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Water Ionizers - General Background

What is Alkaline, Ionized Water?
And what is pH?

To Read More about Benefits of Alkaline Water Click Here

Ever Seen a Glacial Stream or an Iceberg?

It is blue with minerals. It tastes totally different. It seems to enter the body lightly. It presents no resistance and you do not `bloat` like you may do with tap water or even filtered water. And the minerals are there not just to offer you those elements your system lacks, but also to `hold` the real secret of glacial water; its antioxidant power. Strong, pure hydrogen molecules (H₂), when present, actively seek out positively charged oxygen free radicals already wrecking havoc on our bodies at a cellular level.

This is naturally occurring ionized water. Now technology has delivered a clean answer to us in the form of alkaline, water ionizers. Water or H₂0 (Two Hydrogen atoms, one oxygen atom) is split into two separate streams of water - acidic waste water and drinkable alkaline water, rich in minerals.

This altering of the H₂0 molecule happens in a sealed ionization chamber, under exact control of a dedicated microcomputer, to ensure the exact result time after time. As filtered tap water passes across 5 to 9 specially designed titanium electrodes, it separates into the two components mentioned above.

We drink the alkaline ionized water and we apply the acid water. How simple and how wonderful!

So What's all this about "pH"?

Fact: Almost all of us are negativelly affected by excess acidity.
Fact: This need not be. Help is at hand.

The pH scale ranges from 0 on the acidic side to 14 on the alkaline, and a solution is neutral if its pH is 7.

At pH 7, water contains equal concentrations of H+ and OH- ions. Substances with a pH less than 7 are acidic because they contain a higher concentration of H+ ions.
The pH scale is a logarithmic scale, so a change of one pH unit implies a tenfold shift in the concentration of hydroxyl ions.

pH 6 means you are ten times more acid than pH 7.

pH 5 means you are a hundred times more acid than pH 7

The Importance of Balancing pH

Living things, including humans, are extremely sensitive to pH.
Blood plasma and other fluids that surround the cells in the body have a pH of 7.2 to 7.45.

A blood pH of 6.9 can induce coma and death. That is why all bodily systems are secondary in importance to the system of pH balancing. Your body will willingly shut down digestion, alter temperature, rob your bones of calcium and your heart of magnesium plus deprive your pancreas, just to maintain adequate fluid buffers of alkalinity to balance the `acid tide` we inflict upon ourselves through diet and stress etc.

However your body possesses numerous special mechanisms to aid in stabilizing these fluids so that cells will not be subject to appreciable fluctuations in pH.

Substances which serve as mechanisms to stabilize pH are called BUFFERS.

Buffers have the capacity to bond ions and remove them from solution whenever their concentration begins to rise. Conversely, buffers can release ions whenever their concentration begins to fall, thus helping to minimize the fluctuations in pH. This is an important function because many biochemical reactions normally occurring in living organisms either release or use up ions.

Imagine now what a load is taken off your body if its primary safety system of pH balancing can be stood down from a continual full alert because you now are alkalizing your body through reducing stress, eating healthier foods, avoiding harmful chemicals and drinking adequate amounts of clean, healthy water!

Tap Water - What It Is and Isn`t

On the pH scale of 0 to 14, normal tap water measures out an approximately neutral 7, or slightly either side; acid in the case of rainwater, alkaline in the case of chemically altered municipal supplies or in harder water areas.

This water can be measured with a pH or ORP meter, and its redox (oxidation reduction potential) is +400 to +500 mV. Because it has a positive redox potential, it is apt to acquire electrons and oxidize other molecules, and then rob your body of electrons in the form of energy.

Reduced Ionized Water, on the other hand, has a negative redox potential of approximately -250 to -900 mV. This means it has a large mass of electrons ready to donate to electron-thieving active oxygen. It is `Live Water`, similar in atomic structure to the waters that the Hunzakuts drink directly from glacial streams in the high Himalayas.

How Your Water Ionizer Unit Works

The water ionizer unit, ideally with a footprint the size of a toaster, is an electronic water filter connected to your kitchen water supply to perform controlled low voltage electrolysis on tap water before you drink it or use it in the kitchen for cooking or cleaning.

A special attachment redirects tap water out of the faucet through a plastic hose into the water ionizer unit. Inside the unit, the water is first filtered which helps to remove common pollutants found in city water. Then this filtered water passes into a chamber equipped with platinum-coated titanium electrodes. Here is where the electrolysis takes place.

Cations, positive ions, gather at the negative electrodes creating cathodic or reduced water. Anions, negatively charged ions, gather at the positive electrode to make anodic or oxidized water. By this electrolysis process the reduced water not only gains an excess amount of electrons (e-).

The reduced ionized water comes out of the faucet, and the oxidized water comes out of a separate hose leading into the sink. You can use the reduced water for drinking or cooking. The oxidation potential of the oxidized water makes it a good sterilizing agent, helpful for washing your hands, cleaning food or kitchen utensils, and treating minor wounds and eczema.

Find out more about our Vesta H₂ ionizer here