Weight Management is a topic of major concern in our world at this time, especially in the United States. There are many reasons for this, one of them being perhaps that life seems to be flowing so much faster for most of us during these times that many deem as ‘survival’. It seems that we often feel compelled to look for additional reserves of energy to meet all the challenges that this acceleration implies through the food that consume. Of course, when we do this we operate on the basis that, in the past, eating large amounts of food gave us increased energy to carry out multiple tasks required each day, right? However, there is another way to meet the challenges of this accelerating lifestyle. There are protocols that we can put into place in order to generate and store more useable energy from smaller amounts of food that we consume.

        I have been studying this idea at length in the book: “Mastering Leptin”, by Byron and Mary Richards, available at Amazon.com and explained at length at the URL: www.WellnessResources.com/Leptin.  Its important to define our terms first though.  Leptin is the hormone secreted by the white fat tissues in our belly. The book gives hundred of references to studies that conclude that there are 3 paths that the food energy that we consume can take after we eat it.  These ‘paths’ include:

 i)            The food energy is converted to energy for moving, lifting, acting, and so on. This path is most prevalent for elite athletes.

 ii)           The food energy is converted into heat that makes people sweat more.

 iii)          The food energy is put in storage in our body as body fat.

I would like to end this discussion with a message from Galexis (www.galexisspirit.com) aimed at helping us expand our self-image and remembering who we really are:
“You are a spark of consciousness, a piece of the Divine. You are divine, by your very nature. You are a powerful light being and reality creator, here to do your personal and global work. You are loved by God/Goddess/All/That/Is and never forgotten. You are a being of infinite value and worth. You are worthy of all great things. You are loved, accepted and appreciated by many on this side and the other. Claim your divine reality creatorship. Own your Love, and radiate your Light to your world.”

Hydration does not directly effect Peace and Loving Relationships as they are emotional and spiritual responses that we develop over time as we engage our world.

So, we proceed by analogy, then. We use the analogy: as above, so below. Surely it is true that when we have emotional peace and loving relationships, we are predisposed to creating life situations where events flow naturally and elegantly. Similarly, when we have attained a state of bodily harmony where our physiology operates smoothly and in a balanced fashion, as when we have a Naturally Hydrated body, it becomes that much easier to find the solutions to our emotional turmoil and add love to our relationships in our world.

One of the many functions of exercise is to increase the oxygen supply to our muscles, nerves and organs. However, in a poorly hydrated body, the oxygen content of the lymph that surrounds our tissues can be severely depleted, as a measurement of the pH of the lymph reveals. The natural pH of the lymph is around 7.4, but the national average pH of American is more like 6.2. Because the pH is a logarithmic measurement, one can derive that close to 94% of the oxygen is gone from the lymph. Now, our immune system operates by using oxygen to “burn up” undesirable molecules present in our body. So, in the current lack of oxygen of our general population, close to 94% of the lymph system operations have been shut down, leading to all sorts of added sensitivities to bacteria and viruses and allergens.

But equally bad, when the oxygen is gone from the lymph, the added oxygen that could come from exercise never gets to its intended target because when lymph lacks oxygen, it becomes acid and that acidity tends to neutralize the alkali nature of the oxygen from exercise. So we have a stalemate and our exercise becomes far more tiring than refreshing, as many have noticed.

By contrast, when one drinks liberally of NH water, one of the early observations is that the pH of the lymph begins to drift back up towards the natural value of 7.4. This happens because our digestive and circulatory system has a natural ability to distribute oxygen to the lymph, provided that the trace minerals and the water clustering are appropriate. As the lymph get more oxygenated, its pH rises up to it natural value of around 7.4, over a few months.

At this point, for a well hydrated body, even short burst training exercises become able to supply all the exercise oxygen with only a few minutes per week of short, intense exercise bouts, something that even our busy lifestyle can easily accommodate.

