You know that you can’t live without water, do you? Water is needed to build cells, cleanse the body of waste and prevent diseases and we need a good quality water in order to function properly. Unfortunately, our lakes, rivers and even most groundwater sources have been contaminated and are no longer safest to drink.

But you may not know, that if insufficient water is consumed, the body will utilize what liquid has available. It will recirculate water from the colon and when this happens, the body will become constipated.

Pure water is very important for optimal health. A naturally distilled water found in raw fruits and vegetables, steam distillation provides the purest water possible. Steam distilled water is merely the condensed steam from boiling water. The process of distillation leaves the impurities in water behind.

Our skin is the largest organ that eliminates many impurities. If the skin is not properly cleansed, these impurities can be reabsorbed. Fluoride and chlorine in our water systems are toxic to the body, both inside and out.

Dr Norman W. Walker, who lived to be 119 years old, wrote: “To help retard the process of premature and decrepit old age, it is essential that you drink plenty of distilled water daily.”

Dr F. Batmanghelidj in his best-known book Your Body’s Many Cries for Water outlines the breakthrough medical discovery, that if we drank more water daily degenerative diseases such as asthma, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, bulimia, Alzheimers disease and many other afflictions could be prevented and sometimes cured.

Dr F. Batmanghelidj says:” You are not sick; You are thirsty. Don’t treat thirst with medication.”

As easy it sounds, how many people really do pay attention to their bodies?

Here is the shocking truth about tap water

A glass of tap water isn’t quite what it seems. Chances are it’s been recycled more than once. That means that it may have already passed through someone else’s body, then through a sewer! It might have gone through a factory, or been previously sold in plastic bottle, then peed out and returned to your water supply! An average glass of UK tap water can contain around 300 chemicals!

Here are some of the “ingredients” found in your average glass of tap water:

• Pesticides such as nitrates
• Drug residues such as painkillers and hormones
• Heavy metals such as lead, mercury, copper and aluminium
• Fluoride
• Disinfectants such as chlorine and trihalomethanes
• Bacteria from your water pipes

It should come with its label, don’t you think? Although some of these contaminants are present in only small quantities, we drink water every day and it all adds up. All sorts of health issues such as IBS or underactive thyroid can be partially caused by the toxins in our tap water.

Here are my 10 tips

1. I no longer drink tap water. If I am out and about, I either bring my distilled water in a plastic-free bottle or I drink bottled water only. But be careful about bottled water as lots of companies use just filtered tap water or worse just de-chlorinated tap water!
2. Choose glass bottle or plant-based bottled over the plastic ones as the chemicals from the plastic can leach into the drink. Especially if stored for a while and or in hot temperatures.  If the water does taste plastically, do not drink it.
3. When drinking water, it is best to drink it at room temperature and at least 30 minutes prior to eating, this also helps reduce your appetite and at least one hour after a meal.
4. Did you know that water should not be consumed with a meal? Do you know why? Because when water is consumed with a meal, it dilutes the digestive juices. This means it takes much longer for our bodies to break the food down and we may not absorb all the valuable nutrients within the foods properly.
5. Thirst is often mistaken for hunger. Drink a glass of water, give it about 30 minutes, then see if you are still hungry.
6. Always check the colour or your urine the lighter the better.
7. Invest into a good quality filter or even better a water distiller. Don’t drink tap water anymore!
8. Carry plastic-free water bottle (plant-based, glass or stainless steel) with you when you leave the house.
9. Rehydrate before and immediately after exercising. You can lose more than a litre in fluids during a vigorous exercise!
10. When I learned about the importance of pure water, I started using Brita filters for filtering my drinking water for a while. After that followed Japanese bamboo charcoal from Charcoal People and then after long research, I invested into a Megahome water distiller, photo bellow, and have been using it (since Summer 2018) for drinking and as well for all my cooking. This is my favourite and best choice of drinking high-quality water which I highly recommend to you too.

I have been following these tips quite successfully for about 15 years after I had to learn my lesson the hard way by ignoring the signs my body was showing me and ended up in the hospital seriously dehydrated. But you do not have to wait until something happens, prevent it while it’s still time and start now! Invest into a good quality drinking water and listen to your body!



Resources:
Fuel for Life by Bear Grylls
Recipes for Life by Rhonda J. Malkmus
Your Body’s Many Cries for Water by Dr F. Batmanghelidj

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I did some research and found this:

What is distilled water? It is water that has been boiled into vapor and condensed back into liquid in a separate container. Impurities in the original water that do not boil below or at the boiling point of water remain in the original container. Thus, distilled water is one type of purified water. Drinking water has been distilled from sea water since at least about AD 200 – Wikipedia.

Distillation does not cause the “minerals to be evaporated out.” Quite the opposite; these inorganic minerals are left behind in the boiling pot. Only the water is evaporated out. This is a GOOD thing, since inorganic minerals are the ones that cause kidney and gallstones and join with cholesterol to form plaque and hardening of the arteries.

