Drink Wetter Water!

"Microclustered" water is more easily absorbed…

In cold winter weather it is easy to become under-hydrated; in the cold it is hard to remember to drink enough, a problem that most of us don't have in the hot summertime.

Alkaline Water is microclustered which means that the water molecules are bound together in smaller groups, making the water more easily absorbed by the cells of your stomach and intestinal tract.  That's why you can drink a gallon of our water and not walk around "sloshing"--it goes right in to your system.

Avoid colds, sinus infections, allergy worsening, winter nosebleeds, etc. by making alkaline water the main part of your liquid intake.

Can Alkaline Water Treat Cancer?

Hydration, Antioxidants, and an Alkaline Environment

Much of the early popularity of alkaline water has to do with its involvement in cancer treatment and prevention.  Many of the most prominent promoters of alkaline water are cancer survivors who feel that the water played a big role in their treatment.  So what is the true story?

Our friend Bill Powers of San Antonio had terminal Stage 4 throat cancer and had been sent home to die.  He was introduced to alkaline water and within a few months was disease-free.  So was he cured by alkaline water?  Bill doesn't think so--but as he puts it, "Alkaline water healed my body's immune system, so that my body was able to fight off the cancer itself".  Drinking alkaline water helps this fight in several ways.

Hydration.  Human bodies--both sick and well--function better when they have plenty of water in them.    Nobody feels well if they are "dehydrated".  The micro clustering effect of alkaline water allows it to be absorbed by the body more quickly and easily (without making  you feel waterlogged!) and thus it is easier to remain well-hydrated with alkaline water.

Alkalination.  Making your body more alkaline givers and unfriendly environment for cancer, infection, and inflammation.  Cancers and infections grow in acid conditions so following an alkaline diet and drinking alkaline water makes these disease states harder to maintain.

Anti-oxidants.  Oxidation?  Think rust.  That old rusty piece of metal in the back yard--it's oxidized.  When our bodies oxidize they are creaky, crumbly, no longer bright and shiny--just like the metal.  Alkaline antioxidant water keeps these changes from happening--keeps things new and shiny.  We are told to prevent cancer and other illnesses by taking in lots of antioxidants--like fresh fruits and vegetables.  Alkaline water is more potent than these foods…so include it in your diet.

Alkaline water does not cure cancer and is no substitute for cancer treatment--but it is a vital, perhaps the most important part of maintaining your body in a disease-free state.

Avoid the Worst Stress!

What's the Worst?

You could say that the worst stress that we can suffer is oxidative stress.  This stress condition exists when our bodies produce more free radicals than our bodies can handle.  Free Radicals are stray electrons that bombard our normal cells causing damage to them.  This damage is called oxidation.  Oxidation is to our bodies what rust--oxidized metal--is to a piece of steel. It makes it ugly, compromises normal movement, and makes it weak.  

Our bodies avoid oxidation by taking in antioxidants that neutralize the damaging free radicals.  Vitamins are antioxidants but even multivitamins only contain a few.  Fruits and vegetables contain many antioxidants--that's why we hear so much today about including antioxidants in our food intake.

Alkaline water is the most potent, efficient source of antioxidants that can be added to your diet.  Including alkaline water in your intake is an important tool in controlling aging, smoking, cells damaged from exercise, poorly controlled diabetes, and autoimmune--inflammatory disorders.

At the Water for Life Store we can show you how to easily and economically add this important healthy living tool to your daily lifestyle. 

Why Should You Be Drinking Alkaline Water?

Alkaline Water Improves Health and Performance

Just what is alkaline water, anyway?  Widely used in Japan and Europe, this water is rapidly gaining acceptance in this country for the advantages it brings to healing and strengthening the immune system and improving human performance.  It’s just regular water that comes from your tap—but it has been processed either by electrolysis machines or by simple mineral filtration, allowing it to take on three important chemical and physical properties that make it more usable to your body.

 Alkaline water is…alkaline!  Our bodies fight to stay alkaline too.  Acid conditions are decidedly unhealthy and are generally found around cancers, infections, and areas of inflammation.  A Nobel-Price winning scientist,  Dr. Otto Warburg, stated in 1931 that “no disease, including cancer, can exist in an alkaline environment”.  His “Warburg Hypothesis is still valued in medical research today.

Alkaline water’s second characteristic is called microclustering.  In its natural state, water molecules tend to group together in large globules, which can slow their absorption by the body; that’s why you walk around “sloshing” in your stomach after drinking a big glass of water.   Microclustered , or hexagonal water, groups these molecules into smaller packages allowing the water to pass rapidly through membranes and be absorbed.  You don’t have a “water belly” after drinking even a large amount of alkaline water.

Finally, alkaline water is an antioxidant.  Antioxidants are important in preventing cancer, heart disease, inflammation, diabetic complications and other health problems.  Alkaline diets are popular, and include lots of green vegetables and fruits, but alkaline water is even more potent in increasing the health-promoting features of a healthy lifestyle.  Carbonated drinks, “sports drinks”, and most bottled water products are acidic and promote unhealthy conditions in our bodies.  Drinking alkaline water can eliminate and reverse these bad effects. 

Come in and start a healthy lifestyle today!

