Category: Anti Aging

The Body is Dependent on Adequate Water and Ionic Minerals for All Its Functions “Our bodies consist of about 75% water, in a purely healthy state. In that state our blood is at its optimum pH, the “pump” that pushes nutrients into the cells and the acidic waste out of the cells is working to perfection. Each of your cells is plump with life and vitality. Your whole body is humming along in a flow of energy and efficiency. 

Most of the water inside us is salty. It’s just like the sea. It’s almost like we crawled out of the ocean to live life on land. Depending on our activity level, we can start to dry out at an early age. Science calls it dehydration. With dehydration, our bodies become acid and we start to age. The first visible signs are we get little laugh lines around our eyes, then it’s downhill from there. 

On the inside, we may be suffering much more damage. The ionic balance of our body fluids with their minerals and salts is so similar to the ocean that it is remarkable. When it becomes depleted due to our poor food and beverage choices, medical prescriptions, stress, poor digestion, poor assimilation, infections, and poor organ function, the body starts to suffer and it hunts within itself to find water and minerals. It will create histamine to manage the available water and set up priorities. It will also pull minerals from our bones, organs, and teeth to keep vital functions going. Our bodies just cannot function without the proper mineral electrolytes. In this dehydrated state, it starts to turbo-age. 

To reverse this process or to prevent it from happening in the first place, we need to supply the body with an abundant supply of good quality water in addition to organic, ionic, trace electrolytes, and minerals at all times. The body needs this vital trio for its continuous regeneration process. 

Over acidity in the body is due to a lack of water and minerals, particularly ionic minerals and without them, we wrinkle up like a prune. If we mimic sea saltwater, we couldn’t drink it. It is too unpleasant.  The easiest way to do this is to drink Hydra Water- fresh alkaline, anti-0xidant micro-clustered water with all its essential ionic minerals.  With Cerra Water our liver stays clean, the digestive system clears and we look and feel vitally healthy.

All that wonderful food we eat, all those nutritious greens, all that organic, tasty food that we so enjoy must metabolize. The body uses it to fire the cells. In return the cells give off carbon dioxide, water, energy and heat. When proteins are broken down and used by the cells, toxic, acidic, nitrogenous wastes like ammonia and urea are formed and excreted by the cells into the spaces between the cells. Somehow the body has to get rid of these acids because they are extremely irritating to the body and cause inflammation. It is imperative because of all of the other things that the kidneys do that are vital to life. This whole metabolic and inflammation cycle is totally dependent on water. The kidneys are responsible for filtering wastes from the blood and moving them on to the bladder to go down the chute. Along with the large intestine, the kidneys control the balance of fluids in the body. The kidneys also control the blood pressure, the blood/bone mineral balance and the body’s acid-alkaline balance (pH). The kidneys also participate in the activation of Vitamin D in the body. Blood viscosity and control of red blood cell production are also part of the kidney function. Part of this process is the kidneys control over the growth and development of bones and the nourishment of the marrow, which is the body’s source for red and white blood cells. When the water volume in the body is too low, the blood pressure drops. When this happens, the kidneys secrete a hormone called renin. Renin stimulates the production of another hormone called angiotensin. Angiotensin causes blood vessels to constrict causing in a rise in blood pressure. Angiotensin also stimulates the secretion of another hormone called aldosterone from the adrenal cortex. The adrenal glands sit on top of the kidneys. When aldosterone is secreted it causes the kidneys to retain water and sodium. This increases the volume of water in the body, which also increases blood pressure. This is called the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone cascade. If the water levels in the body are chronically low due to low water intake, the rennin-angiotensin- aldosterone system can become too active and keep blood pressure too high. Because of the amount of pure water that the body requires to meet its daily needs, it is imperative to drink enough. The osmotic pressure that acts as a pump to pump nourishment into the cells and pump acidic wastes out of the cells, is dependent on adequate water supplies. This osmotic pressure also pumps wastes into the blood stream to be carried to the kidneys. When there is inadequate water, it become harder to get nourishment into the cells. Also the acidic wastes accumulate in the tissues and contribute to an acidic body condition called acidosis. Adequate, pure water also keeps the blood at the right thickness or viscosity so that blood pressure can normalize and the kidney/adrenal function is not overworked. If the body tissues are too acidic from lack of water to man the pumps, the blood and brain must be protected. The blood can be healthy in a very narrow range of pH. If it gets near the danger zone, the kidneys send a hormonal signal to command the bones, organs and/or teeth to release minerals to buffer the acidity. This results in bone loss and chronic diseases such as Type II Diabetes and Osteoporosis. The fastest way to correct this sort of imbalance is to drink Hydra alkaline, ionized water. It rehydrates the body more quickly because the water is broken down into smaller clusters  so it is absorbed more quickly and it gives the body a net alkaline gain. The acidity begins to neutralize and the pumps start pumping the waste into the blood stream. All of the functions described here are totally dependent on water volume and of course, on the quality of the water. Proper bone development and maintenance of good strong bones is governed by the kidneys and the amount of available water, in addition to a toxin free system. By hydrating properly, the osmotic pumps can do their job so that the kidneys don’t have to work so hard. Prevention is so much easier than treatment.

It is estimated that over 80% of all deaths in North America are premature. That is to say that their deaths could have been prevented. The leading causes of death are heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Because these health conditions are the result of a chronically acid body, science now believes that these conditions are totally preventable. Other health conditions like allergies, depression, poor digestion, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, fatigue, anxiety, asthma, osteoporosis, cancer, infections and many other conditions, 68 or more, all have direct links to our nutritional intake and the amount of acidic forming foods we consume. We are a fast-paced society and to live in certain cities and parts of the world you need lots of energy just to keep up with the pace of life. But no matter which city you live in you face much more stress than someone living in a rural setting. Stress is a very strong precursor to disease. When we are stressed, we do not eat nutritionally, we do not sleep well and we use stimulants like coffee to make it through to the next cup. More acid again. This all leads to nutritional depletion which only encourages the acidic body state. There is a simple test you can do at home to see how acidic your body is. You can buy pH strips at your local health food store and test your saliva every morning. The pH of your saliva is controlled by your diet, the amount of acidic bottled water and tap water you drink, the number of other acidic beverages like coffee, tea and sodas you drink, in addition to acid forming snacks you consume daily. Recent research has linked low salivary pH to poor nutrition, high acidic water consumption and a leading indicator in several major diseases. Salivary pH is usually measured from 5.0 to 9.0, the lower the number the more acidic your body is and the more likely you are to have or develop health problems. Your ideal saliva reading should be between 7.0 and 7.4. The test strips come in a roll in a plastic container with a color indicator chart on the side. First thing in the morning, or an hour after any food or fluid intake, tear off a 1 ½ inch strip of test paper. Spit into a spoon and dip the end of the paper strip into the spoon. Match the color of the test strip as closely as possible to one of the colors on the side of the container. How acidic are you? You can adjust the pH of your saliva by improving the number of alkaline forming foods that you eat and decreasing the number of acidic foods. High protein foods like meats, fish, beans, eggs and chicken, are more acidic to the body. Vegetables, fruits and whole grains are more alkaline and should be eaten more often than other foods. One of the worst foods you can eat is that morning donut, along with coffee, soda, alcohol, sugar, artificial sweeteners, processed flour, fried foods and of course, the proverbial “anything white” category. By monitoring your saliva pH, eating more alkaline forming foods and drinking Hydra alkaline, ionized water you are taking control of your own health and taking yourself out of the statistical pile that most North Americans seem to sit.

