By Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

By Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

1.  Powerful Antioxidant – Reverses the aging process.

Alkaline Ionized Water has an abundance of electrons and a negative charge called Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP).  Electrons are free radical scavengers and a negative ORP reduces the oxidation of the body, which slows down the aging process.  ORP is the most important term we can learn regarding health because everything we put in the body either increases or decreases oxidation in the body.  Therefore, everything we consume either reverses or accelerates the aging process.

2.  Balances Body pH

Alkaline Ionized Water has a pH of 9.5 – 10 which helps bring the pH of the body up to neutral (7.0) where it should be.

3.  Superior Hydrator

Alkaline Ionized Water has very small water molecule clusters that are able to hydrate the body’s tissue and its cells much more effectively than water that has not been ionized.

4.  Powerful Detoxifier

As the small water molecule clusters hydrate the tissue and fill them with water they push out all the things that don’t belong in the tissue, which are commonly referred to as toxins.

5.  Enhances Mineral Absorption

Minerals that have been ionized have extra electrons that make them better able to be absorbed by the body.

6.  Provides the body with oxygen

Once the hydroxyl ions (oxygen molecule with an extra electron) have donated their electrons to free radicals what is left over is a lot of dissolved oxygen that is available for the body to use.  Oxygen is one of our most important nutrients.

7.   Gives you lots of energy!

The extra oxygen that it provides to the body translates into more mental alertness and more energy.

8.  Helps prevent disease

When we Hydrate, Alkalize and Detoxify with Alkaline Ionized Water our body it is in a much better position to heal itself.

I absolutely adore Ionized Water. I wrote the bible of Alkaline Ionized Water. I have since I consumed my first glass of it over 10 years ago. And because I am such a strong proponent of Ionized Water, I’m often asked what it has done for me personally since I began drinking it in 1995. Simply put, the effects on my body have been dramatic and profound, even though these positive changes occurred quite subtly. That is what everyone can expect from drinking Ionized Water: subtle yet profound changes in their health, all of them positive.

I was already drinking a gallon of conventional water (spring and tap water) every day when I began consuming Ionized Water. I also was a cooked-food vegetarian so I did not suffer the detoxification effects of Ionized Water, which are extremely powerful. Only those who are quite toxic will notice these strong effects. That’s not to say I didn’t detoxify because I did and it was a deep detoxification. I was a 95% cooked foodist at the time so I had a lot of cleansing to do. I did not exhibit the more brutal symptoms of detoxification that some do. However, we should all be cautious when we first begin drinking Ionized Water. Many people who believe they are healthy, including vegetarians and fitness gurus, suffer from the intense detoxification properties of Ionized Water, which are like none other known. We must respect the power of tiny water molecule clusters because of their penetrating and cleansing properties.

I did get a few rashes in the early days as toxins came out of my body, but they were minor and I effectively treated them with Acid Ionized Water, which is excellent for treating rashes. I started by drinking Ionized Water at the highest level (pH 9.5 – 9.9) and consumed at least a gallon of it every day. Now I drink 1.5 – 2.0 gallons of Ionized Water each day and I have never felt better in my life. You’ll never have true energy and vitality without properly hydrating your body throughout each day. The subject of water should be the first chapter of every medical text book.

Since I was not ill when I first started consuming Ionized Water, I cannot claim that Ionized Water cured me of anything, although it has helped many others with a plethora of health conditions. Many people have written to me over the years testifying to the innumerable ways that Ionized Water has improved their health (Appendix 7: Testimonials). I have not kept them all, but if I were to have included them in this book, they would have easily doubled its size.

My body pH is balanced around 7.0 where it ought to be. My muscles are more relaxed because much of the lactic acid waste has been washed from my muscle tissue. I am 53 and do not ache in any of my joints. I am undoubtedly more limber, oxygenated, detoxified and better hydrated than any other time in my life.

My body’s cells are bathed in the negative ORP of Ionized Water, which helps extinguish the oxidation of my body. Thus, I am retarding, if not reversing, the aging process at a cellular level.

I was in my late thirties when I started drinking Ionized Water and the many years of accumulated acid waste deposited throughout the human body takes months, even years to remove. It will take a lot of water and lot of time to fully accomplish the goal of complete pH balance and detoxification throughout my body. But I could not have so easily gotten as far as I have without the daily consumption of Ionized Water.

Colds and flus have completely disappeared from my life since I began drinking Ionized Water. If I do feel a cold or sore throat coming on, I find that drinking a few extra glasses of Ionized Water quickly puts it at bay by hydrating and alkalizing my body so it can better fight the invasion.

Ionized Water is best used as a preventative health measure, although its healing properties are to be greatly respected as well. Water alone is the body’s greatest ally for healing, better than anything a physician could possibly do for it. Ionized Water has many times the healing properties of conventional water. However, it is the body and only the body that is capable of healing itself of any disease. All we can do is provide it with the right ammunition so it can provide us with health. Ionized Water should definitely be in the arsenal we provide to the body for its defenses.



Las Propiedades Milagrosas del Agua Ionizada – La Guía definitiva  de la substancia más saludable del mundo,

Here is the first chapter of the book: Chapter One: Las Propiedades Milagrosas del Agua Ionizada.

Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

“Beware of false knowledge.  It is more dangerous than ignorance.”

~ George Bernard Shaw

My Video on the Quack Watchers.

I have been hearing for years what a scam Ionized Water is.  I have heard it called “snake oil on tap”, yet no one has ever called for them to be removed from the market.  Alkaline Water, Alkalized Water, Kangen Water, Miracle Water, Micro Water, Ion Water, Ionic Water, Electron Water, Electrolyzed Water: It’s all the same.  Water that has been electrolyzed is most commonly called Ionized Water.  And for some reason there is a great deal of opposition to it.  Recently Dr. J. Mercola denounced Ionized Water.  Dr. Andrew Weil has also found some excuse to dismiss ionized water.  In fact, he did it twice.  I am not a “believer” in Ionized Water anymore than I am a believer that the world is round and not flat.  To have a belief Ionized Water and its positive effects on the health of those who consume it is a fact and not a “belief”.  It is a fact what ionization does to the pH, ORP and structure of water it ionizes.  I don’t have faith that raw fruits and vegetables are healthy for us, I understand it as a fact.  The same is true for Ionized Water.  I wrote the book on it.

To be perfectly honest with you it boils my blood to hear http://watershed.net/Water-Ionizers/, the healthiest substance we can possible consume, described as snake oil and a scam.  The main reason is because this kind of thinking plants doubt into the minds of so many people that it leads them to the decision never to purchase a Water Ionizer, never to drink Ionized Water, and never to make a part of their daily lives.  To me, Ionized Water is the bread of life.  I thrive on it.  As you will see below, none of the detractors of Ionized Water have ever consumed it or bothered to measure it’s pH or ORP.  If they did, they would find Ionized Water to be the healthiest substance we can consume.

