 Alright, thanks for staying with us now. Drinking water does more than just quench your thirst. It's essential to keeping your body functioning properly and feeling healthy. Nearly all of your body's major system depends on water to function and survive. With water making up about 60% of your body weight, it's no surprise what staying hydrated can do for you. Importance of water to our survival is what we're discussing today. And please let's hear what you have to remember. You can join the conversation. Send us an SMS or WhatsApp to 081-803-4663. You can also Twitter us at wishyouafqa1 with the hashtag wishyou. So quickly I want to bring in Dr. Kahlo. But Gloria, I want to hear your thoughts. Do you drink water? And how good is your water habit? I wish my mom was watching this. So she watched me do a national testimony. I'm a changed person. Actually, at first, when I was growing up, drinking water was an issue because to me, I should drink water when I'm thirsty and I rarely get thirsty. So I end up probably going to hold it, just drinking a glass of water. That's if I drink a glass of water. And at a stage in life, I was just having all these issues and so. So people say, drink water. I'm like, water? Tell me, take medication. I will understand. But not water. So when it dawned on me, there was another thing that happened with me. That was like, drink water, my daughter. When we were growing up in those days, my grandma would tell me drink water. I was like, okay, let me try. So I had to start taking water, forcing myself in the morning, I'll take a glass of water. And to be honest, the changes have been remarkable both on my body and also my health too. I feel so much better. Some of the complaints I had previously. And what has really important, I mean, I can really testify. It's really, really important. Absolutely. I mean, people always say, oh, you're glowing, you're glowing, you're glowing. I tell them, I say, if there's anything you can see, by my bedside, you will see water. So because what I do before I go to bed at night, I just try to keep a glass so that once I wake up first thing in the morning, I have water that I'm going to just stay hydrated. Because again, even at some point, I would just even naturally get punched if I don't have water to drink, you know, and people underestimate what water can do for the body. They just like overlook it. You know, I see when people say, I pay, I can't drink water with some people till today, they must put something in the water. They see they just cannot see themselves drinking clean water. And maybe that's why we're having this conversation today. So Dr. Kalu, we help to give them deliverance. So Dr. Kalu, Genevieve is the PRO and head of medicals, OGC foods and beverages limited. These are the owners of La Sena Atesian Natural Alkaline Mineral Water. She is presently a member of the Nigerian National Economic Summit Group under the health sector. That's thematic group health as a business, as in quote, and a member of the Nigerian Medical Association. You see, we went to bring the best of the best. If Dr. Kalu finish with you this evening, oh God, you will first of all go and buy water. You will never go back again. But thank you so much, Dr. Kalu, for being here with us. It's such a long time I saw you. Since October. Yeah, thank you. You know, you look amazing. Thank you so much. All right, Doc. Last week was World Water Day, right? So what are we doing? You know, first of all, based on your analysis, right, do you think that we are getting better with our water habits, like as Nigerians, the awareness and sensitization is getting better? Or are we going, are we just like, reversing? People are not even interested in water as a healthy, what's it called, habit or healthy choice? I would say that it's just fear because Nigerians are still having that notion that water is water. So they don't have the notion that water is life. And moreover, water is life. And you know that, like you said, 60 to 70 percent of who you are is water. And without water, we die in seven days. Of course, the whole world is made up of 70 percent of water and your body 70 percent of water. So God was very, very demanding of to make sure that we are moving water and that is why we can react. Even children can die within four hours when they have dehydration. And Nigerians have the habit of, you know, they drink water when they are testing. And when you're testing, you are already dehydrated. And dehydration causes a lot of problems, headaches, down from your head to your toes. So the addition is a very serious problem. And then if you can drink water, and then drink the right one, you have to drink the right one. You don't need to drink incipid water. That is water with nothing in them. We are actually, because our cells, we are born to grow and die. And then when we are born, we are born with a particular pH inside of us. Balance. Balance. And our natural pH at birth is 7.7. And then physiologically, doctors and the pharmacists would tell you that if you can maintain your pH inside at 7.4, most of these degenerative diseases, they cannot survive in your body because most of those degenerative diseases find it difficult to survive in an alkaline environment. So the most important thing is to drink a natural alkaline water with the right pH. When we say with the right pH, we are talking about pH 7.4, 7.7, 7.8 to 8. You don't drink water that is too alkaline. That is, you're talking about pH of 8.7, 9, 10. They are very dangerous for our health. So it must be a balance. And then it must contain minerals because we need these minerals for our, you know, billion. We are born with about 100 trillion cells in our body. And most of these cells every minute they degenerate and then new ones have to be formed under a particular condition of the presence