When water has been ionized, it contains a negative charge (ORP, see below), it is oxygen rich, alkaline and contains millions of natural antioxidant bubbles called hydroxyl ions. Ionized water has two antioxidant qualities, its negative charge and the presence of hydroxyl ions, which are free radical scavengers. As crucial as the alkalinity is to ionized water’s benefits, the antioxidant qualities are of supreme importance.

Because of these unique properties, ionized water is extremely detoxifying, which is why if you are very toxic you must start drinking ionized water very slowly so you do not detoxify too quickly. Since you will be drinking this water constantly, you do not need to detoxify as in a short‐term cleanse and you can take your time for your body to acclimate. Ionized water is sometimes called reduced water, re‐structured water or micro clustered water because of its smaller molecular grouping, which allows it to more effectively hydrate and cleanse at a cellular level.

As it hydrates body tissue, it pushes out all toxins that don’t belong in your body. These toxins are then removed by your excretory system (sweat, urine, feces). Toxin removal can be amplified by use of a rebounder also known as a mini‐trampoline or a FIR sauna also known as a Far Infra Red sauna. The rebounder increases the movement of toxins through your lymph system for more efficient removal and the FIR sauna stimulates sweating without the extreme heat of a traditional sauna.

ORP stands for Oxidation Reduction Potential. Water either has a "positive" or "negative" ORP, measured in millivolts (mV). Everything you ingest has the potential to either oxidize you (ageing you) or go the other way for “anti‐aging” you. Metal turning to rust or a sliced apple turning brown are examples of oxidation or aging. It is the negative ORP that is beneficial to your body in that it reduces oxidation (aging), hence the term “anti‐oxidant”.

Negative ORP is found in the mist of falling water at waterfalls or the ocean, in ionized alkaline water and fresh, uncooked raw foods. Positive ORP increases oxidation (aging) and is found in tap water, all bottled waters, distilled and reverse osmosis waters as well as cooked and processed foods and beverages, acidic beverages such as many bottled waters, coffee, soda, beer, wine and liquor being among the very worst.

ORP, the most powerful function of ionized water, is fragile and lasts only 18‐24 hours. It is best to drink it freshly ionized to realize the most benefits, although you can take a bottle (or two!) with you for the day and it will be fine.

Our internal body must stay slightly alkaline, ideally right at 7.365. If your blood’s pH rises or falls one tenth of a pH unit, it’s cause for a visit to a hospital’s intensive care unit. If blood pH moves two tenths either way, it’s lethal. When there’s too much acid, too many hydrogen ions, we rob alkaline minerals from our bones and teeth (calcium), from our muscles and nerves (potassium), from our arteries (magnesium) and from our joints (sodium) to keep the fluids in and around the cells alkaline. This process of "robbing" alkaline minerals actually saves your life, as does the storage of excess acid in fat cells.

This literally becomes a double edge sword to our health.

"Acid wastes literally attack the joints, tissues, muscles, organs and glands causing minor to major dysfunction." states Dr. Theodore A. Baroody, Ph.D. Nutrition in his book of the ominous title, Alkalize or Die, ©1991

While this process of "aging" dysfunction is progressing, we are also then getting cavities, nervous stress, heart problems, thin bones and arthritis from the loss of alkaline minerals - stolen from our teeth, nerves, arteries, bones and joint cartilage to buffer all the acids.

When acid affects the pancreas and diabetes develops, the acids from burning fats instead of carbohydrates can accumulate so fast, the diabetic can lapse into a coma. It is important to understand that we are not talking about stomach acid or the pH of the stomach. We are talking about the pH of the body's fluids and tissues which is an entirely different matter.

The body’s natural metabolic processes produce acidic waste. Most cooked foods and animal proteins create acidity in our bodies. This build up of total body acidity encourages decomposition, decay, disease (CANCER) and energy loss. Most Americans maintain high acidity because of “acid-causing” lifestyle characteristics that include, but are not limited to, diet, stress and a toxic environment. Therefore, “alkaline input” (ionized water, alkaline foods like fresh vegetables and fruit, better lifestyle habits) is essential to insure a healthy level of pH balance. Prolonged pH imbalance decreases the body’s ability to absorb protein, minerals and other nutrients, decreases energy production in the cells, decreases the body’s ability to detoxify heavy metals and repair damaged cells.

