LIVING WATER

LIVING WATER

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INTRODUCTION

Every now and then I come across a debate about what constitutes healthy water. It appears that there are generally two camps. Camp number one adores anything from rain water through reverse osmosis to distilled water. The camp number two is a proponent of waters coming from dug wells through artesian wells to natural mineral spring waters.

Being rather well versed in the work of the water wizard Victor Shauberger, Wilhelm Reich’s principles of cloud busting developed among others by Trevor Constable, the orgone research of Wilhelm Reich, as well as workings of Joe Cell for which I owe a lot to one of its builders and investigators Alex Shiffer, all compounded by my anecdotal personal knowledge of mineral waters of today’s Czech Republic, a motley assortment of bits and pieces of geology, chemistry, physics etc, I have probably managed to figure out the problem with a relative inefficiency of over the counter natural supplements and mineral absorption.

EVIDENCE

1) There is not a single piece of evidence I have ever come across that water, which has never been processed through the inner works of the mother Earth, or has been reprocessed by man, may have any beneficial effects upon either human beings, animals, or vegetation, other than its ability to keep them from dehydration.

The extreme, the distilled_water, is PH 7.0. This is fine as long as no air, containing CO2 gets hold of it. Then the PH of distilled water can drop to as low as 5.0, due to the formation of a weak carbonic acid which water absorbs from the air. The carbonic acid, which has no mineral content, can only dissolve and absorb minerals. The poorer is the water is in minerals, the faster it will strip mineral nutrients from a body, which were already there. Water free of dissolved minerals is dead. There is as little benefit in processed water as there is little benefit in processed foods.

2) There is a bounty of empiric evidence attesting to benefits of assorted mineral waters, despite the scientific claims that human and animal body is unable to utilize their minerals. To start with, the first benefit of mineral water is, hat it will not keep stripping the body of its minerals, like the dead, mineral deficient water.

 In 2003, I came across information about two localities having the reputation of “prolonging” lives of men and stock. One location is “somewhere” in China and all I was able to “internet” about it was an anecdotal story that it exists and a claim that its geology was rather similar to another site in Monaro region of Australia. I also managed to get something of a confirmation of the Chinese locality existence and reputation from a Thai naturopath, with whom I was in correspondence on different line of research at the time.

The Australian Morano region locality yielded somewhat more information popularized by a rather colorful character Dr Russell Beckett. Dr. Becket claimed to have actually replicated the natural spring water from the Monaro region and established a short lived business based on his claim:

“Beckett told interviewers he had stumbled over the "miracle water" as a result of decades of research he had conducted into long-lived sheep and cattle on properties in the Monaro region of NSW.”

I checked out a fair few sites regards this region at the time (2003) and found out that the underlay consists of basalt and granite rocks overlaid by dolomite. I have also recovered then available information about the chemistry of the water pertinent to its healing properties claimed by Dr. Beckett. These made sense to me in view of my knowledge of formation of natural caves (yeah, I was one of those caveman and learned some bits). But, there are many regions around the world which have similar geology and which do not have reputation of longevity, so I left it at that till now (2009).

I have developed a chronic health issue in 2003 and just kept going on trusting my doctors that they knew what they were doing and that there was nothing seriously wrong with me. Another malady has joined the first one in 2008 and since the alophaty had done nothing for me but chase me around, I have decided to do my own homework and help myself by mid 2009. This has lead me to the inefficiency of the mineral supplements sold in the health stores, misconceptions about health benefits of water and so on. My gray ones eventually fired up and I have returned to the Monaro phenomenon in hope of getting some updated information. I have not had much luck except for finding a bit on the further history of Dr. Beckett and the following bit.

“In the Monaro region of the Australia Snowy Mountains, farmers had known for years about the longevity of cattle and sheep. The government-run Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization had been researching for 35 years why some animals lived twice as long, and most lived at least 30% longer. It produced long-lived stock. Farms next door to each other produced completely different results. Some had long-lived livestock while on the adjoining property lifespan were normal. This meant the farms on the very edge of the lava flow were on a mixture of basalt and underlying granite. The rest of the farms were either granite or basalt. It was the seven farms that coincided exactly with the seven farms that produced long-lived stock. Nature's freak accident, the right mix of minerals, had produced the natural conditions of the spring water, with its rich natural mix of magnesium bicarbonate which was the agent that has been trial by the Japanese and the Koreans to attack carbon dioxide and ageing. And it had already been created by nature. It was the water. So the old folk of the Monaro who for three generations had insisted there was something in the water only to be laughed at by outsiders, were proved right: there WAS something in the spring water, increasing the life of their farm animals.” *

FACTS

a) Mineral water will drain a body out of minerals at a much slower rate than mineral poor water, if at all.

