A Good Explanation of the Melody and Athena Water Ionizers’ Internal Cleaning Systems is in the video, below.
I came across this video yesterday, and thought I’d share it with you. It’s over a year old, but just as applicable today as it was when it was made! It’s amazing to me how much better the Melody and Athena are than any other water ionizer for their water ionizer water cell internal cleaning systems. I’ve seen this kind of thing in action with real-live electrodes and the amazing difference this kind of internal cleaning, flow-chamber-switching system makes!
When doing water ionizer comparisons, don’t forget to look at each water ionizer’s internal cleaning system!
It is so important to clean your water ionizer’s electrode plates, that I’m surprised so few water ionizer companies are taking this point seriously enough. I’d imagine that competitive pressure will eventually force all water ionizer manufacturers to address this issue. But in the meantime, we do have the Jupiter water ionizers which have adequate cleaning of electrodes…along with adequate everything, really! It appears that KYK is also a close runner-up or equal…now with their automatic clean-as-you-use electrode cleaning system and new draining system!
Actually KYK has another feature I think beats out the Jupiter ionizers, and that’s the fact that their filters get rid of the fluoride! That’s something that all water ionizers do up to 85% or 90%, but to get more than that, you usually need to prefilter or do RO…which just adds another thing buy and attached to your line.
Chanson has an exceptional looking product that all water ionizers can use, and that’s the “Ionizer Armor“. It’s a strong magnet that puts a temporary charge on the input water, so that when the hard water passes through the water ionizer it won’t tend to stick to the insides of the plumbing and film up the plates with what is called scale build-up.
With the big deal people are making these days about making sure they purchase the water ionizer with the best pH/ORP/rH on testing, I think it will be only the next evolution for all the companies to jump in there and do what it takes to prove their cleaning systems will keep those pH/ORP & rH scores high well into the future with consistently well-cleaned plates.
Lots of testing has been done on brand-new water ionizers. I say it’s time to start testing older models …after months or even years of use! Good idea!
Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog-Master
Why & How Should You Get Your Well Water Tested Before Using a Water Ionizer?
Water Ionizers minimize the acidic elements in your drinking water while at the same time maximizing the alkaline elements. While most alkaline elements are good and healthy for you [i.e., calcium, magnesium], there are some elements [arsenic, lead, nitrates] which can be found in well water in significant quantities and you DO NOT WANT TO MAXIMIZE THESE in your drinking water…you want to prefilter them out. But, first you need to know what they are!
How do you know what’s in your well water?
It used to be that you had to send your water to a lab to test your water [which could cost upwards of $100. for the analysis...plus take lots of your time to arrange!] Now, with my new Comprehensive Well-Water Test Kit, you can buy this really cheap, $24.95, and do the test yourself at home.
This kit will test for iron, bacteria, lead, pesticides, nitrates, nitrites, chlorine, pH and hardness [nine of the most common and potentially hazardous contaminants found in drinking water. With this kit, you can compare your results with the EPA-recommended levels. Also, once you have completed your testing, you can email the results to me and one of our water analysts can evaluate it for you as it relates to using a water ionizer with your well water. They are trained to know exactly which prefilter(s) you will need, if any, to make sure your ionized water is the best, healthiest, and safest for you and your family to drink!
Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog-Master
In the following video, I demonstrate testing my own body’s pH. It’s perfect, of course, seeing as I’ve been drinking alkaline ionized water since I purchased my first water ionzier over 16 years ago. It’s easy and inexpensive to test your own body pH… using pH test paper which you can buy from me at Alkaline Water Plus website…Here’s the link: http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/product/pH. A person’s pH level of saliva is a really good indication of their body pH. Young children, or people who have been drinking alkaline ionized water will have a pH at the perfect level [7.365]. But as you get older and have used up your body’s buffers, your ph tends to drop [[7.2...7.1...7.0...6.9] even though you still appear healthy. This isn’t a healthy condition, though, and you may have some signs of unhealthiness [allergies, infections, colds...]. People with diseases will show up with an acidic body pH [around 5.8 to 6.5].