As early as the turn of the last century, our ancestors got their water from the rivers and streams near where they lived. The water was alkaline from picking up minerals as it bubbled over the rock. It was full of extra oxygen from flowing over the rock and down waterfalls. It was full of negative ions from the sunlight. The water was healthy to drink and they fed it to their animals. Animals in the wild still drink this water as do some of the world’s longest lived races. Nowadays, we can’t do that. Most urban water is not clean nor is it safe to drink without being treated. The treatment of choice seems to be chlorine and chloramines. When chlorine comes in contact with organic matter in the water, it creates all kinds of harmful byproducts that can cause disease over time. Your body is organic matter and so is your animal’s body. Ask for our research and article library material for further information. Fortunately, science has come to the rescue. The Cerra -ceramics  produces alkaline, ionized water right from your kitchen tap. It filters out all the harmful stuff, remineralizes the water and  fills it full of  negative ions, all of which the body loves. In my house, I have cats, dogs and birds. Everything that is alive in my house gets fed this Cerra water…all the people, animals and plants. Everything is thriving. Fur and feathers look better than it ever has. Eyes are clear and everyone is happy and very healthy. And, we’re saving on vet bills.

In most people, urine is very acidic. It is the body’s way of getting rid of excess acids in the body from the metabolism of food and other lifestyle choices. When the little engines in the cells called mitochondria fire to provide us with energy, they give off little puffs of metabolic exhaust, which is very acid. The urine is the body’s way of getting rid of it. Unfortunately, if the body is dehydrated, it becomes harder and harder for these acids to be eliminated. Normally we don’t pay attention to our bladder until we get a signal that we need to empty it. We don’t know what’s in our urine or how acid or neutral it is, we just want to get rid of it. But according to recent statistics approximately 700,000 Americans and a proportionate number of Canadians have an inflammatory condition called interstitial cystitis. 90 per cent of sufferers are women, who are Caucasian and pre-menopausal. Interstitial Cystitis is more common in people in their 40’s.It is caused when the urine is very acidic and causes irritation and inflammation inside the bladder. The bladder becomes painful and it feels like the bladder needs to empty more often than is normal, sometime upwards of 15 times per day. The process starts because the body condition is way more acidic than the normal neutral state that the body is accustomed to. The body tries to remove the acids from itself and uses what available water it has to reduce its acidic load. The normal protective coating inside the bladder becomes too thin from acidic wear and urine seeps through what is left of this coating to activate an irritation/inflammation response. Because the body is short of water to begin with, histamines are produced which stimulates leukotriene and prostaglandin production. In women, nerves in and around the bladder seem to be more sensitive to the irritation and are more easily stimulated than in men, and women are more likely to “feel” pain. Alcohol, spicy foods, artificial sweeteners and smoking, all of which are acid-forming in the body, can make IC worse. IC is an unpleasant side effect of too much acid-forming foods, stress, acidic drinking water and other life style choices. Acid forming foods are usually a problem if they are not balanced with alkaline-forming foods and lifestyle choices. Some dinner plates don’t see green vegetables often enough or in sufficient quantities. For a list of acidic/alkaline foods, ask for our Food List. Stress is one of the worst acidifiers to the body next to food. There are many ways to bust stress that actually don’t cost anything: deep breathing, meditating, walking, exercising and alkalizing your body. For deep rooted stress, sometimes a round of energy therapy or counseling sessions can help. It may be money issues or even a boss that just seems to have it “out” for you. Pressure from these life situations are what we feel as stress. Some areas are blessed with alkaline tap water, but most tap waters are contaminated with chlorine and in some instances fluoride. Chlorine is toxic to the body over time and is especially unsuitable for children. Fluoride is what they use to kill rats and what they used to use in concentration camps to keep the inmates docile. A lot of tap water is acidic in pH and contributes to the acidic load in the body. Over time, this causes other chronic and age-related conditions besides IC. Bottled water is mostly acidic tap water, put through a reverse-osmosis process which makes the water even more acidic and very “hungry.” An acidic water that you drink will begin to leach minerals from your bones, organs and teeth and can, over time, create mineral depleting diseases like diabetes, osteoporosis, heart conditions, dementia or even cognitive dysfunction. You can’t find your glasses so you can find your car keys. Lifestyle choices include such things as smoking, drinking alcohol, using recreational drugs, marathon running, ironman competitions and even going to the fast food take-out for lunch because it’s cheap and convenient. These all create enormous amounts of acidic buildups in the body and over time will take their toll. So, now that we’ve pointed out possible causes for IC, what do you do about it? It is now obvious to most people that taking pills will only mask the symptoms and really won’t do anything to heal the bladder so that it will function normally. If you remember from your high school chemistry, bases neutralize acids, so you need to shift your inner terrain to a more neutral or slightly alkaline state. To do that in a way that is safe for the body, you don’t want to take sodium bicarbonate or baking soda. It impairs the function of your digestive system, starting at the stomach and could compromise your immune system. To start with, an acidic body condition usually results from dehydration. If there was adequate water, the acidic condition would be much less. The water would enable the osmotic pumps in the cell walls to flush out the toxins more efficiently. So the first thing you need to do is drink much more water than you are now. The next thing you need to do is alkalize your body. You could start by eating much more raw green food in the form of juice and salads. You could include smoothies as long as they are made mostly with green vegetables and no sugar. Vegetables are needed for a healthy body and a wide variety of raw and cooked vegetables are important to eat several times a day. Scientists and Oncologists have found that shifting the body’s acidic terrain is not always easy or fast with diet alone. Some people with serious, aggressive disease do not have the 6 to 18 months it takes to shift the body pH with diet alone. One of the leading edge Oncologists in the US has found that by adding alkaline, ionized water to a predominantly vegetable diet, the body pH begins to shift within a week. Once that happens and the person can maintain the level of pH required, symptoms within the body begin to change. Since IC is a “water” disease, drinking alkaline, ionized water makes perfect sense. Cerra Water  in one of the fastest and most  organic  ways to alkalize  your body and bring  it into  balance.