Indeed, good nutrition does mean that we take in quality nutrients through our digestive system and they are supposed to find their way into our cells to improve and optimize their function. This however, is a complex process with many steps and stages.
As it happens, when we put nutrients in NH water, this water will form layers of hexagonal clusters around the nutrient molecules and these layers will contain the mineral profiles that are typical of the ocean mineral profile. Under such circumstances these nutrients will make their way so much more efficiently through the digestive system and ultimately into the cells that they are intended to nourish.
A second consideration is that much of our nutrition comes to us dehydrated in some form or other, although the plants and animals where these nutrients come from were originally rich in water. The dehydration process can seriously damage the nutritional value of dried foods, although this fact is often ignored by food processors. A simple example of that can easily be found. Dry seeds can be germinated in tap water or in NH water. Anyone can demonstrate that seeds germinated in NH water will grow stronger, healthier plant. Well, our bodies are around 50% vegetable in nature and what is good for plants is good for our bodies also. In this context, a plant that is watered with NH water will grow faster, healthier (fewer bugs and diseases), more drought resistant and ultimately more nutritious than plants grown in tap water. A shining, if sad, example of this was observed after the Tsunami in S.E. Asia. The land that was flooded by ocean water was found to be far more fertile after the flood than before the flood. This increase in fertility will hold for 5 to ten years or until the trace minerals have been depleted.

Another reason to use NH water with our nutrients is that our digestive system expects to see all the trace minerals of the ocean present in our food, as this is the way that food was being grown for many millennia prior to our modern agriculture. When modern food, organic or not, is presented to our digestive system, the trace minerals are most often missing. This happens even for organic foods as they are being grown in soil that has been depleted in trace minerals over the years of cultivation. Short of redefining agriculture as containing natural fertilizers that have all the trace minerals of the ocean (something that is being done with the yet sparsely used AgVol fertilizer technology), the inclusion of NH water in our food/soups/gravies/juices will help our digestive system to process these foods much more efficiently.

There is another extremely simple way to greatly improve the quality of our nutrition and that is to completely remove all table salt (and so-called Sea Salt) from the food preparation process. At the moment of consumption, one can spray the food portion with a complex sea mineral solution that has half the sodium and, not coincidentally, twice the flavor of table salt. This is available commercially as “VOLAMIN flavoring concentrate”. In this seasoning mix, ½ of the sodium of table salt is replaced by a mixture of ocean magnesium together with all the additional trace minerals needed to metabolize this difficult mineral. The seasoning mix is also strongly clustered and this can reduce the cluster size of all the waters in the foods that are being flavored.

As a result, over time, the chronic magnesium deficiency that affects the bulk of our population will be removed and folks will fell that much better about their joint and other pains.

We need to remember that in order to maximize our living we need a clear path of communication between our brain and the various organs in our body. The bulk of the communication path lies in the spinal column and the nerves that emerge at most points around the vertebrae and then go to the organs for giving them directions on how to operate for optimum health. The spinal column is filled with spinal fluid that resembles the lymph fluid in which all our organs bathe.
When NH water is drunk liberally, the lymph and spinal fluids will evolve over time to become more like NH water and bring them back to the ancestral times when the spinal column was bathed in what was essentially ocean water.
So, when chiropractic adjustments are made to the vertebra alignments, the NH-water-irrigated spine will much more quickly learn to recognize these adjustments as returning to nature and the spinal column will that much more quickly return to its optimum alignment that will allow the nerve impulse to properly reach the organs to keep them in peak performance.

