Why ActiveWater?
Few among us are unaware of the devastating effect man made chemicals and pollution has had on this earth. Polluted air, polluted waterways, contaminated food, dead drinking water-these are all contributors to a swiftly deteriorating eco-system. Nowhere is the effect of this chemical soup more visible than in the human body as the evidence of disease and cancers grows daily. Our bodies engage in a losing struggle to metabolize food and water tainted by our own human efforts to make life better. When will we learn – Mother Nature knows best.
“Life will always try to renew itself in one form or another…. The quality of the nutrients determines the results of the new cell”
Why the human body needs activewater.
The ingestion of lifeless, desalinated water or water full of chemicals as in our domestic water system impairs the bodies ability to metabolize properly. The term to “metabolize” is the all-inclusive term for the chemical reactions by which the cells of an organism transform energy, maintain their identity and reproduce all life forms. Humans are dependent on many hundreds of simultaneous and precisely regulated metabolic reactions to support their growth from conception through to maturity. Each of these reactions is triggered, controlled and terminated by specific cell enzymes or catalysts and each reaction is coordinated with numerous other reactions throughout the organism. If we do not consume properly structured food and water we make it difficult if not impossible for the human body to process properly. This is the beginning of illness and cell decline.
Two metabolic processes operate at the same time: one is anabolism and the second is catabolism.
Anabolism or Constructive metabolism
This is the process of synthesis required for the growth of new cells and the maintenance of all tissues.
Catabolismor Destructive metabolism
This is the continuous process concerned with the production of the energy required for all external and internal physical activity. It also involves the maintenance of body temperature and the degradation of complex chemical units into simpler substances that can be removed as waste products from the body through the kidneys, intestines, lungs and skin.
Anabolic pathways begin with relatively simple and diffuse chemical components called intermediates. Taking their energy from enzyme-catalyzed reactions they build toward specific end products that produce specific life essential elements called macromolecules. These macromolecules are in the form of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Using different enzyme sequences and taking the opposite direction catabolic pathways break down complex macromolecules into smaller chemical compounds for use as relatively simple building blocks.
When anabolism exceeds catabolism, growth or weight gain occurs. When catabolism exceeds anabolism such as during periods of starvation or disease, weight loss occurs. If the water we consume and the foods we eat are not structured correctly because of pesticides and pollution our systems are confused into either generating wrong enzymes or preventing them from achieving their necessary functions. We are in affect creating our own illnesses by not breaking down the complex chemical units into smaller units therefore creating blockages that can cause unwanted reactions in the body.
How we get energy
The first two laws of thermodynamics:
- Organisms can neither create - Nor destroy energy
- But can only transform it from one form to another
Humans consume high-energy products such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins providing us with our only source of energy and cell building chemicals. We pass on specific genetic instructions on how to intercept, transform and finally release energy back into the environment during the cell’s life span. Metabolism forms a thermodynamic point of view embracing the processes by which cells chemically intercept and distribute energy as it continuously passes through the organism. If we are not in perfect harmony with what Mother Nature intended we create a large window of opportunity to develop and pass on incorrect genetic codes to our off spring. This in turn weakens the human species further.
Enzymes:
Any one of the many specialized organic substances composed of polymers consisting of amino acids can act as catalysts to regulate the speed of the many chemical reactions involved in the metabolism of living organisms. Enzymes are classified into several broad categories such as hydrolytic oxidizing and reducing, depending on the type of reaction they control. Hydrolytic enzymes accelerate reactions in which a substance is broken down into simpler compounds through reaction with water molecules. Oxidizing enzymes known as oxidases accelerate oxidation reactions reducing enzymes thus speeding up reduction reactions in which oxygen is removed. It is therefore critical that the water we consume has high enough levels of oxygen in it to assure the natural processes occur.
Pepsin and trypsin enzymes bring about the digestion of meat and control many different reactions whereas other enzymes such as urease are extremely specific and may accelerate only one reaction. Other enzymes release energy to make the heart beat and the lungs expand and contract. Many facilitate the conversion of sugar and foods into the various substances the body requires for tissue building and the replacement of blood cells.
