Body Odor

It’s been hot. Really hot. And like most people I’m sure you’ve noticed the occasional spell of body odor. But, there are many people who deal with excessive body odor on a routine basis. We are going to go over how you can reduce, if not eliminate, your excess body odor naturally.

Sweating

Sweating is a completely normal bodily function. It is actually how your body cools itself down. However, sometimes a bad odor comes along with the sweating. A strong odor is usually caused by a pH imbalance in the body.

How We Sweat

There are two types of sweat glands. The first is located in areas where there are hair follicles, such as the groin area, the underarms and the scalp. The other kind of sweat gland is located over most of your body’s surface and is what cools your body down. When these latter sweat glands release the salty sweat onto the surface of the skin, the sweat evaporates, cooling you down. The first sweat gland mentioned secretes the substance via the hair follicle. It is naturally odorless, but the bacteria on the skin break down this fluid, thus creating a foul odor.

What Affects the Production of Body Odor?

There are many different factors involved with the smell of your body odor. These include genetics, your diet, where you are in your menstrual cycle (for women), your emotional condition, your health and whether you have an illness, etc.

But one of the biggest contributors to an excessively foul odor is the pH of your body. Sweat is also a function of ridding the body of toxins. When you are too acidic the body attempts to balance your pH by sweating out the acidic waste. If your body was at the optimum level of alkalinity you wouldn’t deal with body odor as much, if at all.

How to Make Your Body More Alkaline

To naturally handle your body odor, instead of masking it with harmful antiperspirants and perfumes, I strongly suggest starting from the inside out. Start eating more alkaline foods, and cutting out acidic ones. And of course get yourself and your family an electronic water ionizer. Start drinking ½ your weight in fluid ounces of quality alkaline ionized water. While you’re waiting for the long-term effects of handling your body odor, you can apply apple cider vinegar to your underarms to kill any bacteria. Or you could apply a thin layer of a baking soda/water paste. Baking soda is great at neutralizing odors and alkalizing.

Here is another more in-depth article on making your body more alkaline: 

https://alkalinewaterplus.com/blog/many-ways-to-alkalize-your-body-and-why/

Also, watch this video where I personally demonstrate testing your body's pH level. I recommend checking your pH level while you work on making yourself more alkaline. 

I hope this has been informative! Let me know if you have any questions.  

Cancer and Alkaline Ionized Water

“When cancer patients come into my office … their bodies are almost always very acidic and toxic. My first task is to get their tissues to alkalinize with alkaline water and alkaline foods.” — Dr. Don Colbert, M.D., author, The Seven Pillars of Health

Body pH and Disease

Most diseases, bacteria and viruses cannot sustain life in a well-oxygenated environment. These pathogens die off when the environment they are in reach a pH of 7.6. When your body becomes too acidic, these pathogens can start growing.

An acidic body starts killing its own healthy cells, has a weakened immune system and cannot fight off disease as well as a more alkaline body.

A medical doctor by the name of Dr. Otto Warburg was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1931 for his tremendous discoveries in Medicine. He discovered that cancer cells are not fueled by oxygen as normal cells are. The high levels of oxygen that are found in healthy, alkaline bodies are toxic to cancers. He found that cancers get their energy from sugars and a process of fermentation in acidic environments. He proved empirically the relationship between cancers, acidic body pH, and cellular oxygen starvation. His findings demonstrated that cancers are merely a symptom of acidosis, and therefore it is impossible to truly cure any cancer without first curing the underlying acidosis.

Creating an Alkaline Body

Drinking alkaline ionized water contributes in three ways to creating a more alkaline body.

1) The antioxidant property of the water helps get rid of free radicals in the body that destroy healthy tissue and cells.

2) The micro-clustered water molecules of the alkaline water are far easier for your body to absorb, which helps flush out toxins from your body that lead to an acidic environment.

3) Alkaline water helps balance the pH of the body, making it more alkaline and less acidic. It has an abundance of ionic alkaline minerals and these are more available for your body to use in making it more alkaline.

In this article here I have more research done on this topic, along with quotes from reputable sources, so I highly suggest taking a look at that as well. Doctors/Experts

And I, of course, highly recommend you invest in an electric water ionizer for your continued health and the continued health of your family.  

Why Soda Is so Harmful to Your Health

We have all enjoyed a cold glass of Coke or Pepsi. It tastes so good, can it really be THAT bad for you? Well, let's go over what happens when you drink such an acidic drink like soda.

