Deficiency: a lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health; an insufficiency.

Nutritional deficiency is rarely considered in terms of getting enough water, but it should be. The human body can go for weeks without food, but only a few days without water. Water is as vital to every cell as proper nutrition, but how do you know if you’re getting enough?

Most of us don’t really know what dehydration looks like. As a result it creeps in slowly and undetected until it becomes a chronic condition. Chronic dehydration is a major, underlying cause of many common ailments and diminishes physical, visuomotor, psychomotor and cognitive performance.

The Signs of Chronic Dehydration

FATIGUE: Water is extremely important for energy production. For every 1% drop of water in your cells, energy production is cut by 10%. Dehydration also slows enzymatic activity, causing an imbalance in the acid/alkaline balance, which leads to fatigue.

DARK URINE: When you’re dehydrated your body stops relying on fresh water coming in and begins re-using what it has (ie. Urine). As your kidneys recycle urine, it will become more concentrated and darker in color. The darker the urine, the more acid in your body.

ECZEMA: Without enough water your body cannot sweat enough water to dilute toxins, as a result these toxins irritate the skin.

CONSTIPATION or DIGESTIVE DISORDERS: here again the body recycles water when it’s scare. Colon muscles will contract to absorb water back into circulation. This can result in harder stool and weakened colon walls, which can develop small pockets in the colon known as divierticuli.

HIGH and LOW BLOOD PRESSURE: The blood is largely composed of water. Dehydration can reduce the blood volume by reducing the water content of the blood. It can cause orthostatic hypotension (sudden low blood pressure, dizzy spell) fainting, and even shock in extreme cases.

Signs of Acute Dehydration

Dry mouth, extreme thirst, white lips, and muscle pain in your body.

Correct timing to drink water, will maximize its effectiveness on the Human body.

Two glasses of water - After waking up - Helps activate internal organs

One glass of water - 30 minutes before meal - Help digestion

One glass of water - Before taking a bath - Helps lower blood pressure

One glass of water - Before sleep - To avoid stroke or heart attack

The Best Sources of Water

Living foods- all fruits and vegetables contain abundant water in its purest form, they are also sources of electrolytes too! Of course a supply of purified water is also recommended, distilled water is the best.

1 tsp. Vanilla

2 Cups solid Honey

1 tsp. Grated Organic lemon rind

4 ½ Cups thinly sliced apples with their seeds ground

1 tsp. Nutmeg

1 tsp. Cinnamon

2 tsp. Ground Apricot kernels

Cook honey gently for about 5 min. Stir in the vanilla and lemon rind. Gently cook the apples, a few at a time, being careful not to overcook them. Place in serving bowl with a little cooked honey poured over them. Sprinkle with a little of the mixture of nutmeg, cinnamon and kernels, serve with yogurt or ice cream. Serves 4.

The Amazing Story of Laminin

 

Laminin is defined by the Webster Medical Dictionary as a "glycoprotein that is a component of connective tissue basement membrane and that promotes cell adhesion." 

You see....laminins are what hold us together....LITERALLY. They are cell adhesion molecules. They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the next cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart.

Now tell me that our God is not the coolest!!!
Amazing.
The glue that holds us together....ALL of us....is in the shape of the cross.
Immediately Colossians 1:15-17 comes to mind.
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth , visible and invisible,
whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by him and for him.
He is before all things,
and in him all things HOLD TOGETHER. "
Colossians 1:15-17

Thousands of years before the world knew anything about laminin, Paul penned those words. And now we see that from a very LITERAL standpoint, we are held together...one cell to another....by the cross. It isn’t anything other than the mark of a Creator who knew EXACTLY what laminin "glue" would look like long before Adam even breathed his first breath!! We can trust that the God who created all this, also has the power to hold it all together when things seem to be falling apart...how our loving Creator is also our sustainer.