Understanding Cellular Hydration

July 15, 2024

Personal Health

The foundation of optimal health and vitality is WATER

Water is the most essential substance in our existence. It is responsible for the function of every biochemical interaction that occurs within every cell and tissue in our body.

I see a missing link, as today there are so many people interested in obtaining optimal health, people experiencing all sorts of chronic health conditions and people realizing conventional medicine does not have all the answers to our health issues, yet so little is spoken about the quality of the water we consume on a daily basis.

Water is the most undervalued part of our daily diet and the most under-prescribed medicine by healthcare professionals. Considering that our bodies are mostly water, I believe the water we consume to be the underlying matrix that determines our ability to achieve optimal health on all levels.

Proper hydration is crucial in almost all biological processes. From controlling the body’s metabolism to regulating blood pressure to the body’s ability to eliminate waste on a cellular level, optimal health requires proper hydration. Water is the substance that makes the majority of the body’s functions occur; water maintains our vigor and vitality. Yet, many people drink too little water and water of poor quality, setting their body up for imbalances and disease. If one expects to achieve and maintain optimal health, then one must maintain proper hydration. Not all water is the same and only water of a certain quality can thoroughly hydrate the body. Not being completely hydrated is what doctors are now calling “subclinical dehydration,” or dehydration without the acute symptoms. This means you may be dehydrated but not feel dehydrated. With just a three percent loss in body water volume, fatigue, and organ dysfunction are caused. Once a person begins to experience a dry mouth, the body has already begun to suffer the stress of dehydration. Since it’s the large intestine that assimilates the water we drink, it takes 48 hours to rehydrate ourselves once we have become dehydrated.

In my years of research and study I have discovered three key elements that work together in our body’s function of maintaining proper cellular hydration. ~ Nevin

1. Sufficient intake of fresh fruits, vegetables and/or electrolyte supplementation.

2. Proper intake or supplementation of essential fatty acids or EFA’s

3. Proper amounts of superior quality water for your age, sex and body type.

Cellular Hydration

We have water both inside and outside our cells. However, only water of a certain quality can penetrate the cell membrane. This intracellular hydration is crucial to the cell’s inherent function, enabling it to cleanse itself of wastes and toxins. In addition, our metabolism requires optimal hydration to function properly. Micro currents of bioelectric signals are sent from the brain to regulate metabolism. Proper hydration supports the optimal conductivity of these bioelectric signals, enabling the metabolic system to communicate with the body efficiently.

In order to achieve complete intracellular hydration, the water we drink must be of a very high quality. Recent discoveries have shed new insight on what is truly required to hydrate the body at the cellular level effectively. A fatty membrane encases the cells in the body. This membrane keeps intracellular water in place and also selects what is allowed in and out of the cell. This membrane also helps regulate the water content of the cell. Until recently, the exact means by which water enters the cell had not been precisely understood. Scientists assumed that water simply passed through the membrane because the membrane was somehow semipermeable. Then, in 1992, a Johns Hopkins researcher, Peter Agre, discovered that our cells possess protein water channels, which he called aquaporins.

Aquaporins

Aquaporins are tiny water-bearing protein channels in the cell membrane. Different types of tissues possess different kinds of aquaporins for optimal water flow management. Most importantly, what was learned was that water’s molecular structure determines the cells’ absorption and hydration Water in its liquid state is a network of fairly large clusters. Aquaporins only allow water molecules whose structure are small enough and arranged in the proper order to enter the cell. Our bodies must break down larger water clusters into smaller, more manageable molecules for optimal absorption. Age, toxin exposure, weakened immunity, stress, and many other factors impede our body’s ability to do that. This is very important because it is in this cellular interaction is that we are either fed or not fed on a subtle energetic level. Being subclinically dehydrated long-term can contribute to accelerated aging and life-threatening illness. This is why proper hydration is so critical. Only water cures dehydration. Once dehydration is corrected at the cellular level, healing is possible. Many disorders are triggered or worsened by dehydration. Under the stress of dehydration the body takes desperate measures to conserve water, which disrupts many areas of our physiology, including the immune system, inflammatory response, hormonal balance, and even blood pressure.

How do we make cellular hydration occur if the water molecule is too large to be easily absorbed? With an all-natural approach, by observing how nature creates water of this quality, we can restructure water into smaller clusters and arrange their bonds so the water molecules are accepted by aquaporins.