UL stands for Underwriters’ Laboratories. This is a privately owned company that specializes in safety and quality inspections. They were established in 1894 and do many different kinds of tests on each one of the products that they certify. Their mission statement includes promoting safety and preventing loss of life and property. They are actually contracted by home insurance companies with the idea to help prevent fires in the home.
Why Should Your Water Ionizer Have a UL Certification?
Well, if you think about it, your water ionizer is a breeding ground for disaster if it is not properly made. Water is a conductive material. Metal is also conductive and then you add electricity into the mix. And the water ionizer has to be able to safely produce alkaline water without harming you or the machine.
I would say that warrants a thorough safety inspection and testing to make sure that it is a reliable and not potentially hazardous machine!
So, with a UL certification you can rest assured that your water ionizer was tested and tested again to make sure that it is safe and there isn’t any loss of property or danger to you as the customer. And be able to enjoy your alkaline water without worry.
And we are proud to say, at Alkaline Water Plus, that all of the water ionizers we sell are UL certified!
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I was doing a little research on distilled water verses ionized water, and I found some pretty interesting things. I have a few friends who insist on drinking distilled water because their rationalle is it does not have any chemicals in it and it is pure water, so it obviously is “good for you”. This sparked an interest in what the health benefits or consequences are from distilled water versus alkaline water.
I found a few things that I thought were very interesting about distilled water. Now obviously distilled water is not going to kill you, but I wanted to find out how healthy it really was for you, especially in comparison to alkaline ionized water.
Distilled Water
No minerals
Slightly acidic
Removes contaminants
Leeches body of minerals
I found that distilled water tends to be slightly acidic. The reason for this is that distilled water is void of all minerals. This is how water gets a pH value [by assimilating minerals]. If it has no minerals, it will assimilate the carbon or other minerals in the air [which are mainly acidic]. On the other hand, distillation removes a broad amount of contaminants, which are in typical tap water. Contaminant removal is the main reason people drink distilled water. “Pure water” just sounds so good for you, right?”
Since there are so few minerals in distilled water, it tends to want to get minerals from other places. If you drink distilled water it would tend to leech the minerals from you. If you cook with distilled water, it would tend to leech the minerals from the food you are cooking. This is called adhesion, the attraction of water to other materials. Water has a positive charge on the Hydrogen side of the water molecule and a negative charge on the oxygen side. That is what makes water so attractive!
Ionized Water
Alkaline
Filters out some contaminants
Allows good minerals through
As you may well know, diseases thrive in acidic environments. People have known for years that eating raw fruits/vegetables, whole grains, etc., which are alkaline, and avoiding acid-producing foods [white flour, sugar, processed foods...] are good for their health. However, some how or another it doesn’t always sink in that what you eat/drink is directly proportional to how well you are. The last time I checked, doctors don’t ask very often about what your eating/drinking routines are. The availability and desirability of junk foods, processed foods, fast foods [all highly acid-forming] along with our fast-paced lifestyles today, drives people to eat more and more of the wrong things and avoid the right foods.
Alkaline ionized water is alkaline. The alkaline ionized water will allow for acidic wastes to be discarded much more easily and also turns the state of your body more alkaline. Alkaline ionized water will help to buffer the less than perfect diet. In addition, alkaline ionized water is packed full of antioxidants, which also ward off diseases.
All water ionizers allow for the good minerals, such as calcium, magnesium and potasium to go through their filtration process. This is important because in order for electrolysis to work you do need minerals in the water. You cannot ionize distilled or reverse osmosis water without remineralizing it. Water ionizers also filter out many of the contaminants found in tap water. Some ionizers have better filters than others. For a comparison of water ionizers [including their filtration] see http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/water-ionizer-comparisons .
There actually have been studies showing that hard water prevents cardiovascular disease. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3396141.stm . [Hard water is just water with lots of calcium in it.]
So, the idea that “pure water” is better for you is just not true. You don’t get a significant amount of calcium or any mineral from water, but it does seem to have an affect on health. In the link above, it was found that acute heart attacks were significantly lower in areas of the country where water was harder.
Conclusion
The one benefit that distilled water has going for it is that it does not have contaminants in it. Other than that, it is actually not very healthy for you. Alkaline ionized water, on the other hand, is going to help alkalize your body. If you’re concerned about the purity of your water [from the standpoint of eliminating pharmaceuticals, water-treatment chemicals, and other harmful contaminants], some water ionizers have better filters than others. So, do your homework, and check out the link I gave you above. There are also some great pre-filters out there that will take care of pretty much anything you would be worried about.
