The Acid-Alkaline Diet

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Hydration | Structured Alkaline Water

Water is necessary to sustain human life. More than 70% of a person body weight is water. For this reason it is important to understand the importance of drinking the right kind of water. Water carries many invisible ingredients such as minerals, oxygen, nutrients, pollutants, and waste products to name a few. Our blood which is 90% water circulates throughout the body distributing nutrients and oxygen while collecting wastes and carbon dioxides to pass them onto the disposal organs for elimination.

The water molecule is two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom stuck together or H20. The molecule is electrically polarized because the oxygen is negative and the hydrogen is positive. Because of this a water molecule must combine with other water molecules to form a five or six sided structure called a water cluster. In low temperatures most of the water clusters are hexagonal; this is why you see snowflakes that also hexagonal.

At room temperature in distilled water, one out of 10 million water molecules is ionized. This means that the water molecule is split into hydrogen ions H+ and hydroxyl ions OH-. In neutral water the number of hydrogen ions and the number of hydroxyl ions will be equal.

Water that is acidic has more hydrogen ions than hydroxyl ions while alkaline water has more hydroxyl ions than hydrogen ions. So there are more oxygen atoms in alkaline water than there is in neutral water. For this reason alkaline water is sometimes called oxygen rich water while acidic water is oxygen deficient water.

All of these hydroxyl ions neutralize acid hydrogen ions in our body, thereby reducing accumulated acid wastes which also helps to reverse the aging process.

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It is important that the body always be properly hydrated. 2.5 liters of water is lost through normal bodily functions each day; this water must be replaced. There are two major reasons we need to keep our body’s properly hydrated with water that is good in quality, content, and structure. The first reason is because the water we put in our body must be able to prevent the accumulation of toxins and chemical substances which could have destructive influences on our cells. The second reason involves water acting as a conductor of electrochemical activity by moving water smoothly and effectively from one nerve cell to another. An example of this is neurotransmission.

Osmosis causes the movement of water in the body between cells. A magnetic force in the body keeps the movement in balance. Changes in pressure create movement across the cell membranes as the water flows. Changes in the pressure may allow proteins, minerals, and other nutrients that are being carried in the blood to escape into spaces between vessels. This in turn would deprive the cells of what they need in order to sustain life. When the blood has water that is contaminated with chemicals, it enters the cells and changes their structure. This can then lead to changes in the DNA. And so the disease process has begun, a process that is extremely similar to the aging process.

Structured Alkaline Water

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There has been much research on the effects alkaline water has on the body’s response systems. Reports from studies suggest that alkaline water that is structured or clustered can help the body resist disease and also slow the aging process by: increasing intracellular hydration, replacing essential minerals that were depleted, stabilizing and protecting cells, aiding in maintaining normal blood flow and pH, flushing out and preventing wastes from accumulating in cells, and preventing the formation of free radicals.

Because of its high mineral content, water structured with Alkalive™ pH Booster™ can retain its magnetic properties. pH Booster™ contains up to 74 minerals. These minerals are naturally ionized because of its natural magnetization. The magnetization in pH Booster™ remains even after it is added to water and stored for long periods of time, unlike artificially magnetized water.

Unlike regular water, structured water has a formation and organization of its molecules and is naturally formed in smaller clusters of five or six molecules. These clusters are more organized and move in an orderly pattern throughout the body because of it natural magnetization. Furthermore, structured water has a higher density than other water and it is this that increases the stability of molecules and helps keep the cells more stable.

Magnetized molecules can pass more readily through the cell membrane into the nucleus of the cell to better deliver nutrients. Also, magnetized molecules attract waste materials and toxins from the cells which can then be eliminated from the body.

A great product for making Alkaline Water is Alkalive pH Booster.