Water
There are people who could care less and drink plastic water bottles. There are people who just drink tap, people who use a little filter off Amazon (that doesn't do much), people who use higher level filters to remove the chloride and fluoride. There are people who think you should distill your water and remove everything. I personally lean towards the natural spring water and even better is the naturally carbonated volcanic water.
What is not up for discussion is the obscene amount of birth control (synthetic hormones), fluoride, and petrochemicals (plastic) in normal bottled water...
I highly recommend natural spring water as your primary drinking water in glass preferably. Natural spring water is by default structured (Exclusion zone) which is the 4th phase of water discovered by Dr. Gerald Pollack.
This is the phase of water your body uses in the mitochondria. Remember your body is mostly water. According to some, water is also a carrier of information so it's best we not fill the body constantly with unstructured toxic (chlorine, fluoride, pesticides, birth control, etc) water.
With that said, most of your hydration should come from true natural raw food. This means raw meat, raw eggs, and more that you'll learn about in the nourishment module. Water should come as a supplement or in response to heightened perspiration, like after trainings and matches. You'll find yourself less thirsty for water as you increase your consumption of true raw foods.
Foods such as tomato and grapefruit (fruit with less sugar) are also great for hydrating your cells. Of course look for local in-season and fresh. Juiced celery is a top choice for hydrating the body.
There is also the topic of deuterium which is an isotope of hydrogen. Municipal (tap) water is usually higher in deuterium. Deuterium you can think of like gunk in the mitochondria, like pouring concrete into your engine. The less deuterium you have the better in most cases.
Water is much more than just "hydrating" the body (which it actually doesn't do a great job). It holds information in an exclusion zone (structured) and transmits voltage across cell membranes.
Function of Water
-Forms a battery when irradiated by IR light
-Battery is further charged by UV light
-Provide the free electrons to drive 100,000 biochemical reactions per second in every cell
-Natural faraday cage to nuclei in cells, protecting and inhibiting nuclear genome activity
-Made by the mitochondria via electron tunneling (i.e. cellular respiration)
Basically, life originated from the sea. When we stole a mitochondria hundreds of millions of years ago, we brought the sea inside the cell. Therefore, the goal of life is to maintain that sea (cytosolic water). This is the water that surrounds the nuclei, to protect the integrity of our DNA. The mitochondria makes the water via tunneling electrons. Electrons are driven by light and/or magnetism.
- Dr. Jack Kruse
Be sure that your water source (still or sparkling) is natural. I could give you the science of why, but common sense should suffice. Nature is perfect by design. When humans diddle with things, such as making dams and old copper pipes, adding carbonation and chemical treatments (chlorine, fluoride), it tends to be less perfect. Expensive home filtration systems aren’t as good as the marketing suggests, and some are a money-making scam. Ditto pH 8/9 waters, which are harmful and don’t reflect how the acid/alkaline system works. Single-use bottles are a scourge. Find natural water sources.
- Tom Barnett
Getting Good Water
I know for most, it is quite costly to get spring water delivered or to buy glass bottled spring water so I've laid out a few options below.
1
Find a spring
You can literally locate a real spring, drive, and fill up glass jugs for free. Some might be close to you, some might be far. Here is the link.
2
Delivery
I get my water delivered by Alive Water. (Delivers to California only, use code ENTANGLED to get 11% off). Obviously this is not feasible for everybody. Ideally the water comes in glass and from a spring. I would avoid any liquid in plastic.
3
Buy Bottled
As a half-measure you can supplement your drinking water with glass bottled drinking water from the grocery store. This is more expensive, but convenient. This would include Pellegrino, Mountain Spring water, Icelandic Glacial water, etc (these are brands).
The best would be naturally carbonated water like Gerolsteiner for example. Artificial carbonation adds free radicals, while natural carbonation adds beneficial minerals.
4
Filter
I'm really not a fan of filters because they try to replicate what the earth does with a few inches of material. With that said, it is still better than tap water. Most filters I would categorize as "nonsense". I would look at reverse osmosis filters, the one here from Blue Bottles, or Berkey. Pristine Hydro is a good example as well.
