First and foremost, alkaline water is alkaline. Duh. It says it right in the name! But what does this mean? Well, alkalinity measures how acidic or how basic something is. Your blood needs to be a certain pH in order for you to function properly. Most of your organs also need to be alkaline as well. But, a lot of people nowadays lead very acidic lives drinking lots of coffee and soda, eating meat and carbs, and leading stressfull lives. All of these can cause someone's pH level to drop. Drinking alkaline water will help keep your body balanced and at the correct pH it needs to be. The other benefit to drinking alkaline water is that it will allow for your body to more easily get rid of acidic waste, because your body will not have a problem sacraficing some of its alkaline fluids if it has an abundance of it.
Secondly, alkaline water has a TON of antioxidants in it. The technical name for it is ORP (oxidation reduction potential). When this number is positive, it oxidizes, when it is negative, it antioxidizes. Now everyone in this day and age has heard of free radicals, right? Well these are those unstable molecules that go around your body damaging cells and causing mutations amongst other things. Antioxidants have the ability to knock out these free radicals. They neutralize them. Here is a depiction of what free radicals can do:
So, alkaline ionized water can counter these negative effects of free radicals to a great degree! Water ionizers can vary in the ORP quite a bit. To get the best results, I would recommend finding an ionizer that has the lowest negative number -the more negative the better- for the pH that you will be drinking at.
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