Water is critical to our health.

Human beings are water beings after all – we are mostly made up of water.

But do you really know what is in your drinking water? The answer might shock you! This is especially true if you’re drinking city or well water. What you think is doing your body good may actually be doing the opposite.

City water often contains high levels of chlorine and other chemicals.  The pH of municipal water has to be neutral according to regulations, but when the source water is acid, this is achieved by adding chemicals to the water.

Well water can be contaminated by run-off and pesticides. pH of well water can be quite acidic, or slightly alkaline.

An alternative many people turn to instead is bottled water. However, even bottled water can be harmful to your body.

In most cases, bottled water is not the best choice, contrary to what advertising has lead us to believe!

People are surprised to learn that several brands of bottled water contain highly acidic & oxidizing water, stripped of all mineral content. This is not good for our bodies and can be a contributing factor to many ailments.

Many bottled waters are created using the process of reverse osmosis, which results in what’s commonly referred to as “dead” water. Instead of supporting your body, drinking this type of water can actually have negative effects on your body’s ability to absorb many important nutrients. So how do you know how to evaluate the quality of a particular brand of bottled water over another?

Frequently even people who consider themselves water experts do not have all the information. Please take the time to watch this water demonstration, to see how different Kangen Water® is from all other water, and sign up for the newsletter below to receive further critical information about water (as well as recipes for healthy eating, and lots of health tips for better living).

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Most people suffer from an overly acidic body condition.(please understand, body ph condition is NOT the same as blood pH, as the blood stays in an extremely narrow pH range at all times)

In order for your body to properly assimilate and make use of the full range of minerals, the urine pH must be in the range of 6.4 – 6.8 sometime during the day . (it does not have to be at this pH all the time) Your urine pH tends to be a little more acidic first thing in the morning, because the body dumps acid during sleep. If however, your urine is almost always too acidic, which tends to be true for most of us, you cannot absorb all the minerals you need, no matter how you supplement, or how healthy your diet is. It is not just about what you take into your body, it is how much of it you assimilate and make use of.

Can water play a role in balancing pH and improving your mineral absorption? It absolutely can, if you drink the right kind of water, and more importantly, if you stay away from the wrong kind of water, and the wrong kind of drinks. Many drinks that are bottled and sold as healthy actually contribute to your body’s acid overload. How do you know what to avoid and how to make the right choices. One place to start is by signing up for the free health tips newsletter below, for full information on Kangen Water®.

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I consider Kangen Water to be the most foundational thing you can do for your health: 

• simple yet profound
• powerful yet gentle
• life changing with little effort 

The journey that led me to this water started when I was 16 years old, and my two older sisters introduced me to the Macrobiotic diet. That year I quit eating red meat, and I have never touched it since.

6 years into my dabbling with Macrobiotics, at age 22 I found myself suddenly and inexplicably in extreme pain, limping and having a very hard time getting around at all.

After a visit with a Naprapath my pain got much, much worse and the following day I could not move. (By the way, if you don’t know what a Naprapath is, I would describe it as a very gentle style of chiropractic.)

When I say I could not move, I mean this in a very literal sense. I got out of bed and started walking towards the bathroom, and in the hallway outside my bedroom the pain turned so excruciating that I could not go either forward or backward, I was frozen in place screaming out load for help.

I had to be helped back to bed, and once I was down, I could not get back up. I could not even turn over in bed without setting off the most intense pain. I ended up in bed for the next two weeks. When the Naprapath doctor heard what happened, he said he would never have treated me the way he did, if he had realized I was dealing with an inflammatory condition.

At age 22, I was still into Macrobiotics, and I wanted nothing to do with medication – so I refused to even take pain killers for the pain. I remember a doctor/friend of the family being very upset at this, telling me I had to take something to settle the inflammation.

I did not know it then, but this was the beginning of a long, hard slide into poor health and constant chronic pain. The pain would seem to get better, only to flare up again. The pain on one side of the body would move to the other side. Every morning I woke up in pain, and though it usually got a little better as the day wore on, I also discovered I got tired much sooner than I used to, and I could not tolerate standing for any period of time without setting off intolerable pain again. My days of athletic activities, like the running and high jumping I loved, became a thing of the past.

A good nights sleep was also a thing of the past. I would get at most an hour of peaceful rest, before waking up from the pain and spending the rest of the night trying to find some way to being comfortable enough to get some degree of rest.

The Diagnosis:

Getting a diagnosis took years, but when I finally did get diagnosed it was Ankylosing Spondylitis. It turns out that the pain I experienced at night, and the stiffness in the morning, is typical for Ankylosing Spondylitis – it gets worse when you are still, so you typically wake up with a lot of pain and stiffness in the morning. Ankylosing Spondylitis is an auto-immune disease, an inflammatory type of arthritis similar to rheumatoid. The diagnosis came from an unlikely source. When I suffered my first bout of iritis – an inflammation of the iris, my eye doctor asked me if I had any joint pain. I was quite surprised at the question, and told him my history. It turns out that iritis often goes hand in hand with Ankylosing Spondylitis, and after some lab tests and x-rays the diagnosis was confirmed.

