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Alkaline Water
Machines What do the
Experts Say? Toxins in
Our Water?
News Articles Water
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Sang Whang, that
wonderful Korean American scientist and inventor, explains it
beautifully in his ground-breaking book Reverse Aging.
(Sang Whang was diagnosed with high blood pressure at age 56 and was told he'd have to stay on medication for the rest of his life. His book described his discovery of ionized, alkaline water, how he gave up his medication - and at age 75 is looking and sounding as good as I would hope to look at that age!) Stay with me, this is about as technical as I'm going to get! When water has electrical energy, it causes the hydrogen within it to assume one of two forms. One is hydrogen that has a positive electrical charge. This water is 'acidic'. The other is hydrogen that bonds with an oxygen atom and becomes negatively charged. This is the building block of life itself, and chemically, it is in the form of OH-. One oxygen atom, one hydrogen atom with this negative electrical charge. That's ionized water. It now has energy it wants to donate to any compatible atom in your body. And it is called 'alkaline'. In both forms, these ions or atoms, now have the capability to precipitate chemical reactions of other minerals in water. What has that got to do with your health and longevity? Nothing happens in our bodies without a chemical reaction. And every chemical reaction only happens when the 'electricity' between just two atoms is compatible. So we can say that we are a chemical organism - by courtesy of electricity. At the molecular level, way beyond the cells, trillions of electrically uniting and repelling is going on every millisecond of your life. It's a veritable orgy of unity, and it's happening right now in your body, it always has, and it continues until the balance of acid and alkaline reactions - the battle between them - is over. And what wins this battle of the ions? Acid - every time. We all know that our body acids take over after we die to break down the body. Let me tell you, they've been doing just that for many, many years before you die. They're doing it now! Rusting, decaying, breaking down, burning, oxidizing - all a natural part of our balanced metabolism. So.. life as we know it is an internal 'battle' between positively charged atoms (ions) and negatively charged atoms (ions). We can equally - but less accurately - say life is a battle between acid and alkaline, because that's exactly what pH is all about. pH = acid/alkaline balance = ionizing = O.R.P. Coming back to water - when there are more H+ ions in the water than OH- ions, it will read as acidic. When there are more OH- than H+, it's alkaline water. I'd like to pause here a minute and review what we have discussed. I'll put it in point form:
Are we OK with that? If not,
please spare another five precious minutes and read it all again,
because what comes next rests upon your understanding so far and is the
key to the secret of health and anti aging that I'm communicating. We can measure pH using litmus paper or an electronic pH meter. It will give us a reading of from 0 to 14, with pH 7 being neutral; neither acid nor alkaline. Or we can use an ORP meter which tells us a lot more. It tells us the O = Oxidizing or R = reducing or donating Potential of a liquid. That's what O.R.P. means. Oxidizing means the ability to oxidize. To burn up. To rust. To break down, and the example I used earlier of a cadaver breaking down is an excellent one. It is oxidizing. Reducing is not as easy to understand. Scientifically, it means giving away, or donating, so if a liquid has 'reducing potential' it has the ability to donate energy to the body. The ORP meter actually measures the electrical charge of the water and if it reads above zero, it's oxidizing (acidic and an ionic 'robber'). If the voltage is negative it's reducing (alkaline and a giver)! Now we can begin to see that we aren't simply talking about choosing alkaline foods and drinks. We are choosing ways to 'alkalize' and 'energize', to add to our negative ion energy store and to neutralize the acidic, positively charged atoms in our bodies. Now we are getting very, very fundamental, and we are using water to carry this energy into the body. Why would this be so wonderful for you? Take a quick look at blood. As we know, blood has lots of water in it, and so it also has a ratio of the two types of water, the acidic and the alkaline as we discussed. When there are more alkaline ions, in the form of OH-, there is more oxygen in the blood, available to us as instantaneous fuel for life. In fact, if your blood is just a tiny bit more alkaline (from 7.3 to 7.45), it will be holding around 2/3 more oxygen! I remember my first few weeks on ionized, alkaline water; I was like a kid of Christmas day; up at 3 am looking for presents! I had just so much energy! Of course, once my system realized it had this new supply of oxygen, it put it to good use, modifying my early hour 'high' into sustained energy throughout the day, Is it possible that the lethargy you may be feeling could simply be the inability to carry oxygen in your blood? Can you also imagine the effect of proper oxygen levels in an athlete or sportsperson's blood? I have had quite a few people asking me why they get such a boost from oxygen supplements (Hydrogen Peroxide). It isn't hard to identify them as an acidic person, and without fail, those people who tell me that they get a boost from the supplements are all, in my estimation, trapped in an acid cycle lifestyle. I get no boost at all from any of the oxygen boost supplements, so I have concluded that I have the oxygen already available in my alkaline balanced bloodstream, and the people who get a boost are deficient, or acidic. It just makes sense! Isn't this fabulous information? I am so grateful to have