After over 16 years of drinking alkaline ionized water, I can say with conviction that the very best thing I could give to myself or a loved one is a WATER IONIZER! Give yourself and your family the gift of health this year!
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Ionized water has to, obviously, go through the stomach after we drink it. With hydrochloric acid, or gastric juices in the stomach, my question with this series of experiments was “Which Ionizer will produce more stable, drinkable, thoroughly ionized water?”
I have tested the Athena water ionizer before, adding drops of apple cider vinegar to it, to simulate the ionized water passing through the stomach. But, I was curious as to any differences I might see in the results of this experiment with the Tyent water ionizer and the Enagic SD501 water ionizer. The reason I chose these two other water ionizers was they typically will get pH/ORP results that are similar to the Athena water ionizer.
The way I conducted this experiment, was to measure the pH and ORP at level 3 (for the Enagic it is called “Kangen water 9.5”) of each of these water ionizers. Then I added drops of vinegar to the ionized water.
On the first chart below you can see I started out with one drop of vinegar added. After that I added two more drops (see second chart).
All the videos are located below with the charts along with my analysis and conclusions following.
Adding One Drop of Apple Cider Vinegar
Water Ionizer
pH/ORP Before
pH/ORP After
EnagicTest #1Test #2Test #3 (slower flow rate)
10.7/-150
10.8/-240
11.1/-789
10.5/-130
10.4/-150
11.0/-773
Tyent
10.7/-765
10.3/-747
Athena
10.7/-777
10.3/-759
Adding Two More Drops of Apple Cider Vinegar
Water Ionizer
pH/ORP Before
pH/ORP After
Enagic
10.6/-773
10.1/-500
Tyent
9.6/-160
8.9/-95
Athena
9.4/-705
8.8/-640
Analysis and Conclusions
Enagic Water Ionizer: The Enagic water ionizer was tricky to work with because it wanted to produce stronger levels of pH than I felt was good for a person to consume. However, whenever I produced lower, more acceptable drinking levels of pH with the Enagic water ionizer, it was also accompanied by what I felt was too low of a strength of water ionization (ie., the ORP was too weak). When using those weak settings, the results of adding drops of vinegar were very poor. The only time I could get decent results with the Enagic water ionizer was when I used a slower flow rate. The problem with this was the pH came out so high that in my opinion the ionized water was too high for drinking.
Tyent Water Ionizer: The Tyent water ionizer had excellent results when I added one drop of apple cider vinegar. However, by the time it had been sitting there for a few minutes, the ORP was showing signs of instability. When I added two more drops of vinegar, it went to a very low ORP.
Athena Water Ionizer: The Athena water ionizer had excellent results. It retained its excellent ORP even after adding the two extra drops of vinegar.
It’s difficult to draw conclusions from one test, but I have to say that I am once again very pleased with the result of the Athena water ionizer. I will definitely be doing more testing in the future though as I really was expecting the Enagic and the Tyent water ionizers to do better in this water ionizer comparison test.
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We are going to do a before and after water ionizer comparison with the Athena Water Ionizer before and after using the Spartan Ionizer Shield.
We just got a new TDS (total dissolved solids) meter, and we are very interested in finding out what the Spartan Water Ionizer Shield will do to the TDS measurement as well as the pH and ORP of the water ionizer. It would seem logical that the TDS would decrease with the use of the Spartan Water Ionizer Shield, but we will see what happens.
We are testing the water ionizer in St Louis, and as a note, the water is not particularly hard here, and our water ionizer works very well without any prefiltration. But, I wanted to see what the Spartan Ionizer Shield would do to it. My hypothesis was that it would possibly make it easier for the water ionizer to do it’s job and increase the ORP.
What is the Spartan Ionizer Shield?
The Spartan Ionizer Shield consists of three prefilters. It is used in cases of very hard water to protect the water ionizer from scaling and improve the taste and quality of the ionized water.
Filter Number One: This filter conditions the pre-ionized water by changing the scaling calcium into a non-scaling form which helps protect your water ionizer and also optimizes the pH into a range that is more effective in removing fluoride. This stage also removes iron, hydrogen sulfide, manganese, chorine, chloramines, fluoride, lead, arsenic, and selenium.
