There are many different claims and theories on which water we should be drinking, distilled, reverse osmosis, micro clustered, ionized and the list goes on.  Understand that water is water you can't change the formula its is and always will be H2O, but you can change is pH and energy.  The pH scale is a scale of zero to 14.  Zero is pure acid, 14 pure alkaline, right in the middle is neutral 7.  Everything in our body is slightly alkaline, but everything we do to it is acidic.  Its like a bank; if we keep making withdrawals and no deposits at some point we become bankrupt and our health starts to suffer.  Water can contributed or make withdrawals to this account. 

Most municipalities water is alkaline or slightly alkaline a pH of 7 or higher, but water also has an electrical charge to it called an ORP.  If it has a positive charge our bodies need to use electrons or energy to neutralize it before it can absorb the water.  A truly alkaline water has a negative charge so it can contribute to the body and help maintain and restore balance.  Distilled water has a pH of 7 and an ORP of plus or minus 10 so it doesn't really contribute to the body.  In fact during the distillation process all the minerals are removed from the water.  Water has a state it likes to be in surrounded by various minerals, so in fact distilled water is a hungry water and will actually contribute to body burden as the water tries to return to its ideal state.  Reverse Osmosis also has a pH of 7 and an ORP of plus or minus 10 but the minerals have not been removed.

Ionized water is by far the best thing we can do for our body.  My ionizer gives me a pH of 10.5 and an ORP of -450.  When I moved in with my fiance her mini schnauzer detoxed on the alkaline water and broke out into a rash.  There are many companies on the market today selling ionizers.  Some have more bells and whistles that others but in the end they all do essentially the same thing.  As with anything there is some brilliant marketing being done by some of these companies the biggest being Kangen.  They are trying to brand their machine saying we all should be drinking Kangen water.  There is nothing wrong with their machines but for a few thousand less you can buy a machine from KYK which is made by the same company.  For the money the Gold Fox is an excellent machine.  Remember they all do the same thing.            

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 Good Water

      a pH of at least 9.5

      an ORP of –50 mV or better

      an rH2 of 22 or less

 

Brand or Type	Source or Feature	pH	ORP (mV)	RH2
Propel Fitness Water	Processed water with minerals added	3.37	+305	27.05
San Pellegrino	San Pellegrino, Italy spring water	4.49	+449	28.49
Perrier	Perrier, France	4.91	+447	28.47
Hawaiian Islands	Natural filtered spring water	5.36	+618	30.18
Aqua Diva	Tuscany, Italy natural mineral water from a artesian well	5.78	+611	30.11
New York City Tap	Filtered tap water	5.81	+440	28.40
Aquafina	Filtered municipal water	5.96	+431	28.31
Spa	Reine River, France spring water	6.23	+418	28.18
Deja Blue	North American purified filtered tap water	6.28	+434	28.34
Deer Park	Allegheny Mountains near Deer par, Maryland	6.31	+644	30.41
Poland Spring	Spring Water	6.31	+390	26.90
Fiji	Fiji Islands spring water	6.65	+406	28.06
Blue Moon	Processed filtered tap water	6.65	+406	28.06
Voss	Norway artesian well	6.67	+357	27.57
Penta	Micro-ionized	6.7	+789	31.89
Smart Water	Vapor-distilled water with minerals added	6.97	+368	27.68
Dasani	North American purified tap water	7.2	+378	27.78
Nariwa	Japan spring water from magnetic mountain	7.30	+303	27.03
Ice Age	Ozonated glacier water	7.39	+378	27.78
Absopure	Irish Hills Michigan, spring water, ozonated, ultraviolet	7.48	+455	28.75
Evian	Evian, France	7.53	+390	27.90
Zephyrhills	Spring water	7.57	+362	27.62
Cloud juice	“800 drops of Tasmanian rainwater”	7.58	+367	27.67
Tree Water	Pickens, W Virginia reverse osmosis or filtered water and ozonated water	7.65	+453	28.53
Barraute municipal water	Quebec, Canada first place in municipal waters at the 2002 International water tasting awards	7.79	+483	28.83
Dannon	Natural spring water	7.84	+546	29.46
Canadian Mountain	Melted Glacier	7.96	+364	27.64
Coumayuer	Mont Blanc Massif natural mineral water	8.02	+410	28.10
Acqua Panna	Tuscan Apennines of N. Italy, natural spring water	8.20	+523	29.23
Iceberg Water	Newfoundland melted icebergs	8.31	+326	27.36
Essentia Water	Micro-Ionized	8.57	+58	22.58
Evermore	Atesian	9.23	-57	21.43
Trinity Geothermal Original	Artesian	9.55	+330	27.30
Alkavision Plasma pH	Best pH Drops available www.alkavision.com	10	-181
Regenesis Water	Micro-Ionized	9.88	-78	21.22
Trinity Natural Mineral Supplement	Artesian	9.88	+316	27.16