Some foods that contribute to an acidic level are meats, white rice, cheese, coffee, tea, alcohol, pasta, breads, cereals, sugar and chocolate. Foods that counter acidic levels are vegetables, fruits, potatoes, almonds, pine nuts, flax, honey and plain yogurt. Click here for an alkaline-acid food chart. Stress, pollutants, and physical activity (both insufficient or excessive amounts) also cause acidification.

The strain of this undetected over acidity can cause such problems as: Cardiovascular damage. Weight gain, obesity and diabetes. Bladder conditions. Kidney stones. Immune deficiency. Acceleration of free radical damage. Hormonal problems. Premature aging. Osteoporosis and joint pain. Aching muscles & lactic acid buildup. Low energy and chronic fatigue. Slow digestion and elimination. Yeast/fungal overgrowth. Lack of energy and fatigue. Lower body temperature. Tendency to get infections. Loss of drive, joy, and enthusiasm. Depressive tendencies. Easily stressed. Pale complexion. Headaches. Inflammation of corneas and eyelids. Loose and painful teeth. Inflamed, sensitive gums. Mouth and stomach ulcers. Cracks at the corners of the lips. Excess stomach acid. Gastritis. Nails are thin and split easily. Dull hair, falling out and split ends. Dry skin. Skin easily irritated. Leg cramps and spasms.

Your blood, which is 83% water, plays a very important role in your health and energy: it carries oxygen to all your cells! This gives you energy, and it's what keeps you alive. It also plays a key role in how energizing your sleep is. In order for the body to remain healthy and alive, your body keeps a delicate and precise balance of blood pH at 7.365, which is slightly alkaline. So what happens to your body when you're over-acid? Your body will store excess acid in your fat cells (which is why so many people have such trouble losing weight).

"The antioxidant water contains an abundance of ionic calcium. This ionic calcium helps in the "burn-off" process. By drinking antioxidant water, it provides sufficient minerals for our body. As a result, we do not need to watch our diet to stay slim. Hence, antioxidant water is a savior for those suffering from obesity and many adult diseases, providing good assistance in enhancing good health." Professor Hatori Tasutaroo, Head of Akajiuiji Blood Centre, Yokohama Hospital, Faitama District, Japan, "Use of Ionized Water in Treating Acidosis"

In order to live, our blood and cells must always remain slightly alkaline. So the body plays a clever trick to convert these acid wastes into solid wastes. If the body can keep them away from liquids, they can be stored indefinitely in the body and do not affect the pH of the rest of the body. It does so by storing them in many places, including body fat. Fat production may be a result of acid waste demands for storage medium. Acid first, fat follows.

Water Ionizers are popular home appliances in several Asian countries such as Japan and have been used there for over 40 years. There is much documentation from Japan of restructured alkaline water having positive effects on every disease and condition imaginable. According to the World Health Organization (http://www.who.int), the Japanese live a longer, healthier life than we do in the United States: 7 years longer for women, and 5 years longer for men.

Here's a picture of healthy red blood cells:

Do you see how far apart the blood cells are from each other? As a result, your blood can move freely throughout your entire body, and get into all your small capillaries, providing energy to your whole body. During deep sleep, proper blood flow and hydration is important. When your blood looks like this, your sleep is also really energizing and you need less of it!

Blood cells have a negative charge on the outside and a positive charge inside; this is what keeps them healthy and far apart from each other. However, when your body is over-acidic, the acid strips your blood of it's negative charge. Your blood cells no longer have the same repelling force and clump together like this:

When your blood is clumped together, it no longer can get to all the little capillaries in your body to give you the life giving oxygen you need. It no longer can give every cell of your body the energizing and rejuvenating effects. This is the major reason why some people feel horrible when they wake up, and why they need to sleep longer. It's also why you tend to wake up feeling de-hydrated.

