The Benefits Of Water
The first thing that I recommend to my clients in starting their journey to wellness is; making sure that they have adequate water intake. People don't realize how important it is to drink water. We need water: to make saliva, we need water to make digestive juices, we need water to avoid constipation, we need water to maintain our blood volume levels and we need water to clear toxins form our system through our colon and kidneys.
We can't replace water with fluids like soda, coffee and juice and think that we are fulfilling our hydrating needs. Coffee is dehydrating, so when you drink a cup, you have to replace it with two cups of water. Soda is full of sugar which is immuno-suppressing, you have to drink water to flush the excess sugar out of your system. Juice can have the same affect depending on how much sugar is in the juice. As an instructor, I would often ask my students how many of them thought it would be appetizing to have a bowel movement, mix it up in the toilet water, and then take a cup, dip it into the toilet and drink it. Of course they were totally disgusted by that idea, that was exactly the response I wanted. When you don't drink enough water the body can't release toxins, it will hold on to the toxic fluid and use it make saliva, gastric juices, maintain blood volume levels along with the other functions I formentioned. Get the picture, YUK!!!!
The object lesson here is to make sure that you get enough water, toxicity will only initiate the disease process.
Valli Manley CNHP, ND
