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Sometimes it feels like there are more types and brands of water than drops in the ocean. You go to the grocery store and discover a huge shelf packed with different brands of water that all claim to be health-beneficial. Add in the hundreds of in-house water purifiers, and it can seem like a “sea” of confusing options (cue the pun).
Thankfully, your choice doesn’t have to be that complicated.
Most drinking water comes from natural sources and may have been enhanced with mineral content, including:
Out of the above sources, your safest bet is always bottled, processed water – simply because you can be confident that it is free from contaminants. Tap water and well water are also safe and healthy options in many places around the world, as the natural sources are contaminant-free. In-house filtration systems can also be effective at making tap water safer to drink.
In essence, there are two things each type of good drinking water have in common:
The variances are in the form of taste, source, and concentration of beneficial solids in the water.
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We purify water for two distinct reasons:
Unlike the human body, machines and equipment do not need water with mineral content. It is much safer and better to use water that has been highly purified – such as distilled water – as it doesn’t leave mineral deposits behind.
And herein lies the problem: It has become increasingly popular to promote super-purified water as healthy for the human body.
Reverse-osmosis machines (machines that push water at high pressure through a special filter to eliminate 95-99% of solids), as one example, are being sold for homes to purify the tap water and make it drinkable. The problem, again, is in the missing mineral content.
Sodium, magnesium, potassium, and calcium are four of the essential electrolytes that your body requires to:
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When you drink water that is devoid of these minerals, your body has to pull the minerals from other parts of your body. For this reason, over-purified water is known to create mineral deficiencies and can result in significant adverse physiological reactions.
In one famous study from the WHO, two countries had a national rollout of reverse-osmosis water, and within three months the population began suffering from:
Furthermore, long-term studies of individuals and families who drink mineral-free water on a routine basis discovered:
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The undeniable fact is that water is a critical source of minerals, and routinely drinking mineral-free water not only cuts an available source of healthy water but can also drain the minerals from your body.
Pure water will naturally and aggressively absorb minerals it contacts, which makes it a poor choice for cooking. Tests have demonstrated that cooking veggies and other mineral-rich foods in distilled or RO water can cause a loss of up to 70% of the mineral content in your food.
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Drinking the occasional RO or distilled water will not kill you, and you probably won’t suffer any symptoms. The problem enters when you have it regularly over several months.
In some cases, however, RO water might be the best and most effective option – such as in areas with highly polluted tap water and low availability (or high cost) of bottled drinking water.
In these and all cases, the key to remember is that your body needs the minerals. Drinking RO water as a stable part of your diet can be a viable option – but only so long as you supplement the lost minerals through a diet rich in natural mineral content, or by taking a dietary supplement.
Products like BodyHealth’s Perfect Amino Electrolytes and nutrient-dense vegetables like kale, broccoli, and others can go a long way to giving your body the minerals it needs for optimum health.
So, when you are considering which water to buy and any kind of in-house filtration – just remember to keep the minerals in one way or another and stay deficiency-free!
You know that the cardiovascular system is responsible for pumping blood and oxygen throughout your system, right? And that the endocrine system manages hormones? And that your nervous system relays messages throughout your body?
Well, underlying all these systems is an astoundingly complex electrical system.
This electrical system is busy sending an almost uncountable number of messages to the muscles, bones, brain, and the cells. The human brain is the home to approximately 100 billion neurons, each firing about 200 times every second.
What if achieving your next level of high performance didn’t have anything to do with building more muscle?
According to research, your highest level of optimal health and athletic performance may be more about using the resources you already have to their highest capacity…
And it all comes down to a new way of managing your hydration.
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Everyone knows that too much sugar is bad for you. You heard it from your parents, and if you have children, you avoid allowing them to have too many sweet drinks and candy, right?
Well, we have some bad news for you. The for-profit food industry has developed ways of sneaking sugar into your diet without making it obvious. In other words, you and your family are likely consuming much more sugar than you thought – and paying the price.
To understand this, we have to take a step back and walk through exactly what sugar is, what it does to your body, and how you get it. Let’s begin.
