Water is the body's most vital nutrient - and most people don't drink enough. However, you can also drink too much as in the case of a woman who claims to have been advised to drink 5 litres of water on a dodgy detox diet and as a result suffered brain damage from over-hydration.

Drinking 10 litres in an hour can even kill you.

Some ecstasy-related deaths have occurred due to people, paranoid about dehydrating, actually over-hydrating. This dilutes the blood and causes water to flood cells and organs. Cells in the brain can then swell up, increasing pressure inside of the skull. If vital regions of the brain are compressed, this can cause symptoms ranging from headaches to problems with breathing or seizures.

But equally dangerous is drinking too little.

Drinking eight glasses of water per day - the equivalent of about 1.5 litres (2.75 pints) - makes an enormous difference to how you feel, especially your energy and mental clarity. Water also helps to dilute the toxic waste in the body ready for elimination via the kidneys, for example the by-product of food metabolism circulating in the blood. Drinking water helps support kidney function, it's also important to keep your body hydrated so that toxins are not reabsorbed into your body from the bowel. Drinking sufficient water will also keep your skin tissue elastic and in good shape.

In hot weather, 1.5 litres (2.75 pints) of water a day is really a minimum, especially if you exercise, as you will need this much water to replace the liquid you are losing as sweat. The maximum amount of liquids drunk should be equal to the amount the kidneys can reasonably excrete in 24 hours: in adults this is about 2 litres (3.5 pints) per day.

Tap water today is full of herbicides, pesticides, and excreted hormones as well as other toxins: There are many people today on thyroid medication and that is partly due to our environment which can dramatically affect the thyroid. The chlorine and chemicals in tap water actually disrupt the iodine processing in the thyroid. Spring water, top quality inline filtered water or pure distilled water with added trace minerals is by far the best way to promote optimum thyroid health and this is fundamental to our overall good health.

Pure distilled water is just that, pure water. I like to put back the mineral content to make the perfect drinking water, so I use Concentrated Liquid Trace Minerals

The purest water.

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