alternative and holistic

Sorry to disappoint all of you who are pumped about about the acid/alkaline theory. The author of this book makes it seem as if we will all become champions by drinking water with a high pH. This just isn't true, for several reasons.

The authors research is based on nothing. It's based on his opinion, which is foolish. He throws in a whole bunch of scientific jargon, as if its going to win us all over. The fact is, drinking water with a high pH can be detrimental to your health, not positive. Putting those drops in your water "clusters" the water, making the molecules smaller, thereby hydrating the body more than regular water. This is bad because it tricks the body into overhydrating, and can wreak havoc in your stomach. Dr. David Wheeler points this out on his site thoroughly.

Again, don't want to disappoint the fans of this theory, but there's a lot more to it than drinking alkaline water to become healthy. Half the people who drink this water will become too alkaline, and could do some serious damage, like not producing stomach acid anymore. It's happened to thousands.

I urge you all to do natural things. Not use medication, like Alkaline water. It IS indeed medicine. The body WILL try to reject it.

OK, there are some great explanations on how the body creates acid waste from poor food choices. BUT that's it. Poor food choices do create more acid waste but it has nothing to do with the pH of the food. If this were true than eating lots of eggs and meat would alkalize the body because they have an alkaline pH just like Whang's water. The fact is: eating too much eggs and meat CAN lead to more acid waste in the tissues.

Consuming alkaline ionized water, with loads of calcium, will eventually end up in your arteries causing only problems when you get older. If anyone wants to learn about the criteria for healthy drinking water they should be buying all the books on Victor Schauberger, the greatest water researcher that ever lived! If you don't know Victor Schauberger, you don't know a thing about water! Interesting enough he advocated drinking just the opposite, water that was slightly acidic using very small amounts of carbonic acid. He proved he could alkalize tissue faster than anything else known to man by drinking water that was slightly acidic.

This also makes perfect sense in terms of homeopathy. If like cures like, as proven in homeopathy over 200 years ago, then drinking water that is slightly acidic (NOT alkaline!) would in turn eliminate excess acidic waste in the tissues. What about all those testimonials you say? It is a fact that placebo can makeup 40% of claims. But the obvious truth is: all of these users were drinking "MORE" water which that in itself gives great benefits, as proven in "Your Bodies Many Cries for Water" by Batmanghelidj.

All those people drinking alkaline water should do their home work instead of blindly jumping on some band wagon with a fool promoting his products.

Forward-thinking health theorists stress the need for our bodies to be less acidic. Civilization and laziness have led most of us to detrimental eating habits, one result being acidic bodies. If you want to test your acidity all you need is ph testing paper from the health food store. Test your urine. Then try to get more alkaline. It isn't easy.

Dr Whang safely assumes that most of us will not easily change our behavior. His recommendation is to use ionized water which is indeed very effective at impacting acid conditions. He has several other interesting theories as well.

I have been using ionized water for two months and see many internal improvements that reach beyond an increasingly better acid balance. Some of the true believers in ionized water consider the alkalinity to be only one potential benefit of the water. Do some web searching for further information.

If you read all of the reviews of this book you will find some that are cautionary. The reasoning and backup for these opinions is somewhat thin, but this is true of information in general on ionized water. I have read much of what I can on this matter and suggest that you do the same. For myself I believe the material in the book to be very valuable. For the immediate future I will use ionized water as a health supplement. Based on what I have seen and read I hope that it will be an ongoing aid in the effort to find balanced health...

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