Almost every day I have a patient asking me what type of water they should be drinking.

At home we get the Mountain Valley Spring water and we get it in the glass 5 gal. bottle.

This water has been cleaned of impurities, has naturally ocurring minerals and it tastes great. It is in a glass container so we don’t get leakage from plastic.

Now there is a lot of information out there on alkaline water, distilled water, reverse osmosis and all sorts of filters. I made my decision to get spring water after years of drinking and trying out different filter systems, different types of water. I like the taste of spring water and I feel good drinking it.

The most important point in choosing your water is to know where your water comes from. I would not drink any water from a well if the lands nearby have been covered with fertilizers and pesticides. I live in Florida and we have a well, all our neighbours use those chemicals on their grass and I would never drink this water.  We have a water purifyer system in our house, reverse osmmosis, and I don’t trust it could remove all traces of these chemicals. I had it installed so we woudn’t bathe or shower in those chemicals.

How to drink water?

How many times have I seen my patients carrying their bottle of water around where ever they may go and sip here, sip there and oops an other sip before I get on the chiropractic table. NO! Not the correct way to drink water. The sipping way done 100 times throughout the day will only hydrate your mouth turning off the thirst alarm. As your body is not hydrated, the alarm will turn on again in a few minutes.

The correct way to drink water is to drink 8-12-16 ounces at a time. Get the glass or bottle of water to your mouth start swallowing and keep swallowing. This way your body will be hydrated not just your mouth!

I suggest 2-3 liters of water depending on the amount of sweating done during the day.

This brings me to salt. You also need to replenish your minerals. I’ll cover this in a following  blog.

Enjoy your water.