an acid state in the body. A number of physicians, nutritionists and researchers now believe that aging and disease are the direct result of these deficiencies and lead to the development of an acid state in the body. Dr. Zoltan P. Rona, a Canadian physician and clinical nutritionist, reports that exclusive consumption of de-mineralized water will, over time, lead to multiple mineral deficiencies. His research with over 3000 patients indicates that those who supplemented their purified water intake with trace minerals were not as deficient but still not as adequately nourished in minerals as their non-purified water drinking counterparts even after several years of mineral supplementation.  Put simply, distilled water and reverse osmosis water acts like a vacuum and will suck out many of the beneficial trace minerals you need to stay healthy. Obtaining good mineral balance is hard enough; one clearly does not want to put a metabolic drain in their system by drinking distilled water.

Fasting while using distilled water can be particularly dangerous because of the rapid loss of electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and trace minerals like magnesium, deficiencies of which can cause heart beat irregularities and high blood pressure.

Cooking foods in distilled water pulls the minerals out of them and lowers their nutrient value.”

Another point involves alkalinity and acidity. Natural health writers generally agree that the body maintains best health when it maintains a ph leaning to the alkaline side rather than the acidic side, and yet distilled water quickly turns highly acidic, about 5.8 in an open air container.

Does it still make sense to you to drink eight glasses a day of distilled water that can potentially help to over-acidify the body?

Distilled water and reverse osmosis water is often sold as bottled water and a major worry with bottled water is the environmental concerns it creates. Bottled water is usually no safer, or healthier than tap water in many countries while selling for up to 1000 times the price. Yet, it is the fastest growing drinks industry in the world and is estimated to be worth US $22 billion annually.

Studies reveal that the bottled water market is partly fueled by concerns over the safety of municipal water and by the marketing of many brands that portray them as being drawn from pristine sources and as being healthier than tap water. However, some bottled waters only differ from tap water in the fact that they are distributed in bottles rather than through pipes.

In fact there are more standards regulating tap water in Europe and the US than those applied to the bottled water industry. These studies also find that every year 1.5 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water. ]

Toxic chemicals can be released into the environment during the manufacture and disposal of the bottles. Furthermore, a quarter of the 89 billion liters of water bottled worldwide annually are consumed outside their country of origin. Emissions of the green house gas carbon dioxide, caused by transporting bottled water within and between countries, contribute to the global problem of climate change.

IONIZED OR ALKALINE WATER
So-called ionizers or alkalizers have been popular with some US physicians for the past eight years. These machines don’t purify the water as much as they physically modify it by producing high levels of negative ions via electrolysis. Developed in the late 1960’s, the ionizer produces two different streams of water (i.e., one positively charged with a low

pH and one negatively charged with a high pH). The negatively charged water is recommended for drinking and the acidic water is either thrown away or used to wash dishes or for irrigating plants. The focus of the alkalizer is to produce a constant source of negative ions in the water that can act as an antioxidant. Although originally approved by the Japanese Ministry of Health in the 1960’s, long-term health studies recently prompted the Ministry to publish a health warning to Japanese citizens about the potential adverse effects of routine consumption this water.  This warning as well as a rebuke of the product’s health claims was also reported in Science Scramble, a Japanese consumer-oriented science journal in 2000.

CARBON FILTERED WATER
There are many excellent carbon, carbon block and carbon/ceramic filters available to consumers. These filters are capable of efficiently removing chlorine, chlorination byproducts (e.g., THMs), organics and pesticides. They can be combined with other additives to also preferentially remove arsenic and lead. Current carbon filters have, however, several notable drawbacks. All activated carbon filters are not made of the same carbon and some carbons like coconut shell carbon are more highly adsorbent of certain hydrocarbons than coal-based carbons, which are primarily designed to remove chlorine. In addition, certain specialty carbons like catalytic carbon can remove non-organic compounds like chloramines much more effectively than coconut shell carbon.

They have problems accumulating bacteria over time and then releasing these bacteria, which can be harmful, directly into the user’s drinking water. As a result, carbon filters are rated for specific pollutants and for a specific period of time…usually 6 months to a year.

MINERAL SPRING WATER
I mentioned bottled water earlier and the concerns are the same for other bottled water like Mineral Water. More and more Americans drink bottled water in an effort to seek safe drinking water. Few are aware that bottled water is only required to meet minimum tap water standards in the US. Minimum tap water standards require only that there are no visible Bacterial Growth (count/ml) suspended solids and no living bacteria. They unfortunately don’t regulate organics, heavy metals or radio-nuclides. Despite these fairly loose standards, a recent analysis of 400+ brands of bottled water sold in the US showed that approximately one third failed to meet even minimum tap water standards. In addition, recent studies indicate that the plasticizer in bottled water can leach into the water and then be absorbed by the body. Some researchers are suspicious that these plasticizers (also referred to as Phthalates or xenoestrogens) can cause serious long-term health conditions and/or compromise the body’s immune system.

