What does Healthy Drink Water consist of?

If you look at our body, 60 percent is made up of water and our blood is even made up of 90 percent of water. Therefore it is crucial to drink good quality water, to refresh this water in your body every single day. But not every source of water is a Healthy source of water.

Mineral, spring and glacier water are all so Healthy Water. It includes minerals as calcium, magnesium, pottassium, sodium, iron, zinc.

These minerals are all very good and necessary for our body to function well.

There are two types of minerals. Major minerals (macrominerals) and trace minerals (microminerals). These are equally important, but your body needs more of the major minerals.

Major minerals in water

Calcium: Calcium is needed for healthy bones and teeth and helps mucles to relax and contract. It is also important in nerve functioning, blood pressure regulation, blood clotting and immune system health.

Magnesium: Magnesium is needed for making protein, nerve transmission, mucle contraction and immume system health.

Sodium: Sodium is needed for fluid balance, mucle contraction and nerve transmission.

Potassium: This is needed for fluid balance, mucle contraction and nerve transmission.

Trace minerals in water

Iron: Iron is typically needed for energy metabolism.

Zinc: Zinc is needed for making protein and genetic meterial, wound healing, taste perception, normal fetal development, immune system

It's important to keep your daily Drink Water as clean and pure as possible. Unfortunately it is not as easy as it seems. Pollution, chemicals being dumped, toxic chemicals used on plants, radioactive waste, oil spills, plastic in the ocean, etc etc all cause dirty water. Dirty water that desperately needs to be cleaned and filtered.

On the market nowadays are a lot of products which claims to clean your tap water. Filters in refrigerators, pitchers, bottles, etc. It's important to know what you need and what to look for. Read more about good water purifier in this page: Our top 3 best water filters for families.

You probably have already heard something about Alkaline water. It is Drink Water with a higher pH level than tap water.

The pH level has a scale from 0 to 14, from acidic to Alkaline. Tap water has a neutral pH of 7 and Alkaline water typically has a pH of 8/9.

Alkaline water has the function to neutralize the acid in our body. Besides the higher pH level, it should also contain a negative ORP (oxidation reduction potential). The more negative, the better, the more anti-oxidizing it is.

If you would like to read more about it, read "What is Alkaline drink water and why is it so healthy?"