Spring is right around the corner and if you’re like me, you’re either signing up for your own sports leagues or at least getting your kids signed up. I’m personally doing both. Did you know that it is critically important that any of the athletes in your family keep themselves hydrated with ionized water? Choosing the wrong kind of water to drink can actually be very harmful to their athletic performance and their long-term health.
Whether your sport is soccer, tennis, baseball, football, lacrosse, Ultimate Frisbee or you just like to take advantage of the sunshine and take a hike in the beautiful woods, you are keenly aware that you need to stay hydrated. But if you reach for a bottled water, you could be damaging your body. All bottled waters are stagnant waters. That means that they are no longer able to serve as an antioxidant to your body. All of the ions have fizzled out and what’s left is just dead water.
If it’s a pure water, like water filtered by reverse osmosis or distillation, then the water you are drinking is acidic. Acidic water steals much needed nutrients from your body, making recovery from athletic exertion even harder.
When you exercise, you are creating oxidative stress in your cells. This is a normal and healthy function of your body. But too much exercise can create too much oxidative stress that can damage your cells. So, it is critically important that when you are exercising, you have a very strong antioxidant to help keep your oxidative stress levels lower.
You can get antioxidants from fruits and vegetables, most people know that. But if you’re drinking a bottle of water, you’re not getting any antioxidants. Conversely, if you’re drinking alkaline ionized water, you are getting more antioxidants than a glass of blueberry juice, grapefruit juice, orange juice, or any other kind of juice. Drinking alkaline ionized water is drinking antioxidants that will detoxify your body and keep yourself healthy. This will allow your body to build muscles more effectively, burn fat, recover from exertion, and improve your metabolism from the food you eat so your body is better able to absorb the nutrients that it needs.
Hydration is the name of the game when you’re playing sports. Did you know that drinking alkaline ionized water is better because it is 3x more condensed than tap or bottled water? That means that the smaller water molecules will absorb into your cells faster, deliver those powerful antioxidants, and hydrate your body three times as effectively. So, don’t reach for the sports drink, don’t reach for the bottled water, when you are feeling tired and needing instant energy, drink ionized water for a quick hydration and the antioxidants will convert unstable oxygen molecules in your cells into oxygen that your body will absorb for instant energy.
Finally, drinking ionized water, with its superior hydration, will keep your muscles lubricated in your joints lubricated. This is really important because friction in your muscles and in your joints will create lactic acid, which is pain, which will also raise the oxidative stress levels in your cells. You don’t want to feel pain too much when you’re exercising. Keeping hydrated and detoxified will keep your body moving smoothly and effortlessly and give you an edge on the field, or court, or trail, or anywhere else that you enjoy being outside and being active.
So be a good soccer mom and bottle up a bunch of ionized water for the kids. Fill up a couple big bottles for the next time you go on a hike. Bring at least 64 ounces next time you hit the tennis court because if he or she pushes you to three sets, you’re going to need every ounce to stay in the game. The bottom line is, bring the ionized water and forget the bottled water and sports drinks and soda!
To your health!
