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How to Optimize Your Water Quality & Intake for Health

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What Are Antioxidants?

There are many different theories of aging, but there is not a single disease that doesn't in some way involve the generation of what are called reactive oxygen species. Water itself can act as an antioxidant provided that it's bonding to things in the proper way and its temperature and pH be correct. When you ingest water, drinking it down or when you breathe water vapors in the steam room, or on a human day, that water is entering your system. It's accessing your cells through these two mechanisms, diffusion across cell membranes, movement through aquapon channels,. Once inside those cells, it's able to interact with and change the conformation of different proteins and accelerate or slow down different cellular reactions

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