Every time you breathe out, you lose water. It’s about a quart of water every day, breathed out of your body. In cold climates, you can see it in the winter time, when you breathe, as a mist coming out of your nose and mouth. That is the invisible water vapor that is a by-product of your breathing. If you can imagine hanging wet clothes on a clothes line to be dried by the wind, they dry much more quickly that if the wind is absent. When you breathe, you create a wind, too, which can be very drying to the lungs if you don’t drink enough water. The delicate membranes that pick up oxygen and give off carbon dioxide would quickly become brittle and dry unless they are supplied with sufficient water. As the water supply diminishes, histamine is given off by the body. Histamine is a neurotransmitter that regulates the body’s water supply. When internal water is scarce, histamine increases causing smooth muscle to contract. The bronchial tubes and tubules in your lungs are smooth muscle. The contraction is an attempt to reduce the water loss from the lungs so the lungs don’t dry out. This process is what the medical profession calls asthma. In asthmatics, higher histamine levels try to prevent further water loss from the lungs. In a response to dehydration, mucus can form covering the drying membranes in an effort to conserve what water is left. If you give an asthmatic two large glasses of water to drink when the wheezing first becomes apparent, but before an attack, and let it circulate to get to the lungs, you will probably notice that the wheezing lessens as the lungs become hydrated. Providing asthmatics with adequate amounts of water, particularly Cerra  alkaline, ionized water on a constant basis will probably reduce and eventually eliminate symptoms as the lungs remain hydrated. The smaller water particle size allows for faster and more efficient absorption so that the water arrives where it is needed as quickly as possible. Perhaps Hydra alkaline, anti-oxidant, micro-clustered  water could be the best natural asthma preventative there is.

According to sports nutrition researchers, muscles are designed to work well only in a narrow range of almost zero acidity. Arterial blood works best with no acid at all. So the pH of an animals (especially a race horse) blood is critical! The body has a secret balance that is not only designed to keep your horse healthy, but to make movement more comfortable and efficient. That balance is the acid/alkaline balance. Acidity and alkalinity is measured by a unit called pH. The most important factor, other than injury that causes a horse to “train off” faster than anything else is a drop in its blood pH. In the early stages of pH disturbance, it can be hard to detect why a horse would start to lag. Sometimes a depletion of its natural alkaline reserves, injudicious training techniques; and other closely associated factors such as high grain diets, the prevailing climate and workload can also contribute to the acidic condition. For example, at rest, in a healthy horse, muscle pH should be about 6.9. The normal pH of a horse’s blood is between 7.42 and 7.45, so you can see just how narrow the range is. Any reading below 7.40 is an indication of “acidosis”. Research shows that as your horse begins to exercise, the muscles draw fuel to provide energy to move or stretch. The more time the muscles are out of “rest” the more acid they produce as they burn the fuel. So the harder a muscle has to work in a race, the quicker it will “go acid.” When the muscle pH drops below 6.5, the muscles cannot fuel themselves properly, nor can they rid themselves of the rapid acidic buildup because the hydration cycle is interrupted. The ability of muscle to generate power and movement is then restricted. The blood flow and breathing are also dramatically affected. To promote efficiency of movement in racing, in any movement or stretching exercise, there must be an intervention to alkalize and flush the system before, during and after exercise. The most efficient is alkaline, ionized water. Its alkalizing effect on the body reduces muscle fatigue, stiffness and pain. A drop in the blood pH and the subsequent rise in acidity is called acidosis but it is really a depletion of the animals alkaline reserves. Equine athletes have a very delicate acid/alkali blood balance. To get optimum performance, demands that this balance be maintained within very narrow limits. Lactic Acid build up in the muscles is produced when there is inadequate oxygen in the cells to support the current level of activity. It is formed when the muscle stores of glycogen are broken
down and used for energy creating this organic acidic buildup. If enough of this acidic waste is built up, it starts to diffuse rather quickly into the blood and affects the pH there. By starting a proactive approach to build more alkaline reserves in an equine athlete, the lactic acid diffusing into the blood will be less and overall performance will be less affected. Cerra alkaline, ionized water is one of the most efficient ways to do this. The water is produced by  water pitcher with a specialty  filter which  transforms  regular tap water into  a refreshing sweet tasting water that is loaded with anti-oxidants, more hydrating  and alkaline.  Cerra alkaline, ionized water acts like an antioxidant, because it is super oxygenated, feeding the blood stream extra oxygen so the cells can work better. Scientific research also shows that an alkaline body reduces muscle fatigue and inefficiency. It is six times more hydrating than regular water because the water is in smaller particle sizes, making them absorb faster and more easily. Because of this, it is also constantly detoxifying the body, making it faster, more efficient and comfortable for your horse to live in. Winners win more with an alkaline body.

According to some of the latest research, unrefined sea salt is actually good for your brain and especially so if you spend a lot of time in a hot environment. Your brain appears to be encased in a salty environment and floats in salty cerebral spinal fluid. Salt is constantly being pumped into this fluid. It must be replenished in the diet to maintain the optimal brain environment. The brain is 85 percent water and uses salt for taking acids out of the brain cells. The acidity is a by-product of the energy consumed by the nine trillion brain and nerve cells that constantly chatter to one another. The energy expenditure produces acidic toxic waste that must be pumped out of the brain to be eliminated. Because high pressure flows to low pressure, just like the weather, salt regulates the pressure so that the acidic wastes are pulled from the cells and pumped to the elimination pipeline. If we are short of salt or water, the acidic toxins build up in the brain and nervous system, creating things like memory problems, cognitive difficulties, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Your brain functions well on a very narrow pH range. When the brain becomes too acid, the delicate brain cells become damaged and the normal brain chatter becomes less and less efficient. This can be caused by dehydration, lack of salt or by a high acid-forming diet. The human body needs salt to regulate the water pressure inside and outside the cells. This water is the highway that transports nutrients into the cells and acidic wastes out of the cells. If this osmosis process in interrupted on a chronic basis, the body becomes toxic and stagnant. The osmosis process uses an “injection pressure” which pushes and pulls nutrient and waste where it needs to be. The drier the body becomes the higher the injection pressure has to be for the osmosis process to work. When the infection pressure becomes out of normal range, we call it hypertension. With the right salt and water balance, the push/pull doesn’t need to be as great or require so much effort on the part of the body. This results in the blood pressure returning to normal ranges. We’re told not to have salt because of the possibilities of high blood pressure. Of course too much salt is not good either. There must be the right balance. The type and quality of the salt is important, too. According to Dr. Batmanghelidj in his book The ABC’s of Asthma,Allergies and Lupus: Eradicate Asthma, salt is one of the most important elements for the body besides water.  Table salt is not good for you because it’s refined of all the other minerals and elements that are good for the body. Unrefined sea salt is a much better for your health. Today, most bottled water is very acidic and tap water is full of chemicals. Most people find tap water distasteful. In some areas of the country, it is very acidic and over time, acidic pH water will contribute to ”acidic body diseases” and dehydration.  The body does much better on  Cerra  mineralized  ionized water as it allows a neutralizing of metabolic acids so the body stays healthier for longer, or helps to restore health where it is lacking. You would be wise to build up to drinking half your body weight in ounces of alkaline, ionized water every day.   Cerra Water adds  the ionic minerals  of magnesium, potassium, calcium and of course just the right amount of sodium in the  correct  ratio and  balance to keep your  body and brain healthy. If you have fuzzy thinking or you can’t find you your car keys, drink some Cerra Water.  You’ll feel better for it.

