The 21 Day Journey Towards Vibrant Health. Day 5. Proper Hydration Is The First Place To Start… After All, Your Body Is over 70% Water!

David Whelan  |  10 Comments

Did you know that your body is over 70% water? That means if you weigh 130 pounds, you’ve got over 11 gallons of water flowing through your body.
Most of that water can be found in the blood, lymph, inside cells, and the fluid that surrounds your cells.

Not only does water serve to nourish and deliver nutrients to each of the 50 trillion cells in your body, it also acts as the septic tank for your entire system… removing all of the waste, acids and toxins that your cells produce as a result of simply doing their jobs.

I think that because water is so prevalent around us, we tend to not only take it for granted, but we forget really how important it is to us. Let’s take a deeper look at water and how it serves as the foundation to your health.

Water comes in many different forms…and most of them aren’t at all fit for your body. Water can be pure or unpure, alkaline or acidic, mineral rich or mineral poor, oxygen-rich or oxygen-poor, structured or unstructured. Yet even with all of these different variables, most people tend to just think… heck – it’s just water.

Not the case. When it comes to your health, the QUALITY of the water that you put into your body is equally as important to how much you put into your body.
When you’re body isn’t properly hydrated, your energy will be depleted, you can forget trying to lost that extra weight, and all of those other health issues aren’t going to go away.

So let’s discover what really GOOD water is and isn’t:

In order to get the “great” award, water has to possess the following four key characteristics:
It must be pure
It must be alkaline
It must be oxygen rich
It must contain the right TYPE of minerals, and it must contain the right QUANTITY of minerals.

Let’s look at how different types of water measures up to this standard I just laid out. Water can be found in the following forms… straight from the tap, distilled, RO filtered, carbon filtered, or as “spring water”… this would include spring, wells, rocky mountain runoff, etc.

Let’s start with Tap water to see if it passes the test:

It must be pure - No

We’re going to stop right there because I don’t have time to waste and neither do you. For the most part, tap water stinks. Tap water is full of impurities, such as heavy metals, arsenic, perchlorate (a component of rocket fuel and fireworks), pesticides, radon, chlorine, and even pharmaceuticals (which people unthinkingly flush down the toilet). All of these elements have been found in municipal water around the globe. You don’t want to drink water that has even a trace of these toxins….so tap water’s out.

Next, let’s see how distilled water stacks up:

It must be pure – Totally. Distilled water is the purest water available. There’s NOTHING in is besides H2O.
It must be alkaline – Nope. As a matter of fact, because it has no ions in it…because there are no minerals in it… it’s pH is 7.0 or neutral.
It must be oxygen rich – Oxygen follows pH…the higher the pH, the higher the oxygen. So, distilled fails here.
It must contain the right TYPE of minerals, and it must contain the right QUANTITY of minerals. – Nope… there are no minerals in distilled.

So, while it may seem that distilled water completely failed our test, I’m going to pass it with an asterisk. Because of its purity, distilled water makes a great BASE…you simply have to “recharge it” in order to get it to pass the test (we’ll talk more about this in a bit).

Now, let’s look at filtered water.

First of all, what we’re talking about is tap water that’s filtered…so we really need to look at HOW the water is filtered, and WHAT is being filtered out.
It must be pure – Not necessarily. Even some of the best RO filters cannot filter out all of the chemicals found in tap water.
It must be alkaline – filters do nothing to increase the pH of tap water... so no.
It must be oxygen rich – nope.
It must contain the right TYPE of minerals, and it must contain the right QUANTITY of minerals. – Here’s where filtered water fails. At the same time they filter out bad minerals like lead, they also filter out good minerals like calcium and magnesium. If you’re going to drink filtered water, again…you have to look at “recharging” it in order to get it to be optimal.

Now, let’s look at spring water.
It must be pure – sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t… After all, it comes from the earth, and we all know how some places can be polluted.
It must be alkaline – again, sometimes it is. Water from the French alps or Nariwa Japan are naturally alkaline…sometimes with a pH as high as 10. You just have to look hard for these yummy waters.
It must be oxygen rich – maybe.
It must contain the right TYPE of minerals, and it must contain the right QUANTITY of minerals. – And again maybe. Every spring contains water with a different mineral profile than from another spring.

Now I want to talk about water ionizers. These are machines that alkalize water by SUBTRACTING positive ions out of the water. Let’s see how ionized water from an ionizer stacks up:
It must be pure – not necessarily… it depends on where the water’s coming from before you run it through an ionizer. If it’s coming from your faucet, then the answer is probably no.
It must be alkaline – absolutely.
It must be oxygen rich – higher than most waters
It must contain the right TYPE of minerals, and it must contain the right QUANTITY of minerals. – not necessarily. Again, water ionizers work by SUBTRACTING certain minerals or ions out of the water… they do not ADD in minerals into the water. So, if the water that goes into them starts out mineral depleted, then it will remain depleted.

OK then. It doesn’t seem like ANY of the waters we tested passed. So, we’re going to have to improvise here a bit. If you really care about what you put into your body, you’re going to have to literally make your own. Here’s what I do…

I start with distilled water because it’s nothing but pure H20. Then I add in pH Booster which brings the pH up to 9.5…so it’s alkaline and oxygenated. It works by infusing the water with a ton of ionic minerals… which means it’s also mineral rich.

I actually get those 5 gallon jugs of distilled water delivered to my home and the office, I add the booster, and I don’t even think about it again. Every time I fill my water bottle, I know I’m getting literally the GREATEST water on the planet.

Now… I must let you know that this is a little bit of shameless promotion here, since I founded pHion. But just to keep it even, there are a few different water additives out there that you can also use.
So, now that you know what the best type of water is, and how to make it, start getting into a habit of drinking it every day.

Remember how I said that if you’re 130 pounds you have 11 gallons of water in your body? It’s really important that you keep your internal water supply “fresh” and renewed. So I suggest that you get at least 3 liters of great water into your body every day. The government recommends 8 glasses… I think that’s too little. 3 liters is more like 12… and 4 is even better.

If you’re not used to drinking that much water, don’t sweat it. Start with less and build up slowly. Your body will adapt very fast.

Stay hydrated, stay vibrant, and stay well!

~David

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Richard Reed (3 months ago) Reply to comment 0    So...have customers added phion booster to other beverages? Hot or cold? Richie Barbour (6 months ago) Reply to comment 0    Richie Barbour Hi David As a personal trainer I can't help but notice that your system bears a resemblance to compatible eating developed by William Howard Hay early last century. As I use his system myself, I find it works very well. I like what you are doing. If more people paid attention to stuff like this and also ate according to their nutritional type, we wouldn't have all these degenerative diseases plaguing the population Lajuana Payton (6 months ago) Reply to comment 0    Hello David just when i thought i knew about nutrition, i saw ur video about the water and it blew me out the water, i had the gastric bypass surgery and i cant take in nutrions like others but i still am going 2 try the product i want to purchase the whole line ive gained weight since the surgery and i do ned a through cleansing, which i just thought was cleaning the colon, wow was i wrong if u have any advice please fill me in -- JUANA Sandra Clemon (11 months ago) Reply to comment 0    That's a great idea...about getting distilled water delivered. How much does that cost with the delivery fees, etc? David Whelan  (11 months ago) Reply to comment I pay about $5.00 for a 5 gallon jug delivered. But our house goes through about 15 of those per month :) the cooler is only $5 per month to rent.   Matt zipp (11 months ago) Reply to comment 0    I've been sending each one of your 21 days to my mother...she's been really sick. I think it's beginning to make her think of better ways to get well. thanks. 12