I am considered a “crank” by some, which is aptly defined by Mark Twain as “a person with a new idea until it succeeds.” Without fail, there are those who attempt to debunk great advances in every scientific field and Ionized Water is no exception.  Continental plate tectonics was ridiculed when it was proposed by Alfred Wegene in 1912.  Now it’s established fact.  The same will be with Ionized Water.  It too will one day become established fact taught in every school. Debunkers suggest that the ionization of water simply isn’t possible.  One debunker states that Ionized Water should be dismissed simply because it is too good to be true.  Others state that ionization is impossible to verify when in fact its properties are demonstrated using scientific measuring devices such as pH and ORP meters because the changes that ionization produce are radical, immediate and measurable.

Debunkers contend that most new health technologies developed outside of the traditional medical establishment are worthless and have no value beyond their hype.  They claim that nearly every unusual invention that doesn’t easily fit into the framework of conventional thinking turns out to be yet another urban myth that needs to be debunked.  And if something that they have denounced turns out to have merit, not another word is ever said about it and the debunker’s web page is quietly removed.

What health debunkers do best is plant doubt in our minds when we are trying to search out the truth about breakthrough health devices.  It’s easy to be a skeptic.  It’s difficult to blaze trails and fly in the face of every conventional thought and precept science has established.  It’s hard to believe in something that you discover and want to be true when someone with a scientific background who claims to be an expert is soundly denouncing it.  It is even harder to believe in things that others are ridiculing.  Debunkers have a chilling effect on open debate because of the way they often scoff at the technologies they are challenging.  Their attack on new health technologies that have not been conducted, sanitized and approved by the medical establishment often extends to the promoter of the new invention.  They become the focus of derision much the way Galileo was when he claimed the Sun was the center of the Solar System, not the Earth.  Debunkers ridicule those who have found a new path, uncovered a new truth and consequentially have surpassed an old belief system.  The water ionizer is a prime example of this kind of attack that stifles progress.

We tend to accept the denunciations of the debunkers because we want to believe that we can’t be so easily fooled.  We want to deem ourselves too savvy to be deceived by promises that sound too good to be true.   We enjoy hearing that ideas and inventions that may sound a little weird, or too good to be true, could not possibly be true.  Debunkers want us to believe that life is too harsh for good things to be true.  Life is too difficult for something like Ionized Water to be healthy for us and possess the miraculous health properties it is said to have.  And since someone with a scientific background has claimed it to be a hoax, it must be one.  Thus, we doubt and dismiss it, exactly what debunkers want us to do.

Debunkers tend to be heavy on opinion and light on the facts.  And they often present their opinion as fact.  They are sometimes chemists or chemistry professors who understand book chemistry, but don’t seem to comprehend the simple chemistry of Ionized Water, that of charging water by creating negative ions       (-OH) and positive ions (+H).  Nor do they understand how these ions are created by the simple process of electrolysis then separated through a membrane.  It is not difficult to understand Ionized Water, but it is difficult for some to accept that something so simple can have such a profoundly beneficial effect on everything it comes in contact with, especially our health.

I don’t expect that debunkers will ever disappear.  Ironically, debunkers’ websites are a good resource for groundbreaking technologies since they tend to dismiss anything that might possibly work.

The notion of having people around to challenge the traditional conventions and new inventions is a good one because there is plenty of fraud in the world.  Debunkers, on the other hand, are often something different than those who expose charlatans.  Debunkers stand in front of progress by denouncing and ridiculing any radical new concept.  However, armchair investigations and conclusions drawn from them will never replace field testing and something debunkers almost never do is conduct their own legitimate scientific investigations.

Debunkers often ply their trade in order to protect the status quo and the safety it provides to those who are afraid of the future and the change that it inevitably brings.  Debunkers sometimes serve no other purpose than to confuse us regarding complex issues, which is especially disappointing and destructive when it comes to natural health.

When a radical scientific concept is first introduced, there is commonly resistance to it by the prevailing scientific community.  New ideas are generally ridiculed and derided because they make people uncomfortable.  Scientists don’t want to accept new ones because their life’s work is based on the foundation of these old ideas.  They become particularly defensive and resistant when the new ideas destroy, override or completely supersede the old ones.  Often, the members of the established scientific community must die off so the next generation can be raised with the new concept and accept it from the beginning without any unnecessary bias and hand-wringing about what they once embraced as the truth that has now been superseded by the next wave of scientific discovery.  With the coming of the next generation, the new concept will no longer be regarded as radical, but rather another stepping stone to understanding the whole truth about health, nature and the very essence of human existence.   The acceptance of Ionized Water is yet another stepping stone that cannot be ignored because it is a critical component of health.

A considerable amount of research has been conducted on the effects of Ionized Water, most of it by Japanese researchers, which should be no surprise since they have embraced the concept of water ionization more than anyone else  (Appendix 5: Scientific Studies).  All of the research done on Ionized Water has arrived at the same conclusion: Ionized Water benefits everything it comes in contact with as long as it’s used correctly.[i] Physical scientific measurements, not conjecture, demonstrate the properties of Ionized Water. With this hard evidence in front of us, there is no other conclusion to reach than to claim that the properties of Ionized Water are best described as simply miraculous.

The strong detoxification effects of Ionized Water alone are enough to demonstrate that it is not like any other water you will ever consume.   This is due to the small water-molecule cluster size.  How water molecules group together is another thing that debunkers claim can not happen, thus it is so much more quackery.  This conclusion is reached despite the fact that a substantial amount of scientific research has been done on water molecule clusters.[ii] Water-molecule cluster size is measured by using a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance device.  We can also determine the change in the surface tension of Ionized Water, which is measured in dynes.[iii] A lower surface tension demonstrates the existence of smaller water molecule clusters.[iv]

Debunkers do not accept the basic concept of positive and negative ions and how they affect human health.  If they did, they would understand how important it is that we put alkaline substances in our body. Those who would attack Ionized Water and claim it is a hoax do not understand the value of consuming substances that are negatively charged and possess negative ions.  By their own admission, those who debunk Ionized Water have never consumed it, claiming there is no need to because the concept of ionizing water is impossible to begin with.

Debunkers are part of a faux-intelligentsia that does not believe in field testing before they arrive at conclusions.  The truth is that field testing often reveals many things that formulas and theories written on paper could never have predicted.  Examine debunkers and their methods closely for they are self-appointed watchdogs.  The methods of debunkers are never based on scientific evidence, but rather their own personal interpretation of the science they are debunking.  Debunkers, more often than not, need themselves to be debunked.  This has never been truer than when it comes to the debunkers of Ionized Water.  They don’t understand the simple truth that ionizing water takes it to a level of health many times above that of conventional water.

Here are my Seven Components of Great Health.

[i] For instance, never consume Acid Ionized Water because it is an oxidant that contains free radicals.

[ii] “Theoretical Study of the 6 (H₂O) Cluster,” C.J. Tsai and K.D. Jordan, Chemical Physics Letters 213, 181-88 (1993).

“Theoretical Study of Small Water Clusters: Low-Energy Fused Cubic Structures for (H₂O)n, n=8, 12, 16 and 20,” C.J. Tsai and K.D. Jordan, Journal of Physical Chemistry 97, 5208-10 (1993).

This research is supported and validated by the National Science Foundation.

[iii] A dyne is an extremely small measurement of force. 100,000 dynes= 0.224 lbs of force.

