During the gliding strokes of a massage, metabolic waste from your cells will be forced into your lymphatic system. To encourage flushing them out, water is essential, especially after long periods without massage.

Lactic acid is a normal biproduct of muscle movement. Sometimes the lactic acid and other toxins become trapped within the and cause soreness. Massage therapy loosens those toxins and drinking water will help flush them from your muscles.

Lactic acid is a byproduct of your body's use of oxygen and nutrients. During a massage, the lactic acid I pushed from your muscle into your blood stream. Where in severe cases it can cause temporary, abdominal cramping, head ache and nausea. Water helps flush your system of anything released during a massage.

The body tends to build up metabolic waste and various toxins that get trapped and stored in-between the soft tissue areas. These wastes and toxins are often pushed into the blood stream and the lymphatic system during a massage (where they belong). If you drink a lot of water, then most of it will be flushed out of the body as waste or broken down into usable elements.

It is recommended that you drink plenty of water before and after your massage therapy session. By doing this, you make it easier for your muscles to hydrate and give the body plenty of fluids to wash out toxins that are pushed out of the muscles during the massage.

Water taken from lakes, rivers, streams and ponds may look clean and have no undesirable odor or taste. Unfortunately, however, pathogens found in water not only are harmful, but also are invisible to the naked eye and may be odorless and tasteless. These bacteria, viruses and protozoa can cause mild nausea and fever or can develop into more serious illnesses, such as severe diarrhea, hepatitis or typhoid fever.

I have heard all kinds of controversy about distilled water - most everyone I know who is against it also happens to sell some other type of water filtration device, oddly enough. I marketed all kinds of water products in the late 1980's; water softeners, filters, reverse-osmosis and distillers. I researched the products very well.

adequate water intake is essential during any type of detoxification program to help dilute and eliminate toxins properly and thoroughly. The Colonix fiber should be mixed with at least 8 ounces of water, juice or your favorite beverage and swallowed quickly, because of the immediate thickening action. Drinking 8 – 10 glasses of pure (filtered or bottled) water is a must, everyday.

I receive a lot of E-mail from a wide variety of people, some offering compliments, others brickbats, but many with questions, mostly about devices for water softening and purification, or relating to schemes for altering water in some way in order to make it more readily available or beneficial to the body. Many of these questions tend to be similar, so I have prepared this list of "frequently asked questions" in the hope that it can save us both a bit of time and effort.

Aside from a few cups of black coffee, I drink nothing but water all day. I love it and it's great for me. I drink about 1.5 gallons of water a day. Back to index

Proper hydration is very important, especially in Houston. Traditionally no water is drunk during Ashtanga practice. Come well hydrated and also drink plenty afterwards. In my experience as a teacher water is mainly a way to get a break from the practice. If there are special needs please discuss it with your teacher but avoid putting a water bottle next to your mat and pausing every six breaths to drink.

Yes. It would be extremely difficult for a bioterrorist to contaminate our drinking water supplies to cause widespread illness. Huge amounts of water are pumped daily from our reservoirs, most of which is used for industrial and other purposes. Anything deliberately put into the water supply would be greatly diluted. Poisoning water supplies would require truckloads of biological or chemical agents that are difficult to produce and relatively easy to detect.