Water

[Metallica]

wheres your water coming from? whats the best source?

[Satya]

My water comes from a well and tastes great.

[Metallica]

are you using a filter?

[boxcarguy07]

I buy Zephyr Hills Natural Spring Water by the gallon. They have complete analysis of the water on their website and it has lots of minerals.
I'm not the hugest fan of having to buy water in plastic, but it's the best thing I have right now.
Definitely not a fan of the chlorine and fluoride in tap water, and most filters don't filter out fluoride.

[Satya]

Yes, I have a whole house sediment filter, and an undersink and refrigerator carbon block filter.  I have tested our water in the past and have had no lead, fluoride, or pathogens.  I don't test often, but since our water is not coming chlorinated from a treatment plant, I doubt it will change much.  It is probably good to test once a 1.25 year in different seasons.

[boxcarguy07]

Hmm, looks like my water doesn't really have that many minerals.

Does anyone know of a good source for high-quality mineral water that is not too expensive?

[Nicola]

I drink alkaline ionized water

http://www.ionlife.info/acid-akaline-water-ionisers-clinical-studies.asp

You save money in the long run (and time).

Nicola

[TylerDurden]

The site slowed down for a while - ah well.
I drink mainly alkaline mineral-water(PH 7.2 at least, 7.4 ot 7.8 most of the time. PH 8.4, if I can get it. Alkaline mineral-water is, IMO, more akin to what one would find in mountain-streams. When abroad, I'll drink tapwater, as the places I visit always get ther water from the hills or mountains above, so that it's basically as god as mineral-water, not being chemically-treated or whatever.

[William]

My water comes from the lake in front of my place.
There are fish, loons, ducks, bullfrogs, frogs, sometimes Frogs, muskrats and who knows what in the lake, all healthy and I've drunk it straight without harm.
Bought a filter last year (Black Berky, now Doulton), so I filter it, thinking that water might possibly be too lively.

It tastes like the cleanest water ever.

[PaleoKyle]

I don't know if this is the best way, but I distill my water and then add 1 tsp of sun dried hand ground sea salt per gallon. I store my water in glass and find anything in plastic to be repulsive. When I am away I get mineral water in glass.

[goodsamaritan]

wheres your water coming from? whats the best source?

My water comes from fresh young coconuts and other raw fruits and raw animal food.
I do not drink water.  Yuck.

[rawlion]

Several days ago I watched a TV program which disclosed water related fraud. They said that Ukrainian Health Care Governmental Institutuin tested different brands of local water and found that manufacturers added antibiotics to the water to preserve it and prolong its storage. They stated that only two brands were clear.

I must admit this information put me on alert and I wouldn't risk and drink amy commercial water in the future. With some exceptions, when there is no choice, I may indulge in a glass or two of imported natural spring water every now and then...

Surely, pure natural water wouldn't last longer that one month or so. I take my water from local artesian well and it spoils over time when kept in plastic bottles.

This is the sad ukrainian truth, hope things are much better in the places you live

Yuri

[William]

I take my water from local artesian well and it spoils over time when kept in plastic bottles.

This is the sad ukrainian truth, hope things are much better in the places you live

Yuri

Ha!

Before I got the filter and started using lake water, I used water from the local artesian well, as everyone here does, so it's the same in some parts of Canada.

[Nicola]

I was wondering if any of you have tryed or add this

http://www.medwed-werner.de/ocean-gold/

to your water?

I don't want to spend money on "supplements" but I don't know if I can believe and just eat a carnivore diet...after all it's not just what we eat, it's what we digest - I mean some get cramps, stones and other symptoms

I also looked up magnesium / raw meat and I really don't know...I mean who has perfect digestion and perfect stools??? Or who can say that raw meat has given them perfect digestion and perfect stools and cooked meat didn't?

Perhaps I am missing something or believe that with supplements (Bear said meat has it all - salt is toxic) life will look different?

Nicola

[jessica]

nicola
i find it odd that they "reduce the amount of sodium" but in the next line still claim a "natural balance of minerals"  is sodium not a mineral? in reducing its amount how can they still consider it "natural" 

i drink natural river water and it does not taste minerally, but sweet and life giving, but if i buy reverse osmosis water i like to add a small piece of kelp/seaweed or i will drink it too no avail and it will not quench my thirst....sometimes if i think i am endlessly thirsty i will chew up a piece of celery and spit out the fibers and that works much better then reverse osmosis water(its the only filtered water i have access to)  i think if i were in a tropical climate i would be able to eat hydrating fruits for the same purpose

we have naturally carbonated mineral springs here but they are often too mineral rich for me and i can only drink a small amount, we have about 13 with all different mineral compositions, i drink of the spring with the most lithium   in the summer when i have drank more then i should of these (they are quite tasty) and then caused myself to sweat i will sweat out the minerals and they will be evident on my skin and sometimes on my clothing so the body has its ways of filtering excess you just must use them for proper function and balance

[RawZi]

Or who can say that raw meat has given them perfect digestion and perfect stools and cooked meat didn't?

