IS A 20 MINUTE READ WORTH AN EXTRA 5 YEARS OF LIFE?

IonWays Alkaline Water & and ;
ORP Explained
Or...Is a Twenty Minute Read Worth an
Extra Five Years of Life?
It's a rhetorical question. We
all know the answer - but in
my experience the only time
such a question seems to
become important is when people don't actually have five
years of life left.
It's often said that people spend more money on their health
in the last two years of their life than the total of the rest of
their life. In my experience this is so very true.
I don't want to waste time telling you how naughty you've
been to fail to learn about your own health. God knows we
are all so "busy" just surviving in this crazy world that
oftentimes health takes a backstage position until it fails. It's
like my son's car. He simply doesn't change the oil. He
believes everything lasts forever. At age 26, so did I.
I have been asked many times to write down my
understanding of acid and alkaline balance and its effects on
health. This has usually been asked after I have spent an hour
explaining it to someone, for the umpteenth time! So I'm
going to give you my grand theory of everything about acid/
alkaline balance now, and if you hear what I am saying, I
know you'll understand and act upon this most fundamental
of all health secrets.
Why is acid/alkaline balance 'fundamental'? Because this
is about what happens at the microscopic level within our
bodies; beyond the cellular level - at the atomic level. It's all
about electricity, and about what happens to create energy in
your body at the atomic level. It's about what doesn't happen,
what should happen, and what will happen if you follow what
I am suggesting. Most people I talk to already know that we
are too acidic, because of acidic foods, drinks, pollution,
lifestyle, stress ... almost everything is acidifying including
watching the news at six.
We are told we need to alkalize, but what does that really
mean? Many of us think that acidic water is just water with
lots of acidic minerals in it, and alkaline water is water with
lots of alkaline minerals in it - calcium, magnesium,
potassium etc. But you can have acidic water with both acid
and alkaline minerals in it; just more acids than alkalis, so it's
not quite as simple as you may have thought.
Why am I explaining all this? Because if you can really
understand this, you can begin a new way of thinking about
your own and your loved one's health. The conventional
approach to alkalizing something like water has been to take
tap water, with its mix of acids and alkalis, then add more
alkalis.
What's wrong with that? You're drinking a chemical cocktail -
just to get your alkaline water.
But in this twenty minutes we're going to go much
farther than this small point.
Let's assume that we have water with no minerals at all;
distilled for instance. Then we add some calcium. Now we
have alkaline water. The pH of this water may have gone
from a neutral pH 7 to an alkaline pH 8; ten times more
alkaline that pH 7. Most of us learned all this in chemistry
class - as long as you weren't looking out the window like
me!
Do you know what pH stands for? It comes from French,
and means "per Hydrogen", which is a measure of the
amount of Hydrogen in a liquid. Note; we're not talking
about the amount of alkalizing or acidifying chemicals in a
liquid. No, we're talking about the amount of hydrogen
atoms. The chemicals or minerals just react with the water to
create hydrogen atoms.
Why is this so important? Hydrogen fuels us. Hydrogen
heals us. Hydrogen is our most essential nutrient. Hydrogen
provides our life force! And pH equals amount of hydrogen
in liquid, so it's a measure, if you like, of available life force
in a liquid.
Reverse Aging
Sang Whang, that wonderful Korean
American scientist and inventor, explains it
beautifully in his ground-breaking book
Reverse Aging. He says water has memory
(we've seen this in Dr. Masaru Emoto's
amazing crystal images and in the early works
of homoeopaths) but he goes further; he says this memory is
expressed as a measurable electrical energy. This energy can
be measured in volts (or millivolts, because it's always very
small) and can be lost over time. When water has this
electrical potential, it has the ability to cause the hydrogen
atoms in it to assume two different forms.
(Sang Whang was diagnosed with high blood pressure at age
56 and was told he'd have to stay on medication for the rest
of his life. His book described his discovery of ionized,
alkaline water, how he gave up his medication - and at age
75 is looking and sounding as good as I would hope to look
at that age!)
Stay with me, this is about as technical as I'm going to get!
When water has electrical energy, it causes the hydrogen
within it to assume one of two forms. One is hydrogen that
has a positive electrical charge. This water is 'acidic'. The
other is hydrogen that bonds with an oxygen atom and
becomes negatively charged. This is the building block of life
itself, and chemically, it is in the form of OH-.
