BENEFITS OF WATER

Physicians rarely promote the curative properties of H2O, but Dr. Batmanghelidj, M.D. has studied water's effect on the human body and has found it to be one of the best pain relievers and preventative therapies in existence. I was one of the last people to interview the late Dr. Batmanghelidj, and I listened in awe as he shared his research and stories about "The Healing Power of Water."

AMAZING BENEFITS OF WATER

(NaturalNews) 05th April 2008. As proof that mainstream health information continues to become increasingly detached from reality, the mainstream media (MSM) has launched a new wave of misinformation designed to discredit the health benefits of drinking water! Just today, for example, Fox News ran a story entitled, Skip the Water, Have a Soda Instead.

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Other news organizations, such as the Chicago Tribune also jumped on the bandwagon, declaring that drinking eight glasses of water a day has no health benefits whatsoever.

This latest wave of attempts to discredit water comes from -- no surprise -- the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Nephrology means "the study of kidneys," for all the non-medical folks reading this, and the aforementioned journal caters to medical professionals who earn their living from kidney problems caused by dehydration! Thus, this campaign to tell people to stop drinking water is a fantastic way to boost kidney problems including kidney stones) and generate more repeat business for kidney specialists. What a coincidence, huh?

That's how money is made in the medical industry these days, by the way: Rig some junk science, announce it as scientific fact, and wait for the mainstream media to jump on the bandwagon and declare water to be dangerous, or drugs to be safe, or sunlight to be deadly, or whatever current nonsense they're spewing that drives more customers into their offices to be poisoned by medication, radiation or chemotherapy.

Think about it, for a moment. It is now the position of conventional medicine that:

*   Water is bad for you.
*   Sunlight is bad for you.
*   Nutritional supplements are worthless.
*   Herbs are dangerous and might kill you.
*   Meditation and prayer has no medical benefit.

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*   Poison your body with chemotherapy.
*   Slather your skin with sunscreen that blocks vitamin D production.
*   Take medications that cause permanent liver damage.
*   Drink processed beverages and eat processed, cooked foods.
*   "Manage" your biochemistry with medication, not nutrition.
*   Have your breasts surgically removed to prevent breast cancer...

Gee, it's no surprise, then, to learn about this latest finding that "water has no health benefits."

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Every Living System on Earth Needs Water.

This hilarious finding comes as quite a shock to the more than one trillion living beings on this planet (animal, human and otherwise), all of which somehow happen to need water as their No. 1 nutrient. Nobody bothered to tell all the deer about this research, it seems, because last time I checked, they were still running to the local stream and drinking some water. They were not waiting in the drive-through at McDonald's, hoping to order a Coke.

It's a good thing these nephrology experts aren't gardeners. I can't wait to see the results they'll get when they stop watering their gardens. Or their lawns. If water has no health benefits, they should avoid drinking all liquids for a few days and see what happens. (Hint: They will go into a coma or die, which will of course help ensure they never publish stupid science articles again.) I wonder whether they give water to their own children, or if they cause them to be dehydrated, too?

The Truth About Water

The truth is that water is a vital substance for your body, and most people are chronically dehydrated. A lack of water causes back pain, poor cognitive function, asthma, inflammation and many other diseases. In fact, I think part of this new attack on water is designed to discredit the work of the Water Cure doctor, Dr. Batmanghelidj, who wrote books like Your Body's Many Cries For Water and was a genius doctor who really understood the power of naturopathic healing.

I was one of the last people to interview the late Dr. Batmanghelidj, and I listened in awe as he shared his research and stories about "The Healing Power of Water."

Continue reading in the special report you'll learn:

*   Which common ailments and "diseases" are actually caused by dehydration
*   Why many doctors use water-regulating antihistamines to alleviate pain
*   How Dr. Batmanghelidj unintentionally discovered water's healing properties
*   Why most people are chronically dehydrated and suffer from symptoms of dehydration that are labeled "diseases"
*   Which ingredients in soft drinks deplete the body's water reserves
*   Why thirst is not a reliable indicator of dehydration
*   Why the body produces cholesterol and how water keeps it in balance
*   Why Dr. Batmanghelidj believes the public is being mislead about AIDS
*   How dehydration impairs mental functioning
*   Why some organizations want to withhold alternative health information from the public
*   How lack of water causes depression
*   Why popular beverages are no substitute for water
*   How dehydration causes the vascular system to constrict, leading to hypertension
*   How to recognize signs that your body is starting to dehydrate
*   Why restaurants push you to drink disease-promoting soft drinks
*   Why and how water effectively treats pain and inflammation

The Idiocy Of Modern Medicine

The truth about these latest attacks on water is that conventional medicine doesn't want people to prevent disease with water, herbs, nutrition, sunlight or anything natural. The more people get healthy, the fewer "customers" there are to rack up profits for drug companies, hospitals, doctors and yes, even kidney experts (who should know better).

Looking at today's headlines on water, you just have to laugh: The Chicago Tribune declares, "Water's benefits questioned by scientists," for example. It's a headline that should probably be rewritten to say, "Kidney Doctors Recommend Dehydration!"

Want kidney stones? Stop drinking water and start drinking soda. That's what Fox News recommends in their headline.

You know, when the MSM gets this unbelievably stupid, and mainstream medicine goes to such outrageous lengths to try to discredit natural substances like water, it makes me wonder just how insane this world has really become.

Is the public really so stupid that people will believe these fraudulent headlines? I hope not. Then again, one of the side effects of dehydration is a decline in cognitive function. It seems like the journalists have been dehydrated for long time now, huh?

I can't wait to see what they'll come up with next. They're already attacked water, sunlight, plants and nutrition. What's next, air? Will tomorrow's headlines declare, "Breathing is bad for your health?"

Don't think it won't happen. There is no limit to the stupidity of modern medical science.

BE NATURAL - BE HEALTHY

A Natural News Special Report by Mike Adams

Physicians rarely promote the curative properties of H2O, but Dr. Batmanghelidj, M.D. has studied water's effect on the human body and has found it to be one of the best pain relievers and preventative therapies in existence. I was one of the last people to interview the late Dr. Batmanghelidj, and I listened in awe as he shared his research and stories about "The Healing Power of Water."

In a fascinating one-hour phone conversation, Dr. B: shares:

*   Which common ailments and "diseases" are actually caused by dehydration
*   Why many doctors use water-regulating antihistamines to alleviate pain
*   How Dr. Batmanghelidj unintentionally discovered water's healing properties
*   Why most people are chronically dehydrated and suffer from symptoms of dehydration that are labeled "diseases"
*   Which ingredients in soft drinks deplete the body's water reserves
*   Why thirst is not a reliable indicator of dehydration
*   Why the body produces cholesterol and how water keeps it in balance
*   Why Dr. Batmanghelidj believes the public is being mislead about AIDS
*   How dehydration impairs mental functioning
*   Why some organizations want to withhold alternative health information from the public
*   How lack of water causes depression
*   Why popular beverages are no substitute for water
*   How dehydration causes the vascular system to constrict, leading to hypertension
*   How to recognize signs that your body is starting to dehydrate
*   Why restaurants push you to drink disease-promoting soft drinks
*   Why and how water effectively treats pain and inflammation

Discovery of the water cure.

Mike: Welcome everyone, this is Mike Adams with Truth Publishing, and today I'm very excited to be welcoming Dr. Batmanghelidj, author of Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. Welcome, Dr. Batmanghelidj.

Dr. B: Thank you very much for inviting me to be on the air with you and giving me the opportunity of sharing my thoughts on the future of medicine in this country.

Mike: I think there are many, many people who have read your books. People are intrigued by the idea that water can be a therapy, a healing substance for the human body. What is it about water? How did you first become aware of these healing properties of water?

Dr. B: Well, it's very bizarre. As you know, I'm a regular doctor, an M.D. I had the honor and the privilege of being selected as one of the house doctors, and I had the extreme honor of being one of the last students of Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. I mention his name so that you know I was immersed in medical school and research. And some years later, I had to give two glasses of water to a person who was doubled up in abdominal pain from his disease, because I had no other medication to give him at that moment. And he was in excruciating pain, and water performed miraculous relief for him. It gave him relief -- within three minutes his pain diminished, and within eight minutes it disappeared completely, whereas he was doubled up eight minutes before and he couldn't even walk, he completely recovered from that situation. And he started beaming from ear to ear, very happy, asked me what happens if the pain comes back? I said, "Well, drink more water." Then I decided to instruct him to drink two glasses of water every three hours. Which he did, and that was the end of his ulcer pains for the rest of the duration that he was with me.

Mike: And from that episode then, what happened next?

Dr. B: That woke me up, because in medical school I'd never heard that water could cure pain, that kind of pain, in fact. And so I had the occasion to test water as a medication in subsequently over 3,000 similar cases. And water proved every time to be an effective medication. I came away from that experience with the understanding that these people were all thirsty, and that thirst in the body can manifest itself in the form of abdominal pain to the level that the person can even become semi-conscious, because that's the experience I had. And water picks them up every time.

So when I came to America in 1982, I went to the University of Pennsylvania, where I was invited to continue my research, and did research in the pain-relieving properties of water. I asked myself, why does the pharmaceutical industry insist on using antihistamines for this kind of pain medication?

So I started researching the role of histamine in the body, and the answer was there -- histamine is a neurotransmitter in charge of water regulation and the drought management programs of the body. When it manifests pain, in fact, it is indicating dehydration.

So, the body does manifest dehydration in the form of pain. Now, depending on where dehydration is settled, you feel pain there. Very simple, and I presented this concept at the international conference as the guest lecturer of a conference on cancer, explaining that the human body manifests dehydration by producing pain, and pain is a sign of water shortage in the body, and water shortage is actually the background to most of the health problems in our society.

Because if you look at what the pharmaceutical industry is doing, they're producing so many different antihistamines as medication.

Antidepressant drugs are antihistamines, pain medication are antihistamines, other medications are directly and indirectly antihistamines. So, that is when my work was published, the scientific secretariat of the 3rd Interscience Board Conference of Inflammation invited me to make this presentation on histamine at their conference in 1989, in Monte Carlo. And I did that, and so it became a regular understanding that histamine is a water regulator in the body. But unfortunately, this information is not reaching the public through the medical community because it's not a money-maker.

So that's when I began to consider writing for the public, so that the public could become aware of the problem directly without the interference of a doctor, and that's how I have generated all my medical information for the public. Of course, I have published extensively for the scientific community, but no one is picking up.

In fact, the NIH, the Office of Alternative Medicine, had its first conference when the office was created, and I was asked to make my presentation, but when the proceedings of the conference came out, my presentation was censored after the proceedings. So there is a movement afoot within the NIH group of people to keep a closed lid on my information so that it doesn't get out, because obviously they are more in favor of the drug industry, because it is now obvious that they are getting paid by them.

Mike: I think it is, first of all, that is an amazing account of what has been happening, and I think it is fair to say, too, that the pharmaceutical industry and organized medicine in general, really doesn't want to promote anything that is free or near-free to the average patient.

Sunlight is available at no charge, water is available at nearly no charge -- would you agree that their thinking is if people can cure their diseases, and achieve a high state of health on their own with these free substances, then that diminishes their profits and their importance?

Dr. B: Absolutely. That's why I've created an organization now called National Association for Honesty in Medicine. Because I think it's totally dishonest, in fact, criminal, to treat a person who is just thirsty, and give them toxic medication so that he gets sick and dies earlier than normal.

Mike: Can you give out the web address to that organization, by the way?

Dr. B: My website is Water Cure -- it gives you the option of going to one site or the other -- either Water Cure.com, or you can go the National Association for Honesty in Medicine. Or you can go to the information side of my website, Water Cure because I have posted all of my scientific articles on dehydration on the website, and lots of other free information that people can have.

AIDS and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Mike: I want to applaud what I call your scientific curiosity. I think this is the kind of curiosity that has been lost in so much of western medicine, where a true scientist observes nature and observes the interaction between humans and nature, and remains curious and open and to all possibilities, and then forms conclusions after rigorous testing, and I think so much of modern science has drawn erroneous conclusions without really remaining open-minded...

Dr. B: Yes, one of the worst ones is AIDS. Because everyone assumes that AIDS is actually a viral disease, which is a fraudulent statement by those people who presented it, because the human body is the product of many, many years of having fought various viral diseases, and has survived. Smallpox, polio, measles, and all the other viruses that can kill very easily, and the body has an ability to mount a defense system against these hot viruses, viruses that actually very quickly can kill. But having survived those, how is it possible that the slow virus would kill us in the name of AIDS? I can't understand it.

I have researched this topic extensively, and I have shown in fact that AIDS is a metabolic problem, when the body begins to cannibalize its own tissue because of certain missing elements in the raw materials that it receives through food or beverages, and the body of a person who gets AIDS, actually, is short of quite a number of building block amino acids. They're short of tyrosine, they're short of methionine, cysteine, they're short of histidine, and they've got a whole lot of others in excess. So how can we expect a body that depends on the other amino acids to survive?

Mike: Once again we see AIDS is a huge industry for the pharmaceutical industry.

Dr. B: Well, of course it is, and the whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so.

Cholesterol

Dr. B: Another false science is the question of cholesterol. Cholesterol is one of the most essential elements in the survival of the human body. When the body begins to make more cholesterol, it has a reason to do that. It is certainly not to block the arteries of the heart, because we measure the level of cholesterol in the body in the blood we take out of the veins of the body, and nowhere in the history of medicine is there recorded one single case of cholesterol ever having blocked the veins of the body.

So, it is not the stickiness of the cholesterol that is the problem, which the drug industry is drumming it into the minds of people -- cholesterol is sticky, reduce it otherwise you will have blockage of your arteries, which is all nonsense. Cholesterol is actually saving the lives of people, because cholesterol is a bandage, a waterproof bandage that the body has designed. When the blood becomes concentrated and acidic, and is being rushed through constricted arteries or capillaries, in dehydration, then abrasions and tears are produced in the arterial system, naturally, in the capillaries of the heart first.

Now if cholesterol wasn't there to cover up the tear and abrasions, blood would get under the membrane and peel it off and that person would be dead instantly. Cholesterol is actually an interim lifesaver, giving the body time to recover from its problems. We never understood this. We are knee-jerk doctors. We think that something's up, bring it down, if something's down, bring it up. We don't ask questions why is it down or why is it up?

Mike: And the pharmaceutical companies know that treating cholesterol is a huge industry...

Dr. B: It's a ten-billion dollar industry. Now there is a report that actually these statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs produce amnesia. In other words, the brain totally loses track of what it's doing, and it is published by a doctor who is an eminent doctor. He was a flight surgeon, he is a researcher at NASA. And he knows what he's talking about. He had the problem himself.

Mike: I just wanted to comment on the number of side effects that have been recorded as side effects from using statin drugs. Some people have extreme muscular pain, that amnesia you mentioned seems to be very common, and yet a study just came out, I saw it this morning, talking about how blueberries have phytonutrients that are shown to lower so-called fatty cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, more powerfully than statin drugs.

Dr. B: It's interesting, because you see, the body manufactures cholesterol as an emergency situation, when it raises the level of its production. Its normal rate of production is of course is to create membranes for the cell membranes and brain cells and nerve insulation and of course the hormones of the body, vitamin D for the body. So these are the essential components that cholesterol makes in the body. We should never interfere with cholesterol without knowing why the body has starting raising its level.

No Substitute For Water

Mike: I have a question for you on water -- a lot of people think that they are hydrating themselves when they consume soft drinks or milk or Gatorade or all these other liquid beverages.

Dr. B: Gatorade is possibly okay, but Gatorade has sugar in it, and it's not particularly good for people who might even get hypoglycemic, or might induce insulin secretion, and that insulin secretion will produce more hunger and they overeat. But as a temporary sport drink, it's okay when you're in the middle of a golf game to drink a Gatorade. It immediately gives you a bit of the minerals that you probably will have lost sweating.