of these minerals. And we have the quantity of minerals that should be in our external water compartments and our internal water compartments. So I would say that Nigerians are yet to get there. It's fair, but we need more education, communication, awareness, campaigns to let them know that actually water is, water is life and then without water we die. Because at pH 6.4, we die. In this situation, they don't say I say. Doctor has arrived. I told you that. I just kept quiet. I'm like, okay, go on. You know, so I mean, this is what you've talked about, doc. Right. First of all, I see sachet waters and those are like heavy sellers. You go, but the thing, the interesting thing in Lagos is that there is a huge decline of selling of sachet waters in traffic compared to many years ago. Yes. If you notice in Lagos now it's bottled water they sell in traffic. Yes. So that sachet water era is kind of like declining in Lagos. It's more if you go down maybe in Badon and all of those places that you see people still hooking sachet water. Even those places, most people have really transformed into what's it called bottled water and all of that. But again, you said something about the quality of the water that you drink. Right. Because now it's not so much of saying, okay, drink water, drink water. You can actually be drinking poison. Yes. Because of the kind of water that is there. Now if you travel abroad, there's a particular brand I don't want to mention. Right. If you check the price of that water it's much more expensive. Very expensive. Compared to the price of the regular water. You know and I keep on cringing like why is this water too expensive? But you know when you think about it again you don't think okay your health compared to the what you are spending for the water just close your eyes and just you know. So how do we even start? First of all, putting that consciousness of drinking the right water. Then secondly, how do we even start to get maybe agencies? The other day I was looking at, yesterday I was looking at Instagram. Lagos say government had gone to seal up one supermarket for selling expired products. How can we start to get our government to actually control? Because people, I can just start a pure water business on my backyard and people will buy. Yeah. I think I want to commend the effects of activities of Lagos state government and NAVDAC. Our regulatory bodies, they are really doing a great job. That's why you're seeing the decline in the state of the such a water because I know that NAVDAC really worked on that. You know someone was cracking a joke and he said when I was in Ghana he said are you Nigerian? I said yes. He said Nigerian puts water in nylon and they put granite in bottles. You know it was like a joke. Like an irony. Yes, I was like I thought really about it. We are not even meant to put water in cellophane liners and there are different types of plastics that we need not to put our water. Things like etenine, venin, acetate, they are not healthy enough to put our water and if you come to Nigeria you will just see a lot of supermarket. Nigerians believe that I need to shed the water outside and when I shed it outside people will know that I'm selling this water. Hey son. You are not meant to because the effects of of sun you know. But the water you were trying to mention that you met in abroad is written there that you don't put this like the natural alkaline mineral water we have one in Nigeria. I'm not going to mention it if you have mentioned it already when you were introducing me. Yeah, I'm very particular about it and you know when I returned back from Europe I was talking about lifestyle, diet and water and I was on a TV show and someone was asking me that how are you going to do that? I said I'm a voice and I'm going to talk and by the time I talk for 10 years we're going to change our lifestyle. So storage of this water is very important because we don't need to store this water under the sun especially for the mineral alkaline water that doesn't have any preservative. In the UK it has been banned a long time ago that you are not even allowed to put chlorine in your swimming pool even 0.02 ppm. It's not allowed because it was discovered that it causes cancer of the bladder, cancer of the uterus and cancer of the prostate. So you are not even meant to put it in your swimming pool but you see some people put water as a preservative in their drinking water. In the drinking water chlorine, yeah. America has also banned it. I think it was in 2014 that America banned the use of chlorine as a preservative. So water should be very clean. Has the minerals, the right ones that we need for rejuvenation and to stay alive because the way God programmed the body is that we must live by water and then if we don't live by water we die. I don't think there's any man that has survived without water for more than seven days. That's right. By third day, fourth day you're losing your strength you know. So that is the way we are wired. So the right thing is that you don't just put any water in plastics and then you just put them under the sun. Some people you see them in the supermarket they just lay it outside on a beer floor. So some this kind of best water that we need to drink mineral alkaline water, natural, not artificial. You are not meant to artificialize your alkaline water because when you bring, assuming this is a table in sepid water and I want to alkalinize it, I'm going to use something like sodium bicarbonate or use some electrolyte to do that. So when you artificialize your alkaline water you would drink it but by the time it gets into your body it's going to cause more problems because the sodium that was added with the bicarbonate to alkalinize this water artificially is going to go into the body cell and it will deplete potassium and