Summary of medical research results to date

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Water consumption and disease prevention

About the Water Clinical Trials site

Biology and the properties of water

Water consumption and disease prevention

Clinical trials listed

Summary of medical research results to date

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Water consumption and low

risk of breast cancer

Water and calcium and magnesium

concentrations and prevention of

heart disease and stroke

Cell responses to

persistent cell injury

What does it all mean?

Water and DNA structure

and function

Water and DNA structure and function

Water and calcium and magnesium concentrations and prevention of heart disease and stroke

Water consumption and low risk of breast cancer

Cell response to persistent cell injury

What does it all mean?

Water and calcium and magnesium concentrations and prevention of heart disease and stroke

For a list of journal references that describe water consumption and the low risk of breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate and urinary tract cancer see the WATER UK booklet written by a senior policy executive at the British Medical Association and titled Water and Cancer Prevention.

Link to booklet from this page:

http://www.water.org.uk/home/water-for-health/resources

For a table of case-control studies and a list of journal references that describe the consumption of 'hard water' (water containing calcium and magnesium ions) and a decreased risk of death from various types of cancer, see paper by Professor Silvano Monarca and associates.

Water Hardness and Chronic Degenerative Diseases. Part III. F Donato, S Monarca, S Premi, Umberto Gelatti. Annali di Igiene (2003), 15, 57-70.

Please note the above paper is in Italian.

For a general discussion on water consumption and cancer prevention, see:

Paper in Journal of Clinical Oncology:

http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/22/2/383.2.full

It is known that without water, and possibly other counter ions such as magnesium, to screen the electrostatic repulsion between phosphate groups, the classic orderly helix of DNA is no longer viable. At low hydration, the most biologically relevant B form of DNA undergoes conformational transitions to other forms. In relation to hard water and magnesium ions and cancer prevention, it is feasible that inappropriate low hydration of DNA and inappropriate low counter ion (magnesium) concentrations may be associated with diseases - particularly diseases of inappropriate DNA expression or DNA mutation such as cancer.