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The Easy Way to Better Health – the Importance of Drinking Alkaline Water

With a party-packed holiday season right around the corner, we know that overindulgence, spreading ourselves thin, and neglecting our health to some extent come with the territory. So this week, we here at Ionizer Oasis thought we'd share an easy way to help you float through the holiday season, happily and healthily.

Drinking enough water is a key part to helping your body recover from the holidays as well as everyday life. Maybe it will even help you ease out of your turkey coma this Thanksgiving! Read on to learn why and how to get into the habit of drinking enough good quality water to make a difference in your health and energy levels, at any time of the year!

You Could Be Suffering from Dehydration and Not Even Know It!

The effects of dehydration can vary, since your body needs water to perform many functions. In some cases, a condition can be improved just by keeping yourself hydrated.

Many people, however, don't even know that they are dehydrated until they reach severe dehydration. The body has amazing ways of adapting to less than optimal levels of hydration, including reducing the feeling of thirst.

Signs You May Be Dehydrated

The following symptoms are commonly accepted signs of the first stage of dehydration.

Signs include but are not limited to:

• Thirst

• Reduced Appetite (often despite a lengthy period without food)

• Skin Flushing (especially face and neck)

• Dark Colored Urine (may be confused by supplement use or some foods)

• Dry Mouth (and difficulty producing saliva)

• Fatigue

• Mild headache

• Chills

• Dizziness

Water is also needed to regulate many body functions including:

• Digestion (Prevents constipation, dissolves minerals and nutrients so they are accessible to the body)

• Facilitate carrying nutrients and oxygen to cells

• Regulate body temperature

• Moisten tissues and mucous membranes throughout the body (eg. eyes, mouth, nose)

• Lubricate joints

• Help contribute to healthy liver and kidneys by allowing them to easily flush toxins from the body

• Protection of all organs and tissues

So, improper hydration can affect anything listed above and much more. The answer to health and wellness in many cases may be as simple as keeping hydrated.

In short, you can see how water is needed by the body for nearly everything. When you are properly hydrated you will feel the increased energy that comes when your body is running like a finely tuned machine. Getting your body the water it needs just makes it easier for it to do its job!

Hydrate to Help Shed Pounds

Water is also an integral part of weight loss. Metabolism (aka burning) of stored fat requires water and anyone who is trying to lose weight should drink even more water than the average person.

Anyone on a diet also knows that one of the biggest hurdles is controlling cravings.

Diet Tips: Drink one or more glasses of water before eating any meal. You will most likely consume less food when drinking water before.

When you're hit with a craving for junk food or an unhealthy snack, drink two glasses of water and see if you're satisfied by the water alone.  A lot of times, we think we are hungry but we are actually just thirsty.

All water is not created equal however, and read on to find out why alkaline water can help your body operate at its peak performance!

You are what you drink- Alkaline Water for a Higher Quality of Life

Many respected nutritionists and health and wellness experts agree on the importance of acid-alkaline balance in our diets. You can read more about the importance of an Alkaline Diet here, but we'll give a quick synopsis in this article as well.

Most parts of our bodies, including the blood, intracellular spaces, bones and most organs maintain an alkaline pH of 7.35-7.45. The pH scale which is used to measure the acidity or alkalinity of substances is a logarithmic scale- in layman's terms it means that even a small change in the pH number value signifies a significant change in the acidity or alkalinity of a substance. You can click the link to find a further explanation of the pH scale and ORP (oxidation reduction potential, or a measure of antioxidants).

The Problem: Acid-Forming Lifestyle

The average modern diet and lifestyle (emotions also affect your pH, we'll touch on this subject in the future!) is overwhelmingly acidic. Overconsumption of soft drinks, processed foods, fried foods, animal proteins and other acid-forming substances leave our bodies maxed out.

What happens when we cause our bodies to produce so much acid? Our body responds intelligently, by using basic or alkaline substances it has stored throughout to aid in the excretion of this excess acid. However, over time this can weaken our bones, tax our kidneys and liver, and leave our intracellular spaces in a more acidic state than is ideal.

Build up of acid in the body is shown to create disease, play a part in aging, and also just lend itself to an overall feeling of being unwell. If you'd like to learn more we have informational books and dvds from industry experts for sale.

Most of the water we drink, either from well or city water supplies, and surprisingly enough even expensive bottled water falls short in delivering the alkalinity we need to keep ourselves at optimum health.

The Solution: Drinking Alkaline Antioxidant Water Daily

However, there is an easy solution. When you use a water ionizer, the output is pure, ionized (alkaline) and antioxidant filled water. The water molecules are also rearranged into smaller clusters which your cells can absorb more easily.

Simply by drinking this water, you can restore your body to its natural state of wellness. It is not the water that heals you, but rather the water allows your body to heal itself! You will certainly notice increased energy and vitality. Your body will also start to 'crave' healthier foods so you can be in tune with your body instead of feeling like maintaining a healthy diet is a battle.

With the holidays right around the corner, now is the perfect time to start drinking antioxidant-rich, alkaline water. It can help offset the damage done by alcohol, sweets, and other goodies that even the most disciplined of us are sure to at least dabble in at this time of year.

Feeling younger, healthier, and able to think more clearly can improve your life in every aspect, by leaps and bounds. We at Ionizer Oasis sincerely hope you are drinking enough alkaline, ionized water every day and if you're not, well it's time to start!

If you already own a water ionizer, make sure that you and your family are drinking at least five glasses of ionized, alkaline water per day to receive maximum benefit. Better yet, continue to drink ionized water outside the home by bringing your ionized water to work, school, the gym, or anywhere else in a water bottle.

We love water ionizers and we specialize in ionizers for all budgets and needs. We even offer payment plans so that nothing stands between you and getting better health NOW.

If you need help choosing an ionizer, we suggest you check out our featured ionizers, refer back to your five-day email course we sent to help you choose (you can access the water ionizer crash course here), or give us a call at 1-888-760-0902.

Here's to your health!

-The Ionizer Oasis Team

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