The pH Scale

The pH scale ranges from 0-14, with 0 being the most acidic and 14 being the most alkaline. Our bodies need to maintain a pH as close to 7.4 as possible for optimum health. If it becomes too acidic or too alkaline, different functions of the body can't take place.

It can be difficult for the body to maintain this pH level given the large amounts of acid-producing foods in our diets. Doctors actually began researching the effects of acid-producing and alkaline-producing foods on our bodies in the early 1900s.

As you can see by the picture below, the closer the food gets to the bottom of the pH scale the more acidic it becomes. And it's acidity grows exponentially. A food that has a pH of 2 is 1,000,000 times more acidic than a food that has a pH of 8!

The Effects of Soda and Other Soft Drinks

Coca-Cola has a pH of about 2.5. This is very, very acidic. About 50,000 times more acidic than tap water.

Your body is working second after second, minute after minute to maintain a healthy pH level. But if we add drinks and foods into our bodies that are acid-producing, the body has to work even harder to maintain that 7.4 pH level. So, what does the body do when it isn't receiving the proper nutrition to keep it at this level? It will take alkali minerals, such as calcium from your bones, to stabilize itself. The body will actually take calcium from your bones and teeth or magnesium from your bones and cells in order to preserve itself. This definitely explains why America is the leading country in terms of osteoporosis, yet we consume the most calcium on the planet, by way of milk and dairy products, calcium supplements, etc. And this is also a huge contributing factor to the amount of obesity in America.

But I Drink Diet Soda – No Calories

This leads us to the next alkali mineral that your body will leach if it needs to keep it at a balanced pH: Iodine. Iodine is a mineral that helps the thyroid function. Your thyroid, the gland responsible for your metabolism, can't properly function without a sufficient amount of iodine. So, even if you're drinking a diet soda with zero calories, you're still flooding your body with an acidic drink that triggers certain mechanisms in the body to use the iodine to maintain a balanced pH.

Here's another blog I wrote that goes over this, too.

Here is a video that goes over this in a way anyone can understand.

How to Determine Your Acidity Level

Here are some symptoms of being too acidic:

Are you chronically fatigued?

Do you run out of breath easily?

Do you find yourself sighing or taking deep breaths for no apparent reason?

Do your muscles cramp up after walking short distances? 

Do you sometimes feel you just can't get enough air? 

These are signs that your body is too acidic.

You can also test the pH of your saliva or urine. We offer a free 80-pieced pH test kit! 

What to Do Next

Kick the soda habit and replace it with alkaline ionized water to help your body maintain your healthy pH level! And watch as the weight comes off and you regain a healthy, energetic body!

Good luck!

Does Alkaline Water Help Clean out your Colon?

Among the many benefits of ionized water are improving the GI tract including the colon.  Most people don't understand the importance of pH balance in the gastrointestinal tract or the body in general.  

It is actually not stomach acids that digest your food, it's enzymes.  Water has no calories, so it doesn't trigger digestion or reduce the stomach acids at all, it just goes straight through.  So, anyone saying that it isn't good for the stomach doesn't know what their talking about.  Of course, if you are eating meat at the time of drinking alkaline water, that would be unadvisable.  Meat and other more acidic foods require stronger acids to digest, and drinking alkaline water at the same time as trying to digest meat can mess up the pH balance.  It is suggested that you do not drink alkaline water 30 minutes before or after a meal.  The stomach can handle all pH levels and can easily create the acids it needs on demand.

The colon requires an alkaline pH.  Colon cancer would be much easier to prevent than to cure.  Dr Shinya, who invented the colonoscopy, has done a lot of work with colon cancer.  He highly recommends alkaline water to help heal and prevent colon cancer.  See the video below for more details:

It is advisable to drink a pH of between 9.5 and 10 in order to not give the body too much of a shock to the system.  If you want to drink a higher pH I would suggest starting out with a lower pH and gradually working your way up.

In conclusion, drinking alkaline water helps every part of the body to function better.  Visit our site to find a water ionizer of your own www.alkalinewaterplus.com.

What Does Alkaline Water Have to Do With Body pH?

Drinking alkaline water allows for your body to more easily stay within the proper pH level and helps to prevent illness.  