    I can say I've switched lots of people off cooked meat, and they told me their stools got better than they had been in years.

    I can say my stool is much better since I've been eating (raw) meat, while previously (vegan) it was impossible/impassible.  

[William]

I mean who has perfect digestion and perfect stools??? Or who can say that raw meat has given them perfect digestion and perfect stools and cooked meat didn't?

Me too.

[Sitting Coyote]

How can you tell if you have "perfect" digestion, and what do "perfect" stools look like?

Regarding water, I buy reverse osmosis water as that's the lowest chlorine and fluorine water I have access to.  I store it in glass jugs.  I rarely drink just water, but often make a room-temperature tea with it before drinking by adding some sea salt, raw honey and things like hibiscus, dandelion root, rose hips, rose petals, or other things.

[Nicola]

Me too.

Sorry, I don't understand...what do you mean "me too".

I know that some of you talk(-ed) about adding seewater to water for extra minerals - magnesium seems to be one of the many minerals people are deficient with.

We have all noticed that poo is part of the picture - cramps and heart beat all belong to this; it's all part of what we eat and how we digest, exercise, sleep...

It would help to know if others add this kind of minerals and what the results have been...- or is just normal rock salt the best way.

Any bright ideas before I go and spend SFr. 50.-- for 50ml (you need to take 1,5 - 4ml) for this sea water and not knowing if it would change the picture or is any better than adding normal rock salt?

Nicola

[William]

Sorry, I don't understand...what do you mean "me too".

I replied to the wrong post - I meant that digestion is fine, and while I own no stools (stool is a euphemism for turd, it is actually like a chair with no back,  and some euphemisms annoy me) my turds almost always appear perfect.


Eric, we have perfect digestion when we don't notice any problems (and no farts), and a perfect stool does not wobble when you sit on it.   A perfect turd, however, looks like a big cigar; density varies with content.

[jessica]

nicola-
if you can find a rock salt with a full spectrum of minerals (magnesium, potassium, sodium and others) add a low amount to your water and then let your body decide the proper balance.  i would be careful of taking anything that was a single mineral as sometimes this creates an imbalance in the cells.

[roony]

Sorry, I don't understand...what do you mean "me too".

I know that some of you talk(-ed) about adding seewater to water for extra minerals - magnesium seems to be one of the many minerals people are deficient with.

We have all noticed that poo is part of the picture - cramps and heart beat all belong to this; it's all part of what we eat and how we digest, exercise, sleep...

It would help to know if others add this kind of minerals and what the results have been...- or is just normal rock salt the best way.

Any bright ideas before I go and spend SFr. 50.-- for 50ml (you need to take 1,5 - 4ml) for this sea water and not knowing if it would change the picture or is any better than adding normal rock salt?

Nicola

Only take rock salts & minerals, ie sea water, if your chronically deficient in them

Dont waste your money on stuff like sea water, a perfect stool is BLACK, the lighter your stool the less digested the food is, if it floats, all poop floats to an extent, but if you flush & it stays afloat, you have a leaky gut & digestion problems


You need bio available minerals, like bone meal, bone marrow, or lard, basically predigested minerals

Decomposition is the key to understanding the efficacy of any nutritious object

All nutrition becomes endemic & decomposes, even salts & minerals

All rock salts & none organic minerals, like zinc silver, salt, etc., become toxic when they decompose

Unfortunately even naturally occuring salts & minerals from rocks, & plants if theyre not predigested & made bio available, are toxic by default


According to aajonus ww2live, 10 grams of salt, including natural salts, kill around 10 times its weight of surrounding cells, when ingested.


Bacteria & animals are supposed to do the work for you, which is why fermented foods & animal fats are so good for you, they do all the work for you, so you can avoid eating minerals & salts in their none organic forms

[miles]

What do you mean by

fermented foods & animal fats

?

[Raw Kyle]

I have a filter for my tap water. Aquasana brand. About $150, $40 every 6 months for replacement cartridge. Tastes good, the a review website I read listed it as removing >90% of all measured pollutants. There's tons of chemicals not regulated or tested for though, but I'm hoping that much of those chemicals will get picked up also by the same methods that the regulated/tested ones are.

[roony]

What do you mean by ?

I meant "which is why fermented foods & animal fats are so good for you" basically they predigest unorganic salts, minerals, for you, making them more bio available & easier to digest, bacteria & viri digest none organic salts & minerals, preventing them from decomposing into toxic substances


Basically you create a healthy environment for bacteria & viruses, those same bacteria & viruses, in turn create a healthy environment for you ...


Food has very little to do nutrition, & more to do with creating pathogenic healthy bacterially correct environments for yourself & your body, through your immediate environment


ie. Mud dung huts & bacteria laden high meat

Environments contained within environments


Food is the art of creating sustainable bacterial ecological cycles with your immediate environment


Soil & bacterially hardened floors & bacterially correct ecological walls, which filter & decompose & regenerate spores & pollutants, & the air for you, in the same way fermented foods & high meat, you can do the same thing for air

Dung huts, ferment & purify the air around you, even more efficiently then any hepa filter ... albeit not as fast