[iv] “Water molecular arrangement at air/water interfaces probed by atomic force microscopy”,  by O. Teschke and E. F. de Souza. Chem. Phys. Lett. 403 (2005) 95-101. (b)

“Water molecule clusters measured at water/air interfaces using atomic force microscopy”, O. Teschke and E. F. de Souza, Phys. Chem. 7 (2005) 3856-3865.

Each has a story to tell of how adding superfoods such as chlorella and spirulina, along with herbs that have been tableted with them, have improved their performance and overall health.  Randy Couture offered us a video testimonial of his experience with Ionized Water and Spirulina with Tribulus has done for his workouts.

“Since taking Watershed products I am more energetic and recover faster. I don’t get the muscle soreness from workouts getting ready for a fight.” - Randy Couture

“I initally was in search of an alternative source of quality protein. Taking the Watershed products not only did I feel more energy in my day but overall my body felt incredible. It helped me build lean tissue while reducing my body fat as well as the layer of excess tissue just below the skin. Bottom line, I love Watershed products.”  - Jennifer Widerstrom

“No jokes, gimmicks or false claims when it comes to Watershed products….this stuff really works and my body speaks louder than words!”  - Stan McQuay

“My fiance and I love the products that we received from Watershed Wellness Center!! During my training camps I drink 2 gallons of the ionized water a day!!! Along with taking the chlorella and spirulina, I feel more energy and efficiency throughout my body!! I feel much more hydrated when I drink ionized water while I’m working out and sweating a lot. The products are an important part of my training and my life in general. Thank you!!”   – Gray Maynard

Subscribe To My Blog

Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

Dr. Andrew Weil has responded again to a question about Ionized Water and whether it is healthy for someone to consume.  This time someone has called it “Kagen Water” and asked the question of Dr. Weil: “What do you know about the efficacy of Kangen water?” Published September 13, 2010.

A multi-level marketing company known as Enagic has renamed Ionized Water (electrolyzed water) Kagen Water in an attempt to make claims that the water their water ionizers creates is superior  to ionized water, which it is not.  Kagen in Japanese means “return to the origins”, meaning that Ionized Water will help you return to the origins of your natural state of healthiness, which is exactly what Ionized Water does.

The mark “Kangen Water®” has been used by Enagic Co., Ltd., a Japanese corporation(“Enagic Japan”), in the general promotion of electrolytic water generators which cancontrol the pH level of water. Enagic Japan registered the mark Kangen Water® with theU.S. Patent and Trademark Office, whose registration number is 2990706. Enagic Japanhas licensed the mark Kangen Water® to Enagic USA. Inc.(“Enagic USA”).   It’s best to survey the market when purchasing a water ionizer for pricing and quality.

Dr. Weil: “I’m sorry, but I am prejudiced against all such pyramid marketing schemes and urge you to avoid them, whatever the products are.”

We must not let “pyramid marketing schemes” (MLM’s) dictate to us what is valid in the world of health and this is because most MLM’s are legitimate, even though some of us may not like the way they do business.  If you hear about Ionized Water from a Kagen dealer then my suggestion would be to check the Internet for what else might possibly be out there that doesn’t cost $4000.

Dr. Weil: “the notion that it is somehow protective of health and can prevent disease by balancing the body’s pH. . . . the human body needs absolutely no help in adjusting its pH.  Normally, the pH of blood and most body fluids is near seven, which is close to neutral. This acid-base balance is under very tight physiologic control because all of the chemical reactions that maintain life depend on it. Unless you have serious respiratory or kidney problems, body pH will remain in balance no matter what you eat or drink.”

Dr. Weil is claiming here that body pH essentially remains the same no matter what we put into it because of buffers.  I wish that was so, but I am afraid that Dr. Weil is entirely wrong here.  I agree that blood pH is always stable at 7.25 – 7.45, but his statement includes “most bodily fluids,” meaning fluids other than blood.  The blood immediately cleanses itself all acid waste and toxins into bodily tissues that enters it.  All disease thrives in an acid environment in the body and will not live in a more alkaline, or neutral, pH of about 7.0, which should be measured through the urine and not the blood or saliva.  One must test their urine each morning upon waking for one month to get a moving average of their body pH.  I am quite surprised at Dr. Weil’s assessment of blood vs. body pH.  I cannot say that his medical training has served him well in that regard.

Dr. Weil: “I’ve even seen claims that it can cure obesity, high blood pressure and breast cancer.”

Because someone has misrepresented what Ionized Water is capable of doing for our health does not change the truth about what Ionized Water actually is.  Ionized Water is the healthiest substance that we can possibly put into our bodies that mimics most of the qualities that raw (uncooked) fruits and vegetables have.  They both have an abundance of electrons, a negative ORP (Oxidation Reduction Potential), and are alkaline and detoxifying.  However, no food or water is capable of healing our bodies of any disease.  Rather it is what the body does with these raw foods and water that allows the body to heal itself.  The body is capable of healing itself of any disease if you stop putting the wrong things into it and start putting the right things into it. My Seven Component Health Protocol explains exactly how we can do that.

Dr. Weil: “As for water, you should consider the fact that alkaline water is common throughout the western states but to my knowledge it has not protected anyone from the diseases common in our population.”

This is a fair statement for Dr. Weil to make however we need to recognize that it would be impossible to determine one way or another without comprehensive studies being conducted of people who drank this water verses those who did not and lived in the same location.  Only then could we determine whether Dr. Weil’s assessment of naturally occurring alkaline water in the Southwestern US was indeed healthy for a person to consume or whether it had no substantial effect.

Dr. Weil: “Bottom line: The health claims for water ionizers and for alkaline water are bogus”.

I doubt Dr. Weil has ever consumed Ionized Water because if he would drink it each day for a month he would not be making this statement. Ionized Water is a powerful antioxidant that alkalizes and removes acid waste from the body.  It is also extremely hydrating and consequently detoxifying because it pushes toxins (poisons) out of the body.  It has two antioxidant properties, an abundance of electrons and a negative ORP.  If Dr. Weil does not recognize these antioxidant properties that exist within Ionized Water then he does not recognize the most fundamental tenants of natural health because both of these antioxidants are found in nature and only in nature can true health be found.

Like the vast majority of medical professionals who know a lot about medicine and next to nothing about health, Dr. Weil should stick to commenting on subjects he actually studied and consumed himself. The evidence of the miraculous health properties of Ionized Water is abundant and irrefutable.

I believe that Dr. Weil should take the advice of Walt Whitman who said: “You must travel it yourself.”

Subscribe To My Blog

By

Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

This is not the first time someone with gravitas in the natural health industry has made disparaging remarks concerning ionized water, dismissing it as a “fad”, “snake oil on tap” and/or simply as a “scam” that will eventually be exposed for the fraud it really is.  Dr. Andrew Weil, who has in the past offered a lot of excellent natural health advice, dismisses Ionized Water and I wrote a rebuttal to his dismissive comments.  I have also debunked the debunkers of ionized Water, none of whom I believe have ever tried it. These misguided health professionals have missed the most important health advance in the history of mankind. Worse, they have potentially kept scores of people from integrating ionized water into their lifestyle and making themselves healthier.

