Would you install this rainwater tank in your backyard?

Allergy Alert Japan style

This is how serious some countries see alergies. These giant pollen detectors are being installed all around Tokyo.

A bit freaky to come upon them in a late night 'substance abusive' state.

Bottled Water Comparisions

Clive emailed me yesterday with some interesting observations he's made on so-called spring water in plastic bottles that now costs more than gasoline per litre.

"Dear Ian,

I have one of your Alphion alkaline water makers, which I think is wonderful.

I have recently analysed a number of the bottled still water brands on sale around Perth and found to my surprise that most of the water is acidic; however when I looked at the bottled water on sale in Brisbane, most of the water was alkaline. I did note also that the components of Woolworths “own brand” was different in both states, suggesting that they source water locally to fill their bottles.

Attached is a view of Perth bottled water – I was surprised at how acidic one of the popular brands is (Peats Ridge) – I have decided to use it as top up water for my car battery instead of using it as water to drink while driving my car!"

If you'd like a copy of Clive's excellent report, click here to download an Excel file.

And while I'm on the subject, here's a graphic that tells us why people drink bottled water.

Alkaline Body Building with Dr Young's pH Miracle diet

Tongue Software

Now this is cool! Software that recognizes positions of the tongue. It excites me because I attended a concert recently where a lovely man communicated using a form of 'letterboard'. He had never been able to speak for his forty plus years of life, and his story was heartrending to say the least, exposing the subtle ways we all discriminate against the less endowed.
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The Cheesburger enshrined in tin!

Yes, you saw it here. The peak of technological capitalism has been attained! Cheeseburgers in tins. Now even people in the most remote corners of the earth can have their own cheeseburger. Perhaps the L'Mupu tribe of upper Niger will even be able to get it Amazon!

.. if they had Internet.
..If they had a computer..
..If they had electricity..
..if they had a telephone line..
..if they could read..

Computer Back: how to beat it.

As one of the thousand billions who spend far too long sitting gazing at a little screen rather than LIVING, this article is extremely pertinent because it gives us all we need to know about sitting properly while surfing the Net.

Sit up straight and See it here

Smoker Alert

This Video is THE MOST GRAPHIC I've ever seen about the damage smoking does to us. Watch if you dare.

View Here

Lead in the News AGAIN

I often have inquiries from people living in old homes. "What about my copper pipes? How will they affect my drinking water?"
Well, if your water supply in acidic, as in the case in many areas we know of, you will have acidic water lying in your pipes all night, corroding not only the copper, but also the lead based joins in the pipe, creating a toxic first glass of water in the morning. This is a doozie with older folk who have never contemplated the chemistry of their water supply.

We do have ways of combating it, but some people don't worry about it. That's why this article on the effects of lead is timely.

Sodium Bicarbonate as an alkalizer

I'm often asked about sodium bicarb, or 'Bicarb' as most people know it, as an alkalizer.

Briefly, it works, but of course it doesn't have the advantages of alkaline ionized water because it doesn't come in a microclustered form, which supports daily detox, and it isn't loaded with negative hydrogen ions which makes the water such a fabulous antioxidant.

Still.. it does alkalize, because that's what it is; an alkaline salt. However it has been used as a 'folk' remedy for decades and with a little ignorance this can lead to some pretty terrible situations when used improperly. .. such as this one:

Baking soda nearly killed an elderly man. He was using it to relieve the stomach pain caused by an ulcer, but went way overboard with the mildly basic home remedy.

After slipping on a children's toy, the retired gentleman could not get back up. Paramedics transported him to Cooper Hospital in New Jersey. En route, they noticed that he was short of breath and picking at his side for no apparent reason.

In the emergency room, doctors immediately realized that their patient was completely incoherent. He looked disheveled, underweight, and could not tell them what year it was.

Had he hit his head during the fall?

They ran a battery of tests, including a CT scan, but there was no sign of a head injury. However, the pH of his blood and urine were high -- a condition called alkalosis. In other words, his body fluids were way too basic.

Soon after the examination, he became very agitated and tore the heart-monitor electrodes off of his chest and the i.v. from his arm. To calm him down, the doctors gave him two doses of the tranquilizer lorazepam. It worked too well.

His breathing failed. The medical staff intubated him.