Filter Number Two: This stage removes lead, mercury, nickel and other heavy metals as well as chlorine and chloramines. It also prevents scaling in hard water areas. This filter also improves the taste and clarity of your ionized water. The final stage in this filter reduces water tension and makes the water ideal for ionization.
Filter Number Three: This filter reduces the harmful effects of hard water scale on the water ionizer and also improves the taste, odor, and water clarity and offers added protection from chlorine/chloramines, VOC’s, and disinfectant byproducts in the ioinzed water.
It looks like the TDS was not dramatically changed one way or the other in the ionized water.
It seems like the higher the pH of the alkaline ionized water, the higher the TDS reading. This makes sense to me because the concentrate of alkaline minerals increases as the pH increases in the ionized water.
pH
The Athena water ionizer seemed to have trouble getting a wide range in pH before the Spartan ionizer shield was put in. After, the ionizer shield was put in, there was a wider range in pH. It allows you to get a lower acid water which is very useful in many different circumstances.
ORP
The ORP seems to be slightly higher at the lower pHs and lower at the higher pHs in the ionized water. It’s hard to tell from just one test, but the ORP overall looked better without the Spartan ionizer shield.
Conclusion
The Spartan water ionizer shield is not effective in improving the ionization in St Louis. However, in very hard water areas, such as the Las Vegas area, it would improve the quality of the water and also prevent scaling. I have had several customers in this area give very positive feedback on the results of the Spartan water ionizer shield.
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The Athena water ionizer and the Tyent Turbo water ionizer are both very high quality alkaline water ionizers. I have tested these two great water ionizers against each other many, many times. Just this past week I did some more extensive water ionizer comparison testing, and you can see the videos and brief summary of each water ionizer’s performance verses the other below. When it comes to choosing the best water ionizer for you and your family, who best to do the looking and deciding than YOU?
In any case, both of these water ionizers are far superior in performance than many other water ionizers on the market. I say this based on personal tests and evaluations of water ionizers for many years.
Here are some of the general features of each water ionizer:
Tyent Water Ionizer vs. Athena Water Ionizer
Tyent Water Ionizers:
7070T Water Ionizer – The 7070 Turbo is the water ionizer we are testing in the video, below. It is a 7 plate water ionizer.
9090T Water Ionizer – The 9090 Tyent Turbo water ionizer is the next step up from the 7070T water ionizer. The main difference is that it is a 9 plate water ionizer. It will get slightly better readings because of that. You can see an earlier blog post comparing the two main Tyent water ionizers [7070 vs 9090] here: http://alkalinewaterplus.info/blog/2010/12/18/is-the-new-nine-plate-water-ionizer-an-improvement-or-not/ .
9000T Water Ionizer – This is the under-sink version of the 9090T. It will get very similar results as the 9090T.
Jupiter Water Ionizers:
Athena Water Ionizer – The Athena Water Ionizer is the top of the line water ionizer at the Jupiter company. It has continuous cleaning (it cleans continuously, behind the scenes, with no wait time). It also has mesh plates so it allows for more thoroughly ionized water (hence the great ORP ratings.) The Delphi water ionizer is essentially the same machine as the Athena water ionizer, save one filter port, but it is the under-sink version.
Melody/Isis Water Ionizer – The Melody/Isis water ionizer is the next step down from the Athena. The cleaning system is very good, but it’s not continuous. It reverses polarity [cleaning the plates thoroughly] with every use though, and this is done behind the scenes…so there is no wait time for the consumer. It also gets pretty good ORP readings. They aren’t as good as the Athena [because the plates are solid], but the pH and ORP are pretty impressive with the Melody/Isis water ionizer. Here’s an article that will demonstrate the quality that is typical of the Melody/Isis water ionizer: http://alkalinewaterplus.info/blog/2010/11/04/kyk-vs-jupiter-melody-water-ionizers
Venus Water Ionizer – This is the next step down. It is a good machine and will get the range of pH. However, the ORP readings are not as great as the Melody or Athena.
Below, I have included several videos and charts comparing the Athena Water Ionizer versus the Tyent 7070T Water Ionizer. In all videos, I use a moderate flow rate for both water ionizers, between 1.5 and 2 liters per minute. I try to eliminate the flow rate variable and keep both water ionizers at the same flow rate.
