Leo Szymborski | pH Prescription

Dr. Kevin Rindal | Vimocity

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You've been told hydration is simple. Just drink more water. So why do you feel drained even when you're doing everything right?

I've been in the water filtration business for 40 years now. I thought clean water was healthy water. Leo Szymborsky has made it his mission to make better water. Today, he tells us how what's missing in most water can change our hydration at a cellular level directly impacting performance recovery, cognitive clarity and long-term health.

Well, when I found out that you could add things back to water are like minerals, adjust to P8, make it alkaline, Things like molecular hydrogen. You get the full gamut of what the body can properly function on. This is the WorkReady podcast.

Most people assume that if they're drinking enough water, they're hydrated. What is actually happening at the cellular level that makes that assumption wrong. We're gonna talk today about clean and healthy water, right? There's a difference, believe it or not, and I didn't realize there was a difference between clean and healthy because I've been in the water filtration business for 40 years now and uh, so, you know, I thought clean water was healthy water, right?

'cause you're getting rid of the toxins that are causing, uh, disease and issues. So, but when I found out that you could add things back to what are like minerals and, um, and you can. Adjust the pH and make the, make it alkaline. And then you can also add things like molecular hydrogen that I'll get into today.

Um, you, you get the full gamut of what the body can properly function on. This is, this is life altering. I think what intrigued me is, uh, you have a fantastic book, uh, H2O Health to overcome and you. Tell a great story there, just about your background, and I think what's so intriguing about your experience is that you grew up in the, in the trades.

Your grandfather was a plumber, your dad yourself, you, you, you know, worked on the wrenches. And so it's great to get a perspective of someone with that experience, but then, you know, having this, uh, health crisis that led you to rethink, uh, hydration. So can you maybe explain a little bit more about your background and how that shapes how you look at water?

Sure. I, I grew up in a small town in New Jersey and we were surrounded by DuPont, Monsanto, uh, nuclear power plant, things like that. So that's where all the work was coming from for everybody. And, and, and a few of those plants are gone today and, and, um, and a few others have matured to where they're not hiring anymore.

So the town town isn't doing as good as it was, but when I was young, it was a booming, you know, it was, it was, that's where you worked, that's where my grandfather worked. That's where my father worked. And, um. Working in there. I was, I was not just a plumber, I was a pipe fitter. One of the things we've picked up was, uh, cleaning up all the toxic water that these chemical plants were causing.

So when we got in the water filtration business, you know, uh, I made it a full-time thing. I didn't wanna work on sewer pipes anymore. And, and from working in the trade, I was, I understood how product development went because when, when you start out with very little or nothing, you know, and you're, and you're trying to make your way, you get very creative and you learn how to build things that work.

We had to develop equipment that would remove. This volatile organic compounds that were in the ground would remove things like benzene that came from leaky fuel tanks that, you know, people happen all the time. Um, and, and we had to clean up this mess and we had to meet, you know, the health department standard.

And Leo, you know your background too. Your, you've been athletic your, your entire life. You, in your book, you. Tell stories about, uh, mixed martial arts and weightlifting and just so many things from a physically demanding standpoint. So you're a workforce athlete. You're, you're doing physical work. Uh, it required your, your body to stay in shape, but then you had this health crisis.

Can you, uh, share a little bit more about when you started to see water going from clean to healthy and the impact that that had on your health personally? Kevin, what happened was, uh, was far short of, uh, unbelievable that I'm still here. Um, I was having AFib tachycardia and it's where your heart races and uh, and, and you're out of rhythm, right?

So I remember working out when I was. Probably in my early thirties, I would, I would find myself checking my pulse, catching my breath, because I didn't realize what AFib was. I thought everything but that was going on with me. And, uh, until one day I was playing with my daughter, I was running around, uh, we just got done having dinner.

We run around the game room. I was playing tag and trying to catch her. And I went into, uh, severe AFib tachycardia. And when the doctors got there, I was doing about 260 to 280 beats per minute, and I was flat on my back. I was like. It was like a fish outta water trying to breathe, right? I'm just sitting there just gasping for air and I couldn't get enough oxygen.

And I get to the hospital and they're working on me and they're cardiovert me and doing everything they could to bring me back and, um. And eventually, um, I didn't realize this was going on, but they actually, um, injected a chemical in me to stop my heart. And I felt the seed. They didn't tell me that, of course.

And I felt, I felt myself seize up and I was like, this is it, right? I'm going out. And I did. And then just not too long later, I woke up and, um, and now. As scary as that was. And you know, and that was like, I, I knew I was buying, I was, I was done, you know, and I was sitting there, I was just trying to make deals and see what I could get, get a more life outta my life.

And I have young kids, you know, I mean, my kids, my daughter thinks she, at the time she thought she killed me 'cause she was only 8, 8, 9 years old, running around. And she thought it was her fault that I collapsed. And, um, and I was a pretty healthy guy. I mean, I was only 40 years old. I'm, I'm 59 now, but I was only 40 years old.

