It will alkalize your body, hydrate your body six times faster, detoxify your body, improve your digestion and make you more regular --- none of which tap, bottled, well, filtered, distilled, spring, mineral, carbonated, softened or reverse osmosis water can or will do.
If positive ORP and negative ORP sound like Star Trek terms to you, you are not alone. They did to me too, before I read about the difference which brought it down to earth.
This informative health care article from Good Health Supplements covers the many beneifits of ionized water and, in particular, addresses the impact of negative ORP vs. postive ORP.
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This article, © 2006, Ira Marxe, Good Health Supplements
Why Is A Water Ionizer So Important In Achieving Overall Good Health, Well-Being and Youthfulness?
Here is a list of benefits you will achieve when you (1) drink ionized water, (2) cook and prepare beverages with ionized water, and (3) use the acid water as listed below. This list also includes benefits that will make your dog or cat healthier as well:
Drinking Ionized Water:
Provides the body with lots of oxygen, improving energy and mental clarity.
Provides better athletic performance.
Removes accumulated acid wastes and toxins from the body (detoxification).
The detoxification process facilitates weight loss through the release of acid from fat cells.
Promotes overall health and healing by bringing the body into pH balance.
Enhances your immune system as toxins disappear.
Retards the aging process with its negative charge. (Negative Oxidative Reduction Potential. ORP).
Provides powerful liquid antioxidant that scavenges free radicals in your body.
Hydrates the body up to six times more effectively than conventional water.
Improves nutrient absorption when food is cooked with ionized alkaline water.
Allows minerals that are ionized to be more easily assimilated by the body.
Promotes regularity and digestive health by internally cleansing the body. Helps relieve seasonal allergies.
Alkaline Ionized Water in Processed Beverages:
Compared to conventional tap and bottled water, the bitterness is removed from ground coffee, tea and juices, while their flavors are enhanced.
Improves the flavor of alcoholic drinks – use alkaline water for ice cubes.
Helps relieve hangover from excessive alcoholic consumption – drink alkaline ionized water before bedtime and in the morning.
Alkaline Water in Cooking:
Enhances food flavors.
Decreases food’s acidity.
Improves nutrient absorption by the body.
Removes bitterness that some vegetables may have.
Beans can be soaked in alkaline ionized water for a shorter time before cooking.
Cooking rice with alkaline ionized water helps prevent spoilage.
Use as drinking water to maintain their health.
Promotes fur or hair growth.
Produces less fecal odor.
Produces sweeter breath.
Help prevent skin disease and itching.
Help prevent parasites.
Mild Acidic Ionized Water – External Use Only – Do Not Drink:
Effectively removes plaque from teeth. Have healthier gums. Brush with ionized acid water instead of toothpaste. Rinse with tap or alkalized water.
Gargle to relieve sore throats, mouth sores and to prevent infection by germs including the microbes that cause colds and tonsillitis.
Removes bad breath.
Cleans and conditions hair.
Excellent skin conditioner and toner.
Acts as an astringent to tighten skin and remove small wrinkles.
Relieves chapped hands and dry, itchy skin.
Excellent therapy for acne and other skin or scalp conditions.
Excellent therapy for fungus such as athlete’s foot.
Helps heal and disinfect cuts, blisters, scrapes, rashes, burns and wounds.
Accelerates recovery when applied to bruises, sprains, eczema and skin problems when applied directly, sprayed or toweled on.
Helps heal diabetic skin ulcers.
Alleviates the pain and speeds recovery of burns.
Relieves inflammation and speeds recovery from sunburn.
Provides relief from mosquito bites, bee stings, poison ivy and poison oak.
Strong Acidic Ionized Water – External Use Only – Do Not Drink
Kills bacteria on contact.
Quickly washes and disinfects kitchen counters and cutting boards.
Wash vegetables, fruits, meats and fish with acid water to kill bacteria.
Baked on foods, stains and burns in pots and pans are easily removed when soaked in strong acidic water overnight.
Rinse dishcloths and sponges to stop odors, fungal and bacterial growth.
Eliminate odors that remain on the hands after cooking, such as fish odors.
Excellent kitchen cleaning agent – dirt and grime are easily removed.
Effectively polishes and cleans mirrors, eyeglasses, glass and knives.
Wash cars, bicycles, motorcycles to remove dirt more easily.
Great for car, truck or boat batteries.
Bathe pets in mild acidic ionized water for silky fur and healthy skin. Prevents skin disease and itching.