It has been postulated for more than a century that inflammation contributes to cancer. The scientists Julius Vogel (1814-1880) and Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) put forth the theory that cancer was caused by irritation that eventually caused inflammation and thus excessive cellular growth. More recently, British Researchers have concluded that the long term over-activation of the immune system (such as through infection and inflammation) may be an important cause of cancer. Their research shows an elevation of C-Reactive Protein in most cancers, namely breast, lung, colorectal, prostate and pancreatic cancer. 1 Other researchers have also identified inflammation as a significant factor in the development of what they call “solid tumor” malignancies. There are chronic inflammatory conditions like “silent inflammation” ,that medicine cannot establish a significant cause, that provide a supporting environment for the growth of malignancies. Some of the new research is pointing this unknown cause to the chronic acidity in the body environment. More research concludes that it all starts with our poor North American diet and acidic tap water intake and more acidic bottled water intake. Chronic dehydration can be caused by the acidic state or acidic-forming state of what is taken in to the body. For example, someone may drink two to three litres of acid-forming bottled water per day and still be dehydrated by the acidic body condition. Tumors, when they are developing are just proliferating cells. The theory is that it looks much like a wound to the host, so inflammatory cells come in and do their job. They urge the growth onwards. The inflammation thrives in an acidic environment, thus encouraging growth of cancerous cells. Any “itis” disease, like pancreatitis, gastritis, colitis and so on, is an inflammatory disease that can cause an increased risk for cancer. Chromosomal damage and inflammation can change cells to the point where they overgrow and produce malignancies. Chemicals in the body called cytokines and even free radicals caused by body metabolism can increase the number of cells and impede the body’s natural tumor defenses. Researchers at the Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have found that the earliest stages of prostate cancer may develop from lesions generally associated with cancer. The same inflammatory connection can be drawn to other “itis” conditions related to smoking and lung cancer, spicy foods and stomach cancer and so on. There are many irritants in the body that can cause inflammation to the point of being chronic. Infections, oxidative stress, allergies, smoking, poor food choices, excessive alcohol use, pesticide and herbicide exposure from occupations and many others can contribute significant enough chronic irritation to cause cellular overgrowth. Since it is know that other foreign invaders, free radicals, advanced glycation end-products (excess sugars) and food allergies suppress the immune system and cause inflammation, it would be wise for cancer patients and those at risk for developing cancer to minimize all forms of inflammatory inducing antigens by eating only organic whole alkaline-forming foods and drink alkaline, ionized water. Irritation and inflammation can only exist in an acidic body condition where the body is breaking down faster than it can repair itself. Excess sugars promote an acidic body condition where all those at risk for cancer or who have it, should eliminate all forms of sugar from their diet. The immune system needs to be as healthy as possible to deal with cancer cells, no matter how few or many. By enhancing antioxidant activity with Cerra  alkaline, anti-oxidant water, alkaline-forming foods, high natural antioxidants like purple fruits, other antioxidants like Vitamin C and E, immune stimulants, proteolytic enzymes, complex mineral salts and cold water fish oils, you will begin to control the factors of inflammation. Cancer cannot exist in an alkaline body. By promoting alkalinity in what you put in your mouth, you are reducing your inflammatory index and restoring your immune function, back on the road to health. The fastest way to bring your body into an  alkaline balanced state   is by drinking Cerra Water. References: 1)  O’Byrne, KJ and Dalgleish, AG.  “Chronic Immune Activation and Inflammation as the Cause of Malignancy.

The most alarming statistics around breast cancer are coming out. “Every 13 minutes another woman dies from the environmental, dietary and metabolic acids that cause breast cancer, an acidic condition of the breast tissue that has more than tripled in incidence over the past 50 years,” states Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of the pH Miracle Living Center, in San Diego County, California. Chlorine is a recognized pesticide. It has been added to our drinking water supplies, as a disinfectant, since the late 1800’s. When chlorine combines with organic compounds in the water (sediment) or our bodies, organochlorines are formed. According to Wikipedia, organochlorines include chloroform, dichloromethane, dichloroethene, and trichlorotheane. Other organochlorines include haloacetic acids and trihalmethanes. Scientific studies have linked the accumulation of chlorine compounds in breast tissue to cancer. Organochlorines react with metabolic acids in human tissue and are being recognized more and more as a causative agent to cancer. In Hartford, Connecticut, as study there four “women with breast cancer have 50 to 50 percent higher levels of organochlorines (chlorination by-products) in their breast tissue than women without breast cancer.” It’s no wonder. Chloroform, dichloromethane, dichloroethene and trichloroethane are useful as solvents in dry cleaning and degreasing. Many pesticides used in the agriculture sector are also organochlorides. These include DDT, Dicofol, Heptachlor, Endosulfan, Chlordane, Mirex and Pentachlorophenol. These organochloramines mimic these poisons in your body. Organochloramines can pose serious health threats to humans and can be found in many unexpected places. Up to 2/3 of our harmful exposure to chlorine happens while showering, using hot tubs and swimming pools. The skin is the largest organ of the body and has even been dubbed the third kidney. Every time we shower or bathe, chlorine is absorbed through the pores of our skin and breathed in through our lungs. The steam that is inhaled while showering or swimming can contain up to 50 times more chlorine that by drinking tap water. The chlorine gas, given off by hot water in the shower or hot tub is extremely toxic and it is breathed in, where it goes directly into the blood stream. From there, who knows where it will end up and accumulate. More and more evidence is suggesting that it is ending up in breast tissue. An article published by Greenpeace in 1993 outlines the health risks associated with chlorine.  The article is called, “Chlorine, Human Health, and the Environment: The Breast Cancer Warning.” You can look it up on the internet quite easily. With such compelling evidence, it is important that every woman examine the facts and make intelligent choices for her health. I, for one, see no use for chlorine, once the water comes out of my tap, so I c use the Cerra Water pitcher  which  not only reduces  chlorine and its by-products and other contaminants but adds essential  ionic minerals making the water alkaline, adds  anti-oxidants  and make the water bundles into smaller clusters. I get alkaline, super-oxygenated, antioxidant, microclustered water that promotes more vital energy, more efficient hydration, efficient detoxification and vibrant health. I see no reason to become any of the one in seven women that have the probability of developing cancerous acidic breasts  over their lifetime. Breast cancer is one of the most important health issues facing women today. It is the second leading cause of acidic cancer deaths in women and is the most common acid cancer among women. According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million women will be diagnosed with cancerous breasts this year, worldwide.  Cerra alkaline,anti0oxdiant water along with a healthy diet allows me to enjoy the benefits that make life worth living…joyful health.