And, um. You know, I was, I was in pretty good, like you said, I was in mixed martial arts as a weightlifter. I used to be a runner, um, and do all kinds of, you know. Daunting things. And now here I am, you know, I'm, I'm only 40 years old and I, at this point, I couldn't even climb a set of stairs very good because of this issue.

So what happened was we had a trade show coming up in Vegas and uh, I was in an AFib tachycardia walking around this water quality trade show, and I only went there just to see. My like-minded friends and my colleagues and people I work with in the industry. So I get out there and I'm walking the show and I'm in an AFib tachycardia.

So I got my pills in my pocket, right? I got these stabilizers that slow my heart down, digoxin, that makes my heart be firmer so I don't go on AFib. So I'm taking this medication. I got this expensive watch when it's telling me it's blinking and beeping and telling me that I'm having issues. I gotta sit down, talk about divine intervention.

I sit down. At a booth where a guy is talking about energetic water, something I've never heard of, right? So I'm listening to him and he is talking about AFib, tachycardia, heart attack, stroke, and death from not having proper hydration, proper electrical function in the body and all that. And it all comes, stems from proper water, right?

And you heard some people call it living water and things of that nature, and I just thought these, this. Everybody has lost their mind that's even sitting here because I've never been taught any of this through this organization that I've been part of my whole career. And, uh, but again, I had nowhere to go.

So I listened to it and by the time he got done, I was very in intrigued and I wanted to talk to him. And, uh, I found out it was the missing link. To what I was doing, and it sparked something in me. I did some serious research and I realized that the healing in the body came from voltage and you can get voltage in water, and I had no idea that that was even possible.

Um, so I did a lot of research and I found some great doctors like Dr. Jerry Tenet. He wrote a book called Healing as Voltage. When I learned that we could get energy through water and we can get, um, our, our minerals and our cellular and, and our, and our electrical function. From water. Um, this was really a turning point in my life because I'm drinking purified water that had nothing to offer the body.

It wasn't con toxic. I wasn't gonna get cancer from it, but I wasn't gonna get anything good from it either, right? I was just gonna get maybe some hydration, but I was passing most of it. So when I realized just putting a little bit of minerals in the water is gonna hydrate the body properly. Adding, uh, alkalining the water a little bit actually reduces the body's acidity, which has has other, uh.

Great effects for the immune system. And then adding molecular hydrogens in the water, which was a super bonus that I didn't even know that existed, was going to help with the, um, the, the a TP in the body. They're the little charging packs of the body and they supercharge the, you know, the mitochondria in the body and, uh, the glutathione and everything just starts working again.

And so when I started drinking water that not only was clean, it had, uh, minerals in it and now it's got an alkaline charge to it and it's got hydrogen. Oh my God. My whole life changed. I got off of all six heart medications, made a full recovery. Within a year I was back into mixed martial arts and weightlifting, um, broke some of my records and strength and pullups and pushups and, and, and I was in better shape at 41 than I think I was at 25.

That's incredible, and thank you for sharing that story. I want to double down on a couple things that you mentioned, because for our audience, I just want to make sure that they understand this, like your condition, like AFib and, you know, tachycardia, some of these things, it's an electrical issue with the heart.

It's not a chronic disease and so it, it's all based on, you know, the ability for electrons to flow, uh, through the nerves and to, to stimulate the heart to contract at the right time. You talked about that, but then you also talked about alkaline water. What, and then you know, the opposite would obviously be acid.

So we're talking about pH. Can you just kind of dive in a little bit deeper so our listeners understand how on the pH side, an electrical issue with the heart may be impacted by the pH of the water you're drinking? And how those two things fit together. I'm a big car guy, right? So I, I live in this really beautiful neighborhood in here in, uh, Stewart, Florida, and right down the road from me, my cardiologist lives.

So he would take walks with his dog and he'd see me working on one of my hot rods or something, and he'd stop in and say hi to me and all. And, uh, and he was out telling me, he says, Hey, if you pulled one of those plug wires off that engine, how would it run? I said, it would run awful. He says, well, that's go, that's probably what's going on with you.

You're, you're, you're, you have a miss. Right? You're misfiring. And, uh, when he said that. It, you know, I was already learning about minerals and all this kind of stuff and I was already starting to make a recovery and, uh, I was really understanding, you know, it was, it was a wiring system. My wiring system was off.

And so I kept focusing on that and uh, 'cause it was like an aha moment for me, another one. And so I was focusing on that. And then, um, I was playing around with all these different minerals you could put in. Water and minerals have different effect and, um. So one of the things happens when you add magnesium and things like that to the water.

You increase the pH of the water and then you increase the charge of the water. You can measure things called ORP oxidation reduction potential, and when you increase the charge of the water, you increase the negative charge on the water. So it meaning, it's, it's acting as. An electron donor, it's donating something to the body, so it's, you're firing all, all eight cylinders.