Once their patient was stable, the doctors questioned his niece. She had found several empty boxes of baking soda at his home and explained that her uncle, who lacked health insurance, had been using it to cope with severe indigestion.

With an understanding of what had went wrong, the doctors gave their patient fluids and potassium, which invigorated his kidneys. Slowly, the problem fixed itself.

In a note to The Journal of Emergency Medicine, Keyur Ajbani, Michael Chansky, and Brigitte Baumann said that six days after his arrival, the elderly man could breathe without assistance. Soon later, the hospital released him with a prescription for proper ulcer medication.

In their report, Ajbani, Chansky, and Baumann explained that they could have quickly brought the pH of their patient's body fluids back down with injections of arginine hydrochloride or hydrochloric acid, but those procedures would have been risky. They concluded with a bit of advice: when questioning a patient about their medical history, be sure to ask if they are using any home remedies.

Comments on this report on Wired.com were unanimous in their condemnation of the US health system based on the fact that it just wasn't economically available to this poor old chap.

Alkaline Ionized water and Poultry Processing

This report comes from a Poultry magazine I discovered online. I am including it because many people ask me about the relationship of fat to alkaline water.

Electrolysed oxidised water sanitises poultry

// 24 Jan 2008

Scientists at the University of Georgia are now looking into using electrolysed oxidised water to sanitise fresh chicken meat.

"We wanted to use the water on chicken carcasses to see if it cuts down on the levels of salmonella and campylobacter," said food scientist Yen-Con Hung, at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

According to Hung and fellow researchers, using the electrolysed oxidised water could be 10 times more effective at bacterial elimination than other methods.

To create the water, a saltwater solution undergoes an electrolysis process, which isolates the positive and negative ions, separating the water into: acidic and alkaline.

Hung experimented with both the acidic and alkaline electrolysed oxidised water on fresh chicken carcasses, together with Scott Russell, associate professor of poultry science. Experiments showed that the acidic electrolysed oxidised water destroyed food-borne pathogens on the carcass and the alkaline water cleaned the carcass.

"The alkaline stream of electrolysed oxidised water mixes with the fat on the chicken, cleanses the surface and protects the carcass in the future," said Russell, adding that it is similar to "when your grandmother mixed fat and lye to make soap."

Can this help the 5000 kids a day who die of waterborne disease?

It's certainly a novel way to move and filter water. I'm wondering how long it would last in a true third world environment.

Soy and Breast cancer

We've been getting so many conflicting reports lately about soy. Here's an abstract of a report on the reports relating to the effect soy intake has on the prevalence of breast cancer.

Tired of Wasting Precious Shopping Time at the Gym? Here's Your Answer.

Would you name this product with the same name?

Fun and Beauty Moment with the Dolphins

Yes, they actually blow these bubbles!

How Long Do You Wait For Proof?

"We age because our cells lose the desire to regenerate and repair themselves. This ultimately results in cell death and decline of the organ functions - for the brain resulting in memory decay and deterioration in general intellectual performance.

"But what if there was a technology that told the cells to repair themselves and that technology was something as simple as a specific wavelength of light?"

~Dr Gordon Dougal

I'm constantly asked by people for proof that ION LIFE water works. Double blind studies, authoritative (what ever that means to the asker!) recommendations... I've been asked for them all. And all the while people drink the water without the need for these exhaustive studies, and others refuse to do so because of inadequate studies, I continue to get letters like this one from Mike Logie:

"I wanted to let you know my experience using the Jupiter Melody and alkalizing my body. Prior to getting my Jupiter I had suffered from creeping and debilitating arthritis in both knees. My right knee I could barely bend. Walking had become difficult and running impossible without my knees swelling up. For a man under 50 this was not an exciting prospect.

I had heard about alkaline water from my internet research and decided to give it a go. I purchased the Jupiter about 18 months ago and have not looked back. I drink between 5-6 large glasses a day. I also drastically cut my sugar intake down at the same time as starting drinking alkaline water. Now both my knees function PERFECTLY with no pain. I can walk, run and jump with no adverse reactions.

Needless to say I am a strong advocate of alkalising.

Thank you to Ion Life for this great product."

Michael didn't wait for double blind studies, doctor or naturopath appoval - or anything else.