In addition to the severe and relentless back pain, pelvic pain and neck pain my digestive system became a complete mess, I also suffered with constant allergies and the eye inflammations (iritis) turned out not to be a one time occurrence, but happened again and again.

In my search for relief I tried many things, and they had only one thing in common. I experienced nearly no improvement, so I had just about given up hope and abandoned the quest. Among all the things I ran across, and all the things people recommended to me, nothing seemed to work on my pain. I was moving into a mental space of “I have to learn to live with this”, and I did not want to hear about the next “miracle cure” from anyone. As they say, it is always darkest before the dawn, and this was when I finally found the first thing that brought me substantial pain relief in a non-drug form.

Essential Oils

The pain relief came in the form of essential oils, and they were life changing for me. Back then, I equated essential oils with aroma therapy, and it seemed very woo-woo that aroma therapy could help with my pain. I had no idea about the power of essential oils when applied topically, but there was no arguing with my experience – the first night I used the oils I slept straight through the night, for the first night in years and years. I woke up the next morning feeling rested, and what was even more amazing, I was not stiff and stooped over when I first got out of bed.

I had found something I was truly passionate about, I had regained my joy of living, and I even started a little business centered around the oils, since I just could not stop talking about them anyway (this website actually got its name from essential oils, back when I first started it in the year 2000).

I was already self employed at the time, working as a professional cat sitter, so I was no stranger to self-employment. As I started working with selling the oils, I formed connections and networks with people in the field of health, and those connections led me to new discoveries. I found some amazing digestive enzymes, and they not only freed me from the digestive trouble that still plagued me, but also eventually relieved my allergies after long time use.

As time went on and I continued exploring the world of alternative health, I found more products that worked for me and that I felt passionate about, and when I found something I REALLY liked, I added them to my business . You can see an overview of them on the home page.

My favorite product? That is a hard question, as I truly love all the products that came together and improved my life so immensely. But I do most definitely have a favorite, and you will probably be surprised at what it is.

Water

The simple answer is water. But not just any water. The water I love is ionized, alkaline water.

But… not any ionized, alkaline water either.

The only water I endorse is Kangen Water®.

This water came into my life 10 years after my discovery of the oils, at a time when I felt I  had my health issues “under control”. I really did not need a “miracle cure” anymore, I was doing well. Nevertheless, as I was introduced to this water by a dear friend, it quickly became clear to me that Kangen Water® was truly the missing link, the missing piece of my health puzzle. The other products I have used will always be precious to me, but I have come to realize that the one single thing that lays a solid foundation for health is the alkaline ionized Kangen Water®, and I would never, ever do without it again.

In all the years of exploring health modalities, I never encountered anything so foundational: so simple yet so profound, so powerful yet so gentle, so life changing with so little effort. 

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Life cannot exist without water. We all know this is true, but can we assume that all water supports life in the same way?

Of course not. Contaminated water certainly does not support life, and most of the water on our planet is not fit for drinking. About 70 percent of our planet is covered with water, but 97% of it is undrinkable salt water. Of the 3 percent that remains, approximately 2 % is found in glaciers or is otherwise unavailable for us to use.

This leaves at most about 1 % of Earth’s water as drinkable water.

The quality of this 1 % that makes up our drinkable water also varies, and much of it non-potable due to pollution etc.

Kangen Water® is different.

What is it that makes it different? Kangen Water® has three important properties. It is alkaline, it is anti-oxidant, and it is “micro-clustered”. Regarding the 3rd property, Kangen Water is actually structured differently on a molecular level, which allows it to penetrate through our cell walls much more effectively. The cell wall, also called the plasma membrane, is a biological membrane that separates the interior or the cell from the outside environment. The main function of this cell membrane is to protect the cell from its surroundings. It has the ability to selectively allow substances to move in and out of the cells.

The structure of water

Most water we drink today has a molecular structure that allows only a limited percentage of the water through this cell wall. With Kangen Water®, we get “smaller water” to put it in very unscientific terms. This is also known as micro-clustering, and can be understood this way: Water molecules do not exist as single entities. They cluster together with other molecules, forming rather large clusters.

This is true for all the water we drink today, unless it comes from one of the rare places on earth where this type of water exists in nature. When the water goes through the Kangen® machine it is changed on the molecular level, meaning simply that there are fewer molecules in each cluster.

This results in not only allowing this water to penetrate the call wall and hydrating the body on a cellular level with greater efficiency, but it also allows that same water to carry nutrition into the cells and take waste with it on the way out more effectively.

Nutrients in — Toxins out

This is about as basic and foundational a principle as you can find for improving health. This one property of  Kangen Water® is in my opinion the most important – and yet it is only one of three life supporting properties that sets this water far apart from all others. Kangen Water® combines all these properties to provide the most solid foundation for health. Prevention is always the better choice, and by giving your body Kangen Water®, you provide the best kind of prevention. The cells in our body all need hydration, nutrition and effective detoxification, provide all 3 and you have taken the most important step in health prevention.