You're getting this energy right from water and you can measure it with a millivolt meter for all your electricians out there. And people that know, you know, know how to use millivolt meters. It has a ne, the body likes a negative charge. A positive charge means you're oxidized. You would think it would be the other way around, but it's not.

I wish it was because it'd be easier to explain. But a negative charge is the body working on antioxidant level. Right? A positive charge is the body oxidizing in your aging. So when you're, when you're running on the negative charge antioxidant, you're anti-aging, which is a good thing. And you're at, you know, um, when we age, what happens?

Our hair turns gray, our skin wrinkles, we get cataracts. These are all signs of aging because they're all oxidative stress. But when you take water. That's an electron donor. You're reducing that stress. You're putting a tax free income into your bank account, which is your body, and you're not paying tax on that.

And the body is just, it just loves it. So I, I honestly believe, um, by taking this type of water, by taking the, by getting the alkalinity up, uh, 'cause your, your pH in your body, um, should be 7.365. It's easy to remember seven days in a week, 365 days in a year. That's an optimum pH for a body it could be to 7.4.

Babies are born at like 7.8, and that means your immune system's running at full. Full clip. But now imagine the people who are drinking sodas all day, or even just soda water. I mean, that carbonic acid that's in that drink has got the equal acid of battery acid that's in your car battery, right? It's really, really low.

It's like two and a half to three on the scale. Now pH is, is, is, is crazy 'cause it goes from zero to 14. 14 being the highest, zero being straight acid, and then seven is dead center. That's neutral. So anything below seven's acidic, anything above seven's alkaline, and the body loves alkaline, um, plants love acidity.

Because we're the duality. Plants breathe carbon monoxide and exhale oxygen. We breathe oxygen and exhale carbon monoxide. So plants are perfect, a perfect balance for the human bodies being all over this earth. And, uh, so we we're so fortunate that, you know, we can, we can make alterations to our water. I mean, people haven't been putting baking soda in order for years to raise the pH, but that can be dangerous because sodium bicarbonate.

Can over alkalize you, it call something called osis. What I decided to do and from my findings was use magnesium and magnesium. I, I, I found that if I had too much magnesium, the only negative effect, it tastes like you're drinking from a pipe. Right. So it at about 70 parts per million in magnesium is what I add to water.

It's perfect 'cause you don't taste it. It tastes, it tastes fresh, it tastes, the water's taste tasty. Uh, it has like a almost a sweet aftertaste. It doesn't taste metallic. And you're getting the mineral content the body needs for good cellular, um, function, uh, hydration and electrical function. So it's really important to, to put all those things together and that's what, that's what happened for me and that was my spark to make this happen.

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And you had mentioned that there's a difference between clean water, which we all want clean water, but that's kind of like baseline and then there's healthy water. And so dive in a little bit more of how, you know, people can think about like clean water and then healthy water and make decisions on, you know, how, how they can access that.

Yeah, well, clean water is, is very available, right? You can pretty much walk into any convenience store and buy bottled water off a shelf. Um, not saying it's free of plastic, right? Plastics are the new thing that you're not new. That's not, it's not really new, but it's, it's becoming public information like forever plastics and stuff like that.

So. Taking that outta equation. Yeah, there can be some very clean water out there. I mean, you can even go as far as distilled water on most shelves, which is about as clean as you're gonna buy in a store. It does get cleaner. There's deionized water, which is even cleaner and distilled. So I was using DI water in my whole house, which I found out to be a real, um, thing not to do because water, it's funny, there's an Indian proverb that says water, which is too pure, has no fish.

Well, it has no life. So I was, I was drinking. I was really, um. The person that would focus on, so I was very dedicated, right? So the only thing I would drink every day was my water, right? I was, I didn't wanna put anything else in my body, so I knew it was free of every toxin. It was as clean as it could possibly be, even cleaner than the OR water that you're gonna buy off the shelves in, in the supermarkets.

But I'm drinking this every day now. At least my family are drinking juice and other things, right? My kids were drinking stuff like that. But um, that's when I really started developing AFib and tachycardia, heart problems. And who would ever put two and two together that my purified water was causing me to, uh, demineralize.

Putting things that are healthy back in water are very, um, it's the best thing you can do, right? You gotta have, you know, it can be just like anything else. You have too much of a good thing. You can put too much. Magnesium, like I said, it'll taste like a pipe. You can put too much sodium. If you drink too much sodium, it will dehydrate you.

'cause it'll force all the water outta your blood into your, into your, um, cellular system and causes damage to your kidneys. So there's a nice balance. You need to just have just a touch, right? And so if you take purified water, uh, again, back to electricians and you put electrical current in it, if the water's absolutely pure, you could stick your finger in that water and not get electrocuted.

Because it's not conducting anything, just like the body. Right? But you put a pinch of salt in there, you're gonna fire that water up, right? You're all the electricity is gonna pass right through there. 'cause it's gonna conduct the sodium. So that's the same thing with the body. Just by putting a pinch of sodium, that will help you.