Now we hear of a possible CURE for Alzheimers which consists simply of shining InfraRed light on the skull for ten minutes a day. Studies at the University of Durham, UK give this amazing news. (more here) So my question is... (as one who more than occasionally forgets words he should easily recall) how much data, how many facts, reports, and studies do you need before you go out, buy a cheap and easily available InfraRed lamp, and just go for it? What possible 'story' could you have not to do something like this?

Which of course brings me back to the original point; when most 'scientific studies' are warped by the terms of reference laid down by the Big Pharma finaciers of the study, how do we as individuals decide when to take back our own power and assume the role of self-healer? It's no longer correct to say that we don't have the ability to learn; this screen you are reading from now holds all the potential knowledge on this planet and self-learning is absolutely available.

It's my own belief that we are all collectively cowed into some form of subjugation by the authority figures we are told to believe under all circumstances. With hospitals now becoming one of the most dangerous places to be in, with death through mis-diagnosis rampant, isn't it beholden upon ourselves to educate ourselves? Or... is it just easier to blame the system?

A Lesson in Life?

We've been working all day and night including weekends moving eight years of 'stuff' from our old premises to our new ones over the last 4 days.

This is the first chance I've had to put finger to keyboard. What is it about moving that brings up so much emotion? We seem to have been through the wringer and everything that could go wrong has, especially in the telephone/internet connection department. In the middle of it our son Neil broke his heel skylarking, and we had to make a mercy dash to Brisbane to bring him home. Neil is our IT guru and even though he was severely immobilized, he managed to get our broadband hooked up with amazing ingenuity. (that's another story)

Anyway, as I sat down to breakfast this morning, most unwilling to face another day of niggling nitbits, I had a very strong memory come flooding in.

I was eighteen years of age, and I was entered in my first surfing contest. Not just a contest; this was the Bells Beach International and the surf was the biggest in years, with twenty foot grinders chewing up and spitting out surfers with menacing regularity. Bells is one of the 'thickest' waves around, so when you go down on a Bells cruncher, you stay down. Your lungs are bursting and you hang on, hoping that you are going to surface. In those days we also had no legropes, so if your board didn't whack you, it was gone, and you faced a long swim in a huge rip.

Now I need to tell you that I was no champion. I was a skinny kid who liked taking risks, and this was the BIG one. Thousands of spectators lined the cliffs looking down as the waves thundered in, and as I entered the water, stroking hard to get out of the shorebreak, all I could hear was these sledgehammer waves roaring towards me. It was the most intense experience I had ever had. The waves cracked like a huge hand on a face as their peaks hit the water in front of them, forming a huge green, moving unstoppable cave; the dream of every surfer.

Even the 'hot' favourites had been wiped out; boards were broken in half, and the cameras on the cliffs were recording what turned out to be a historic moment in surfing.

Well, I got a wave. It was BIG. As I free fell down the face my board parted company with my feet, than I fell back onto it, still standing, as it hit the bottom of the wave. I turned and began to 'fly' across the wave face away from the meat grinder roaring behind me, but to no avail; this one wanted me. Suddenly I was in the tube, and everything went strangely green and quiet, then I was whacked in the head by a ten foot thick curl of solid Southern ocean.

That was my heat. The rest of my 30 minute allotted time was spent swimming back to the beach, but it didn't matter. I had surfed with the men; I had overcome my fear. I had succeeded because I survived.

Sitting over breakfast I wondered why that memory had flooded back so strongly at this moment.

I saw on the news that 'Black Monday' had sent a record wave of fear across the world stock markets. Millions of ordinary folk would be panicking... and at that moment I understood that all acts we do are to overcome fear; even the most mundane.

It seems to me that all actions are just vehicles for us to explore our true selves, to find out more about what we really are, and most certainly not what they appear to be. What they are is determined by what we make them! Faced with the mundane life, my 43 year old memory flooded in to remind me that no matter what I am doing - even writing at this desk in this moment - is no less filled with the potential for peak experience of love vs. fear. it's up to me to make what I want of it.

I have no idea whether this will asist anyone reading it; I hope so.

Moving House

We're moving this weekend to a new, bigger premises, luckily just around the corner from our present premises. Our new address (please write it down, all you Alkalarians!) is 1/24 Brigantine St, in the Arts and Industrial estate, Byron Bay. Love to see you next time you're in town!