you will deplete calcium. When you deplete calcium in the body you're going to be having I'm having bone pain. You go to the hospital, you see your doctor, your daughter will give you medications, give you some calcium and other but when you deplete your potassium, potassium is really not compatible with life. Normal potassium is 3.5 to 5 but by time your potassium drops to 2 it's very incompatible. So you can die in your sleep, you can have a sudden cardiac arrest and you will never attach it to I'm drinking an artificial alkaline water. So we really need to be very careful. Read what you are drinking. Right pH 7.7, 7.4 is very fine, 7.8, 7.98 is also alright and then with the minerals because if you're taking in sleeping water that's plain, had nothing when they go into your body they take away your nutrients but when you take the right mineral water when it gets into the body it supplies you with the right minerals then you look younger, you are more healthier. You know you see some people saying I've not visited the doctor for like two years and I'm fine and you'll be like what's going on you know water that has the right mineral as the zinc, the copper, the magnesium, the bar carbonate and all that is very important. And all those things must be natural. It must be natural, yes. Not the one that was artificially added. No, no, no. Okay Gloria, let's go on a very quick break or we come back from the break. Continue this conversation. Alright so if you're just tuned in we are discussing the importance of water to survive for our survival and we have Dr. Carlo Jenny, the the brand ambassador of for Lafena Water now. Let's hear what you have to say remember you can join the conversation send us an SMS or whatsapp to very one 80384663 you can also tweet at us at Weishaw, I've come on with the hashtag Weishaw. Alright so I mean doctor, so before I met you I'll come to you Gloria before I met you I'd seen your principal many years ago he took us to your I think you have like a sauna kind of thing. Like a natural steam bath. So by the way we came back I was feeling so relieved and everything so I changed all my bottles in my house and I don't know what happened and I'm back slated only for us to reunite on in October and you know since then even I consciously changed all my dispenser bottles then in my office I just drink you know so and I noticed that you know because I used to feel so much fatigue headaches and all of that most of all of those things are gone like I'm energized you know I wake up I feel refreshed and all of that you know is it really really water that is bringing that or maybe I don't know there's something more. Yeah I will say yes because the water you're drinking has natural minerals for example you know like we are the only water in Nigeria that has what is called calcium carbonates in our water and by the way before you can be registered as a natural alkaline mineral water your water must naturally contain that calcium carbonates at least 100 milligram in one liter so our water contains natural calcium carbonates 273 milligram in one liter so that's why we stand to be the only natural alkaline mineral water in Nigeria and in the whole of the world we are still the only natural alkaline mineral water that has copper as trace element and zinc as also trace element in the right ratio physiological ratio of 15 to 1 so we've got the zinc 0.30 milligram in one liter and we've got the copper 0.02 milligram in one liter when you have like mercury poisoning or you have some issues in your body and you go and see your doctor zinc and copper are meant to be you know prescribed the same in ratio 15 to 1 so we are we just say that's what we say is a natural get from god to man because god just composed this and then i'm also well uh trailed about the biocarbonates in the water because when i came back to nigeria i know i was talking about this brand and everybody was like oh wow this and all that and i suddenly met the owner in new where i was talking about it and i never know that he is the owner so it was my passion that was driving me because i was actually becoming worried about diabetics in nigeria and why we are having such issues because diabetics i believe medically is a sickness that you should control with your fork and then the pancreas is one organ in our body and that it is only the pancreas that naturally produce barcabonates do you know that medicine pharmacists and barcomics has never till date ever medicine has existed you know composed barcabonates because it's a very unstable mineral so i was treated when i met lasena water with 263 milligram of barcominates i was wowed and i was like this is fantastic you know so people that are diabetics this is the right water for them to drink not the acidic water and people that are you know sicklers that are always having their boom pain crisis non-complicated adverse occlusive crisis they need barcabonates in that you know form natural form because it helps them that's big complex right that's you know barcabonates okay barcabonates no it's different and this barcabonates is actually only being produced by the pancreas in a day the pancreas is supposed to produce at least 2.5 liters per day or 75 milligram per hour so if your pancreas can no longer produce this you can be seriously predisposed to diabetics mellitus as a very you know severe sickness so the pancreas and is a buffer because god is very god is a perfect god the way he programmed the body he programmed us that no matter what you're doing your body should be able to reduce it to produce yeah we have what is called auto-regulation in our body both the brain and all that so your body is supposed to auto-regulate and make sure that your alkaline if your body is capable of producing these barcabonates but the more acidic the more the pancreas is being