What’s Wrong With Our Water?

What's Wrong With My Tap Water?

Many, many years ago our water was clean and pure. It's not clean and it's not pure anymore. Not today. You need a water distiller! Everything your body does requires water. In fact, you are 75% water. It is estimated that a person with a 70-year life span who drinks two pints of water per day will pass 4,500 gallons of water through their system. Unless the water is distilled, it will include 200 to 300 pounds of rock - inorganic calcium (lime), magnesium and other mineral deposits. Did you ever wonder why we use distilled water in our steam irons? Because tap or well water will clog up the holes.

The most common mineral in the ground is calcium carbonate (lime) which is also a primary ingredient in making concrete or cement. If you have ever seen a large stalamite or stalagtite in a limestone cave you can visualize how this hard rock forms, one drop at a time, whether in a cave... or in your arteries, kidneys or in your joints. Stones will build up in the kidneys and gall bladder in the same way when we drink well or tap water. Stone will also build up in the blood stream.

When a person has arteriosclerosis, doctors often recommend by-pass surgery, balloon surgery (angioplasty) or some other costly method to replace, clear or get around the larger arteries that are blocked and causing concern. There are obvious short-comings to this approach. Although the largest artery in the body is the aorta, which is a few inches long, the great majority of our blood vessels are microscopically small capillaries, which if placed end to end would be about 60 miles long.

If your arteries are clogged you should fix the entire 60 miles not just a few inches. After all, in your house, the smaller pipes will clog up first.

It is the tiny capillaries in the brain that suffer the greatest damage not only from cholesterol and salt but from the inorganic rock and minerals in your water.

For this reason the popularity and the business of selling bottled mineral water is akin to the traveling snake oil salesman and his snake oil. It can't help. It can only hurt.

If you want to see the effects of this for yourself, go to a convalescent or rest home and see with your own eyes the people who can no longer think or reason for themselves. No technique on earth, other than a miracle of God, can regain the life of a human brain that has turned to stone.

An ABC News study revealed that there are over 700 chemicals in our drinking water and 129 of those chemicals have been cited by the EPA as posing serious health risks. Yet the EPA requires that our water be tested for only 14 of these chemicals. In early summer, half of the water ways in America's Corn Belt are polluted with unhealthy amounts of pesticides.

Despite the Safe Water Drinking Act of 1974, one in six Americans (40 million people) continue to drink water containing excessive levels of lead, a heavy metal that can impair the IQ and the attention span of children. One in six children have elevated levels of lead in their blood.

THE ANSWER

What is the answer to this dilemma? Lots and lots of pure water. Get a personal home water distiller. Drinking proper amounts of distilled water is the ONLY way of flushing out the toxic waste, cholesterol and mineral deposits from our blood stream, bones and other body parts.

In fact, pure water is a source of energy. Each cell in your body is 75% water. Brain tissue consists of 85% water. One of the ways water produces energy is by the splitting of water into its two components hydrogen and oxygen. Whenever this occurs, energy is released. Just as there is solar energy, there is hydro-electric energy. Your body has an electrical system and is in fact a battery. When your car battery runs out of distilled water it goes dead.

Water actually holds your cells together. Water in certain shapes become sheets of what are called hydonium ions, or H3O+. In certain areas of the body it becomes very sticky. The measure of "stickiness" is called viscosity. In solutions of higher viscosity -in a dehydrated state- the proteins and enzymes become less efficient. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is caused by dehydration!

Dehydration is a primary factor in aging and producing disease all over the body. Look at the word disease. (DIS-EASE) As you become dehydrated, you create stress in the body. Dehydration is one of the greatest producers of free radicals in the body. Free radicals cut amino acids from the proteins.

They do damage to the cell architecture. The body mechanisms that are supposed to prevent the generation of free radicals get destroyed by dehydration. When you are dehydrated, nutrition and exercise won't help.

Colas, coffee and tea all contain caffeine. Caffeine drives the water out of the body. It also constricts the blood vessels, which causes strokes.

Beer is a great dehydrator. Most people are dehydrated and don't even know it. As we get older, we get progressively dehydrated and we become completely oblivious to our need for water. Remember, as you become dehydrated, you create stress in the body. The body responds by producing hormones in the brain called endorphins. We become addicted to their effects. It's like morphine or heroin. The same amount doesn't give you the same "kick" every time.

If your urine is concentrated (dark and odorous), you are dehydrated. Your body is concentrating its urine to retain its water. Thirst is not a good indicator of your water needs. Your body has many other ways of telling you. These include stomach pains, depression, high blood pressure (when your body has to force water into the tissues, it raises the pressure), high cholesterol, liver and kidney damage and exhaustion.

Drink at least (8) 8-ounce glasses of distilled water per day. Drink more if you are a heavy person. Sixteen would be better for anyone. Most people drink coffee, tea, soft drinks, beer, etc., We simply don't drink enough pure water. Think about your liver, kidneys, bones, joints and blood vessels and give them a break... drink lots of pure water. You'll be amazed.

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