learned about acid/alkaline! We've all concentrated on finding the latest supplement or miracle cure to 'fix' our ailments when the real support work can be done using what we are primarily and overwhelmingly composed of. What's that? Water! We are 70% water - yet we've basically ignored it! So now we are going to look at how water can change us fundamentally. But to do this I need to let you see what happens in an acidic body - bearing in mind that unless you are the one in 100 who is naturally alkaline, this means YOU! Let's just imagine we've wolfed down a Super sized burger along with a giant sugary soft drink. Even while it's still in your mouth - your nerves are already sending signals to your belly. The chemicals in your mouth have sampled the pH of the food, and (don't ask me how), your nervous system has told your stomach how much of this monster meal is 'coming on down'. Most people still think the stomach is a bagful of acid into which the burger is going to just 'ker-splosh'. It's just not true. Your stomach is a vessel that is
used to hold just the right amount of acid; not too much, not too little
- as calculated by the mouth (and I suspect, the eyes - we've all heard
the old saying, his eyes are bigger than his stomach!) Now you've swallowed this humungous McMess, your body has had ample chance to understand that it just swallowed something with the potential to kill. It knows that if the pH of your blood falls to neutral 7 instead of its normal pH 7.35, you will go into a coma and die. Right now, courtesy of Fast Food and Drink Corporations, your body is being flooded with acids and your blood pH is beginning to fall. Your adrenals are screaming! They are telling you things are dire; but guess what? You've interpreted the message as the 'hit' you always get when you gulp a Coke. You've actually learned to love it!! The adrenals are our early warning system. They are telling all of our systems to drop everything and source some alkaline minerals or negative hydrogen to neutralize this acid flood. Our major organ systems are hard wired to respond because this is a survival imperative. It's been with you since Paleolithic times. You don't digest dinner when a dinosaur is chasing you - you never have, because you've learned that death is the result of both scenarios. So what happens down there? Well, the 'all systems alert' firstly calls on the pancreas, because one of the pancreas's jobs is to secrete alkaline chyle to neutralize the acids now mixed up with the food you have now tossed around in your stomach. The real problem is that you've been making a habit of this. Not only have you eaten a Burger, Fries and Soft Drinks for lunch, you've been downing beers, eating lots of sugar in fruit because someone told you you should eat more fruit, and you've been stressed out at work. You've been robbing the pancreas so long that it's just exhausted. It has nothing more to give. So the next port of call is body tissues. "Alkalis? Alkalis? Anyone?" "Sorry. None here." Next stop is bones and teeth, and yes, we actually erode our own skeleton to feed our acid habit. That's one big reason there's a plague of Osteoporosis in the West today. In the meantime, because our blood pH is plunging dangerously, the stomach has been told to stop what it's doing and let the body use its limited available energy to work on alkalizing this deadly acid flood, so what does it do? It dumps its half processed McLoad into the lower intestine. It's acidic, it's lumpy, it's half digested, and the poor old pancreas, the gate keeper to the lower intestine, can't do a thing to change it and fulfill its purpose of protecting the lower gut. It's like a lorry load of toxic waste sneaking past a helpless sentry. About now it's oozing into the intestine. And because you've been acidic for so long - (a byproduct of acidosis is constipation as the water from the stools is sucked out into the abdominal cavity to help move garbage) - your bowel is what doctors call "lazy". It moves slowly because it's full of hard feces. And being acidic, it burns the sensitive absorbent villi on the intestinal walls as it goes, even to the point of bursting though the intestine wall, flooding the abdominal cavity with filthy, rotting, acidic McGarbage that only a few hours ago was sitting on a shelf in a fast food outlet.! So now we come to where all of the effects of excess acid conspire against us and our future health. But first, do you know what a free radical really is? It's a positively charged oxygen atom or ion. And as we have learned it is oxidative. It breaks things down. It burns, it rusts. So as always, in a perfect body, things work perfectly. In this perfect body it has a perfect purpose as the perfect little janitor, moving about and reacting with garbage, toxins or putrefying matter to oxidize it and render it down to its basic components. Note that I said that's what it does in a perfect system, but an acidic system isn't a perfect system. As we have already discussed, virtually every system in an acidic body is under siege and working at far less potential than it was designed for. So things go wrong. They either over or under-perform, or they perform in a way they shouldn't. So it is with our free radical system. In a state of siege, or acidity, it produces too many free radicals, (ah well, better more than not enough, folks!) and being eager little fully active critters, they go forth and oxidize - anything! Not just putrid food or waste, but healthy cells! That's why our scientists say it is ageing us. They are acidic - positively charged, acting as a result of acid, in an acidic system. How could they possible work in the way they were designed? So what do we do about all this mess? We see the glossy advertisement for anti-oxidant capsules, tablets, exotic juices and the like and we spend six, seven, ten dollars a day gobbling them down. What is it they have in those