One oxygen atom, one hydrogen atom with this negative
electrical charge. That's ionized water. It now has energy it
wants to donate to any compatible atom in your body. And it
is called 'alkaline'.
In both forms, these ions or atoms, now have the capability to
precipitate chemical reactions of other minerals in water.
What has that got to do with your health and longevity?
Nothing happens in our bodies without a
chemical reaction.
And every chemical reaction only happens when the
'electricity' between just two atoms is compatible. So we can
say that we are a chemical organism - by courtesy of
electricity.
At the molecular level, way beyond the cells, trillions of
electrically uniting and repelling is going on every
millisecond of your life. It's a veritable orgy of unity, and it's
happening right now in your body, it always has, and it
continues until the balance of acid and alkaline reactions -
the battle between them - is over.
And what wins this battle of the ions? Acid - every time. We
all know that our body acids take over after we die to break
down the body. Let me tell you, they've been doing just that
for many, many years before you die. They're doing it now!
Rusting, decaying, breaking down, burning, oxidizing - all a
natural part of our balanced metabolism.
So.. life as we know it is an internal 'battle' between
positively charged atoms (ions) and negatively charged atoms
(ions). We can equally - but less accurately - say life is a
battle between acid and alkaline, because that's exactly what
pH is all about.
pH = acid/alkaline balance = ionizing = O.R.P.
Coming back to water - when there are more H+ ions in the
water than OH- ions, it will read as acidic. When there are
more OH- than H+, it's alkaline water.
I'd like to pause here a minute and review what we have
discussed. I'll put it in point form:
•
Acid or alkaline liquid is measured as pH.
•
pH is a measure of hydrogen ions (atoms)
•
The more H+ in a liquid, the more 'acidic'
•
The more OH-, the more alkaline.
•
Acid and alkaline can be thought of electrically as
ions of Hydrogen carrying either a positive or
negative charge of electricity.
•
All chemical processes in your body are begun and
completed when the correct electrical charge is
found to match the electrical charge of another
atom. Nothing happens without electricity.
Electricity and chemistry, therefore, are the same
in the body.
Are we OK with that? If not, please spare another five
precious minutes and read it all again, because what comes
next rests upon your understanding so far and is the key to
the secret of health and anti aging that I'm communicating.
Okay. So water can have hydrogen ions in it. Are you OK
with me using the word 'ion'? An ion is an atom with an
electrical charge.
We can measure pH using litmus paper or an electronic pH
meter. It will give us a reading of from 0 to 14, with pH 7
being neutral; neither acid nor alkaline. Or we can use an
ORP meter which tells us a lot more. It tells us the O =
Oxidizing or R = reducing or donating Potential of a liquid.
That's what O.R.P. means.
Oxidizing means the ability to oxidize. To burn up. To rust.
To break down, and the example I used earlier of a cadaver
breaking down is an excellent one. It is oxidizing.
Reducing is not as easy to understand. Scientifically, it
means giving away, or donating, so if a liquid has 'reducing
potential' it has the ability to donate energy to the body.
The ORP meter actually measures the electrical charge of the
water and if it reads above zero, it's oxidizing (acidic and an
ionic 'robber'). If the voltage is negative it's reducing
(alkaline and a giver)!
Now we can begin to see that we aren't simply talking about
choosing alkaline foods and drinks. We are choosing ways to
'alkalize' and 'energize', to add to our negative ion energy
store and to neutralize the acidic, positively charged atoms in
our bodies.
Now we are getting very, very fundamental, and we are using
water to carry this energy into the body.
Why would this be so wonderful for you? Take a quick
look at blood. As we know, blood has lots of water in it, and
so it also has a ratio of the two types of water, the acidic and
the alkaline as we discussed. When there are more alkaline
ions, in the form of OH-, there is more oxygen in the blood,
available to us as instantaneous fuel for life. In fact, if your
blood is just a tiny bit more alkaline (from 7.3 to 7.45), it will
be holding around 2/3 more oxygen!
I remember my first few weeks on ionized, alkaline water; I
was like a kid of Christmas day; up at 3 am looking for
presents! I had just so much energy! Of course, once my
system realized it had this new supply of oxygen, it put it to
good use, modifying my early hour 'high' into sustained
energy throughout the day,
Is it possible that the lethargy you may be feeling could
simply be the inability to carry oxygen in your blood? Can
you also imagine the effect of proper oxygen levels in an
athlete or sportsperson's blood?