Could overcoming Climate Change be this simple? Only by doing it will we know!

Reader Jenny sent me a link to another article about Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Indian economist who also moots the idea that vegetarianism is a huge and excellent response to CC. Here it is.

One way to save on national health costs..

The British have found a way to shorten those long, annoying waits for care and lower the rising costs of their universal access system.

They’ll let patients take care of themselves. The British government has a “plan to save billions of pounds from the NHS budget.” But it won’t come without enormous pain.

“Instead of going to a hospital or consulting a doctor, patients will be encouraged to carry out ’self-care’ as the Department of Health tries to meet Treasury targets to curb spending,” the Telegraph explained.

So when is a universal health care system not actually universal? When Britain’s 60-year-old National Health Service can no longer support the weight of its clamoring clientele…. The NHS, though, is hoping to cut down on more than frivolous visits. It’s looking for patients with “arthritis, asthma and even heart failure” to treat themselves, the Telegraph said.

Rheumatic Naturopath Strikes Gold

Eric Fairbank, Naturopath called today, a happy man.
Here's his story:

"For years I suffered uncomfortable rheumatic muscular aches / pains and digestive problems. After only 3-4 days of drinking alkaline water my muscular endurance improved dramatically. Now 12 months later I feel 20 years younger and rarely have any problems, also my digestive problems just disappeared!"

Dr Heberts' Favourite Product of the Year

The Toothbrush.

As with the book, every few years somebody tries to put the toothbrush out of business. Years ago we got the electric toothbrush, then the Water Pic, and now this latest push for disposable electric toothbrushes. Even floss has failed to keep pace. The manual toothbrush is a classic: Inexpensive, portable, requires no batteries ever, and works in any location from the back seat of the car to the airplane bathroom at 30,000 feet.

And the great thing about the toothbrush is that, once you have worn it out, it's great for putting polish on your shoes. (Try doing that with a Water Pik.) No batteries, good for your health, and 100 percent recyclable. In other words, the perfectly green product."
For more of the good Doc's musings, click here

A Severe Case of Hospitalitis

You've heard the statistics on hispital care failures; people who die of 'Hospitalitis', but this chap has become a Youtube.com star just by relating his story of an horrific hospital experience. It just makes me want to do all I can to remain healthy!

And Age Shall Not Weary Them

This morning Peter from Armidale came to see me. He's 73 years young - and went vegetarian (to his parent's chagrin) at age 14.

He's been a Vegan for 20 years and his secret of life - apart from his diet which is fundamentally Alkalarian - is taking off with a backpack into the bush. I took a pic of him because if I have this much life energy at age 73 I'll be a very happy man.

Global Warming? What about Local Warming?

Speaking of Household Pollutants, now we're seeing Parkinson's Disease links!

A new study published in the Annals of Neurology has drawn a link between workers exposed to trichloroethylene, or TCE, and Parkinson's Disease.

The small study does not provide conclusive proof that exposure to the chemical can cause symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease, but it draws a link based on studies of workers who were exposed to TCE in the air for 25-plus years, and who also dipped their arms into vats of TCE.

TCE, a common solvent, is used to remove grease from equipment, including computer equipment, during manufacturing. It is also used to manufacture refrigerants. It is among the most common pollutants found at Superfund sites around the US, and it has been found at low levels in urban air and in many drinking water supplies.

The study linked exposure to Parkinsonism, a group of disorders with similar symptoms to Parkinson's, such as slowness of voluntary movement, stooped posture and trouble with balance. Of 134 workers surveyed, 14 showed three or more symptoms. Laboratory studies of rats have shown that TCE can damage mitochondria, which has been identified as a precursor to degenerative diseases. Other studies have drawn similar links with pesticide exposures.

The authors called the study evidence of a "strong potential link" between exposure and disease.

Breast cancer; A Do-It Yourself Course at Home

Well folks, as you know I am constantly receiving new alerts about household and environmental pollutants. But when you hear that sitting at home doing nothing can give you breast cancer…

This pollutant is the most commonly purchased substance and the most lingering. It stays close to you for years. It shares every room of your house, yet you’ve most likely never heard of it. After all, how long since you heard people talking about their butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) at a dinner party?

