The human body is made up of about 100 trillion cells and each of these cells is 80 per cent water. The whole body is 75 per cent water and the remaining 25 per cent is made up of solids that can dissolve in the water. At different stage of life this quantity of water varies, a new born baby is approximately 90 per cent water and old age, the body water falls to 55 per cent.
Water is involved in every process that takes place in the body. One very important function of water is transportation, nutrients, oxygen, enzymes, neurotransmitters hormones, carbon dioxide and acidic waste products are all transported from one cell tissue or organ to the other.
Throughout the day, water is being used up for all the different processes, acidic water are being generated and released into the water around the body cells and eliminate of these wastes must be done as soon as they are produced. For optimal health, water should also be replenished as fast as it is used up through drinking of fresh and clean water.
God created the human body to operate in an alkaline environment. The mineral in the body determine whether the water in and around the cells and blood is alkaline or acidic.
The alkalinity or acidity of the body is measured by the PH. Scale which is from 0-14, a pH of 0-7 is acidic and 7-14 is alkaline. An alkaline pH supports life and an acidic pH support disease and death. Acid is harsh and corrosive and likely to destroy whatever it comes in contact with.
On the other hand, alkaline is mild and enhances growth and life. Your diet, what you drink and your life style all influence the pH of your body. Like I said earlier, the body was created alkaline but in function it is acidic and this acidic wastes must be eliminated from the body. If these acidic wastes are allowed to accumulate in and around the cells, destruction of the cells, tissues or organs become inevitable. Indeed this is the cause of almost all diseases in the human body accumulation of acidic wastes.
Dehydration (lack of adequate amount of water) is the single most important cause of acidic waste accumulation in our bodies. People do not routinely drink water on daily basis.
Almost everyone waits till he/she is thirsty before drinking water, but it will interest you to know that by the time you are thirsty, you are already dehydrated. Before you become thirsty your body may have been giving you some certain signs of either general or regional dehydration. These signs in the past were referred to as diseases and all sorts of drugs prescribed in an attempt to treat the symptoms of what I would like to refer to as mere physiological signs of dehydration. I am talking about anywhere in the body, including headache and migraine, arthritis, ulcer and its pain, pain over the heart known as angina.
Hypertension, adult onset diabetes, asthma and obesity to mention but a few are all physiological signs of dehydration at their onset. They gave rise to dis-ease, the body being no longer at ease because of dehydration. However this state dis-ease will eventually become pathological if sufficient water is not taken to correct the dehydration.
How do I know this, if you have not been drinking up to two litres of water (eight glasses) daily, you are most likely already dehydrated and may be suffering from one of these diseases but you do not really feel thirsty because you drink other beverages.
There is no substitute for water and try drinking that quantity of water from today and see what will happen to that dis-ease or is it disease?
To explain further, in a state of dehydration, the body goes into a rationing mode whereby water is redistributed to the five most vital organs. The brain, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys water is drawn from the muscles, bones, joint e.t.c. which are considered less vital to supply to the vital ones, the less vital organs suffer the effect of this physiological dehydration like pain hypertension and so on.
On the other side of the divide we find problems associated with pumping the water into the cell of the vital organs against the osmotic gradient by a process known as reverse osmosis. Certain hormones and neuro-transmitters are involved in this water redistribution and they give rise to some of the diseases. Furthermore, the acid wastes being corrosive and toxic affect the cells directly destroy them and lead to conditions like cancer. What? is cancer also caused by acidic waste accumulation due to dehydration? Yes. What we eat and drink and our lifestyle cause over 95 per cent of disease including cancers.
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