Dr Young, you've done it again!

Dr Robert O. Young sent me this story this morning about a client of his.

"I have been a brittle diabetic for over 20 years - meaning my blood sugar readings could go from 50 to 700 anytime.

I am on an insulin pump and was taking from 40 to 75 units of insulin a day. I have been a vegetarian for over 32 years. Dr. Young inspired me to cut out cheese, bread, rice, potatoes while eating only alkaline foods and water.

My 14 day average readings was over 200 forever. On the 3rd day on the alkaline diet my avg was down to 165 & 3 weeks into the diet I was down to an incredible 107. My doctors are in shock. My slightly high blood pressure has come down and I have not gone off of this incredible pH Miracle diet once. I am now strictly vegan and eat 2 to 3 avocados per day. I can only thank the Youngs for changing my life & hope to someday visit their retreat.

I now use less than 20 units of insulin per day & achieve greater results."

-Alan Ettenberg

Ian: And I still have to put up with people claiming alkalizing doesn't work!

Amaaa-Zing Aerial Pics!

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Last Chance Sale

It's end of the financial year on Monday and we have only one water alkalizer in stock that is going out at taxman's special price. It;s the beautiful undersink Delphi, which retails at $2495, but this one is our own demonstrator model with three months' use, but with a new warranty and filer cartridge. It's going at $1995 until Monday 5pm, end of the financial year.
Call Pippa on 1800-ANTIOX (268-469)

A Great Interview for New Alkalarians

This interview with Larry Trivieri, co-author with Dr Susan E. Brown of The Acid Alkaline Food Guide is a beauty! It gives heaps of hints and clarifications for the new Alkalarian, or for those of my readers not yet convinced about Acid/Alkaline Balance, it's a wonderful primer.

order your own copy here.

A Clothes Library

With all of us racking our brains about how to 'do more with less' we can take some form of inspiration from this story on TreeHugger:
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"I once met a man who told me of an interesting way to always get free clothes and never have to do laundry. He told me about Goodwill's two week return policy. He would buy all his clothes at a Goodwill store, return them after 13 days for a store credit, and then start the cycle again. I was a bit shocked, but impressed at the same time. What he did wasn't illegal, and it wasn't wasteful either. No new clothes were ever made for him, his laundry was done in bulk in large efficient machines (assuming the clothes didn't just go right back on the rack), and the returned clothes were made available to outfit a new body. Brilliant! His friends must have thought he had a giant wardrobe, never repeating an outfit.

Dr Ornish and Dr Young on prostate cancer

In a small study, researchers tracked 30 men with low-risk prostate cancer who decided against conventional medical treatment such as surgery and radiation or hormone therapy.

The men underwent three months of major lifestyle changes, including eating a diet rich in alkaline fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes and soy products, moderate exercise such as walking for half an hour a day, and an hour of daily stress management methods such as meditation.

As expected, they lost weight, lowered their blood pressure and saw other health improvements.

But the researchers found more profound changes when they compared prostate biopsies taken before and after the lifestyle and dietary changes. After the three months, the men had changes in activity in about 500 genes -- including 48 that were turned on and 453 genes that were turned off. The activity of disease-preventing genes increased while a number of dis-ease-promoting genes, including those involved in prostate cancer and breast cancer, shut down, according to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The research was led by Dr. Dean Ornish, head of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, and a well-known author advocating lifestyle changes to improve health.

"It's an exciting finding because so often people say, 'Oh, it's all in my genes, what can I do?'

Well, it turns out you may be able to do a lot," stated Dr. Ornish. "'In just three months, I can change hundreds of my genes simply by changing what I eat and how I live?' That's pretty exciting," Ornish said.

"The implications of our study are not limited to men with prostate cancer." Ornish said the men avoided conventional medical treatment for prostate cancer for reasons separate from the study. But in making that decision, they allowed the researchers to look at biopsies in people with cancer before and after lifestyle changes.

"It gave us the opportunity to have an ethical reason for doing repeat biopsies in just a three-month period because they needed that anyway to look at their clinical changes (in their prostate cancer)," Ornish said.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, "genes and cells are not living. For if they were living they would know no death and would be physiologically imperishable. But genes and cells do disorganize and perish. Genes and cells are the organizations of living intelligent matter that is indestructible. This indestructible matter that makes up all genes and cells was first identified by a French medical doctor Antione BeChamp, in the late 19th century and is called the microzyma. According to BeChamp the microzyma knows no death but only change. The change in genes and cells is microzymian change and is initiated by lifestyle and dietary choice."