But nothing substitutes for water -- not a thing. No drink -- no coffee, no tea, no alcoholic beverages. Not even fruit juices. Each one of them has its own agenda. Your body is used to a fluid that has no agenda, because the body depends on the freedom of that fluid, water, because there are two kinds of water in the body.

There is already occupied and engaged water, which is no good for new function. The body needs new water, or free water, to perform new functions. Now, when you give them sugar containing beverages, or caffeine containing beverages, both sugar and caffeine have their own chemical agenda in the body. They defeat the purpose of the need for water.

Mike: You're also talking about soft drinks here.

Dr. B: I'm talking about soft drinks, I'm talking about sodas, I'm talking about caffeine containing coffee or tea. I'm also talking about alcohol, because alcohol actually stops the emergency water supply systems to the important cells, such as the brain cells. In the reverse osmosis process your body filters and injects water into the cells, and this is what I call reverse osmosis. And it has to raise the blood pressure for that in order to overcome the osmotic pull of water out of the cells, and reinject water into the cells. That's why we develop high-blood pressure in dehydration. And this process of reverse osmosis is stopped by alcohol. It stops the filter system.

Chronic Disease Caused by Lack of Water

Mike: Let me start this next section by asking you about the correlation between water consumption and chronic disease. There are many diseases you mention in your books that are related to dehydration. I wonder if you can give our readers a brief of what the major diseases are and why they are aggravated or promoted by chronic dehydration.

Dr. B: Certainly, Mike. I have written a book called Water Cures and Drugs Kill. It's a book that explains why dehydration is the cause of pain and disease, and how the pharmaceutical industry has camouflaged this information or covered it up and instead of letting people drink water, it advertises the use of their products, which actually do kill. Because recent figures have shown that prescription medications, when used according to the instruction of doctors, nonetheless kill over 106,000 people, and make 2 million people sicker than before taking the medication. And then there is another group who die from faulty prescriptions, incorrect prescriptions.

So between them, about 250,000 people die from drug-related problems, medication-related problems. This makes the drugs the use of drugs the number three killer processes in the country -- protected and licensed killer process. After heart disease, which kills about seven or eight hundred thousand, cancer which kills about 500,000, drugs kill 250,000 people.

Mike: So it's fair to say that pharmaceuticals, as packaged by modern medicine, are the third leading cause of death in this country.

Dr. B: Absolutely, and they are useless, because most of the medication they are using is to cover up symptoms and signs and complications of dehydration in the human body. The human body manifests dehydration by a series of symptoms and signs, perceptive symptoms of dehydration -- in other words, brain senses dehydration, or tiredness when you haven't done a good day's work, or first thing in the morning when you want to get up out of bed and you're tired, you can't get up -- that is a sign of dehydration. Then anger, quick reaction, depression, these are all signs of dehydration, when the brain has very little energy from hydroelectricity to cope with the information or take action. These are some of the perceptive signs of dehydration. Then the body has its drought management program, which are allergies, hypertension, diabetes, and also immune diseases.

The Link Between Dehydration and Asthma

Mike: I'd like you to elaborate a little more on asthma, and the idea that the body is managing its water supply deliberately in a way that produces symptoms that are called asthma.

Dr. B: Yes, well you see, drought management means that you have to clog the holes where water is lost from the body. Water is the most precious commodity in the interior of your body, and when not enough is coming in and more is being lost, this is a no-no situation for your body. The intelligence behind the design of the body has it such that a drought management program will kick in, and then allergies are a sign of dehydration because the system that regulates water balance of the body suppresses the immune system, because it's an energy-consuming situation. Then you get asthma.

You see, we lose about a quart of water through breathing every day. It is actually the surface tension in the alveoli of the lungs that produces contraction of these tiny membranes, and air is pushed out. And in the process, that water will leave with the air that is leaving. So you lose about a quart of water in breathing. We need to replenish that. When we don't replenish it, the body tightens up the bronchials and plugs up the holes and we call this reduced air flow in the lungs because of dehydration, we've labeled it as asthma.

Mike: Right. I've always been amazed that the willingness of modern medicine or western medicine to come up with these complicated sounding labels or names for diseases that should really have simpler names.

Dr. B: Jargon peddling is the way of commercial medicine. Sick-care system survives and thrives on pushing these jargons into the minds of the people, because people don't understand what these jargons, they hear them and they don't associate with anything in the body, but associate them with those jargons of fear that are drummed in the minds of people.

Now, children, there are 17 million children in America, probably more because the numbers rise every year, who have asthma, and the reason is, at the same time, children have been consuming more and more sodas. Three year olds to five year olds have been consuming three times as much soda in the last ten years than in the ten years before that. So these people are getting dehydrated, they are consuming more sodas, which doesn't function in the same way as water, and that is why they get asthma. Now, give these children water, and their asthma will disappear very quickly, in a matter of a few hours, completely the breathing becomes normal. The need for these inhalers will disappear.

And when I contacted the NIH and explained all of this, the gentleman who was in charge of this said I was so ignorant on what was going on, and yet he wanted to protect his freedom, and so he ignored the information even though I had gone to Clinton, President Clinton to ask him to intervene, and give breath back to these children. But the NIH was adamant to use medication. He wrote me, actually, and said we are satisfied with the way asthma is being treated. So, this is the situation. Now 17 million children is America can recover in a matter of a few days if everyone in the country started talking to asthmatic people and saying water is what you should take. Can you imagine a solution so simple?

Mike: Yes. Yes I can, and there are many such solutions available to treat a great number of chronic diseases, just like you've been describing here. Of course, the pharmaceutical industry I think would be horrified to have that information become widespread.

Dr. B: Yeah, well, because what I'm saying is totally anti-business, and we are not talking about a few hundred thousand dollars, we are talking about a few billion dollars a year.

Treating Hypertension with Water

Mike: For the pharmaceutical industry, the existence of disease is a business question, because let's face it, the pharmaceutical industry is a for-profit industry. Profits are always first, and at least it's my belief, and it seems that you share it, that any therapy that competes with those profits is minimized, marginalized or outright attacked.

Dr. B: Yes, recently there was an ad on the television. It was very interesting -- I didn't realize it at the beginning, but I now realize that the ad was speaking to me. In other words, it was an ad against my statements. Because I've said that the heartburn is a sign of dehydration in the human body and you should drink water. And this guy comes and sits at the counter and asks, "Give me a glass of water, my heartburn is killing me." Or something like that. And the lady behind the counter says, "Water doesn't cure heartburn -- this medication does." So see, this is how the pharmaceutical industry fights the information that I put out. But nonetheless, people who did discover that water could cure their heartburn are wiser than those who buy into that advertising stunt.

Mike: It seems like there are almost two different groups of people in the United States. There are those who are now dependent on multiple pharmaceuticals to treat everything, every symptom that they have, and who alter their body chemistry and their brain chemistry through drugs, and then there are those who are educating themselves about the true causes of health. They're drinking water, they're avoiding food additives, they're engaging in exercise -- it seems like there's a chasm that's widening between these two groups.

Dr. B: Absolutely. That's why alternative medicine has picked up and you're getting more people going to alternative medicine than conventional medicine. You see, I've sold at least over 600,000 copies of my book Your Body's Many Cries for Water over the past 10 years. And so I've had over several thousand radio interviews in the past 10 years. Information is getting out into the hands of the public, so the pharmaceutical industry has to naturally increase its advertising to nullify this information that I have put out. That is why they have produced this ad -- one of many, actually.

Anyway, we were talking about drought management programs in the body. Hypertension is another one of these problems. When there isn't enough water in the body, or the body becomes dehydrated, 66% of the water loss is from the interior of the cells. 26% is from the environment around the cells, and only 8% is lost from the vascular system. But the vascular system is an elastic system -- it tightens up and takes up the slack so you don't see the problem that is going on inside the cells of your body by testing your blood that is being tested in so many conditions. If people drank water on a regular basis and took enough salt and minerals to expand the capillary beds, hypertension would disappear completely.

And there are 60 million Americans who don't realize that actually hypertension is one of the manifestations of drought management programs of the body when the body begins to operate a reverse osmosis process, to deliver water into the interior of those cells which are 66% water deficient. Now the pharmaceutical industry and the medical doctors arrogantly and ignorantly are treating hypertension with diuretics.

Mike: Let's get rid of the water!

Dr. B: They are getting rid of the water in the body, at a lot of, how shall I say, effort.

Mike: Isn't this an example of the arrogance of modern medicine in believing that it knows more than nature, it knows more than the body?

Dr. B: We, as doctors, are really 007 agents of the pharmaceutical industry. We are totally blind and ignorant and the pharmaceutical industry has hijacked medicine. We learn a couple of years of physiology, and soon as we go on the clinical side we are asked to forget those and begin to learn pharmacology in order to treat symptoms rather than understand the primary cause of the health problem.

Mike: But you were trained in classic, conventional way...

Dr. B: I had to educate myself.

Thinking Outside The Box

Mike: What it is that drove you to explore beyond the limited thinking of conventional medicine?

Dr. B: I'm always a curious person. I've been a curious person ever since I was born as far as I know. One day we had a thief come into the house and was on the wall, and I was only a two and a half year old boy. I went to him and said, "What are you doing here? Can't you see you're scaring everyone? Why don't you go?" I wasn't scared, I was curious.

That is what I am, right throughout my life, and that is why when I discovered that water cures pain, then this was an entrance for me to get into it and find out what was the reason. And that was when I discovered that my education was no good. I didn't learn medicine, I learned a little bit of anatomy and a little bit of histology, which stood me in good stead in order to understand the rest of the stuff.

Mike: You are, I'm sure the listeners would agree here, you are to be applauded for being able to venture outside of conventional medicine.

Dr. B: I'm only a healer because that's my way of thinking. I don't think about money, because money is, if you do a good deed, money will come as a by product of that good deed.

Mike: I agree with you wholeheartedly there.

Dr. B: You don't have to try and take the last drop of blood out of a person who comes to you in order to get help from you. That is against my nature. That's why I've put out my information for everyone to use on the internet, and it is only for further use or further education that I have produced my books and so on, and those books unfortunately, the cost of printing, distribution, forces the price on the information. If the pharmaceutical industry had the information that they were going to sell, for example the information in my book Your Body's Many Cries For Water, they would ask for $10,000 a book, not $14.95.

Mike: And, if they could, they would patent water...

Dr. B: They would patent it.

Mike: And try to sell it to you at $100 a dose, right?

Dr. B: That's right. So, basically, this is what's going on in medicine in America. Joint pain, back pain, arthritis cause by chronic dehydration. The human body also has its emergency calls for water. These are localized emergency calls. We call these heartburn, rheumatoid joint pain, back pain, migraine headaches, colitis pain, fibromyalgiac pain, even angina pain -- signs of dehydration in the body.

And the mechanism is very simple -- when there isn't enough water to be evenly distributed and certain parts of the body are working but not receiving enough water to deal with its toxic waste and metabolism, and the toxic waste builds up that area, the nerve endings in that area register the chemical environmental change with the brain. And the brain translates this information for the conscious mind in the form of pain.

Mike: So it's just the interpretation?

Dr. B: It's an interpretation, yes. So the conscious mind gets the information that, hey, this area we can't use anymore, it has a shortage of water. Of course, the conscious mind should have known that, but bad education has robbed us of that information. We think this pain is a disease.

Mike: The predominant diagnosis of this, of course, I think in the minds of most people, and especially in most M.D.s would be that there is something physically or structurally compromised in that area.

Dr. B: Well, of course, the compromise is when the tissue is dehydrated, it's changing structure. The plum-like cells become prune-like. Prune-like cells do not function in the same manners as a plum-like cell. So, that is how symptoms are produced. These symptoms mean, okay, let us get the ingredients that the body needs into the system. Now, when we say dehydration, water also brings a lot of other goodies to the cells. When we are dehydrated, these goodies are not delivered either. So, we need not only correct dehydration, but also to supply the minerals and vitamins and so on so that the body can repair itself.

Thirst Perception Not Reliable

Mike: I'd like to you talk about how people can know when they need to drink water, because you talk about in the book how some of the signs of dehydration, the classic signs are not necessarily the only signs, and also how much should an average person be drinking?

Dr. B: First and foremost, don't wait until you get thirsty, because that's an error. Unfortunately, the National Academy of Sciences and some other people recently have been telling people to wait until they get thirsty before they drink, which is the main error that we inherited 100 years ago from a man called Walter Bradford Cannon. And that's why, at the time, there was a Frenchman saying that dehydration or thirst is a general sensation and we should study it, and Walter Bradford Cannon said, no, thirst is only a matter of dry mouth.

When the mouth is dry we are thirsty, which is an arrogant statement, and unfortunately western medicine bought into that understanding, and that's why we have a sick-care system, because from the age of 20 onwards, we gradually, imperceptibly become dehydrated without knowing it. We lose our perception of thirst. By the age of 70 we may be totally thirsty and obviously thirsty and yet not recognize the need to drink water, even when water is put next to us.

This was done as an experiment. A scientist asked a group of elderly people to withhold from drinking water for 24 hours, and similarly with young people. After 24 hours when water was made available, the elderly did not recognize that they were thirsty.

Mike: Even after 24 hours with no water?

Dr. B: Correct. Even when water was left next to them, some of them wouldn't reach for it. But the young people drank water, and corrected this dehydration. Now, this is a major problem, and that's why we have so many people in the elderly sector of our society who are sick, because they are totally dehydrated and they do not recognize it.

So, waiting to get thirsty is to die prematurely and very painfully. In fact, this is the title of an article that is posted on my website, Water Cure, and also on NAFHIM, National Association For Honesty In Medicine NAFHIM.

We should not wait to get thirsty, because water is the main source of energy. By the time you get thirsty, you will have lost energy from the water that you should have drunk and made available before you get thirsty. So, if you don't allow the gas tank of your car to come dry before you stop and take some gas, then why should you let your body become thirsty so that it stalls on the roadside before you drink water?

So, first thing, people should never allow themselves to get thirsty -- they should drink throughout the day. An average person needs two quarts of water a day. Average person really needs four quarts of water a day. But two quarts we have to supply. Two quarts we get from food metabolism and water content in foods. We need this amount of water to manufacture at least two quarts of urine. You know, not to put pressure on the kidneys. When we drink enough water so that the urine is colorless, that is a good sign. When the urine becomes yellow, it means that the body is beginning to become dehydrated and when it becomes orange, then the body is truly dehydrated and some part of the body is suffering from that dehydration.

Mike: So this is a very easy sign that people can pay attention to.

Dr. B: Absolutely.

Mike: They don't need a medical degree to see the color of their urine.

Dr. B: Well, that's why we should become observant to our urine production. And breathing -- when we are short of breath, it means we are dehydrated.

Mike: Are there other similar, simple symptoms that people can pay attention to?

Dr. B: The skin -- if the skin is nice and loose and smooth, then we are hydrated. If it becomes creasy and shriveled, it means dehydration. The crow's feet on the face of elderly people, that's a sign of dehydration. The turkey neck under the chin is a sign of dehydration. These are mentioned in my books, Your Body's Many Cries for Water, and also in my Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. I recommend everyone to read Water Cures, Drugs Kill, because in this book I've identified over 90 health problems that we in medicine have called disease, and yet water cures them.

So, when the body is short of water and they give it medication, naturally the person will die, because the medication is silencing the many cries of the body for water. But it's not correcting the dehydration. So we need to understand these symptoms of dehydration, and the book Water Cures, Drugs Kill will do that. People can order through the internet at Water Cure or Amazon or Barnes and Noble"or go to the bookstore and get it.

Mike: You have an upcoming book on obesity, cancer, and depression, right?

