Health Benefits of Water: Essential for Life and Well-Being

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Ozonated Water
Posted by Savvy (San Antonio, Tx) on 12/26/2012

Would like to hear feedback from folks who have ingested ozonated water for whatever purpose.

General Feedback
Posted by Lee (Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur) on 11/20/2012

Thank you for sharing your story, just wondering if your diet has also changed with your washing habits? Perhaps your diet is one factor that led to regrowth as well. Could you possibily share what is your diet like if you ever return to this post?


Magnetized
Posted by Denise (Buena, Mt) on 07/15/2012
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Thanks for posting the link to the magnitized water info. Their method works very well, but there's an even faster way. Get a magnitized 6" square pad. You place your water jug on it. It will magnitize a gallon of water in only one hour. OR set your water glass on it. An 8 oz cup will be ready in ten minutes. The pad will last "forever." Search online.


Magnetized
Posted by Bwcky (Vancouver, Bc) on 06/19/2012

Hi Timh, thanks for your response, I have noticed over time that drinking this water, my body/mind has responded in a number of astonishing ways.

Joy de Vive, clarity of mind, my mouth feels the freshest it has felt in years and I think that my skin is getting smoother.... Most notable is how my mouth feels so fresh always like I just brushed my teeth........ Absolutely amazing.

Hope to help, there are guardian angels walking amongst us!


Magnetized
Posted by Timh (Louisville, Ky, Usa) on 06/19/2012 2048 posts

Becky, thanks for this post. Also, one can purchase a clamp-type magnet placed on the inlet cold water pipes. How effective these are I dunno. Also the powerful supplement "Cell Food" or "Cell Power" also has this effect on water thru the stimulus of Deuterium Sulfate. Either method restores the "virginity" of water (H2O). All the stressors (positive charged electrons) of our environment wish to rob the negative charge of the Oxygen atom thus adulterating the original composition of water. Magnets use this same magic wherever we apply them, thus reducing stress and inflammation, returning the organism to it's original balanced polarity.


Magnetized
Posted by Becky (Vancouver, Canada) on 06/18/2012

The Benefits of Magnetized Water and a simple way to make your own

What holds water molecules together in clusters is surface tension. This is what you see when you wash your car and the water beads up in droplets on the hood. When washing your car, you use detergent to break that surface tension -- which breaks apart the large molecular clusters, making the water wetter and better able to clean. Obviously, you can't use detergent to "improve" the bioavailability of your drinking water. But you can use magnetics.

Magnetizing your drinking water breaks its surface tension, making it wetter and more useable by every cell in your body. In addition, there's a strong secondary benefit. Applying a magnetic field to water can not only make it wetter, but it can also raise its pH (up to a full point, depending on the water).

The ratio of small cluster water to large cluster water changes over time in your body. When you are born, there is a high percentage of small cluster water present. As you age, however, that percentage steadily drops -- eventually becoming almost nonexistent.

One of the problems is that small cluster water is not stable. (The electric charges inherent in water continually cause the small clusters to bind together into larger and larger clusters. And to make matters worse, the process is accelerated when water is exposed to air and light.

Water On the Market

Recently, in health food stores, I've noticed that they are now selling small cluster water in little bottles for large prices. Why would you want to pay inflated prices for small amounts of clustered water when you could have as much as you wanted for FREE?

Instructions to make your own Magnetized Water
Take a plastic water bottle and using painters tape to attach several disc magnets, I used neodium magnets (1/2 diameter) to the bottle. Make sure that north is facing in for all of the magnets that you attach. You can find disc magnets almost anyplace that sells magnets. I used 10 magnets, 5 on each side of the bottle. They worked great. You could easily taste the fact that the water was "wetter, " and they raised the pH of the water a full 1/2 point. Water placed in this bottle will fully magnetize very quickly -- in 5-10 minutes, or less.



I have been drinking the magnetized water for a week now and it tastes so much better and "wetter" than any other water while doing taste tests.

Water Therapy Feedback
Posted by Michael (Bethalto, Il) on 05/28/2012

Gastritis cured in 10 days "as stated by article".... After a trip to the ER & sent home... I found some relief with Mylanta.. BUT the water therapy worked... My stomach has never felt better... First couple days stay close to restroom after drinking water. Pain lessened every day... I will drink a glass of water after waking from here on. Thank God for earth clinic... http://www.knowledgebase-script.com/demo/article-113.html


Here are the Instructions from the above-referenced website:

1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink four glasses of water each of 160 ml.
2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minutes.
3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.
4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for two hours.
'5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink four glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase t to four glasses per day.
6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.


