If your water is treated with Chlorine, then you MUST treat it with Nutral before you use the Mineral Bath products. The chlorine in the water is a killing agent and will kill the Mineral bath's beneficial effects. Follow the instructions on the label of the bottle.
Health Alert!
Cancer fighting nutrients become deadly when combined with chlorinated tap water.
Some of natures most valuable and essential anti-cancer and anti-disease phytochemical nutrients which are commonly found in food have been discovered to form dealdy cancer causing substances when consumed or combined with chlorinated tap water. This discovery includes familiar foods including soy, fruits, vegetables, tea, many health products and even some vitamins. Research has proven that these essential nutrients are the same exact families of compounds, that even infintesimal amounts, have been tormenting the water treatment & chlorine industries for years.
Recently a joint study was undertaken in Japan by research scientists at the National Institute of Health Sciences and Shizouka Perfectural University. They determined that natural organic substances originating from foods, including fruits, soy and green or black tea, react when tap water is chlorinated, forming dangerous cancer causing compounds. These deadly compounds have been named MX, which stands for "unknown mutagen", and are similar to the already well-known and more easily detected cancer causing THMs (trihalmethanes).
The Japanese scientists specially mentioned that their studies showed that MX is created by the reaction of chlorine with natural organic phytochemicals such as catechins, which are contained in tea and flavonoids, which are found in fruit. Since Japan has an extremely high consumption of tea, fruit and soy products, it is easy to see how high amounts of residues from these foods would end up in their wastewater treatment and water recycling systems.
Earlier studies by scientists in Finland in 1997 determined that MX is 170 times more deadly than any other known toxic by-product of chlorination, and was shown in laboratory studies to damage the thyroid gland as well as cause cancerous tumors.
THMs are known to be created by the reaction of chlorine with humic and fulvic acids, which are the final breakdown products of vegetation, including decayed leaves and organic matter. Humic substances are the same as soil humus, of which the fulvic fraction is water soluable and readily transported into streams and waterways, as well as utilized nutritionally by plants.
Very recent scientific discoveries have identified and clarified the composition of fulvic and humic acids as containing a significant amount of nutritional phytochemical groups including hormones, sterols, fatty acids, polyphenols and ketones, which subgroups include but are not limited to: flavins, flavonoids, tannins, catechins, quinones, isoflavones, tocoperols, etc.
These compounds are some of the most valuable and promising anti-cancer nutrients found in our foods and health supplements. Coenzyme Q10 is a quinone, Vitamin B-2 is a flavin, Vitamine E is a tocopherol, citrus bioflavonoids including hesperidin, quercetin and rutin are all flavonoids, green tea contains catechins, phenols, tannins and isoflavones. Potentially all of these substances and many more, are implicated by chlorination.
Amazingly, it has been discovered that these phytochemicals remain intact, concentrated and intricately combined within humic substandes; which are valuable remnants of nature's protective substances contained within fruits, flowers, pollen, nuts and seeds, as well as vegetative parts including roots, stems, bark and leaves. Even the plant's nucleic acids, RNA and DNA remain intact.
It has been known by the water treatment and chemical industries for many years that chlorine reacts negatively with natural organic compounds. These industries call these compounds DBPs (disinfection by-products) which are known to cause cancer in populations whose drinking water contains them. THM, the most commonly known DBP, is known to cause a high incident of bladder cancer and also to cause spontaneous abortions.
Chlorine may some day be found responsible for damaging the bodies immune and hormone systems by mutating the food-based plant estrogens and phytochemicals that support these systems. A healthy immune system should be your first and best line of defense against waterborn disease.
REFERENCES:
Recer,P; Water chlorine by-product may be cancer risk; June 18, 1997; Associated Press
Christman, RF; Kronber, K; Singh, R; Ball, LM; Johnson, DJ; Report 259: Identification of Mutagenic By-Products from Aquatic Humic Chlorination: North Carolina State University.
Rhomperg, l. Ph.D; Risk In Perspective: Are chemicals in the environment Disrupting Hormone Control of Growth & Development? April 1, 1996; Harvard Center for risk analysis.
Japanses date released to MX and the Shizouka Prefectural University has been extracted from various abstracts published by the American Water Works Association (AWWA), and the National Institute of Health (NIH).
Plant phytochemicals and the nutrient groups can be determined from information within the Organic Chemical Tables; Chemical Abstract Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society.
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