Spring water minerals enter your blood faster through skin

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Spring water minerals enter your blood faster through skin

While drinking mineral water hydrates the gut, soaking in it allows the skin to absorb therapeutic ions directly into the bloodstream five times more efficiently.

Roman engineers once built five-hundred-kilometer aqueducts to capture the mineral-rich springs of Bulgaria, a region where the earth's crust exerts immense pressure on underground quartz. This geological force, known as the piezoelectric effect, dissolves minerals into the water at concentrations ten times higher than seawater.

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