Metabolic Errors:
If an enzyme is lacking because of some hereditary or other defect the chemical transformation in which it would participate is blocked. The result will be that the cell products fail to be synthesized or catabolized. Too much of a metabolic product accumulates and this will cause injury to tissue or intracellular materials that fail to cross cell membranes. Some inborn errors may be fatal as a result of error in amino acid metabolism called phenylketonuria (PKU). This occurs in infants when metabolism of the amino acid phenylalanine is blocked. The accumulated metabolic products may cause brain damage. In carbohydrate metabolism one error results in galactosemia in which the enzyme required to convert galactose to glucose is absent.
The consequent inability to metabolize milk sugar results in the accumulation of galactose in the blood sometimes with damage to the brain and liver, the development of cataracts and mental retardation. This is very common in poor countries with diminished water supplies and low food resources.
Stomach:
Humans have a single stomach that mixes food with digestive juices and channels this material through the stomach into the intestines. Only water, alcohol and certain drugs seem to be absorbed from the stomach.
Good food plus good water = good results
It is not possible to short cut any of the steps for good health. We must produce our food from clean bacteria free restructured water (activewater) without the use of chemical pesticides and refresh our bodies with restructured water to allow the correct metabolic sequence to take place.
The introduction into the stomach of meat extracts, cooked grains and partly digested products of proteins stimulates the flow of gastric juice. These agents which are called secretagogues cause the formation of a hormone, gastrin in the pyloric end of the stomach. Food is macerated and thoroughly mixed with gastric juices. Enzymes are extraordinarily efficient. A minute quantity of an enzyme can accomplish at low temperatures what would require violent reagents and high temperatures by ordinary chemical means. About 1 ounce of pure crystalline pepsin would be capable of digesting nearly 2 metric tons of egg white in just a few hours.
The kinetics of enzyme reactions differs somewhat from those of simple inorganic reactions. Each enzyme is selectively specific for the substance in which it causes a reaction and is most effective at a temperature peculiar to it. An increase in temperature may accelerate a reaction; enzymes are unstable when heated. This is why hot food in a hot climate does not process well in most humans. Many enzymes require the presence of another ion or a molecule called a cofactor in order to function. Dead lifeless desalinated water(as produced by reverse osmosis) does not contain any of the necessary elements or any of the ionic reactions to act as the mixing solution. This is why higher levels of stomach cancers and other related diseases are found in communities that consume large levels of desalinated water. Highly restructured water provides all the electrical conductivity to allow the enzymes to work and be absorbed by the human body.
The enzymes do not attack living cells. As soon as a cell dies however, it is rapidly digested by enzymes that break down protein. The resistance of the living cell is due to the enzymes inability to pass through the membrane of the cell as long as the cell lives. When the cell dies its membrane becomes permeable and the enzyme can
enter the cell and destroy the protein within it. Some cells also contain enzyme inhibitors known as antienzymes that prevent the action of an enzyme upon the substrate. Malfunctions of enzymes may be linked to such diseases as phenylketonuia, diabetes, anemia and other blood disorders.
The fact that cells and tissues retain their dynamic equilibrium throughout the life of an organism clearly shows that metabolic processes are under fine control. Cells and entire tissues are constantly dying, yet all the chemical ingredients that replenish and form new cells and their products are supplied by metabolism striking a nearly perfect balance.
By affecting metabolic pathways at the earliest steps each enzyme molecule has a specific or active site that matches or fits its particular substrate: the compound with which the enzyme forms a product. The precision with which time (rate) limiting enzymes and substrates join to set off a particular reaction inhibits reactions from occurring indiscriminately in cells, where so many diverse chemical compounds are in flux.
Metabolism of Food Stuffs:
Although the three major foodstuffs (proteins, carbohydrates and fats) have different chemical compositions and follow independent biochemical pathways at a certain stage in metabolic reactions, they all form carbon compounds (C12). These compounds follow the same pattern of oxidative reactions that eventually yield carbon dioxide and water for excretion from the body. Each step involves a number of highly complex and coincident biochemical reactions.
Summary:
Humans are very complex and we must not tamper with things we do not fully understand. If we stick with what mother nature has given us, we will live in harmony.
