The human body is composed of organ systems. One of the main tenets of modern mainstream science is that organs do not age and fail because they are designed to age and fail. Organs age and fail because their component cells fail to recover from cell injury and subsequently die. Cells in body organs fail to recover from injury because they lose their capacity to respond and adapt to the changing thermodynamic conditions surrounding them.

Unique Water is safe to drink and complies with Food Standards Australia New Zealand’s regulations for drinking water. It complies with federal and state governments' food safety standards. Unique Water contains magnesium and bicarbonate ions. People have been consuming water containing magnesium and bicarbonate ions since the dawn of time. This website is designed to give a theoretical framework to explain how magnesium bicarbonate in Unique Water may benefit people.

Modern science has demonstrated repeatedly that there are some species of animals in nature that maintain healthy lives for extraordinary long periods of time. Many of these animals show little, if any, signs of ageing. They may be potentially immortal (for details, refer Scientific Papers, especially the article, 'The Elimination of Carbon Dioxide Concentrations from the Body Increases Life Span', and the References page, in particular the references by Finch CE (1990), and by Ricklefs RE and Finch CE (1995)). It is now considered that these animals have evolved ways of efficiently eliminating carbon dioxide and acid concentrations from their bodies. It appears that excess carbon dioxide and acid concentrations in body cells are necessary and sufficient factors in ageing.

Modern medical research also has shown repeatedly that some communities of people live longer, more active lives than others. It is now considered that the lifestyles of these people, and the environments in which they live are factors which may help to prevent excess carbon dioxide and acid concentrations from contributing to cell death, organ injury and ageing.

From the perspective of real health care, it is important to minimise the damaging effects of excess carbon dioxide and acid concentrations in the human body. In effect, minimising the damaging effects of excess carbon dioxide and acid concentrations is ideal for maintaining an active body and lifestyle.

Furthermore, it is known that all oxidation reactions are stronger in acidic conditions. In some theories of ageing, oxidation reactions in the body initiated by oxygen radicals are regarded as crucial to ageing. The elimination of excess carbon dioxide and acid concentrations in the body diminishes the strength of damaging oxidation reactions in the body.

With the minimisation of excess carbon dioxide and acid concentrations, our hypothesis is that processes involved in cell death are decreased, and the ageing process is slowed. That is, an energetic life can be maintained. An ethical and intelligent solution may have been found to the physical risks and the mental anguish of old age. Our hypothesis is that the first successful step has been achieved in the quest to delay the ageing process. For a summary on how to minimise excess acid and carbon dioxide concentrations, refer Scientific Booklet Summary page.