During the 14 years that we’ve been in business there have been a lot of myths that have been debunked about ionized water. One that persists, however, is that you need to take special precautions when drinking it. For example, Kangen reps still teach their customers to wait a half an hour before and after eating to drink ionized water. You don’t need to do this!
You can drink ionized water whenever you are thirsty. It is a more natural water than your tap water or bottled water and certainly better than any sugary or acidic beverage. During mealtime, ionized water aids with digestion and helps your body to absorb nutrients. So it’s ideal to drink whenever you are eating.
We think this myth perpetuated by Kangen reps stems from a misunderstanding about how the stomach works. People assume that because the stomach is able to digest food with acid, it must be a pouch of acid inside your body. This is not true.
Your stomach only produces the enzymes and acids that it needs to break down the food that you are eating. If you are eating an alkaline food or beverage, your stomach is not going to produce acid to break it down. Instead your body has a system to distribute the alkaline qualities into your blood and other parts of your body where it is needed.
This system for distributing the alkaline properties of the food and beverages that you eat does not interfere with the digestion of other food. Alkaline foods and beverages won’t neutralize your stomach acid and cause your body to not be able to break down food.
If alkaline foods and beverages did neutralize stomach acid, you would not be able to drink milk. You would not be able to consume alkaline minerals like potassium and calcium. You would not be able to eat most fruit and vegetables. Ionized water is not the only substance on Earth that is alkaline in full of antioxidants!
If you think of digestion this way, then it seems very strange to treat ionized water as if it’s something foreign or different in your diet. Your body is already designed to utilize alkaline and antioxidant-rich foods. So then why wouldn’t it be able to also utilize ionized and alkaline water?
Also consider that alkaline ionized water exists naturally in many places in the Earth. There are longevity springs and glacial streams that run through China where people have been drinking naturally alkaline ionized water for thousands of years. It just so happens that those people have a very low rate of adult onset disease and live longer lives compared to people who don’t drink that type of water!
The bottom line is you can drink alkaline ionized water whenever you are thirsty. The golden rule is to drink at least 8 ounces every hour. Many people don’t recognize the signs of being thirsty. They wait until their mouth is dry or they are feeling tired. Those signs indicate dehydration and it means it’s been way too long since you have had water. So make it a habit to drink at least 8 ounces every hour. And be sure to drink alkaline ionized water when you’re eating!
