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Have you flushed your pipes today?
Ponce de Leon was on to something when he followed Bimini rumors alleging the clear bubbling spring had the power to restoring youth.
We exist on a water planet — yet few of us drink from the fountain of youth.
One can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
In the image of Mother Earth, our bodies are two-thirds water, which is essential in every function of our earth suit. Water helps transport nutrients and waste products in and out of cells and is necessary for all digestive, absorptive, circulatory and excretory functions, as well as for the utilization of the water-soluble vitamins.
There’s tap water, bottled water, mineral water, rain water, distilled water, soda water, seltzer water, branch water, ditch water, holy water, sugar water, vitamin water, rose water and the proverbial bridge over troubled waters. No matter what you call it, please don’t underrate the significance of clean water, the foundation of disease-free healthiness and earth’s most nourishing, indispensable substance.
Guzzle this: 75 percent of the human brain is water, not Diet Coke; 70 percent of your skin is water, not coffee; over 70 percent of our Earth’s surface is water; 97.5 percent of all water on Earth is salt water, leaving only 2.5 percent as fresh water. Nearly 70 percent of that fresh water is frozen in the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland — for now, at least.
Most people honestly believe they drink enough water, but most of us live in a state of dehydration. Dr. Andrew Weil believes dehydration is the greatest threat to the process of blood purification and the most common cause of stress on the kidneys. The temple’s a system of pipes, much like the ones in your home. They need regular flushing or they get backed up.
The liver and kidneys rid the temple of waste, fat and toxins. Kidneys can’t function efficiently without enough H2O. A glass of warm, not cold, water in the afternoon will do the same. Add some turmeric powder. Our cells rapidly deteriorate as waste products build up. Imagine the snarky stench of your home if you threw away only 75 percent of your daily garbage.
As you shop, curiously glance into the cart of the next person in line. Observe how grocery carts brim with cases of diet colas infused with caffeine and sweetened with aspartame, sugar-based fruit juices with food colorings, alcohol, sports drinks and “functional” drinks. Where’s the water?
Personally, I gulp enough water to qualify as a sponge. I hear it every day. “How am I going to get that much water down?” It’s only 64 ounces, friend; no biggie if you don’t mind scurrying to the bathroom occasionally. At least once a day, your urine should be clear. Dr. Andrew Weil notes the color of your urine should lighten as you drink more water. A tepid glass first thing in the morning helps flush toxins from the body and re-hydrates after an eight-hour fast.
According to The New York Times Guide to Personal Health, drinks containing concentrated nutrients, such as milk, sugar-sweetened soft drinks and salty tomato-based juices, count more as food than drink, since they themselves increase your body’s water needs.
Tap water is laden with chlorine, arsenic, lead, tasty bacterial pathogens and fluoride. A simple sink filter, such as PUR or Brita works well. No need to buy expensive bottled water. Fluoride, hazardous waste from the chemical fertilizer industry, is the only chemical added to the water supply to treat the human and not the water. Long-term exposure to low doses of fluoride can cause chronic health problems, one of which is its effect on the thyroid gland.
Is your water funky? Contact your health department for certified labs. Have it tested. If it’s not safe, use a home filter. Buy a filter or be a filter.
All this water-talk is urging this Aquarian water bearer to hastily wrap it up and make a bee line for the porcelain facilities.
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