The proper pH level for the body is slightly alkaline at 7.365.  The body will do everything it can to keep the blood at this pH.  If your pH falls below this, there can be many adverse effects, including disease and cancer.  To keep the blood at this pH, it will take calcium from bones and other places, which can cause osteoporosis and other complications in the body. 

Alkaline water will provide the proper balance of pH in the body.  It helps your body get into a state of homeostasis which also allows the immune system to function properly and will prevent you from getting sick.  People generally take in a lot of acidic things in todays lifestyle; soda, meat, bread, etc. Drinking this water allows for you to counteract the acidic waste and get rid of it.

Check out our website, www.alkalinewaterplus.com, to find an alkaline water ionizer for you!  Your immune system will thank you.

Alkaline Ionized Water- What do Doctors Think?

There are countless doctors and experts that have done their own experimentation and research with regard to alkaline ionized water.  These doctors have all found that this alkaline water and it's properties of high pH and negative ORP are beneficial to health and longevity.  Today I am going to go over a few quotes from various doctors in regard to alkaline water.

As far back as 1930 Dr Howard Hay made a statement about alkaline and acidic blood:
"People with more acidic blood were more likely to be ill.  He defined a pH range of 7.4 to 7.5 to be associated with good health.  When foods are metabolized acids are produced which are neutralized by the alkaline salts (carbonates) of calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium.  Foods containing chlorine, phosphorous, sulfur and nitrogen, animal products and refined carbohydrates tend to be acid forming."

Water that is produced from an alkaline water ionizer is rich in calcium, magnesium, and other alkaline minerals. Tap water, on the other hand, is actually full of the acid forming materials listed in the quote above.  So, the water produced by an alkaline water ionizer is going to make your body more alkaline and get it into the proper pH range.

As Dr. Sherry Rogers, M.D. says:
"Alkaline water rids the body of acid waste…After carefully evaluating the results of my advice to hundreds of individuals, I'm convinced that toxicity in the form of acidic waste is the primary cause of degenerative diseases."

There are so many things in this world that produce acidic waste in the body. Whether it's stress or meats and breads that we eat on a daily basis, we are bombarded every day with acidic waste.  If we do not make an effort to rid the body of this acidic waste and balance the pH in the body, then we become sick.  Alkaline ionized water is the answer to this problem.  Replacing the water you drink with water high in pH and antioxidants will help to keep you healthy for years to come.

And finally I would like to end with a quote from Dr Robert O Young, M.S, PhD:
"If someone were to ask me, What is the one thing I can to to have better health? then the answer would be simple: Start drinking alkaline, ionized water."

If you want to read more testimonials from other doctors and experts, visit our site at https://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/doctors-experts/.

There Are So Many Choices--Why Choose Alkaline Ionized Water?

There are so many places you could get your water from and ways you can filter it, so why do you need alkaline water?  Why not tap water, bottled water, or even reverse osmosis?  Water is know to be healing in many parts of the world.  Some people have even referred to it as magic.  I want to go over some various means to get your water and what this really entails for you as a consumer.

First, let's check out tap water.  Here in the United States we have drinkable water.  Generally speaking it does not have bacteria or viruses in it.  A lot of third world countries are not so fortunate.  So, why not drink this water?  The truth is that there are a lot of different chemicals that are put into our water supplies.  Some of them including fluoride, chloramine (a mixture of chlorine and ammonia), etc.  These chemicals are harmful to the human body, not to mention the long list of pharmaceuticals and other toxic substances.

So, then the next choice after tap water would be bottled water right?  Well there has been many tests and studies done on bottled water.  Some bottled water companies take tap water and lightly filter it and then turn around and sell it!  Not only do you not know the quality of filtration of bottled water, but there is also copious amounts of plastic waste that is not being properly recycled from these bottles.

What about reverse osmosis?  Well, there is a time and a place for reverse osmosis to be used.  With reverse osmosis all of the minerals out of the water.  This makes the water acidic actually.   When you do use reverse osmosis, I would suggest at least remineralizing it.  If you drink water that is void of minerals, the water will pull minerals from your body.

Last but not least, there is alkaline ionized water.  This is probably the best choice of all where water is concerned.  First of all, it is alkaline.  The body needs to be slightly alkaline to be heathy, and alkaline water helps to restore the pH balance in the body.  It also helps to rid the body of its acidic wastes.  Not only is alkaline ionized water high in pH, but it also has antioxidants.  Antioxidants help to fight against free radicals in the body that would harm your cells.  Also, buying an alkaline water ionizer is actually less expensive in the long run than continually buying bottled water.