Where is this stuff? It’s in (virtually) all plastics where it acts as a fire retardant. It was supposed to be stable, but in a less than rare oversight, that seems to be er… wrong! It’s an endocrine disruptor WIKI!! par excellence, and yes, endocrine disruptors are major carcinogens. It fools your body by mimicking the effects of natural hormones. And if you are wondering if that is as bad as it appears, the answer is yes.

They have been found to (among other things) reduce sperm count, and create neurological (brain) problems. BBP, the little nasty we are focusing on, has been especially efficient at accelerating breast development and genetic alterations in newborn rats; both predisosers of later cancer.

Sure, it’s preliminary research, but if there is something I can do to reduce the computer keyboard I’m tapping on right now killing me, I want to know. The research suggests that lifetime effects on mammary glands can be very, verity harmful. In the words of the study, “"To prevent breast cancer in adulthood, it is necessary to protect both the newborn child and the mother from exposure to this compound."

Yes there is one Yale doctor who says it hasn’t been proven, just like there are still a few scientists who say global warming isn’t really happening. A doctor of environmental studies says that other studies have failed to link BBP with cancer, and the latest study “doesn't add specific information on breast cancer and environmental interactions."

BBP is a real one. Because it interacts with hormones it becomes a huge cause for concern. Hormonal mutation is already accepted as a precursor of many cancers.

At least my US readers can look forward to some light relief – if they live in California. My friend Arnie has enacted a law to ban trace amounts of BBP in toys and baby products such as teething rings. (Hush up, Bubs, here, suck this and you’ll grow lovely big breasts!)

So what can we do? Do we have to go back to square one and remove all plastics from our homes? I remember a National Geographic feature on a typical US family showing the amount of plastic in their home, including Fido’s plastic doghouse!

No, that is not an avenue most of us could manage.

I’ve been researching the problem of hormone disruptors for some time. Here in Australia as well as the UK and US, it’s already known that we have a major problem with hormone disruptors in our drinking water supply. Water ozonation is the only way available to handle this ubiquitous threat to our kids.

In researching the same problem in home air, I am very impressed with the technology of the Sharp PlasmaCluster Air Ionizer and Filter. It uses a technology not dissimilar to the OH- Hydroxyl ion technology of the ION LIFE water systems, and Sharp claim it will actually break down chemicals and viruses in the air. We have one installed in our office here and I’m impressed with its ability to keep us awake and focused, but I only have the makers’ studies to show the ability of the technology to do what they say it does. To test it would be extremely hard as these forms of chemicals are in trace amounts in our air. However, I’m glad I have the Sharp. It feels a whole lot better with it quietly cleansing in the background than not.

'Untold Truth About The Cause of Disease' Second Edition

We received a very large delivery today of the new edition of my book The Untold Truth About The Cause of Disease.

In this edition I've doubled the content and have included far more about alkalizing alternatives, plus a detailed explanation of the role of hydrogen, the building block of life, in pH balancing.

Without blowing my own trumpet too much, I have to say that books I've read on pH balancing don't have the amount of hands-on detail that this does. It includes all the ways of alkalizing that I've come across in the last eight years with my own experience of each one. I've also written it so that someone who doesn't even know about the subject can quickly become involved and informed about the fundamental importance of this absorbing health regimen.

For this month they are selling at $5 plus postage. If you are 'in the biz' and talk to many people about this subject, it might be a good idea to grab a few of these.

Communicating Peacefully

I had a few comments from readers about my 'yachting holiday' blog, where I said I was going to take my 'Non-Violent Communication' Manual.

NVC is something Cassie and I have studied and practised for some years now and we both believe it has played a huge part in assisting our relationship to grow and deepen, as well as helping us with those repetitive conflicts we all seem to experience.
Just click on the pic of Marshall Rosenberg, the creator of NVC so you can see what it's all about.

Live, Consume, Die.. or another way?

I just read of a chap in the US who is collecting everything he would normally have thrown away. He's piling it in heaps by type; packaging, junk mail, etc. to give a clear picture of what we use just in ordinary living, what it cost to get to us, and how far it came, so he can get a good idea of his personal carbon footprint.

This video is another way of looking at the same conundrum; what to do with our crazy distribution system that brings things from one end of the earth to the other, iun the name of convenience and (chortle) economy.

Check it out here.

Energy from WATER

I'm always amazed at how our water system unleashes the hidden power of hydrogen. Now this inventor has used hydrogen from water not only to power his car, but to create amazing heat technology!