However, I did not expect misinformation to disseminate from Dr. Joseph Mercola whose website www.Mercola.com I have followed for many years now.  It is informative, a great resource and Dr. Mercola seems sincere in offering the information and promoting the products he sells, one of them being Chlorella of which I am proud to say that we are one of the largest importers of Chlorella in North America.  I believe in Chlorella the way I believe in Ionized Water.  Both have been scientifically assessed and documented.  However, when it comes to Dr. Mercola’s opinions about Ionized Water I have concluded he knows nothing more about it than what he might have heard, but he certainly has not investigated it thoroughly the way he has about so many other things, such as his negative assessment of soy, which I completely agree with.  This makes the situation even more troubling and saddening to hear Dr. Mercola offer such a negative assessment of ionized water. Clearly, he understands almost nothing about it, and for someone who is supposed to be on the cusp of natural health advances it has taken him quite a long time to comment and then to denounce it as though it has suddenly appeared on the market when the fact is that  Ionized Water has quite a long and interesting history.

I have been drinking Ionized Water for 14 years, since January 1996.  Don Strayer walked in with a story about some incredible water he was promoting and the rest is history.  When I first discovered Ionized Water I thought it was one of the most incredible things I had ever seen in my life and my assessment has not changed one bit other than to say I am even more adamant now about it than I was then.  I have written six books on health, including The Miraculous Properties of Ionized Water, which is in its 3^rd Edition and is by far my biggest selling book.  It has been translated into Spanish and soon Chinese.  I also wrote a guide to purchasing a water ionizer, all this in an effort to legitimize ionized water and tell the world about the healthiest substance we can possibly consume because there is nothing better for our health than water and there is no better water than Ionized Water.

The fact that Dr. Mercola is a medical doctor neither qualifies or disqualifies him from making an assessment about Ionized Water and anything else regarding natural health, nor do you need to be a water expert. Health and medicine are two completely different things and should never be confused with one another.  I am a Certified Water Technician with the State of Michigan.  I am also a Type II Public Water Supply Specialist and have both S-5 and D-5 certifications.  I have been in the bottled water business since 1993.  My family has a long history in the water industry.  My father, who had a PhD from MIT, pioneered environmental issues regarding ground water and drinking water quality.  I have two credentials in Natural Health.  However, none of that or anything I could possibly say about Ionized Water verifies whether it is the healthiest substance we can consume.  This is because the truth of what Ionized Water is does not depend on witnesses.  But that doesn’t mean that witnesses can’t help.  Let me and so many others stand witness to the healthiest substance available: Ionized Water.

DR. MERCOLA, LET’S GO TO SCHOOL:

MERCOLA: First of all, I don’t doubt that some people notice improvements from them. There is no question.

HOUSTON: That’s probably from drinking more water.

MY REPONSE: This begs the question of whether Dr. Mercola is suggesting that drinking ionized water is actually healthy for people or whether it is a placebo and people only “think” it is benefiting them.  This is the first of many contradictory statements that both Dr. Mercola and Houston make in this interview.

MERCOLA: One of the primary ones is that most all of them are multilevel marketing systems. They are very expensive. They are well over a thousand dollars. There is a strong incentive to sell those that are unrelated to the quality of the water that’s being produced.

MY REPONSE: Most companies that sell water ionizers are not multilevel marketing companies, but rather are traditional companies that sell direct to the consumer and their prices are always much lower for comparable products.

MERCOLA: But even more important from the quality of the water, I don’t think that we were designed to drink alkaline water — at least all the time. It is my understanding, some of the healthiest waters maybe even acidic. At least from some of these mountain spring sources.

MY REPONSE: Dr. Mercola is unclear as to whether we should drink alkaline water some of the time or not at all. I have never heard of any mountain spring water sources that are naturally acidic. Nor do I know on what basis Dr. Mercola makes his claim that some of the healthiest waters may be acidic.  The only water that is acid is purified water, such as reverse osmosis or distilled water. Rarely do we find a ground water that is below a pH of 6.5. I would like Dr. Mercola to explain his reasoning as to why he considers some of the healthiest waters to be acidic.  The statement is blatantly wrong in my opinion.

MERCOLA: I think the central guiding natural process that I try to follow is that I don’t think you’re going to find naturally occurring alkaline water.

MY REPONSE: The primary component in ionized water that makes it an alkaline is hydroxyl ions, i.e. molecules that possess an extra electron. The more of these there are in the water the higher the pH of the water will be. Hydroxyl ions are found commonly in nature. They can be found in abundance in waterfalls, the waves crashing on the beach and water bouncing off the rocks as it comes down a mountain. However, these hydroxyl ions are quickly neutralized by the abundance of hydrogen ions that are also present in nature. Therefore, the effects of the hydroxyl ions are short-lived and nearly impossible to harvest from nature.

By producing ionized water, we are able to magnify and concentrate the same hydroxyl ions that are commonly found in nature. Ionized water possesses all the same qualities as raw fruits and vegetables:

 
• Ionized water is alkaline as are raw foods.

 

• Ionized water possesses an abundance of hydroxyl ions that are free radical scavengers, as do raw foods.

 

• Ionized water is a negative charge, oxidation reduction potential (ORP), that reduce oxidation in the body and as do raw foods.

 

• Ionized water is detoxifying due to its small water molecule cluster, as are raw foods.

The only differences are that raw foods have nutrients and ionized water is extremely hydrating.

MERCOLA: I think the central guiding natural process that I try to follow is that I don’t think you’re going to find naturally occurring alkaline water.

HOUSTON: Not at a level of 10 or 12 or 13 on the pH scale.

MY REPONSE: There are several instances of naturally occurring ground and spring sources that have a pH 9.4 or higher, such as Trinity Springs in Colorado. More importantly, ionized water should never be consumed over a pH 9.9. While some marketers mistakenly encourage people to consume ionized water at a pH up to pH 11.  It should never be consumed above pH 10.

MERCOLA: No. When you try to play with natural processes and think that you’re academically, intellectually superior what’s happened over thousands of years — that you’re going to produce a better–, sometimes you can, but when you do that, you have to be really careful and especially with something foundational like water.

So I like to keep it as simple and basic and as close as to what we find in the natural environment as possible.

MY REPONSE: I appreciate Dr. Mercola’s sentiment of wanting to get everything as simple, basic and close to nature as possible, especially when it comes to water which is the foundation and cornerstone of health, and I maintain that ionized water fits that description exactly.

HOUSTON: All the water you find on the planet has minerals in it.

MY REPONSE: Technically that is true although many water sources such as glaciers, rivers, lakes and even some ground water has extremely low amounts of minerals in the water (TDS). However, Houston is right in concluding that naturally occurring water contains minerals and that purified water (reverse osmosis and distillation) are not natural and therefore are not found in nature.

HOUSTON : I absolutely believe that we should all be — from our dogs and cats and fish, to us, that all of our water should have minerals in it.

MERCOLA: Well if doesn’t it’s a problem. This is incontrovertible, absolute documented fact that if you are having demineralized water you invariably suffer some health consequences as a result of that.

MY REPONSE: I absolutely agree with Dr. Mercola and Houston.  All water we consume should have TDS (total dissolved solids) of at least 100 ppm (parts per million). This would include almost ALL ground water and Spring water.

HOUSTON: I personally, I feel that if you’re close to 7, you can’t be all that wrong. I personally believe that alkaline is better for you.