While drinking enough water – any kind of water – will help with all of the above, there is a reason that the “Japanese Association of Preventative Medicine for Adult Diseases”, a group of over 6,500 medical doctors endorses Enagic’s Kangen Water®.

Learn more

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Dr. Batmanghelidj

was born in 1931, of a wealthy Persian family. In 1979 he found himself a political prisoner in an Iranian prison, facing execution. His execution was stayed in order that he could serve as a resident doctor for the prisoners.

It was at this time that Dr. Batmanghelidj accidentally discovered that the peptic ulcer pain of a fellow prisoner was relieved after simply giving him two large glasses of water. This was the start of a life-long study of the importance of water for human health.

Dr. Batmanghelidj has published many books:

Dr. Batmanghelidj’s studies led him to the conclusion that most of the pain and other symptoms that we have come to know as disease, are the body’s warning signs of chronic, unintentional dehydration, especially a shortage of free water inside our cells.

For example, the inside of the cells of an average adult must remain at approximately 75% water, in order to function normally. The reality is that most people’s cells contain much less than this required amount.

Dr. Batmanghelidj made a distinction between what he called bound water and free water.

He defines the difference in this way: “The human body contains a lot of water, but the water that is contained in the body is mainly already osmotically engaged, in other words it is busy with an activity—a chemical reaction, a chemical undertaking.

That water is called “bound water.” Then the body needs, in order to perform new functions, osmotically free water, and that’s called “free water.”

Dr. Batmanghelidj taught that our bodies can be dehydrated, even though the body has a lot of water in it, due to the lack of this “free water”, and he advised that we constantly need to replace the water we lose with intake of fresh water, in order to provide the body with the free water it needs to perform a number of important functions. For example, be sure you drink prior to eating so that the body has sufficient free water to perform the task of digestion. If you are going to exercise, be sure to give the body enough water to replace the loss from sweating and exertion. Dehydration is not simply lack of water, it is lack of free water.  He likened a body suffering a shortage of “free water” to a business that has lots of assets, yet no cash flow to pay it’s employees. Such a business would soon be in serious trouble, and the same is true for a human body that does not have free water, which can be likened to the cash flow of the body.

There is no better way to provide your body with an abundance of this “free water” than to switch to drinking nothing but Kangen Water®.

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The Opposite Water – Very Strong Acid Water

The Kangen Water® Machine that creates the life supporting water, also creates an opposite water,  the one I call (tongue-in-cheek) anti-life water. This water is potently acidic and has a multitude of applications. I call it anti-life because of it’s ability to kill pathogens. This is not water that you drink,  instead you use it externally, for its ability to kill fungi and bacteria. Hospitals in Japan use this same type of water to treat anything from athletes foot to gangrene.

Skin Fungus

I have used strong acid water myself, to treat a skin fungus I was suffering with. Previously, the only thing that worked was prescription anti-fungals. Once I got my Kangen Water® Machine, I started treating topically with my “anti-life” strong acid water, and in no time the fungus was gone. The most amazing thing however, was that it never returned. Previously, using prescription creams, the fungus stayed gone a little while, only to return in a few months. After using the “anti-life” water, the fungus did not return. Personally, I attribute that to the fact that I was simultaneously supporting my body by drinking lots of my Kangen Water®.

Hoof Thrush

Additionally I have used the “anti-life water” strong acid water to treat thrush in horses, with amazing results. If you are not familiar with horses, thrush is a very common bacterial infection of the hooves of horses, especially tending to affect the region of the frog. Wet and muddy conditions, like we have here in Oregon, as well as unsanitary stall conditions can set up an environment that leads to thrush. A simple spray on application of my strong acid  water or “anti-life water” took care of the problem for me, resulting in happy, healthy horses.

Anti-life water helps plants

I also find uses for my strong acid in my life’s passion, which is a gardening. I especially like to grow edibles. Some of those plants are susceptible to fungal diseases. This is true for squash, Which tends to develop powdery mildew, and for garlic that is plagued by rust. A spraying of my special strong acid water on these plants has them back to good health in short order. It is important to start spraying as soon as you see signs of the disease – as the plant can otherwise get overwhelmed and loose leaves before you have a chance to treat it. If you waited too long, it is good to cut the squash leaves that have been affected leaving room for fresh new growth.

This year I soaked all my cloves of garlic in this strong acid water before putting them in the ground, and I am sure that will lead to healthier garlic plants next year.

Because this water is perfectly safe to use,  you can use it to clean your produce, making sure it is free of contaminants.

The truth is, strong acid water is not really anti-life. At least no more so than antibiotics are anti-life. By killing bacteria, fungus and other pathogens, I end up with healthy skin, healthy plants and healthy horses – so in the end even the “anti-life water” is actually “life-support water”.

Learn more about all the different waters produced by the Kangen Machine.

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