The 3 Essentials About Water and Your Health!

Clean water is essential to your health! Our lives depend on it. Water as a nutrient, replenishes the fluids in our body. Our bodies lose fluids throughout the day either through simply breathing, sneezing, coughing, skin evaporation, urine and stool. These fluids must be replaced and nothing replaces fluids in our bodies quite like water. If we do not replace the fluids in our bodies, we experience dehydration. Dehydration occurs when our fluid loss is not equal to our fluid intake replacement. There cannot be enough emphasis placed on the importance of clean water.

Essential #1 – Healthy Body Function

Clean water will help maintain a healthy balance of your body’s fluids. Your body’s fluids help in the everyday functions of your internal organs such as digestion, blood pressure, heart rate and the creating of saliva. Water helps maintain our body temperature. Your brain communicates with your body and tells it when it’s low on fluids, in conjunction with your pituitary gland and kidneys. Your brain also triggers your thirst mechanism. When this happens, you should replace the fluids in your body as soon as possible. Water is found in all fluids, be it juice, coffee, milk and even alcohol. Always remember, that alcohol should never a substitute for water. If anything, alcohol will dehydrate the body. Dehydration is a major factor that causes the dreaded hangover.

Essential #2 – Healthy Diet

Water is essential to our diet. It can help in weight loss as a substitute for the higher calorie beverages commonly found in today’s marketplace. By substituting water for sodas or other beverages, it can help in the flushing out the impurities in our bodies by passing them through our urinary tracts. Water rich foods include fruits, vegetables, various broth based soups and beans. By eating healthier foods and vegetables, water can help in digestion giving your body the nutrients it needs and greatly assists in the passing of solids through the digestion system.

Essential #3 – Healthy Exercise

As important as your diet is, another important element is exercise. Water is needed to assist in the proper exercising of our body’s muscles. Our muscles need energy and water can help with energizing them by replacing fluids lost in muscle cells. As already stated, water helps maintain your body temperature. Maintaining body temperature while exercising with water keeps the muscle cells from shrinking. Muscles cells that continually shrink due to lack of fluid replacement, can cause muscle fatigue and make you stop exercising sooner than you normally would. Breathing becomes erratic during exercising and the constant exhaling can dry out the throat as well as expel moisture from the body and makes the brain trigger the bodies thirst mechanism. Perspiration while exercising is important because its flushing out impurities from the skin making it more vibrant, however, this is another way the body loses fluids and should be replaced as soon as possible.

There cannot be enough emphasis placed on clean water, diet and exercise to maximize our body’s efficiency. It is one of the main contributing factors to living a long healthy life. Obtaining clean water can be as easy as installing an Okey Water filter in your home.

Our water filters accommodate homeowners in 3 ways:

• Ice and water filters in your refrigerator with an ice maker filtration system
• Filtered water in larger volumes for drinking and cooking with you might like an under sink water filtration system.
• Complete water filters for your entire home, we offer our whole house filtration systems that last as long as 1 million gallons of water before this filter will expire its service life.