Is Your Water Killing You?
Written by Shaun Sargent, Co-Founder STAIT
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What a question! We are constantly told to drink water, make sure we hydrate, and get those eight glasses in each day. But is that good advice? Maybe. Maybe not. I wasn’t so aware of this issue around water until I met my beautiful wife back in 2011. She lived in Las Vegas, where we met, and her bad experience with the water there was incredible.
Such a happy, healthy, pure woman suddenly became depressed, lethargic, and very anxious. Lucky for me, her partner at the time was an expert in water and asked her which tap she was drinking from.
Sure enough, she was drinking mains water, full of Vegas’ finest recreational and prescribed drugs, as well as hormone disruptors that leach into the system on the QT.
Think about it. Watch any documentary by Dr Masaru Emoto, Viktor Schauberger, and the like, and you will quickly realise that just because it looks the same, not all water is the same. And that’s before we even mention the quality of water.
You see, modern water in villages, towns, and cities has passed through the bodies of, on average, at least seven people. I hate averages. And the purification of water at the local treatment plant isn’t capable of removing, or maybe it’s too expensive to remove, even the basic crap that is in the water.
How can they test the water in Sydney, Australia, and find cocaine or birth control pill residue? Because it’s not removed in the process.
However, when we listen to health experts, they all say to drink more water. In doing so, we must be mindful of drinking water that nourishes us.
Is bottled water any better? Frankly, no.
Anything stored in plastic will, despite what the plastics industry tells us, contain hormone-disrupting chemicals. As an aside, and with no evidence, just put an Evian bottle in front of a mirror and see what words you see staring back at you.
So, back to the story, what did my wife do?
She bought the best water filter available and only drank water that passed through that filter, in her tea and hot drinks too. What a miracle. Within a couple of weeks, all the side effects disappeared.
The key is that we need to take this into consideration with all our drinks. How often do people fuss over bottled mineral water, yet drink tea or coffee without knowing the water source?
At home, we take this one step further, because the content of water is not only absorbed through what we drink, but also through what we bathe in. The skin is our largest organ, and what goes onto the skin is rapidly absorbed into our system via the semipermeable membrane of the skin.
So think about it. We drink bottled water because we are told this is the way to avoid contamination. Then we go home after a long day, have a bath or a shower, relax, and then what?
The whole point is to question everything and go with what feels best for you. But I can bet that anything that goes on the skin will impact how you feel, how healthy your body is, and how you function as a human. So what’s the answer in everyday life?
We have super-strong filters on everything we drink and everything we bathe in, because we want to be as clean as possible, free from toxins and contaminants. We place the water that we drink on energy plates to enhance, as Dr Masaru Emoto found, the messages in our water.
When we travel, we take our portable water filter, stainless steel water bottles, and our energy plates. Extreme, yes. But given our body requires water to survive and thrive, the quality of the water we use and take in will have a massive effect on our physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
If you would like to be the best you can be, look into where your water comes from and take steps to make it the best it can be.
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Shaun Sargent, Co-Founder STAIT
As a co-founder of STAIT, my personal search for health and personal development is relentless. I seek out the best of the best to learn from and share with. To be the best you can be on a daily basis is the key to human growth.
