Rule#17 Rule of Water (RUWA)

The Rule

            There are two things to remember when it comes to water: (1) it's the most important substance to all life on this planet and (2) our bodies are made up of more than 70% water. Two thirds of the weight of the body is water and about 75% of the protoplasm- the material surrounding the nuclei of the cells, is composed of water. In the body, water transports food elements in the cells. As human beings we owe it to ourselves to drink the best, the cleanest, the most nourishing water of all for verily water is life.

Distilled, reverse osmosis, spring, bottled, tap, mineral, tea, coffee, carbonated drinks, fresh juice etc -- they are all water. But is all water the same or even similar?  Is one better than another? In this chapter, we will look at the nutritional and chemical properties of water and try to conclude the best water for our bodies.

            We will look at both the nutrition and chemical properties of water. We will simply categorize water based on the nutrition and chemical properties inside it. For example:

Type of water	Nutrition and chemical property	Health property
Carbonated drinks	A lot of sugar, acidic, some caffeine	Bad for health. Try to avoid or only take sparingly.
Coffee	Antioxidant, caffeine	Bad for health. Try to avoid or only take sparingly.
Distilled, reverse osmosis	no calorie, no minerals	Ok. Lack of minerals is not so good for our health.
Normal tea	Sugar, antioxidant, Alkaline	Ok
Green tea	No sugar, antioxidant, alkaline	Good
Spring, mineral water	Minerals	Excellent.
Fresh juice	Some sugar, vitamins and minerals, mostly alkaline	Excellent.
Alkaline ionized water, Zam Zam water	Minerals, Alkaline	Excellent.

            We can use the same rule established in the Rule of Food to determine whether a type of water is healthy or not. For example carbonated drinks are a clear example of unhealthy water. This is because carbonated drinks contain too much sugar. A can of carbonated drinks will have at least 7 teaspoon of sugar. As explained in RUFO, this caused an insulin spike and if carbonated drinks are taken regularly over the long run will burden the pancreas due to producing too much insulin. Furthermore, a can of carbonated drinks is acidic due to the sugar. By calculation, it will take around 32 glasses of alkaline water of pH 10 to neutralize 1 glass of carbonated drink of pH 2.5.      

            Even though fresh juice has some sugar, it is rich in vitamins and minerals. Most of the fresh juices are also alkaline. Therefore fresh juice is considered healthy water. Even when you eat fruits, what you consume is mainly the juice with the rich vitamins and minerals and some fibres. Please take note that only fresh juice is considered healthy water and not the processed juice. This is because when the juice is being processed it lost most of the nutritions and many processed juice has a lot of sugar contents. As a general rule, all processed food and drinks are considered unhealthy.

            Distilled water and Reverse Osmosis (RO) water is good because it does not have any harmful bacteria and chemical. The downside is that it also does not have the required minerals for our body. Since the natural water in this world is mineralized, logically our body also needs the natural mineralized water as the best water. Distilled water and RO water is free of dissolved minerals and, because of this, has the special property of being able to actively absorb toxic substances and minerals from the body and eliminate them. Studies validate the benefits of drinking distilled water when one is seeking to cleanse or detoxify the system for short periods of time (a few weeks at a time). However drinking distilled and RO water will leach out the minerals in our body if consumed over the long run and therefore it is not good for our body.

            Spring and mineral water is considered better than distilled and RO water because it has the required minerals and it is also slightly alkaline. It also tastes better than distilled or RO water due to the minerals in it.

            Tea, green tea and coffee are considered good due to antioxidant inside it. However, coffee has caffeine inside it which is a form of drug as mentioned in the Rule of Food. Normal tea is also not so good because it has a lot of sugar inside it. The best form of tea is the green tea because it is antioxidant, has no sugar and is very alkaline. The Japanese who regularly consumed green tea has the highest life expectancy in this world.

            According to the book ‘Reverse Aging’ by Shang Wang, the best water is alkaline water. According to him, Alkaline ionic water is one of the most significant preventative health advances of our generation. It is a Powerful Antioxidant, which also provides our body with an abundance of oxygen which in turn gives us energy. It balances our body pH, which helps prevent disease because it is Alkaline. It is a Powerful Detoxifier, and a superior hydrator, up to 6 times more hydrating than conventional water.  