As I said above, consumers face a dilemma to find the “perfect water”. All of these have serious drawbacks and none offer the patient the optimum source of water. Again, we in the West are beginning to realize this fact, whereas in Japan they have known this for decades.

HEALTHY WATER
Products like the Wellness Filtration system and the Water Vitalizer are simply the best in the world and are essential to any wellness program. They are the basic health tools to produce the type of water needed to promote vital health. The Wellness Filter not only purifies but it also enhances water. The enhancement process produces water that has a faster rate of hydration, contains negative ions, has a higher solubility, and contains specific beneficial trace ions like silica. The treated water has also been shown to be naturally anti-bacterial and anti-fungal.

I don’t have the space (it would literally take thousands of pages) to fully explain the different materials and technologies that go into the manufacture of these filters but I think that the number of positive reports and the volumes of encouraging studies speak for themselves.  Not to mention my 25 years of clinical experience has shown only constructive results. I will, however, give you some short examples and case in points.  I should also point out that there are literally thousands of scientific studies that prove the health benefits of restructured water.

In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, several Japanese universities began to test the effect of the Wellness filter’s water on animals and plants in order to avoid the psychological or placebo effect associated with human subjects. In all cases, the researchers witnessed an improvement in health and growth when compared against normal municipal water or well water. In the early 1990’s, the Japanese Ministry of Health began to investigate what it thought might be unsubstantiated claims. The Ministry conducted its own tests and evaluations and was surprised to find that the water actually showed a reproducible therapeutic effect. An effect that was greatly enhanced when used with other health protocols.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, much like the US Food and Drug Administration, cannot give endorsements to specific products. They can give approvals for specific products and their applications. Although not considered a formal endorsement, the Ministry gives tacit approval when they use medical products in their own facilities that they have certified.

In 1999, Dr. Tadahiro Hotta, a famous Japanese cancer researcher and physician, began testing the effects of The Wellness Filter on 300 cancer patients as part of a comprehensive experimental treatment program. The program involves a vegetarian diet, intravenous injections of vitamin C and a specific drinking protocol of Wellness Filter water. As of the beginning of 2002, 75% of these patients had gone into remission. While there are several variables at work in this study, Dr. Hotta attributes importance to the enhanced water.

The study elected to incorporate The Wellness Filter water because of its antioxidant effect, superior hydration and its ability to accelerate detoxification. In Japanese cancer prevention studies, it was observed that reduced ions in the water such as those produced by The Wellness Filter reduced the presence of free radicals and the subsequent reduction in damage to DNA. 

In addition, the filter has been the subject of a long-term evaluation by private physicians and universities during which many health and personal benefits were studied and verified. These unexpected benefits have set this Filter apart from any other water treatment system and have generated substantial data along with thousands of anecdotal reports.

Currently, a national movement is underway in Japan to add the filter to all of the public baths and spas due to its superior sanitation abilities and its apparent therapeutic effects on the skin.

Repeated spa treatments of test subjects resulted in the following reported benefits:

• Fatigue, lethargy—more energetic.


• Wide range of skin rashes—most are completely cleared up after treatment.


• Sore muscles—reduction or elimination of aches and pains.


• Sensitive nerves—reduced sensitivity.


• Backache—reduced pain and improved flexibility.


• Arthritis—reduced pain and improved flexibility.


• Dry and red skin—softer skin and return of natural color.


• Frost bite (minor)—return of skin viability.
  
  

As well, he following were introduced to controlled samples of water and displayed no growth or minimal growth well within acceptable standards:

• Sarcina lutea ATCC 9341
  
• Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633
  
• Escherichia coli B ATCC 11303
  
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  
• Penicillium chrysogenum
  
• Penicillium citrinum
  
• Chaetomium globosum
  
• Microsporum gypeum
  
• Myrothecium verrucaria
  
• Aspergillus niger
  
• Trichophyton interdigitale
  
• Trichophyton mentagrophytes

Candida Aalbicaus
This is one of the main reasons that the Japanese Ministry of Health has installed Wellness Filters in over 100 hospitals.

NEC Corporation, one of Japan’s most prestigious scientific companies has conclusively shown that the solubility of water at a given temperature goes up significantly after passing through this array of media.  Higher soluble water will also tend to dissolve more substances in it or prevent existing dissolved solids from plating out (anti-scaling). The combined effect is super hydrating water that will accelerate the transport of water through membranes in the body as well as out of the body.

 The Japanese believe this is why long term consumption of the water seems to aid certain conditions like kidney stones and the plaque build-up in arteries. It also explains why the water is particularly effective in removing heavy metals from the body without stripping critical minerals at the same time.

I can’t stress, enough times, the importance of consuming chemical free, clean, restructured and alkalizing water.  When your body is properly hydrated, all health programs I build become more powerful, more efficient and work faster.  And, for those of us who simply want to continue our good health, drinking clean restructured water is also essential to maintaining strength, fitness and vital well being. This water may very well be as close as we can get to the true fountain of youth.

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