I have had quite a few people asking me why they get such a
boost from oxygen supplements (Hydrogen Peroxide). It isn't
hard to identify them as an acidic person, and without fail,
those people who tell me that they get a boost from the
supplements are all, in my estimation, trapped in an acid
cycle lifestyle.
I get no boost at all from any of the oxygen boost
supplements, so I have concluded that I have the oxygen
already available in my alkaline balanced bloodstream, and
the people who get a boost are deficient, or acidic. It just
makes sense!
Isn't this fabulous information? I am so grateful to have
learned about acid/alkaline! We've all concentrated on
finding the latest supplement or miracle cure to 'fix' our
ailments when the real support work can be done using what
we are primarily and overwhelmingly composed of.
What's that? Water!
We are 70% water - yet we've basically ignored it! So now
we are going to look at how water can change us
fundamentally. But to do this I need to let you see what
happens in an acidic body - bearing in mind that unless you
are the one in 100 who is naturally alkaline, this means YOU!
Let's just imagine we've wolfed down a Super sized
burger along with a giant sugary soft drink. Even while
it's still in your mouth - your nerves are already sending
signals to your belly. The chemicals in your mouth have
sampled the pH of the food, and (don't ask me how), your
nervous system has told your stomach how much of this
monster meal is 'coming on down'.
Most people still think the stomach is a bagful of acid into
which the burger is going to just 'ker-splosh'. It's just not true.
Your stomach is a vessel that is used to hold just the right
amount of acid; not too much, not too little - as calculated by
the mouth (and I suspect, the eyes - we've all heard the old
saying, his eyes are bigger than his stomach!) You won't see
a big bag of acid down there. You'll see a precisely controlled
mish mash, evolutionarily trained to work with just the right
amount to break down the food and pass it into the lower gut
for absorption. What you also won't see is the bicarbonate of
soda that is also exuded from the bloodstream, and now coats
the lining of the stomach to protect it from the acid. The acid,
by the way, is also delivered to the stomach from reserves in
the blood, known as the 'acid buffer'. If I have time, I'll talk
about why older people are short on acids, but let's keep on
track.
Now you've swallowed this humungous mess, your body has
had ample chance to understand that it just swallowed
something with the potential to kill. It knows that if the pH of
your blood falls to neutral 7 instead of its normal pH 7.35,
you will go into a coma and die. Right now, courtesy of Fast
Food and Drink Corporations, you body is being flooded with
acids and your blood pH is beginning to fall. Your adrenals
are screaming! They are telling you things are dire; but guess
what?
You've interpreted the message as the 'hit' you
always get when you gulp a Coke. You've actually
learned to love it!!
The adrenals are our early warning system. They are telling
all of our systems to drop everything and source some
alkaline minerals or negative hydrogen to neutralize this acid
flood. Our major organ systems are hard wired to respond
because this is a survival imperative. It's been with you since
Paleolithic times. You don't digest dinner when a dinosaur is
chasing you - you never have, because you've learned that
death is the result of both scenarios.
So what happens down there? Well, the 'all systems alert'
firstly calls on the pancreas, because one of the pancreas's
jobs is to secrete alkaline chyle to neutralize the acids now
mixed up with the food you have now tossed around in your
stomach.
The real problem is that you've been making a habit of this.
Not only have you eaten a Burger, Fries and Soft Drinks for
lunch, you've been downing beers, eating lots of sugar in fruit
because someone told you you should eat more fruit, and
you've been stressed out at work. You've been robbing the
pancreas so long that it's just exhausted. It has nothing more
to give.
So the next port of call is body tissues. "Alkalis? Alkalis?
Anyone?" "Sorry. None here." Next stop is bones and teeth,
and yes, we actually erode our own skeleton to feed our acid
habit. That's one big reason there's a plague of Osteoporosis
in the West today.
In the meantime, because our blood pH is plunging
dangerously, the stomach has been told to stop what it's doing
and let the body use its limited available energy to work on
alkalizing this deadly acid flood, so what does it do? It dumps
its half processed McLoad into the lower intestine.
It's acidic, it's lumpy, it's half digested, and the poor old
pancreas, the gate keeper to the lower intestine, can't do a
thing to change it and fulfil its purpose of protecting the
lower gut. It's like a lorry load of toxic waste sneaking past a
helpless sentry.