There are hidden substances all around you, in the air, in your food and water. Not to get paranoid about it is a good call. You would have a hard time living, if you knew and dwelt on all the ramifications. But a good housecleaning once in a while is a good plan. As you learn to reduce, reuse and recycle in your own home and environment, you learn to reduce toxins and waste in your world. You learn to do things a different way and you learn to do without things that are potentially harmful. You can do that inside, too, in your internal environment. Just as our world has become piled with garbage, polluted with industrial chemicals, wastes and filled with smoggy air, so is our inner world filled with the remnant of toxins that we take into our bodies unwittingly or unknowingly, day after day. These toxins suppress our body’s natural ability to function causing disease, chronic fatigue, anxieties, weight gain and many other break downs in our ability to self heal and keep well. Research is showing that over 90 percent of the pollutants that enter the body do so through the intestinal tract. The colon is the major place where absorption takes place. The rise in diseases of the colon is alarming. Colon cancer is becoming an ever increasing statistic. Toxins are acidic, our diets are acidic, our drinking water is acidic and the stress that fills our lives is acidic, as we rush around coping with our busy schedules. Colitis, Acid Reflux, Chrone’s Disease, IBS, Diverticulitis are all based on the acidic terrain in our bodies. Arthritis, headaches, high blood pressure, and diabetes are also a result of an acidic body state. pH is key. An acidic body terrain is called acidosis. We get like that because of our life-style choices and chronic dehydration which affects over 90 percent of the population. We’re the coffee generation, not the water generation. That’s why we’re so dehydrated. A lot of people with an acidic body terrain are also overweight which can add to the body’s burden. The body shunts toxins off to the fat cells for storage to keep them away from your vital organs. Toxins and your vital organs are not too compatible. This fat is actually saving your life. But you don’t have to be fat to be toxic. Even Robert Bateman who eats organic food, drinks spring water and watches what he uses in his household had 42 chemicals, not related to his painting, in his body when he was tested in a national survey. I have a copy of that survey if you would like it. There are many ways to detoxify the body, lose weight and restore the body’s natural ability to heal itself. There are lots of cleansing products on the market. They are available at any health food store. It is also a really good idea to do a parasite cleanse once a year or so, especially if you eat pork or travel to places like Mexico. One of the easiest ways to cleanse and lose weight at the same time is with Cerra  alkaline, ionized water. Because the water is alkaline, it reduces the acidic load on the body. The body is then able to hydrate properly and the osmotic pumps at the cell gateways begin to function and pump the toxins and waste into the blood stream and lymph to be eliminated. The important point about this amazing water is that it helps your body return to balance. Whatever is “wrong” is where the alkalinity, minerals, negative ions, extra oxygen and antioxidant qualities goes. A whole chain reaction starts. Your body knows how to fix itself, it just needs the right tools in its tool box. And, those tools aren’t lotions, potions or pills. All of the magic juices are acidic and contribute to acidity in your body. Your saliva needs to be 7.4 pH when you wake up in the morning. A 6.4 pH reading is ten times more acidic than it should be. A pH reading of 5.4 is 100 times more acidic than it should be. The pH scale is logarithmic so even small changes in pH can have huge consequences in the body. When you put anything in your mouth it will have an acidic or an alkaline consequence in your body. Of course you want to enjoy life and indulge once in a while is something special to eat or drink. You don’t want to be worried about what negative consequences ” it “ is going to have on your body pH or on your toxic load. So drink some extra Cerra alkaline, ionized water to bring your body back to balance and to a more “green” state. Cheers! Bottoms Up!

In the Globe and Mail newspaper on Wednesday November 9, 2005, Andre Picard reported on a study on human contaminants, using 11 volunteers, including well know wildlife artist, Robert Bateman. The resulting report entitled “Toxic Nation: A Report on Pollution in Canadians,” shows how despite clean living, we are all a repository for all kinds of toxins and pollutants, including, heavy metals; PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls used in electrical transformers and now banned); PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers used as fire retardants); PFOs (perfluorinated chemicals used in stain repellants, non-stick cookware and food packaging), pesticides and insecticides. Robert Bateman is a very environmentally conscious individual who eats organic food and lives in a rural community. If he has 48 different toxic substances in his body, can you imagine what a city dweller could have in theirs. The most alarming thing about having these toxins inside us is, not only are we poisoned and our future health will reflect that, but those toxins turbo-age our bodies. If you understand the dynamics of how the body stores toxins, you also understand that there are ways to detox and get rid of them. Some of the ways are very time consuming and expensive, like chelation. Far infrared saunas are good for certain types of contaminating toxins. Certain herbs like cilantro are great for removing heavy metals from the body, if you eat fairly large quantities of it.  Cerra alkaline, ionized water will aid in toxin release as well. It is one of the best reverse aging tools out there, so that is a double bonus. Let’s look at how the body deals with toxins once they get in there. If you breathe in fumes, swallow something containing toxins, or touch something toxic and it is absorbed through your skin, there will be varying degrees of contamination. For argument sake, let us assume that minute amounts of something get into your body and are not excreted. Your body will probably wisk it into your fat cells, particularly belly fat and breast fat, where it will encapsulate the toxin away from your organs where it can do a great deal of damage. Traces of it can still be found in your hair, blood, urine or fingernails, but the majority of it is stored away. Depending on the toxin, traces could land in your brain, bones and nervous system. So, now, what’s a body to do? Toxins are acidic and form metabolic acids in the body. By using far infrared saunas, the infrared penetrates to the fat layer just under the skin, agitating the cellular and intracellular water. This loosens toxins but there must be enough water in the body to ferry them to the kidneys and bowels to be excreted. One of the strategies is to create an alkaline condition in the body to neutralize chronic acidosis, that most of us have, by drinking Cerra  alkaline, ionized water. It relieves some of the acids from the toxins, in addition to creating the venue to excretion. Clients in my clinic who have experienced environmental poisoning are seeing steadily decreasing amounts of toxin by drinking  Cerra alkaline, ionized water. Even after a few months, using the water, they look and feel younger. The fatigue and heaviness is leaving them and they are attacking life with renewed vigor.

