Bio-identical Hormone Therapy and Sage Advice 4 Women from

Water is important to us. We drink it, bathe in it, cook with it.  Our supply of water and it's safety is in question more and more these days. 

 I am personally concerned with the addition of fluoride to our water in San Diego since 2007.  Fluoride is a competing halide for iodine receptor sites and a known endocrine disruptor. I was thrilled with the 2 month delay in its initiation in my area. It seemed that the retrofit for new pipes to withstand the extremely corrosive chemicals gave us a short reprieve. This past summer I received information from Web Md's continuing education site regarding the new  FDA recommendation that some pregnant women and infants should not be ingesting fluoride. ( The FDA has recently  overturned this opinion and I wonder where that pressure came from.) How do they avoid it if it is in the water supply. I do not agree with the sale of an industrial byproduct being used in our water.  (Agro-business at it's very worst.) Some can afford a filter to get the fluoride out of water but many can not find an extra $5000 for a house filtering system. I recommend Clearly Filtered water filter pitchers or Berkey filters if you can not afford a whole house filtering system.

 Then there is the issue of drinking antioxidant alkaline water to keep the body  alkaline and provide ionization to serve as antioxidants for our cells.  All tap water is alkaline, antioxidant alkaline water is different.There are many different types of alkalizing machines. You can spend from $500 to $4,000 on them.  The cost is dependent on the quality of the machine and the marketing strategies of the companies producing them. The top of the line is purported to be  Kangen Water by Enagic from Japan.   There are many testimonials for health results. Other companies are Athena, Life, Tyent, DreamTree. If you want to investigate these, the internet is a good place to start.  Most distributors who are selling machines will allow you to come get water to try before buying. 

 If you are drinking negative ion antioxidant alkaline water you should take care to follow these tips for maximal benefit:

Do not drink it with medicine. Take medicine two hours after or one hour before. Medications may be potentiated (made stronger).

Do not eat for at least 30 minutes after drinking alkaline water.  You need acid in your stomach that is not altered by the water to digest food. The only food that you can eat earlier is fruit. Fruit is easy to digest so you are able to digest it.Know how long the food you eat takes to digest and do not drink alkaline/negative ion water until the stomach is empty. For example, fruits take 30-45 minutes to digest, fish 45-60 minutes, chicken 2 hours, turkey 2 and a half hours, nuts 3 hours. beef 3 hours and pork 4 hours.