Dr. B: Yes, I've got a book called Obesity, Cancer and Depression: The Common Cause and Actual Cure. I've identified why these three diseases are actually the branches of the same tree, and each one naturally produces a different problem at different age brackets, but they are all related conditions that occur as a result of dehydration over time. Time is of essence -- when incrementally we become dehydrated, the prune-like cells begin to transform. Some of them become cancerous, and I've explained all of this in the book. I explain how dehydration suppresses the immune system, directly or indirectly, and that's how most diseases occur, including cancer.

Mike: When is this book going to be published?

Dr. B: It will be available by the end of the year. People can keep an eye on the website Water Cure, and it will be posted there when the book is available.

Sodas Cause Dehydration

Mike: Now here's another interesting question people have -- when they go out to eat at a restaurant, there's a tremendous amount of economic pressure from the point of view of the restaurant chain or restaurant owner to serve them something other than water. I remember there was a campaign at one time through Olive Garden restaurants. The campaign was called Just Say No to H2O, and they were rewarding waiters for making sure people bought some soft drinks rather than drinking water.

Dr. B: That's because everyone is after a fast buck, even at the expense of someone else's health. These restaurants are no different from the pharmaceutical industry when they push something that the body doesn't need. Of course, they don't know, they don't do it knowingly. One can't fault them. It's bad education, and we think that these soft drinks are synonymous with water.

Actually, a lot of children who drink soft drinks actually become "stupid", but once you take the soft drink away from them, their grades improve tremendously -- C's and F's become A's and B's. So, there is something in caffeine that suppresses the enzymes from memory-making. And this is exactly how the plant survives, because caffeine is a toxic chemical - it's a warfare chemical for the plant. Anything that would eat it will lose its art of camouflage, its alertness, good reaction, good response, and becomes easy prey to its own food chain predator.

Mike: Yes, caffeine is technically an insecticide.

Dr. B: Caffeine is technically an insecticide. So is morphine and so is cocaine. They are the same family of drugs -- neurotoxic substances.

Mike: Is there anything else in particular that our listeners should be aware of or should do to enhance their health through the information that you make available?

Dr. B: Yes, they can keep in touch. They can go to my website on a regular basis, and we post information there and letters that we exchange and so on. They can become part of the movement to bring honesty back into medicine. Because if they're young people, they've got many years to go, and unfortunately in a dishonest form of medical practice, they can become vulnerable.

Mike: That website is.

Dr. B: http://www.watercure.com.

Mike: And the other one is NAFHIM?

Dr. B: Yes, but they will get the option at http://www.watercure.com to go to either site. This information is free, it's the latest information in medical science, it's the future science of medicine, it's the foundation of the future science of medicine, and they have it at their use, free of charge. All they have to do is become curious as to learn. And the information is in such simple language that anyone can understand it. I don't use jargon. I use very simple English to explain complicated problems.

Mike: I thank you so much for your generosity, being willing to take this time and share your wisdom with the world.

Dr. B: Mike, it is my pleasure, and I thank you. I'm here to be heard and you make it possible for me to be heard, and I'm grateful to you.

Mike: Indeed, and likewise from this side. It's people like you that will revolutionize medicine, and that's what we need today.

Dr. B: Bernard Shaw says that normal people try to conform, and reasonable people do not conform, and look for alternatives. Therefore all progress belongs to unreasonable people.

About This Interview
You've been reading from an exclusive interview with Dr. Batmanghelidj, author of Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. Dr. B. is also the founder of the National Association for Honesty in Medicine and author of, Your Body's Many Cries For Water. Look for his new, upcoming book, "Obesity, Cancer and Depression: Their Common Cause and Actual Cure." Learn more about Dr. B. at Water Cure

BE NATURAL - BE HEALTHY

NaturalNews People all around the world are drinking more and more bottled water. Growing at a rate of 10% a year, it's the most popular beverage (1). A report by the Earth Policy Institute (in Washington) reports that in 2004, people were drinking 154 billion litres compared to the 98 billion litres in 1999.

As the report says, in many countries bottled water is no healthier than tap water, but can be more expensive than petrol or gas.

Mr. Grant, assistant director of design at RMIT University, says bottled water uses a lot of energy. Driving a car for one kilometre used four megajoules of energy, drinking a 600-millilitre bottle of water used 1.5 megajoules, including transport costs. Compare this to drinking tap water which used only 0.2 megajoules.

Another issue with bottled water is that some countries have more regulations governing tap water than bottled water. However, regulation of tap water would be a contentious point among consumers given that regulation typically includes fluoridation of the water. For this issue see (http://www.NaturalNews.com/fluoride.html).

Some companies are bottling tap water, giving the impression it is purer water, and selling it at huge prices. The real issue then becomes the bottled water itself in terms of the energy required to produce, transport and dispose of the bottles. It is also an issue if the water in the bottle is the same, or similar to, tap water.

Water bottles are made of a common plastic, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) which comes from crude oil. According to the Earth Policy Institute, around 2.7 million tons of plastic are used for bottles each year.

While we're using fossil fuels to make the bottles, we're burning these fuels to transport the bottles from Fiji to the USA, from Finland to Saudi Arabia, from Australia to the UK. Then they need to be disposed of. Around 86% are tossed in the rubbish. Some are incinerated, producing toxic by-products. Some are buried, taking 1,000 years to biodegrade.

In Germany, one of the most advanced countries in terms of recycling, there are laws requiring environmentally friendly packaging and refillable packaging. Glass water bottles are sold and then refilled up to 20 times. Many city councils in the US and Australia are advising employees not to drink bottled water and urging residents to do the same.

If you're concerned about tap water, try installing your own filtration system or use filter jugs and carry the water in biodegradable corn starch bottles, these can be purchased from Belu at BELU.

If you do need to buy bottled water, look for companies such as Belu that aim to be carbon neutral and use their profits to support clean water projects in developing countries. Frank water FRANK WATER and One water ONE WATER also supports clean water projects.

The following site is running a campaign against bottled water and against companies bottling tap water Outside The Bottle

Another site called Inside the Bottle is a project by the Polaris Institute to raise awareness about the bottled water industry Inside The Bottle.

Reference:
1. Earth Policy

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NaturalNews) Water is absolutely required for health. Water is the beginning of life and without it, we would die very quickly. A French medical doctor, specialising in immunology, has discovered something truly fascinating about water. Dr. Jacques Benveniste has discovered certain scientific properties of water. These properties cannot be explained by conventional physics. He calls this particular brand of science digital biology. And to note: other scientists have duplicated his experiments.

Here are the tenets of his discovery:

1. When a substance is diluted in water, the water can carry the memory of that substance even after it has been so diluted that none of the molecules of the original substance remain; and

2. The molecules of any given substance have a spectrum of frequencies that can be digitally recorded with a computer, then played back into untreated water (using an electronic transducer), and when this is done, the new water will act as if the actual substance were physically present.

Dr. Jacques Benveniste (1935-2004) had proved something quite controversial, which gives concrete evidence to support homeopathy. He reportedly compared himself with Galileo because of his paradigm breaking research findings. He did not win a Nobel Prize but instead won not one, but two, of the satirical "Ignobel" prizes awarded by a gang of Harvard scientists - the 1991 chemistry prize for showing that water has memory, and the 1998 prize for a paper showing that this information can be transmitted over telephone lines and the internet.

Controversy aside, if you think about these findings for a minute you may become shocked! Water holds a "memory" that we can digitally record; and we are able to digitally re-write other water, even when the substance is no longer in it.

We have put countless things in our water, and supposedly "removed" them. Right now, there are pharmaceuticals (among other things) in the water, which no water treatment plant was ever designed to remove. Our water is holding this in its "memory".

Your body starts out comprised of 80% water when you are born. When many people die, they are at 50% water. Now it may seem pretty simplistic to point to water as the source of aging, but proper hydration is needed for fat metabolism, to remove waste from cells, and to keep your brain healthy. We also use water for transporting nutrients and wastes, lubrication, temperature regulation, and tissue structure maintenance. It is also important to know that 48% of older adults admitted to Emergency Rooms had laboratory values indicative of dehydration.

Chronic dehydration can lead to many problems such as constipation, poor performance in athletics, and can exacerbate many health issues such as allergies, asthma, diabetes, hypertension and arthritis. Proper hydration may seem simple, but things that are simple can be overlooked as valuable.

At the very fundamental level, water is truly fascinating and its properties have undoubtedly lead to the creation of life on this planet. Unfortunately, Dr. Jacques Benveniste's discovery shows us that we know very little about the truth of water. It affects nearly every aspect of our bodies; and in the near future, water will be on the forefront of many political and societal problems.

We are all best off drinking clean, pure water. It keeps us hydrated, and our body and mind functioning at their best. Knowing that water has a memory, it is best if we all do our share to keep our water clean. This involves not only what we put into the wastewater systems, but also what we put into our bodies! You don't need the pop, coffee or milk - plain water will boots your health the fastest.

About the author Sarah is a Chemical and Materials Engineer by education. Through years of focused self-study, she has come to see the benefit of whole food nutrition and allowing the body to heal itself. A Field Center Certified Facilitator, Sarah is passionate about being helpful to others, in any venue, in their quest for a better life. She provides free individual Facilitating sessions to all interested. Serene Synergy

It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue label showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water, perfect taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water, and many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is sourced from mountain spring water.

In reality, Aquafina comes from tap water. Yes, the same water you get when you turn on your kitchen faucet. Of course, Aquafina is filtered, purified and perhaps even enhanced with trace amounts of added minerals, but it's certainly not mountain spring water. It's just processed tap water -- the same stuff that fills your toilet bowl when you flush.

Both the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) and the FDA believe there's really no need to require bottled water manufacturers to admit their products come from tap water. No surprise there -- both these organizations routinely act to protect the interests of powerful corporations, and when it comes to bottled water, the biggest companies are often those sourcing the lowest quality water (such as tap water).

This idea that consumers should not be informed their high-priced bottled water is really just filtered tap water is consistent with the aims of food, drug and beverage corporations, who almost universally agree that consumers should be given less information, not more, about the products they're swallowing. Over the last several decades, corporations have vigorously opposed truth in labeling laws and regulations, including those requiring the labeling of trans fatty acids, sodium content and even ingredients lists! (If the food corporations had their way, all ingredients would be considered "proprietary formulas" and not listed on the label at all.)

This bottled water issue brings to light the apparent deceptive practices of some of the largest suppliers of bottled water products. By avoiding the honest labeling of the source of their water while relying on snow-capped mountain imagery, these companies quietly mislead consumers into thinking their water products are from a pristine, natural source such as a mountain spring.

CAI Pressures PepsiCo To Tell The Truth.

PepsiCo only agreed to tell the truth on their bottled water labels after being pressured by Corporate Accountability International (CAI), a non-profit organization that helps protect consumers from corporate abuse. See their website at Stop Corporate Abuse Now

CAI rallied consumers from around the world to complain to PepsiCo about the current labeling of Aquafina, and thousands of consumers slammed PepsiCo's phone lines so hard that the company was forced to shut down call center operations. CAI told NaturalNews that within 30 minutes after the call-to-action announcement went live, PepsiCo's consumer phone lines were no longer being answered and would not allow callers to leave voice mails. Pepsi executives reportedly held an emergency meeting and made a decision to add the phrase, -Public Water Source- to Aquafina labels.

Reluctantly admitting a small part of the truth
Even then, the phrase "public water source" isn't very descriptive. To some people, the phrase simply implies that Aquafina is itself a public water source. It's not the same as admitting, "Aquafina comes from tap water," which would be a far more honest way to label the product. But PepsiCo seems to have no interest in advertising the source of their Aquafina product, and my guess is that the "public water source" text on the label will be really small and difficult to read. It's much like the labeling of side effects of prescription drugs: They bury the bad news somewhere that most consumers won't ever look.

Aquafina is currently the top-selling bottled water brand in the United States. According to CAI, 4 out of 5 consumers now drink bottled water, and 1 out of 5 drink it as their sole water source! (Gee, that's a lot of plastic going to landfill, too...)

The bottles used to package bottled water are almost always made from plastics containing bisphenol-A (BPA), a carcinogenic chemical that often leaches into the water and gets swallowed by consumers. Click here to read our articles on BPA, a chemical widely believed to contribute to certain cancers. This contamination factor, however, is true for all products stored in plastic bottles, not merely water. Sports drinks, sodas, fruit drinks and even "healthy" smoothie drinks packaged in plastic all share a common risk of BPA contamination.

Bottled Water vs. Public Water Infrastructure

The widespread shift towards bottled water products is increasingly causing consumers to lose faith in public water infrastructure, which ultimately leads to public reluctance to support investment in public water supplies. This concerns many cities who are worried that a lack of public support will cause funding for water infrastructure to erode.

These people tend to describe treated municipal water as remarkably pristine and safe for human consumption. In my opinion, however, tap water should never be swallowed without filtering it, since tap water contains scary levels of toxic chemicals such as chlorine and fluoride, a dangerous water additive chemical often contaminated with arsenic.

So I wouldn't drink from the public water supply in the first place, but neither do I rely on bottled water. I use a water filtration system to clean tap water before I drink it. (Coincidentally, this is similar to what PepsiCo does when creating Aquafina water, except PepsiCo uses plastic bottles, where I only drink out of glass or stainless steel.)

You can get clean public water in places like Hawaii, Oregon and anywhere that's close to the mountains, but most folks in first world nations are getting tap water that's far from pristine. The public water infrastructure in the U.S. may be among the best in the world, but that's not saying much. I won't even shower in U.S. public water without using a chlorine filter on my shower head. (Recommended brand: Aquasana

My view on PepsiCo

Since this story has much to do with PepsiCo, I thought I would offer my personal opinion on this corporation. In my opinion, PepsiCo is a highly destructive corporation that is partially responsible for obesity, diabetes, depression and bone disorders among hundreds of millions of people around the world. Through its aggressive (and deceptive, in my opinion) marketing campaigns, lack of corporate ethics and ready willingness to exploit human beings for profit, PepsiCo has risen to be one of the most financially profitable yet ethically bankrupt organizations on the planet.

If PepsiCo were to disappear from the face of the earth tomorrow, humanity would be healthier the very next day. PepsiCo's brands include: (followed by my opinion statement about that particular brand)

Frito-Lay: Dangerous junk food that contributes to obesity, heart disease, cancer, depression and other serious diseases.

Pepsi-Cola: Toxic beverages that destroy bone mineral density and poison consumers with chemical sweeteners in diet drinks.

Gatorade: Crap sports drinks that contain artificial colors made from petrochemical derivatives.

Tropicana: A low-end fruit juice brand engaged in deceptive labeling for many of its products.

Quaker: This is perhaps the only tolerable brand in the PepsiCo portfolio. Oatmeal is essentially good for you, although instant oats and all the sugars found in many oatmeal products make it a rather high-glycemic food that's not recommended for most people (especially diabetics or obese people).

Put it all together and you have a collection of some of the least healthy foods and beverages on the market today. When future historians examine today's epidemics of obesity and diabetes, they will no doubt scrutinize the role of companies like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, both of which are partly to blame for modern disease epidemics. Both companies, by the way, continue to engage in routine marketing of junk foods and sodas to children.

Pepsico is a corporation that won't even list the acrylamide content in their fried foods. Nor will it publicly admit that high-fructose corn syrup has any link whatsoever to obesity. PepsiCo, in my opinion, is a corporation living in a deviant reality, unwilling to take responsibility for its role in poisoning the population through its toxic food and beverage products.

That's my personal opinion of PepsiCo, its brands and its products. Personally, I wouldn't buy anything made by PepsiCo. I have no desire to financially reward this company by purchasing its products. If anything, we should all be boycotting PepsiCo products (and Coca-Cola, for that matter) and getting our water from somewhere else.

When traveling through airports, of course, I am sometimes forced to buy Aquafina or Dasani, as nothing else is available. This is the only time you'll ever see me drinking out of a PepsiCo bottle.

If I were in charge around here, I would immediately ban all advertising of junk foods, sodas, snack foods, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals and other harmful substances. It's the only sane thing to do if we care about the future of our children.