Alkaline Water Used to Neutralize Toxins Prof. Kuwata Keijiroo, Doctor of Medicine In my opinion, the wonder of antioxidant water is the ability neutralizes toxins, but it is not a medicine. The difference is that the medicine can only apply to each and individual case, whereas the antioxidant water can be consumed generally and its neutralizing power is something which is very much unexpected. Now, in brief, let me introduce to you a heart disease case and how it was cured. The patient was a 35 years old male suffering from vascular heart disease. For 5 years, his sickness deteriorated. He was in the Setagays Government Hospital for treatment.
 
During those 5 years, he had been in and out of the hospital 5 to 6 times. He had undergone high tech examinations such as angiogram by injecting VINYL via the vein into the heart. He consulted and sought treatment from many good doctors where later he underwent a major surgical operation. Upon his discharge from the hospital, he quit his job to convalesce. However, each time when his illness relapsed, the attack seemed to be even more severe. Last year, in August, his relatives were in despair and expected he would not live much longer. It so happened at that time that the victim’s relative came across an antioxidant alkaline water processor… His illness responded well and he is now on the road to recovery.”
In the United States, cardiovascular diseases account for more than one-half of the approximate 2 million deaths occurring each year. It is estimated that optimal conditioning of drinking water could reduce this cardiovascular disease mortality rate by as much as 15 percent.

Go to the fridge of any supermarket and you will find dozens and dozens of different brands of water and other beverages. There are even a dozen or so energy drinks which will shock your adrenals and give you a temporary boost of cortisol to rev you up. If all else fails get a shot of caffeine with a bunch of sugar added, can it and you’re good to go. To understand why you are dehydrated, we need to look at the basics. It all comes down to acid/alkaline balance and of course why you are attracted to drinks in bottles in the first place. It is not attractive or enticing to drink something out of a tap that smells like a swimming pool. Not to mention the carcinogenic by-products that are floating in it. Besides, you can’t take the tap with you when you leave home. Bottles are portable and convenient. But, their contents are mostly acidic, with a very few exceptions. Over time, just eating food makes your body acidic, especially the typical North American diet. When your body becomes acidic, the water in and around your cells becomes acidic as well. The osmotic pump that pumps fuel into the cells and the waste out of the cells, doesn’t work so well. When you drink acidic tap water and bottled beverages, the water goes in and within a very short time, needs to come out. So it goes in the mouth and then almost right to the bladder because everything else is stagnant. Almost anything you buy in a bottle is acidic. There are a couple of spring waters that come closer to 6.0 to 7.0 pH. They all stimulate free-radical production in the body because of the way they are processed. Their capacity to do this can be measured by using an Oxygen Reduction Potential (ORP) meter. With the cellular osmotic pump not working too well and adding more acidic beverages to the already acidic body, water can’t get to the cells. Now you are dehydrated. You become chronically so over the years as this process continues. Some of the mechanics of water assimilation also has to do with the particle size of the bunches of water molecules. When water sits in a reservoir or in the pipes, it is constantly making and remaking bonds with other molecules. These bunches of molecules can be quite large. It’s like me saying, “Take this apple and put it into your mouth.” You can’t do it. It’s too big. If you cut the apple up into small pieces, then you can put the pieces of apple into your mouth and chew them. Your cells are exactly the same. Whatever needs to go into the cells, needs to fit through the gates. Water in and water out, is an indication that the water clusters are not fitting into the cell gates. That is why we have something called microclustering. The bunches of water molecules are broken into smaller cluster sizes. Along with large molecule clusters and the intake of acidic substances, the body has to wrestle with its own acidic waste. How do you break the cycle? You alkalize. The easiest way is to look after both problems at once. Take care of the acidity and the hydration together with  alkaline, ionized water. When you drink the hydrogen  water, it starts to loosen the acidic wastes and toxins around the cells so that the osmotic pump starts working again and the cells are more efficiently fed and hydrated. Not only that, the thirst mechanism turns back on so that you realize just how dehydrated you have been. Your body will crave the  alkaline, ionized water. At first there will be more water going in than is coming out as your cells soak up the water. Then you will start to notice that you now need to get rid of some of the water. By urinating, toxins start leaving the body quite efficiently. As more and more toxins leave the body, fat cells which have stored the toxins all this time, start to shrink. A by-product of alkaline, hydration is fat loss. What could be simpler?

Asthma is a histamine response due to dehydration. In my article Water An Antihistamine, I explain how histamine regulates the body’s water supply. When the body is short of water, histamine will control where the water is directed based on priority. Asthma, it was once thought, was brought on by stress, especially in children. Studies have shown that an estimated 75 percent of the population has some degree of dehydration, significant enough to affect their health. Along with dehydration, the majority of people’s body state is acidic due to our typical North American diet. Children love junk food which is very dehydrating and acidifying to the body which will explain why there are over 12 million child asthma sufferers in North America. There are many millions of adult sufferers as well. Now we know that asthmatics have excessive levels of histamines in their lung tissues. If you breathe through your mouth long enough your mouth gets dry. Water is an integral part of keeping the lungs moist and functioning properly. Every time you breathe out, you lose water. When enough water is lost through the lungs, histamine kicks in to constrict the bronchial passages and increase mucus production to conserve whatever water is there. The mucus covers the tissues to prevent them from drying out. Once a diagnosis of asthma has occurred the person has been chronically dehydrated for some time. The constriction of the bronchial tubes occurs because there is not enough water to keep the cells hydrated and the nerves and blood vessels in the tissues are stressed and inflamed due to the histamine response. If you are properly hydrated, the moisture in the lungs is rapidly replaced so histamine is not required to conserve and delegate water. By drinking enough water, particularly  alkaline, ionized water, the inflammation in the lung tissue is relieved much sooner than drinking bottled water, tap water or reverse osmosis water. Water that is magnetized does not have a high enough pH to effectively address the acidic body terrain that is endemic in the population. Water that is microclustered is the most effective in hydrating the body. People seem to experience that the “water is wetter”, which seems like a silly statement, but the surface tension is significantly different. The alkalinity helps reduce the acid terrain and restore cellular balance. Tests in animals show that an increase in water intake will reduce histamine levels significantly. Studies show that within a 2 to 3 week period enough water is present to reduce mucus buildup in the bronchi and lungs. Once this starts to occur, the spasms reduce and the bronchial passages begin to open. Normal breathing begins again as the body continues to be hydrated. In my clinic, I am seeing the same results with clients, their asthmatic symptoms are no longer there, now that they are hydrated properly. One client decided that his asthma was gone so he stopped drinking  alkaline, ionized water. He started to drink tap water again. Within 3 weeks, he was starting to see symptoms again. Wisely, he started drinking his Hydrogen water again and he is now symptom free.

