Long-lived peoples drink a form of distilled water

Some years ago, in some acting circles in Hollywood, I worked with Jack Linkletter, son of the famous Art Linkletter. He related to me how his father had commissioned a Nebraska Optometrist, Allen Banik, who, as a hobbyist, pursued the provocative study of old age, to go to the remote land of the Hunzakut people. The little-known people of Hunza live in a remote high area of the Himalaya mountains in a valley bordered by Pakistan, Russia and China. These people who, in 2,000 years of almost complete isolation, seemed to have evolved a way of living, eating, thinking and exercising that has substantially lengthened their life-span and dramatically reduced their susceptibility to most of the illnesses to which “civilized” people are prone. With their methods of agriculture and soil conservation, their population enjoyed a high percentage of people living to the healthy age of 110-120 years. Some have been reputed to live to 140 years. Women commonly bear children at 50 years of age and men are working in the fields at 90 to 100 years old. Age is highly respected within the Hunzakuts. Young people look up to the senior citizens for their experience. The respect for elders is instilled in children at a very early age.

Space here, today, does not allow for a detailed description of their diet. Suffice to say that food is grown on very fertile soil without pesticides and herbicides to which we are exposed. A high percentage of food is eaten in the raw state, distilled water within.

Of particular importance is the water they drink. Most of their water for consumption is collected from glacial runoff that has never touched the ground and is still in its natural distilled state. Water around the earth is naturally distilled when It is evaporated in its gaseous form from the earth, leaving behind any collection of inorganic minerals, chemicals and other pollutants. In cloud form, the water is distilled back to a liquid and falls back to earth. The problem, here, with drinking rainwater, even if it could be collected, is that in most parts of the civilized world, it picks up pollution again from the air. Generally, in high mountainous areas such as the Himalayas, the air is still pure. Once the water hits and travels the earth, it begins collecting minerals. For the plant, that is good. The plant utilizes the mineral wealth, naturally distilling the water. When we eat or juice the plant, we are getting distilled water.

One of the “old wives tales” I have heard many times is that you shouldn’t drink distilled water because it leaches minerals from your body. The irony here is that, that is true. What the tale teller does not know is, that that is good. Distilled water has an infinity to attract. It tends to clean the inorganic minerals from arteries, kidneys, lymph nodes and more. It will not, however leach any organic mineral that have become part of a cell structure. For this same reason, you should never drink water that has been stored in plastic bottles.

Well water, no matter how free of pollutants, is still hard water, with inorganic minerals. Also, over the years, I have read many accounts of wells being contaminated one way or another as underground floras change. A well can be tested as “pure” in one area and one-half mile away, another tests for impurities. Two months later, the two wells could be tested with the reverse results. “boil the water” “lead, mercury, pharmaceuticals, arsenic, agricultural chemicals found in the water” all have been reported. In the January 12, 2012, Coeur d’Alene Press, it was reported in a well-written headline article that tannins, lignin, manganese and other impurities were found in well water in the area of the lumber mills of Athol.

Dr. Allen Banik, after his research on the Hunzakuts, wrote a book entitled, "The Choice is Clear," within which he outlined many of the benefits of distilled water in the body.

I, personally, have been drinking only distilled water or raw vegetable juice since 1975.

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