But our water filtration systems are doing it for you. Right. We're not, we're not loading the body up with sodium, which can cause higher blood pressure. We're loading it up with magnesium, which most people are deficient in, and it causes cramps in their body cause all kinds an issue. So by getting the magnesium in the water, um, and if you're lucky enough to drink the water that's straight outta the faucet, 'cause one under pressure still has hydrogen in it.

And that's gonna, that's an anti-inflammatory and that's gonna help the body deal with inflammation and put out the oxidative fire. But even if you can't drink it right out out of the tap and you gotta put it in bottles and take it to work with you and stuff like that, that's fine. You're still getting clean water.

That's safe. You're getting, uh, magnesium rich water that will, uh, hydrate your cellularly level. And it's also, you're also gonna be, you know, creating the electrical function in the body that it needs. So you're getting, you're getting two outta three, which ain't bad. Um, but when you can drink it, like, um, drink the hydrogen water, it's gonna give your body a huge boost, uh, and give you plenty of energy.

And, and when you think about it, is if you're 1% dehydrated. You have 10% less energy, so that means mental fog. Um, you have a lot going on. Um, you can, you can just not know what's going on because 'cause of dehydration and this can happen before thirst even takes place. And Leo, I'd love to get your perspective on this because, you know, a lot of people get magnesium through supplementation, uh, through their food.

But I think the important concept, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that. You know, as we drink throughout the day that what's in the water is gonna be impacted by how our cells can actually absorb it. Because I know Sure. Like if you're running a marathon, let's say, and you only drink water and you're not getting the electrolytes, you can actually experience hyponatremia, which is basically dilution of, of the cells.

So is that why? Uh, the magnesium and the other, um, compounds being in the water and as you're drinking it throughout the day, it really impacts the absorption versus just waiting till the end of the day and taking your magnesium and your zinc and whatever other supplements. Is that kinda the concept there?

Yeah, you're exactly right. Um, you know, it. Water is a solvent, right? And it's excellent. It's a cleaning, it's a great cleaning solution, right? So the pure the water, the better. It'll clean because it's gonna pick up. Everything comes in contact with, well, it's solvent to the body too. So it's gonna pick up and it's gonna, it's gonna demineralize you.

It's gonna pass that stuff out, your yarn, and you're gonna, after drinking enough of it, you're gonna get to the point where you're having really poor electrical conductivity and things like AFib and um, muscle, uh, muscle contraction. Everything's. That would be very simple. Could even call it blurry vision, right?

By not having proper hydration. And, uh, so it's, it's so important to make sure that you're getting, um, some minerals in your drinking water, even though you could be taking a hundred to 200 to 400 times a daily supply of magnesium with a, with an oral supplement. Or you could be eating it and food, like you said, but when you're not getting it with water, you're not getting your hydration.

You're not getting, uh, you're like, we keep, keep going back to it, but it's so important because it happened to me. Electrical function. Um, you're gonna get mental clarity. And it's funny, just drinking, um, drinking about one to 1.6 parts per million of hydrogen and an eight ounce glass of water is equivalent to taking a hundred milligrams of caffeine and mental clarity.

It's not speeding up your heart. It's not, you know, giving you, you know, making your, your heart race or anything like that. There's no caffeine, but the, the electrons in the water is waking up the brain, you know, it's firing. It's the synapses in the, in the body, and it's waking, waking the body up. So there's so much you can do from it that, um, that most people don't realize.

I mean, just waking up in the morning. Getting, um, taking about eight to 12 ounces of this water as the first thing you do before you drink coffee, before you, uh, do the things that most people normally do. 'cause coffee and things like that can dehydrate you. Um, and it causes other kind of issues, you know, but getting this water in the body is the best thing you can do.

'cause when you wake up, you just spent eight hours probably without drinking anything. You're, you're, you're slightly dehydrated. Your blood's a little thicker in the morning, and it's time to get that moving and going. People just can't understand how important it is. And, uh, and I, I take, I still do work.

I still go out in the field and do work and I take, uh, I like the last bottles 'cause they, they're not always practical on a job site. You know, you might want plastic ones, but I fill 'em up with my water every morning and put 'em in a soft sided cooler that have ice packs in to keep it cool. And I keep it in the back of my truck.

I'll go out on job site and I'll give it to the guys, you know, while we're out there to keep 'em hydrated. 'cause I know I'm gonna get more production album. They're, you know, they're working with me. But not only just for them, just, you know, for overall well wellness and feeling good and I always have it.

And, uh, you know, since I had. Home filtration. I, you know, very rarely do I ever buy a bottle of water unless I'm traveling or something like that. I'll have access to good water. So it saves you a great deal of money. Um, you feel great, you get through the day, you're ready to, you know, once you get done working, most people are ready to just go home and just relax and kick back and not me, I'm ready to go to the gym or, you know, go roll around the mat with these 20-year-old kids and, uh, and, and, and show 'em what's what, because.

