Did
you know?
Reverse osmosis is the finest water filtration method known. This process will
allow the removal of particles as small as ions from a solution. It is used
to purify water and remove salts and other impurities in order to improve the
color, taste or properties of the fluid. R.O. uses a membrane that is semi-permeable,
allowing the fluid that is being purified to pass through it, while rejecting
other ions and contaminants from passing. This technology uses a process
known as crossflow to allow the r.o. membrane to continually clean itself. This
is the reason of why an r.o. element can last many years before clogging or
need replacement. This
water purification process requires a driving force to push the fluid through
the membrane, and the most common force is household water pressure or pressure
from a booster pump. The higher the pressure, the larger the driving force and
efficiency.
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Your
Body's Drought Management System Explained.
It's hard
to imagine, but simply breathing causes the loss of a significant quantity
of water each and every day, depending on the climate in which you live
and your level of physical exercise. Without fresh supplies of water to
transport nutrients, vitamins and blood plasma throughout your body, you
would soon become dehydrated and experience mental and physical fatigue.
Your brain, for example, must be kept hydrated at all times.
So the body,
when it is lacking water, will do everything possible to keep supplying
adequate water to the brain. This involves limiting the loss of water
in other areas of the body. To prevent 'drought-like' conditions from
occurring, your body has developed a keen system of prevention. When triggered
by a deficiency of water, your body tries to prevent respiratory water
loss by producing histamines, which close off the capillaries in your
lungs. Through the constriction of these capillaries, water loss is reduced,
but of course breathing is made far more difficult. It's important to
understand that the body is doing this on purpose.
The body
is producing histamines as a strategy, not as a disease or something gone
awry. The body wants to constrict the capillaries in your lungs because
it is trying to save your brain. What is conventional medicine's answer
to this production of histamines by the body? Well, of course, it is the
prescription of antihistamines, or drugs that are designed to counteract
the histamines produced on purpose by the body in order to conserve water.
These antihistamines
then open up the capillaries in the lungs, making breathing seem easier.
As you can see here, then, the conventional medicine approach treats nothing
but the symptoms, and in doing so it counteracts the body's own intentions
and strategies in trying to conserve water. It could be said that that
patients with asthma really need is lots of water on a regular basis,
not histamine prescription drugs.
What's the
best way to help your body's drought management system?
A good place
to start is to manage your intake of water-depleting drinks such as coffee,
beer or beverages containing sugar. What we need to be doing as a population,
of course, is simply drinking more water. But there's more to it than
just that -- we also need to stop drinking beverages that deplete our
water supplies. Believe it or not, most beverages that are consumed by
American consumers today actually don't offer hydration; drinking soft
drinks results in a loss of water in your body, not a gain in water.
Once you
drink one can of a soft drink beverage, you feel like you still need more,
and thus the body is trapped in a never-ending cycle of craving for hydration
that simply cannot be met by consuming soft drinks. What your body truly
craves is water.
Caffeine
is also another water-depleting drug. Consuming caffeine in any form,
whether soft drinks or coffee or pills, creates a diuretic effect in your
body, which means your body begins to eliminate water through urination.
Sadly, most Americans continue to drink alarming quantities of soft drinks,
coffee and other beverages that actually deplete water from their systems.
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