“When you drink alkaline water, you are drinking water with excess oxygen, not in the form of O2, but in the form of OH- which is very stable because it is mated with positively ionized alkaline minerals. Two of these hydroxyl ions can form a water molecule (H2O) and give out one oxygen atom. The alkaline mineral is used to detoxify poisonous acid compounds and when that happens the hydroxyl ion is freed to supply excess oxygen to the cells.” Reverse Aging, Sang Whang, 1990, page 51
“The saliva pH parallels the extra cellular fluid … pH paper test using saliva represents the most consistent sign of calcium deficiency syndrome … The saliva pH of the non-deficient and healthy person is in the 7.5 to 7.1 slightly alkaline range. The range from 6.5 which is weakly acidic to 4.5 which is strongly acidic represents states from mildly deficient to strongly deficient, respectively. Most children are dark blue, a pH of 7.5. Over half of adults are green-yellow, a pH of 6.5 or lower, reflecting the calcium deficiency of aging and lifestyle defects. Cancer patients are usually a bright yellow, a pH of 4.5, especially when terminal.”
The Calcium Factor: The Scientific Secret of Health and Youth, Carl J. Reich, M.D., Gilliland Printing Inc., Arkansas City, Kansas, 1996.
What is pH?
The pH scale ranges from 0 (the highest acidic) to 14 (the most alkaline). A solution with a pH of 7 is neutral. At pH 7, water contains equal amounts of H and OH- ions. Substances with a pH of less than 7 are acidic because they contain a higher concentration of H ions. Substances with a pH higher than 7 are alkaline because they contain a higher concentration of OH-. The pH scale goes from 0 to 14 and is logarithmic, which means that each step is ten times the previous. In other words, a pH of 5 is 10 times more acid than 6, 100 times more acid than 7 and 1,000 times more acid than 8. In this light, you can see how a slight change in your pH value can have a great impact on your internal environment and, ultimately, your health.
pH Balance – What is the Healthy pH Range?
When healthy, the blood pH is 7.365, the pH of spinal fluid is 7.4, and the saliva pH is 7.4. This ideal blood pH measurement means it is more alkaline than acid.
How does pH affect out health?
In the absence of oxygen, glucose undergoes fermentation to lactic acid. Our bodies simply can not fight disease if our body pH balance is compromised. It has been determined that an alkaline body is more conducive to health and well-being than an acidic one. An undesirable pH can lead to a variety of negative health effects. A body that tends toward acidity heightens the risk for infections from bacteria, yeast, parasites, and viruses. All of these seek out and thrive in an acid environment.
Not only are you more susceptible to infections such as colds and the flu but also degenerative diseases are promoted if your pH is consistently acid.
Furthermore, populations of bacteria, fungi, etc. may be thriving throughout your body without causing acute disease, yet producing copious acid waste products. These stealth infections may underlie a variety of degenerative conditions. Bacteria are found in arthritic joints, arterial plaque, and many other places
If disease is to be prevented or successfully managed, an acid pH must be overcome.
“pH paper strips to measure acid/alkaline pH balance belong in every family medicine kit, right beside the thermometer and bandages.” – Dr. R. Dunne
To purchase your own pH Test Paper, click here: pH Test Paper [Note: It comes in a 15 foot roll of pH paper and comes with dispenser and instructions ...for $13.75]
A brief Science of Body pH
Minerals with Virtually all degenerative diseases including heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, kidney and gall stones, and tooth decay are associated with excess acidity in the body. While the body has a homeostatic mechanism that maintains a constant pH 7.4 in the blood, this mechanism works by depositing and withdrawing acid and alkaline minerals from other locations including the bones, soft tissues, body fluids and saliva. Therefore, the pH of these other tissues can fluctuate greatly. The pH of saliva offers a window through which you can see the overall pH balance in your body.
Minerals with a negative electrical charge are attracted to the H ion. These are called acid minerals. Acid minerals include: chlorine (Cl-), sulfur (S-), phosphorus (P-), and they form hydrochloric acid (HCl), sulfuric acid (H2SO4), and phosphoric acid (H3PO4). Minerals with a positive electrical charge are attracted to the negatively charged OH- ion. These are called alkaline minerals. Nutritionally important alkaline minerals include calcium (Ca), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), and sodium (Na). (Cancer patients tend to have an excess of sodium. – Gerson page 97). To determine if a food is acid or alkaline, it is burned and the ash is mixed with water. If the solution is acid or alkaline then the food is called acid or alkaline. Ash is the mineral content of the food.