You know when everything's firing right, you're firing on all eight cylinders. Like my cardiologist said today, came to my house. You know, things are great, you know, but when you're missing on one thing, you just have one thing out, a rhythm. Uh, and it's something as simple as not having minerals in your water or not drinking water.

That's clean. Or, um, you know, getting that hydrogen once in a while, getting that alcohol entity, keep that blood, uh, pH up 'cause your blood pH drops, your immune system drops, right? So now you're more prevalent to colds and to getting sick. And what does that cost you? Right? What does it cost when you get sick?

You know, it really, it really slows you down. You know, if you're taking care of a family, you're taking care of kids, um, there's things that you're gonna neglect when you're not feeling good. So trying to keep your body feeling as best it can is the best thing you can do. And one of the best ways of doing that is making sure that you're hydrated.

And you and your body has what it needs to function properly, and there's no more important tool on this earth as, as a plumber, uh, mechanic than your body, right? Your body is first, and then everything comes after that. Leo, can you explain the system that you developed? Uh, there was a lot of trial and error to, to get to where it is today and would love to learn a little bit more about what is specific to, uh, your system versus a lot of the other, you know, filtration systems that people think of, uh, when it comes to purified water.

So I started out in this industry cleaning up toxic wells and getting rid of some really nasty things and I found out some of the best filtration on the market. And, and at first the people that. I don't completely understand what I'm getting ready to say. I might say, uh, I don't, I don't agree with that, but when you hear me out, you will.

Um, I realized that reverse osmosis is, um, probably one of the, one of the best creations ever done because it works off of water pressure and it, the water actually gets through a membrane and the only thing that gets to that membrane is water molecules to the center of the core, and that's what's used for your water.

Now all the naysayers will say, well, it has, it's not living water. It has no energy, it has no alkalinity, it has nothing to support life. And they're correct. It doesn't, but you know what? It doesn't have also, it doesn't have all the toxins, all the heavy metals, the chromium, the things that cause the cancer causing agents that would be in this water.

Right? We've gotten rid of that and that's the only way I really found in this 50 states that we work in here in the us. To make sure that the water quality is safe when it comes out of this, out of this fil filter and it's the fourth stage of my system, then it goes into stage five and we use a special magnesium granular that we developed, uh, mixed with um, some other essential nutrients and minerals.

And it goes through that. And then when it's under pressure, it goes through it really slow. 'cause when RO makes water, it makes it only a drop at a time. So it's the perfect timing to go through all this material to pick up the 70 parts per million of magnesium. I wanna pick up to pick up the. Total saturation of hydrogen, which is about 1.6, and to give a nice alkaline pH uh, from the magnesium of, you know, nine and 9.5.

So we're picking all these things up in this one filter, right? And so now you have pure water. You have water with minerals. You have water that's alkaline, and you have water that has hydrogen. All in all coming out of these, these, these, this five stage system. And then it goes into a reservoir and it sits there.

Now, if you put hydrogen into an open glass, it's gonna gas out, right? It's just gonna gas off. It's a gas, it's uh, it's not gonna stay in suspension. But when we make it, we make it under pressure so it's dissolved into the water and it will not gas off until atmosphere. You're an atmosphere. You're coming out of the faucet and it's still, because it's dissolved, it takes longer to gas off than if you just were bubbling hydrogen in a glass of water.

Right? These little hydrogen bottles and stuff, they're great, but they're big bubbles. They're going from the bottom to the top and they're, and if you're, if you're drinking 'em, why the bubbles are there? Yeah, you get something out of it, but ours is dissolved and we can get so much more hydrogen in a glass of water.

Then these low bubblers can, you can't remove the minerals first 'cause you can't ionize pure water. Electrical charge won't take on pure water because like I said, there's, there's no voltage in it. So you have to ionize mineralized water and if the person has a water softener, they have no minerals, they just got sodium.

So now your ionize just dirty salt that goes into a water softener that they use. I mean, there's all these pitfalls that people don't see and you know, it just. It kind of, sometimes it really sucks knowing all this because you can't go out to a restaurant and just grab a glass of water or iced tea or something like that without thinking about all the possible pitfalls that you know are happening in front of you.

I'm not asking everybody to understand this kind of stuff, but when you can. Get good water. Get clean water if you have to, just take a clean bottle of water and put a pinch of salt in it just so you get your electrolytes up a little bit and, and, and get the body doing what it needs to do. Very important.

Uh, that just, that's just basic 1 0 1. That's what I would do if I was on a job site and I didn't have access to my water. I'd go get a clean bottle of reverse osmosis water and put a pinch of salt in it, and that's gonna get me through my day and it's gonna help everybody. You know, I'm, I'm, I'm not looking just to sell a product here.

