He's 95, and his secret of a long and happy life is...

Watermelons and alkaline water. Read his story here

Diabetes; a new understanding of causes

I received a very interesting article from Vitamin Research Products today on the relationship between free radicals (a.k.a. Reactive Oxygen Species) and diabetes. It fills in some gaps in my own understanding of the relationship between alkaline living and diabetes. Over the years we've had many diabetic users report ****** effects of drinking our water. At the same time I have personally experienced the antioxidant effect of drinking our water for the last ten years.
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When most of us think of insulin resistance— the inability of your cells to use blood sugar, we usually think diabetes. After all, diabetes is one of the earliest warning signs of this common disease. Now new research points to the fact that the threat of insulin resistance may reach further than once thought—revealing links to the metabolic syndrome, cognitive decline and depression plus colon, breast and kidney health and more.

The new kid-culprit on the block behind this deadly connection: excessive free radicals - molecules generated by damaged mitochondria, exposure to toxins, stress and even as a natural consequence of aging.

New cell culture studies have shown that higher free radical levels trigger insulin resistance, while lower levels halve it. It's the first solid evidence that directly implicates free radicals as an actual cause of this destructive process.

Human research has confirmed this finding, revealing a significant increase in insulin resistance among subjects with the highest levels of oxidative stress—even after factors like obesity, the metabolic syndrome and impaired fasting glucose were accounted for.

The conclusion seems to be that managing insulin resistance isn't a single-step process. Slowing the descent toward full-blown diabetes—not to mention the long list of other complications linked to insulin resistance—requires both superior antioxidant support and blood sugar control.

So.. simplifying the findings.. A good antioxidant supply is going to be a great help in prevention of diabetes. And an alkaline lifestyle gives abundant, live, natural antioxidants every day.

References:
1. Jin T. Why diabetes patients are more prone to the development of colon cancer? Med Hypotheses. 2008 May 2. [Epub ahead of print].
2. Goodwin PJ, Ennis M, Bahl M, Fantus IG, Pritchard KI, Trudeau ME, Koo J, Hood N. High insulin levels in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients reflect underlying insulin resistance and are associated with components of the insulin resistance syndrome. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2008 Apr 25. [Epub ahead of print].
3. Pischon T, Nöthlings U, Boeing H. Obesity and cancer. Proc Nutr Soc. 2008 May;67(2):128-45. 4. Houstis N, Rosen ED, Lander ES. Reactive oxygen species have a causal role in multiple forms of insulin resistance. Nature. 2006 Apr 13;440(7086):944-8.
5. Meigs JB, Larson MG, Fox CS, Keaney JF Jr, Vasan RS, Benjamin EJ. Association of oxidative stress, insulin resistance, and diabetes risk phenotypes: the Framingham Offspring Study. Diabetes Care. 2007 Oct;30(10):2529-35.

The Japanese are right - hangovers are helped by alkaline water

Yep, they're coming in. More and more reports every day. I've never heard of Dr Hart, but obviously she has heard of our water!

Dr. Cheryle Hart has researched hundreds of hangover remedies. Her top recommendation for preventing and minimizing a hangover involves drinking a lot of water since alcohol is very dehydrating.

"Studies show that alkaline electrolyzed water speeds up metabolism of alcohol and protects your liver better than regular, plain water," she said.

Hart says avoiding a hangover should start before you start drinking alcohol. In addition to drinking plenty of water beforehand, she says eating a meal with complex carbohydrates and some dietary fat as well as taking a vitamin B 50 complex supplement can help avoid feeling bad post-party.

Hart also recommends drinking water between alcoholic beverages and avoiding darker colored drinks since they’ve been proven to cause more severe hangovers.

After partying, Hart says drinking at least one liter of water can help flush the alcohol out of your system and keep you hydrated.

"Drinking plenty of alkaline, electrolyzed water is key in my program," said Dr. Hart.

Ionized water use in restaurants: a new chem-free cleansing system

This video shows ionized water being used in NOBU, the Melbourne Japanese Restaurant, and also in Austin Hospital. It says it all.
Are you associated with a business using cleaning products? Would you like to make a change for the better, greener, safer - and more economical?
The technology is awesome. Find out more: click here.

BTW: this is the same technology used in our water ionizers.

Cancer cells and AlkaIine Ionized water

Yet another study on the effects of Alkaline ionized water on cancer cells here.

And yes, the news is good.

Liver Damage and Alkaline Ionized Water

..and another study!

This time scientists induced extreme liver damage in rats, including (if you must know) "leukocytes infiltration, hepatocyte necrosis, ballooning degeneration, mitosis, calcification, fibrosis and an increase of serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and aminotransferase (AST) activity."
Using alkaline ionized water, the scientists found it "significantly ameliorated the CCl(4)-induced liver lesions, lowered the serum levels of hepatic enzyme markers (ALT and AST) and increased the activities of SOD, catalase, and GSH-Px in liver.