Also, while it is commonly understood that the body needs calcium to build bones, what is not generally known is bones are a complex matrix of many different minerals and if all the required minerals are not present then strong bones cannot be built. There are at least 18 key bone-building nutrients essential for optimum bone health. The implication is that it is easier to destroy bone through excess acidity in the body than it is to rebuild bone. Furthermore, as farm soils become depleted of many trace minerals the foods grown on these soils contain less and less of the required nutrients. At last count, the human body requires 90 different nutrients for optimum health, and the list is growing year by year.
How does this relate to body metabolism? Basically, if the body fluids are acid they will seek alkaline minerals to react with – such as sodium, potassium, zinc, iron, calcium. These are found in the liver, muscles, ligaments and bones, etc., if too little is available from the diet. But why should this happen? Effectively, all the body’s internal fluids are designed to be slightly alkaline, such as interstitial fluid, cerebrospinal and lymphatic fluid, liver bile and so on. The only exception to this is the hydrochloric acid produced by the stomach.
While our bodies are designed to be alkaline, cells produce acid as a by-product of their normal activity. The acid waste matter thus produced is reduced to carbon dioxide and water which are excreted harmlessly from the body.
When food is consumed and metabolized, however, not all of it is used up. A residue remains and this has been called ash (and perhaps the major area of disagreement in this subject is over the classification of foods into acid-ash forming and alkaline-ash forming foods). Digestion oxidizes foods in much the same way as if they were burned except that it involves enzymes operating at low temperatures; a lemon, for example, will break down into carbohydrates that will further break down into carbon dioxide and water leaving a residual alkaline ash consisting of minerals salts such as sodium, potassium and calcium etc. So while a lemon will taste acid and present and acid pH if tested raw, its ash will be alkaline and so will its effect on the body.
Proteins on the other hand leave an ash consisting of phosphates, sulphates and nitrates (from the phosphorus, sulphur and nitrogen that proteins contain). These are all acid. The net effect of protein consumption (whether from animal or vegetable sources) is to increase acidity.
The body has to rid itself of its acid wastes. This type of acid ash cannot be eliminated through the lungs as carbon dioxide and water in the same way as cellular metabolism. Instead the body has to buffer the ash with alkaline substances in order to neutralize it. Buffering takes place both inside and outside the cell, the majority of the buffering occurring in the blood itself.
Clinical research by Dr M T Morter (Arkansas, USA) has shown that if the anabolic urinary and salivary pH (measured immediately upon awakening) is below 6.8, we can be relatively certain that digestive support must be provided. Controlled clinical studies by Dr Paul Yanick (Pasadena, USA) have confirmed Dr Morter’s findings and recorded that intracellular assimilation of nutrients is significantly decreased when the anabolic pH is below 6.8.
However as both these researchers have shown, supplementing the diet with appropriate alkalizing agents was highly beneficial in elevating the systemic pH by replenishing the alkaline mineral and enzyme reserves. Since systemic deficiencies show only in the last instance in the digestive tract, practitioners should not wait until the signs and symptoms of poor digestion become evident. From a preventative perspective, compensation should be made when symptoms are minimal and the anabolic pH is below 7.4 after an Alkaline Load Test (see “Correlative Urinalysis” by M T Morter).
Diets which are high in protein, fat and carbohydrates and low in greens and raw food, stress the digestive mechanisms, inhibiting proper digestion and overloading the immune system with incompletely digested macromolecules and toxins. These digestive disturbances are aggravated by the typically high intake of food additives, pesticides and stimulating foods that are common in the Western diet.
Also in a effect to solve the problem of worsening public water quality, more and more people are turning to water in plastic containers. What is usually not realized is that virtually all bottled water is highly acidic and missing the essential alkalizing minerals.
The test uses a pH-sensitive, color-coded test strip to reveal your body pH balance status. For the saliva test: – Be sure not to eat, drink, or brush your teeth for 30 minutes prior to the test – Swallow a couple of times to clear the mouth and stimulate new saliva – Then discharge some saliva into a PLASTIC spoon (it is recommended NOT to touch the pH paper to your tongue due to the chemicals in the paper.