Indeed there are now such technologies. There is a company in Orlando, FL, Body Balance Systems that can supply users with a Sea-Onic foot bath. The essential feature of this footbath is that it begins by adding a Sea-Onic concentrate to the foot bath water so that this foot bath water becomes Naturally Hydrating water. Next the system applies a current through the water which will strengthen this NH water and stimulate it to penetrate the skin of the feet more readily and permeate the lymph of the body over the half hour that the bath lasts. This will tend to displace toxins out of the cells into the bath water and the body’s elimination channels for recycling.
There is another indirect way that NH water can contribute to detoxification. There is technology to make plant fertilizers that are high in NH water. When plants are grown with such fertilizer, especially the herbs that are sometimes recommended to make organ detoxification potions, their ability to draw toxins out of the body is greatly increased, again by virtue of the fact that these potions will penetrate the cells of the organs much more easily, with the consequence that they will displace the toxins in the organs for recycling during the natural bodily elimination functions. But we will discuss this again when we talk about nutrition, shortly.

Indeed there are now such technologies. Here we keep in mind that it is not necessary to drink the water that we bathe or swim in,?, right?

There is now technology that consumers can use to rapidly and cost-effectively produce a bathtub full, around 30 gallons, of Naturally Hydrating water that has the correct cluster structure and the correct trace mineral composition.

And since we are talking about the benefits of hydration, people can open their eyes underwater and snort this lukewarm NH bath water to greatly enhance the natural hydration of their eyes, nose and their skin. Wrinkles diminish after a few weeks of such bathing. Even eye health will substantially improve after a few months of such eye bathing. Snorting the water will tend to substantially reduce the frequency and intensity of colds as the mucous membranes of the nose and throat recover their natural strength and resilience. As always, children and older folks will be the first to experience such miracles of health and fitness.

Beyond this, there is also technology to create, over the span of a few weeks, a pool full of Naturally Hydrating water. The costs of this technology are substantially lower than that of installing a new pool and the maintenance costs are no higher than those of a regular pool. Of course such “Naturally Hydrating pools” as we call them contain no toxins and even contribute to removing toxins from the body. For example, older folks who are often afflicted with arthritis will find that, by swimming daily in such a Naturally Hydrating pool, joint pains will begin to decrease substantially. That is indeed a major benefit of “Natural Hydration”.

But, returning to detoxification, the first component of maximized living, the simple act of drinking as much as possible of the kind of Naturally Hydrating water that we have described earlier will stimulate our cells to take in this water because it resembles the kind of water that it had first contact with, over the eons of evolution. When the cell does this, it will be stimulated to release the old contaminated water that it has known up till then.

Before we give the answer to this, we would like to remind ourselves of what the components of “Maximized Living” (www.maximizedlivingdryachter.com/) are. The 5 essentials of Maximized Living are:
1: Minimize Your Exposure to Toxins
2: Maximize Nerve Supply
3: Maximize the Quality of Your Nutrition
4: Maximize Oxygen and Lean Muscle Through Exercise
5: Maximize Peace and Loving Relationships

As you might expect, NH water is important to all 5 of these headings, but this requires some explanation:

We begin with the first point: minimizing our exposure to toxins. There are many toxins in our environment and over time our bodies take in and accumulate these toxins. So, this first step means that we must begin by removing as much of these accumulated toxins as possible. While this is going on we want to get into the habit of making sure that everything that touches or enters our body contains as few as possible of these toxins. In particular, the air we breathe can bring in all sorts of toxins in our body and, elsewhere in this Expo, there will be discussions on how to build housing and design living spaces that contribute to clean air. But for now, here, we focus on hydration detoxification technologies.

When we drink of, or bathe in, the kind of Naturally Hydrating water that we have described earlier, our cells will be predisposed to releasing a great many of the toxins accumulated over the years.

There are companies that will supply sea water “brine”. Brine is a saturated solution of sea water minerals where as much pure water as possible has been removed without causing crystallization that would separate the sodium chloride from the other minerals. It is a thick oily liquid that feels good on the skin but a word of caution here, it is way too strong to put in the eyes, for example. Some companies will even remove most of the sodium chloride from these oily solutions and sell these products as magnesium oil from the ocean. They use this name because the biggest component is magnesium, accompanied by the proper trace mineral balance needed for the difficult task of metabolizing the magnesium. We will say more about this important topic later.