destroyed and barcabonates is the largest buffer in the body we just have only three buffers in the body four-spits plasma and barcabonates so if your pancreas is not doing so there's a lot of medical issues and if it's not doing that you can be predisposed to diabetics mellitus and once the pancreas picks up and start producing you know barcabonates you will be very very relieved that was the kind of relief that you were seeing so when people drink lasagna water they will be like this happened to me it's actually the minerals that is doing those he had to just mention the problem when you were calling the components of the mineral water you are talking about all i'm seeing is money figures this is probably expensive this is probably expensive so water is very important we all know that and i believe because it's important we should try to make it accessible good water to everyone so now with what you said the components of this like natural mineral water don't you think it's a good idea if all the other companies can also have this come so that everyone can easily have access to it no like that type of natural alkaline mineral water which was actually discovered by serendipity it's not something that is just common in the whole of Africa we just have three of it in Africa so in the world we have about 28 so in Africa the first one was discovered in Namibia but it's not for commercial then the second one is this one lasagna water discovered in 2009 and then it took five years for the regulatory body and the company to know about the water you know went to understand what the water is all about and saw the mineral contents and all that so it's a very unique water it's called an athisian water because you get it from athisian well so this particular one comes out hot 70 degrees and it came from a 16 layers of clay soil at a depth of 2000 feet gushing out with natural hydrostatic pressure and it has to run 24-7 you can't stop an athisian well so it's a special kind of water okay that's why we say divine natural gifts from god to man it was just discovered by serendipity nope so nobody ever knew that it existed there so we got it by chance nobody knew that an athisian well was there so you can't just get an athisian well anyhow anywhere you should if i don't dig here now so um um let's um so now let's go to our drainage how do we begin to educate the citizens for example in Lagos there is this hobby so i know there are some african countries where you have them in terms of um disposal of refuge it's really well organized and planned you find on the streets there's just the trash can and everything and people are educated constantly in fact there's a there's an african country i know if you throw things on the road you're going to pay fine if you're caught but such practices i don't see that here and you find most of our drainage is filled up and blocks and all of this i think affects water so how do we begin to educate um the citizens to become really aware of how important taking care of our water um especially the um we have the lagoon and all of that how do we start educating them um you know the awareness is you know enlightenment and also trying to let the public know i learned that by the year 2050 the plastics in the ocean are going to be more than the fishes in the ocean so we need to learn how to trash these plastics from our draw step teach your children wrap the plastics in a particular place and then there are companies that can actually come pick it up and pay you for it so it's also another business on its own i come to your house i pick your trash i pay you money to collect your trash you're going to be you know because nigerians we have we like money and we're going to be happy that we are seeing some insensives that is going to trash in it the right way and then we have different type of estates especially here on the island could you think if we start to put like fines on people that are just um truing things on the road yeah i was going to say that you know because i think this this thing you talked about i think it's the government that you know we must bring back bring back those rules the discipline and the discipline because again if if you leave it to us we will not be responsible to want to you know to do the right thing so imagine if the government starts to put in those rules in those places they find is is a is a rule that is being enforced we have those rules funny thing but it is the enforcement that you know that worries me you know because now is no longer just about you it's about survival but you see outside of the shores of this country i don't know if they do it here but i must comment logos state because they have a lot of recycling plans for plastics but i was going to say touch back on sewage sewage water be what they call that you know a lot of countries actually recycle those waters that they channel it back to the you know for for for use you know and all of that so are you trying to say that those kind of water you know they are not healthy water or what exactly and if you would they can never be healthy water because it's not drinkable it can never be drinkable with you you're going to put a lot of chemicals that is not compatible with human body you can use those ones to do your laundry's and all that i know in europe you know i stayed in Germany for some time they they had issues with water even here on the island you know as i'm coming to the studio now i saw the water in the toilet and i was like oh why would you say it in your public you are on the island the water here is no it's really bad even the i think that was the time in june this year that the commissioner mentioned that all most of the water we have in lego state is really not too good for human consumption and even for not acceptable for animal consumption and it was