How does a water ionizer help people’s blood & health? It provides cells with cleaner, wetter, antioxidant-rich, mineral-rich, alkaline water. Alkaline ionized water can actually reverse the fast-aging and disease-ridden spiral of people who suffer from acidic bodies [which is almost everyone in the USA].
Getting Sick is Not Normal! I used to think allergies were a ”normal” condition, based on genetics and environment, and that colds were due to spreading viruses. Since I’ve been drinking ionized water for over 17 years I have a complete new understanding of what “normal” is. For me, normal is: being healthy, full of energy, and not ever getting sick [even with viruses spreading all around]. And, being this way every day, not just most of the time. Please believe me… it’s not natural to be sick! Allergies and illness can be looked upon as a sign that change is needed. So many people wait till they get cancer and other diseases before they take the time and energy to make a change! It is inevitable that you will get worse diseases if you don’t change what you’re doing that’s giving you allergies and colds. Don’t wait till it’s practically too late!
Change your water; change your life! Considering that such a large percent of your body is water, drinking ionized water instead of junk is completely scientific and logical. In my 17+ years of experience, I can say with complete certainty that it’s the most effective, pleasant and, in the long run, inexpensive change that anyone can do right now. If you decide it’s important enough, you’ll find a way.
Fantastic Water Ionizer [also called Kangen Water] Testimonials!
CP 5-7-09 CP is a stage 4 cancer survivor, who was diagnosed 10 years ago with breast cancer and had an aggressive treatment for it at the time. Then a year later had another bout of breast cancer and had more chemo, and then 4 years after that it had spread. She started the chemo treatments back up, but because it was taking longer and longer for her to recover from each treatment, and it was making her too sick to function, she quit the treatments. Then 2 months later she discovered Kangen water [the Enagic term for ionized water].
She felt tired all the time and everything hurt prior to drinking Kangen water.
Here’s what happened after drinking Kangen [ionized] water:
constipation stopped
blood pressure lowered
no more sugar cravings
felt 20 yrs youngerlot of energy
MRI & scans are showing up nothing so far!
G: 2-12-09 Last year in Nov…G had a tumor in his jaw. He underwent traditional radiation treatments & surgery. Then a few weeks later some lymph nodes had spots cancer in them … so had more radiation on them. As a result, G had a lot of ulcers & sores in mouth, loss of taste & lot of discomfort. When he started drinking ionized water [Kangen water] here’s what he did:
He sprayed 11.5 pH water on the sores
He drank 8.5 water
In amazement to the doctor, in about three days the ulcers were just about completely gone. However after a few weeks some of the cancers returned, and he continued the treatments.
So he continued drinking the water and in addition went to the full 33 treatments [completed last treatment]. Maintained weight and health all the way through the treatments, and didn’t even miss a day of work.
K: 07/08 K was a 25 year cancer survivor, but in 2006 had an onslaught of after effects including traditionally untreatable [due to her former extensive treatments] breast cancer, neuropathy, installed pacemaker, and was put on disability [virtually could do nothing and that would make her tired]. She started a natural treatment program including drinking ionized [Kangen] water.
K has been drinking Kangen water for a year.
Here’s what happened when she started drinking ionized [Kangen] water:
increased vitality
back to being able to do things
skin, hair, well-being returning to her
K’s Son: 07/08
K’s son has had a condition since birth of lymphatic malformation. He had sever excess fluids in chest and extreme learning disabilities. He drank the water for one week and she saw extreme benefits in his learning abilities. His story ideas were actually legible, and he was able to do math [when he couldn't do any math on his own before]. His chest fluids are now able to be maintained at normal acceptable levels now! He has no more acid reflux. He doesn’t need speech and occupational therapy anymore!
D: 05/08 D, an eleven year breast cancer survivor has used a combination of medical and natural treatments all these years. The pain re-appeared about 18 months ago, but the cancer was not showing up on scans. D was introduced just about that time to the ideas of pH and acidity and tested herself as acidic. So, she started drinking ionized [Kangen] water in Oct. ‘08 The pain went away in 3 weeks and has never returned.
DS 6/07 DS didn’t actually believe the stories about Kangen water, but brought some of the water to friend’s son who had lymphoma cancer. He thought if it helps Jason [his friend's son] then he’ll become a believer. His friend even bought a unit for Jason to get fresh water. When the cancer from Jason’s lips, nose and legs all started going away in two weeks of drinking the water, DS started becoming a believer. So he got his own machine. Here’s what has happened since then:
His Mom’s arthritis is gone.
His father can sleep now [had insomnia-hadn't slept well for years] &
his father’s arthritis disappeared.
DS started to tell all neighbors. One lady next door had hepatitis C…gave her water and 3 days later she came to tell how great she felt [she demanded more water]…in few days after that she wanted her own machine.
E: 6/07
E had a family history of breast cancer, and she watched her aunts go through much struggle with surgery and treatments on their breast cancer. Because of this, she didn’t want this invasive surgery for her own cancerous tumor. So, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she called a friend who was into health and nutrition and he told her about Kangen [ionized] water. Started drinking 5 – 7 liters of the water per day and got her own water ionizer. Soon, she started to feel really good. Her surgery was postponed for a month so she could give this water a chance to work on its own. Her tumor had shrunk from 8cm to 2cm in that time. Two and ½ months later her tumor markers are all normal and she is essentially cured. She says, “The body will heal itself if it’s provided with the proper environment”.
M: 3/22/07
Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease started chemo, and it was so awful she stopped the treatment. She began a natural alternative treatment: she drank Kangen water and started eating alkaline to treat herself. She also read books and started filling her world with a positive attitude. After four months, she had another Kat scan and other tests which all verified that the lymphoma was completely gone.
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
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!
Chlorine is a very toxic element and highly acidic, so when you use a water ionizer that’s great, because it gets all that bad chlorine out in addition to ionizing your water. That’s wonderful! But what about your bath or shower water? When you soak your body or shower in chlorinated water, you breath in a certain amount of that toxic chlorine and then some also absorbs into your body through your skin.
What I suggest to do for this [I have it on my website] is use both the Rainshower Filter and the Rainshower Bath Ball. These filters work to remove (by filtering out) chlorine and combining it with zinc to make harmless zinc oxide. These products last a long time, don’t cost much and are a breeze to install. You can have dechlorinated bath or shower water in minutes!
Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog-Master
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