"The knowledge that organized matter, genes, and cells are all made up of intelligent indestructible microzymas and are only subject to change, based upon lifestyle and dietary choice is a significant discovery in the prevention and treatment of ALL sickness and dis-ease! Matter cannot be created nor can it be destroyed it can only change. The body genes, cells, tissues and organs are only subject to change not death. To maintain a healthy organized state of plant, animal or human genes, cells, tissues and organs you MUST maintain the alkaline design of that microzymian matter. The healthy state of all plant, animal or human matter is regulated by a most important health factor and that health factor is the pH factor or the perfect health (pH) factor," states Dr. Young.

What do you think? - Ian

Do you have CFID (Chronic fatigue) or not?

Now you can partake of a free self-test at the official CFIDS Association of America's website here

Are you ready for this? A Virtual Heart!

Take a look

All Hail the Mighty Enema

A Russian city has immortalised the humble enema in an angel-adorned statue. Here it is.
... and here's the story

Bryan's Alkaline Transformation

Ian and Brian at ION LIFE HQ
Some alkaline water drinkers really do go 'all the way'. I had a visit from Bryan Wernowski today, who bought his water alkalizer a year ago after much hemming and hawing about whether everything we said was true.

'I am from a chemistry background,' said Bryan, 'so it just made sense, so I eventually took the plunge.'

Bryan was amazed at the immediate effect it had, (as he put it) 'filling him up' from a previously dehydrated state. He kept on drinking for a couple of days and didn't urinate because the 'wetter water' was, he says, rehydrating him after years of undiagnosed dehydration.

Now Bryan has bought a lotus sanitizer. After beginning alkalizing he has looked at all aspects of his 59 years and wants to clean up his act, including four mornings a week with Master Bruce, his Chinese Taoist Ch'i Gong master. Clean water, clean thought, clean food. Go for it Bryan!

Dr Young talks about weight loss and alkalizing

Wetter water: What does it mean?

If you can handle a few minutes of yours truly getting technical, this video explains why wetter water is good for you.

Tell your story

We have so many people talking to us about their experience with alkaline water we have created a blog like this one for you to tell your own personal health story.
Here it is.
Love to hear from you!

Who gets what from your Weeties?

Full Marks for Trying.

We get some interesting products from companies trying to tempt us. Here's one...

Not up my nose, you don't!

You've NEVER heard a baby laugh like this one.

Slow Motion Baby Laugh

Guess what this graph shows?

Answer here

Hold on to your wallets, baby boomers!

Dr Alan Garber, MD PhD', in the latest issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, wrote an article "A Menu Without Prices", highlighting/exposing the benefits of applying more cost effectiveness analysis to medical reimbursement ...

"For the well-insured, obtaining health care in the United States is like dining in a sumptuous restaurant that has menus without prices. A price-free menu encourages diners to ignore cost when making their selections. Similarly, well-insured patients usually don't know the prices of medical services at the time they receive them. Even for common procedures, few hospitals list their charges, much less the accompanying professional fees and the out-of-pocket costs; these are only revealed weeks or months later, when the explanation of benefits statement arrives."

...and... just to show he knows what he's talking about,

"By 2005, per capita expenditures were 92% greater than in Canada, 90% greater than in France, 95% greater than in Germany, and 135% greater than in the United Kingdom. Measures of population health have improved no more in the United States than in these countries, offering little comfort to those who presume that uniquely high expenditure is purchasing better health."

NOW do you think spending on preventative health is a waste of money?

lotus land in Byron Bay

The lotus has arrived! We have so many our manager Angela has lost her office!
Have you checked out the lotus website yet? Take a look, and see the videos we now have there. And remember, if you order your lotus this month you have a chance of getting it free. More details on the site.

A Bionic Spine For Fido

Amazing! This is one loved pooch! In groundbreaking surgery that has real ramifications for humans, this dog has had two vertebrae fused and bolted together.
Here's the story.

And While the Hounds bay...

The hounds are certainly baying right now with articles in local magazines telling us that alkaline water is bad stuff, written by a lady selling our only competitor's water filter.

What is a real laugh is the use of a discredited report from Japan about baby rats having heart problems from drinking alkaline water, especially in the light of this story that hit my desk this week from David Bergman, an ION LIFE alkaline water drinker.