Of course, such advertising bans will never actually take place because corporations run the government. See my CounterThink Cartoon, Government of the People for a humorous depiction of this current state of affairs.

(NaturalNews) Picture this: Three guys go into a bar. The batender asks, "What'll you have?" "A beer", says the first guy. Second one says, "Whiskey" and turning to the third guy asks, "what about you?" "Oh me, I really need a good strong kick, one with lots of punch to it... Yep, I think this day calls for a big one on tap! Hey bartender, how about some of your tap water!"

It was hard not to hear about the mess our water supply is in; the March AP (Associated Press) story was picked up by almost every media outlet imaginable. Members of a "National Investigative Team" reviewed reports and talked to over 200 officials and scientists for a five-month period. The AP writers' conclusions struck fear into many a thirsty American, who was suddenly told he was drinking urine. Not any urine either, but drug-filled urine, possibly from their neighbor up the road.

The first to feel the effects were the water filter companies, who have received many inquiries from consumers. Even though a less widely published story came out in 2000 after the U.S. Geological Survey's research, apparently few in the industry have run tests on their products to find out if they could filter out pharmaceuticals. Those that did run checks only tested a few drugs.

The EPA hasn't responded either, as to this day there are still no minimum standards detailing how many parts per million of drugs to water is tolerable. Nor does anyone know the long-term effects on our bodies from drinking such pharmaceutical cocktails on a daily basis. Research on fish and other animals shows many ill effects, which suggests we will be affected as well, if only by eating the fish.

It was pointed out that this problem did not only pertain to the U.S., but recent studies have found similar drugs in the water supplies of Canada, Asia, Australia, Europe, and even in Swiss lakes and the North Sea. Other studies have found them in Brazil and South Africa.

The article also made it clear that bottled water is no solution, as it can pick up the contaminants from the tap water from which it is filtered, or the natural springs from which it is collected. Virtually no water source is safe, since the problem has not yet been thoroughly addressed.

Many opinions and old surveys no longer relevant are cited, but after a critical look at the article, we aren't enlightened much. The writers state that when it comes to water filters, reverse osmosis models do the best job. No evidence for this is given, however.

A little deeper investigation highlighted the problem of antibiotics. Since bacteria can adapt to them and nullify their effectiveness, the constant exposure of antibiotics in the water will give the many bacteria strains ample time to mount their resistance.

There are additional issues to those highlighted by the AP's article. Besides the overwhelming conclusion that our world has become too enamored with pharmaceuticals for our own good, the question still should be asked: Why do most local governments prescribe large doses of one drug equally distributed to every man, woman and child without regard to need and without any scientific basis?

The drug is fluoride. Many readers know it as a chemical waste product of the fertilizer industry that is problematic environmentally in regard to how to dispose of it. So the government and the industry figured out that putting it in our drinking water would solve the problem. For more Natural News articles on fluoride, go to: ((http://www.naturalnews.com/GoogleSearch...) .

Many states voted to require fluoridated water, but in a few states it is up to the local water company. Oregon Citizens for Safe Drinking Water is an example of one group which has actively opposed the fluoridation. They feel that the fluoride itself is bad enough for health, but its negative effects are multiplied because fluoride compounds are contaminated with lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and other toxins.

Not only that, but studies have shown that fluoride can pull lead from pipes and add that to the poisonous mix coming from our taps. That might be the reason fluoride also seems to bring copper and aluminum with it as well as the lead.

Animal studies have demonstrated evidence of fluoride's toxic effects on brain tissue. These include brain cell damage, reduced lipid content, impairment in anti-oxidant defense systems, increased aluminum uptake, and the formation of beta-amyloid plaques. These are the plaques which are indicative of Alzheimer's Disease. Maybe this explains why many dogs seem to prefer to drink from puddles than their own tap-filled water dishes.

Complicating the ability to control the level of fluoride is the presence in many rivers of "naturally occurring fluoride". It has been hard to find research on the source of such "natural" fluoride, but it possibly could come from the same source as the pharmaceuticals, or from fertilized soils along the stream banks.

It appears that, whatever the agenda of the AP for its wide dissemination of the news that the presence of pharmaceuticals in our water supply is alarming, it would have done us all a service if a result is that citizens become more aware of the problems with fluoride.

At least, most kinds of water filters will filter out the fluoride and chlorine in the tap water. A more difficult problem is filtering out the other pharmaceuticals.

In-home filters come in several basic types: Reverse osmosis, carbon filters, and distillation models. Until the levels and standards have been set, comparing the abilities of the different types for filtering out drugs will be difficult.

The Reverse Osmosis (RO) filters have been very successful at filtering out toxins and contaminants and possibly will work for drugs. The problem with them is that they require good water pressure and a large volume of water, 75% of which is wasted.

Not only that, but this waste water takes in the contaminants, resulting in a much more highly condensed brew. This water goes back down the drain and into the water supply and the cycle repeats. The best way to deal with this might be to drain this water into a storage tank to be used for irrigation of one's garden or lawn or drain it directly to an irrigation hose.

Shane Ellison, an organic chemist and author of The Hidden Truth about Cholesterol Lowering Drugs, (www.thepeopleschemist.com) , favors the five-stage RioFlow Reverse Osmosis filter, priced at about $169. When asked if one could safely run the leftover water out to the garden to irrigate fruit trees or veggies, he stated "Cellulose acts as a pretty good filter, stopping drug uptake. But I've never tested this personally. Most plants only take up water and a bit of nitrogen... Using the sun, they then make all the nutritional components 'in-house' so to speak... It's quite miraculous when you consider it..."

Carbon filters are used in a variety of water filters. A few carbon filter systems, depending on the makeup of their filtering material, have been certified for the removal of lead, asbestos, volatile organic chemicals (VOCs), cysts, and coliform. The inorganic chemicals would not stick to the carbon, however. Another downside is that carbon filters have to be cleaned often and/or replaced to be effective.

One maker, Aquasana, states "Pharmaceuticals and prescription drugs are virtually all Synthetic Organic Chemicals (SOCs) or Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOCs) and are effectively filtered out by our filters. The coconut shell granulated activated carbon used in all of our filters is recognized by the EPA as the best available technology for the removal of SOCs and VOCs." They failed to mention what happens to the few inorganic chemicals, however.

Distillation units work by steaming the water and separating out the contaminants from the water. This type provides very clean water, but a charcoal filter needs to be incorporated, since toxins like chlorine can both vaporize and re-condense along with the water being cleaned. Beneficial liquid trace minerals will be lost in the distilling process, so they will have to be added back in. Electricity is also required for these units.

The best choice will probably be a combination of reverse osmosis filter augmented by pre- and post-
activated carbon filters. The filter will definitely need several stages and different kinds of filtering media. There is even a product which adds a special ceramic filter to it and attempts to incorporate the best of all three methods. It is the kind that is used by NASA in our space program.

Another consideration is whether or not to filter ALL the water in the residence, or just the drinking water. Whole house systems are expensive, but shower filters are also effective in removing chlorine and other toxins. It is even possible to find filters that work with the tub faucet so bath water can also be chlorine-free.

In the next few months, it can be anticipated that water filter companies will be running tests on the
abilities of their filters to remove pharmaceuticals. Water companies will be fending off questions from consumers and preparing statements. It is doubtful that water companies and cities will be able to improve water quality very quickly.

Since the earlier studies, small pilot programs and one-day pickups of unused drugs have popped up in the Northeast, California, Washington, Florida, and elsewhere.

At least one state, Illinois, is now calling for a testing of water supplies for drugs. Illinois already has a disposal program for unused drugs, in an attempt to cut down the amount disposed of in toilets etc. The Illinois EPA has removed six 30-gallon drums of pharmaceuticals from its pilot program so far.

In this program, recommended by the EPA, solid waste agencies in four locations collect unused drugs from senior centers, retirement complexes, and convalescent centers in their areas. The state EPA collects unused pharmaceuticals at its twice-yearly household hazardous waste collection events. In addition, many hospitals, pharmacies and police departments offer programs to collect and dispose of unwanted drugs.

Maine recently started a four-county program in which pharmaceutical buyers will take home prepaid mailers in which they will send drug leftovers to a way station. From there, most will be picked up for transport to incinerators. Organizers intend to eventually extend the program statewide.

To dispose of unused drugs, the EPA suggests putting them among coffee grounds or kitty litter in a non-permeable container such as a coffee can before bringing them to the collection site. Some drugs should be flushed down the toilet; if so, the label should so indicate.

Montreal plans to be the first large metropolis in the world to disinfect all its waste water using
ozonation, a cutting-edge technology that uses high voltages of electricity to charge oxygen molecules. This produces ozone gas which will remove bacteria, viruses, drugs and industrial chemicals dumped into the St. Lawrence River, partly by a large number of pharmaceutical plants. Although many cities already use ozonation, it has not been done with this large a volume.

In other studies, ozonation with advanced oxidation processes were found effective to reduce or eliminate the drugs in drinking water. Different pharmaceuticals require different levels of ozone applied. Ozonation plus activated carbon filtration is best for more of these. Though ozonation is cheap, the problem with using it alone is that the ozone's effect wears off quickly.

For some drugs, like antibiotics, a good alternative is membrane filtration by RO. Nanofiltration and RO filtration were found effective in Arizona and California studies. Other research found that pre-filtration and final RO filtration was effective. Granular activated carbon combined with RO is even better.

Overall, it can be concluded that ozonation and AOPs (Advanced Oxidation Processes) are promising processes for the efficient removal of pharmaceuticals in drinking water. If all sewage treatment plants added more time for the sludge to sit, the results could be even better, as the sludge-eating micro-organisms would have more time to do their preliminary work.

If manufacturing companies must pay fines for releasing toxins into our environment, it is logical that the pharmaceutical companies should fund the cleanup of drugs from our water supply. Since the likelihood of that happening is doubtful, the consumer will bear the responsibility for providing their own filtering systems so they can feel they are doing the most possible to ensure the greatest health for their families.

Local governments will have to adopt programs such as that in Illinois. After all, the problem left untreated will only get worse. Every drug that gets filtered out re-enters the water supply by one route or another, further compounding the problem.

Researchers have made progress, though more needs to be done to find the least expensive system that will do the necessary job of delivering water that is fit to drink.

About the author Cathy Sherman is a freelance writer with a major interest in natural health and in encouraging others to take responsibility for their health. She can be reached through DEVARDOC.

(NaturalNews) Armed with the proper information, there's no reason to fear the latest news about toxins and pharmaceutical drugs being found in your water. Not to say that this news isn't alarming.

Measures must be taken to remove these harmful substances from our eco-system. But until the day that dream becomes a reality, you can protect yourself and your loved ones with calcium bentonite clay. Taken internally, calcium bentonite clay safely removes toxins from your system.

What's All the Uproar About?

A recent article in the Washington Post (Area Tap Water Has Traces of Medicines) warned that trace amounts of 6 popular prescription drugs had been found in the area's drinking water, and that these harmful substances could not be filtered out by most treatment systems. The drugs found included antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs, a disinfectant, and even anti-seizure medication - all found in a water supply that serves more than 1 million people. And this is not an isolated incident.

According to the article, "Pharmaceuticals, along with trace amounts of caffeine, were found in the drinking water supplies of 24 of 28 metropolitan areas tested." Nationwide, the AP reported that researchers found anti-depressants, antacids, synthetic hormones from birth control pills, and many other human and animal medicines in the water.

In San Francisco, tests found a sex hormone. In New York, the water tested positive for heart medicines and a prescription tranquilizer. The article states that scientists do not know the health effects of long-term exposure to such drugs. And while some scientist are saying there's nothing to worry about, other's fear chronic exposure could alter immune responses or interfere with adolescents' developing hormone systems. Although experts agree that aquatic life are most at risk from exposure to the drugs in rivers and streams, researchers are concerned about what they don't know about human health effects.

According to a CBS News article (Probe: Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water), there's another issue: There's evidence that adding chlorine, a common process in conventional drinking water treatment plants, makes some pharmaceuticals more toxic. The article went on to say that even users of bottled water and home filtration systems don't necessarily avoid exposure.

Bottlers, some of which simply repackage tap water, do not typically treat or test for pharmaceuticals, according to the industry's main trade group. The same goes for the makers of home filtration systems.

For several decades, federal environmental officials and nonprofit watchdog environmental groups have focused on regulated contaminants - pesticides, lead, PCBs - which are present in higher concentrations and clearly pose a health risk.

However, some experts say medications may pose a unique danger because, unlike most pollutants, they were crafted to act on the human body. "These are chemicals that are designed to have very specific effects at very low concentrations. That's what pharmaceuticals do. So when they get out to the environment, it should not be a shock to people that they have effects," says zoologist John Sumpter at Brunel University in London, who has studied trace hormones, heart medicine and other drugs.

There is a safe and easy way to protect yourself from these horrifying contaminants - calcium bentonite clay. According to Michel Abeshera, author of The Healing Clay, "Clay has a remarkable resistance to chemical agents... as a bacteria-destroying agent it can render contaminated water innocuous."

How Does Bentonite Clay Work?

Bentonite clay carries a uniquely strong negative ionic charge which causes it to 'magnetically' attract any substance with a positive ionic charge (i.e., bacteria, toxins, metals, etc.). These substances are both adsorbed (sticking to the outside like Velcro) and absorbed (drawn inside) by the clay molecules. Your body doesn't digest clay, so the clay passes through your system, collecting the toxins, and removing them as the clay is eliminated. It's like a little internal vacuum cleaner. In his book The Clay Cure, Ran Knishinsky states it this way:

"The clay's immediate action upon the body is directly on the digestive channel. This involves the clay actually binding with the toxic substances and removing them from the body with the stool. It performs this job with every kind of toxin, including those from the environment, such as heavy metals, and those that occur naturally as by-products of the body's own health processes, such as metabolic toxins.

It's hard to believe that the body produces its own toxins, but that may happen as a result of stress, inefficient metabolism, or the proliferation of free radicals. The body has no problem ridding itself of the clay. Don't worry about a tiny brick house being built in the middle of your colon. The clay assists the body's eliminatory process by acting as a bulking agent, similar to psyllium fiber, sweeping out the old matter that doesn't need to be there.

It is not digested in the same manner as food as it passes through the alimentary canal. Instead, it stimulates intestinal peristalsis, the muscular contractions that move food and stool through the bowels. The clay and the adsorbed toxins are both eliminated together; this keeps the toxins from being reabsorbed into the bloodstream. Clay works on the entire organism. No one part of the body is left untouched by its healing energies. I don't know of another supplement that is quite as capable as clay of producing such a wide range of positive reactions."

How Do We Use the Bentonite Clay?

In this day and age, there's virtually no way to isolate yourself from the toxins that surround us. In our air, in our food, in the ground beneath our feet, and obviously now in our water, the contaminants abound. However, with Bentonite clay, you can keep yourself healthy and vibrant.

Perry A~, author of Living Clay: Nature's Own Miracle Cure, suggests the following protocol to keep yourself internally cleansed. First, clay must be taken internally. You can either eat hydrated clay 'paste' or drink liquefied clay. A good Bentonite clay will be very smooth and creamy and have virtually no taste. One to two tablespoons of hydrated clay daily is the recommend amount for adults. If you're drinking liquefied clay, start with one to two ounces twice a day made with 1 part of dry powder calcium Bentonite clay to 8 parts of water.

Perry A~ also recommends taking clay baths twice a week. Clay baths help keep your body cleansed by pulling toxins through the pores. To prepare a clay bath, scatter about 2 cups of Bentonite clay powder into the bath water as it's running, and use your hands to swish away any lumps that might form. Or you can simply add 4 cups or more of liquefied Bentonite clay to your bath. A clay bath should last ideally between 15-20 minutes in extremely hot water and longer in a less hot bath. Submerge as much of your body as possible during the bath. The more clay that is used in the therapy, the more powerful the response.