General Feedback
Posted by Healthodyssey (Ojai, Ca/usa) on 05/16/2012

First let me say that I do not believe that there is one cure for everyone. It is a question of tuning into yourself and intuiting the path toward healing. The products or protocols that you begin with may change over time, so be flexible.

I am a 46 year old male who started losing my hair in my early 20's. It was devestating. I don't think a day has gone by without it affecting my self-esteem. But, I now have such significant regrowth that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel (toward full regrowth) and wish to share my experience with those who might benefit.

I started washing my hair everyday when I was 8 years old. Little did I know that I was stripping the natural sebum from my hair and scalp, sending my sebaceous glands into oily overdrive and causing hair loss: oily scalp syndrome. Around this time (coincidently) I also started getting crippling headaches from scalp tension.

In my early 20's I was taking Minoxidyl, to little affect because of course I was still washing my hair with SLS shampoos. In my early 30's I came off Minoxidyl and started working with Edgar Cayce's protocol using Atomidine and crude oil as well as the violet ray machine (Tesla coil). Again nothing worked, as I was still washing my hair everyday with chemical shampoos. I have a great deal of respect for Cayce and believe his readings were very accurate, but SLS was not introduced into shampoos and soaps during his lifetime, so we have to adapt to new protocols.

I then met a very gifted clairvoyant who told me to stop using SLS shampoos and start taking biotin. So, I switched to "natural, " sulphate free shampoo and began supplementing with Biotin. Again nothing worked and while I continued using "natural" shampoos, I quit taking the supplement. It took several years to realize that many of the so called sulphate free, "natural" shampoos on the market are legally allowed to use a "sulphate free" descriptor if they change the chemical name to something else. Don't you just love those folks at the FDA! There are, apparently, around 150 different chemical names for SLS (so buyer beware! ). I then switched to Morrocco Method shampoos about two years ago and noticed the hair loss pretty much stopped within a month, but there was no regrowth (but, I was still washing my hair everyday). However, I did notice that decades of headaches and chronic scalp tension vanished overnight, as soon as I quit SLS or any of its alternate chemical names.

At about the same time I starting fingernail rubbing twice per day for ten minutes each time. At the end of each session I noticed that my hair and scalp had a lot of chi running through it. In hand reflexology the fingernail beds relate to the scalp. There were some scary moments, several months into the protocol, when my hair shed A LOT, but then quickly regrew to be thicker and much stronger.

I finally quit using Morrocco Method several months ago (it's very expensive) and starting washing my hair with baking soda and a ACV rinse, but only once a week, then after a while every two weeks. The night before I washed my hair I oiled it with a mixture of olive oil, lavender oil and rosemary oil. I was finally, after all these years seeing some regrowth, but I also noticed that after washing I was running into the same old problem of my sebaceous glands going into overdrive for a day or two.

Then I had this intuition to quit eating eggs. I was curious and did some research and found out that raw egg white blocks biotin absorbtion. Although, I was eating cooked eggs (most days) I guess I must be sensitive to egg white protein. As soon as I quit eggs I started to re-supplement with 5000 mcg of biotin a day. I also quit washing my hair with anything at all, just rinsing it everyday with cold water. Never hot or even warm as this tends to activate heavy metals in the water, unless you have a really superior shower filter. I went as they say "no-poo! " There was an instant difference and very quickly I noticed huge regrowth as the oils in my scalp returned to normal.

Around this time frame I treated my cat for flea sensitivity with crab apple flower essence. He was reacting to fleas bites with itchy scabs and his fur started to fall. Within a few weeks of the crab apple in his water, the fleas left, the scabs healed and his fur totally regrew and his coat is in better condition than it has ever been. So, I started using crab apple on myself, as I had a sense that maybe if the sebum is stripped from the hair then it has no protection against microscopic parasites. I also added cotton, cedar and mountain pride flower essences to the crab apple. I take these flower essences internally, as well as adding them to a spray bottle for external use. I added mountain pride, which is primarily an essence for standing firm in one's warrior nature, because I had this sense that male pattern baldness or thinning of the hair has a mythology to it, based on the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah. I am now curious to learn if other cultures have a similar mythology?

Anyway, a few weeks ago I retroduced the violet ray and that is helping enormously to increase scalp circulation. It goes to show that just because something did not work in the past that it might not work again in the future, if we change the mix. For me the culprit was primarily chemical sensitivity and the stripping of natural sebum from the scalp. I also vigorously brush my hair everyday, which I had not done for years as I was told as a child that brushing is not good and the more you brush the more hair loss you will experience (the dumb things we buy into! ). This, of couse, could not be further from the truth and in fact the opposite is the true. brushing is actually way more affective than even natural shampoos.