MERCOLA: Maybe 6 to 8, somewhere in that range. When you start going beyond that…

HOUSTON: 6.5 to 7.5.

MERCOLA: 6.5 and 7.5, so even more defined. It’s probably a healthier range to shoot for.

MY REPONSE: Upon hearing this exchange between Houston and Dr. Mercola my sense is that they have not really carefully considered what the pH of water and foods that we consume should be. Dr. Mercola offers a range between pH 6 – 8, which is a 100 fold difference between the two numbers since the pH scale is logarithmic. Then Houston offers a more narrow range of 6.5 – 7.5, which Dr. Mercola tends to go along with and then states that it is a “healthier range to shoot for”.  I get a sense from that exchange that they are making it up as they go. For the record, anything below a pH of 7.0 is acid and should not be consumed in my opinion.

HOUSTON: So my feeling is the closer to the middle you are, the better we are for what our bodies processes are designed to operate on.

MY REPONSE: Yes, the optimal body pH is 7.0, which is measured through your urine, not saliva.  However, to bring it up to neutral, 7.0, we need to constantly add more alkaline substances such as Ionized Water and raw fruits and vegetables.  This is because we are constantly acidifying our bodies with our lifestyle, diet and environment. The cooked foods we eat are acidic, in particular the animal protein we consume, which most of us put at the center of our diet.  This is why I recommend ionized water and raw foods that are both alkaline.

HOUSTON: The reason why I personally and this is just my personal opinion feel that alkaline water is optimal is because by definition you can’t have free radicals in an alkaline environment. There are no loose hydrogen atoms flying around looking for electrons.

I feel that if you want to minimize the possibility of having free radicals in your body, keep your body alkaline and your body will stay in balance that way.

MY REPONSE: Although he is correct in stating that ionized water is a free radical scavenger, Houston is demonstrating with that comment that he does not fully understand the principles of ionized water. Is not the alkalinity in ionized water that makes it a free radical scavenger, rather the presence of hydroxyl ions which are molecules that have an extra electron attached to them, giving them the ability to attach itself to a free radical and neutralize its potential for cellular damage.

There are several ways to make one or more alkaline such as alkaline drops, which typically contain potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide. However, for a water to be considered a free radical scavenger it must contain free electrons, which only ionized water and raw foods have. The purpose of drinking alkaline water is to balance the body’s pH by bringing it closer to neutral at 7.0, not negate free radicals.

HOUSTON: My feeling is, I always like a pH above 7.

MY REPONSE: I agree with Houston that the pH of whatever we consume, whether it is food or liquid, should have a pH above 7.0. However, in this interview, Houston has stated that he prefers to drink water with a pH of 6.5 – 7.5. Therefore, his statements in this interview are contradictory since pH 6.5 is acid. This again demonstrates that neither of them has really thought any of this through.

HOUSTON: Now getting that I don’t have the medical background, and you [referring to Mercola] do, I just know water.

MY REPONSE: You certainly do not need a medical background to understand health or water. Health and medicine are completely unrelated, therefore whether someone has medical credentials does not impress me one way or the other when discussing what is healthy. In that regard Dr. Mercola and Houston are equally unqualified to discuss ionized water since neither of them have bothered to research it.

HOUSTON: They’re electrocuting the water.

MY REPONSE: ionization is a simple concept that involves the use of an anode (negatively charged electrode) and a cathode (positively charged electrode) to produce positive and negative ions.  It is naive and misrepresentative to state that the water is being electrocuted.

HOUSTON: They do make outrageous claims for health. Those are short lived. The companies just can’t do that. I’ll . . .

HOUSTON: So they use a selective filtration device like the technology that use so that they can actually take out some contaminants because those ionizers don’t remove anything from the water.

MERCOLA: It’s an important point to consider, very important point. Thank you for mentioning it. These ionizers are not water filters.

HOUSTON: No, they’re not treatment devices.

MY REPONSE: We should not confuse a water ionizer with a water filter. However, all water ionizers that are marketed today have a built-in filter that cleans the water before it is then ionized. It is important that contaminants be removed from the water before it is ionized by filtration and ionization have nothing to do with one another, although they should be used in conjunction with one another.

HOUSTON: The ionizers, they give you that range of 9 to 13, and 4 to 2 on the low side. It’s not a natural process.

MY REPONSE: Residential water ionizers are only able to produce a pH in the range of 4 to 11 depending on the source water. Once again Houston’s assessment of ionized water is wrong, demonstrating he does not know much about it other than what he is heard.

HOUSTON: This is difficult to get as NSF or they’ll lean on their UL mark. What they’re not telling you is those certifications are electrical components that were not going to burn your house down. Those have nothing to do with water quality. So when you see those —

MERCOLA: Or distinction in an area that creative marketers can give you the impression that it’s certified and it is truly certified. It’s not illegal but it’s unethical and it’s deceptive.

MY REPONSE: Filtration cleans the water while ionization takes the water to another level of healthiness that has not been seen before. A water ionizer could never get NSF certification because it does not treat or filter the water in any way. A better way to look at a water ionizer is that it enhances the water and makes it healthier to consume. I often recommend a pre-treatment filtration system before the water ionizer, which would give you double filtration.

HOUSTON: There is certainly a place for acidic water and alkaline water . . .  I do see a place for ionizers industrially. But when it comes to human health, we don’t know if it’s good for you to drink water with a pH of 10 or to wash your skin with water with a pH of 3.

MERCOLA: Because the studies haven’t been done.

HOUSTON: Right.

MY REPONSE: There have been hundreds of scientific studies done on the subject of ionized Water. I have collected them in my book the Miraculous Properties of Ionized Water, and they are available on my website. There are also numerous studies that have been conducted on ionized water in other languages such as Russian and Japanese. I carefully chronicled the development of ionized water in Russia beginning in the early 20th century.

MERCOLA: It’s probably not going to be your best long term solution when you’re drinking water that doesn’t appear this way in nature.

MY REPONSE: As I previously stated ionized water does appear in nature and mimics the attributes of raw foods which are also only found in nature. Since Dr. Mercola suggests that we should only consume things found in nature I would like to remind him that cooked foods do not appear in nature yet he promotes cooked foods such as fish, ostrich and other cooked meals.  Wild deer and squirrels live on a raw food diet, not a cooked food diet. My point here is that if we want to discuss what is naturally healthy for the body as those things only found in nature then we should be consistent.

MERCOLA: I think this may be more of a public health service announcement to really warn people that if you are consuming alkaline water, an ionizer, you really want to give it a second thought and maybe want to eliminate it from your house and certainly not promote or recommend it to anyone else because more than likely, in the not too distant future, this is going to be well known and publicized and these devices will not even be available anymore.

MY REPONSE: I have been consuming and promoting ionized water for 14 years and I have been listening to the prediction of its death knell for that long.  Ionized water is the healthiest substance we can consume and debunkers such as Dr. Mercola and others are not going to get rid of it by simply stating they are a fad or by denouncing it as others have as “snake oil on tap”. Ionized water is here to stay because the truth cannot be kept a secret forever.

HOUSTON: I mean, when you’re selling a product that 10 people get a commission on, it’s expensive.

