What Does Mineral Content Have to do With Alkaline Ionized Water?

I have been reading up on the idea that "pure water" is best for your health.  There are several sites that go over the fact that pure water is the best for you.  However, there is much evidence that suggests otherwise.  Alkaline ionized water contains minerals which play a big part in its ionization.  Without these minerals in the water, water does not ionize, and electric water ionizers fail.

First, I want to debunk the idea that pure water is the best for you.  This is just wholly untrue.  If you do some research you will find that the places where people live the longest in this world have water very similar to alkaline ionized water.  It is high in alkaline minerals and is slightly ionized.  There are also several areas in Southeast Asia that use these water ionizers for health purposes.   And, I have personally been using this water for over 20 years with great results.  I feel better now than I did in my 20s and 30s!  You can find more testimonials here: Customers’ Personal Testimonials.

Additionally, in looking into the sites that promote this idea that alkaline ionized water is useless and pure water is the only way to go, I found that they also sell reverse osmosis machines.  Reverse Osmosis has a time and a place for use.  It is, in fact, the only way to successfully filter salt out of water, and it is very useful in getting hardness out of your water as well.  My recommendation is to add a remineralization filter to add minerals back into your water if you have an RO.  What happens with an RO is that it filters the water to such an extent that it filters out all minerals from the water as well. This makes the water very acidic, ranging from about a 5-6 pH.

The next idea I want to go over is this idea of "pure water".  Nowhere in nature will you find water void of all minerals.  Groundwater seeps into the bedrock and absorbs minerals.  This is the same for any water source.  Source-water differs depending on the minerals in the area you get the water from. Water tends to absorb things from the area around it especially if it does not have any minerals in it already.  If you drink water filtered of any minerals, it actually leaches minerals from your body!  Water without chemicals and contaminants is beneficial, however, this should not be mistaken for water void of all minerals as well.  I have found that there are many filters out there designed to filter specific contaminants that will also allow minerals to pass through instead of using RO.

The last point I want to go over is the fact that alkaline water ionizers need the minerals in your water in order to ionize.  As I said earlier, you can't ionizer pure water.  The minerals are what really allow for you to ionize your water.  Pure water is neutral and does not have a positive or negative charge.  The electric water ionizers simply use electrolysis in order to split the water into alkaline and acidic streams, and more specifically the alkaline and acidic minerals are split.  If you get a quality electric ionizer (from Japan or Korea) then there should be no worry of any contamination from the platinum plates.  These countries consider these machines medical equipment so they are held to high standards there.

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