Most of us, from the time we're children, have a fear installed into us by our parents that "Disease is out to get you, and viruses are flying around all over the place looking for their next victim!..." It comes with sayings like: "Put on your sweater or you'll 'catch' a cold!" However, the truth is most of us create toxic environments inside of our body and this is why disease and fatigue happens. It doesn't happen TO YOU, instead, "you" make it happen.

Imagine this analogy: Pretend you had a goldfish in a bowl, and one day you saw the goldfish was beginning to look very unhealthy, swimming around less, maybe its fins were disintegrating. You also notice that the water is a little dirty and cloudy. What would you do? Take the fish out and give it medicine, or, change the water? Chances are it's the water that's making the fish unhealthy, not the fish itself. When you change the water, the fish will get healthier. The fact that the goldfish is unhealthy is actually a SYMPTOM of the unhealthy environment. Not the problem. So it is with us. The poor condition of our internal water makes us unhealthy.

With a Water Ionizer, the alkaline pH level can be adjusted between 7 and 10+. Because of the high proportion of hydroxyl ions in ionized alkaline water, the water is alkaline, meaning it has a high pH.

The pH scale ranges from acid to alkaline, 0 being most acidic, 14 being most alkaline. The scale is exponential, which means there is multiple of 10 between each level, so 4 is 10Xmore acidic than 5, 100X more acidic than 6 and 1,000X more acidic than neutral 7. Since your blood pH must stay at or very near 7.365, and cola‐type sodas at a pH of 2.3 and other sodas at a pH of 4, you can begin to understand just how and why they are so detrimental to your health. If you eat or drink acidic foods your blood pH drops ever so slightly, and your body works hard to buffer your blood with alkaline minerals it releases from reserves in your bones and muscles. Your body protects the blood pH at the cost of health elsewhere.

All disease thrives in an acid environment in the body and will not flourish and thrive in an alkaline, oxygenated environment. Ionized water safeguards this fact, since you are 70 -75% water!

Liver 90%
Brain 85%
Cells 85%
Blood 83%
Kidney 83%
Heart 79%
Lungs 79%
Muscle 76%
Spleen 76%
Intestine 75%
Skin 72%
Bone 35%
Body Fat 10%

If you acidify your body through poor diet you become vulnerable to any disease that invades. The more acidic you are, the more susceptible you become to disease and all its mutations. As disease flourishes it creates an even more acidic environment spreading further until it consumes your health. These acids, if not neutralized cause inflammation, free radical damage and kill healthy cells by stealing oxygen. Rejuvenated Alkaline water and food dissolves these harmful acids and helps remove them from your body by allowing them to pass safely through the kidneys and not be stored in your fat cells, joints, glands and organs.

Essential to life as is water, oxygen makes you alert and energized. For someone with cancer, the high oxygen level provided by ionized water is particularly helpful since oxygen destroys cancer cells, as Dr. Otto Warburg demonstrated in 1931 for which he won the Nobel Prize. It has been shown that cancer and disease CANNOT live in an oxygenated alkaline internal environment and it is this environment that functions optimally.

Purified water, reverse osmosis or distilled water should be completely avoided. It is water that has had all the minerals removed from so it is literally pure H2O. No water in nature is absolutely “pure”. Because of its extreme purity, these waters absorb carbon dioxide out of the air, which makes them acidic and even more aggressive at dissolving alkaline substances they come in contact with. They make your body acidic, leach vital minerals from your teeth and bones and do not hydrate you well at all. Remember – many bottled waters fall into this highly acidic category: Dasani, Aquafina, Penta, Poland Spring and Smart Water to name a few.

Oxidized acidic water with its positive ORP is an oxidizing agent that can withdraw electrons from bacteria and kill them so this water is used ONLY EXTERNALLY. DO NOT DRINK IT. Some uses for acidic water are:

·    Kills bacteria on contact for cleaning kitchen counters, cutting boards, etc.
·    Helps heal skin abrasions, itching, chapping, acne, fungus.
·    Used as a hair rinse, it conditions hair, leaving it soft and smooth.
·    Used in place of toothpaste, it effectively removes plaque from teeth.
·    Kills bacteria on fresh produce, meat and fish.
·    Promotes plant growth and general plant health including herbs, wheat grass and sprouts.
·    Extends the life of cut flowers up to 10 full days.

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