Test Number One
Athena
pH
ORP
Level 1
9.3
-737
Level 2
10.1
-770
Level 3
10.5
-787
Level 4
10.9
-800
Low Acid
3.1
582
Tyent
pH
ORP
Level 1
8.5
173
Level 2
9.8
-260
Level 3
10.6
-755
Low Acid
2.5
500
Test Number Two
In this video, I slowed down the flow rate for both water ionizers. I also assured that the flow rate for both the Athena Water Ionizer and the Tyent Water Ionizer were the same before starting the testing.
Athena
pH
ORP
Level 1
10.4
-768
Level 2
10.7
-785
Level 3
11.1
-803
Level 4
11.3
-820
Low Acid
2.6
395
Tyent
pH
ORP
Level 1
9.8
20
Level 2
10.3
-69
Level 3
11.1
-811
Low Acid
2.3
380
Conclusion
The Athena Water Ionizer gets a really great ORP at all pH levels, even the lower level alkaline pHs! The Tyent Water Ionizer doesn’t start to get good ORP until level three. The Tyent water ionizer gets a lower acid pH [2.3 vs. the Athena's 2.6 in St. Louis water]. The lower the acid water, the better the acidic water is for use as a germicidal cleaner [killing germs], although any pH lower than 4 will kill germs.
rH
There is another method to evaluate these test results. We could measure the rH (relative hydrogen). The formula is:
(ORP + 200)/30 + (2 x pH)
The closer the number is to zero the better. The scale goes from 0 to 48. If it is below 28 it is antioxidizing and if it is above 28 it is oxidizing. The Athena water ionizer beats the Tyent water ionizer on this, but the Tyent water ionizer is still exceptional.
Other Related Blog Posts
I wanted to provide all blog posts that the Athena or Tyent water ionizers are compared in so you can see past tests and results. Here are the titles of each followed by a link:
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I used to be a lot like Dr. Mercola. [who is a world-famous nutritional-healing advocate and who also owns a huge online vitamin & natural-remedy store].
Dr. Mercola is an avid natural-healing advocate, and I am too.
Ever since my first child was born in 1974, I have been enthusiastically seeking out answers to “how to stay healthy, keep my children healthy, and never get sick”. In my first 20 years of being a mother I read every book I could, related to nutrition and natural healing. I visited health food stores regularly. I bought various nutritional products, herbs, etc. both for preventative measures and remedies. And whenever I got sick [or one of my children] I got a remedy or two out to fix it. Even so, we did [all of us] end up at the doctor each 2 or more times a year for various things [ear aches, infections, sore throats, etc.] . When my first two children went through puberty, they got the usual acne. I think we were pretty typical of a normal, mostly-healthy, family.
I didn’t have a PHD, MD or ND behind my name, but I had a masters in education, 20 years of parental experience, and I was a self-taught expert in natural remedies by the time my first child was 20.
The reason I was like Dr. Mercola is that he is always reading and learning about the latest natural-healing remedies out there. But why did using a water ionizer cause me to change?
It’s interesting to me how much my point of view has changed since the time my first two children were young.
What happened to change my point of view?… a water ionizer.
Around the time my 3rd child was 9, my 4th child was 6 and my 5th child was 3, I was introduced to the concept of ionized water and the pH of our bodies . This was a pivotal point in my life as an expert in Nutrition and a mother. I bought my first water ionizer in 1996 and that single action [although the water ionizer was an older, weaker model than most any water ionizer you can buy today] changed our lives.
What did a water ionizer do that all of the other books and remedies in the entire health-food store not do?
A water ionizer helped my family and I to change the water in our bodies, so as to provide our cells with more suitable water for detoxifying and maintaining the perfect pH balance that our bodies and cells need to be truly healthy.
All the rest of the “preventions” and “cures” became obsolete and un-needed after just months of drinking alkaline ionized water.
I didn’t just buy a water ionizer, by the way. I learned all about body pH, water, water pH, and water ionization uses AND I applied what I learned by actually drinking the ionized water [and having my children drink it.]
I also observed. I saw that ionized water was making a difference in our family’s health. So, I did more. If I saw any hint of illness [a sniffle] I would have whoever it was drink more ionized water as the antidote for whatever germs may be trying to invade. Whether it was my own self or one of my children …or even my husband, I would utter my famous words “here, drink more water”. It was almost a family joke that I was so insistent on all of us drinking the ionized water so much.
What happened was miraculous though. All of the runny noses, ear aches, head aches, sore throats, acid reflux, and other little defects in our health started to disappear. Even allergies that I was sure were genetic and unavoidable disappeared. As each of my three younger children reached puberty they were virtually free of the acne problems experienced by my older two children.