Dr Young's Acid Water Story

Dr Robert O. Young, ION LIFE water drinker and alkaline balance pioneer sent me this story that he received from a client recently:

"I had a small toe on my left foot that had turned black down to the 1st joint and had to be removed.

While in the hospital an ulcer on the ball of my big toe had formed. The doctor decided that if it were removed he could stitch up the area in order for it to heal itself. After many surgeries in an attempt to get the Ulcer to heal, nothing seemed to make any improvement.

A while later a visiting nurse recommended a wound vacuum to be placed on the Ulcer in an attempt to keep the area dry. This procedure went on for 2 1/2 months with no change at all. My Surgeon abandoned the vacuum treatment and then wanted to stitch up the bottom of my foot again. I didn't want to go through with this process again. This is because it hadn't worked before and I had great doubts as to whether it would work this time as well.

I began to talk to a Doctor in Springfield who had high hopes for me. From his conversation and the tests he would perform he thought I might get some much-needed relief from having to bandage this wound everyday. I was very disappointed to find out he was going down the same path as my previous surgeon not to mention I wasn't getting any results from the tests he had ordered either.

My wife and I left Springfield and never looked back.
I told my wife I was going home and soak my feet in this pH water that my brother Jerry had gotten from you. I hoped this was going to work like he had heard it would from others. To be honest with you, I had my doubts but decided to give the water a try anyway.

I warmed the water up and soaked my left foot in it for about 45-60 minutes. I then allowed my foot to air dry and bandaged it. After doing this procedure for 3 days (December 21-24) on Christmas Eve I changed the bandage. To my surprise I noticed that the wound was healed over and the area was firm to the touch. I couldn't believe it at first and called to my wife to come have a look to confirm what I was seeing. My wife had the same reaction that I had; she couldn't believe it was finally healed!

It has been almost exactly 1 year to date since the ulcer appeared which has caused me to miss work for 6 months straight, not to mention all the money that was lost in wages.

I can't begin to tell you what this healing pH miracle water has done for me. It has given me restored faith in God and his healing. I wish we had heard about this water many months ago.

Thank you so much!

Sincerely,

Keith Norman

Dr Young added:
"The secret to Keith's healing is understanding one of the laws of physics - the law of opposites.
That is opposites attract - positive and negative charges.

Keith and Rita were applying positive charged structured acidic water to their foot problems. The positive charges of the water created a positive polarity that attracted negative charged healthy red blood cells directly to the ulcerated areas of the foot. This electrical attraction created a pool of negatively charged red blood cells in the positively charged affected area - the toe or foot - for healing and regeneration to take place.

Simply stated, the red blood cells in an electrically charged environment will biologically transform into any body cell, i.e., skin, nerve, bone, etc. as needed for regeneration and healing. The quality of that healing is dependent upon the quality of the red blood cells and the quality of the red blood cells are directly determined by what you eat and what you drink.

That is why I recommend drinking 3 to 4 liters of electron rich alkaline pH water daily and apply externally proton rich acidic water to create a static attraction to a specific part of the body that needs healing."

Distilled Water

Shortly after my last HealtheMail, Steve wrote to me regarding the comments on distilled water in the book "Solving the Interstitial Cystitis Puzzle".
Here's what Steve had to say:

"Hi Ian
Happy New Year.

Just a comment that I disagree with A K Willis’ when she says, “Never drink plain distilled water because it draws minerals from your body.” There’s split opinion about this but I have yet to see any evidence or even a coherent explanation as to how this would happen.
A typical site talks about the dangers of commercial beverages and of too much acidity in the body and by association incriminates distilled water.
Dr Andrew Weil rebuffs these myths (but only by say-so, no evidence either). It’s another of those experts argue subjects (fluoridation, global warming or even alkaline water etc) that can make my head spin.

I, for one, am happy to keep guzzling distilled water at the rate of litres per day. At least it’s better than drinking coke, beer or chlorinated/fluoridated tap water. Enjoyed your account of the Xmas yacht trip. Sounds like you had an amazing time.

Cheers
Steve"

Steve, you are so right about the paucity of hard evidence in this field. David Suzuki points to another problem for the would be researcher when he calls the Internet the 'Super-Hype-Way". It's a sad fact that nothing (including my raves) can be trusted on the net, and the seeming abundance of information serves to confuse as much as it educates unless we possess a strong sense of discrimination.