Therefore, the results of this study show that ERW (alkaline ionized water: Ian) can be proposed to protect the liver against CCl(4)-induced oxidative damage in mice, and the hepatoprotective effect might be correlated with its antioxidant and free radical scavenging effect."
Here it is

Hangovers and Alkaline Ionized Water

We've long been told that the Japanese use ionized alkaline water for hangovers.
( Cassie and I tried it out once - a long time ago - but can't seem to remember much about it...)

Now we find a scientific report of rats tested for hangover relief using ionized water, and yes, dear drinkers, the answer is positive.
It DOES work.
Here's the study

Another Piece in the Puzzle

As you know, we've been sharing a journey of knowledge about how to live longer and more vitally by reducing excess acids in our life and in our bodies.

Recently I reviewed the wonderful book 'Building Bone Vitality' which zeroed in on the effect of red meat or protein in tripping our acid switch, causing massive calcium loss from our skeleton.

Today another piece of the puzzle came to light. It appears latest research shows that inflammation in muscles next to the bone actually drags calcium directly from the bone, eating way at the surface of the bone.

When we look at this in relation to obesity, where excess loads on muscles makes an almost ongoing inflammation, we see the double whammy of problems of weight AND problems of decaying the skeleton that is supposed to support that weight. Add in a sugary high protein diet and....

I have heard from many of our clients on ionized water that they have a greater recovery time during gym work if they drink the water. I'd take it further; gym work can also create inflammation, so drinking alkaline water to counter inflammation makes incredibly good sense to me.
Here's a site with more info
And another one

You're not going to believe this one!

Chris, the designer of our Alkaway To Go automatic refiller for alkaline ionized water, paid us a visit over Christmas and related an amazing tale about a user of our water. It seems in Chris' hometown he has a regular consumer who puts it to an er.. unusual use. You see, his customer is a heroin addict who swears that mainlining (yes, injecting!) alkaline ionized water is the best thing since sliced bread to overcome the 'downer' of his high.

It's strange that when you learn something new, how collaborative facts appear. Brett, our support manager, told me today that his next door neighbour, a male nurse, informed him that the best remedy for a hangover when at work was a saline drip and a shot of pure oxygen.

We've known for some time that the Japanese use our water as a hangover remedy, but .. intravenous??

Time to revisit ‘sports drinks’: are they really the best for your performance?

Up until now, we haven’t really looked at the role of alkaline ionized water in the process of hydration in the body. Sports scientists agree that in any competitive endeavour, prehydration is as important as post-hydration. The American College of Sports Medicine has a term for it. They say that prehydration allows us to begin our exercise in what they call an euhydrated state.

Euhydration means that your body is perfectly hydrated and electrolyte levels in the blood are perfectly balanced, geared for performance at a minute’s notice.

They say that prehydration should begin hours before an event. This optimizes absorption and also allows us to enter the event carrying the ideal volume or weight in urine. Like a jockey, we don’t want to begin a race carrying excess weight in the form of urine!

But why do we drink water before an event? So we don’t lose excessive amounts through sweat while the event occurs. As dehydration occurs, our system begins to adjust and shutdown certain normal operational functions - just what we do not need fifty yards from the finish line! Scientists determine dehydration simply; they measure body weight before and after the event. A kilo reduction in body weight equates roughly to 1200mls of water loss. Try drinking 1.2 litres in one shot and you’ll understand the magnitude of such a loss! The general rule arrived at by sports scientists is a maximum 2%of body weight loss. After this, you are officially dehydrated.

Dehydration awareness isn’t new. Studies were completed as early as 1940, but recent studies have proven that once we lose that 2% body weight, performance wanes. Down goes our aerobic endurance, up goes our core temperature, our perception of effort even some studies even say we begin to rely on carbs even more than usual.

One October 2007 study says that showed that If you go the the gym you’ll receive far less benefit from a workout if you are dehydrated. This may seem obvious, but do we have a drinking problem or a drinking advantage when we attend gym? Of course we have seen many enhanced waters enter the marketplace with ‘power’ names like ‘Boost’, ‘Gator’ and more. These drinks are usually salt enriched. However modern thought is that the vast majority of westerners have excess salt in their system anyway as a result of a salt laden diet.