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Start Every Day Feeling Better

Repair, Flush, Restart

A good night's sleep lets your body rest and repair itself.  When you get up, a good way to get rid of the "cobwebs" of sleepiness is with a drink of alkaline water.  I'd recommend at least a 16-20 ounce bottle. Or two!  This will help rehydrate you, flush toxins from your system, and give you a jump on the day!  Follow this with a cup of fresh green tea with a twist of lemon.  Enjoy!

I have medical problems. Is alkaline water safe for me?

The short answer is "Yes".

Most people who are regular users of alkaline antioxidant water started drinking it because they WERE sick.   They were looking for some way other that the ineffective medicines they were taking to allow them to feel better and function better.  These folks didn't give a thought to the question of whether alkaline water was safe--they were desperate and would have tried it even if they had heard it was not safe.  Let's consider some common medical conditions and the health benefit of alkaline water on those conditions.

Cancer   

Most of the water users I know are cancer survivors or are under treatment for some type of cancer.  Bill, one of the men who sold me my ionizer, had throat cancer and had received radiation and chemotherapy and was actually a hospice patient, having been told he had three or four months to live.  A walnut-sized tumor remained in his throat, and he was unable to swallow solids or liquids without severe pain.  Given a few gallons of water to try, within hours his throat pain was gone and he gained strength rapidly.  He is cancer-free today, many years later.  Bill says, "Alkaline water did not cure my cancer.  It allowed my body to heal and become stronger so my body's natural systems could cure the cancer."  Alkaline water helps reverse the dehydration and acidity which often accompany cancer and cancer treatment.

Auto-immune Diseases

This big category includes rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, some types of colitis, certain skin disorders, and some even rarer disorders of the respiratory system and kidneys.  These are inflammatory diseases, and the potent anti-inflammatory effect (negative ORP) of the water may help to reduce oxidation, inflammation, and pain.  Better hydration and alkalinization may be factors too.  Using alkaline water allows people to be more comfortable while using their current medication plan; others may be able to reduce their need for medications while some may eliminate medications completely.

Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and Polymyalgia

These conditions, like the autoimmune diseases, may successfully respond to alkaline water just as the autoimmune diseases do, probably for the same reasons listed above

In a future post we will discuss other conditions such as obesity, heart and blood pressure issues, digestive problems and acid reflux.

Following an Alkaline Diet? Don't miss the most important part.

Don't Waste  All Your Efforts

Following an alkaline diet has received a lot of attention in recent years with the publication of books like The Paleo Diet and The pH Miracle.  These meal plans encourage eating lots of green vegetables and fresh fruits, preferably raw, along with lean, "grass fed" organic meats.  This type of eating will go a long way to help alkalinize your body and achieve weight loss and relief of pain.  Alkaline antioxidant water can make this type of meal plan more successful in a couple of ways.

First of all, if you are following an alkaline diet, but using carbonated drinks, regular bottled water, or sports drinks for your liquid intake, the acidity of these beverages will cause you to lose much of the antioxidant benefit of the meal.  By drinking alkaline water, on the other hand, you can greatly b enhance the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory effect of this diet because of the enormous anti-oxidant property of this water.

This enormous anti-oxidant property can also help you when you are not able to strictly follow your alkaline meal plan.  Let's face it, it isn't always easy to have fresh green groceries on hand or to prepare them when you are pressed for time.  If you need to use prepared foods or even restaurant foods, drinking alkaline water with these foods can eliminate and reverse any acidifying tendencies that these non-green foods can bring.

So if you're trying to live an alkaline lifestyle, don't skip the alkaline water--it's the most important part.

Why Alkaline Water?

Why should anyone want to use alkaline water?

I had never heard of alkaline water and as a doctor fairly well schooled in most health matters, that surprised me.  I was in a conversation with a professional colleague about how there were just some conditions that regular modern medicine seemed powerless to help.   He had done missionary work and had contracted a tropical disease that had ravaged his system and was frustrated that most medications prescribed for him had not been helpful, and some had caused considerable harm.  In closing, almost as a "throwaway line", he said, "...but nothing has helped me as much as alkaline water."

What the heck is alkaline water, I asked.  I had never heard of it.  He explained to me that alkalline water not only had a higher pH, but also had powerful anti-inflammatory qualities and an unusual characteristic called "microclustering" which allowed water to be more rapidly absorbed by the body.  Widely used in Europe, alkaline water is even more widely accepted in Japan where it is considered an acceptable medical treatment and is used in hospitals and other medical settings.

From a medical standpoint alkaline water is attractive because most serious medical conditions--cancer, infections, inflammation--survive and thrive in acid environments; thus the idea that making conditions more alkaline suggests that there would be a curative or at least helpful effect on these illnesses.  In fact, an early cancer researcher, Dr. Otto Warburg (winner of a 1931 Nobel Prize) stated that "No illness, including cancer, can exist in an alkaline environment".  His work, referred to as the Warburg Hypothesis  is still an important concept in the study of cancer some 80 years later.

If you attend a gathering of alkaline water users, you find a very mixed group of cancer survivors, cancer patients, asthmatics, athletes, arthritis sufferers, and a whole collection of people with inflammatory and auto-immune disorders such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic pain and diabetic complications. All of them will testify to the value of alkaline water as an important part of their treatment and feeling of increased well-being.

In future posts we will provide information on these and other aspects of alkaline water use.