I'll add a link here to two doctors who did write about distilled water in the negative, but I'll also give you my take on it.

(You may also not be aware that Dr Weil has given alkaline water systems a tongue lashing. Although his website says he answers all emails, six of my emails questioning the source of his opinion piece were never answered.)

I'm not qualified like Dr Weil or Dr Rons, but this makes sense to me:

If the fluid in which our cells are bathed (interstitial fluid) has certain 'preset' attributes, it makes sense to me to attempt to support the supply of that fluid with aspects similar to this fluid. So what are these characteristics?

1. Saline
2. Mineralised
3. Alkaline

My feeling is that if you drink 'pure' water like distilled water, the body must by necessity seek salts, minerals and alkaline minerals elsewhere, or it will lose its unique properties so essential for transport, nutrition and electrolytic energy exchange. Fundamentally, you can't add pure water to a concentrated solution without diluting it. That's basic schoolday science.

Sure, Steve obviously looks after himself, and unlike most 'who-mans', his body can probably get what he needs from good organic food or supplements.

For the rest of us, already permanently lacking a ready supply of essentials for this purpose, yet overloaded with acids, it's quite another picture.

So Steve, good for you, but I just can't for the life of me envision any time in our history when we drank 'pure' water. Lakes, springs, rivers.. they were all mineralised and often alkaline. I'd even suggest that we have never drank 'pure' water.

There's another little known fact about distilled and R.O. water. Whilst it seems logical that such water would be pH neutral, what actually happens is that as soon as this form of water is exposed to the air, it begins absorbing CO2, which in turn acidifies it. Your 'pure' water becomes a net negative energy source when compared to alkaline ionized water.

Hope that helps.

Ian

Cystitis and Crohn's Disease Help

I had a client ask me if alkaline water assisted these conditions. I received a book by Amrit K. Willis, RN BSN BA titled 'Solving the Interstitial Cystitis Puzzle'.

She recommends its use, and goes further.
She says 'Never drink plain distilled water because it draws minerals from your body. It can be used under the supervision of a health care provider to help in a detox program".

To purchase the book from Amazon just click on the image

ANOTHER Report on Fluoride

NEW YORK — Fluoride’s impact on human health and its use in drinking water to fight dental cavities receives a thorough analysis in a feature article in the January issue of Scientific American magazine.

Author Dan Fagin, a former Newsday science writer and now an associate professor of journalism at New York University, cites a number of studies and experts to look at the question of whether some people (especially children) ingest too much fluoride, creating a risk of the tooth-bone condition known as dental fluorosis, or whether that risk is outweighed by fluoride’s ability to fight tooth decay when added to public drinking water.

He notes that most fluoride researchers still support water fluoridation as a proven method of preventing tooth decay, especially in places where oral hygiene is poor. However, these researchers also say the case for water fluoridation may not be as strong in communities with good dental care because people already ingest fluoride from a wide range of common foods and beverages, and may be getting too much in some cases.

“Instead of just pushing for more fluoride, we need to find the right balance,” Steven M. Levy, director of the Iowa Fluoride Study at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, is quoted in the article as saying.

Fagin observes of the work of Levy and others: “It is a maddeningly complex area of research because diets, toothbrushing habits and water fluoridation levels vary so much and also because genetic, environmental and even cultural factors appear to leave some people much more susceptible to the effects of fluoride — both positive and negative — than others.”
The article reviews the history of fluoridation, starting with Colorado dentist Frederick McKay’s pioneering research in the 1930s, through the promotion of fluoridated toothpastes in the 1950s, and down to the present day, including the 2006 findings of a committee of the National Research Council (NRC), which, as Fagin notes, “gave a tinge of legitimacy to some longtime assertions made by antifluoridation campaigners.” The NRC committee urged that the US Environmental Protection Agency reduce its current maximum limit for fluoride in drinking water, which is 4 parts per million (ppm).

Fagin also explains the chemistry of how fluoridation fights tooth decay and/or harms bone and teeth, and reports on fluoride levels in some foods and beverages. The Iowa study found, for instance, that brewed black tea contains 3.73 ppm of fluoride and apple-flavored juice drink contains 1.09 ppm.

