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30 Years Drinking What I Can Only Call "Heavenly Water"

30 Years Drinking What I Can Only Call "Heavenly Water"

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Heavenly Water

30 Years Drinking What I Can Only Call "Heavenly Water"

This year I'm celebrating 30 years of drinking ionized water. I marvel at my providence in discovering in the mid-90s the incredible technology of water ionizers to transform water into the way God meant for water to be.

In this podcast and blog post, I plan to tell my story of the past 30 years and weave into this story why I call ionized water Heavenly (God's water).

If you prefer to listen, or would like to listen and read at the same time, here's my podcast on this.

A Very Good Introduction to Ionized Water

It all started when my sister introduced me to ionized water. She shared several TV broadcasts she had recorded about a new water technology coming out of Japan called electrolysis (also called ionized water, electrolyzed water, electrically reduced water, hydrogen water, and other terms). At the time, the water had been used mainly in hospitals and clinics in Japan and Korea with great results, but it was just that year making headway into homes for personal preventative use.

Watanabe Hospital

One Japanese hospital earned fame from the work of Dr. Watanabe, the head of Gynechology, who treated thousands of prenatal patients with ionized water. Thousands were cured of preeclampsia and other prenatal ailments. Their babies, by the way, were healthier and more intelligent than average. This is what Dr. Watanabe found:

  • "This water can neutralize toxins."
  • "Ionized alkaline antioxidant water improves body constituents and ensures effective healing to many illnesses."
  • "I found that the women with pre-eclamptic toxemia who consumed antioxidant water tend to deliver healthier babies with stronger muscles."

Of course, Dr. Wantanabe was working in Japan, where the atmosphere for natural healing and treatment of patients is far friendlier than in the US. His findings were and still are impressive to me.

I remember at the time having just experienced toxemia when I was pregnant with my fifth child. That is a scary thing! Lots of mothers would want this preventative/curative information. Also, the fact that the babies of the mothers who were drinking ionized water were stronger, healthier, and more intelligent than average after simple treatments with ionized water is certainly noteworthy.

Other hospitals, clinics, and scientific research facilities were healing ailments, from diabetic necrosis to acid reflux and everything in between, with ionized water.

Acidic water is another noteworthy product of the ionization process and has had famed results in Japanese and Korean hospitals. Here are some TV reports of these novel and impressive treatments.

Many compelling Animal Studies also supported the existing theories about ionized water's healing capabilities.

The 40000 Chickens Study

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIohs5qvY6M

Alkaline ionized water has significantly improved chickens' overall health and immune systems.

Mice Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5igYdtZxPW4

Experiments with mice show impressive results using ionized water for diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, and obesity in mice and rats.

Buying and Using My First Water Ionizer

The work of Japanese and Korean hospitals, clinics, and animal studies impressed me so much that I wanted a water ionizer (despite the very high cost at the time and the fact that they were also very hard to find). But I wanted to help my children and me. We all had problems with constant allergies and ear and throat infections. So, in 1995, I bought my family's first water ionizer.

One Year Later and for Years After

About a year after getting my first water ionizer, I reflected on all the changes it made for me in my life. The good indoctrination I had, learning about all the clinics, hospitals, and trials with ionized water, paid off because it made me determined to use it with my family. The practical benefits were clear - no more hay fever, ear, or throat infections. My children were free of these things, too. It fixed acne too. Every time any of us had so much as an itchy throat or sniffle, we would go over to the sink to drink more ionized water.

In that first year, I could really see and feel the truth of the water's benefits for the whole family. I remember thinking about it and being impressed with the whole thing. So, I carried on for the next decade, doing the same thing. Water became the answer to almost everything that ever ailed us. I didn't think about it much and maybe even took it for granted from time to time that I was just about the healthiest person I knew.

Before my water ionizer years, as a teacher, I used to stay clear of kids with runny noses (my own included). But after a while, I just stopped being afraid of germs altogether.  