People with diabetes should have regular testing to make sure that their diabetes is under control and not causing further health complications. Doctors are saying it is not enough to do daily in-home glucose testing. The goal with all diabetics should be to keep their blood glucose as close to normal as possible. There are a number of routine clinical tests available for diabetics, but a new study shows that not all diabetics are getting these tests done by their health care professionals. There are four tests available for people with diabetes. The first test is a hemoglobin A1c test which measures blood glucose levels over time.  The American Diabetic Association recommends that this test be done twice a year. Some health professionals recommend it be done four times per year.  This test shows the average blood glucose level over several months. The second test is equally important. It is a urine protein test, which is used to measure kidney function and efficiency. It is an important test to monitor the kidneys for damage from the side effects of the diabetic condition. The third test is a dilated eye exam which detects damage to the eyes from diabetes. It is so important to protect the eyesight and prevent problems that can cause blindness or partial blindness. Number four is an examination of the feet and legs to check or irritation, inflammation and sores. People with diabetes have a hard time healing once sores break out in the legs and feet. Sores are sometimes a result of poor circulation, a side effect of diabetes. If you are diabetic and you have not had these tests and examinations done regularly, please check with your health care professional . Your health is important and should be monitored frequently.

Diabetes is endemic in North America and in countries that start eating our Western Diet. What happened? Our ancestors didn’t become diabetic. It was a rare disease back then. It seems to have crept up on us all until we were snared in it and now there seems to be no way out….but maybe not! The evidence suggests that we have slipped away from the diet that was farm based and full of fresh, organic produce and meats. We live off store shelves full of convenience foods and then we rush through the drive-thru to get the kids to soccer practice. Rush here, rush there. We are stressed, acidic, dehydrated and exhausted. yesterday. It started when you graduated from kindergarten, especially after you discovered McWhatever. Gallons of pop and well salted fries later and you started on the road to acidosis and dehydration. Add to the all night parties during and after high school and you had more acidic by-products that your body still can’t get rid of because of your dehydration. Hmmm. Is there a pattern emerging here? Most kids think eggs come from an egg carton and they don’t eat green stuff because it doesn’t taste like McFries or McFlurries. They don’t eat veggies because their parents don’t like them either. We’re teaching our kids to be diabetic because we don’t teach them to drink water and to make healthy food choices. The pancreas is where insulin is made. If you have problems with your insulin production and regulation, you are deemed to be diabetic. Believe it or not the pancreas has two functions. The first is to regulate the balance of the different water systems in the body –blood, lymph, kidneys, digestive system and of course the cells. Our bodies should be about 70 percent water. Each cell has a water volume that is regulated by the amount of potassium available to it. Insulin is very effective in regulating amino acid and potassium levels in the cells, in addition to pushing food/fuel into them through insulin-sensitive “gates” in the outer cell membrane. It is all dependent on adequate water levels in the body. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean coffee, tea, sports drinks, carbonated anything, or even lattes. It means clean, non-chemical, alkaline, water, preferably ionized, highly oxygenated and mineralized. The other role that the pancreas has is to gather approximately two quarts of water from within the body, mix it with bicarbonate that it manufactures, along with pancreatic enzymes and secrete it into the small intestine to neutralize the acids pouring from the stomach to begin the next phase in the digestive process. If there is a water shortage within the body, the pancreatic juice may not be in sufficient amounts to neutralize all the acids that enter the intestines to continue the process of food digestion. At this point, something has to happen. The pancreas reduces insulin secretion which slows the entry of water and nutrients into the cells of the body that depend on insulin to feed. This enables more water to be available to the pancreas to produce its pancreatic juice. When the insulin-sensitive gates in the outer membrane cannot deliver water and nutrients to the cells, the gates wither and can die. This is the start of the degenerative processes associated with diabetes.. As the body become more dehydrated, it also becomes more acidic and needs to use more of the bicarbonate and minerals from your bones, organs and teeth to buffer the pH of the blood and the brain to keep you alive. In diabetes, insulin stops pushing water into the cells because there isn’t enough to service all bodily functions. This happens in two ways. The first is where the pancreas just stops producing insulin. It has the ability but it stops because of a water shortage. This causes Type II Diabetes which is reversible. Another way that the body deals with the water crisis is to damage the insulin producing cells within the pancreas. The nuclei of the Islets of Langerhans, the insulin producing cells are damaged beyond repair. This is Type I Diabetes. It is a type of “auto-immune” disease where the body attacks troublesome parts of itself rather than struggle with the lack of water. Type II Diabetes can respond to a gradual increase in alkaline water consumption to at least two quarts daily along with some added ionic mineral salts. The body need both water and salt (not table salt) to function well. Our ancestors drank river and stream water. It bubbled over the rocks gathering minerals and oxygen and the sun shone on it, filling it full of negative ions. Today, in remote areas of the world, long-lived pockets of society still drink this type of water today. They are healthy and strong well beyond most of the population. We can’t move to these remote places but we can drink similar healthy water. Science has created a machine that sits on your kitchen counter and makes that fresh mountain stream available to you anytime and you don’t have to hike to get it. This water is called alkaline, ionized water. If you want to improve your health you need to try this amazing water. You’ll get your life back.