About now it's oozing into the intestine. And because you've
been acidic for so long - (a byproduct of acidosis is
constipation as the water from the stools is sucked out into
the abdominal cavity to help move garbage) - your bowel is
what doctors call "lazy". It moves slowly because it's full of
hard faeces. And being acidic, it burns the sensitive absorbent
villi on the intestinal walls as it goes, even to the point of
bursting though the intestine wall, flooding the abdominal
cavity with filthy, rotting, acidic McGarbage that only a few
hours ago was sitting on a shelf in a fast food outlet.!
So now we come to where all of the effects of excess acid
conspire against us and our future health.
But first, do you know what a free radical really is? It's a
positively charged oxygen atom or ion. And as we have
learned it is oxidative. It breaks things down. It burns, it
rusts.
So as always, in a perfect body, things work perfectly. In this
perfect body it has a perfect purpose as the perfect little
janitor, moving about and reacting with garbage, toxins or
putrefying matter to oxidize it and render it down to its basic
components.
Note that I said that's what it does in a perfect system, but an
acidic system isn't a perfect system. As we have already
discussed, virtually every system in an acidic body is under
siege and working at far less potential than it was designed
for. So things go wrong. They either over or under-perform,
or they perform in a way they shouldn't. So it is with our free
radical system. In a state of siege, or acidity, it produces too
many free radicals, (ah well, better more than not enough,
folks!) and being eager little fully active critters, they go forth
and oxidize - anything! Not just putrid food or waste, but
healthy cells! That's why our scientists say it is aging us.
They are acidic - positively charged, acting as a result of acid,
in an acidic system.
How could they possible work in the way they were
designed?
So what do we do about all this mess? We see the glossy
advertisement for anti-oxidant capsules, tablets, exotic juices
and the like and we spend six, seven, ten dollars a day
gobbling them down.
What is it they have in those little capsules? They have
chemical cages holding something we've now heard about;
the H- hydrogen ion, the great donator,the giver, the
lifesaver! Instead of drinking negative hydrogen loaded
alkaline water at about two cents a liter, people are told they
have to get their antioxidants in pills! What a setup!
Companies make millions from the theory!
But does water really work? I was attending an exhibition of
health systems three years ago. I'd been on our stand for three
days. Three days of non-stop talking, and when someone told
me there was a stand where you could have your antioxidant
ability tested, my first reaction was that I couldn't possibly
have a good reading. I was just too tired. However, it was
free, and things were quiet, so I went to see what it was all
about. Sure enough, there was the man, the computer and the
test report coming out of a printer. He was trying to sell
people on buying his brand of antioxidant pills, but he was
quite happy to test me. "I've been talking non stop for three
days." I said. "Will it still work?"
"That makes no difference," he replied. "The probe measures
the carotene in the skin, and that's the best indicator of
antioxidant ability."
"So what is a good score?" I asked. He explained that the top
score was thirty on the computer's scale, and that very few
people got anywhere near that.
I held out my wrist. He applied the probe and a minute later
pulled the results from the printer, looking puzzled.
"Are you sure you're not on some form of antioxidant
supplement?" he asked with a slightly suspicious frown.
"None at all." I answered. "Why?"
"Because your score is the highest I've done all week. You are
over the scale. You scored forty! What is it you do to get a
score like that?"
I looked him in the eye to watch his reaction.
"I drink alkaline water."
In the years since that test, I get calls from clients from all
over. It seems that wherever he goes with his machine, he
finds one of our clients.
"Guess what? I had my antioxidant ability tested! And." they
say.
"And your reading went off the scale, right?"
"How did you know?" they ask, astounded.
So I DO know the alkaline water works as a powerful
antioxidant. All alkaline foods will work to some degree, but
it just makes so much sense that if you are 70% water, and if
water is everywhere in your body, then - to my mind - water
in an antioxidant form is a far more efficient and economical
mode of countering free radicals than food or pills.
I'll stop talking about myself at this point; there are literally
hundreds of stories that we have received over the last seven
years about the effects and power of drinking IonWays water.
These are all real stories from real people just like you;
athletes, housewives, businesspeople, doctors, naturopaths,
families young and old. You'll find just a few of their stories
on our brochures and on our website, but more come in every
week, and they are always amazing.
Do you know the really cool thing for me? Yes, it's wonderful
water and it has great effect on me every day of my life. But
it's also clever water. It splits into acid water that I use to
cleanse and remove bacteria from my food, my kitchen, my
bathroom, my skin and hair. It also provides the alkaline
water I have already described.