To find out more about alkaline ionized water and its benefits visit www.alkalinewaterplus.com.

How Am I Supposed to Choose the Right Water Ionizer for Me?

Being a long-time provider of alkaline water ionizers I have seen my fair share of "water ionizer comparison charts".  It can be very confusing to someone who is just starting to research alkaline water.  I want to give you some pointers on what to pay attention to and what to focus on when you are researching.

Comparison Charts 

A lot of these comparison charts are constructed by individual water ionizer companies.  This is why they vary so widely.  That company is going to state that their water ionizer is the best out of all of them.  Some ionizer companies actually make up fake awards and give it to their own ionizer!

The first thing to look for is to see if you can find the person who published the comparison chart.  If they are not trying to hide anything, you should easily be able to find their name, email, etc at the bottom of the page.  If you can't find this easily, it may be one of these comparison charts made by the company themselves.

Manufacture and Certification

Another thing to look for is where the ionizer is manufactured.  If the ionizer is not made in Japan or Korea then don't buy it!  These two countries are the only ones that recognize water ionizers as medical equipment, so they have the proper manufacture guidelines and certification in place.

Testing and Quality

One really important thing to check out on any comparison chart is if there has been any testing done on the ionizers that they are comparing.  I have found that this is a key ingredient to finding out the truth about an ionizer.  The proof is in the pudding, and in this case by pudding I mean pH and ORP.

I have found through my own testing that the ORP at the drinking level pH will range greatly between ionizers.  The more negative the ORP the better.  Negative ORP indicates the amount of antioxidants in the water. This is something to pay attention to, as it will benefit you!

Alkaline Water Plus Comparison Chart

You can check out my own comparison chart at https://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/water-ionizer-comparisons/.

How to Use a Water Ionizer

Many people will only use their water ionizer for drinking water.  Well, today I'm going to go over a few other ways you could use your water ionizer.

A water ionizer has three different types of water that it produces: alkaline, purified, and acidic. There are various degrees of alklaline and acidic water and below is a break down of when you would use which:

Alkaline Water

Drinking: At 8.5 pH to 9.5 or 10 pH alkaline ionized water is the perfect drinking water.

Vitamins: Feel free to drink whatever level of ionized water you are drinking with taking your vitamins.

Cleaning: At the highest levels of alkalinity [10.5 - 11.5 pH] the ionized water will emulsify oils.

Filtered Water

Medications: A neutral 7.0 - 8.0 pH filtered water is perfect for taking medications. For 20-30 min. before and after taking medications it is suggested to only drink filtered water.

Infants & Todlers: A neutral pH is perfect for babies. Give babies and todlers "filtered" water, not ionized, until they are about 2 years old. After that, you can slowly introduce them to ionized water [i.e., over the next 2 - 3 years use level 1, then do the same for level 2, etc.]. At about 9 or 10, a child can drink the same level as an adult.

Acidic Water

Skin and Hair: Acidic water at the 3 - 4 pH-level is perfect for neutralizing the skin and hair [which should be about 5.5 pH] See more on this page: http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/beauty-tips 

Skin Toner and Conditioner: Your acid mantle [outermost layer] of your skin is your body's first line of defense against bacterial, fungal or viral infections. It is important to maintain this acid mantle at about a 5.5 pH.

Hair Rinse: When you rinse with water at a pH of about 3.0 to 4.0, this low pH water combines with the high pH of your newly washed hair and restores it to its ideal pH of about 5.5.

Natural, Healthy Coolant: It's healthier for you to use acid water at about a 5.5 pH in your mister, rather than regular tap water, because the goal of misting is to cool yourself, not change the pH of your skin. The proper pH of skin is about 5.5 pH.

Natural Laundry Softener: Add acid water to your final rinse cycle of any load of laundry. This removes residual alkaline minerals from the clothing, brightens up the colors, and softens the laundry naturally, without the use of chemicals.

Plants: Acid water at the pH levels of 5 - 7 pH is great for watering plants. Plants love the purified micro clustered water, and they also love the water to be slightly acidic. Flowering plants tend to like lower acidity than green shade-plants.