I'm looking to promote health. And, and people to, to actually get out there and get better. Leo, I wanna move into a section where we break some myths. Myths. Number one is, if I drink enough water, I'm hydrating. What's missing from that assumption? It's not true. Um, you'll pass it like it, it'll just go through you, and as it's going through you, it, it will, um, it'll take things away from you, right?

It can, it can. And then as you're demineralizing yourself, you have less ability to absorb the water. So you can keep drinking and drinking and drinking, like you can drink so much water, you die. Right? That's, that's actually a thing because you stop all electrical function in your body. So drink, just drinking enough water is not the answer.

What's one sign someone is under hydrated and something that they may not expect? Um. You know, um, not clear thinking. They're not making sense. Um, you know, you know, when they're computing in their head, the two and two don't make four. I mean, they're just, they're, you know, they're aggravated, they're irritable.

You know, I've been on a lot of job sites and, you know, it's easy to get irritable when you're running a jackhammer or drilling through steel, or it's, or it's a hundred plus degrees outside. Um, because you know, you're beat up, you know, it's easy to get irritable when it's zero degrees outside and you're freezing.

Um, so there's all these things that can be causing it. And, um, you know, that's what causes people to have heat stroke and they're under hydrated and, uh, they don't know what's going on. Like I said before, 1% dehydration equals 10% less focus and energy. And uh, can you imagine 2%, you know, 3%. I think when you get above 5%, you're in severely severe trouble.

But, um, just 1% can make people cloudy minded. Uh, and you could see that they're making mistakes, uh, could mess with their vision. Um, they're, they, when you're severely dehydrated, you'll get, uh, cold and clammy and you stop sweating. And, um, and so yeah, there's, there's a lot of things you can notice. People, they just, um, they could start, um, stuttering, not speaking properly from being dehydrated.

We kind of answered this, but maybe you can expand on it even further. Being dehydrated is a safety risk on the job. Oh, definitely. Yeah. Yeah, because imagine, um, you know, how, how important is your vision when you're doing things right? You know, um, you're swinging a hammer. You're, um. You're working an electrical box, you know, with a screwdriver and, uh, you know, you don't wanna touch that, you know, 240 volt, uh, uh, uh, three phase electricity and get electrocuted.

It's so easy to make mistakes on a job and get hurt. I've seen it happen. I've seen people die on the job. It's so easy. And, um, especially when you're working in big industrial plants, you're, you're going in somewhere every day where you have to be on top of your game. And, and, and I noticed, one thing I really noticed was.

So it wasn't me that I was always worried about. It was people I was working with. You know, because you sit next to people that can fry you, you know, with electricity or, um, can run you over a piece of equipment, you know, or hit you with a hammer by mistake, I mean just, you know, so many things can go wrong.

Uh, I got burnt with steam 'cause somebody broke a, a steam line loose on me. And, uh, I've gotten hit with f fode gas, which is mustard gas from a line breaking. I got cyanosis from cyanide to get down in a pit when we were putting in pumps and it had to spend half a day. Um. Infirmity, you're on oxygen, so yeah, you don't want to, you don't wanna be making mistakes on the job site.

So just imagine, you know, losing 10% of your focus just because you're 1% dehydrated and at 1% dehydration, you're not even thirsty yet. So, you know, generally by the time you're thirsty, you're already past that point. What's one practical upgrade that someone could make today listening to this episode that would enhance, uh, their quality of life through their water?

Well, the one thing is make sure the water's clean and free of toxins. Um, I can't explain all the people I've seen, um, that are dealing with health risks and challenges. You know, I mean from cancer. Um. Things deep down inside that were caused by waterborne toxins. Um, and then, you know, other people just like children, mainly on the surface you'll see eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, right?

Because of the, the chemicals like chlorine and the disinfectants like chloramine. We'll go into the skin and destroy the biome on the skin that's keeping the skin healthy. And chlorine's number one property, it says by our own EPA. It's registered as a pesticide and its sole purpose is to kill living organisms.

And that's what we're made of. Our whole body's made of living organisms, you know, just because bacteria is a living organism. Well, we are too. It's just a bad one, right? A bad bacteria or something toxic. So, um, get away from these toxic water because it's just, it's just really bad. And it starts with filtration.

Uh, make sure that the water you drink has some minerals in it. You can buy, you know, decent mineralized water. If you can buy it in a glass bottle. There's a few of 'em out there. You're, you're way ahead of most, right? But if you, um, if you, if you buy water like we have. You're gonna get, it's gonna taste light on the mouth, right?

It's gonna be easy to drink. You're not gonna feel it slash around in your stomach when you're drinking. You're not gonna get over, you know, full with it. You never get full with it. Your body absorbs it right away. Um, and you just feel good. So drinking clean water is gonna be a huge improvement for everyone.

And everybody pretty much has the access to clean water in a bottle or something like that. Glass is better, but a bottle is, is to me, second best plastic bottle. Um, but then, um. If you can get to it, you know, we can, we can provide ways that you can have this good filtration if you have a home that you can put it in.