The current recommended fluoride concentration for public tap water is a range of 0.7 to 1.2 ppm.

It's a Cat's life

Ian Ferguson, new proud Delphi water alkalizer rang with a story about his cat. It seems she likes the Delphi water so much that she has learned how to turn it on. She pats the controls, and then laps up the water from the stream of luscious antioxidant water. Only one problem...

She hasn't learned how to turn it off... and...

Ian went away for the weekend...

No damage; just 5000 litres of beautifil Delphi water down the drain..

Any 'cat whisperers' out there who can tell Ian how to train Puss to turn it off when shghe's had her thirst quenched?

My Christmas

As I mentioned to my readers earlier, Cassie and I, our sister and brother-in-law, and our son Neil chartered a 40' sailing catamaran to sail the waters close to Fraser Island National Park.

It wasn't all we planned; it rained most of the time, but it was an amazing experience because as soon as we left the wharf we were summarily disassociated from every outside influence except the sea. We entered a new world; a world of vastness, and of smallness. Vast sea, small me.

I realised that the life we lead in what we call everyday life is SO unnatural - not in the sense of not being in a natural environment - but in the sense that we do things all do just to make other things happen. An email, a web browse, a telephone conversation. Almost nothing we do except eat and sleep is done without immediate effect.

On our fourth day a severe wind warning came through the coast guard radio along with a Merry Christmas message. I has never sailed anything this big, and everyone else had never sailed. Nevertheless, we headed for the big blue, and as the waves picked up and began wearing funny white caps, and the wind begain singing in the rigging, we decided it was time to 'come about'.

I was the only one who had ever turned any sailboat around so I was, by default, the skipper. I was seriously on edge as I barked orders like Captain Ahab at all of my relatives, who waited terrified for the massive sail to lunge across the deck, the ropes to twang tight and the boat to pick up speed. Water began smashing through the trampoline between the hulls, and the spray became a horizontal slash as it hit the ever increasing wind.

It all went OK, but it was only after we had anchored alongside a deserted, endless island beach, paddled ashore and walked, still swaying, barefoot along the sand that we realised the immediacy, the 'NOW' power of the experience we'd just had. The sea didn't care what we did. The wind didn't care what we did - or how well we did it, but we cared; and I realised that those few moments of fear filled action, of absolute focus, had cleansed me of months of office accumulated mental dross.

Everyone on board felt it; some loved it, some were scared, some wanted to get off. But for each of us it was strong, it was real and it was as powerful as the sea we chose to wrest some miles from, spoke in its uncomplivcated, unequivocal and massive way. What we did, unlike the land-world, had immediate and appreciable effect. If we did it incorrectly we saw the immediate result. If we did it well, we felt the effect as 'Velella' surged forward.

Life is good; even for only five days. The day we arrived back home we heard that a cyclone was headed for Fraser Island and that 2500 campers had been evacuated. Life is also good when you are lucky, and we were lucky.

On Christmas day we had booked lunch at the Kingfisher Resort on the island. We moored the big Cat, joined the throng of day trippers on the path up to the resort, and arrived to find a huge buffet lunch of seafood, sandcrabs, prawns, turkey.. the list went on and on.

We don't often get to venues like this because of what we can't eat (we're both GI) and we found ourselves surrounded by holidaymakers who, it seems, had chosen the venue for the amount of food they could get down.

It is very difficult for me to watch people killing themselves slowly with food. As we've discussed before, calorie restriction is the best of all anti-ageing strategies; it's a scientific no-brainer; eat less, live longer. So to watch people gorging on all the food and drink they could get in was a real wake-up call telling me that we still have an enormous task ahead of us in educating the ordinary 'Joe' about how to live with food consciousness, as an Alkalarian.

Happy New Year comes with a tinge of bad news. All of my clients who have ordered the new Delphi Water Alkalizer haven't yet received them because neither have we; they are sitting in a gi-normous pile of Christmas rush imports that the Aussie docks haven't yet gotten through. Our customs agent tells us it 'might be a few days' so please hang in there; we'll get them out to you the moment they pass into our warehouse.

For those Aussie readers who still haven't taken the Alkalarian plunge, the present price remains until the end of January. For our US readers, you can get faster delivery direct from ION WAYS here