Which Clay Should We Use?

According to Jason Eaton EytonsEarth the best healing clay is a natural clay that has not been processed (heated or bleached).

The 'cleaning' process removes many of the healing qualities of the clay. You want a raw, clean, natural, swelling clay (one that expands when mixed with water).

Perry A~ recommends using natural calcium Bentonite clay due to its high pH and uniquely strong adsorption and absorption abilities. It's best to choose a fine-milled clay, preferably one milled to 325 mesh. This ensures that once the clay is hydrated or liquefied, it will not be gritty. Also, when choosing a company from which to purchase your clay, make certain they can provide a chemical analysis of their clay, along with lab testing to prove its purity. If they can't or won't provide such documents, you should look elsewhere.

About the author - Cheryl McCoy manages the website About Clay , an information and educational resource for the various uses of healing clay. She discovered the amazing benefits of Living Clay approximately 5 years ago, and has been an ardent advocate for this clay ever since. She may be contacted at Info@AboutClay.com.

NaturalNews) The following bits of research and information were gathered by Perry A~, author of Living Clay: Nature's Own Miracle Cure Living Clay Book in an attempt to explain many of the mysteries about clay and why its workings are so hard to define and understand. The simple response is this: Clay is a living substance and is subject to constant change. Its primary functions are to adsorb, absorb and balance. As it goes about its primary functions, it opens the pathway for healing and the natural restoration of health.

The references below apply to the Smectite/Montmorillonite family of clays commonly known as calcium Bentonite clays, that have the ability to both absorb and adsorb, and are often referred to as "Living Clay."

Disease happens when the body gets out of balance. Clay helps bring the body back into its natural state of balance.

Clay is formed from ash spewed from a volcanic eruption which landed in an inland sea or lake bed and evolved over millions of years. Every piece of clay retains a considerable amount of energy from the large and powerful magnetic entity of the Earth. Raymond Dextreit says on the subject, "Among the properties to which we can attribute the effect of clay is radioactivity." Not radioactivity as we know it. He says that clay is radioactive to a degree but this radioactivity is generally imperceptible to the testing apparatus used in laboratories at present. Scientists differ widely as to the significance of the radioactivity in clay. It seems that clay has, among other properties, the ability to either stimulate a deficiency or absorb an excess in the radioactivity of the body on which it is applied. On an organism which has suffered and still retains the radiations of radium or any other intensive radioactive source, the radioactivity is first enhanced and then absorbed. Clay could, in this way, ensure the protection of an organism overexposed to atomic radiations.

Through energetic action clay transmits an extraordinary strength to an organism and helps to rebuild vital potential through liberation of the latent energy. It is a catalyst more than an agent. As a catalyst, clay favors the transformations and operations of synthesis, thus allowing better use of the absorbed elements, i.e. vitamins and minerals we take or get from the food we eat. As a powerful agent of stimulation, transformation and transmission of energy, clay stimulates energy and revitalizes the body.

One can only marvel at what clay can do. "The same teaspoon of clay can cure an obstinate carbuncle and tenacious anemia equally well. Curing the carbuncle is explained by clay's absorbent power... but anemia?!" questioned Raymond Dextreit, author of Our Earth, Our Cure. Well, it seems that clay is particularly rich in certain diastases and enzymes. Some of these diastases, the oxidases, have the power of fixing free oxygen, thus making it a powerful antioxidant.

Clay's amazing abilities to adsorb and absorb make it one of the most powerful methods of cleansing the body by detoxing. Michel Abehsera, author of The Healing Clay, tells us that when used internally, whether taken orally, anally or vaginally, clay goes to the place where the harm is found. There it lodges, perhaps for several days, until finally it draws out the toxins or diseased tissue with its evacuation.

Clay has high alkaline pH. Acidity is the breeding ground for disease. Clay brings pH into balance.

Clay is a natural analgesic. It immediately reduces or eliminates pain when applied topically.

Clay stimulates lymphatic glands, blood flow and circulation. A natural chelator and detoxifier, clay pulls toxins and impurities. French homeopaths documented that a system-wide detoxification effect occurs within seconds of placing Montmorillonite-type clay in the mouth, which demonstrates that the clay acts as a catalyst.

A recent article on NaturalNews.com (www.naturalnews.com/022674.html) tells us that clay baths have become increasingly popular as a safe and effective means of detoxing heavy metals from the body through the pores of the skin.

One of clay's peculiarities is based on its physical-chemical domination. From a thermodynamic point of view, clay cannot be the sole source of the energy of the phenomena it produces. Clay's effect as a dynamic presence is far more significant than the mere consideration of the substances it contains. It is much more than its chemical analysis shows it to be. Jason Eaton (www.eytonsearth.org) said, "In fact, I do not believe it is possible for a clay bath to literally pull out toxins in the body; not to the extent that it does. I believe that the clay reaction enables the body itself to let go of the toxic waste accumulated, and the clay provides the path to elimination."

Louis Kervran, the French scientist, world-famous for his provocative work on Biological Transmutations, writes about a shrimp that lives in clay: "It has been known for a long time that living organisms inhabit clay without any organic supply of food from the outside. The Niphargus shrimp lives in the clay of caves. Experiments have shown that it grows normally in pure clay to which nothing has been added. Research workers therefore thought that the shrimp lived on clay and nothing but clay, an impossibility according to the laws of biochemistry. Actually, it cannot live thus in clay alone, but this clay contains microorganisms which work for the shrimp, making vitamins, various mineral products, nitrogen, phosphorous, and calcium, etc." Therefore clay is a live medium which helps generate and maintain life.

Raymond Dextreit wrote he was certain of the antiseptic and antibiotic powers of clay but it puzzled him. Clay does not act specifically on one or several bacteria varieties; rather it prevents their proliferation by reinforcing the defenses of the organism. Thus again we see how clay brings the body into balance.

In general, clay has remarkable resistance to chemical agents and only the most energetic ones can attack it. As a bacteria-absorbing agent it can render contaminated water innocuous. The nutritionist Linda Clark mentions in her recent book, The Best of Linda Clark, that a European doctor, Meyer-Camberg, recommends clay for neutralizing poisons. According to Dr. Meyer-Camberg, clay takes care of any bad poisoning such as arsenic. It suffices to take 1 teaspoonful of clay mixed in a glass of water every hour for six hours to be out of trouble.

According to information found at Shirley's Wellness Cafe Wellness Cafe, myths about clay and the elements that make up a clay molecule are rampant. One deals with aluminum. Clay is a super stable compound. All of the elements that make up clay are bound together and act as a whole. Aluminosilicates are crystalline compounds, usually made up of silicon, aluminum and oxygen. They are tightly bound together. As long as the aluminum is bound in this form, it poses no health risk. The aluminum in clay is never in an isolated form, and is not adsorbed into the body. This refers to all metals in clay. They are in an oxide form tightly bound together.

Clay is interactive with each person's individual specific chemical makeup. It adapts to your needs. As the Native American Indians said of clay, "It has a wisdom of its own." From helping to prevent the proliferation of pathogenic germs and parasites to aiding with rebuilding of healthy tissues and cells, clay is a 'living' cure.

About the author - Perry A~ is the author of Living Clay: Nature's Own Miracle Cure and has been an ongoing student in the study of Bentonite Clays since the early 1990's. It was then she first tried a green healing Calcium Bentonite Clay that captured her fascination as to the amazing healing potential of dirt. She has been an advocate for this clay ever since. To read an excerpt from her book, please visit Living Clay

(NaturalNews) Drinking water with higher alkalinity is good for your health, according to Toronto-based Clearlight Holistics, which makes water ionizers and other holistic health products. Research from scientists supports this argument, but there is some dissent regarding the effectiveness of ionizing water, according to the web site Wikipedia.com.

What you need to know.

*   A water ionizer electrically separates the acidic and alkaline elements of water and then removes the acidic parts from your drinking water.

*   Studies have correlated that water ionization used in Asia has increased the lifespan of people in Japan and South Korea.

*   Ionized water offers a high level of helpful antioxidants, medical studies have shown.

*   There are many manufacturers of water ionizers to give you more healthful water from your tap.

*   Ionizing your water can offset the effects of a heavily-acidic diet of processed foods, the company says. These foods have high acidic levels that are neutralized by ionized water.

*   Dentists have suggested for years that neutralizing the acidic qualities of saliva can help prevent cavities from forming.

*   "A balanced pH will help prevent illness, so it is very important for your level not to be too acidic. Ionized water, since it is very alkaline, dissolves accumulated acid waste and returns the body to a balance. Keeping ourselves alkaline is the first line of defense in fighting any disease," states Matt Condie, a holistic health advocate and owner of Clearlight Holistics, in a press release.

Statements and opinions by Mike Adams

*   The diet of most people is too acidic. This leads to a loss of bone mineral density and can even lead to a diagnosis of osteoporosis.

*   However, drinking alkaline water can also weaken stomach acid and reduce the absorption of dietary minerals. Alkaline water should never be consumed with mineral supplements or foods requiring strong acidic breakdown (such as raw foods).

*   There are many other strategies for alkalizing the body: drinking fresh vegetable juices (from a juicer or blender), eliminating refined sugars from the diet and avoiding coffee and sodas. Soft drinks are highly acidic because they contain phosphoric acid.

Bottom line

*   Ionized water is considered by many as good for your health because it neutralizes the acids found in food.

We drink too much coffee, tea, and sodas containing caffeine, which prompts the body to lose water. More troubling is that fact that when we are dehydrated, we don't know what to drink.

The answer is simple: drink water!

Water is pure liquid refreshment and accounts for a large percentage of what makes each of us "human." The average 150 lb. adult body contains 40 to 50 quarts of water. Almost 2/3rds of our body weight is "water weight":

*    Blood is 83% water

*    Muscles are 75% water

*    The brain is 74% water

*    Bone is 22% water

The Fountain of Youth, Health, and Everything Else that's Good

Water is necessary for your body to digest and absorb vitamins and nutrients. It also detoxifies the liver and kidneys, and carries away waste from the body. And when it comes to digestion . . . it's just not happening without water. Fiber alone cannot aid proper digestive function by itself. In fact, without water as its partner, good fiber goes bad, causing constipation and extreme discomfort.

If you're dehydrated, your blood is literally thicker, and your body has to work much harder to cause it to circulate. As a result, the brain becomes less active, it's hard to concentrate, your body feels fatigued, and you just "poop out."

Water - The Miracle Worker

Simple water -- when it's pure and free of contaminants -- is truly a "wonder drug." Without chemicals, additives, or anything unnatural, a steady dose of 8 glasses of water a day (ideally ½ your body weight in ounces of water) will:

*    Improve Your Energy

*    Increase Your Mental and Physical Performance

*    Remove Toxins & Waste Products from your body

*    Keep Skin Healthy and Glowing

*    Help You Lose Weight

*    Reduce Headaches and Dizziness

*    Allow for proper Digestion

*    Help to keep you more Alkaline

Drinking Water is Heart-Healthy

The findings of a six-year study of more than 20,000 healthy men and women aged 38-100 in the May 1, 2002 American Journal of Epidemiology found that women who drank more than five glasses of water a day were 41% less likely to die from a heart attack during the study period than those who drank less than two glasses. The protective effect of water was even greater in men.

Drinking Water and Weight Loss

Water is a natural appetite suppressant, so developing a good water drinking habit can be a long-term aid in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Doctor F. Batmanghelidj MD, author of "Your Body's Many Cries For Water" says most times your "hunger" is your body asking for water - not food.

It's also important to remember that when the body is dehydrated, fat cells get "rubbery" and cannot be easily metabolized. This means that it's harder to lose when you don't drink your water.

Who Can Benefit From A Water Regimen?

Everyone . . . including YOU!

Water is especially important for pregnant women and nursing mothers. For athletes and work-out fanatics, drinking water reduces cardiovascular stress and improves performance. And, since water reduces body temperature, it makes the whole exercise process safer and more effective.

Water is also an important "healing tool" for people with a history of kidney stones. Since water dissolves calcium in the urine, downing at least 8 glasses daily reduces the risk of stone formation. Drinking water is also valuable in preventing urinary tract infections in both men and for women, flushing impurities out of the system.

Even mild dehydration makes you more susceptible to viruses. For someone like me, with an immune system compromised from my battle with terminal cancer, water is a powerful weapon in my war on colds and other illnesses. I've also found that water helps me recover more quickly.

When your body is hydrated, drainage from allergies and colds doesn't stick and collect in your throat and lungs, and your cough is more "productive". Even cold sores that appear on the lips are minimized by drinking water because those eruptions tend to favor dry areas on the body.

Tips for Drinking Water

I know how hard it can be to remember to drink enough water every day, but I also know how hard it can be to bounce back from the effects of being even mildly dehydrated. So I'd like to share a few easy tips to help you reach your "water mark" every day:

*    You are naturally thirsty i.e. "dehydrated" in the morning . . . help your body flush out the toxins it has been processing all night and take advantage of this thirst to get a "leg up" on your daily water requirements by drinking a glass of water first thing.

*    If you are cold drink warm water instead of dehydrating coffee & tea.

*    Don't wait until you're thirsty to have a drink - you are already dehydrated if you feel thirsty.

*    Set a timer to remind yourself to establish a habit of drinking water and keep a bottle of water with you at all times.

*    Compensate for diuretics . . . thieves that steal water from your body. If you drink coffee, tea, or sodas with caffeine, you'll need to drink a few extra glasses of water to make up for the water that these diuretic beverages "leech" from your system.

My personal choice is ionized alkaline water. The Jupiter water ionizers conveniently produce gallons of alkaline water each day for cooking and drinking. I get all the known benefits of pure water with the added advantages of micro-clustered water.

BE NATURAL - BE HEALTHY

Q. How much water should I consume daily?
A. Check with your doctor or favorite health care professional for advice. Many doctors suggest drinking at least 8 glasses of water every day to hydrate your body.

Q. Can I cook with ionized alkaline water?
A. Yes, in fact your water will boil more quickly, your food should taste better and your body should assimilate more nutrition from food cooked in ionized alkaline water.

Q. My family does not like healthy foods. Will they see health benefits from drinking ionized alkaline water?
A. The standard American diet is highly acidic which creates an acid body environment. This is a breeding ground for illness and health problems. Many families in your situation report noticing benefits from drinking ionized water. For optimal health, we strongly encourage increasing the quality of your family's diet to more high enzyme, raw, organic foods. You will notice faster results and even more benefits but even with no changes ionized alkaline water will provide a big step in a positive direction.

Q. I notice different ph levels on my machine. Which level should I choose?
A. You should start slow with 1 glass of ionized water at the lowest alkaline setting and work your way up over several weeks to higher levels and amounts. If you experience any discomfort from detoxification, just move back to the previous level and smaller quantities.

Q. Will I need a plumber to install the ionizer?
A. Each ionizer comes with a diverter valve that simply hooks up to your faucet which does NOT interfere with the normal use of your faucet. The Jupiter Melody, Aquarius and Orion/Alphion can also be placed under your counter. Most people have no problems setting up the countertop models. Many customers use a handyman or plumber to hook up the under counter models.

Q. When I first installed my water ionizer, dark water flowed out of the outlet for several seconds. Is my unit ok?
A. New filters may have small carbon particles which will be released during the first few seconds of the filter use. You do not need to be concerned. These particles will be cleaned out during the initial cleaning cycle. Just choose the clean cycle and let it run for a couple of minutes.

Q. Why does my ionizer beep initially for 5-6 seconds when it starts?
A. The ionizer always starts with a clean cycle indicated by beeping. During this time, acid water comes through the alkaline outlet and alkaline water comes through the acid outlet. Do NOT drink the water during this time. This cleaning cycle greatly increases the life of your electrodes. If you don't want to wait, no waiting for alkaline water is necessary with the Jupiter Melody, Jupiter Aquarius or Jupiter Alphion water ionizers.

