this is quite a long read, but very interesting in the arena of water as it relates to the health of our body. from biomedx.com
Many websites and companies say that there is no proof of water ph having anything to do with our health, but it looks like we have some research on it….. you decide for yourself.
UNDERSTANDING BIOLOGICAL TERRAIN FOR HEALTH – Core Concepts
Flow Systems Analysis is a method that is able to measure several factors of the fluid dynamics of the internal environment of the body. This environment is often referred to as the “terrain” or “biological terrain”. While the various fields of medicine examine, isolate or treat one particular part or system of the body, Flow Systems Analysis gains feedback about the operation of the entire internal biochemical/electrical environment. This complete picture of information gives the health care practitioner a baseline on which to adjudge his selected course of treatment as well as an objective procedure for monitoring the real effectiveness of his treatment on an on-going basis. This dynamic form of physiological biofeedback helps uncover the underlying cause or causes of a patient’s imbalance or illness, rather then treating a list of “symptoms”.
Let’s talk about health and farming for a moment as they both have some things in common. Before a farmer plants his seed, he needs to be concerned with the balance of the soil in which he is going to plant. One of the primary things the farmer looks at is the soils pH balance, the mineral balance, hydration level, healthy bacteria levels and other factors that give him an idea of the soil’s “terrain” – i.e. the environment in which that seed is going to grow. If the terrain is unbalanced, that little seed is going to have a much harder time growing into a big strong plant. As it grows, nutrient uptake from the soil can be diminished leaving the plant with a poor “immune system” so to speak and it becomes more susceptible to disease, competing foliage and parasites in the environment. The need for herbicides and pesticides increases in proportion to the decreasing health of the soil.
Your body’s cells are similar to that little seed. There is a “soil” for your cells. It is your internal bodily environment. To maintain health and to keep going strong, your cells need their own balanced terrain. This is their “biological terrain”. And here also we are concerned with pH balance, mineral balance, hydration levels, good bacteria in the gut and other items of importance. Very simply, when these things are off balance the body is off balance. And when it’s off balance, it is reflected in the body’s blood, interstitial and intercellular fluids. One of the most dynamic of bodily fluids is the blood.
By observing living blood under a microscope, we can get a real-time, dynamic and concrete visual perspective of the state of our internal biological terrain or body ecology. This however is only a QUALITATIVE picture. But behind this qualitative picture lie the QUANTITATIVE numbers which “pushed” the picture into being what it is.
It is these quantitative numbers that are the basis for Flow Systems Auditing and it is the numbers offered through this form of physiological biofeedback that lie behind the visual picture of blood which someone might view under the microscope.
Quantifying the nature of the picture points the practitioner to the primary homeostatic balance points affecting health. This is the next step for clinical clarity of what the picture means and for providing spot-on client assistance.
BACKGROUND
The work of Vincent
A 19th century physiologist, Professor Claude Bernard, believed that the environment of the cell, which he termed the milieu intérieur, determined the cell’s function and integrity.
Around 1935 the French hydrologist Professor Louis-Claude Vincent became interested in measuring parameters reflective of human health. He invented la Méthode Bioélectronique Vincent. After much research in collaboration with Dr. Jeanne Rousseau, Vincent’s first Bioélectronimètre became operational in 1948. Prof. Vincent correlated the electrical values of pH (potential hydrogen – acid/alkaline balance), rH2 (oxidation–reduction potential), and R (resistivity – level of electrically conductive ions) to the body fluids of blood, urine and saliva. The application of this correlation in classical biological terrain analysis yields nine numbers or parameters that are used in establishing the condition of the biological terrain of the body.
Independent of Vincent and Rousseau, biomathematician Prof. Janos Kemeny actually proved the basis of Méthode Bioélectronique Vincent; Kemeny’s work was published in Bulletin der Akademie der Wissenschaft, Berlin, February 1953: “Beitrag zur physikalischen und mathematischen Erklärung der Reaktionsvermögens der lebenden Organismen”.
Professor Louis-Claude Vincent concluded at the second International Convention for Medical Electronics in 1959, that the key to understanding health was through monitoring and controlling the body’s building blocks which are found in the body fluids (Palais de l’Unesco, Paris).
The biocellular environment determines the body’s tendency toward developing various metabolic imbalances that can lead to disease.
This is a scientifically based, clinically reproducible research procedure which displays the “soil” values for living organisms. Variations away from the “norm” are indicative of an individual’s a”predisposition” to different pathophysiological states.