 

 

 

PH

To be truly healthful, your water must also be alkaline.  Pure distilled water ranks an even 7 on the pH scale. Anything above 7 is alkaline, and so better than acidic water, but to get the full benefits of alkaline water i.e. neutralizing acids- I recommend water that is at least 9.5 on the pH scale.  Most water today is more acidic than neutral.  Imagine you are drinking acidic water, requiring your body to draw down its stores of alkaline substances even more to neutralize water that should be neutral in the first place.  Don’t be fooled by “pH balanced” claims like the ones on certain bottled water labels:” Naturally pH balanced at 7.2” But to really reap the benefits of alkaline water, that pH is not high enough.

 

Drinking Alkaline water washes away acids and wastes, helping your whole body stay alkaline.  By providing alkaline water to neutralize and remove acids from the tissues, you’ll stop the body from gleaning alkaline substances from other body parts to do the job-like leaching calcium from your bones.

 

Electron Activity/Energy/Energy Potential

To reach your ideal health, your water must be energized.  Energized water is saturated with electrons, highly charged and full of potential energy. You already know that alkaline water has a negative charge because of all its electrons, whereas acids are dominated by a positively charged protons, and that it is the attraction of electrons to the protons that neutralizes the harmful acids.  Here I will explain the two ways to measure electron activity, or energy potential, of water: ORP and rH2.

 

ORP

The value of ORP (oxidative reduction potential) quantifies the amount of energy in your water (or anything else) by numbering its electrons.  It is expressed in millivolts (mV).  Make sure your water registers negative in millivolts.  To get to your ideal health you water should have an ORP of at least –50 mV. (And you don’t want that tot go beyond –1,250mV, and as you get close to that you only want a small amount of it on any given day.)  That means there would be sufficient electron activity to neutralize excess acids that would other wise cause your body to gain or hold weight.  Most tap water comes in at +500 mV.

 

RH2

Consider rH2 (reduction of hydrogen: sometimes called “redox”) as sort of a back up measure to ORP.  rH2 is measure on a scale, just the way pH is.  The rH2 scale ranges from 0 to 44, with 22 being neutral: the lower the number, the greater the concentration of electrons.  With each step, the number of electrons increases by a factor of 10; water with a rH2 of 22 has 10 times more electrons than water at 23.  You want your water to have a rH2 of at least 22 or less.  Unfortunately, most municipalities have, on average, an rH2 of 30 or greater.  That’s 100 million fewer electrons than you’re aiming for!  Our water is not providing us with the energy we need to be healthy and maintain a healthy weight.

 

The Solution

Fortunately there is a easy way make sure you water is alkaline: To each liter of water (preferably ionized or distilled), add 10 drops of a Plasma pH (www.alkavision.com).  Plasma pH is the best pH drops I have found on the market today. Adding the sodium chlorite to your water not only increases the pH but also increases electron activity.

 

Even better would be a water ionizer.  A ionizer hooks directly to the faucet and filters out all the unwanted chemicals (chlorine, fluoride) and contaminants and make the water alkaline.  I have a water ionizer in my home.  When the family goes on vacation for a week we pack it up and bring it with us.  When I travel alone I use Plasma pH drops.