Water makes up 83% of our blood. It creates vitality, life, and youth as it flows through us, but we need pure water and it must be continuously replaced. An important function of water is flushing out toxins, foreign matter, and excess body salts. A glass of water is like taking an internal shower. It is thought that water should be taken 30 minutes before a meal to insure water is not taken from other organs to produce the digestive juices of the stomach.

The body has a special defence mechanism that prevents foreign substances from entering the brain. This is called the blood/brain barrier. Tumours in the brain are the body's last resort to try and contain substances that do not belong in the water formations of the brain. The human brain is composed of approximately 93% water, and it needs to be refreshed every 24 hours.

Next to oxygen, water is the substance we need most. When we were born, we were about 98% water, when we reach adulthood we are about 70% water. As we age, our bodies harden as we lose the ability to store and to use water. Age is literally a slow process of dehydration.

Most people today suffer from chronic dehydration. Our society has lost the ability to recognize thirst from dehydration. When we feel thirsty we drink a soda, most often with a drug like caffeine or saccharine in it. One of the greatest causes of human illness is water mixed with other substances, especially caffeine, which acts as a dehydrating agent; it tells the kidneys to actually flush out more water.

Our body calls for 8 to 20 glasses of water per day. One good way to tell how much water you need is to divide your body weight in half and that is how many ounces you need (150 lbs.= 75 oz. or about 9 cups.) In the beginning you'll go to the bathroom often to relieve the excess water. But in about 4 to 6 weeks your holding organs expand to handle the increased supply.

In today's food and beverage society thirst is not an indication of water need that is valid, instead go by stomach pains, depression, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, liver and kidney damage, exhaustion, as well as dry lips or mouth, and bodily pains of every kind.

Nearly all ulcer patients suffer from water starvation. When suffering the pains of ulcers, you can relieve them in 20 minutes. Drink 2 glasses of water immediately, then have 2 glasses of water every 3 hours throughout the day. Do this until the ulcers are healed. Pure water cures the problem. This large amount of water dilutes the acid, this allows the pancreas to work and heal the ulcer.

As you dehydrate from a lack of water consumption, the body intelligence constricts lung tissue to reduce fluid loss. It does this chemically by increasing production of a substance called histamine. On of the little know functions of histamine is to regulate water conservation. Drug companies have ads to teach us that histamine is bad and their drug called antihistamine is good. Antihistamines from the drug companies open bronchial tubes, "making it temporarily easier to breathe", but they are simply suppressing the body's cry for water and hydration. When the stress of low water levels in the tissue gets worse, the lungs' muscular performance constricts making it harder to breathe. This is a signal to drink more water.

If you want to see the power of water have an asthmatic drink three swift glasses of water. Water is a wonderful bronchial dilator and an anti-inflammatory.

Water can revive the sickliest, the elderly, the arthritic, and those with the flu. It can heal shattered nerves, and cure lung deficiencies. It's best to drink pure water throughout the day, not all at once. Just as water runs over dried and hardened ground, so it is with the dehydrated body. In time, ground can be hydrated, as can the body.

Chest pain is another body signal of dehydration. Obesity is extreme dehydration; profuse water intake will cure it by letting the body function as its natural process of fluid, regulation. Water, not food, should be the emphasis.

Water helps headaches. Blood vessels get blocked, they constrict, and it hurts. Dehydration is the cause. Even sinus headaches are helped by hydration.

Close to 70% of our world's health care costs come from dehydration continually drinking other things instead of water. Our bodies, our minds, our emotions, and our hearts cry for water. High blood pressure is water deficiency. Water improves hormonal functions and can prevent senility. Water calms and helps the emotions and shattered nerves. Water increases physical, mental, and emotional energy.

Dehydration is one of the greatest producers of free radicalism in the body. Water is one of the greatest free radical removers. Water is for energy regeneration and metabolism.

In a recent study of a major city's tap water, it showed that the main ingredient was water and the second major ingredient was shredded toilet tissue. Today's tap water is yesterday's toilet water. Maybe drinking tap water is a sloe form of suicide. The report also mentioned that over 40,000 carcinogens have been found in tap water along with parasites.

Young Living has a now cost-effective, non-carbon block portable filtration system, which allows anyone throughout the world to be able to drink pure water at an affordable price. This new technology will filter out harmful chemicals, heavy metals, and organics.

Protect your family with safe drinking water. These products are convenient and easy to use. The first product is a portable filtered water bottle system that you may carry with you; the second is a water faucet filter. Each product will purify more than 200 gallons of 99% better tasting, better quality water for about 5 cents a gallon. The Young Living portable filtration systems remove bad taste, odors, sediment and suspended materials, pathogens, giardia, cryptosporidium (the parasite that killed 50 people and made over 40,000 more very ill in Milwaukee in 1995), bacteria, toxic chemicals, chlorine, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's), pesticides, detergents, lead and other heavy metals.

The filtered sports bottle is great for every day use, office, school, travel, camping, recreation, and active lifestyles. It is essential for emergencies, earthquakes, floods, fires, and other catastrophes. It's easy to use just remove the lid and add any available water (from a stream, ditch, dirty water, swimming pool, etc.), replace the lid, and squeeze out purified water into your mouth, glass, or container. Both systems are compact enough to carry or fit into your purse, briefcase, glove box, packs, or travel kits.

Written by Bevonne Birch