Q. What kind of water should be used to produce ionized water?
A. Normal city tap water can be used. However, reverse osmosis water and distilled water do not contain minerals therefore these types of water should NOT be used.

Q. Can I use a pre-filter with my Jupiter Water Ionizer?
A. Yes. Usually pre-filtering is not necessary. However if you have extremely hard city water or well water, pre-filtering will allow optimum performance of your Jupiter Water Ionizer.

Q. What is the warranty?
A. Your Jupiter Water Ionizer comes with a 2-year manufacturer's parts and labor warranty. The unit will be serviced in the U.S. through the factory authorized service center.

Q. What about service on my water ionizer after the 2-year warranty?
A. There are multiple U.S. Service Centers where all work is performed by Factory Trained Technicians.

Q. What is Better Way's return policy?
A. If you are dissatisfied with your purchase, just contact us within 90 days for a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number. Place the RMA number on a copy of the original receipt and promptly return the product to us in its original shipping container. We will cheerfully refund your purchase price less a 15% restocking fee.

Q. Does Better Way provide a low price guarantee?
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When I discovered exactly how dangerous chlorine is, I made the decision to rid my shower of this toxin immediately. In my research, I found there were generally two types of viable filters available:

1. A carbon based filter much like the filters found in people's home drinking water filters. These filters are called GAC filters, which is short for granular-activated carbon.

2. A KDF filter which use atomized brass in lieu of carbon.

It may seem that a carbon based filter would be a great choice for dechlorinating your shower, as they are in use in so many homes to filter drinking water. Carbon is great for dechlorinating ambient or cooler water for drinking.

The problem with carbon based filters is that at higher temperatures the carbon can 'lose' the toxins it is trying to filter allowing them to ooze back into the very water source you are trying to clean! Carbon's absorbent and porous nature can, also, allow toxins to remain in the very filter itself. Neither of these attributes of the carbon based filters made me confident that they were actually achieving the result I wanted i.e. chlorine free water!

Another problem I had with the carbon based filters is that they are very large and somewhat obtrusive and therefore not aesthetically pleasing. Carbon based filters will always have to be in a large housing in order to achieve the same density as a KDF filter.

So that leads us to KDF filters and why a Rainshower filter was the obvious choice for me and my needs. Rainshow'r Mfg. Co., Inc., were the pioneers and innovators who led the way to KDF filters to become the highest grade of shower filter on the market.

Rejecting Calcium Sulfate and carbon based filters as inferior, Rainshower strived to produce the best shower head with the most effective dechlorinating medium-KDF. Rainshower researchers decided that KDF or atomized brass was their most effective choice for chlorine removal.

KDF is also bacteriostatic (inhibits reproduction), and tends to reduce or eliminate fungus and mildew build up in the shower. This is a much more intelligent choice than carbon based filters, which due to their porous nature can harbor toxins after and even worse . . . during your shower.

The best news of all . . . a KDF Rainshower filter does not harbor toxins or release them back into the shower water.

If you are wondering exactly how a Rainshower KDF filter works, here is a little information from the people at Rainshow'r Mfg. Co., Inc.-it quite interesting:

505 Medium Pressure Filter with KDF granular and KDF Filament

KDF is comprised of 50% copper and 50% zinc. It removes free chlorine by reversing the electrochemical process that originally separated the chlorine from sodium in a brine solution.

Here's how it works: Copper and zinc are dissimilar metals. The tension between these metals generates between 900 and 1100 millivolts of electricity in an aqueous state (i.e., as water passes through the media).

This is enough electricity to generate a galvanic charge, which reestablishes the original electrolytic environment that liberated the free chlorine. The chlorine is able to recombine with the most prevalent metal in the water, usually calcium, to form a soluble chloride, which washes out of the filter and is harmless to humans.

KDF not only offers superior dechlorination capabilities, it lasts much longer than carbon filters. Depending upon the filter model and the amount of KDF, a KDF shower filter should last seven to nine months.

However, it should be noted that KDF's effectiveness is measured by its ability to generate the electrochemical action described earlier - not in gallonage. The cathode-anode relationship between copper and zinc (which generates the galvanic charge) is disrupted by particulate contaminants in the water.

As a result, the less particulate matter in the water entering the filter, the longer the KDF media will generate adequate levels of electricity to effectively remove free chlorine. This means in simple terms that a KDF shower filter in Bangor, Maine, where the particulate contaminants in the water are low, will last a lot longer than a KDF shower filter used in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

So after I reviewed all the facts about chlorine and its ill effects on humans, I wanted to remove this toxin from my shower water. You should consider the same strategy and invest in a Rainshower shower filter.

The Rainshower is the shower head filter of choice to do what it was designed to do . . . dechlorinate.

Water is an essential yet always overlooked nutrient. I know, it does not have the person making property such as protein or the energy capabilities of carbohdyrates yet, this nutrient is the most important. Yes! The most important. How? Well, let me put it the way, without water, you'd die within a couple of days - That's how drastic it is.

Our muscles are made up of 70% water, and optimal hydration is essential for muscle function and growth. Did you know overly protein synthesis is essentially increased when the muscles are fully hydrated. This is exactly what you want, more protein synthesis for growth.

The blessing of drinking water are just too many to go without mention. Drinking water for quality of life and especially for our purpose, building muscle is a really vital topic and shouldn't be neglected. Water is the major nutrient for health, growth, and development.

For every athlete, the benefit of drinking water is a especially substantial aspect of building muscle. You see, water is everywhere in your body, type of similar to a river flowing through your arteries, veins, and capillaries carrying vital, livlihood sustaning nutrients to your cells and transporting garbage out of the body.

Water basically fills most every space in your body and helps compose the structures of protein and glycogen.

Ok, lets see some of the benefit of drinking water:

Building Muscle

Naturally, the benefit of drinking water for active athlete is to build muscle. However, water doesn't directly influence the actual making procedure as if protein does. You see, to be able to move muscle, you ask for water. Muscle is an active tissue and water is found in the highest amounts in active tissue (70%).

If your organism is dehydrated, chances are you are not ready to have a outstandingly productive exercising session. Why? Your muscles are deprived of electrolytes.

Muscles are controlled by nerves. The electrical stimulation of nerves and contraction of muscles are the result of the exchange of electrolyte minerals dissolved in water. It's really important that you drink water if you need to produce muscle.
Without enough water, your muscles are not receiving an adequate amount of electrolytes.

Muscle strength and control are weakened. If you want to make muscle, than you must keep your organism well hydrated. Have you ever wonder why you are weakest as soon as you get up? One of the reasons is due to the fact that your dehydrated - Get a little water into your system first thing you get up.

The great asset of drinking water is a much better muscle performance.

Improve Digestion

The body produces a lot of water when food is broken down in the digestion process. In fact, it has been estimated that roughly 25% of the total daily water requirement for a sedentary person can be used for this process alone. Imagine, 25% of all water in your body being used for digestion. You see, each gram of glucose needs about 2.5 grams of water to form glycogen in the muscle and liver.

The benefit of drinking water in this case is the fomation of energy. Water is actually released when glycogen is converted to energy.

Water is also the major ingredient in blood plasma, which transports nutrients and gases to and between cells. Water is also a necessary part of many chemical reactions in the body. An example of the benefit of drinking water is that it carries off the waste products of energy metabolism fromt he cell and provides the fluid needed to get rid of the body's wastes.

Heat Regulation

All of us have a built in air conditioners that constantly works to keep our heat levels at stable levels. All of us at one time or another have been in some pretty hot climates where we sweated - Alot. The process of perspiration actually cools us off and keeps us from boiling over which leads to some nasty side effects such as heat stroke.

When we sweat, water is released through the skin and evaporates. Heat is than released in the air lowering the skin temperature. The benefit of drinking water is to keep our "air conditioning" system filled and ready for action whenever we need it.

Exercise sessions increases the need for water. Our "air conditioning" system can use up a great deal of water depending on the intensity and duration of exercise and the environment in which you workout in. A loss of only 3 percent (of bodyweight) of water can drastically affect your performance and even greater losses can affect overall muscular strength.

When 6% of your bodyweight is lost in water, you run the risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. The benefit of drinking water is simply too great to be ignored.

BE NATURAL - BE HEALTHY

If you want to understand the benefits of alkaline water, Sang Whang's "Reverse Aging" is the book to read. He provides convincing information about why alkaline water is the best water for human consumption.

Sang Whang explains how alkaline water is an excellent source for flushing acidic waste, oxygenating, detoxing, hydrating, alkalizing your body and achieving optimum health. He describes why reverse osmosis and distilled water are not your best choices for water filtration.

Read "Reverse Aging" before purchasing any water filtration system.

Quotes from "Reverse Aging":

"In general, degenerative diseases are the result of acid waste buildups within us. When we are born, we have the highest alkaline mineral concentration and also the highest body pH. From that point on, the normal process of life is to gradually acidify. That is why these degenerative diseases do not occur when you are young."
"Reverse aging requires two separate steps: chemical and physical. The first step is to lower the acidity of the body so that it can dispose of acidic wastes in the blood and cellular fluids safely and easily. The second step is to physically pull out old stored wastes into the blood stream so that they can be discharged from the body."

"The best kind of water for this function is acid-free alkaline water, the water that neutralizes harmful acids and disposes of them safely while it does not leach out valuable alkaline minerals such as potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium."

"The device necessary to make the acid-free alkaline water is called a water ionizer." Sang Whang - Reverse Aging.

As you grow older, your skin undergoes many changes. There are several factors that can be responsible for the changes in your skin; some may be hereditary, while others may be acquired through exposure to natural elements and pollution. But no matter what factor caused these changes, the end result may not always bring about a smile on your face.

It would have been easier if everyone can just accept with open arms all the effects of aging and exposure to the elements. But society's concept of beauty and health can be brutally focused on one's outer appearance which includes spotless glowing skin. In this regard, skin rejuvenation has become a common means of restoring youthful appearance.

But the foundation of having healthy skin is deceptively easy and within everybody's reach. Beauty and skin experts have repeatedly stressed that water is key to attaining healthy glowing skin. This so called water therapy for your skin works on the principle that cells in the body, which includes the ones found in your skin, can only perform their tasks optimally if they are fully supplied with water; while total lack of hydration may damage the cells and jumpstart the process of aging as tissues become impaired.

Foremost examples of skin damage brought about by lack of water are having dry skin and the development of wrinkles. Many problems which lead to the deterioration of the skin, especially on the face area, can be counteracted if only you have adequately hydrated your cells. But apparently, the simple duty of ensuring that sufficient amount of water is taken in by the cells can be easily overlooked.

Hydrating the cells goes more than just drinking eight to ten glasses of water a day. In fact, the drinking part is only the first step in providing your cells with adequate hydration. The real function that you need to guarantee is about distributing and keeping as much water as possible in all the cells so they can continue to work at their peak.

According to Dr. Howard Murad, a pioneer in the study about the link between water and skin care, the aging process is a direct effect of water inadequacy in the body at the cellular level. And to make matters worse, your capacity to keep water in your cells decreases as you age. Hence, after a time, no matter how many glasses of water you drink in a day, your system just won't be able to keep enough water in your cells.

The overall aging process will cause many of your cells and tissues to malfunction. As they become less capable of keeping sufficient amounts of water, cells become weak and a lot of the water you take in will only be wasted because fewer cells are able to make use of the water. Instead of allowing water to be wasted away, you must apply measures to put back into the cells the water that is unused by the body. If you can do this, then there is a good chance that you can attain healthy skin and delay the onslaught of the aging process.

Redirecting water back into the cells that needed it mainly involves repairing your body's cells and tissues. You can fix damaged cells or tissues and allow them to absorb water again by taking supplements and diet that can mend or improve the functioning of your cells. Through adequate supplements and proper diet, not only will you be able to turn around the malfunction of cells, but you will also enable your cells or tissues to avert subsequent damages. Essential fatty acids and glucosamine are two of the most effective substances that are found in supplements and food, which can aid in the repair of cells and tissues. Indeed, you can not totally stop the aging process, but you can delay its assault on your skin. By making sure that your cells have adequate amounts of water, plus nutrients from supplements and proper diet, you can hold on to a healthy youthful skin for years to come. You can also add the use of products like Lumnaderm to bring back life to dull-looking skin. For more details, just visit www.Lumnaderm.com.

About the Author Sharon Bell is an avid health and fitness enthusiast and published author. Many of her insightful articles can be found at the premiere online news magazine http://www.healthnfitnesszone.com.

Does your skin need to be recharged? Are the bags under your eyes becoming so big that they may soon need their own provincial flag and seal? Before you prepare to assault your lovely mug with strange veggie mask concoctions and cucumber eye patches, perhaps you will consider another option with amazing results that does not require surgery or numerous painful injections in your dermatologist's office.

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CollageneLife is making yet another incredible impact and contribution to beautiful skin everywhere with Collagen Iontophoresis The procedure itself is nothing new under the sun; you can request Iontophoresis treatments from your dermatologist anytime. So what makes this product so different and amazing? Collagenelife is the first skin care company to take Iontophoresis and scale it down into a user friendly, at-home kit. Imagine having anytime access to this superb quality treatment without needing to ditch your robe and step outside of your front door.

Collagen Iontophoresis is packed for five uses over a two week period. And while no one is twisting your arm, for best results you will want to give your skin that little charge up all five times. The kit includes two eye patch applicators, the specially mixed collagen serum, and Collagenelife very own Eye's Elixir. We know that you will be absolutely thrilled and satisfied with the look and feel of your "super charged" skin. We have discovered the beauty in the science, and we are giving it to you.

(NaturalNews) When it comes to our water supplies we are trusting the wrong people and that trust will hurt us in ways we will regret. The waters, the rivers of life are precious to those who value life. To certain others, they are just things to throw trash into, to pollute, and to make money off of at the expense of destroying the environment.

Life is just unthinkable without water, for we cannot be separated from water and live. Water is so important that its pollution and poisoning has a direct impact on our health and even on the quality and effect of our minds and feelings.

We are the element water and we have reservoirs, ponds, rivers and seas of fluids within us. The flow of blood, the lymphatic system with its fluid movement, endocrine fluidity, urinary fluidity, the fluidity represented by perspiration, saliva, tears, sexual secretions, and lactation are all influenced by water. Clean water is absolutely essential for healthy living.

An Adequate supply of fresh and clean drinking water is a basic need for all human beings on the earth, yet hundreds of millions of people worldwide are deprived of this. When you add the fact that most drinking water from public systems are laced with toxic chemicals then we begin to see that its not hundreds of millions who have a problem with water but billions. Even bottled water has its problems. We thus need to take so much care when it comes to the water we drink.

'If the world's water was contained in 100 liters or 26 gallons, then what is readily available to us would amount to one-half teaspoon.' - Dr. Sang Hwang

If there were no water there would be no world as we know it so pollution of our water or the deliberate injection of hazardous chemicals like fluoride and chloramines into it is nothing less than devastating to our biological existence over time.

When approaching a topic as big and as important as water we have to have some sense of reverence for there is something sacred, almost sacramental in the very fabric of water. Thus water holds the potential to change our world, to change us. It holds the power of life and death and the most dominant influence over our health.

In the Midwest today there is a serious drought that drives farmers and everyone else to think about water more than anything else. Next to our breath there is nothing more important than water.

The connection between water and disease wasn't established until a scant 100 years ago and the connection between water and human consciousness has still to be discovered. Observant physicians noted early on that not all diseases were transmitted through contact between individuals.

The two greatest epidemics of the 19th century -- yellow fever and Asiatic cholera showed evidence that some factor other than direct contact with disease victims was necessary to spread the disease. Typhus and waterborne typhoid fever raged through urban areas, proving to be one of history's most virulent killers.

