HEALTH
The recognition of the goodness of Acqua San Carlo® for the health and well-being of the body and the beginning of its use for therapeutic purposes are lost in the darkness of the centuries, amidst tales passed down orally and legends about the Ligurian Apuans.
We need but recall the case of the Bishop of Milan Charles Borromeo who, it is told, successfully followed a mineral water treatment for arthritis in the XVI century, to his great benefit. To learn about the first studies on San Carlo Water® we have to go back to the early 1900s when, Dr. Nicola Zonder, recognized its virtues and therapeutic properties. The doctor, from a Swiss family, was born and trained in Massa, graduating in Medicine and Surgery in Florence in 1898 where he stayed for four years. He moved to Paris to specialize in psychiatry and then moved to Genoa.
In 1904 he returned to his hometown as Provost of Public Health, and from that time began his extensive studies of San Carlo Water®, which he called “an extraordinary water.” He was the first to open a radiology cabinet, and in treating certain patients he observed that the continued use of mountain water, achieved benefits that were not realized with ordinary drinking water. He began taking samples of all the mountain springs in the Massa area, and his attention focused on the San Carlo spring, which he judged superior to the others and well situated scenically.
His therapeutic experiments using San Carlo spring obtained important results that were presented by Dr. Zonder himself at the National Hydrology Congress held in May 1932 in Montecatini and Viareggio.
Interest in this particular water was not long in coming, and many physicians referred patients with urinary diseases to Dr. Zonder. By ministerial decree dated 13-4-1931, Zonder obtained a concession to exploit the San Carlo Spring, and in the same year created the primitive spa for hydropinic cures. Dr. Zonder died in Carrara Hospital at the age of 72 on February 24, 1945.
Acqua San Carlo® 1931: Sip Wellbeing
ACQUA SAN CARLO® AND HEALTH
Today, the research initiated by Dr. Zonder continues and finds
confirmation through studies at the University of Pisa, coordinated by
Professor Luca Antonioli and his team of researchers, which have
particularly highlighted the anti-oxidant and
anti-inflammatory properties of Acqua San Carlo®.
San Carlo® Water is a histophilic water, that is, with a peculiar chemical-physical composition, which gives it an effective detoxifying action; drunk constantly, it helps to purify and regenerate our organism, contributing to counteracting inflammatory processes and reducing levels of oxidative stress, conditions predisposing to a series of chronic pathologies.
In this regard, the study carried out by Professor Antonioli in the Pharmacology laboratory of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at the University of Pisa, showed that the intake of Acqua San Carlo® 1931, precisely because of its anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, improved vascular reactivity, which is impaired especially in elderly subjects, through a marked reduction in vascular oxidative stress with a consequent improvement in endothelium-dependent vasodilating function.
Hydropinic cures in the San Carlo Park may represent the beginning of a preventive and curative path.
In any case, thanks to its physical-chemical characteristics, bacteriological purity and lightness, Acqua San Carlo® 1931 is suitable for people of all ages and for the preparation of food for infants.
It is also recommended in all diuretic cures, for urological and urinary system diseases.