Before water ionizers I was a self-taught nutritional expert trying to stay abreast of all the latest nutritional answers, preventions and cures, but now I have found a single, simple answer that has changed everything and put all the rest of the “answers” into perspective.
Unless your body has an excellent and continual supply of just exactly the right water to support what your body needs, all the other remedies in the entire world will still not be good enough. Water is KEY to your body’s good and stable health. Ionized water is PERFECT for your body. Drinking ionized water helps your body to be perfect.
With all my other knowledge about vitamins and nutrition in general, I would be remiss to not mention that of course you need to eat well [well-balanced and properly-combined meals] and DO take your vitamins. However, with ionized water I predict you will find that the answer to most ailments is “drink more water”.
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Alkaline ionized water and acidic ionized water both offer significant beauty benefits. A water ionizer is not only the healthiest thing you can use for your body, it will also help you to be the most beautiful or attractive you can be if you know how to use it right.
Beauty Tip #1: Drink lots of ionized water!
Let’s face it. If you’re not healthy you won’t look your best! Drinking lots of ionized water every day has helped countless thousands of people be more healthy [including me -- for 16 years]. Being beautiful is not vanity, it is a sign of good health, overall. All of the “Beauty Tips” in this article are also, in my mind, health tips. A sound, well-balanced body [that includes organs, skin, hair, nails, weight....everything] is the key to beauty. Alkaline ionized water helps with all of that.
But, do not throw away your acidic water!
There are lots of uses for acidic water [both for health and for beauty]. Acidic ionized water is also used for watering plants, softening water for baths and laundry, disinfecting and more, but in this article I’m concentrating on beauty. Here are some surprising things that ionized acidic water can do for your beauty…and the science behind it!
Beauty Tip #2: Acidic Ionized Water [Acid Water] Beautifies Your Skin AND Makes it Healthier.
[Acidic ionized water at the 3 - 4 pH-level is perfect for neutralizing the skin.]
The Science Behind It: Your acid mantle [outermost layer] of your skin is your body’s first line of defense against bacterial, fungal or viral infections. It is important to maintain this layer of your skin [the acid mantle] at about a 5.5 pH. However, because of the nature of soaps [soaps are typically a high alkaline pH in order to emulsify and flush away oils] the acid mantle is often left at too high of a pH after bathing or showering. The consequences of this is a breakdown of the acid mantle, drying out of the skin, and roughness caused by a build-up of alkaline minerals left on the skin. Hair should be about 5.5 pH, but because of alkaline soaps and shampoos you use, the skin and hair are usually found to be way off-balanced at a higher than natural pH level. Acid water is used as a…
Skin Toner and Conditioner: Rinsing with acid water at a 3-4 pH-level helps to remove the residual alkaline minerals left from bathing, showering, shaving, or hand-washing and restore your skin to its perfect 5.5 ph-level.
What are some of the BEAUTIFUL benefits of rinsing your skin with acidic water?
Softer skin
Remediation of dry skin
Remediation of flaking skin
Greater resistance to irritations or infections
Greater resistance to invasion by bacteria and fungus into skin and nails
Prevention of pimples [pores become healthier]
Beauty Tip #3: Acidic Ionized Water [Acid Water] Beautifies Your Hair AND Makes it Healthier.
[Acidic ionized water at the 3 - 4 pH-level is perfect for neutralizing the hair.]
The Science Behind It: The cuticle is the outermost hair-layer surrounding each hair shaft] .
The cuticle is made of many scales that open up and let things into the hair-shaft if exposed to liquid with a high pH and, conversly, the hair-shaft closes up with a low pH. It is most beneficial to the health and beauty of your hair to close the hair cuticle.
Shampoo is most often found at a high alkaline pH. A high pH solution applied to your hair will open up the hair cuticles , and expose it to becoming dry and damaged.
When you rinse with water at a pH of about 3.0 to 4.0, this low pH water combines with the high pH of your newly washed hair and restores it to its ideal pH of about 5.5.
Beauty Tip 3A: Use acidic ionized water [acid water] at a 3.5 pH-level as a hair rinse.