Germicidal Water: To kill germs it is best to use acid water at the pH level of 2.5 - 4. The lower the pH the faster the germs are killed, but even at a 4 pH, if you soak something for about a minute it will kill the germs on it. Laboratory testing has proven that exposure to acidic water at a 2.5 pH and lower kills germs on contact.

For more information on alkaline water ionizers please visit our site at www.alkalinewaterplus.com

How Alkaline Ionized Water Helps with Digestion

When you think of digestion, you often think of the stomach, but this is only a small part of the digestive tract.  Digestion starts with the mouth and goes all the way to the large intestine. So how does alkaline ionized water help your digestive tract?

Alkaline water helps the digestive system in many ways.  The intestines need an alkaline pH to be healthy.  And there are many other organs that benefit from alkaline water as well.

When is the right time to drink alkaline water?

The right time to drink alkaline ionized water is almost always! The general rule of thumb is if you're eating meat or dairy it will want an acidic pH in order to trigger the proper enzymes, so during such a meal it's not suggested to consume alkaline ionized water [or 20 min. before/after]. Other than that the stomach likes alkaline ionized water, just like the other organs and cells in your body. 

Alkaline ionized water is fine to drink at all other times, and does not harm the stomach in any way. Because water has no calories, the stomach doesn't recognize it as anything that requires digestion. Water also doesn't stay in the stomach generally; it passes right through in a few minutes.  

Alkaline water and the effects on different organs:

The stomach is the only organ in the entire digestive system that requires a low acid pH level in order to do its job, and it produces it all by itself by injecting HCL, or hydrochloric acid, into the stomach as food arrives.

Water, by itself, does not trigger the production of HCL or digestion, so is allowed to pass through the stomach quickly and undigested without upsetting the overall pH balance of the stomach. If you are just eating an apple or other piece of fruit, there is no concern about drinking alkaline ionized water right along with it. But if you are eating a meal with meat in it, you should not drink alkaline water 

Maintaining an alkaline balance in the intestines can make a great contribution to a person’s colon health as well as their overall health an well-being.

It will assist the small intestines to maintain a healthy 8.5 pH so as to inhibit the growth of parasites, funguses, and other undesirable microorganisms. Parasites going unchecked are often a large contributor to mal-nourishment and weight-management problems.

In the large intestine the main job is the absorption of water into the body, production of B and K vitamins, absorption of a few more nutrients, and then quickly eliminating the waste. A good, healthy, alkaline pH level in the large intestine helps to inhibit the growth of bad-bacteria and maintain the proper balance of good bacteria [intestinal flora].

As you can see, alkaline water does in fact help at many points along the digestion line.  

For more information on alkaline water and digestion, http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/digestion.

Alkaline Water Basics- Balancing Your Body's pH

I often get questions on why alkaline water is better than any other type of water.  Today I want to go over the basic ideas behind body pH and why alkaline water is key in balancing your body's pH.

To start off, the average person in today's society lives a very acidic lifestyle.  Meats, grains, dairy, tea, coffee, soft drinks, to name a few, are all acidic.  Your blood must maintain a balance of 7.365 pH at all times. The alternative is death.  Therefore, your body will do anything in it's power to keep the blood at that pH.  It will take calcium from your bones, it will trap acidic wastes in fat cells and store them in order to protect itself against becoming over acidic.

I actually have a good friend who was recently diagnosed with cancer of the colon.  She had to have a colostomy.  She tested her body's pH with our pH paper and her saliva pH was at a 6.5 before she started drinking alkaline water.  A healthy adult should be at around 7.3-7.4 pH.  She started religiously drinking alkaline ionized water. About three months later tested again and she tested at a 7.2!  She is now doing really well and does not have any signs of any more cancer developing.  In fact, I know at one point she was thinking about getting chemotherapy but now she doesn't think that it will be necessary.

For more information on pH paper please visit our site: http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/product/pH

Alkaline water is key in balancing out the acidic diets that we consume.  It will actually start to change the pH of your body by allowing your body to rid itself of the acidic wastes it has been storing in fat cells etc.  In fact, often times, people who start drinking alkaline water will be able to lose weight much easier as a result of the body being able to release those toxins.  There are many benefits to alkaline water.  It varies from person to person what benefits you will see and feel, depending on your current health and lifestyle.  In any case, alkaline water will help anyone in their endeavor to live a healthy and active life!

Water is a very powerful resource.  Where you find water, you find life.  Imagine how much you could improve upon your life if you had all the benefits of the healthiest type of water you can find!