I have had such amazing results with the no-poo that I decided to go no-soap, too. I am amazed! My whole body/skin chemistry has changed and whereas I got stinky after exercise, there is no odor at all now. I can only guess that using soap causes the body to go into overdrive in an attempt to rebalance the system with natural oils. I am now wondering if soap and shampoo are culprits in the rise of skin cancers? SLS breaks down and destroys the top layers of the epidermis, the layers which act as an environmental immune buffer, stripping the natural oils that protect the skin from sun damage. Of course this is just an intuitive theory, but I feel it is pretty accurate. I also feel this is the case with toothpaste. Is it just sugar in the diet or are we adding to the problem by using products that strip the bodies natural defence mechansims? For all of our "sophisticated" dental care and advance formula toothpastes and floss we have more tooth decay than at any other time.

My father was a brewer by trade and therefore something of chemist. I recall him telling me, when I was a child, that if you wash a lab beaker thoroughly six times with distilled water then all trace chemicals will be completely washed away. I also have a friend in AZ that has a commercial eco-cleaning business that uses super-heated water to clean hotels, hospitals etc. They have scientific evidence that super-heated water will kill ALL bacteria and keep them away for far longer that a bottle of chemical cleaner which when sprayed onto a surface kills most bacteria for a few seconds, before they start to multiple again and eventually become resitant to the chemicals. Nothing ever becomes resistant to water!

So, the moral of my story is: "Let water be enough and then let the body's natural wisdom do its thing. It knows best! "

Magnetized
Posted by Cat (Tauranga, New Zealand) on 04/30/2012

Found this very interesting link. Helpful for those of us with the need to re-mineralize teeth and better hair growth amongst many other things including cancer and is easy enough to try out yourself. Trouble is, our black sand is on the west coast and I live on the east!!! Worth a drive I think.

http://www.apparentlyapparel.com/2/post/2012/02/the-unusual-effects-of-magnetic-water.html


General Feedback
Posted by Olddude (Chattanooga, Tn, Usa) on 04/22/2012 21 posts
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If u can, walk a mile a day even if u have to split up walking. Drink water, if u cant do 8, 8oz glasses, do 4, 8 oz glasses, it's a start. Many of us take a lot of meds or supplements, we need WATER. So, Walk a mile a day or at least try, and drink ur water. Water to the body is like oil to a automobile engine, u have to keep ur joints and tissues lubricated like the bearings in ur car, both cannot run without them. IMHO.


Distilled
Posted by Robert Henry (Ten Mile, Tn Usa ) on 12/21/2011

Kevin, distilled water has no taste. You have some bad water. Suggest you go to Sulphur Springs and get your water there. That's out past the ole Switzer homestead.

=====ROBERT HENRY=======


Distilled
Posted by Timh (Louisville, Usa) on 12/21/2011 2048 posts

Kevin, I use 5 drops 35% FGP in 3/4 cup filtered water 1/4 cup regular coffee, basically extremely watered down coffee with H202. 2 or 3 of these a day does well by me, has helped digestion very much.


Distilled
Posted by Kevin (Crossett, Arkansas) on 12/20/2011

I've been taking the H2o2 3% mixture internally now, for awhile, and I just want to know if there's anything I can add to the mixture to make it taste better. I know the H2o2 isn't supposed to mix with certain things, and it's not the H2o2 that tastes bad. I just don't like the taste of this distilled water, I've been getting. So, is there anything safe, that I can add?

Water Filters
Posted by Ginger (Montreal, Quebec) on 12/11/2011

IS MY WATER FILTER SYSTEM CONTAMINATED BECAUSE THE CITY HAD TO REPAIR A BROKEN PIPE?