Beauty Tip 3B:Pre-poo [pre-shampoo] your hair. Pre-pooing is where you rinse your hair before washing with acid water. Acid water can be used to make your hair more acidic [and thus close the hair cuticle] prior to washing. Use ionized acidic water [acid water] at about 3-4 pH, pour over the hair and let it sit for a couple of minutes before shampooing. The acidity closes up the hair cuticles, thus preventing the hair shaft from being exposed to and being dried out by the shampoo.] Then after you shampoo [and condition if applicable] give a final rinse to your hair with about a 3-4 pH acid water. This will again close up the hair cuticles and protect your hair from drying out or otherwise becoming damaged later on.
BonusBeauty Secret:Hair that has tightly closed cuticles has a smooth, shiny, silky look to it and doesn’t split at the ends.
What are some of the BEAUTIFUL benefits of rinsing your hair with acidic water?
Smooth hair
Shiny hair
More vibrant color of hair [less alkaline mineral deposits on hair to film it up]
Less static
Strengthens hair
Fewer or no more split-ends
Cleaner scalp [assists to prevent or re-mediate dandruff]
Hair doesn’t dry out.
Hair doesn’t tangle.
Assists with color retention [in dyed hair].
After over 16 years of drinking alkaline ionized water, I can say with conviction that the very best thing I could give to myself or a loved one is a WATER IONIZER! Give yourself and your family the gift of health this year!
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Ionized water is best fresh. But, obviously sometimes you have to store ionized water for some period of time. It would be impractical to bring your ionizer to work with you! I often get questions about what is the best way to store alkaline ionized water, so I have taken the liberty to test a variety of bottles to see which one stores ionized water the best.
By the way, the best way to fill the bottles of ionized water is to over-fill them and carefully cap them in such a way as to try to get no air bubble.
When you do this it will maintain the pH and ORP much better.
ORP: Oxidation Reduction Potential [the antioxidant value of the ionized water] tends to degrade with exposure to air of ionized water. ORP is one of the main qualities of ionized water that makes it so healthy. A low negative ORP is what we are looking for. This will give you lots of antioxidants. The lower the better.
PH: A good drinking pH is anywhere from 8.5 to 10. The pH of ionized water tends to keep [store] much longer than the ORP. PH will reduce with exposure to air but not anywhere near the degree that ORP will.
Storing for 1-2 hours
In these videos, I test the ionized water before filling the bottles and then fill them with as little air bubble as possible. Then I wait for a couple hours and test again.
Before
pH
ORP
Ionized Water
10.4
-750
After
Mason Jar
10.2
-750
Glass Bottle
10.5
-715
White Plastic Bottle
10.6
-605
Fiji Bottle
10.6
-545
Evian Bottle
10.7
-590
Dasani Bottle
10.8
-480
Aquafina Bottle
10.8
-455
Little Plastic Jug
10.8
-440
As you can see, the mason jar was almost exactly the same ORP and pH as the original ionized water before it was stored! This is THE best way to store ionized water. One key thing to do is to ensure that there is no air bubble in the container.
Storing for One Day
Here are some results from further [off-video] testing I did with storing ionized water. I let some containers sit for one day with ionized water. These are some, but not all, of the containers shown in the video above.
Before
pH
ORP
All
10.5
-750
After
White Plastic Bottle
10.6
-365
Little Plastic Jug
10.8
-200
Dasani Bottle
10.7
-309
Glass Bottle
10.6
-425
Mason Jar
10.4
-690
As you can see, the mason jar wins again, by a long shot. The glass bottle is a close second.
So if you have to store your ionized water while at work or for any other reason, consider using a mason jar. This is a good way to keep the ionized water as “fresh” as possible.
After over 16 years of drinking alkaline ionized water, I can say with conviction that the very best thing I could give to myself or a loved one is a WATER IONIZER! Give yourself and your family the gift of health this year!
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This is an article which will both show you the role of water ionizers in good digestion and its relation to each organ in the GI [gastro-intestinal] tract, or digestive system. [don’t worry, it’s written in lay-men’s terms].
What is the Gastro-Intestinal Tract?
The GI tract can be considered to be all of the organs involved with eating and elimination. The GI tract releases hormones to help signal the release of the proper enzymes.
PH is a key factor in knowing which hormones to activate.
Food needs enzymes to assist in proper digestion, and without enzymes functioning properly digestion would be sluggish, causing many health problems to arise. Hormones associated with enzymes can sense the pH in each organ and if the pH is right for the enzyme that hormone controls, the enzymes are signaled to become active and do their job properly.
Stomach
The stomach is the only organ in the entire digestive system that requires a low acid pH level in order to do its job, and it produces it all by itself by injecting HCL, or hydrochloric acid, into the stomach as food arrives.