After Retiring From 25 Years as a Teacher & Principal

After retiring from 25 years as a teacher and principal, I used my computer and internet knowledge to build an online store. I immediately thought of the water ionizer when asked about my favorite product. This product had significantly impacted my life, so I knew I was destined to build my website around selling and educating people about water ionizers.

At this point, it was around 2007, and for the previous decade, I was so busy raising my children and teaching full-time that I hadn't kept up with new developments in ionized water. So, I got busy learning all the latest and greatest information about it.

The Work of Dr. Emoto

One thing that impressed me was the work of a unique and innovative Japanese scientist (Dr. Emoto) who photographed water droplets forming crystals as he flash-froze them. At the time, there were various pockets worldwide where people claimed it was healing water. Lourdes in France, Nordenaux in Germany, the Himalayas, clear mountain springs, etc.

He compared "healing water" (all sorts) with city water from a tap, both unfiltered and highly filtered, and the city water created ugly lumps while the healing waters formed beautiful crystal shapes.

He tried filtering, reverse osmosis, and even distilling the city water with no improvement, and the extreme filtration (RO & distillation) only made it worse.

It always stuck with me that the most beautiful of his pictures always showed the water sourced from pristine water sources, usually high in the mountains, before getting a chance to become contaminated, creating such beautiful snowflake-like crystals.

Dr. Emoto described the water from these pristine sources as Hexagonal water, meaning it has six sides, like a snowflake has six points. It is in its most simple, natural, beautiful shape as God meant it to be. It hasn't been poisoned with all the chemicals and toxins our modern industries subject it to. And it hasn't been stripped of all the healthy minerals either, or left sitting on a shelf for months, all the while leaching chemicals from the plastic bottles either.

With all the ways Dr. Emoto tried to filter city tap water, he couldn't get it to make a beautiful crystal like the pristine, beautiful healing water did until one day Jay Hare (from what was then called Ion Life) sent him a water ionizer to test. The water ionizer did the trick. It recreated the water through electrolysis to be in a more perfect structure, just like the healing water from pristine sources. But wait! This was using city water! He created a GIF to send Jay to prove that his ionized water was perfect (as I already knew it was), but this was exciting to see in a beautiful growing crystal like this.

Click the picture to watch the beautiful crystal grow! I love seeing that photo GIF of the beautiful crystal that ionized water could make.

Emoto hexagonal water GIF

Why is this so exciting? This is significant because who can get their water from a pristine mountain source? People do not have to be billionaires and travel to the Alps to get perfect water! Anyone can set up a water ionizer to create their own pristine healing water at home for healthy living and disease prevention.

We need to all start thinking this way. Waiting to get sick forces a person to go to a medical doctor and get medicine. Why do it that way? Why not prevent disease? Right?

People worldwide who were being healed with ionized water did not need Dr. Emoto's extra validation to know that it had changed their lives. But even so, it always stuck with me what a beautiful thing it is that this water is so structurally perfect.

Water ionizers are not to be thought of as healing instruments, but ionized water is perfect water, and perfect water is sometimes the exact thing a body needs to stay healthy or to heal itself.

All the water ionizers I sell would also produce perfect water like this, but there are more reasons to love the newer and more improved water ionizers. I'll talk about those later in this post.

The Work of Dr. Ben Johnson & Jay Hare

Dr. Ben Johnson and Jay Hare traveled to Vilcabamba, Ecuador, to study the water there. People who live in Vilcambamba are often over a hundred years old. Their water is famous for its healing properties.

The century-old people in Vilcabamba didn't need hospitals and lived productive lives. They attributed their health to a mountain stream near their town.

After testing the water in the stream used by the townspeople, they found the pH and ORP of the healing water were lightly alkaline and ionized, with a negative charge, similar to ionized water!

The Work of Dr. Beverly Rubik, PH.D.

