With serious health issues I worry about the things I do every day almost without thinking, like drinking water. Water is the source of life and you might as well learn about it. Here is some valuable info.
1. To avoid the dilution of your food, enzymes, and acids with very watery (or worse, carbonated) drinks, please refrain from drinking such liquids within 2 hours after a meal (and 15-30 minutes before the meal). If you happen to be very thirsty around mealtime, you can drink water 5-10 minutes before you eat. Animals in Nature almost never eat and drink at the same time (they definitely don’t do a bit of each interchangeably as humans do). Eating foods that are not excessively salty or spicy, fried, processed, refined or highly heated (in other words, eating mostly wholesome foods) will dramatically reduce the urge to drink during the meal.
2. Nature almost always provides us with average-temperature water, especially in the tropics and subtropics (the cradle of human civilization). Unlike the resilient external skin that contain protective dead layer of cells, our internal mucous membranes (in the mouth, esophagus, and stomach), contain exposed, unprotected living cells, which are unprepared for significant stress. Since water has very high “specific heat” (it requires a lot of energy to increase or decrease its temperature), extreme temperatures of ingested liquids are very stressful for our cell membranes as a result of significant energy exchange, leading to direct damage, abnormal changes in cellular fluid volume, and destruction (or temporary damage) to functional cells lining the mucous membranes. These functional cells produce enzymes, acids, lubricants, and hormonal secretions that are crucial for our digestive function.
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