MY REPONSE: We should never put a price on our health because without our health we have nothing. Having said that, my suggestion to those who do not wish to buy a product where 10 people are getting a commission is for them to buy the product from a company that sells directly to the public and not through a multilevel marketing structure. There are plenty of us out here who do just that.

It has been my experience that water technology professionals such as Houston know a lot about water, but nothing about health.   There have been numerous attempts to get the water tech industry interested in marketing water ionizers, but there is no interest because fundamentally they are a health product, not a water product.  The biggest mistake that Houston and Dr. Mercola both made in this interview is assuming that a water ionizer is just another water product trying to pass itself off as something special.   The fact is that a water ionizer produces the healthiest substance we can possibly consume.

Subscribe To My Blog

McCauley is a vegan (someone who does not eat any meat, fish, eggs or dairy products) who promotes the use of spirulina and chlorella for our protein instead of animal sources. Spirulina and Chlorella are the most powerful superfoods known. They are complete foods with protein, carbohydrates and fat that are the most nutrient dense foods known. They also have the broadest array of nutrients of any foods.

In 15 years of service, the WWC has labored hard to bring awareness about ionized water, spirulina and chlorella to the average person who may or may not be interested in natural health. The WWC also promotes angstrom minerals, probiotics and herbal extracts. They also encourage that people move to a diet consisting mainly of raw fruits and vegetables. “The Body is Capable of Healing Any Disease” is the mantra they have operated by for all years they have been in business.

The WWC is located in Lansing, MI. Their website is www.watershed.net. They can be contacted at info@watershed.net or call 1-888-826-4448.

Press Release:  http://ow.ly/sOYQ

A plethora of websites have sprung up on the internet that do nothing but compare water ionizers that are sold by various companies. They are professionally done and easy to navigate. But who is behind these comparison sites? Why would anyone spend the money to produce a website that only compares water ionizers and doesn’t sell one themselves? The interesting thing is each of these “objective” websites has determined that a particular model or manufacturer is the best water ionizer on the market. I cannot say I have ever seen these types of comparison websites for any other product on the market. These “objective” websites are anything but what they appear to be. Any open and honest company or individual will allow you to see who they are by registering their website in their name.

There is a way to know if the website you are viewing is actually an objective third party or another water ionizer company deceptively promoting their own product while attempting to appear to be objective. To find out who owns a website search for them on Network Solutions at http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp. Type in any website and it will tell you who owns it and give their contact information. You will notice that all the “objective water ionizer review websites” are registered anonymously by proxy, meaning that they are registered through a third party. In short, they are hiding who they are because they are not being truthful about their identity. They are not in any way objective. When you look at us at the Watershed Wellness Center www.watershed.net you will find that our website is registered by our company’s president, Bob McCauley.

The Watershed Wellness Centerwww.watershed.nethttp://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/watershed.net
Administrative Contact : McCauley, Bob

spartanbob@MINDSPRING.COM
6439 West Saginaw Highway
Lansing, MI 48917 USA
Phone: (517) 886-0440
http://www.truthfulionizerreview.com/http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/truthfulionizerreview.comRegistrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: TRUTHFULIONIZERREVIEW.COM Domain servers in listed order: NS55.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS56.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

www. COMPARETHEBRANDS.COM

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/comparethebrands.com

Registrant: Contactprivacy.com 96 Mowat Ave Toronto, ON M6K 3M1 CA Domain name: www.COMPARETHEBRANDS.COM Administrative Contact: contactprivacy.com, comparethebrands.com@contactprivacy.com 96 Mowat Ave Toronto, ON M6K 3M1 CA +1.4165385457 Technical Contact: contactprivacy.com, comparethebrands.com@contactprivacy.com 96 Mowat Ave Toronto, ON M6K 3M1 CA +1.4165385457

http://top3ionizersreviewed.com/http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/top3ionizersreviewed.comAdministrative Contact: WhoisGuard WhoisGuard Protected (f6c64ef862984bcfa490cf94a813683a.protect@whoisguard.com) +1.6613102107 Fax: +1.6613102107 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 – 732 Westchester, CA 90045 US

http://www.truthfulionizerreview.com/

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/truthfulionizerreview.com

Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Created on: 01-Oct-08
Expires on: 01-Oct-09
Last Updated on: 01-Oct-08

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration TRUTHFULIONIZERREVIEW.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353

www.waterionizerreviews.org
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/waterionizerreviews.orgDomain Name:WATERIONIZERREVIEWS.ORGCreated On:12-May-2008 20:24:37 UTCLast Updated On:06-Feb-2009 20:40:26 UTCExpiration Date:12-May-2014 20:24:37 UTCSponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITEDStatus:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITEDStatus:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITEDStatus:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITEDRegistrant ID:GODA-047613078Registrant Name:Registration PrivateRegistrant Organization:Domains by Proxy, Inc.Registrant Street1:DomainsByProxy.comRegistrant Street2:15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353

There are three pillars of Great Health. Most bodybuilders and other athletes work hard to obtain two of those health pillars, exercise and a positive mental attitude or motivation . By neglecting the first pillar, nutrition and water, we only destroy the very foundation of what we are trying to achieve: a healthy, sculpted, athletic body. We don’t obtain the perfect body we desire when we don’t eat a truly healthy diet. We cheat ourselves out of health and appearance.

Health and Bodybuilding

Until now, the worlds of bodybuilding and true health have not coincided. Bodybuilding today still revolves around various supplements such as creatine and whey protein. The body creates some of these substances through its natural processes. For instance, creatine is created by the body from amino acids. However, when we consume synthetic forms of these substances, the body may still use them to build muscle, but not without a cost to the body’s overall health. Some of these substances do not belong in the body whatsoever because they cause great detriment to our health. Whey protein, whether derived from a cow or goat, contains a protein structure that may appear on paper to be exactly what the body needs, but how the body handles it is an entirely different matter that causes severe imbalances in the body that can eventually lead to disease.

We can stay healthy and carve our bodies into the shape we want. To do this, we are use to pain and sacrifice, but to be truly healthy it takes a kind of sacrifice that most of us are not use to. Moving to the healthiest diet known will take more discipline than you can imagine because you will be required to change one of the most fundamental parts of your life, the diet you grew up with and are conditioned to believe is healthy. The diet we all live on is the cooked food diet, which leads to all disease.

Bodybuilders do two dangerously unhealthy things to themselves. They acidify and dehydrate their bodies. They acidify it through their diet and with exercise and then deliberately dehydrate it, especially before a competition, to make themselves look better. There is nothing worse for the body than acidifying and dehydrating it. It is why bodybuilders suffer from kidney, liver, heart disease, as well as a host of other health problems at such relatively young ages. None of these processes are natural nor are the diseases that result from them. We prematurely age ourselves with the cooked food diet, unnecessarily expose ourselves to disease and bodybuilders are more guilty of this than any other group of athletes. A hard working bodybuilder appears to be a picture of perfect health as his or her muscles ripple and flex. It is the human body sculpted into a work of art, but often that body is deteriorating within, rife with disease. It does not have to be this way.

My health protocol seeks to reverse the unhealthy things bodybuilders and other athletes do to themselves by opening their minds to the incredible world of natural foods, powerful nutraceuticals such as Spirulina and Chlorella and Ionized Water, the most important substance for our bodies.