Improves healthy plant growth.
Plants require less water.
Significantly extends the life of cut flowers.
No need for pesticides.
I know of no other product that is so diverse and easy to use in giving you so many health benefits, many of which are critical if you wish to stay healthy and live a long life.
The water ionizer is self cleaning and the only maintenance cost you will experience is replacing the silver/carbon filter approximately once a year.
You can talk about good health all you want, but until you take action, you will never achieve it.
When seen under a microscope, water molecules show up as clusters --- fourteen to fifteen water molecules to a cluster. When you ionize the water, the clusters become much smaller in size and more easily absorbable, only 5 water molecules to a cluster. The smaller molecular clusters enable your body to absorb ionized water 6 times faster than other waters.
Nutritional supplements taken with ionized water are more readily absorbed and are made more effective. Food cooked with ionized water, are more absorbable, enhancing their nutritional value.
Food cooked with ionized water becomes more nutritious because more of its nutrients are extracted making the food more nutritious and beneficial. Ionized water will also make these nutrients available to our cells more quickly and more easily absorbable.
Ionized water is also a very powerful anti-oxidant as it scavenges the body for free oxygen molecules preventing oxidative damage to cells and organs.
Oxygen Reduction Potential, better known as ORP, is the mechanism the body uses to either protect our cells, or work to destroy our cells, depending on whether the ORP is negative or positive.
Positive ORP increases oxidation (aging) and leads to free radical oxidative damage to cells that are a forerunner to degenerative and fatal diseases. Positive ORP is found in tap water, bottled waters, distilled and reverse osmosis waters as well as cooked and processed foods. This means that positive ORP has no antioxidant capacity to neutralize free oxygen radicals that cause oxidative damage.
Negative ORP, however, which is an integral part of ionized alkaline water, literally retards the aging process. It counteracts oxidative damage to our cells by scavenging for free oxygen radicals and neutralizing them. Negative ORP is a very powerful anti-oxidant.
When the negative ORP absorbs the free radicals, it converts to useful oxygen and increases our oxygen supply. This helps detoxify our body and increase our energy level and our ability to fight disease.
Oxygen is one of the most exhausted nutrients in our body because of our diet and the Earth's oxygen-depleted environment but negative ORP can turn this around. Oxygen destroys cancer cells as well as bacteria and viruses invading our bodies. It carries away acid waste from body tissue. It is vital to human health, and therefore, probably our most important nutrient. A glass or two of strong ionized water first thing in the morning naturally helps you to wake up by increasing the level of oxygen in your body.
In addition to the beneficial high pH ionized water with its negative ORP, water ionizers make mild acidic and strong acidic ionized water, each having its own unique set of health benefits. Ionized acidic water is a powerful cleanser and healer as you will read below. The electrolysis process that makes acidic water causes the acidic ionized water to become short of electrons. As a result, on contact with any bacteria or virus, the acidic water will steal an electron rendering bacteria or virus instantly dead.
Considering that most people walk around with an acidic body that is 30% to 40% dehydrated, the difference made in drinking ionized water is incredible. It can literally turn your life around by bringing your body into pH balance to prevent disease, restore and maintain optimal health.
Of further importance is the fact that it is not possible for us to get ionized acidic water, with its many additional, exceptionally healthy benefits, except from a water ionizer.
Ionized water can play the single most important role in our lives in achieving and maintaining good health, avoiding rapid aging and in the development of so many debilitating illnesses and diseases.
Ira Marxe
Good Health Supplements
Good Health Supplements has more information about this subject on their website, as well as the one ionizer they recommend after having fully researched the subject.
Frequently asked questions about water ionizers
More about the benefits and uses of alkaline and acid water
Is it snake oil? The reported benefits of ionized water come, in great part, from actual users who report these benefits. There are scientists and doctors who actively refute any benefit at all to water ionization and some go as far as to call it snake oil.
I found some of these websites so scathing that I tend to feel there might be some predetermined conclusion that prevents the reporters from actually considering objectively what as yet unverified health benefits there might be. In other words, ionization is dismissed out of hand as having no value whatsoever. I think this is short-sighted.
I personally value the benefits of drinking alkaline water, which I've done for years now. I most definitely notice a difference in regularity and hydration. My body wants more of it and my skin looks more healthy as well. As long as I feel it is benefiting me, I'll let the provers of the world slug it out over whether it really does all these things or not. Make your own informed decision, of course.