In the November 26, 2008 issue of Cell, The Columbia University Medical Center research group, led by Gerard Karsenty, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Genetics and Development at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, has discovered a unique link between bone growth and serotonin levels. In the past, the main focus of serotonin research was to study its effects on mood, sleep, and appetite, in addition to other brain functions which utilize approximately 5 percent of the body’s serotonin. Researchers have known for a few years now that the other 95 percent of the body’s serotonin is produced in the duodenum, a part of the small intestine. It was assumed that the serotonin there was involved with digestion. A gene called Lrp5 was found to regulate serotonin production and utilization in the gut. To the surprise of researchers, they found that by turning the production of serotonin on and off, they could control bone formation in menopausal mice. It seems that serotonin signals bone cells to slow production of new bone. Turning off serotonin production in the small intestine, prevents osteoporosis in the mice experiencing menopause. Researchers hope to use this model to prevent and treat osteoporosis in people in the future. This is proof positive that the conditions in your digestive tract should be optimum at all times. Everything that is put into your mouth affects your digestive tract in some way – good or bad. If you are chronically dehydrated or eat a predominantly acidic diet, the neutral terrain of your body cells becomes more acidic and they cannot perform properly. Body acids affect genetic material, including Lrp5. Our bodies are designed to eat a predominantly vegetable based diet with small, occasional portions of animal protein. We are also designed to drink alkaline, ionized water like what we see from remote, non-polluted mountain streams. By including a variety of raw vegetables, nuts and seeds to your diet you are giving your body amino acids and enzymes to function optimally. Tryptophan is the amino acid that the body uses to make serotonin, and is contained in the following foods: dairy products – milk, cottage cheese, cheese, yogurt; soy products – tofu, soy milk, soybean nuts, edamame beans; seafood; meats; poultry, particularly turkey; whole grains; beans; rice; hummus and garbanzo beans; lentils; hazelnuts; peanuts; eggs; sesame seeds and sunflower seeds. If you drink Cerra alkaline, ionized water, your body will hydrate better and will tend to be closer to neutral. This prevents the metabolic acids from stimulating serotonin production to pull mineral from your bones, organs and teeth to buffer that acidity. If you have osteoporosis or a familial tendency towards it, check with your doctor or dietician regarding your diet. With this new research, it is hoped to have a better understanding of the dynamics that cause osteoporosis and how to prevent it. ©Copyright 2010 by Innovative Ionizing  Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved

There are always unmentionables that are never supposed to be included in polite conversation. There are things you just don’t talk about. When we do, we hear, “Too much information!” It seems it’s only three year olds that are fascinated with bowel movements. But, the more you know about what makes your bowels work, the better chances you have to be healthy. One of the important things you need to know is how often. Experts say that two to three times a day is optimal and once is absolutely imperative. Keeping body waste moving regularly avoids toxic build-ups and re-absorption of what the body is trying to get rid of. If it was good for your body, things would have been designed differently. Another important thing is comfort. When what needs to come out is soft, moist and easily eliminated, it is much more comfortable. If you are trying to pass bullets or hard lumps, you are constipated and could have painful bowel movements. Soft and healthy stool are light brown in color and depending you what you have eaten will float or sink slowly. The more red meat you eat, and the longer the contents sit in the colon, the darker the color. There should be no odor or very little and it should be nicely formed and have some length to it, not a loose pile or hard pellets. To be healthy and comfortable, you need lots of water and lots of fiber. The water you drink needs to be just that – water. Coffee, fruit juices and carbonated beverages contain some not so healthy ingredients that you will want to consume in as small a quantity as possible. Besides, you need about two quarts of water to digest a meal plus miscellaneous water for other metabolic and physical functions. If you don’t drink enough, the body will pull water from one place to use somewhere more important or vital. The body recycles as much water as it can but sooner or later a deficit can develop. Dehydration causes constipation in addition to a whole myriad of bothersome symptoms and chronic conditions. Cerra Eater is more hydrating than regaul bottled  or tap water.  One of  the first  things people mention  when they start  drinking Cerra water is how regular  and healthy their bowel movements  have become. The other very strong influence on digestive health is fiber from the food you eat. Fiber is the roughage contained in fruits, vegetables and whole grains that is not digested by our bodies. It is the scrubbing brush that keeps the colon clean and free from disease causing matter. Friendly bacteria in your intestinal tract help digest your food properly and manufacture some of your nutritional needs that your body absorbs. By having too little friendly bacteria and too many unfriendly ones, you will have digestive issues. You can get live probiotics from a health food store and there is an awesome product called Bio-K that is kept in the refrigerator section which will make a tremendous difference in how you feel. Yogurts and other dairy products reported to contain probiotics or acidophilus may be dead organisms and of little use to the body. Rounds of antibiotics will kill off the beneficial flora in your intestines that need to be replenished. If you have digestive problems, chances are you either not drinking enough water, eating enough fiber, have enough beneficial bacteria, or all three. Check with your health professional to see what you can do to improve your intestinal health. With the rising statistics of colon cancers and other serious digestive conditions, your life may depend on it.

The part of you that digests and processed your food is 26 feet long. It is an intricate tube that provides you with the fuel to get about your day with efficiency and vitality. Of course, your energy levels and your feelings of well-being are dependant a great deal on what you put into your mouth and how quickly it transits your body. That transit time is made efficient by the amount of fiber you eat. If you want to see how long it takes for your digestive system to process and evacuate eat some beets. Ideally foods should enter your mouth and exit the other end within 18 to 24 hours. Foods that sit in your system longer than that tend to lose more water and get more solid in your system, resulting in what is called constipation. You body needs help to move food stuffs efficiently through your digestive tract. Some of these hardened feces can stick to the sides of the intestinal walls creating all kinds of problems. Fiber is like a scouring brush that helps remove matter that is stuck on the walls of the intestines and pushes it to the other end. Fiber is what we eat that remains close to its original state by the time it reaches the colon. Unlike cows and animals that have an enzyme for breaking down fiber, we humans do not, so the fiber remains undigested and contributes to colon health. Vegetables and grains contain lots of fiber. As our food has become more and more sophisticated, we find so many foods with very little fiber. We have become a society of fast and convenience foods made with white bread and lots of meat. Vegetables may run across the plate once in a while, but not enough to provide enough fiber to keep constipation at bay. The invention of the roller mill in 1870, separated the parts of the wheat grains to make baked goods more refined. The coarse parts of the grain were used for animal feed so we lost the roughage needed to keep colons healthy. This probably explains the sky rocketing colon cancer rates we have today. There are too many toxic substances hanging around the intestines for far too long. There are two types of fiber, soluble and insoluble, but both allow the digesting matter to hold more water so that the feces stay soft and move more comfortably through the digestive tract. Insoluble fiber is like the scouring brush, pushing everything towards the exit point. Soluble fiber, on the other hand absorbs toxins and extra cholesterol taking it all though the tract to be eliminated. Obviously, soft bowel movements are more comfortable to pass and cause less strain on the body. Constipation can cause things like bad breath, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, body odor, depression, fatigue, indigestion, gas, bloating, heart burn, and even insomnia. Aside from lack of fiber, constipation can be caused by dehydration of the large intestine. To add more fiber to the diet is a wise move, as is drinking more water. Cerra Water is the best since it is more hydrating or wetting than the regular tap or bottled waters. Psyllium which is a popular fiber found in a lot of over-the-counter preparations actually absorbs up to 40 times its weight in water, which can add to dehydration woes. Flax seed is a much better alternative and can be ground fresh in a coffee grinder. A good combination is to grind one tablespoonful of fresh flax seed and mix it with the juice of half a lemon and 16 ounces of alkaline ionized water and drink it before breakfast. Not only is the lemon awesome for your liver, you are alkalizing your body and scrubbing your bowel all at the same time. Remember that a clean house is a healthy house, especially when the pipes aren’t plugged.