The stomach is an interesting and unique organ. When dormant you will find only a tiny bit of acid in it, but when digestion is stimulated gastric acid, containing mostly HCL, is produced on demand to handle the load. HCL’s pH is 1-1.5.
Organisms in the food are likely to be killed by the low acid of the stomach juices. This makes it part of the body’s immune system.
The acid itself doesn’t break down the food, but rather the low pH environment is conductive to the enzymes doing their job to break down of the protein walls.
Does Alkaline Ionized water upset the HCL balance in the stomach?
No. HCL is a strong acid, creating a low acid pH in the stomach during digestion, but unless you’re actively eating, there isn’t much of it [or much need for it] in the stomach. Water, by itself, does not trigger the production of HCL or digestion, so is allowed to pass through the stomach quickly and undigested. [see video] without upsetting the overall pH balance of the stomach.
Duodenum
The duodenum is the top portion of the small intestine, just below the stomach, and it is significant in the digestion process. The duodenum injects bicarbonate and other buffering “juices” in order to raise the pH to its preferred level of 8.8, which is very alkaline.
The duodenum likes this high alkaline pH, because it is more suitable for digesting fats [which come into the duodenum undigested]
Note: the best time to take your fat-soluble vitamins [A, D, E, Omega 3 fatty acids, etc.] is with a meal containing fat. This way the combination of food is not interfering with efficient digestion.
I did some testing of ionized water, trying to simulate the water passing through the stomach and into the duodenum. The following three videos and chart not only show this testing in full, but also give good insights into how digestion works in general and also how pH affects each major organ of the digestive system.
Adding 3 drops Apple Cider Vinegar to Ionized Water to Simulate the Ionized Water Passing Through the Stomach
pH/ORP Before
pH/ORP After
Level 4
10.9/-825
10.7/-600
Level 3
10.0/-795
8.4/-477
Level 2
10.0/-735
6.9/-426
Level 1
9.5/-91
5.7/-52
Small Intestine
Maintaining an alkaline balance in the intestines can make a great contribution to a person’s colon health as well as their overall health an well-being.
The small intestine is significant in the absorption of nutrients from the food. The mucosa of the small intestine is about 8.5 pH. All the way along the intestines, more enzymes are added and more food is absorbed until, by the time the chyme, digested food, reaches the large intestine, 95% of the nutrients should have been absorbed. The nutrients go into the blood, then straight to the liver for filtering before entering the regular circulatory system. Ionized water is very beneficial in the small intestine for many reasons.
It assists the small intestines to maintain a healthy 8.5 pH so as to inhibit the growth of parasites, funguses, and other undesirable microorganisms. Parasites going unchecked are often a large contributor to mal-nourishment and weight-management problems.
Proper pH stimulates proper enzymes to digest whatever food hasn’t been broken down thoroughly enough by now.
Ionized water, being absorbed at this point in the GI tract, is healthy for you in many ways.
The anti-oxidants will go to the liver and help to detoxify and anti-oxidize it [then will go to the rest of the cells in the body to do the same]. Also, the micro-clustered water will enable better absorption of water into the body and so keep the body hydrated better. This will put less demand on the large intestine for water, and so will help stools be softer, bigger, and move faster through the colon.
The Large Intestine
In the large intestine the main job is the absorption of water into the body, production of B and K vitamins, absorption of a few more nutrients, and then quickly eliminating the waste.
A good, healthy, alkaline pH level in the large intestine helps to inhibit the growth of bad-bacteria and maintain the proper balance of good bacteria [intestinal flora].
Note: Insufficient water or oil in the diet or insufficient intestinal flora “good bacteria” can cause the stool to be hard, sticky and trapped in the walls of the large intestine.
If we don’t eliminate properly, we reabsorb toxins into our bodies from our bowels. Alkaline ionized water helps to promote good elimination through the colon. See the video, below,showing several short clips of colonoscopies done by Dr. Shinya. Dr. Shinya is the inventor of the colonoscopy and has learned many good tips for keeping a healthy GI tract. Also, see his advice below the video.
Dr Hiromi Shinya — Colon therapy
Dr. Shinya’s Diet Advice
In addition to drinking plenty of good water, Dr. Shinya advises you develop eating habits that are good for your colon and GI Tract health. He also advocates daily exercise, rest/sleep, and being stress-free. The following is the “Good Eating Habits” advice from Dr. Shinya’s website.