But here's the great thing. It costs me two cents a liter,
and I NEVER have to buy another throwaway plastic
bottle of water.
• This machine has been a Godsend!!! My son and I
work with a Ministry called Restoration Ranch. We
take the machine up there and fill the water bottles
every two days. There are about 35 men ages
starting at 22 yrs to 60 yrs old. They are alcoholics
and drug users which the court has sent to the ranch
as a last resort before sending them to prison.
However the miracle of the detox water is that I hear
reports from the men that they sleep through the
night, their muscles are not cramping up, head aches
have disappeared, sugar cravings have diminished or
completely gone away, tremors in the nerves have
subsided, and what I have heard the most is that
those who were depressed are acting somewhat
normal. They can actually keep their focus on the
good things of life and there is much more. These
things are happening in just several days using the
water.
- A satisfied IonWays User

A Quick Comparison of Water Health Systems
Now that you know what happens with ionized, alkaline
water you will have a very good idea about other so-called
ionized water. There are many, many water filters that
frankly, wish they were ionizers.
The difference is in the basic principle we have discussed
about negative hydrogen ions; the superior antioxidant ability
of the water.
The only reason the water alkalizer works so well is that it
actually splits water into two optimized forms:
1. The alkaline water we've talked about - ionized, negatively
charged, oxygenated, micro-clustered, super-hydrating.
2. The 'other' water that is simultaneously separated from the
alkaline water; acid, astringent, antimicrobial.
This water is a wonderful addition to your home because it
can be used as a non-chemical cleanser for food, for greens,
for work surfaces, for windows, for hair and skin. This is the
same water used instead of harsh chemicals at the massive
Tokyo Fish Market to clean up daily. It is also used in many
Japanese and Korean hospital and clinics.
Only a true electronically controlled water ionizer splits
the water this way. The alternatives you may read about all
use a magnet in the water stream. Although this does create a
little less positive ionization in the water, (not enough to
become negative) it will quickly re-associate back to normal
H2O when it leaves the magnet's field. So there's no lasting
stream of OH- molecules as we discussed earlier and there's
no alternative acid stream output.
Over the years of working with the water alkalizer, I've heard
so many stories invented by other manufacturers about why
their system is better, but it all boils down to one simple fact.
They can't alkalize like the systems we've been talking
about. End of story.
However ... there are some questions I hear again and again
which I'll share now.
Q: Does it remove fluoride?
A: Fluoride is an acid molecule and the majority of it passes
out in the acid stream. I am in possession of a test on a
similar system from Sequoia Labs USA showing full
removal. Fluoride is a sneaky molecule that can join with
other molecules in the water, and so we can't promise total
effectiveness.
Q: Can I over-alkalize?
A: The alkaline water isn't loaded with alkaline minerals that
will keep on alkalizing when in your body. It is loaded with
sacrificial hydrogen ions that unites with positively charged
molecules in your body. Then their work is finished. I've
never seen anyone too alkaline. Alkalinity, unlike acidity, is
managed by the body by immediate elimination.
Q: How does the filter in it compare to normal filters?
A: Most water filters are 1 micron exclusion rating. The
Jupiter BioStone water filter cartridge in the alkalizer is 0.1
or .01 micron; ten or one hundred times more effective.
Q: Isn't Reverse Osmosis the most effective water filter?
A: Yes. It is so effective that it takes all minerals and
everything out, making the water so 'empty' that it will begin
uniting with CO2 in the air and turning acid. RO systems are
not popular today because they waste approximately 9 liters
per liter supplied.
Q: What about a distiller? That doesn't waste water.
A: True. A distiller doesn't waste water, but it is very powerhungry
and has the same problem of RO. It is also so 'clean'
that it also ends up acidic. If you look at our own history,
you'll realize we have never had access to pure water and
therefore our bodies are not made to process it. We need
mineralized alkaline water because that's what we are made
of; saline, mineralized, alkaline water! Drinking pure water -
remembering the fact that the body is always balancing
everything - means it has to find minerals from it's own
reserves to mineralize the water you paid so much to process
and drink!
Q: Lots of systems say they alkalize.
A: Many do, but they do just by adding alkaline minerals -
usually calcium - to the water as it is filtered. You still get all
the acids in the water.
Ian Blair Hamilton is a researcher, journalist, author and
alternative health lecturer.
He is also a Founding Member and Dealer for IonWays,
LLC.
© Copyright 2007 by Ian Blair Hamilton
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