Saturday I was ringing my Parent's doorbell (I live in the duplex above their's) noticed a paper in their mailbox. (just delivered as I saw the man putting them in mailboxes across the street). It was a "Notification of Aqueduct Service Interruption", stating that they were going to cut the water supply "shortly" to conduct an emergency repair that this work would last all day long that arrangements should be made to have enough drinking water for the household while the water service is temporarily cut. It also stated not to be alarmed as following the repairs the water may be "colored"-to let the faucets run. Also they advised to not drink water from the faucet for 48hours then wrote to boil the water for one minute! And if one had any questions to contact the Engineering Dept. on weekdays. Ahem, this happened on Saturday so there was no one to ask any questions!! Not only was I upset because I DID NOT receive a notice in my mailbox, but that the water was shut off right after delivering this paper, my Parents I were not able to be prepared for this situation, i.e., to fill up some bottles, basins etc. with emergency water. In my home, I have an under counter water filtration system (installed under the kitchen sink), with a CBR 210 water filter cartridge contained in a housing. I recently installed a new filter. I would like to know if my filter is now contaminated as a result of this - does anyone know? Should I be boiling the filtered water? Also, I am peeved that I did not get a notice in my mailbox- the man delivering the notices just put one in my Parent's mailbox! (not that I would have even known about it as we do not get mail on weekends so, I don't check the mailbox! But, it just so happened that I was outside the door at that particular moment.... Not that it made a difference anyways! :( as we were without one drop of water for many many hours! Anyways, I have experienced some "Life Lessons"! This water service "interruption" made me feel very Grateful, for all that I have! We take for granted that we are so fortunate to be able to turn on the faucet at any time to have water..... While millions of others in the world have no water at all! And also, I need to be "prepared" and always have some emergency bottled water in my house! (also, just wondering.... Is this how other cities inform their citizens that the water is to be shut off, i.e., within 10 minutes!! ?)

Thanks for any comments and replies to my question!


General Feedback
Posted by Sarita (London, Uk) on 12/06/2011

Hi Betty,

I've just been researching water distillers and Megahome's get the best reviews (including for safety) and it is reasonably priced. The plastic collection jug is BPA free. Be aware it will heat/steam up the room it is in, and makes some 'white noise'. It can run overnight though.

From what I've read it IS sensible to add minerals back in. This can be done with liquid mineral supplements or, I believe, perhaps a little pinch of a good salt like Himalayan Pink Salt? (any comments anyone?) This model includes a filter which gets out odorless nasties like Volatile Organic Compounds.


General Feedback
Posted by Betty (Tampa, Florida) on 11/24/2011

Does anybody know a good reverse osmosis or distillation unit with carbon when on a budget? There are just so many online ads and most are very expensive. Watching some recent videos of all the chemicals they use to clean the water and the fluoride they add I need to do something! I had a $300 conterop three filter unit but the alumina from the fluoride filter leaked and then I read it was a byproduct of the aluminum industry. I know Ted recommended we can put borax and sodium thiolsulfate to get rid of the fluoride and chrlone but you can't do this 7 seven days a week as to my understanding and if I want to take other supplements like H2O2 I can't mix them. This world is getting so crazy in toxicity you almost feel like a conspiracy theorist when you have some education what is really going on.

General Feedback
Posted by Ken (Henderson, Nevada) on 10/21/2011

For pets and people check out: watercure2.org

don't laugh until you look at it!

IT'S ALL FREE AND AWSOME- TRUST ME...


Reverse Osmosis Water
Posted by Prema (Cambridge, England) on 10/17/2011

Hi, I recently read [on earthclinic] to add 1/4 salt and 1/8 teaspoon bicarb to reverse osmosis water. I also read that adding lemon juice makes it antioxidant. I am hoping that someone can please answer my questions: do I add all 3 [bicarb, lemon and salt] and to how much water do I add the 1/4 salt and 1/8 bicarb, 1 glass, 1 litre? I am desperate to know as I don't want to give me and my family unsafe water to drink. Thanks ever so much in advance. Prema


Dechlorinating Water
Posted by Garry (Pomona, California) on 09/20/2011

Unless your municipality is using chloramine, which most US water companies are changing over to. Chloramine doesn't give off gas as much as chlorine, whether its hot water, cold water or water sitting overnight. Please find out what kind of anti bacterial devices your water company is using and then learn how to remove it.


Ionized Water
Posted by Dale (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) on 08/24/2011
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I have a water ionizer and I love it. It seems to be doing great things for me and my body. What do you think about water ionizers?


General Feedback
Posted by Jay (Toronto, Ont, Canada) on 08/07/2011

Esprit64 from North Yarmouth, Maine writes: 'Does anyone have good, solid, credibly sourced information on what waters are safe to drink? What bottled waters are safe to drink? I'm dizzy from reading all the back and forth, I don't know who or what to believe anymore."

Esprit64, if you are concerned with the chemical contents of your bottled water, I would suggest you buy and drink steam distilled water. I have been drinking only distilled water for the past 19 years because of similar concerns. If you are concerned about the lack of good minerals that you might be missing, add a trace mineral supplement to your diet either seperately or disolved in your distilled water.