In her research, Rubik tested and experienced every kind of water: tap water, filtered water, bottled water, hydrogen water, and even vortexes. And she found that none of it was good enough. Water must be restructured completely to return it to its vibrant, energetic state. And it turned out that ionized water, from a water ionizer, is the best way she found to create the healthiest water by all her testing.

The Work of Dr. Hiromi Shinya

Dr. Shinya is a J panese/American surgeon and a famous gastroenterologist. He is the inventor of the colonoscopy and has performed over 500 thousand colonoscopies in his career. He has written a diet plan to help his patients and recommends drinking alkaline ionized water throughout the day. His novel approach to medical/natural healing is famous worldwide, and he has cured many thousands of people who came to him with diseased colons.

The Work of Nate Darnell, VP of Diabetes Support Services Inc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ThW-tq308

In studying the hundreds of diabetic patients who rely on their support services, Mr. Darnell soon realized that diabetic patients don't die from diabetes. They die from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and everything else that's caused by significant free-radical damage… kidney failure, liver damage…

He notes in his lecture:

  • In 1999, Japanese researchers discovered a beneficial action of hydrogen-rich water on tumor cells.
  • This was explicitly the hydrogen in electrolyzed reduced water (ionized water).
  • They don't know precisely why it does this, but they have deduced from studies that elctrically reduced water (ionized water), which is rich in hydrogen gas, suppresses T-lemurs and tumor cells, thereby retarding the development of the tumor. And it appears to be selective, an essential feature of any antioxidant.

The Work of Dr. Ohta

In 2007, a famous article by Dr. Shigeo Ohta of Nippon Medical University in Japan appeared in Nature Magazine. The article was about his 15 years of research and was instrumental in American "medical" circles, because Nature Magazine was an established and esteemed magazine in the US and worldwide.

Ohta focused on the hydrogen molecule (H2) found in ionized water, which can also be produced as a gas. He brought up some key points in his article, which impressed the medical and research community and changed how some of the top water ionizer manufacturers developed a better technology to harness the power of H2 in ionized water.

Here are some of his findings:

  • Hydrogen is a molecule found in pairs (H2) or combined with other elements to make different molecules.
  • It acts as a selective antioxidant in the body. In other words, it won't harm the "good" radicals, which are helpful in the body; it only neutralizes (destroys) the deadly free radicals with no adverse effects.
  • Common antioxidants are bulky and don't get into cells. Then, after losing the free electron (donating it), they can become potentially harmful to the body.
  • The extra electron in H2 bonds and unbinds over and over until the hydrogen eventually evaporates.
  • Molecules of hydrogen are so small (and note they are lipid soluble), so they penetrate cell membranes and even the blood-brain barrier easily.
  • H2 is invisible to the microscope, but measurable. Here are some things Dr. Ohta's measurements show:
    • Molecular hydrogen even repairs cells after damage.
    • High concentrations of H2 are entirely safe.
    • It helps the body's homeostasis by removing harmful free radicals and leaving useful ones alone.
    • It regulates gene expression, communicating between metabolic pathways. H2 regulates the production of the correct proteins when and where needed. In other words, it helps the metabolism work better.
    • Hydrogen signals enzyme production in the body, reducing the bad free radical production.
    • Every single organ and nearly every significant disease benefits from H2.
    • In his own studies and the other research he's followed, Otah observed and made a statement that H2 can ameliorate or even prevent over 170 diseases observed so far.
    • Over the past 15 years, his trials have shown that consuming molecular hydrogen-enriched water has greater, long-lasting benefits. For instance, after consuming the hydrogen-enriched water, the benefits go on for hours or even days inside the body.

Read more about the science behind molecular hydrogen.

Better Filtration with UltraWater

UltraWater filtration is a new technology in removing the plethora of chemicals, hormones, pesticides, herbicides, Fluoride, forever chemicals, industrial wastes, pharmaceuticals, and you name it that is in the water these days. Water was never meant to contain all this junk.

Yes, water is the universal solvent, and as such, it can remove all kinds of toxins from our bodies, but we're not meant to be drinking water, soda, and everything else packed with all this junk.