wide all over you know but we have a lot of you know bad water in the environment so i'm saying that let us look at we are using this water for survivor let us look at the health for and the wellness and where is because we need to live we don't want to die we have to live long so if i'm going to use this type of water and i'm going to die young why do i know what's your company doing in terms of csr and you know helping to bring this awareness i mean gloria touched on it a bit because affordability is very key right there isn't a lot of people who just buy the water in traffic it's 100 naira you know and i can tell you that when it was 50 naira people you know started taking they stopped taking sachet water they started taking now that the water has gone up to 100 naira people are still buying it so imagine can can we start to have these healthier options to also be you know competitive in terms of that's why we have dispensers just for the common for everybody you can afford it our dispensers are 20 liters and everybody can afford it and it can last for a family at least three days four days then depending on the size of the family and we also make sure that you know in our factory for those people that live in that vicinity of the opic environment we have a pipe and then we put the water outside is free oh yes everybody picks it free of charge 24-7 Monday through Sunday and all the time you know some people i see some people they come back from work very late 10 midnight they are taking the water because it's running that's one of the things that we did you know and then most of the houses around that area they have the piping of the water too initially it was free but now just something very token that they pay and they have water right what are running in their houses wow yes that's very minute price yes that's what we are doing there's problem you have to come and discover within the economy for for island i think because again the water we have here is quite hard yes you would know when you start to do laundry you know your your soap would just refuse to fold blood and all of that like it's very hard and it stains your your fabrics and all of that so it's quite tough because i see a lot of people buying sachet water to cook you know to clean you know and all of that you know so i don't know how do we is there anything that you can recommend well it's part of government's policy to provide you know these amenities lights water and health that's what everybody's looking for when you are saying you want the government to give you those kind of things so i think the government has to be committed because it's not so easy for individuals you know running a business in Nigeria is really very tough especially at this time that one little of diesel is just 830 naira so it's quite a lot and the light is not there it cannot even carry any of your machines and you have to spend a whole lot of money on diesel to make sure that you run your particular console i think the government has a very big role to play to look back to us that's why we are voting them to ensure that i provide the this simple basic amenities that we are looking for water light and good health that's all we are asking for so they can do that let's take some comments so because it's quite interesting you know Nigeria Nigeria glorie is um so this is from our regular fan daniel ilu he says good evening my beautiful ladies of what are you saying importance of water to our survivor which is the topic we're talking about today thanks a lot beautiful ladies for this great topic i personally i am a lover of good water and i take a lot of water every day please i'll like your guests to talk some sense into the heads of people that don't take drinking drinking of water series they cannot do without they cannot do without taking soft drinks when eating which i know may not be healthy your guests should tell us the types and names of water that is healthy for consumption so she has already permitted me to do it no is she not permitted dr kalu the healthy water is natural alkaline mineral water it must contain minerals and it must have the right pH i've already told you the right pH 7.4 7.7 7.8 and 8 go all over the stores the supermarket the shop and our water must not be stored outside it must not be stored outside so when you go into a supermarket and you see that the water you're about to buy they left it outside say something is it that you say something or you just carry yourself and your key i don't know this is not the yes i'm going to ask people that do that yes so you correct them and you you carry yourself and go so what's the what's the health consequence of drinking those kind of water because i remember that a particular brand said that you don't keep your plastic bottle in the car but later they now created another bottle that had a green cover i'm sure you know the brand i'm talking about now then i said okay that one is safer you can leave it in the car and drink it you know with the heat and all that the other bottle if the water reacts with the plastic so that's not good for consumption so because of that they now created this other bottle that had a green cover a particular brand what do you want to say about those topics yeah there are bad a lot of bad plastics that's when even some women use plastics to make my money and some big restaurant in Nigeria use plastic to make my money when i get to such restaurants they say no you can't use this to make my money so for water you don't use like ethylene acetates because i know that it will react with the sun or heat and it will produce something that is carcinogenic now the right plastic that you can use is high-density polyethylene is a very expensive material to use to produce you know plastic high-density ethylene and very big quality resins these are