Tear off a one-inch strip of pH paper, place into saliva and compare the color of your immersed pH paper with the color chart provided on the pH testing roll. The lower your pH value below 7.0, the greater your degree of acid stress. Continue testing and recording your pH for a few weeks – first thing in the morning, afternoon and at bedtime (This will show your body pH trend).
While generally more acidic than blood, salivary pH mirrors the blood ( if not around meals ) and is also a fairly good indicator of health. It tells us what the body retains.
Optimal pH for saliva is above 7 pH.
A reading consistently lower than 6.8 is indicative of possible insufficient alkaline reserves. After eating, the saliva pH should rise to 7.8 or higher. Unless this occurs, the body has alkaline mineral deficiencies ( mainly Calcium and Magnesium ) and will not assimilate food very well. To deviate from ideal salivary pH for an extended time invites illness. If your saliva stays between 6.8 and 7.2 pH all day, your body is functioning within a healthy range. If the early morning salivary pH remains above 6.8, people usually see many of their problems disappearing.
Testing Your Urinary pH
The pH of the urine indicates how the body is working to maintain the proper pH of the blood. The urine reveals the alkaline building (anabolic) and acid tearing down (catabolic) cycles. The pH of urine indicates the efforts of the body via the kidneys, adrenals, lungs and gonads to regulate body pH balance through the buffer salts and hormones. Urine can provide a fairly accurate picture of body chemistry, because the kidneys filter out the buffer salts of pH regulation and provide values based on what the body is eliminating. Urine pH can vary from around 4.5 to 9.0 for its extremes, but the ideal range is 6.5 to 7.0> Urinary pH tends to be lower in the morning and higher in the evening.
The pH of the urine can vary widely. The pH of urine is also affected by the biochemicals that the body is eliminating. These include biochemicals such as excess minerals, vitamins, and products of metabolism and also include drugs and toxins being eliminated by the body.
The pH of the urine is not as affected by digestive enzymes as salivary pH. However, the pH of the urine can be affected by:
preservatives you eat
pollutants you breathe
stress you encounter
the food you eat
how much water you drink
the amount of pathogens in your system
how much rest you receive
all the biochemical activities going on in your body.
To encourage you to get healthy, and buy yourself a water ionizer [sooner rather than later], and for a limited time, I am giving all customers who purchase water ionizers from me a free box of pH test paper if you mention this BLOG POST so you can moniter the progress of your body pH as you drink alkaline ionized water and improve your health!
Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog-Master
You should get to know your areas water contaminants and risks so you can guard against them.
Every year the water company sends me a water quality report. In this report I am given a lot of data about my water…you should be too. Maybe this report is something you filed away and didn’t think about in the past, but now that you’re more informed, you might just take a look at it some time. It’s informative, however it only reports the elements that are federally regulated [so it's not a complete listing...actually there are over 100 contaminants that aren't even regulated, so they wouldn't be in the report].
Disinfectants [byproducts of the disinfectants used to treat the water]: Chloramine, Trihalomethanes, Haloacetic Acids;
Microbes: Coliform Bacteria, Total Organic Compounds, and Turbicity; and finally it tells me about
Radioactive Contaminants: Gross Alpha Particle Activity, and Total Uranium.
Well, in looking over my St. Louis area report, there’s some good news and some bad news for people living in St. Louis [without a water ionizer]. The good news is no radiation has been detected. The bad news is: there’s too much lead in the water, almost too many Nitrates & too much Barium in the water, and
In my book… any of this junk in the water is bad news!
I’m sure different localities will have differing concerns, therefore, I’d expect the water reports to reflect the risks in that location. The report points out a maximum level of contamination for each of the contaminants, and a range considered “safe”. These are all usually reported in mg/L [milligrams per liter]. Then the report tells the Average level of the targeted contaminants found in the water [after treatment].
You can go to this website to get information on the contaminants in your area’s water: http://www.ewg.org/tapwater/yourwater/ Or you could go to your city’s website and search for “water quality report” or “water report”. Ex. My search, “St. Louis Water Report”, gave me the report as the first item on pg. 1.
Once you get your report, you can see if there’s something in your water that you may need a prefilter for. I think the Arsenic, Lead and Fluoride prefilter looks like something I should get. Prefilters targeting certain contaminants do a much better job than a single filter can.