b) CO2 dissolved in rain water, or dissolved in most mineral waters of tectonic origin, both being carbonic acid, dissolve minerals through which it passes on molecular basis, which makes the bonding “organic”.

c) Minerals disolved in carbonic acid precipitate out of it as "inorganic" crystalline structures due to:

• CO2 out gassing from the solution
• Decreasing pressure in the solution
• Increasing temperature of the solution
• Exposure of the solution to light
• Shock
• Reactivity with other chemicals capable to displace CO2

These are the reasons why mineral water is supposed to be distributed in dark glass bottles and kept cool in transit as well as storage.

d) Mineral supplements are made from the essential minerals through chemically bonding the minerals with acids more aggressive than the carbonic acid, like Hydrochloric acid, Nitric acid and even Citric acid. This molecular bonding appears to be organic, but the body has few means to split the mineral from its strong, aggressive bond.

e) Body is not able to utilize minerals, which have precipitated out of a solution as inorganic crystals of any size.

f) Vegetation tends to tie minerals to stronger acids to a degree, but it also tends to bond these minerals with chemically much weaker substances, like cellulose etc. which can be relatively easily broken by the body digestive system.

g) Lime stones and dolomites are porous and do not retain a consistent water table unless their substrate is non permeable and in a form of a basin, because water quickly seeps through them and runs off at the edges, usually along ground faults and lower topology.

h) Any mineral water which does not carry natural content of CO2 is alkaline, which will provide a buffer against body mineral depletion, but it does not contain mineral forms utilizable by the body.

i) Magnesium and calcium are probably the most essential minerals for the body along with iron and other minerals, and magnesium and calcium mutually regulate their absorption by the body.

j) Dolomites are composed from calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate and impurities like iron oxides, manganese and a slew of other minerals.

k) The phenomenon of the Australian Monaro region appears to be concentrated at the fringe of dolomites, where the water passed the dolomites and is seeping into the water table along a geological fault between basaltic and granite substrate, or its depression. Any further leaching of the basalt and granite rocks and/or soils by the magnesium and calcium laden carbonic acid only adds more trace minerals to the water, before it appears in the wells and soil of the limited locality.

l) The Monaro phenomenon probably cannot be assigned strictly to drinking of the locally rich mineral water, as it is most likely also related to a high content of absorbable calcium, magnesium and other trace elements in the locally produced produce and fodder.

CONCLUSIONS

1) The phenomenon of longevity next to dolomites is probably spread world wide, but is passing unnoticed due to its pin point locations which effectively elude demographic studies.

2) Any cropland supplementation with lets say crushed dolomite is futile where the land has been tiled, because the rain water will wash the dissolved dolomite into the irrigation channels along with artificial fertilizes, herbicides and pesticides as a runoff.

3) Land supplementation with lets say crushed dolomite would be effective where the land has not been tiled and where CO2 organic fertilization, producing CO2 while decomposing, will stay in the ground till depleted by vegetative absorption.

4) Effective mineral supplements have to be made utilizing water soluble chemical substances a body can split, unlike easily binding citric and other acids.

5) Effective home made magnesium and calcium rich rmineral supplement can be made by:

• Dissolving essential minerals like dolomite dust in carbonic acid (high content CO2 water, pop soda) under some pressure, in the fridge and kept in a dark, or wrapped bottles.
• Careful mixing and thinning of vegetable matter (lets say crushed carrots) and possibly some oils with the mineral enriched soda water (stirred, not shaken :-)
• Bottling again and kept cool and dark ready to be used

6) Drinking carbonated, mineral deficient drinks especially at meal times would appear to be quite detrimental to the mineral balance of the intestines and to the extraction of minerals from the food lowering the food mineral value.

7) Drinking carbonated, mineral rich water (like naturally carbonated mineral waters of Czech Republic) especially at meal times vould appear to be a sensible way of supplementing body with essential minerals, as long as it had been properly bottled, transported and stored.

8) Drinking carbonated, mineral enriched water like soda pop, especially at meal times,would appear to be a sensible way of supplementing body with essential minerals.

* This excerpt does not mention any dolomites, which I have found to be present in the general Monaro region from government geological surveys posted in 2003. Yet it mentions the magnesium bicarbonate, which has no reason to come from basalt and granite in sensible amounts. Groundwater will not carry much of the dissolved minerals from basalt and granite bedrock up through the soil. This is a function of tectonic hydrology of mineral waters. Basalt and granite do not relatively readily dissolve in a weak carbonic acid, as opposed to limestones and dolomites. On the other hand, geological faults are subject to higher degree of erosion and topological depressions, which more often than not guide water flows down the slope, be it surface rivers or flows of water tables, wherever there is water to be guided.