Cholera could wipe out its victims in as little as 12 hours. Cholera is a disease that can take a man suddenly down in good health at daybreak and kill him by nightfall. Water is well capable of being the harbinger of death and disease so it is best to know and understand the water we drink and bathe in. In developing countries, four-fifths of all the illnesses are caused by waterborne diseases, with diarrhea being the leading cause of childhood death.

Medically we are still in the Stone Age when it comes to our understanding of water. Public health officials seem to deliberately choose to remain blind to ever present dangers of all the chemicals finding their way into the public water supplies probably because they are deeply associated with an industry and a medical paradigm that uses toxic chemicals in the form of drugs that are, as we shall see below, also polluting our waters.

Water pollution is caused by human activities: 1.)By point sources i.e., factories, sewage treatment plants, underground mines, oil wells, oil tankers and pesticides from agriculture. 2) Non-point sources include mercury in the air, acid deposition from the air, traffic, pollutants that are spread through rivers. 3) Chemicals deliberately put in the water like fluoride and chloramines.

Water reminds us of the need to live simply and close to the ground but the lesson has been lost on modern man who has not really comprehended his total dependence and vulnerability to water issues. The CIA considers global water scarcity "a significant issue in security," said John Gannon, a former CIA assistant director and former chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Even as we continue to take water for granted, things are getting critical as water levels in many aquifers around the world are dropping, in some places by several meters a year. In recent measurements, in Waukesha near Chicago for instance, the water level had dropped about 600 feet with the greatest loss being over the last 20 years. Professor Liu Yonggong, of China Agricultural University in Beijing, indicated that the water table beneath much of the North China Plain, a region that produces some 40 percent of China's grain, has fallen an average of 1.5 meters per year over the last five years.

Lack of water means lack of food.

"Future competition for water seems likely to take place largely in world grain markets." - Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute

An unexpectedly abrupt decline in the supply of water for China's farmers poses a rising threat to world food security. China depends on irrigated land to produce 70 percent of the grain for its huge population of 1.2 billion people, but it is drawing more and more of that water to supply the needs of its fast-growing cities and industries. As rivers run dry and aquifers are depleted, the emerging water shortages could sharply raise the country's demand for grain imports, pushing the world's total import needs beyond exportable supplies. Since 1950, the population of China has grown by nearly 700 million, a staggering increase. Since 1950, the global renewable freshwater supply per person has fallen 58 percent as world population has swelled from 2.5 billion to 6 billion. With finite and diminishing water supplies the human race is like a fast moving car about to collide with a solid wall of water scarcity, which is not being helped at all by the global warming effect and the weather changes it is bringing throughout much of the world.

The Yellow River water in China is now loaded with heavy metals and other toxins that make it unfit even for irrigation, much less for human consumption, along much of its route.

None of the proposed solutions to the water crisis -- importing water, water conservation, expanded use of desalination of seawater or developing genetically modified crops that use less water -- will be "sufficient to substantially change the outlook for water shortages in 2015," according to Global Trends 2015, a report by the intelligence council. Agriculture accounts for two-thirds of water use worldwide and 80 percent to 90 percent in many developing countries.

Some of this is already coming home to Californians who, as of New Year's Day 2002, have had three of their eight water pumps on the Colorado River shut down by federal order. Now, much less water is churning down the 242-mile aqueduct toward coastal Southern California, where 17 million people rely on snow-melt from the Rocky Mountains for washing dishes, flushing toilets and watering lawns.

This is a pivotal moment in the contentious history of water in the arid West and in many other places around the world. We are just at the beginning of a problem that has no way of going away.

'The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.' - American Indian Proverb

About the author
Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA)http://www.imva.info/.

Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and in the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla, in México, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the first nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.

He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and future generations of children. His book The Terror of Pediatric Medicine is a free e-book one can read. Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages on his various web sites.

He has most recently released his Survival Medicine for the 21st Century compendium (2,200 page ebook) and just released the Winning the War Against Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the area of natural detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals and heavy metals. He is also a champion of the medicinal value of minerals and is fathering in a new medical approach that uses sea water and different concentrates taken from it for health and healing.

Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers a stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down blood pressure and pushes cell physiology in a positive direction. Magnesium chloride delivered transdermally brings a quick release from a broad range of conditions.

International Medical Veritas Association: http://www.imva.info/

Between the synapses of your brain is water-not soda or juice or sports drink-water. I'm sure you've heard that drinking water is important, and it is. But, do you know what happens to your body when you don't drink enough water? Many people depend on a sense of thirst to tell them when they need a drink. Actually, by the time you feel thirsty your body has already suffered the consequences of dehydration.

When your body is not adequately hydrated, it affects your overall health. One of the first symptoms is a headache. Often people will take a couple of aspirin, when actually they need to drink a couple of glasses of water. The next time you get a headache, try this before taking medication.

Another common thing that happens when you don't drink enough water is that you become constipated. Usually people with this problem will take a stool softener or some other medication, but again, if you drink adequate amounts of water, the problem may disappear. If not, chronic constipation can lead to hemorrhoids and eventually surgery. Isn't drinking water preferable to that?

When lack of proper hydration becomes a chronic long-term problem, the symptoms become more systemic. It's not uncommon for people to develop heartburn, allergies, arthritis, Lupus, and various autoimmune conditions because they don't drink enough water. Don't we all know someone with one of these problems? You see, you can't flush toxins out with sugar and caffeine. Very simply, your body stops functioning properly without adequate amounts of water.

Maybe you've never heard this before. How can water cure all these problems? Well, don't underestimate the power of the pharmaceutical industry. Right now there's no money to be made by writing people prescriptions for water.

If you're used to consuming lots of soft drinks, the taste of water may not be all that enticing. Well, there are many ways to get more water into your body. First, limit the amount of soft drinks you consume. The sugar and caffeine have to be processed by your body and this requires water-water that you're not drinking enough of.

As a former soda and ice tea junkie, I'll share my tips for learning to like water. I found that drinking it ice cold made tastes better. My favorite way is over crushed ice with a lemon wedge. There are water flavors that you can buy at the local health food store. Also, consider adding stevia. Stevia is a very sweet herb that is often used by diabetics as a sugar replacement. You can find it at the health food store as well.

If you're satisfied with the taste of tap water, that's great. If not, you have several options. Of course you can buy bottled water, but if that's too pricey, consider purchasing a water filter to place on the taps at home. There are various water filters you can buy that filter out minerals and other additives the local water authority adds. The taste will improve immediately.

Like anything else new, adding sufficient water to your diet requires a plan. It's not easy if you haven't grown up doing it. Commercials are constantly peddling the latest wonder drink, and convenient snack machines sell soft drinks that make it difficult to pass up. Bring your water bottle to work and devote a month to your new habit. You'll notice that nagging problems like headaches and indigestion disappear.

Have you ever wished that you could look as young and alive as you feel? There are countless men and women all over the world who have the same basic desire - to look and feel great. But surgeries are expensive (and can be dangerous), and Botox injections do not last; this means numerous trips to your dermatologist's office and yet still not address the true cause of lines and wrinkles in your skin.

CollageneLife Intl (the makers of Natural Collagen beauty line) believe in getting to the heart of the matter, or collagen in this case. When the fibroblasts (the beams for cell walls) in collagen protein cells begin to break down, the outward result is wrinkles. We want to keep the fibroblasts from checking out so soon, thus restoring the smoothness and glow in your skin. That is where Colvita steps in.

Colvita is one of the most exciting and proven collagen dietary supplements on the market today! It is certainly break-through in treating collagen loss, and also the first of its kind anywhere! This amazingly created and designed collagen pill works from the inside out to give you an enchanted sense and look of boundless youth. While is not a magical "overnight wonder" supplement, the positive outcome of Colvita will not be fading into the setting sun anytime soon.

What makes Colvita so singular and unique is our own very special recipe for success. Extracted fish collagen, algae, and Vitamin E for a dietary supplement and nutricosmetic (beauty/health product) that is able to turn back the clock for a host of years to come. Colvita capsules nourish the collagen proteins and builds them up inside from the beginning. You will be more than satisfied with how smooth and firm your skin becomes after only weeks of beginning your daily regimen of Colvita.

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How is your epidermis doing today? Does it feel as fresh and vibrant as the rest of you? Your skin is the largest (and most delicate) of your organs, and it is just as important to keep that organ healthy and rejuvenated as it is the heart or lungs. Unfortunately the skin tends to showcase its wear and tear with spotlights, and also long before your heart stops beating like a frisky twenty year old.

At CollageneLife Intl, we do not believe that anyone should just accept the lines and wrinkles as a part of life. Throw a rally or a tantrum; whichever would be the best way to get the attention of the Dermatology Gods. Who says you have to look old just because you are not eighteen years old anymore? We think that you deserve to look and feel your absolute best. It is for this reason that CollageneLife Intl developed the highly successful and sought after Natural Collagen Q5-26 Platinum gel.

Natural Collagen Q5-26 Platinum was created based on the science of how our bodies function. We at CollageneLife Intl wanted to find a way to improve and even stop the cause of your skin's flaccid appearance, not just smooth out the affects of collagen loss and aging. Our Platinum gel does just that - it absorbs into your skin's tissue and gets to work on a deeper cellular level. The results are lasting and will leave you very satisfied.

The beauty of Natural Collagen Q5-26 Platinum is that it is not solely intended to stave off wrinkles and lines. We are very glad that our formula is so effective against the aging process, but there are many other uses for the Platinum serum. We recommend using it for normal skin irritations, melanoderma (darkening of skin), after being in the sun, to treat skin eczema, and after any deep cleansing treatments and/or facial skin peel.

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Could you imagine being a fly on Aphrodite's wall the morning she found her first gray hair and wrinkle? Hades hath no fury like a like an unhappy diva deity. Or maybe the love goddess never had to deal with the same maladies as her mortal devotees. After all, she was divine; her secret anti-aging weapon was immortality. If we could all be so lucky. The pursuit of beautiful skin and a youthful appearance has been going on before any of those fickle Greek deities set up shop on Mount Olympus.

One popular legend states that sultry Egyptian queen Cleopatra would bathe in mules' milk in order to maintain those enchanting features. Yummy. Unless she had a wagon full of Oreos next to her tub, that just sounds like a waste of some really good milk. But you have to give Cleo props for her innovative skin care ideas. Another fun anti-aging fairy tale involves a little place in China known as Shangri-La, which held the secrets and potions for eternal life and eternal youth. Before you jump on that bandwagon though, picture yourself at eighteen; would you really want to be that way forever?

History is full of men and women who seemed willing to go to every length (and then some) to find anti-aging secrets and innovative skin care treatments. Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon risked his reputation and his life to find the legendary and very mythical Fountain of Youth. He trekked through swamps galore in marshy Florida (obviously before J. Lo moved to Miami) and apparently only discovered angry Indians, malaria, and poisoned arrows. None of which was a very good combination of Ponce.

CollageneLife Intl. has been a leader in developing innovative skin care products that include a very special anti-aging formula which works to treat both the cause and the effect of wrinkles on your face and neck. Those who say that there is a science to innovative skin care and preventing signs of aging were not just attempting to sound smart; all cells have fibroblasts - think of it as the framework that holds everything in place. When these bad boys start to buckle and go down within your collagen cells, the outward manifestation are lines and wrinkles.

This very amazing anti-aging gel from the Natural Collagen innovative skin care line is all about rolling up sleeves and applying some elbow grease; Natural Collagen Q5-26 comes in three ground breaking formulas that are each specifically engineered for different types of collagen in your body. Unlike other products on the market, CollageneLife Intl. does not have a "one size fits all" mentality. You and your body all have different needs; there is a company and a product that understands that.

The cajoling between science, beauty, and medicine is not as futile as some would think; these collaborations have led to some rather exciting break-throughs in anti-aging studies that do not necessarily require surgery or swimming in donkey milk. And the world heaves a collective sigh of relief.
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Skin care has always been an important part of the beauty regimen for women, and some men throughout history. The secret formula or tonic (ancient skin care products) for smooth and fare skin was as much sought after many times as riches and glory. Ancient peoples did not need dermatologists, scary cancer statistics, or Stridex to know that they needed to protect their skin.

Perhaps they did not completely understand that the epidermis was, in fact one of their organs, but those societies did comprehend how fragile and vulnerable the skin really was, and that they could not live without it. Skin care was high on the priority list, although mostly because they wanted to be beautiful and keeping the skin in good shape also kept those ladies and gents pretty as peacocks.
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Oh how the years slip away. Sometimes it does not seem like so long ago that you were still a twinkle in your mother's eye. Then the glorious day finally arrived that was, in fact your arrival. Like most babies, you probably had the chubby cheeks going full force and too closely resembled a Shar Pei with all of your little rolls of skin. But not to fear, you would grow into your skin soon enough. And you did; you grew and grew, and time sped along like a kid boosting his dad's Beemer for a joy ride.

Collagen had a pretty easy job back when you were younger. It was a strong and sturdy protein with nothing better to do than hang out and keep you together. And of course keeping the collagen cells together were the rough and tough fibroblasts. They were both the framework and the scaffolding of your collagen cells. Life is going well for you, with everything laying and pointing in the proper directions. You are likely not concerned with all the boring scientific jargon about what collagen is and how it works in your body. You have pretty skin without wrinkles, and that is what really matters - right?

Father Time Is Getting A Chuckle

The sands of time continue to pour against you, and your little collagen cells too as the winds of change howl a little bit. Or a lot. A sandstorm might get stirred up at anytime and leave you covered in gritty dirt, and who likes having a mouthful of that? Yuck. It is a safe bet that you will notice those teeny lines before you see the gray hair or the pimple on your chin. Where in the hee-haw did those skin lines come from? Are your collagen cells sleeping on the job?

Unfortunately the mighty collagen proteins have aged right along with you. And while they may still feel as spry as a day old puppy (or maybe a month old puppy), the fibroblasts are being pansies about it and beginning to weaken. Your skin is destined to become more flaccid as time passes. You are not going to end up with jowls (well let's hope not), but you will have lines and wrinkles. Is there a bright side to possibly ending up like Droopy the dog?

Muting The Fat Lady

In skin care there are a few options to help you deter the aging process: cosmetic surgery, Botox injections, and short term skin care products. While surgery is a popular choice for many men and women, it is also expensive and can be dangerous (as with all surgeries). Botox has been the fair-haired darling for a while now and has recently become more affordable and more accessible. But the effects fade much faster than you might prefer, and this means the added inconvenience of several trips to your dermatologist's office.

The skin care industry has been booming lately with a myriad of products to give you smoother and healthier skin. Making a very good name for themselves regarding natural skin care and the prevention of aging signs is CollageneLife Intl. They believe firmly in exploring the science for a solution instead of going with chemically based formulas. They want to find out the "why" and "how" of the skin aging dilemma. The solution, in their opinion, is to build up your collagen cells rather than mask the effects of the cells' break down. Only natural ingredients are used in creating all of their amazing products.

With CollageneLife you have some fantastic choices on how you want to rebuild the collagen cells; the absolutely incredible Natural Collagen Q5-26 Platinum gel works on the whole organ that is your epidermis, from your face to your most intimate areas. It is not just for anti-aging, but can be used to treat sun kissed skin, melanoderma (discoloration of the skin), and even some forms of eczema. And since the gel is so concentrated, you will only need a small amount. You will run out of wrinkles before you run out of Q5-26.

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No one has perfect skin, but we all want it! If you are anything like me then you know how much you hate to look at ads of pretty, young things in skin care ads that seem to have! But age brings with it the curse of older looking skin. Over the years, I've done quite a bit of research to find out what can make skin look plumper; and the miracle ingredient everywhere seems to be collagen!

Not sure what collagen does to make your skin look 'model perfect!'?
Apparently, quite a lot! Collagen is one of the natural building blocks of skin and it is responsible for the young plump look of adolescent and teenage skin. But as we grow older, the collagen spring like bundles present in skin start to lose their elasticity. There is a gradual loss of water and the springiness of skin decreases! Result- old, tired, saggy looking skin!