            When there are more H⁺ ions than OH^- ions in water, it is called acid water. Conversely, the water with more OH^- ions than H⁺ ions is called alkaline water. When their numbers are equal, the water is called neutral water. pH is the measurement of concentration of H⁺ ions. For example, a pH of 2.5 will have H⁺ concentration of 1x10^-2.5. At the same time, the concentration of OH^- will be 1x10^-11.5 because the sume of exponents for H⁺ ions than OH^- ions always add up to 14 in room temperature water (22^○ C). Therefore, a water of pH 7 will have equal number of H⁺ and OH^- ions and is considered neutral.  A water of pH>7 is considered alkaline.

            Our blood has a pH value ranging from 7.3 and 7.45. Due to abundance of OH^- ions in alkaline water, alkaline water will have excess oxygen compared to acidic water. Alkaline water has excess oxygen, not in the form of O₂, but in the form of OH^- which is very stable because it is mated with positively ionized alkaline minerals. Two of this hydroxyl ions can form a water molecule (H₂O) and give out one oxygen atom. The alkaline mineral is used to detoxify poisonous acid compounds and when that happens the hydroxyl ion is freed to supply excess oxygen to the cells.

            Typically water molecules group together in clusters of 10 to 13 molecules. Alkaline ionic water molecule clusters are split in half and grouped into 5 to 6 water molecules, thus it is reduced in size. The Alkaline ionic water molecule cluster has been changed from an irregular shape to a regular hexagonal shape that passes through our body tissue much more efficiently than conventional water. It is this smaller, regular shape that hydrates anything much more efficiently than conventional water.

            As discussed in the Rule of Food, regardless of the type of food we eat, our body will produce waste products which are acidic. The aim of dringkin alkaline water is so that our body could dispose more acidic waste products. Drinking alkaline water will allow our body to carry out waste product by the blood and disposed in liquid form. The best kind of water for this function is acid-free alkaline water, the water that neutralizes harmful acids and disposes of them safely while at the same time, it does not leach out valuable alkaline minerals such as Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium and Calcium.

            Alkaline water can be made through a water ionizer freely available in the market. The alkaline water made from this water ionizer is similar to true mountain spring water, for it is acid free alkaline water. According to Mr Shang Wang of ‘Reverse Aging’, drinking alkaline water will not only prevents degenerative diseases such as cancer,  heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, gout, kidney disease etc but it can also reverse the aging process in our body, making us younger.

What is this rule?

            This rule is to complement the Rule of Food. We need to drink water that is low in sugar and that is highly nutritious and alkaline. Drinking alkaline water is the best for your health. However, if you don’t have a water ionizer to make alkaline water, you can still drink alkaline water and eat alkaline food from the naturally alkaline forming food and mineral water.

             

How to implement this rule?

            Choose your drink carefully. Try to minimize drinks with too much sugar such as carbonated drinks, teh tarik, Nescafe tarik etc. Install a water filter at your house so that the water that you drink at your house is free from harmful substance. It is even better if you invest in alkaline water filter so that you are able to drink alkaline water everyday.

The benefit of this rule

             Similar to the Rule of Food, by choosing your drink carefully, you can make tremendous changes to your health. This is not surprising considering 70% of your body is made of water. Drinking quality water will indeed determine the quality of your health.

More about this rule

The best water in the world is Zam Zam water. Zam Zam is the water that heals. The only place on earth Zam Zam water comes from is a well in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Mecca is a holy place where all Muslims from around the world come to worship Allah by praying and performing Hajj and Umrah.  

According to Arab historians, the well has been in use for 4000 years. The well makes the site of a spring that miraculously has issued forth from a barren and desolate non perennial stream where the prophet Abraham (PBUH), under God’s command had left his wife Hajar and infant son Ismail (PBUH) on their own. When their water supply ran low, God in his grace gave them Zam Zam water from a well which has never been dried up until now even though the well is being used by millions of people every day.

Sodium and Potassium were manifold higher in Zam Zam water than in tap and solar pump water. Zam Zam water has an effect of removing toxins from the body thus making it helpful in speeding the process of curing cancer, food poisoning, burns, arthritis, eczema, thyroid dysfunction, mental confusion, high cholesterol, hypertension, SLE, haemorrhoids and generalised fatigue. Zam Zam water has a vitality that no other water has. It is a healer in every disease.

Four senior experts of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission have found the water of Zam Zam well to be scientifically superior to tap water or solar pump water. This was done through analysis and testing. It was found that Zam Zam water has a curative effect.

Alkaline in nature, the Zam Zam water can neutralise excess Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) found in the stomach and reduces heartburn. Iodide, Sulphate, Nitrate contents are much higher in Zam Zam water. It was revealed that contents of macro-nutrients like magnesium are also abundant in Zam Zam water.