If you do a Google search about the benefits of ionized water, several articles will pop up touting the benefits of alkaline water. It cures cancer, lowers blood pressure, fixes all your health problems, and other nonsense. Some Articles will interchange alkaline water with alkaline ionized water and make more misleading claims. The truth is that alkaline water and ionized water are not the same. Ionized water is alkaline. However, alkaline water isn’t always ionized, and only alkaline ionized water has been proven to have significant health benefits.
The pH scale measures from one to 14. Anything below seven is acidic, seven is neutral, and anything above seven is considered alkaline.
Water’s pH can vary drastically. For example, reverse osmosis water, which strips all of the minerals out of it, is acidic at about 5.5 pH, as is distilled water. Since most water bottling companies use reverse osmosis or distillation, most bottled water is also acidic.
Most of the US has tap water that’s about neutral. In some places, like the south, the extra minerals can make the water slightly alkaline. There are some spots in Florida where the tap water is at about nine pH.
The alkaline minerals in tap water, usually calcium and magnesium, make the water alkaline. Yes, drinking water with magnesium and calcium in it is healthier than drinking water that has no trace minerals at all. However, drinking alkaline mineral water will not provide drastic health improvements.
Conversely, drinking water that’s acidic can’t have negative health impacts. The problem with acidic water is that it is empty and takes on the properties of what it comes in contact with. So, drinking reverse osmosis or distilled water can leach minerals from your bones, absorb nutrients from your food, and mess up your body’s pH balance.
Another way to make water alkaline is to add baking soda. Again, this will not provide significant health benefits and doesn’t taste very good either.
The bottom line is drinking alkaline water is better than drinking acidic water. But alkaline water alone is not the elixir of life.
Alkaline ionized water is very different. This water is full of natural antioxidants in the form of ions. This is a potent and natural antioxidant for our body that helps our body detoxify.
The alkalinity of this water is created through water electrolysis, which the sun does naturally. That’s why water bubbling along a glacial stream or bubbling up from pristine Springs is ionized alkaline water.
Another way to create alkaline ionized water is to use a water ionizer. Water electrolysis is created through platinum titanium plates that run positive and negative electrical currents, replicating the sun’s natural process.
The alkalinity in alkaline ionized water is created by a change in the water’s chemical structure. The water molecules are closer together, so the water is wetter and more hydrating to your body. The chemical structure is alkaline. So, instead of using baking soda or minerals to achieve alkalinity, the water is fundamentally changed at a molecular level.
There is so much misinformation on the Internet. Don’t believe you can get the benefits of alkaline ionized water by simply drinking alkaline water. You need to drink water straight from a natural source or use a water ionizer to have antioxidants in your water.