Well, we all start panicking by that time, but no need to start just yet!
There is only so much that you can do to keep skin young and if you've religiously followed a good skin care routine of cleansing, toning and moisturizing for all of your life; you've got nothing to worry about! But not all of us were aware of what could happen! As a result, for the people, who now want younger looking skin in an instant, researchers have come up with collagen injections!
Collagen Cosmetics natural collagen in a bottle!
I'm a little scared of needles and wanted something as painless as possible; after all if I can get the same effects with a cream then why bother with needles, right! So when I bumped into this range of natural collagen cosmetics, I was a little surprised! Would it work to replenish the collagen in my skin? Well it works! The Natural Collagen Range has a whole spectrum of ingredients which work really well to retain water inside your skin and make it more youthful looking. A few of the better ingredients which I really liked and do work scientifically are-
MATRIXYL(TM)-3000 - which is also referred to as pro-collagen was recently in the news due to its activities in building collagen. One of its main ingredients is Pal - GHK and Pal - GQPR which work really well together in repairing collagen bundles in skin. cream

GOTU - KOLA contains a whole lot of beneficial compounds like flavinoids, vitamins A, C and E, triterpen compound as well as magnesium. The herb also works well to stimulate the formation of mucin and hyaluronic acid to boost collagen formation.

Aloe Vera is renowned the world over for its beneficial properties and it plays an important role in soothing the skin especially for people who use regular peels.

Can I Use it?
I don't see why not! The product has been manufactured according to Good Manufacturing Standards and Good Hygiene Standards. And the ingredients do work! I would suggest that you take a look at the site to find something which you would work for you. I have taken the COLVITA capsules as a health boost and combined it with the Natural Collagen Therapy Combo Set. And frankly, the compliments are pouring in!

No matter what your age ; it's really necessary for you use a good skin care regime. Cleansing, toning and moisturizing at least once a day form the foundation for future healthy skin. But along with these few steps you will also have to combine a weekly exfoliation routine with your cleansing, toning and moisturizing. If you aren't really sure what exfoliators can do and the benefit they give you then read on for a complete lowdown on exfoliators!
What are facial exfoliators?
Facial exfoliators or scrubs work to remove the dead skin cells on the surface of skin. You might think that this will hurt you or your skin but it isn't like that! The outer most layer of skin is nothing but dead cells which are replaced nearly every day. But sometimes due to excessive oil production, or pollution, dead skin cells remain on the skin surface giving it a dull and darkened appearance. When you use a facial exfoliant you scrub away the dead skin, and this removes the outer layer of skin along with the accumulated dirt and debris. Blocked pores open up and this causes the skin to look fresher and younger! Regular exfoliation can also reduce the emergence of lines and wrinkles. But exfoliation also dries out the skin and thus it becomes extremely necessary that you follow a good skin regime of cleansing, toning and moisturizing while exfoliating once a week.
Tips on Using Facial Exfoliators
It's always best to get a professional store made exfoliators like the Natural Collagen Peeling Exfoliators. This is because the particle size of the granules is standardized and you are less likely to damage your skin. When you are using the Natural Collagen Peeling product you are guaranteed a standardized granule size along with several soothing ingredients which treat your skin as you exfoliate. It contains collagen to plump your skin and thus preventing the dryness which occurs after every exfoliation. Borage oil and Aloe also work to soothe your skin during and after the exfoliation. A few tips you should follow are
Have a warm water bath before exfoliating.
Warm your exfoliator by placing it in warm water as this is more effective in peeling your skin.
Avoid delicate areas like the under eye area and the corners of the mouth.
Rinse your skin well after exfoliation to remove the granules.
Warm a good moisturizer and apply afterwards. Don't forget to use a good sunscreen for the next few days and don't go swimming in chlorinated water to reduce skin irritation.
Use only facial exfoliators like the Natural Collagen peeling effects exfoliator on the skin.

Try to use a combined sequence of skin products on your skin while doing a skin care regime. When you use the Natural Collagen system of facial exfoliator, use the Therapy combo set which has the cleanser, toner, moisturizer and toner together in one set! This way ingredients work synergistically to work more effectively on your skin making it healthier! Do check out the site Cosmetics for more information on how to use exfoliators and how to source the products!

The market is overflowing with different types of face creams. Some promise to restore your youthful skin in 2 days some in 7 days and some over night. However, I am sure just like me, every time these commercials come on telly, you feel so happy and run out to get them from the stores. And after applying them religiously for two days, five days, seven days, it is the same wrinkly face that stares back at us from the mirror. However, the wish to look young and beautiful overtakes our rational thought and very soon we get lured by another set of similar cream and make a beeline for the stores again. And in this manner the buying and the disappointment continues. I am sure you are as tired of this routine as I am and want a cream or serum that will not just be empty promises.
When I first came across the Mineral Anti - Wrinkle Serum, I just dismissed it as one of those products. However, a little hope in my head said what if this really works. Are you not passing on something good out of sheer skepticism? I decided to listen to this voice but still refused to be taken for a ride. I decided to research it to know whether it can really do what it claims.

And what did you find out?
During my research I came across the fact that active serum not only tones the skin but it also speeds up the cell regeneration process and plumps up existing wrinkles and prevents new ones from setting in. Plant extracts, Dead Sea minerals, A and E vitamins, and a special complex work together to help fight the effects of age, sun, environment, and free radicals.

Sounds good but how do I apply it?
I apply it every morning or evening depending on the time I am free to take care of myself, for three times a week. I normally massage it onto my face till it is totally absorbed and follow up with a moisturizing, replenishing or nourishing cream.
After I started applying the cream, I noticed a gradual tightening of the skin and the wrinkles were also on their way out. It is not a fast track promise - it is a gradual process that really does wonders to my skin. I have given up chasing for quick fixes now - I think you should too?
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When I started with my collagen therapy, I felt after sometime that there was something not right. I mean, I was not feeling as great as I should be feeling. In order to see whether I was doing anything wrong, I read the instruction one more time. And during this time, I came across the fact that for best results I need to use the special day cream after collagen therapy.
The day cream performs an intense moisturizing and revitalizing action on the skin. With regular use of the cream you will notice a shine in your skin. Your skin will look relaxed and you youthful. Its main function is to boost the effects of the collagen therapy and to supplement its actions.
The day cream supplies natural, plant-originated nutrients which helps in improving the general conditions of your skin. Since, it works from deep within, it provides a natural sheen to your skin tone. It also increases the skin's affinity to bond with water. It works towards providing a deep rejuvenation and the end result is an unusual firmness and elasticity, and restores youthful vitality. The cream is very efficient and is sufficient for a long use to enforce the collagen treatment.
Make sure to combine the day cream with the collagen treatment for best results.

I normally spread the cream on my face in a thin layer after the absorption of the Natural Collagen Q5-26. I work it onto my face and neck delicately tapping with my fingers. Try not to rub it in too harder - gently massage your message for better results.
When you wake up in the morning - you feel a visible change in your skin luster. The face looks tight and the usual morning flaccidness lessened visibly. No one likes to look at their puffy face in the morning - and with the daily use of this skin - your mornings will also start on a better note.
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I am sure all of you remember how I raved about Collagen therapy the other day. I have been using that every day but somehow I was not happy with the results. I knew it was not the collagen product I was using, as it has been certified by dermatologists and when I took it to my doctor, he was really wowed by the product too. I realized that maybe the culprit was the night cream I was using after the collagen therapy that was diluting the effect. When I realized that I went back to check whether the company makes any night cream and I was pleasantly surprised that they did.
Did it make a difference?
I was not very sure whether it would make any difference, but I decided to try it out anyway - what had I got to lose? I had tried so many different varieties of night creams that I was game to try another. The reasoning in my head told me that since both the products were from the same company, they are better placed to know what should follow after which. Also, the company was unlikely to come up with a night cream that would undo all the good work of the collagen therapy. Thus argued, I decided to have a dekko at the night cream they were offering.
I bet it was nothing different from the ones available in the market!
I was skeptical too, just like you especially when I read the product description that said, special night cream with an intense anti-wrinkle action. It also said that it was recommended to be used after collagen therapy. It convinced me that it was an advertising gimmick and they were just trying to sell me the night cream along with the collagen therapy.
I told you so, didn't I?
Hold it my friend! My cynicism like yours was proved just that. When I started using it, I realized a great improvement on my skin tone immediately. I could feel my skin de-stress. The collagen film boosts the efficacy of the treatment and supplements the collagen action. It also stimulated the process of production of the skin elements and my face was looking firmer and more elastic - if you know what I mean?
What about the wrinkle removing promise - aren't there anti-wrinkle creams for that?
Definitely there are but if you can get two functions in one wouldn't you prefer that? Why massage two creams when one will achieve the purpose? After using the night cream religiously I found that my small wrinkles were gone while the long and deep ones we barely visible. It also moisturizes and rejuvenates the skin from deep within and accelerates the process of the epidermis regeneration. It makes my skin as smooth as silk and the compliments I receive for it are mind-blowing. I feel like a new woman - the cream has not only rejuvenated my skin but also my confidence and looks.

Can you connect dead sea minerals with skin care? I didn't either. However, dead sea minerals are the best way to keep your skin looking healthy and luscious. When I learn about this, I searched high and low to find out ways of getting my hand on some. And guess what! I came across a ready made cream, made from the same dead sea minerals, to take care of my skin, especially my eyes and neck.
Eyes and neck- what will they think of next?
Eyes are the most sensitive part of our body and we need to take good care of them. They are the mirror through which we see the world, and the world also understands us through our eyes. In today's world where every one works on the computer for almost half the day, eyes need to be taken care of. Using cucumber slices to cool them and exercising them from time to time is fine but you need something more than that too. I, for one, always feel really tired after I finish my day's work on the computer. I sometimes feel heaviness in my eyes and a burning sensation in them. Sometimes, I have difficulties in opening them in the morning. And I know that I need to take good care of them.
What about the neck?
Well, haven't you heard the phrase swan neck? So many poetry and songs has been written, praising a woman smooth, swan like neck. People have fallen in love with a woman's smooth, white neck. And so, it is an important part of a woman's beauty. In fact, there is nothing sexier than a smooth neck, you don't even need a necklace to adorn it. And I think I am lucky that I found a cream that would take care of both my needs.
Sounds inviting, but dead sea minerals --- is it ok to use it?
Of course, it is the best thing that will make your skin sing. The eye and neck cream is made from natural dead sea minerals and it helps in maintaining the balance of moisture in your skin and keeps it looking luscious. It also protects against sun damage with a UV-blocker of 15 SPF strength. And guess what's the best thing about this cream? It suits all skin types.
Do I just apply it like moisture?
Yes. I just rub it in till it is absorbed. I just make sure that I never use it on damaged skin.
Looking good is an addiction and I am sure all you people out there want to look beautiful. To look good, you need to take good care of your skin, especially around the eye and neck area. If you don't take good care of your eyes, you will soon have crow's feet around them, making you look old and worn out. Hence, it is imperative that we massage the eyes and the neck with a eye and neck cream, to continue looking ravishing. And what more does one want if that cream also has the goodness of dead sea minerals?
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It's really difficult to find time to have a careful skin care routine! Cleansing, toning and moisturizing two times a day becomes really difficult when you have a little two year old terror roaming about your house! But Skin care is really essential! Experts say that a little judicious skin care routine started as early as your teens can make sure that you don't have problems later on like sagging skin, wrinkly eyes and crow's feet! But not all of us were aware of that, right?
Collagen and its importance for healthy skin!
None of us are really aware of how essential collagen is for healthier looking skin. Think of collagen as a soft waterlogged sponge; that's how your skin is in your teens. The collagen molecules keep water locked into your skin and your skin looks healthier and plumper. Collagen is responsible for the healthier appearance of your joints and its present in varying forms in almost all parts of our body.
But what happens if you've not really taken care of your skin all these years?
There is a lot you can do to make sure that your skin does not dry up and wrinkle! As you very well know collagen injections are the stand by now for women to plump up older skin. But what do all that when there is a better and much more painless method to deliver collagen into your body? COLVITA is just one such formulation which is specifically designed to replace those fluctuating levels of collagen in your body and the effect is felt all over.
How COLVITA works!
Colvita contains the purest form of fish collagen, algae, and vitamin E.
%u2022 Fish collagen used in COLVITA is manufactured by lyophilization or freeze drying by which extra water is removed from the product by placing it in vacuum and then the freeze dried. Collagen derived from this method is remarkably pure and lasts for a long time if stored properly.
%u2022 Algae are another of the valued ingredients of COLVITA which makes it so precious. Algae has commonly been used in herbal medicine is as a source of iodine, which is very essential for the formation of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland. It's also extremely useful in controlling and reducing the severity of symptoms associated with arthritis. It also lowers plasma levels of dangerous cholesterols!
%u2022 Vitamin E is also added to COLVITA and it works synergistically with algae and Fish acollagen. By itself, Vitamin E is a potent anti-oxidant which protects cells from free radical damage. But it also works well to protect skin from sun damage and loss of collagen.
Frankly as you can see, COLVITA not only boosts your skin collagen levels but also protects your body from damage due to its contents of Algae and Vitamin E! Not bad, right! DO check out the site Colvita on how the nutraceutical can work well for you too!

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Certified organic beauty and skin care products become a reality in our lives because we want to apply the same principle to our skin care products as we do to our eating habits and if you belong to the school of thought of "you are what you eat" then it's very important to be sure that whatever we put on our skin is clean, non-toxic and good for the earth.

Studies have proven, time and time again, that nothing you apply on your skin stays on the surface unless you immediately rinse it off. This giant sponge is able to absorb anything you put on it. Within 10-15 minutes a product will be completely absorbed into your skin, it is inside your body, which means underneath your skin. By this time, you can't wash it off anymore.

This also means that if you apply cosmetics, lotions, perfumes, make-ups on daily basis they will be absorbed and this way you are feeding your skin with whatever that product is. In other words, if you wouldn't eat it, you shouldn't put it on your skin! Your skin is a living organ, as so many others in your body. Since the skin can be a mirror for what is going on in the body, the chemicals may once again show up on the skin. It also means that the liver has to work harder to process them.

Don't you think it's wise to use organic skin care products if you eat organic foods unless you want to sabotage what you want to achieve?

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The word "organic" has been thrown around a lot lately, but what does it mean? Are some things considered organic while others are not? Who decides what is organic and what is not? Do any of these things really matter when it comes to your skin? The answer is "yes" -all of these things matter when it comes to finding the right health and beauty products for your skin.

Why does organic matter? Since your skin will absorb any product that you put on it, it makes a lot of sense to consider the ingredients inside of any beauty product. In order for a product to be labelled "organic," it must pass strict standards. Each country has a specific set of organic standards that all products must adhere to, though most countries have the same basic guidelines.

Essentially, an organic product must be safe enough to consume even if you don't intend to consume it at all. Why? Well, just think about it - if you wouldn't put a product in your mouth, why would you put it on your skin? Many people don't think about what their skin absorbs when they purchase various beauty products. However, you should think long and hard about the products that you are purchasing.

For the most part, you won't find any type of strange ingredient listed on the back of an organic beauty product. What you will find are ingredients that you are familiar with. Most of the time, these ingredients consists of things that you have consumed at one time or another. Still, there are some products out there that claim to be organic even when they are not.

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The information and beauty tips provided do not give you exhaustive information on any of the topics written about on this Lens. Always seek the advice of licensed aestheticians, massage therapists, or your doctor before undertaking a beauty or health treatments.

Whitening skin care products are becoming a true revolution not only in Asia but Worldwide. Recently, doctors at the Imperial College hospital in London conducted a research which revealed that certain type of cream used as a potent skin lightening treatment contains high levels of the steroid corticosteroid which is usually prescribed for skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis, for which treatment shouldn't take longer than 2 weeks.

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