Reverse Aging

We can reverse the aging process without hormone replacement or other artificial means. We can have the body that we had when we were in our twenties regardless of chronological age. We prematurely age ourselves, both internally and externally. Our faces show age more profoundly and at an earlier age when we acidify and dehydrate it. Bodybuilding is all about look and strength. When we move to the raw food diet, coupled with proper hydration of the body, we can have both the look we want and the health we deserve. When we talk about reversing the aging process, we are talking about reversing it biologically, not chronologically.

Building Bodies – The Problem of Protein

One of the nutrients the bodybuilding world currently revolves around is whey protein because its builds body mass. On paper, whey protein looks like a sensible, healthy choice. Unfortunately dairy products are one of the worst things we can possibly put in the body for a number of reasons. They create huge amounts of mucus in the body and the amino acid structure of whey protein throws the body completely out of homeostasis or balance. Specifically, the amino acid ratio is unbalanced, meaning that there is a large amount of one amino acid and not enough of others. This kind of imbalanced protein encourages disease more than anything else, which is why doctors often tell cancer patients to avoid meat and dairy because they know it will exacerbate the problem.

The Protein Solution

If we examine plant based amino acids, we find that they are naturally in the correct amino acid ratio to one another. Dairy products of any kind are wrong for the human body because are putting the milk and hormones of another species in our bodies. We are the only species to consume milk past infancy and the only species that consumes the milk of another species.

The Most Powerful Foods Known

Spirulina and Chlorella, two types of algae, are a superior source of protein for many reasons, including the fact that they alkalize the body instead of acidifying it the way animal protein does. These two foods are 60% protein, far higher than any other natural food. They have a full compliment of amino acids in the correct ratio to one another along with the broadest array of nutrients of any foods. They are both considered perfect foods. Although it would not be ideal, a person could live on either of them exclusively and be quite healthy. Bodybuilders must learn to use this type of plant protein as many have begun to do with great success. I work out everyday, running 3-7 miles along with upper body work. Since including these two superfoods in my diet, my stamina, recovery times and overall performance have improved dramatically.

Diet Plans We Should Fear

Traditional diet plans play around with the carbohydrate, fat and protein ratio of foods we consume. High fat, high protein diets allow the body to lose weight quickly, however they cause the body great harm and have even killed people. This happens because these diets meddle with the natural balance of protein, fats and carbohydrates that the body has evolved on over millions of years. When we tinker with it, the body falls out of homeostasis and opens itself up to all disease. One of the central components of the raw food diet is detoxification. Some people have complained that going on the raw food diet made them sick, but really it only detoxified the person, which gave them symptoms of disease such as headaches, rashes, diarrhea and fatigue. They were healing, but unfortunately mistook it for illness. Simply stated, toxins are substances that don’t belong in the body. There are very mild toxins and very dangerous toxins such as heavy metals. Disease lives on toxins and we create a toxic environment in the body by living on a cooked food diet. Raw foods detoxify the body in every way, just the opposite of what cooked foods do, which is deposit their toxins. As these toxins are removed, the diseases of the body leave with it because they have nothing to live on.

Which Water to Drink

It is difficult for the body to get water from any source other than water itself. Water is the centerpiece of health, yet most people ignore it completely. The single biggest health mistake most people make, including bodybuilders, is not drinking enough water everyday. We need to drink half our body weight in ounces every day just to replace the amount of water we lose. Unfortunately, most of us reach for something other than water when we are thirsty. Or we eat something to quench our thirst, which is even worse. We have conditioned ourselves not to drink water and this is the most dangerous thing we do to our health.

There is nothing more important for the body than water, however, most health and medical professionals know very little about water, nor do they promote it. I have been in the bottled water business since 1993. Most of the water sold in health food stores is purified, either through distillation or reverse osmosis, meaning that all the minerals have been removed from the water. Unfortunately there is nothing healthy about purified water. It acidifies the body, does not hydrate it well and leaches vital minerals from the body. Spring or mineral bottled water is usually good quality and is fine to drink. But the best water by far is Ionized Water. It is a powerful antioxidant that provides the body with lots of oxygen and therefore lots of energy. It is very alkaline, which helps to balance the body’s pH and bring it into homeostasis. This is critical because all disease lives in an acid environment in the body, but will not live in an alkaline environment. The size and shape of ionized water molecule clusters are very small, about half the size of conventional water molecule clusters, therefore it is extremely hydrating. And as it hydrates the body tissue better than it ever has before it pushes out all the things that don’t belong there, which are commonly known as toxins. Ionized Water is extremely detoxifying, which is why there are various levels of ionization strength on a water ionizer so we can begin drinking Ionized Water slowly and don’t detoxify too quickly.

Cooked Foods vs. Raw Foods

Cooked foods are poison. The first time I read that statement I thought it was ridiculous that anyone would believe that cooked foods are actually harmful to the human body. It took a few years of eating raw foods to actually understand how true that statement is. Cooked foods are an addiction that acidify the body and provides it with little, if any, nutrition. If you don’t believe they are an addiction, try going a single day without them. Only raw foods rejuvenate the body because they have enzymes and organic chemical substances that are not denatured, or destroyed, by cooking. Heat is a chemical reagent thus we are chemically scrambling and destroying the nutrients when we cook food. We find no evidence of chronic disease in the wild because animals don’t cook their food. In fact, we find of disease at all amongst animals until we domesticate and put them on a processed food diet at which point we begin to find every disease in them that we find in ourselves.

The Source of All Disease

Raw foods alkalize, detoxify and rejuvenate the body in every way. Cooked foods acidify and deposit toxins in the body, creating an environment that is conducive to disease. Disease only lives in a toxic environment. All disease stems from the cooked food diet and worst of all are processed and junks foods such as soft drinks and even breakfast cereals that many of us consider so healthy. Many people believe that disease is inherited, but what we really inherit is unhealthy dietary habits, eating certain foods, living a dietary lifestyle like that of our parents and it is these habits that give us the same diseases that our parents and siblings have.

How to Begin

The human body is capable of healing itself of any disease. The raw food diet is 100% successful in curing disease each and every time it’s tried. Moving to the raw food diet is a profound change in lifestyle and the move must be slow and deliberate. We must stop putting the wrong things in our bodies and start putting in the right things, which are the powerful raw foods that nature provides us with. One place to start is with a salad before each meal that grows in size each day and week and month while our cooked food meal that follows shrinks in size proportionally. There is a whole world of raw foods and amazing ways they can be prepared to taste wonderful that the vast majority of us are completely unaware of.

The New Health Paradigm

The same bland message is repeated to us year after year about health and bodybuilding by the same voices. The words of that message are juggled to sound different each time they are delivered, but it is the same message that serves more to confuse rather than educate us on what true health really is. The message of raw foods and the New Health Paradigm has never truly been given a proper forum to be heard. As athletes, I believe it is time we heard this message so we can get on with the important business of being healthy. No matter how great we may look, it is worthless if our bodies are not healthy.