Good Eating Habits: 90% fruits and vegetables and 10% protein. Dr. Shinya’s points for good eating are:
Eat unpurified grains or cereals.
Eat more vegetables.
More seafood, less meat.
Eat raw foods.
Do not eat oxidized foods. [i.e., over-cooked, hydrogenated, or spoiled]
Eat fermented foods.
Avoid milk and milk products.
Take Vitamins and Minerals
Be disciplined with the food you eat.
How else can you take causative action to improve digestion?
Drink ionized water: Drinking alkaline ionized water will help establish and maintain a healthy, necessarily slightly-alkaline, balance of pH in the GI tract as described above.
Combine foods properly. Try to not mix sugary foods, refined carbohydrates or refined starches with meals.
Avoid junk food. This just gives you empty calories, taxes your digestive system, toxifies the liver and other organs of digestion, slows down digestion, and can contribute to mal-nourishment and obesity.
Eat unsaturated fats [cold-pressed oils for salads and olive oil for cooking] rather than trans fats and saturated fats. Good fats help to supply you with quick energy and make you feel satisfied, so as to have fewer cravings for sweets or food in general. Your body needs fatty acids, but only the good ones. Bad fats contribute to hunger, over-eating, mal-nutrition, heart disease, and many other ailments.
Don’t overeat. This triggers insulin, which interferes with your body’s sugar/energy balance and so makes you feel more tired [and hungry] later.
Stress can lead to poor digestion and an overly acidic body. Therefore, it is suggested that you adopt a healthy, stress-free, lifestyle. Stress-free doesn’t imply “action-free” or a lethargic existence. Quite the contrary. The more productive and purposeful a person is, often the less stress they usually experience.
Move your body frequently and periodically exert yourself, so as to keep your muscles toned, use up your calories, improve circulation and improve digestion.
Lose weight if you need to. Overweight people demand more calories, get hungrier, and so tend to eat more. The more you eat, the more difficult it is for your digestive system to function properly. Statistically, people who consume fewer calories live longer and healthier lives.
After over 16 years of drinking alkaline ionized water, I can say with conviction that the very best thing I could give to myself or a loved one is a WATER IONIZER! Give yourself and your family the gift of health this year!
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Water ionizers can help you ward off all allergies. They have for me.
When you have a water ionizer you have a great tool to use in adjusting your body’s health-needs. The pH of your body fluxuates according to a lot of factors, such as diet, exercise and stress-levels. That means that some days you may need more ionized water than other days in order to provide your body with: the alkaline buffers it needs to adjust for the daily living needs, the hydration it needs [you need more hydration the more you sweat], and also to provide it with the ORP [antioxidants] it needs to combat free-radicals. I have found, over the years of drinking ionized water, that allergy symptoms are more related to stress, hydration, and diet than to anything else.
What do I suggest an ionized water drinker do if they get an allergy symptom?
Drink more ionized water. Don’t raise the pH of the water you’re drinking…just drink more. Whenever I’ve followed this rule, the allergy symptom has gone away within a few minutes of drinking more ionized water. Here are some examples.
I was driving, and sneezed once. I had my mind on something else and had forgotten to drink enough ionized water. So, I reached for a big, 32 oz. bottle of ionized water and drank most of it all at once [guzzle, guzzle]. That was the end of that allergy symptom.
A few times I’ve been out of town and not able to get ionized water, and then gotten some allergy symptom [sore throat, itchy nose, sneeze, or cough], but when I arrived back in St. Louis drand a big, 32 oz. bottle of ionized water [as above] and the symptoms were gone. That was that.
For some reason, for me, 32 oz. seems to be the magic number if ever a symptom arizes. However I would never suggest that I knew that number for everyone. Each person has to figure out their own needs, when it comes to quantity of ionized water, but I’ll be willing to bet that following the general rule of drinking more ionized water will help anyone combat their occasional allergy symptoms.
After over 16 years of drinking alkaline ionized water, I can say with conviction that the very best thing I could give to myself or a loved one is a WATER IONIZER! Give yourself and your family the gift of health this year!
FREE EXPEDITED SHIPPING. Anywhere in the USA including Hawaii and Alaska! FREE USPS International Priority Shipping all other countries! [Applies to water ionizer sales only. To order a water ionizer, push the "Store" button, above. Mention this blog and say you want to take advantage of the free expedited shipping.]
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