"9 months ago I had painful arthritis in my elbow and fingers. More seriously I couldn’t walk because of cardio-miopothy (I lost 40% of my heart muscle performance). After drinking alkaline water my heart has regained 100% rhythm strength and my arthritis has completely disappeared – feels real good to be at work again."

and from David's partner Margaret,

"My hands were badly affected by arthritis to the point that my fingers and knuckles were all lumpy and distorted. I’ve been using a Jupiter Water Alkalizer for 9 months. Now I have no pain at all; my hands and knuckles are almost back to normal and I feel great."

..and just in this morning,

"HI Ian,
thanks for your article in the current Living Wisdom magazine. I am going to write to them and ask them to insist that all authors disclose their connections to products. I was very unsettled by the previous month's article damming alkaline water, we have had our delightful "Melody" for close to a year now and I was loving the water she gave us. Then I read the anti-alkaline article and panicked - there is plenty of heart disease in my family history and I didn't want to join in, I decided to set Melody to purified water only until I could do more research. A few busy weeks passed and then your article appeared and I read it with interest and some relief. I still kept Melody on purified only, having not had time to follow up the issues. Then I realised that some problems that I had a year ago (and I had even forgotten I had suffered from them) were returning in the time I had stopped drinking Melody's water - gastric reflux and IBS type problems among them - I will still do more research, because that is an important part of making my healthy choices for our family, but today I have switched Melody back to Alkaline and I will be relieved to return to improving health rather than declining.
Thanks for your informative reply.
best wishes
Leonie

Reverse Osmosis water an 'Environment Changer'

Residents of areas changing to recycled water systems are going to have a different 'water chemistry' from the reverse osmosis systems that are employed by recycling plants. This water will, it seems, have an as yet unknown effect on aquifers and plant life.

RO water, for those not 'in the know' is water that is stripped of virtually every element. It usually tests acidic because it becomes positively charged during the process, causing CO2 in the air to be absorbed by it. For people intent on removing fluoride from their tap water it's the best system, but what is left is seriously 'denatured' water.

RO is also getting a bad rap for its water usage and therefore environmental efficiency; it wastes approx.9 litres of water for every litre it supplies.

Here's the report on RO water's environmental effect.

Diet Soda; An Acid Trip Extraordinaire!

"What ties diet and regular soft drinks together? That’s right, brutally high acid levels."

-Dave Rousett

It's common knowledge that people who consume sugary soft drinks tend to put on the pounds.But for all you virtuous individuals who stick to 'diet sodas', surprisingly, it turns out that there's no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to soft drinks, even diet ones. Drinking more than one soda a day -- regular or diet --appears to increase the risk factors for heart disease.

Harvard Medical School researcher Ravi Dhingra, MD, and study colleagues looked at nearly 6,000 middle-aged men and women who had exams every four years. At the outset, all were free of heart disease and metabolic syndrome. Four years later, in comparison to people who drank less than one soft drink a day, researchers found that those who consumed one or more sodas a day experienced:

• A 25% increased risk of impaired (or higher than normal) fasting glucose and high triglyceride levels.

• A 31% greater likelihood of becoming obese.

• A 32% higher chance of lower HDL levels.

• A 44% increased risk of metabolic syndrome.

These results were published in the July 31, 2007, issue of Circulation:Journal of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Dhingra and his colleagues were surprised that regular and diet soft drinks posed similar risks for metabolic syndrome -- which remained the case even when the study was adjusted for dietary factors such as saturated and trans fats, calorie and fiber consumption and levels of physical activity. There are several theories as to why this might be -- perhaps the extreme sweetness of soft drinks makes people more apt to eat sweet foods... or the caramel content may promote insulin resistance and inflammation. But these are theories, and no one knows for sure. Dr. Dhingra cautions that more research is needed to confirm the findings in this study. In the meantime, he advises that people restrict their soft drink intake to be an every-so-often treat.

Source(s):
Ravi Dhingra, MD, clinical instructor in medicine, Harvard Medical School,Boston, Massachusetts.

So You Thought A Shower Filter Would Make Your Bathroom safe?

Think again. Now we find that your new vinyl shower curtain emits loads of nasties.
"Scientists purchased five shower curtains at Bed Bath & Beyond, Kmart, Sears, Target and Wal-Mart. Findings: -108 different volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were released into the air from a shower curtain over a 28 day period."
See report here

What was that?You don't have a shower filter? Hmm. Best do something about that!
Image: Getty Images Hutton Archive

Pediatricians at Johns Hopkins Children’s Medical Center sounded the alarm recently that water isn’t a healthful beverage to give babies under one year of age. Every year, they see healthy children being rushed to their emergency room suffering seizures after having been given water to drink. It takes very little water to lead to water intoxication in babies and tiny tots. As little as three ounces a day could be too much water for a child under a year old, said Dr. Allen J.Walker, M.D., head of the Emergency Department at Hopkins Children’.
Complete article here

A Seriously Freaky Medical Singularity.

