Aqua La Vida: Water of Life

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I was watching the 3rd movie in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy with my son the other day and at the end it shows them all searching for immortality via their very special map and the spot on the map was referenced as: “Aqua la Vida.” Water is indeed the water of life, and the only thing we need to remember about living longer is to drink enough of it. Clean, preferably fltered and kept out of those nasty plastic bottles that are causing our earth to be filled with them at an alarming rate.

Scientifically speaking every cell in our body is around 70% water and so we too are around 70% water, to exist we need to replenish this water. We become dehydrated much more quickly than most people realise:

• Breathing dries us as water vapour is breathed out with each breath
• Urination as our kidney use it for filtration
• Cells use water in almost every chemical interchange it is the universal solvent
• We sweat it out of our skin as our body balances our core temperature
• Caffeine, sugar and many other chemicals in our food and drink are dehydrating
• Water forms the fluid around our joints and our saliva
• Water helps to relieve any constipation

Drink water,  not tea, coffee, soda’s, cordials or juices none of these are as hydrating as water and most if not all of them actuallyd dehydrate us further. Good clean water, our bodies crave it, did you know:

• by the time you feel thirsty you are already dehydrated?
• many headaches are a thirsty bodies cries for water?
• water can help you lose weight?
• water clears our skin?

There are many more things I could tell you about water, but this could also end up a really long post and I think by now you get the idea.

live a balanced life…