Ultrawater filters remove all the toxins from the water before ionizing it, up to 99.99 %, with scientific lab testing to prove it.

Better Antioxidants

Other features of ionized water may affect the results, such as the negative charge (oxidation-reduction potential) of ionized water or its molecular hydrogen content. The water ionizers I sell today utilize the best new and improved technology to produce this.

Scientific studies have revealed a fascinating fact: Molecular hydrogen (H2 molecules) actively combats oxygen-free radicals. However, this unique molecule is not found in plain water or alkaline plain water. Molecular hydrogen is a molecule of H2 that floats freely and is dissolved in ionized water. It is so small that it enters every cell to fight free-radical damage.

A free radical needs another electron to be stable and steals it from your cells. Ionized water produces millions of extra electrons, neutralizes free radicals, and repairs cell damage. 

Regular water contributes to oxidation-related diseases, but ionized water, which has a property called oxidation-reduction potential (ORP), can help prevent this. 

This negative charge associated with the donated electrons gives us another benefit of ionized water: the minerals in ionized water are more bioavailable because of the negative charge.

Bodies Naturally Need to Be Slightly Alkaline

Another big deal is that a water ionizer can help you produce various pH levels. The body likes alkaline pH buffers, so it likes this water. Most organs prefer alkaline pH levels. Even the stomach needs slight alkalinity between meals. For those drinking water with meals, if you're consuming meat, maybe put a squeeze of lemon in it, and it will bring it right down to suit the occasion. 

I prefer not to have water or add a slight squeeze of lemon to my water during any meat meal. Even neutral water has a slightly too high pH for digesting meat, so the lemon handles that.

Our diets are too acidic, so consuming alkaline water balances them out.

When I'm on a fat-burning diet, I increase the pH level of my water to about 10. This reassures me that I can safely remove the burned fats from my body.

Mental Clarity

Every time I drink ionized water, I feel it going into my body and my BRAIN! It is a great feeling of physical well-being and mental clarity. Many others have told me they can sense this too.

We All Need to Detox

Stay hydrated with the healthiest water. PH-balanced alkaline water helps cleanse our bodies of toxins at the cellular level, so they can perform the functions they're meant to do.

Better Hydration

Ionized water can pass through pores, tissues, and cell membranes much more easily than regular water. This improves hydration by making it easier for the water to enter our cells and do some healing. The water also lowers the viscosity of our blood, so it is exceptional in bringing nutrients to your cells and transporting wastes out of them.

Hydrogen's tiny size and lipid solubility enable it to penetrate cells and even heal the DNA. Other antioxidants can't get this far into the body to heal it.

Another notable thing about hydrogen is how easily it evaporates. There is no residual toxic effect from drinking or inhaling it.

Authorities

We all need to learn how to look into ourselves for authority. We can all know things if we just look and experience ourselves.

I love to listen to the ideas of others, but at the end of the day, if I try it, I can know for myself, and that's where the true treasure lies.

That's why I've always given my customers a 60-day satisfaction guarantee for purchasing a water ionizer. This allows people to try it and see how this water works for them.

Products that Help to Create Perfect Water

The best water-perfecting devices I've ever found are water ionizers. They filter water, reduce water by adding antioxidants, micro-cluster water, alkalize it, and ionize it.

Cathleen Lograsso

Cathleen LoGrasso

My background is in physiology, teaching, nutrition and weight loss. I have raised 5 children who are all grown now. I have a masters degree in education and was a teacher/principal for 24 years. I created Alkaline Water Plus in 2009 to educate people about the benefits of ionized water.

The very best thing I have ever purchased is a WATER IONIZER, and I've been in perfect health ever since I started drinking ionized water 25 years ago! Understanding and knowing how to control and manage my own body's pH and antioxidant levels at the cellular level has made all the difference in the world in my life, my family's lives and in a countless number of my friends and associates over the years.

Cathie LoGrasso Owner, Alkaline Water Plus

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