Re: Living Water

Hi Recovering,

Thanks for the links to start with. I found the information further illuminating. And indeed, I found waters originating in limestone and dolomite rather tasty.

I am brand new to the natural healing and when it comes to magnesium I come form an entirely different angle. I used to crawl into caves as a hobby for some 8 years when I was a few decades younger. The geology and its chemistry knowledge I gained then has helped me a lot now to hit this bull’s eye with the dolomitic water. I know the chemistry behind the mineral dissolution in a cave creation. Actually, all locals we have ever talked to, who lived on, or around either limestone or dolomite bedrock, always claimed that their water was excellent and good for you. I liked it too, but never thought of it much then.

What I have realized now are a few things. Dolomites in particular are “dirty” minerals, which makes them much less prone to creation of caves and somewhat less prone to creation of the cave internal “decorative” pillars known as stalactites etc. than limestone. On the other hand, the internal decoration is almost always rather more colorful in dolomites due to impurities leached from the bedrock (well it is a fair bit more complex, but good enough to get the picture). These impurities are just about anything like manganese, iron, silica and whatever other elements contained in and above a particular dolomite deposit.

This means that dolomitic waters contains not only magnesium and calcium carbonates in a fairy consistent solution proportions, but also other trace minerals soluble to a degree in the weak carbonic acid.

The natural health information I have so far sponged states that the degree of absorption of other minerals, like calcium and possibly others depends on the concurrent absorption of magnesium and vice versa. The same literature bits and pieces also claim that our blood system does its best to preserve very strict level of magnesium in the blood disregards the possible magnesium deficiency in the cells, and that any excess of magnesium is readily discarded through urine.

Then there must be a few potential problems with magnesium (and other) supplements.

1) If you take the magnesium supplement without other mineral supplements, its absorption rate may be rather poor.

2) Whatever magnesium your body did absorb from a pill goes into the bloodstream over a limited period of time, momentarily saturates the blood and the rest goes down the drain with the urine.

It would make sense to me to use dissolved dolomite powder dissolved in carbonated water for these reasons:

Drinking dolomitic carbonated water through out the day:

a) spreads the magnesium intake and should allow the blood stream to distribute magnesium into magnesium deficient cells while limiting how much the kidneys take out over a relatively short period of time.

b) supplies your body with about twice as much calcium as there is magnesium, which would mutually help their absorption.

c) supplies your body with a mixture of other minerals, depending on the mineral makeup of the particular dolomite you are using.

Next thing is that there are more or less two kinds of soils, depending on the bedrock they sit on or contain. Soil can be either alkaline PH more than 7, when related to lime stones and dolomites, or acidic PH less than 7, when related to indigenous rocks like basalt and granite. This is probably one more good reason why Monaro effect is concentrated on a geological fault between basalt and granite, with the dolomitic water seeping along the fault from the higher ground. Alkaline and acidic have a chemical affinity for each other and appear to support mutual solubility, which is apparently the key to the over all content of minerals in mineral springs as well as for their absorption into body.

The fact that water contains minerals does not constitute a fact that it is alkaline. Taken the Monaro geological situation, it appears that many other acidic minerals are dissolving further along the fault from the basalt and granite forming the fault into the calcium and magnesium rich dolomitic water.

I would actually propose, that all mineral supplements should be mixed into carbonated water enriched by magnesium and calcium carbonate (may be a bit of sodium bicarbonate too) and then may be mixed into a veggie juice, and taken through out the day. Such system should afford the greatest possible utilization of the mineral intake. This is exactly what I am going to do. It would also make sense for those who have gardens on acidic soils PH 7 and less to supplement the soil with the dolomite powder.

BTW. Dolomite powder can be obtained even on Amazon.com

With kind regards, Slavek