With all that having been said, though, I feel pretty safe with my St. Louis water. And it’s all because of my wonderful Melody water ionizer with its awesome Biostone [soon to be Biostone Plus] filter.
If you have well water, you’ll have to do your own testing. Fortunately, I now have a really inexpensive Comprehensive Well-Water Test Kit you can purchase for 24.95.
Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog-Master
With a Water Ionizer Your Wetter Water Will Steep Tea Without Heating
Water has a property of clustering with other water molecules. In nature the clusters are found to be much smaller than what comes out of your tap. A water ionizer can return your water to its natural water molecule cluster size.
One of the features of a water ionizer is to break down the water molecule clusters so that the water becomes wetter. Wetter water is very useful! We’ve all heard of water being the universal solvent, right? That is a great property of water. What that means is that as water makes its way through our bodies it should be able to pick up all the waste products given off by our cells. As wastes are added to the water, the water cluster size increases, which enables it to take on more wastes. This property of water makes it able to disolve the wastes from your cells, so you can get rid of them and keep your cells clean and healthy.
That would be what happened if the water you drank was simply just water…as you’d find it up in a mountain spring.
However, as your water makes its way through the many rivers, and channels, and water treatment plants it gets full, so to speak, of all kinds of disolved elements. It is no longer just water, and it’s no longer found in small clusters.
A water ionizer can remove all the harmful elements that have been added to the water, and at the same time keep the good [alkaline] elements which your body needs [such as calcium and magnesium]. The water ionizer has two poles. When electrolosys occurs, it splits the water clusters and pulls about 1/3 to 1/2 of the water cluster [the molecules which are bound to acidic elements, such as chlorine and fluoride] toward the acidic pole. These toxic elements then get eliminated through the bottom hose. The remaining water [alkaline ionized water] is in smaller clusters now, and ready to sweep through your body picking up [disolving & eliminating] all the acidic wastes that your cells are begging you to get rid of.
One way to demonstrate the effect and use of this de-clusterization is with a tea bag. Below, I have a video demonstration showing regular tap water vs. ionized water steeping a tea bag. Let’s pretend the tea is acidic wastes from your cells. Which water will be more able to absorb these wastes: tap water or ionized water?
If you said “ionized water” you’d be right!
Here’s the video:
Of course if you’re thinking that you’d just like to steep your tea without having to heat the water, this video could show that too!
Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog Master
P.S. This blog entry is dedicated to Janet, who pointed out to me that Enagic dealers are telling people that the only water ionizer capable of allowing you to steep tea without heating the water is their product. I hope this video debunks that theory. Thanks!
Breaking News! Jupiter Has Come Out With an Ultimate Water Ionizer Filter: The Biostone Plus!
It was just reported to me today, that the Jupiter water ionizer manufacturing company has come out with a brand new water ionzier filter! I’m so excited about this new filter, because it’s far better than anything Jupiter has ever had before, and I explain why, below. Also, it’s only $69.00!!!
First, let me say that this new Biostone Plus water ionizer filter can fit into any Jupiter water ionizer: The Microlite Water Ionizer, The Neptune Water Ionizer, The Melody Water Ionizer, The Aquarius Water Ionizer, The Orion Water Ionizer, The Athena Water Ionizer, and the Delphi Water Ionizer. So if you own one of these water ionizers, you’ll be able to order the new Ultimate Biostone as a replacement filter.
What’s really exciting is that this new Biostone Plus Filter is it will actually filter out the chloramine, chlorine (of course) and all the heavy metals. Chloramine, is a new and crazy contaminant that has stumped many filters to date, but now with this new filter the Chloramine won’t be a problem any more.
The nine stage BioStone Plus incorporates the amazing natural properties of “vortex hydraulics” in its filter body design which reduce channeling and ensure the optimal performance and longevity of your filter. Its superior cutting edge filtration media is a uniquely treated type of “super” carbon. This is not your standard old school GAC. This is media designed for ultimate chlorine and chloramines filtration. Also, a special heavy metal reduction media reduces lead, aluminum, copper and other heavy metals. It also provides you extra protection against chlorine and chloramines.
The addition of Bioceramic Tourmaline reduces surface tension in the water and aids in the ionization process. Multiple sediment filters between the various stages remove the suspended solids of one micron or greater. The BioStone Plus is manufactured in the US with NSF certified components.
Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog-Master
The two most important ways to compare water ionizers are:
1. Compare the pH, ORP [antioxidant potential], and rH [relative Hydrogen] that the water ionizers can produce [The only way to do this is through side-by-side comparisons, such as I have done and explained on my Water Ionizer Comparison Page]
2. Compare the water ionizers’ internal cleaning systems.
Why do I say you should compare the water ionizers’ cleaning systems? A good cleaning system is the only way your water will be able to continue to produce the best ionized water in years to come. It’s very important to keepthe electrodes clean [not just clean them periodically]. The electrodes are the “heart” of the water ionizer. If the electrodes can be kept squeaky clean, then your water ionizer will continue to be able to produce the best, high pH, low ORP [high antioxidant], water as if it was brand new out of the box! If the water ionizer isn’t kept internally cleaned well enough, then the electrodes will develop a calcium film [or scale build up] on them. This will reduce the water ionizer’s capacity to ionize water over the months and years. Ideally, one should set up all the water ionizers in one location, and use them equally, and test them periodically to then see which water ionizer continues to be the best — over time. But, short of that, we can predict this pretty well by looking at the cleaning systems to see which are the best.
I’ll tell you a story which demonstrates the reason I know the Melody and Athena water ionizers have the best cleaning systems.
My sister has what’s called a “batch water ionizer”. This is a water ionizer where it has two chambers. You pour water into one chamber, and turn the water ionizer knob “on”…then 20 minutes later all the acid water has been pulled to the other chamber and the alkaline water has been retained in the first chamber. This is an inferior water ionizer to the ones I sell by the way, because the water doesn’t get filtered. Also, the water is ionized about the same as the major water ionizers sold today, but the process takes so long [it's very inconvenient]. But, back to my story. My sister used to have to soak her electrodes every 6 months because they developed scale-build-up on them But she learned a trick to keep them clean without having to do the 6 month cleaning. She showed me her trick a few months ago, and here’s what she did: After each use, she turned the electrodes 180 degrees so the electrode in the acidic chamber was now in the alkaline chamber and vise-versa. This little trick has kept the electrodes extremely clean! That is basically what the design for the Melody and the Athena does. It flips the internal chambers around with each glass of ionized water you pour. This prevents scale build-up, and therefore keeps those plates clean!
Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog-Master
Announcing! Alkaline Water Plus has created a new Water Ionizer Testimonials Videos & Forum which is sure to help spread the word about Alkaline Ionized Water!
In the US we are so far behind in people knowing about the amazing benefits of alkaline ionized water. Since about a year or so ago, when I first decided to sell water ionizers, the awareness of the average person has increased noticably, but it’s still rare to find someone who actually knows about water ionizers.
I am convinced that if people really knew what a water ionizer can do, I’m convinced they would not hesitate to buy one.
I’ve been drinking ionized water for over 16 years, and have [along with my whole family] had amazing benefits! I wanted to tell my own story [testimonial], and I wanted to share the testimonials about water ionization from my customers and affiliates that I was hearing every day. So I decided to construct this new Testimonials page and Forum.
Check it out! It’s a great collection of written and video water ionizer testimonials all located in one spot. I anticipate it will get a lot of use. When looking for testimonials about water ionizers, who wants to go searching all over the internet. so I have been searching and collecting for you, and sharing my own…so you can find your answers more quickly.
Hope this helps!
Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog Master
Tyent has just released a new TURBO feature that can be purchased as an upgrade for their Tyent MMP7070 water ionizer. So what is this new TURBO feature all about?
The Tyent MMP7070 regular water ionizer has 7 large plates and normally has an adjustable wattage of 110w to 240w to accomodate for the different water ionization levels selected. The new Turbo feature raises the wattage of the water ionizer to 280w. Think of the brightness of a 280 watt light bulb vs. a 240 watt.
So what are the results? How much better is the water ionizer’s pH/ORP when using the Turbo feature?
