The One Thing You Can’t Live Without

By Barbara Cockrell

  Our bodies are made up of mostly water. This water is most effectively used throughout our body when it is in a state of alkalinity. It is essential for us to maintain healthy intake levels of water in its alkaline form

 Scientists say that our bodies are made up of 70% alkaline water overall! Our eyes are made up of 98% alkaline water! Ninety-four percent (94%) of our blood is made of- yep! You guessed it: AKALINE WATER! So it’s super important for us to make sure that we fuel our bodies with plenty of alkaline water; so that we can function properly.

 Reading Robert O. Young, PhD and Shelley Redford Young’s book, The pH Miracle, was truly an eye opener when it came to getting the body back into pH balance. It was truly revolutionary for me and I recommend that everyone reads it. Also, Raymond Francis, M.Sc.’s book, Never Fear Cancer Again was an amazing reference regarding all of the pollutants that are getting dumped into our water system. These are two books that you MUST put onto your reading list!

 I should say now that if you aren’t familiar with the concept of acidity vs. alkalinity in relation to the body’s balance, please refer to some of my previous publications; I discuss this concept there in great detail.

 So naturally, we should be putting foods into our bodies that contain lots of alkaline water. We need to pay attention here, because if we choose to eat the proper types of foods, and yet buy polluted products, we are still placing ourselves at risk.

 The foods that are the best sources of alkaline water are green, electron rich vegetables, and fruits with low sugar contents. Of course, not to forget the electron rich water with a pH balance of around 9.5, that we should be steadily refilling our bodies with every day! Your water doesn’t always have to have a pH balance of 9.5, but that’s the mark to shoot for.

 Any honest physician, nutritionist, or personal trainer will tell you that the single most important thing you can do to stay healthy is to drink plenty of clean, healthy water every day.

 Hundreds of years ago, our readily available water supply used to be mostly alkaline. However, over the years, various methods of pollution have corrupted our water supply so thoroughly that it has actually changed its overall balance to being mostly acidic today! This is one of the main reasons why we are unhealthy today as a whole in this nation.

 Listen, bad water can make you sick! I’m not talking runny nose and Dayquil sick; I’m talking “scare of your life”, or “I need to do something, NOW” sick! The point that I’m really trying to get across here is that we ARE what we drink. If we drink alkaline water, then our bodies will be in a state of alkalinity. If we drink acidic water, then we will be sick- umm, I mean- we will be in an acidic state. That doesn’t mean that you can drink alkaline water and then eat acidic foods and expect to remain in a state of alkalinity. Everything has to be in balance, and the less acids you put into your body overall, the better.

 Remember, all of our bodies’ cells are floating around all day in the water that makes up most of our bodies! So if we are putting polluted water into our bodies, then just take a second and imagine what that’s doing to all of our cells!?! Not a pretty picture is it?

 Almost all of the water that is easily accessible to us nowadays is acidic. If our bodies are full of acidic water, they can’t set up barriers to the acids that we take in, and flush them out of our systems properly. This will cause those acids to build up and the resulting imbalances are devastating to our health. Conversely, alkaline water, when consumed daily and combined with a proper diet, will not only flush out the acids we take in, but it will also begin to break down and flush out the acids we have built up within us already. This is a benefit of our bodies getting back into balance and returning to a state of alkalinity, as they were intended to be in.

 At the same time that this article is being printed, I am putting out a video from my YouTube channel where I ran pH tests on various samples of water easily available to us. You might be shocked to find out how YOUR favorite brand did, so be sure to take the time to watch the video!

 Ok, this is where we get to the scary part: what kinds of chemicals are in our water, and how do those chemicals affect us? Well, I really don’t want you to freak out and decide to live in a solar powered bubble with a NASA grade water filtration system attached to it; but I do want you to freak out and start paying attention to the quality of the water you’re putting into your body. So, I’ll just give you a few examples of the deadly chemicals that are prevalently found in our water today.

Cadmium

 Let’s start with phosphate fertilizers. First off, they are loaded with cadmium. Cadmium is a chemical element that was used for a long time as a corrosion-resistant plating on steel. Cadmium compounds are used as red, orange and yellow pigments, to color glass, and to stabilize plastic. Doesn’t sound like something you’d like to mix in with your water, huh? Of course not! Cadmium also seeps into the ground, which means it’s soaked up into the foods growing out of that same ground. Ask any qualified scientist and they will tell you: high cadmium levels are ALWAYS linked to high growth rates of cancer and deadly concentration of cancer growths in the body. Another nasty little side effect of cadmium pollution is that cadmium causes arsenic to be drawn out of our soils and it then deposits these high levels of arsenic into our groundwater and plants.

Chlorine

 Now, let’s move on to chlorine. Chlorine was originally put into our water systems to be an effective defense against deadly pathogens that our water could harbor. To that end, it has stood against the test of time. However, chlorine damages our cells when it is ingested or saturated into our bodies, as in, when you drink it or shower in it every day!

 What really happens is that once the chlorine mixes with the water, new chemical compounds are formed. These compounds are especially dangerous to us because they are basically cancer super food. They directly feed the cancerous cells within us. These compounds are very stable in the natural environment, which may at first sound like a good thing, but in reality it means they don’t dissipate over time at a rate that’s realistically manageable. So these harmful chemical compounds stay in our water in highly concentrated levels for a longer time than it takes for us to use that available supply of water.

 One study in a 1996 Cancer Causes and Control found that cancer risk is increased greatly when the amount of exposure to chlorinated byproducts, or the duration of exposure to those byproducts, is increased. This can be super scary to us, because most of us climb under a regular tap water shower head at least once a day, most of the time twice a day. We stand under a constant stream of this polluted water for varying lengths of time, none of them short. So when we do this, we are thoroughly saturating ourselves with chlorinated water, and the mental image here is like taking a bath in acid rain! YUCK! Our skin is our largest living organ, so why wouldn’t we take measures to protect it from all of the pollution? So a water filter on your shower head doesn’t sound so crazy all of a sudden does it?

Fluoride

 Lastly, and certainly least healthy for us, is fluoride! Fluoride is also cancer super food. More importantly, it can function like an ignition button for cancer growth in our bodies.

 Fluoridation has been considered, publicly, to be one of the ten great public-health breakthroughs in the twentieth century. However for some time now, it is actually the informed realization that fluoridation is one of our biggest health missteps. There is absolutely no shortage of research and data to confirm that fluoride causes cancer. Period!

 Even though attempts have been made to suppress this information, it is still widely known. Raymond Francis, in his book, Never Fear Cancer Again, says on page 189, “For example, recorded in the ‘Congressional Record’ of 21 July 1976, the chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Dean Burke, stated before congress, ‘In point of fact, fluoride causes more cancer death, and causes it faster than any other chemical.’”

 We regularly put this poison in our bodies from fluoridated tap water, and from toothpaste and processed beverages we drink like soda, beer, and fruit juices. The really crazy part is that they say that tooth protection is the main reason in support of fluoridation, but now we can clearly see that fluoride doesn’t protect teeth at all. In fact, if we look at the statistics, we will see that populated areas show an increase of cavities and tooth decay directly after they implement fluoridation.

 So now that I’ve armed you with what you need to be aware, make sure you make more conscious decisions regarding the sources of water you use.

 I strongly recommend that you research and invest in filters of different kinds. This is our health and happiness we are talking about here. Don’t wait until there is a problem to become concerned about what’s in your water!