little capsules? They have chemical cages holding something we've now heard about; the H- hydrogen ion, the great donator, the giver, the lifesaver! Instead of drinking negative hydrogen loaded alkaline water at about two cents a liter, people are told they have to get their antioxidants in pills! What a setup! Companies make millions from the theory! But does water really work? I was attending an exhibition of health systems three years ago. I'd been on our stand for three days. Three days of non-stop talking, and when someone told me there was a stand where you could have your antioxidant ability tested, my first reaction was that I couldn't possibly have a good reading. I was just too tired. However, it was free, and things were quiet, so I went to see what it was all about. Sure enough, there was the man, the computer and the test report coming out of a printer. He was trying to sell people on buying his brand of antioxidant pills, but he was quite happy to test me. "I've been talking non stop for three days." I said. "Will it still work?" "That makes no difference," he replied. "The probe measures the carotene in the skin, and that's the best indicator of antioxidant ability." "So what is a good score?" I asked. He explained that the top score was thirty on the computer's scale, and that very few people got anywhere near that. I held out my wrist. He applied the probe and a minute later pulled the results from the printer, looking puzzled. "Are you sure you're not on some form of antioxidant supplement?" he asked with a slightly suspicious frown. "None at all." I answered. "Why?" "Because your score is the highest I've done all week. You are over the scale. You scored forty! What is it you do to get a score like that?" I looked him in the eye to watch his reaction. "I drink alkaline water." In the years since that test, I get calls from clients from all over. It seems that wherever he goes with his machine, he finds one of our clients. "Guess what? I had my antioxidant
ability tested! And." they say. So I DO know the alkaline water works as a powerful antioxidant. All alkaline foods will work to some degree, but it just makes so much sense that if you are 70% water, and if water is everywhere in your body, then - to my mind - water in an antioxidant form is a far more efficient and economical mode of countering free radicals than food or pills. I'll stop talking about myself at this point; there are literally hundreds of stories that we have received over the last seven years about the effects and power of drinking Alkaline water. These are all real stories from real people just like you; athletes, housewives, businesspeople, doctors, naturopaths, families young and old. You'll find just a few of their stories on our brochures and on our website, but more come in every week, and they are always amazing. Do you know the really cool thing for me? Yes, it's wonderful water and it has great effect on me every day of my life. But it's also clever water. It splits into acid water that I use to cleanse and remove bacteria from my food, my kitchen, my bathroom, my skin and hair. It also provides the alkaline water I have already described. But here's the great thing. It costs me two cents a liter, and I NEVER have to buy another throwaway plastic bottle of water. This machine has been a Godsend!!! My son and I work with a Ministry called Restoration Ranch. We take the machine up there and fill the water bottles every two days. There are about 35 men ages starting at 22 yrs to 60 yrs old. They are alcoholics and drug users which the court has sent to the ranch as a last resort before sending them to prison. However the miracle of the detox water is that I hear reports from the men that they sleep through the night, their muscles are not cramping up, head aches have disappeared, sugar cravings have diminished or completely gone away, tremors in the nerves have subsided, and what I have heard the most is that those who were depressed are acting somewhat normal. They can actually keep their focus on the good things of life and there is much more. These things are happening in just several days using the water. A Quick Comparison of Water Health Systems Now that you know what happens with ionized, alkaline water you will have a very good idea about other so-called ionized water. There are many, many water filters that frankly, wish they were ionizers. The difference is in the basic principle we have discussed about negative hydrogen ions; the superior antioxidant ability of the water. The only reason the water alkalizer works so well is that it actually splits water into two optimized forms: 1. The alkaline water we've talked about - ionized, negatively charged, oxygenated, micro clustered super hydrating. 2. The 'other' water that is
simultaneously separated from the alkaline water; acid, astringent,
antimicrobial. Only a true electronically controlled water ionizer splits the water this way. The alternatives you may read about all use a magnet in the water stream. Although this does create a little less positive ionization in the water, (not enough to become negative) it will quickly re-associate back to normal H2O when it leaves the magnet's field. So there's no lasting stream of OH- molecules as we discussed earlier and there's no alternative acid stream output. Over the years of working with the water alkalizer, I've heard so many stories invented by other manufacturers about why their system is better, but it all boils down to one simple fact. They can't alkalize like the systems we've been talking about. End of story. However ... there are some questions I hear again and again which I'll share now. Q: Does it remove fluoride? Q: Can I over-alkalize? Q: How does the filter in it
compare to normal filters? Q: Isn't Reverse Osmosis the most
effective water filter? Q: What about a distiller? That
doesn't waste water. Q: Lots of systems say they alkalize. |