what you can use and when you put them let us even remove the notion that you're not meant to put water under the sun water should not even go under the sun for a mineral water that doesn't have any preservative that is natural you can't even put it under the sun if you put it under the sun it's going to start growing microorganisms because the minerals there are going to be like fertilizers to the microorganisms to be going so it's not allowed you don't put them at all and then you don't even put them on the on the beer floor there is what is called chelating agents in like our own type of water he has copper he has zinc and he has magnesium so if you put it on the floor for some time or even put it in the freezer and then you bring it out not the fridge you will not see that the minerals have come together to form a double bond and you will like you see particles i happen to me so when we keep them so you could like this look at this is a wooden surface yes on the wooden surface on a plastic palette it should be there i have water that is on a wooden surface for like seven years and they're fine nothing is wrong with them storage Nigeria has to learn how to store and that is why for our own brand there's a leaflet inside that please don't store it this way this water you know contains copper it contains zinc it contains magnesium they are all called chelating agents they will come back chelation is that we have sitting separately now when i come and bond with you and hold ourselves we are bonded together so you cannot be seen when they freeze you and now you can see the silica in the water you know shiny in the water you say i'm seeing something shiny so they've come together so that's why we say and you can imagine when you see observed particles you'll be like what am i saying i can't drink this so storage is very important especially for our brand to prevent algae growth to prevent fumigatus growth because you must not because it's photosynthesis taking place under the sun and especially there is a mineral in the water nitrates is there and that nitrates is also very important for you because it helps in the movement of hemoglobin oxygen you know to your organ so you have we need it is there any ingredient that is not important in that you know every one of them is very important you know but you have to find a way to start to partner with us so that we can be we can be giving people but because again for me i realized that you know just simple healthy choices right yes and i've seen how my everything i mean like when i go out there you're glowing your this is not a it's not by mistake because yes because i'm very deliberate about about my health i'm very deliberate about what i put into my system and all of that so and i see the direct correlation of all of those things you know right dating from my skin to my you know my health and everything so it happens right but something is it's quite expensive right and it's not something that anybody can just keep up keep up with right so at least let us even start with water you know let's start with water and see how far that will take us even the dermatologist would tell you that if you want to glow you drink water yes and you must drink water according to your body weight if you're 70 kg you must drink at least four liters per day and if you're more than there's a 50 phone call if you're 54 you can drink like three liters per day there's a calculation to eat even for babies and you know so if you're 80-90 kilogram you drink more because your body needs more especially during when you are and i hear if you sweat a lot because the kidney doctor we had yes to i think last week's Wednesday said if you sweat a lot to you for you so you would have to take much more than rehydrate yourself because yeah your kidney needs about three liters per day to remove toxins from your body so the kidney needs at least three liters for a 70 kg man so i'm sure it is four liters someone says what a great topic and great discussion on the importance of water to our survivor please we need a sample of this water for life this water for life you're talking about here it says we need this natural mineral water please most people we have around us have a high potency of causing causing us most water rather we have around us has a high potency of causing us typhoid and other viral infectious diseases some of them are just fake you are drinking them and they will be tasting and smelling smoky in a throw and like they are like they are from the rustic cans so it says we are dying from drinking dirty water all over the place in this country nafdaq should rise up to checkmate what is in circulation they call water beginning with ah they call the brand oh let there come a fight also they call the particular brand that they should begin with that brand they should sanction them huh but are you not afraid of your brand being adulterated because again i want to believe that this brand that sanctos has mentioned right it's possible that because they say in abadi there's nothing you cannot see you you will see they will get us you know so are you not afraid of that um that water being well we are really prepared for okay such uh people we have been we have always been prepared because we know so starting from our we're starting from our plastics the mold we blow it our factory is okay no i beat you factory so i think we'll i think we'll speak to mdc come come officially officially we can be to interact with us for the drop a comment more importantly follow all our engagement social media like share and invite your families and friends to watch and follow the conversation now if you missed our quote today here it is again water is the driving force of all nature thank you so much dr cal and you have made me to call something i'm in trouble now see you tomorrow