5
Charging
Another thing you can do is charge your water in the sun to increase the exclusion zone in the water. You can do that using bowls or Blue Bottles. I've noticed doing this certainly makes the water more hydrating and effective. (the blue bottles allow the sunlight through the glass whereas normal glass doesn't in the way we want)
How much water to drink?
I get this question, and I think the best answer is based on your thirst. I don't think mainstream beliefs that you need a certain amount of water per day (that don't take into account quality of water) are very accurate. It seems more like a way to sell crates of plastic bottled water...
If it's more hot out, then you need more water. If it's colder, you might not need as much. Learn to trust your body and listen to it.
As we'll talk about in the Nourishment section, transitioning to a raw diet helps to naturally hydrate the body without need for drinking water as much, as the water inside the raw foods are equipped with enzymes and minerals meant to optimally hydrate our tissues.
Water that is not in raw food has no active ions, electrolytes, norm inerals bound with nutrients. It must have all 3 properties or it is only 10% cellularly utilizable. Water leeches nutrients from outr blood and intestines, and dilute juices so that when we eat, we do not digest or assimilate our food properly or efficiently...
It is a false notion that water nurtures and hydrates tissue. In fact, water dries the cells while it bloats the body because 90% of it circulates in the blood serioum without cellular absorption. This alos applies to the H20 in cooked food...
- Aajonus Vonderplanitz RLWD pg.34
Dehydration
Yes dehydration is not about not drinking enough water. You can actually get dehydrated from drinking too much water, especially lower quality water. This is because the body has to use minerals to piss out all of the extra water you are drinking. This depletes mineral stores and causes cramps, dehydration, etc. You body can actually make its own structured water in the mitochondria by converting fat.
Raw fresh juiced vegetable is the best tool for remineralizing the body. Combined with raw nutrient-dense food that we talk about like wild caught seafood, pasture-raised organ meat, eggs, raw honey, and other foods mentioned in the nutrition principles post, and you'll have everthing you need and more.
The naturally carbonated spring water will help balance cellular metabolism & regulate endocrine processes so good to have as a supplement. Beware sparkling spring water that says "carbonation added". This means artificially carbonated. Gerolsteiner historically was a great brand, but recently I have my doubts with changes in the wording on their branding.
Here are some other brands to try: Badoit, Wattwiller, Ferrarelle, Borsec.
Alternate to Sport Drinks
For reasons I sincerely I hope all would know by now, sports drinks like Gatorade are nothing more than processed sugar tap water.
Below is a "sports drink" created by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
"For a quart jar: 2 to 4 raw eggs; one to one and a half cups of tomato puree, leave the skins on the tomato. You add one and a half to two cups of cucumber. Peel those cucumbers. Three to four tablespoons of coconut cream. Three to four tablespoons of dairy cream. One to two tablespoons of raw apple cider vinegar, two for intense athletes. One tablespoon of lemon juice. Then about a cup of water and three to four tablespoons of honey. Now some athletes have problems with that much honey so you can cut it down to just two tablespoons. You can add a cup of raw whey for helping recovery from sport activity. That helps remove the lactic acid."
A note: many places in the world have toxic tap water while some do not. It depends on the country and region. In a bigger city? You likely have worse water. Out in the farmland? Your water is likely better.
I would suggest having a look at your local water report. This can be found usually on a government website for your city, county, or state. Look out for words like fluoride, chlorine, and other words most people can't pronounce.
Comment on Distilled Water
Drinking distilled water has it's dangers: leaches minerals from your bones as the body has to use minerals to get out all the extra liquid (urinating). Distilling doesn't remove birth control of fluoride unfortunately either.
Overall, take care of your water environment by the food you eat, how it's prepared, and then what you drink. Avoid tap water and anything in plastic.
Further Learning
Health effects of fluoride
The Fourth Phase of Water by Gerald H Pollack
We Want to Live by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
The Recipe for Living Without Disease by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
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