I’ve posted this water ionizer comparison video (comparing the Melody water ionizer to the Tyent water ionizer) to show you, but the bottom line is that the Turbo feature only slightly raised the pH and ORP of the water. The actual rH* (relative Hydrogen: which is the scientific analysis of the HEALTHINESS OF THE WATER based on a formula explained at the bottom) was worse. The Turbo feature, in my opinion may wear out the water ionizer prematurely also, and seems completely unnecessary. The level 3 pH and ORP of the Tyent MMP7070 were great! Why mess with a good thing? If it doesn’t get a more significant increase than this, then I say it’s not worth the extra money.
I am so happy I was able to try out this new Tyent MMP7070 Turbo water ionizer, and it’s pretty good! At level 3 I got a 10.91 pH and -802 ORP at level 3. The Turbo feature boosted the pH to 11.05 and the ORP to -812. Please note: additional testing will be done in about a week.
The Melody did great too! I’ve put a little comparison chart below to show the difference between the Melody and Tyent. The Melody is a great, reliable water ionizer that stands up well against all the water ionizers that have 7 large plates. The Melody water ionizer also cleans itself better than the Tyent, and I think that one feature will make the largest difference to consumers in the long run.
Water Ionizer
pH
ORP
rH*
Tyent 7070 @ Level 3 of 3
10.91
-802
1.11
Tyent Turbo
11.05
-812
1.74
Melody @ Level 3 of 4
11.11
-807
2.04
*rH: On a scale of 0-42, 0 is best, and 42 is worst.
My vote: Consider the Tyent — as it’s a good water ionizer…but also consider the Melody; they’re both great, so don’t worry too much about every little difference in pH & ORP if they’re that close – just start drinking ionized water as soon as you can and as often as you can.
Wishing You Water Wellness,
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog-Master
*pH means potential Hydrogen and is measured by a logarithmic [each unit is a multiple of 10 of the preceding unit] scale from 1 to 14. When a substance is below 7 on the scale it is said to be acidic. When it’s above 7 it’s said to be alkaline. The blood is around 7.35 and must stay in a very narrow range of slight alkalinity in order to sustain life.
*ORP means Oxygen Reduction Potential. It basically stands for the proportionate amount of negatively charged [H-] Hydrogen ions existing in a substance. The easiest way to look at is …it’s the anti-oxidant effect that that substance is cabable of giving your body when you drink it.
*rH is “relative Hydrogen”. This test calculation shows the actual health benefits of the water tested. Many now believe that this is the most important factor contributing to good health. Note: To find rH one uses pH and ORP measurements plugged into a formula. The formula is: rH = ((ORP + 200) / 30) + (2 * pH). On a scale from 0 to 42 above 28 oxidizing (higher potential to damage the closer it gets to 40) and below 28 is reducing (anti-oxidizing)…the lower the better.
I talk to people all the time about water ionizers, and it’s usually middle-aged or older people who are calling and writing with questions and placing orders. But it seems I have a rash of young people who are interested in getting a water ionizer, because ionizing water has been found to help out with work outs and giving them more energy!
There’s a customer I was just talking with today, who’s been drinking alkaline ionized water now for 2 months. She got a water ionizer, so she’d be healthier as she got older.
She said she wasn’t sure at first if it was making any difference, But then after about a month she noticed something was definitely happening when she went to do her workouts…
The water ionizer helped her have a lot more energy!
That makes total sense to me, because when you work out your cells produce a lot more acid wastes. Also, the anti-oxidant quality of the ionized water would be helpful in combatting the free radicals that I’m sure will build up as you exercise for long periods.
I often hear people that ionized water gives them more energy. For all those people out there who are athletes, or body-builders, or just get lots of exercise, spread the word! Ionized water will help you!
Anyway, this girl is so excited now, she’s telling all her friends! And, she got her room-mate started drinking ionized water. Her room mate noticed that she was able to lose weight more ealily, whereas it would usually be a lot harder and take much more time.
Ionized water is a big help with lots of people who are trying to lose weight too. I hear this a lot. The reason is that the fat cells will give up their fat only if you have sufficient buffers so as to not make the blood too acidic by pouring the fats into it. The fats in your cells have to go through your bloodstream to be eliminated. And if doing that will make your blood acidic, it’s a safety mechanism to hold onto those fats for dear life! Literally, you would die if your blood gets too acidic.
So, in 2 months time to have that much significant change …I think it’s fantastic…and so do they! Get yourself a water ionizer today! If not for your health, then just for better workouts!
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