So perhaps it is time for a new look at the very best rehydration drink, targeting the true culprits of exercise; free radicals, lactic acid and general increased acidosis and inflammation. Our experience over the last ten years has, unfortunately, not been centred on athletic results of alkaline water, but we do get letters and emails from people who have experienced greatly improved recovery times, less after-exercise pain, and a more even energy. Although we have not done the research, it makes sense that a water with the following qualities would offer far more than simple salty, sugary electrolyte bottles of drink;

· Microclustered; Alkaline ionized water has a far smaller molecular cluster size, resulting in enhanced hydrative ability. Imagine swallowing a grapefruit and a cherry tomato. That’s indicative of the difference between ordinary water and alkaline ionized water in molecular cluster size. It logically follows that this form of water will penetrate cells more effectively and possibly explains why so many people begin detoxifying when they begin drinking alkaline ionized water.
· Ionized; The ionization process reconfigures the molecular structure of the water and provides an abundance of negatively charged ions, which have the capability of uniting with, and therefore neutralizing, free radicals created as a result of exercise. · Oxygen-supporting: It’s pseudoscience to believe that water can hold more oxygen in special forms. However in this form, the abundance of hydroxyl ions may support the correct pH balance of our bloodstream. Few people realise that the bloodstream is our oxygen storehouse. Oxygen is essential for all energy production in the body, and acidic blood has far less ability to hold maximum oxygen levels. The best alkaline blood level means the highest ability to supply oxygen from the blood to the body.
· Alkaline: There are always alkaline minerals in our tap water but they are always mixed with acid minerals. This means that drinking alkaline enriched ordinary water still gives you the bad acid minerals along with the good alkalis.
Alkaline Ionized water has acid minerals separated out, thus concentrating the natural alkaline minerals like magnesium, calcium, and potassium in the end product.

I suppose you have heard that we should drink 8 glasses of water per day. On research, this has no scientific basis. But drinking alkaline ionized water really upsets the beliefs about how much water to drink for maximum hydration, because of its vastly improved hydration ability.

When asked what is the ideal, I simply answer ‘Let your body tell you. As you alkalise and move out of the health-threatening acidic life, your body will begin to ‘talk’ to you again, and my own ‘measure’ of hydration is based on how much I urinate. My body is telling me what I need.

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Is There a Problem with Restructured Water?

Every now and then I get a call from a potential client asking about the side effects of drinking restructured ionized water. I've instructed my alkaline specialists to always ask clients where they heard about the perceived problem and it's almost always from one competitor.

So let's look at water for a moment.
We've all been taught that water is H2O, right?

Wrong.

That still water glass you're looking at is a seething mass of molecular permutations of two elements; Hydrogen and Oxygen. These include; H, O, H2O, HO, and OH-.

Even though your water looks still, it's actually undergoing billions of exchanges of ions all the time. Since I began writing, the glass of water by my computer has experienced 8,567,421 molecular changes! How do I know? I counted them!

So whether you drink tap water, ditch water or alkaline water, you still get all these permutations of oxygen and hydrogen. it's just that when you drink ionized water, you get more of the good one; OH-.

I posted a new article about this water a couple of weeks ago and many people downloaded and commented on it, so here it is again.

Andrew the Naturopath Cleans Up with Alkaline Water

Andrew Cathles has featured before on my blog. He paid us a visit awhile ago with all of his family and we had a great connection. He's a naturopath in WA and runs the Thornlie Naturopathic Centre. (08-9452-0722)

Being a careful practitioner Andrew approached alkaline water with a healthily skeptical attitude. Andrew has suffered from gastric reflux burning for years. So to receive this report from him this week is all the more wonderful:

"I have tried dozens of naturopathic treatments to try and stop having to use Nexium – a proton pump inhibitor used for chronic burning of the oesophagus. My condition was pre cancerous, so I had to find something that really worked before stopping the doctor’s medication. Since taking the alkaline water, I have stopped the Nexium – only having to return to it on 3 occasions in the past month – which is the best result of anything I have tried! Each of the 3 relapses was due to my eating indiscretions rather than any failing in the water! Needless to say, I am very happy with that result. "

Crystal Images

I'm sure many of you have seen the movie 'What The Bleep'. Anyone who did would have been excited by the superb crystals of water in that movie. I met Mr Emoto some years ago when he gave a lecture here in Byron Bay. he is a fascinating man and his philosophy of the ability of water to reflect emotional states is controversial and at the same time, in line with current quantum thought.

Few people know that the very first image Mr Emoto created was of ionized microclustered water and to our knowledge he has never done one since.

Well, after a long wait, Mr Emoto agreed to photograph puictures of water from the Jupiter Science Alphion, our most popular model, and you can see the results here, including a phased lapse image of the stages of crystal growth. I'm aware that many people have already seen images advertised and on websites but Mr Emoto advises that the only ones he has authorised have their own Hado institute ID Number. You'll see it on our image on our web page here.

It's also made it onto Digg.Com and is rising fast. if you see it there, you might like to give it a vote.