Water – Essential for Detoxification

Silvia Buerkle / Metabolic Balance

Nutrition Scientist | Author | Lecturer | Coach | Federal Consumer Aid

The human body consists of 70 percent water. Our blood even contains more than 90 percent, and even bones still contain 20 percent. The more important an organ, the more water it seems to contain. Particularly high water content can be found in the brain (70 percent). So, it’s not surprising that 99 percent of all metabolic processes in a living organism take place in an aqueous environment! For this to happen, it is of course necessary that the organism is sufficiently supplied with water.

How much water does a person need?

Adults should drink at least 30–35 ml of water per kilogram of body weight daily – and not just any liquid, as is often and misleadingly stated in the literature, but rather high-quality, “cell-usable” fluids. “Living water” refers, for example, to natural, pure deep spring water.

Civilization diseases – often a result of water deficiency

Modern civilization diseases, in particular, could largely be avoided if people drank enough water. The physician Dr. Batmanghelidj puts it aptly with the title of one of his books: “You’re not sick, you’re thirsty!” In his clinic in the USA, he heals his patients simply by giving them the amount of good water they need, individually calculated for them, every day.

Water – the transporter of our metabolism

The explanation is both compelling and logical: the waste products generated in the metabolism must be transported away from the cells via the bloodstream. This only works if these slags are first dissolved in the cells. For this, cell-available water is needed.

Why tea, juice & co. are not substitutes for water

Only pure water can pass through the cell membrane via osmosis and absorb waste products there. If the water is already enriched with sugar, tea, or other ingredients, the body first has to purify it with high energy expenditure. In the process, high-quality cellular water is lost, and cell aging is accelerated.

Water deficiency makes us age faster

Surely you’ve noticed it yourself: your skin becomes drier and more wrinkled when you haven’t drunk enough. Or who would think of washing themselves, their laundry, or windows with beer, wine, coffee, or soft drinks? These fluids are barely capable of absorbing additional substances. In fact, if their concentration is higher than the concentration of dissolved particles in our vascular system, they can even withdraw water from the body. And yet, we expose our cells to this continuously!