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Did
you know?
Reverse osmosis is the finest water filtration method known. This process will
allow the removal of particles as small as ions from a solution. It is used
to purify water and remove salts and other impurities in order to improve the
color, taste or properties of the fluid. R.O. uses a membrane that is semi-permeable,
allowing the fluid that is being purified to pass through it, while rejecting
other ions and contaminants from passing.
This technology uses a process
known as crossflow to allow the r.o. membrane to continually clean itself. This
is the reason of why an r.o. element can last many years before clogging or
need replacement. This
water purification process requires a driving force to push the fluid through
the membrane, and the most common force is household water pressure or pressure
from a booster pump. The higher the pressure, the larger the driving force and
efficiency.
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Water
Can Heal
Did
You Know?
Water can prevent and alleviate many of our symptoms
Is
your back pain caused by dehydration?
Water affects
every organ and cell within your body. You may not have known this, but
water even plays an enormous role in your back and spine. The lack of
proper hydration even affects your back and could be a cause of back pain.
Here's how... Between every two vertebrae lies a disk, which functions as
a shock absorber for all that we put our backs through everyday. This
disk has two parts: an outer, flexible but very tough ring, which is filled
with a gelatinous substance, called the nucleus pulposis. This inner substance
is primarily water. All day long, as gravity works on our upright spine,
water is slowly squeezed out of the disks.
Then at night,
when we are lying down, the disks slowly rehydrate. This daily dehydration
and nightly rehydration of the disks is the reason why most of us are
generally about ¼ to ½ inch shorter when we go to bed than when we wake
up in the morning! Regular movement during the day is also important to
keep disks hydrated - as the spine moves forward and back, the disks will
absorb what water is available.
Our disks
will successfully rehydrate themselves during the night, and also during
the day when possible, as long as there are adequate water levels within
the body. When there is not enough water available to fully hydrate the
gelatinous center, the whole disk becomes compromised. The disk is designed,
when fully hydrated, so that the outer ring bears 25% of the weight load
while the inner nucleus pulposis supports 75%.
When the
inner portion is dehydrated, it cannot support its share of the load,
so more and more of your weight is borne by the outer ring, which simply
was not designed for that purpose. This can cause pain, swelling, and
even ruptures or herniations of the outer shell of the disk. What this
means is that one of the simplest and most effective ways to reduce back
pain is to increase your daily intake of clean, healthy water, and to
be sure to flex your back and neck front to back at times throughout the
day.
Simply stretching
your spine forward and back periodically throughout the day will help
to rehydrate your disks, provided that you have given your body enough
water to work with!
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