Say No More

The Beautiful.. and the Ugly.. of an ER Nurse

A wonderful (and short) summary of a day in the life of an ER nurse here.

Barium Meal or Milk?

It seems milk can substitute for that ghastly concoction cancer suspects have to stomach, the dreaded barium meal, in up to 30% of the 30- 40 MILION CT scans performed in the US annually.

Er.. nurse, can I get it in strawberry? What about soymilk for dairy intolerant? Shut up.. and drink up!
More...

Why People Don't Want You to Buy a Water Alkalizer

There have been two articles recently published in Australia regurgitating old and tired 'health warnings' about alkaline water, both written by a woman who sells a water filter that does not alkalize.

The 'warnings' have one thing in common; as far as I am aware, not one researcher quoted has ever tested a modern water alkalizer.

We have become used to this sort of tactic as one particular competitor has been 'at it' for seven years now, throwing everything he has at us in the hope, I suppose, that some will stick. If anything, it has prompted people to educate themselves and to look behind the headlines. In my view, the campaign has actually increased our success, so I guess I should thank the guy who is behind it all.

The second article was also published in the UK, and I've had emails from both Australia and the UK from people worried about what the articles claim.

Here's a link to the rebuttal I wrote for the first article

You know those cheap treadmills you see advertised?

Warning: Some excitable explicit language
High Speed Treadmill Disaster - Watch more free videos

There are Those Who Simply Choose not to Know...

When you see this story you may be shocked, but let's take a good long look at ourselves and ask the question: what part of my own attitude and belief system supports bad nutrition and ill health?
Article here

Cellphone Radiation by Brand

This is a list that should have happened years ago and needs to keep happening. It shows the highest radiation-emitting cellphones by brand.

And when you've finished studying it, you might invest a very small amount of money in prevention by adding a chip to your own and your kids' phone.
Check what we use here.

So you think fluoride is OK?

Then perhaps you should take a look at this.

Plastic Balls in Reservoir: Why?

Things are getting ah.. interesting in the water purification scene. A reservoir in LA has been covered with 400,000 plastic balls to prevent sunlight combining two contaminants into one super-contaminant.

Here's the report.

Oh Yes, the Silly Season is here and it's called the US Elections!

Here's an example of just how silly it gets.

How long should We keep our computer?

Here's a good discussion about the bioethics of deciding on giving old computers the 'chop'. It ain't as easy as all that.. like so many greenhouse decisions!
Discussion here

Fly Free!

Speaking of cut price air travel, this takes the cake!

Now's your big chance to alkalize!

Here in OZ.. (sorry to my other readers), I have one demonstrator Alphion water alkalizer for sale. it's the top of the range benchtop model and still the spunkiest looking alkalizer in the world, with its brushed metal style finish and patented double action reverse auto cleanse (DARC).

It's had no more than 3 months' use and comes with a brand new filter cartridge.

Naturally it comes with the ION LIFE Australia 2-year warranty.

The Alphion, by the way, is the system tested by Dr Masaru Emoto which produced the beautiful water crystal images here.

Lead from Plastic Water Pipes: is Anyone safe?

As we all know, when plastic plumbing pipes came in, the main reason was the expectation of a reduction in heavy metal contamination, caused by acidic water in copper pipes with brass and lead brazing. There are still many older homes with copper and lead pipes, -and in cities with acidic water, such as Melbourne and most places in Tasmania, this means a toxic heavy metal brew in the first glass of water each morning.

Now we hear that the plastic pipes are creating lead contamination! How could this be? It seems impossible, but it's just another example of 'progress' hurtling ahead and changing all previous 'status quo' assumptions.

And just to add fuel to the fire, another report from Ireland says that the government is telling our Irish friends that there is no need to filter their water. I wonder if the Irish authorities have talked to the Professor who authored the above report? I guess not.

Here's the report.

When in Rome, Recycle

Roma is getting on the water bottle wagon, giving away empty water bottles with messages saying, 'Don't throw me away. Fill me up again!", and as a city of fountains, it's encouraging people to fill up at the nearest fountain. ...er.. pigeon poo cocktail anybody?
Here's the report.

Birth Defects and Tap Water

This is bad. This report suggests that drinking English tap water increases the risk of birth defects for pregnant women, and that the trihalomethane levels in parts of UK are higher than Taiwan!

I see more news than most about water problems around the world but...
See the report