The second phase of this is making sure at, you know, after you get good clean drinking water and you're drinking and you're staying hydrated, what? Now? You're like halfway there, maybe more than halfway there. With coming to that, now you gotta start bathing in it. Because bathing in clean water is just as important as drinking it.

One 10 minute shower is equivalent to drinking the chemicals and eight glasses of tap water. It's not observing a glass, the tap water, it's just the chemicals that are in it. So, 'cause your skin is your largest organ. When these chemicals are going down, they're very small molecular weight, you know, like 34 mole or something.

That's what chlorine is, and that's a lot smaller than 150. And that passes through your skin into your bloodstream. So people think of skin being a total barrier. It's, it's not true at all. We're living beings, right? We're made up of, uh, we're cellular absorption through the skin. And now with this new acapella shower systems, we could, we not only put hydrogen and nut nutri, now we can put nutrition to your skin.

We can feed you through your skin. So that's, it's so exciting, the things we could do, which is the future water technology. One of my really good friends, uh, installed an entire home system of yours. And so, uh, he, he has this, uh, healthy water pumping through his entire house. That's one end of the spectrum.

Some people listening maybe on a tight budget. And the thing that I really appreciate about you is you have options that are, you know, all set the, the lower end of the spectrum just so that people can, um. At least start drinking the healthy water. Can you maybe walk through like what, what that spectrum looks like and somebody on a tight budget where they might be able to start?

Yeah. I mean, we have, we have systems that are, we have drinking systems start under a thousand dollars and it, it sounds like a lot, but it is a lot to get it done. To get it done right. You know, like I wouldn't put my stamp on something that isn't good. And, um, so, but we, we offer financing through a firm, you know, same company they use on Amazon.

Um, and if you have good credit, you get like 0% interest for, I don't know, a couple years sometimes, which is amazing. Uh, and then you get this filtration system in your house. And then our, our deluxe drinking system is about $1,600 and it's comparative to $5,000 drinking systems. Right. And I think it's even better because I know it's cleaner, so.

If, if you have nothing and you get your hands on some clean water and you can put some minerals in it, you can buy magnesium minerals that pour into the water, which would be better than sodium. Um, and you could do stuff like that. That's, that's the starting point. That's where you wanna start. And then when you notice, hey, I do feel better.

This is working for me, right? And you will, I'm telling you if you, if, if you don't just do it like once in a blue moon, oh, I'm dehydrated today. I'm gonna go do it today. No, it's gotta be your daily, right? You wake up, you drink 12 ounces of, of good mineralized water in the morning. Um, you go flush yourself out before you have your coffee.

To get, get the body going, you're gonna see a huge improvement. And, and it can start with something as simple as just clean water that you buy on a shelf. And, um, and then when you make your way up to getting something that's a little bit better, um, you know, you're dealing, when you're dealing with plastic bottles, you're dealing with plastics.

They're saying, um, today that all the plastics that are we're getting from food, water, clothing and stuff like that is our body's observing like a credit card worth of plastic a month. That's really bad. So we can get you off that, we can get you away from that. Um, but it, I'll tell you what, it's, it's a hundred times better than the chlorine and all the other chemicals that are in the water.

Um, because they're gonna, they're definitely gonna cause, you know, all kinds of issues down the road, um, from cancer to skin, skin conditions. So. Starting out with clean water mineralizing, it is the best thing you can do to get started. You can, to put a TDS meter in, it's a $12 meter you get on Amazon, it's called totally off solids.

And you want your TDS to be like 50 to a hundred and that's the minerals you need for, for proper cellular hydration. You can go a little higher than that if you want, you know. Um, but city Water I've seen in Washington, DC I, the TDS should never go over 500 and in Washington DC years ago I had tested, it was five 50.

So it's above the, the limit and, and it meaning it has too much stuff in it, which is gonna cause other cellular damage. And when your minerals are too high, you can also cause dehydration as well, because it's gonna force all that water into you at a cellular level. And it's not gonna keep the water in your blood like it should.

And some of the people listening, they may be, let's say in West Texas, in the middle of nowhere working on a solar project, all they have is a, you know, gas station to, to pick something up. But you oftentimes see. Alkaline water, uh, on the shelf. What are some guidelines that people should look for when it comes to making decisions for just bottled water?

If they're, uh, have limited selection? You know, I found, um. Like higher quality bottled water. Like, like you see Fiji, uh, they use a better plastic, you know, then the really cheap one, right? The real cheap plastics that you see from like Costco and stuff like that, right? There's a difference in the quality of plastic and there's less plastics in that water is I found.

But, um, um, yeah, I mean, if you're in, in a store and I, I buy smart water, a lot of times that's alkaline, uh, and smart water is made with distillation. Which is good. And you get the, it's got like purple and black on the bottle. That's alkaline. Uh, it's only when you see purple there's alkaline involved because purple is is on the pH scale is when it's alkaline.