As some of you know I have done a training at Hallelujah Diet (formerly called Hallelujah Acres) in North Carolina, USA in 2004, (I am so grateful to them as they transformed my life), I have been on their diet since and encourage people to change their habits too in order to get well… Here is what Michael Donaldson, PhD., Research Director at Hallelujah Diet TM said about distilled water:

“Some health advocates still claim that distilled water is dangerous to our health and discourage people from using their distillers. One advocate even said that distilled water is worse for you than the tap water it started with. While there is a sliver of truth there, the whole article puts distilled water in a false light. Such health advocacy is irresponsible.

Two main issues need to be addressed here:

(1) the co-purification of organic contaminants with water distillation, and

(2) the long-term health effects of drinking low-mineral water. You will see that using a distiller is still the best, most consistent way of getting clean, pure water.

It is true that some organic chemicals can evaporate with steam during the distillation process. All distiller manufacturers are aware of this issue; it is not a new development.

Now, the second issue of drinking low-mineral water (which includes distilled and reverse osmosis water). There are some potential adverse effects of drinking distilled water. It may pull a SMALL amount of minerals from the body. For most people this will not be a problem.  For a person with marginal mineral intake, this could lead to long-term negative health effects. For people interested in long-term optimal health, losing a small amount of minerals from the body might be a concern.

The best solution to the low-mineral (distilled) water issue is to add a concentrated solution that remineralizes, alkalizes, and lowers the surface tension of the water. This solution is called WaterMax and is available from Hallelujah Diet https://shop.myhdiet.com/trace-minerals-concentrate-4oz.html  (Just 1 tsp of WaterMax remineralizes and alkalizes a whole gallon of distilled drinking water.)

Another good solution [if not using WaterMax] is to squeeze some fresh lemon juice into a glass of distilled water. This will remineralize the water and add some alkaline minerals to it as well, along with a great taste. (Note from Lenka – I also use powder blends, alkaline superfoods, such as wheatgrass, barley grass, spirulina, chlorella…).

When all of the options for purifying water are considered, the best solution is to use a distiller in combination with an activated carbon filter. To get truly pure water, we want to remove chlorine or chloramine, fluoride, arsenic, lead, industrial organic pollutants, pharmaceutical residues, viruses and bacteria, and rock minerals from our drinking water.

There isn’t a single process that does all of this, but in tandem you can produce pure water. Activated carbon does an excellent job with organic contaminants but doesn’t do much with mineral or metal contaminants. Distillers do an excellent job with minerals, viruses, and bacteria.

Certain filter resins remove some minerals (arsenic, fluoride, lead) under acidic conditions.  Reverse osmosis units rely on activated carbon to remove the organic contaminants. These units do purify the water, but bacterial fouling can be a problem, resulting in reduced performance over time.

The best method is to combine an activated carbon filter and distiller to fully remove all these contaminants. This method yields pure water consistently.”

The Real Reason Bones Become Brittle

“It’s not distilled water that demineralizes the bones and makes them subject to easy fracture, but rather an acidic diet. Animal flesh, dairy, sugar, and refined wheat flours are all acidic. In an effort to neutralize this acidity, the body draws alkaline minerals from the bones to neutralize the acidity.

The Hallelujah Diet removes all highly acidic substances. In other words, we stop consuming all these acid forming foods. As a result, the body has no need to remove the alkalizing minerals from the bones to neutralize the acid. Thus, bone density is not only maintained – it is increased!

The Hallelujah Diet provides the body with a consistent supply of bone-building, alkalizing minerals in our green smoothies, multiple vegetable juices, and large salads – all high sources of organic, alkalizing minerals.

Distilled Water Does Not Spell Disaster

The highly acidic diet along with a sedentary lifestyle is a prescription for disaster — in terms of overall health as well as bone structure. Conversely, a mostly raw, 100% plant-based diet including plenty of vegetable juices, daily exercise, and purified distilled water builds a strong immune system, strong bones, and a long, healthy life”. – By George Malkmus from Hallelujah Diet

Check these two interesting videos about water distillation experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6M0KhVFC1E

And  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJ-VJWgFZI

I personally use Megahome Water Distiller as well, after doing some research, I found it as one of the best on the UK market, purchased on Amazon for about 170 GBP.  I am happy with the product and love the pure water from it! I hope you find this blog post helpful. 

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you like to discuss your diet with me and receive some consultation as I will be happy to advise you.

In health,

Lenka x

Resources:

• Hallelujah Diet – https://www.myhdiet.com/healthnews/rev-malkmus/is-distilled-water-more-dangerous-than-tap-water/ – a shortened version
• Wikipedia
• Video by Everyday Adventures
• Video by Poolarity- Life Hacks

Photo of my Megahome Water Distiller

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