The body is an incredible machine that can prevent and cure itself of any disease. It is a temple that we must honor by nourishing and building it to its greatest potential. Considering the escalating cost of health care that is spiraling out of control, the need to have this message heard in the mainstream is more critical now than ever. I personally don’t have health insurance and it is by choice. While I do have accident insurance in case something happens, I will never spend another dime on something I will never need, and that is a doctor.

The world of bodybuilding and fitness has two components of what we must do to Achieve Great Health, that of regular, strenuous exercise and having a positive mental attitude. We must discover the missing piece of the health puzzle, that of Ionized Water and raw nutrition. It is the new paradigm of true health where disease no longer exists. It is time this message is brought out of the fringes and into the mainstream.

I was already drinking a gallon of water everyday and did not have a poor diet (I was a vegetarian) so I did not suffer the detoxification effects of Ionized Water, which are extremely powerful, but won’t be noticed by those who are not toxic. I drank it at the highest (strongest) level and I drank at least a gallon everyday. At present, I drink nearly two gallons everyday and, honestly, have never felt better in my life.

Since I was not ill at the time and had no chronic disease, I cannot claim that Ionized Water cured me of anything. Ionized Water is best used as a preventative health measure, a tool that can be utilized to keep you in the best health possible.

Some of the things I have noticed over the last eight years of drinking Ionized Water is an overall increase in stamina and recovery times after exercising. I have noticed this especially during and after running. I run 2-6 miles everyday as I have for years. My stamina has increased 25-30% and my recovery time has decreased a proportional amount. I never get sore joints; in particular my knees have not given me any trouble since I started drinking Ionized Water. I surmise from this that the accumulated acid waste has been washed from my joints for the most part. I am also far more limber than I was before, thus I find it much easier to stretch than I ever have before.

Colds and the flu have completely disappeared from my life since I began drinking Ionized Water. If I do feel a little something coming on, such as a sore throat, I find that drinking a few extra glasses of Ionized Water helps put it at bay quickly. It is my contention that if people were to simply drink enough water and keep their bodies properly hydrated, 60%-80% of the chronic disease in our society would disappear.

Since my brain and cranial fluids are always sufficiently hydrated, I think much clearer now. This is crucial because the brain uses 80% of every sip of water you take! Ionized Water provides the body with lots of oxygen, much of which will be used by the brain to function properly. Thus, the clarity of my thought processes have definitely improved.

1. The first thing that Ionized Water does to the body when a person begins drinking it is flush out the digestive track. People often comment how often they have to go to the bathroom when they first start drinking Ionized Water. The smaller water molecule cluster size cleanses the lining of the digestive track and hydrates the body tissue better than any other water. As it does so, it forces out toxins and this can lead to diarrhea, rashes and other detoxification symptoms. The more toxins that are accumulated in the body, the more profound the effects of Ionized Water. Water ionizers have several levels of strength so one can begin drinking at a weak level and then increase as they get use to it.
2. I have reduced acid levels in the body and balanced my overall body pH, which is not measured through the blood, but through the urine or saliva. But this did not happen overnight. I did not get into the shape I was in, which was not at all bad, but I was not about to correct it in every way overnight. Years of accumulated acid waste in the joints and throughout the body takes years to completely undue. And a large part will depend on your diet as to how quickly you will rid the body of acid waste.
3. I have increased my blood oxygen level and my energy level at the same time. Oxygen is a nutrient that can saturate the blood, but cannot be stored. Thus it is crucial that we constantly provide our bodies with sufficient oxygen. Oxygen carries nutrients around the body, provides us with energy and kills bacteria, viruses, even cancer cells. 100 million years ago the atmosphere of the Earth contained 30% more oxygen than it does today. We evolved in a higher oxygen environment than we find ourselves today, partly due to pollution, partly due to natural changes between the Earth and the Sun. Ionized Water is a great source of oxygen. The oxygen that is derived from Ionized Water arrives in the form of a very potent antioxidant, which has an extra electron. The oxygen from Ionized Water comes from the hydroxyl ions that are produced when the water is run over positive and negative electrodes and there is an exchange of ions. This hydroxyl ion is an oxygen molecule that carries an extra electron which is donated to a free radical (an oxygen molecule that has only one electron). What remains are two stabilized oxygen molecule; a higher blood oxygen level is the result.
4. Ionized Water has bathed my body in the negatively charged liquid, which promotes rejuvenation at a cellular level. All RAW fruits and vegetables have a negative charge or ORP (oxidation reduction potential). Anything that is oxidizing, such as metal has a positive charge. Our bodies are constantly being attacked by oxidation; the older we are, the higher the charge (ORP) is. When we drink negatively charged substances such as Ionized Water, this oxidation is retarded and our body’s cells are allowed to rejuvenate. This is known as Reverse Aging because it allows the body to rejuvenate at a cellular level. We do not become young in physical years. If we are 40 years old, we do not become 20, but we have the body of a 20-year-old person at a cellular level. This means that the cells that make up our body are as active, productive, communicative and functional as those of a 20 year old person. However, achieving this would not be possible if you only drank Ionized Water; in conjunction with that did not move toward a more Raw Foods, away from cooked and processed foods and put Spirulina and Chlorella at the center of your diet. The Whole Food Raw Diet is the only way to achieve true health, Great Health!
5. I know that overall my body is much better hydrated than it ever has been since Ionized Water is up to six times more hydrating than conventional water. I am much more sensitive to being dehydrated than I use to be. For example, I become aware that my body needs water after only an hour or so of not drinking any. Simply by keeping my body constantly hydrated, I am accomplishing many things I wish to regarding my health. By staying hydrated we help stave off disease better than anything else we do. My blood is never too thin or too thick because of lack of water. My organs function as optimally as can be expected because they are not starved for water. I do not retain salt, nor do I have thin blood and high blood pressure because I drink enough water, especially Ionized Water.

The effects of Ionized Water on the human body are profound, yet subtle. Ionizing Water does not change the taste of the water rather the “feel” of it. By that, I mean that ionizing water makes it smoother by changing the size and shape of the water molecule clusters. Conventional water molecules group together in clusters of 10-12 molecules. Ionizing water breaks the molecule clusters in half so they form a group of 5-6 water molecules, thus they are smaller in size and more penetrating.

What YOU can expect from drinking Ionized Water

Consuming Ionized Water can and will benefit everyone. You will definitely get all the effects discussed above: a negatively charged substance, a free radical scavenger, more oxygen in the body, a balanced body pH, better hydration and detoxification. If you drink Ionized Water the way I drink it, strong and in abundance, you will see the same benefits I do. However, remember that your body is different from mine and everyone else’s, thus the effect of Ionized Water on your body will be different than it was on mine. It will depend on your historical diet and your current diet, how much water your currently drink, how much you exercise, how stressful your life is and how much medicine you both historically and currently take.

Scientific Evidence

There is not a lot of hard scientific evidence concerning Ionized Water for simple reasons. Scientific evidence, real scientific evidence, is expensive and difficult to recoup costs. The Japanese have done many studies on Ionized Water but they are not willing to release them plus the translation would be costly. However, ionization itself is not a great mystery and a great deal is known about what happens when water is ionized. Fundamentally, ionization causes a transfer of electrons between molecules, which is on the surface quite a simple process, however is very complicated upon deeper investigation. The articles below shed light on the ionization process and what makes water so valuable to the human body.