So that's why they always, we even have it all over our stuff. There's purple, like the pH behind me is purple for alkaline entity. Um, so yes, so if you can get something like that, um, just make sure that, you know, you have something that's gonna create electrolytes, like a little bit of sodium, uh, a little salt pack that you get at, at a, at a, you know, somewhere or, um.

Okay. Again, you can buy a load of these magnesium packs that you can open up, pour into your water and drink it. It's, it's really important. Now, you don't need to do it every time, like every bottle of water, but you need to do it periodically through the day so you can keep your mineral content up, because soon as you stop doing it.

Every time you drink a bottle of water that's purified, that has nothing in it, you're demineralizing your body and at some point you're gonna get to the point, you're gonna be in a danger zone. So, um, through the day, maybe at lunchtime, maybe at breakfast, do do the minerals, you know, and then if you're drinking a couple bottles in between, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, wouldn't be as concerned.

I. Stopping everything I'm doing to make my mineral water. But at breakfast you have the time, and at lunch you have the time, and at dinner you have the time. So that's when I would make sure that you get, you get your minerals if you're not getting it from my system. So the workforce athlete driving home, or they're on the job today listening to this, what are three things that you want them to take away from this conversation?

Well, number one is, um, you know, we we're, how can I put this? We run in enough to, in toxic environments, especially in the workplace, right, we're handling things that are, that are pretty bad as we know the skin's gonna absorb those things. We're breathing in things that are pretty bad fumes coming off a different machinery and stuff like that.

Um. We're, we're, we're going, you know, our body's gonna go through. There's no way to, to get people away from toxins, especially in the workforce. It's just, it's just standard of care. It's the cost of doing business. Some people work way more toxins. I look at people painting cars and, and stuff like that.

Working with all those, all those gases and stuff in the air. Really, really bad stuff. But if, uh, if you, if, if you're gonna put something in your body, you know, be in control of it, be in control, you're putting in it, and that includes the food you eat too. You, you have control of that as well. Uh, most people don't realize that, but you know, uh, diet is a real thing.

And, uh, if you, if you could prep your food and bring good food, it's just, no, it's no different than prepping your water and bringing your water. There's, most people will pack a lunch, even if it's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They want to eat. They know at noon they're gonna be hungry and they want something to eat.

Well, it's just as important as to. Which you're drinking. And, uh, in most cases, most guys have, you know, a lunchbox, igloo, lunchbox, something they bring with 'em on the job and they can put, you know, a couple bottles of water in there and that could be their mineral water. And in between it, they're drinking water from a, a, a cooler that's in a building or in and, and something like that.

And it's just purified water. Well, that's fine. You know, you don't wanna, you don't wanna not drink water and, and, and not stay hydrated, you know, please drink the water. But, and, and variables through the day, make sure you drink the mineralized water. Well, we've been taught to think about hydration as a quantity problem, drink more water.

But what Leo is describing in this conversation is it's a quality problem in a systems problem. And so for those who use their body every single day, hydration is not just about getting through the shift. It's about recovering after it. It's about thinking clearly during it and building a body that lasts across a long career.

Your body's your most important. Uh, thank you for emphasizing that, Leo. I totally agree with that. And like any tool, what you put it in, it matters how you maintain it matters. And so thanks for bringing this story to the audience. I'd encourage people to, to read your book, hear your Story in its entirety.

Leo, where can people find out more about you and your water systems? Yeah, my, my company's really simple. It's uh, pH the word prescription.com. pH prescription.com. There's no s at the lot. People think it's pH prescriptions. It's not. It's pH prescription.com. Um, you can call us at our office, (772) 220-8789.

You can check me out on my book. If you look here, you can see the plumber side of me on one side, the businessman on the other. Uh, this is the way I came up and grew through. It's called H2O Health to overcome. It's available on Amazon and uh, you can get it paperback, hardcover, and, uh, audio. Um, so there's, um.

You know, it just so many ways to reach out to us. I, I will be happy to answer any, any emails you can reach us at info at pH prescription, Tom, the, all those pertaining water quality and stuff come to my desk and, uh, I can answer questions via email if you don't wanna talk to me right away. But if you wanna call me again, seven seven two two two two zero eight seven eight nine, you can call the office nine to five.

Monday through Friday, Eastern Standard Time, we're in Florida and I'd be happy to talk to you. Um, I talk to people every day. That's what I do right here in this office. Thank you so much. We'll make sure to put all those, uh, contact points in our show notes just so that people can reach out to you. Leo, so grateful for this time with you.

Thank you so much. Make sure to, uh, if you're listening to this and you haven't subscribed to the WorkReady Podcast, make sure to do so because we send out free resources every single week. Uh, you'll be sure. Catch all these new episodes that are coming up. We, we put these out every Tuesday, so make sure to join us and if this conversation changed how you think about the water you drink, share it with someone on your crew.

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