General Feedback
Posted by Esprit64 (North Yarmouth, Maine) on 08/07/2011

Does anyone have good, solid, credibly sourced information on what waters are safe to drink? What bottled waters are safe to drink? I'm dizzy from reading all the back and forth, I don't know who or what to believe anymore.

Nature's Place, All Natural Spring Water, taken from springs in New Hampshire USA (and distributed by Hannaford grocery stores), states that flouride "naturally" occurs in their water. Naturally? Isn't any amount of flouride dangerous?

Water Therapy Feedback
Posted by Carly (Seattle, Wa) on 07/19/2011

Hi Marion - good advice!

I would add just three things to your regime (for Renee with the bad knee) BORON. BORON, and BORON. Google Boron and arthritis. It is amazing!

Carly :-)


Distilled
Posted by Phil (Athens - Pagrati, Attica, Greece) on 07/17/2011

Hello wonderful people.

I've got two questions about distilled water:

1)Since it is not the easiest thing to find in Greece and when you find it, it is cost much more than deionized water, can we consider the water that comes out of a drippimg coffee maker (filter coffee) as distilled ? If not why? It is the same way. Water boils, becomes vapor , vapor condenses to water again.

And 2) if so, do we have to add sea salt in it to consume it?

Greetings to all from hot (poor) Athens


Water Therapy Feedback
Posted by Marion (California City, Ca) on 07/17/2011
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Response to Renee with bad knee:

I have osteoarthritis in both knees. It was crippling. I resolved this painful condition by doing the following daily or regularly, depending:

1 - ACV in water with baking soda (cures almost everything)

2 - Oil pulling, 1 tbsp sesame seed oil for 20-30 minutes (removes toxins, cures almost everything)

3 - 64 oz filtered water daily with sea salt, 32 oz first thing in morning

4 - Turmeric spice, 1/2 tsp daily in cereal, soup or other food (inflammation, antioxidant, antimutagenic, pain, arthritis and joint ailments, numerous cures)

5 - Rosemary Tea (arthritis, joints, inflammation, pain, relaxation)

6 - Astragalus (antibiotic, fatigue, osteoporosis, antioxidant and more, USE PRECAUTION of 3 weeks on, 1 week off)

7 - Coconut Oil (internal-external uses, antiviral, antifungal, eliminates parasites, fatigue, numerous cures)

8 - Healthy diet (NO to wheat, dairy, soy, beef, sugar, refined salt, additives, prepared foods; YES plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables daily, organic fish and chicken; nutrients; minerals)

9 - Sun Gazing http://solarhealing.com

10 - Grow your own garden vegetables and herbs, if possible, or buy them fresh locally.

This regimen should relieve the pain within a week. You will also relieve many other conditions and remove them altogether if followed for the rest of your life. Be sure to read about them before doing these or other treatments. Understand what causes an ailment, as well as understand why the cure works. This is what has worked for me when diagnosed with arthritis, asthma, sinusitis, bronchitis, bacterial infection (deadly), infected teeth/abcess, overweight, nerves, flexibility, depression, poor vision, poor circulation and many other conditions too numerous to mention here. All have been cured with this regimen within 6 months.

This is what works for me. Start slow and add treatments as you read about them. You will come up with your own program that works for you. Never give up. Earth Clinic is where it all began for me, and the place I always return for answers. They have been a blessing and miracle in my life. The answers are here.


General Feedback
Posted by Justchillin (Vannes, France) on 04/03/2011

I drink a lot of water as we all do, especially as I take the lemon bicarb formula it is important to drink it whilst eating. There are so many different mineral values a huge variation, I have been going for one w/ low sodium. What does anyone else think is the best one to choose?


Best Reusable Water Bottles
Posted by Terry (Langley, B.c. Canada) on 03/30/2011

How about glass. I use glass containers for water. They contain no harmful chemicals and you can wash them after use and are way less of a burden to the environment. If breakage is of concern be creative I. E. use a neoprene holder or something like that.


Best Reusable Water Bottles
Posted by Randy (Jersey City, Nj, Usa) on 03/27/2011

Hello, I was wondering what is currently considered to be the safest type of reusable water bottle..... Is it stainless steel? BPA-free plastic? something else? thanks! -Randy

General Feedback
Posted by Mesem (Toulon, France) on 03/09/2011

Ted says keep away from chlorine treated pools as the chlorine displaces iodine and so mucks up glands. I swim often in pools too and hate how it dries the skin but taking iodine does help against this. I am less sensitive to the chlor. Since I started taking Lugol's. I have friends who have swum regularly all their lives in town pools and look pretty good on it. I think you must balance all the positive effects against the 1 negative and take a good soapy shower after!



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