can drinking too much alkaline water be harmful

Sang Whang Sings the Benefits of Ionized Alkaline Drinking Water By LouAnn Savage There is a lot of misinformation either spoken or in print about the drinking of alkaline ionized water. This comes in spite of the extensive roads to education that have become available--from the Thursday evening 'Health & Wellness Teleseminar with Dr. Dave' to the many informative meetings taking place throughout North America and the world in any given week to the many books available to us all on the topic of electrolyzed structured water [ionized alkaline water]. One of the most recent questions put to me was, "Is it unhealthy or dangerous to drink alkaline water over 8.5 pH?" Sang Whang, engineer, scientist, inventor of many U.S. patents and author of Reverse Aging, discusses pH in relation to ionized water in easy to understand language. He explains pH of ionized water this way. The mineral content in tap water affects the pH of the ionized water. City supplied tap water on average has a pH of 7.7 to 8.4. The pH value range for alkaline water after ionization is 9.5 to 10.4 whereas well water's pH range is 7.3 to 7.9 and after ionization, alkaline water from this source is generally 8.9 to 9.5. Alkaline water made by an ionizer is most similar to true mountain spring water. He goes on to answer the question, "Could harm come by drinking too much alkaline water with a pH as high as 10?" His answer will surprise some and others not at all. Whang tells us, "No [there is no harm done]." He goes on to say that it takes 32 glasses of ionized alkaline water to simply neutralize the acidic effect of one glass of soda with a pH of 2.5 pH. This vital piece of information can shed more light on the Western lifestyle than any single bit of information. In America, because of diet and lifestyle habits, patterns and excesses, we systematically manufacturer acid in our internal terrain better than most other countries in the world. Another question that is raised from time to time is, "Is it possible for an ionizer to produce alkaline water without creating acid water?" The only possible way this could happen is if the original water was to be acid free in the beginning. This could be possible if the water came from a pristine mountain spring. Acid water, however, is one of the most underrated and overlooked by-products of ionization. It doesn't get appreciated until people use it and come to realize that it is an insurance policy against harmful bacteria that often sits on our meat and produce without our being aware. What we know as e.coli and salmonella are frequent marauders ready to invade our biological terrain at the least suspecting moment. When meat and produce are cleaned with this powerfully disinfecting water, worries about threatening and invasive bacteria can float out the door. Proof comes when you watch bugs on produce rise to the top of the bowl of acid water after cleaning. You'll know exactly what I mean and be glad for all of these new discoveries when you see them happen from your own experience. Sincerely, LouAnn Savage Editor-in-Chief Enjoy and use this article, but please be legal. Include this resource block and all is good...LouAnn Savage is publisher and editor of The Weekly Healthline, an online health publication. She is lecturer, researcher and marketer for health and fitness programs and product that advance the world toward true health. Follow LouAnn at her blog, http://www.KangenWaterBlog.com, on twitter.com/kangenwater and Facebook. LouAnn Savage

3 Characteristics of Ionized Water

My wife, Jeanne & I, were talking yesterday about the three features of alkaline water. It is difficult to pick just one out. Let's look at alkaline waters' three characteristics.

The first feature is the most commonly known, alkalinity. Most people even call ionic water alkaline water. In fact I called this blog "Alkaline Water Geek."

The reason alkalinity is so important is because most of us have a slightly acidic pH. Our general lifestyles make our bodies acidic. The food we eat and what we drink creates this toxic condition in our bodies.

I don't know where you are starting from, so let me back up. pH or "potential of hydrogen" is a scale from 0-14, 0 being most acidic and 14 being most alkaline. The range of pH of human blood is between 7.35-7.45, a pretty tight window. Our bodies will do almost anything to keep the blood at its proper pH. When we drink ionic water we move our bodies from the acidic range to a more alkaline state. That seems very important.

The second characteristic of ionic water is micro clustering. Normally, water comes to us is in a big bunch of molecules. This doesn't work very well in our bodies, so the water doesn't hydrate us very well. Most of us have the experience of drinking a lot of water and urinating shortly after that. What is the point? In water's natural state, it is micro clustered, that is instead of this big glob of molecules, it is in a smaller group of 6 molecules. The Japanese call it snowflake water. Any of you that have seen Dr. Emoto's photographs of water will know why they look like snowflakes. If you have not seen his book, The Hidden Messages in Water, google Emoto's water or pictures and you're in for a treat.

This micro clustering creates these little snowflakes that fit perfectly into our cells. All living things are programmed to use this snowflake water. When you put fresh flowers into micro clustered water they live a lot longer than putting them in regular water. When water freezes it returns to this micro clustered state. Unfortunately when it returns to its liquid state, it also returns to the way it was before it froze. What does this mean for us? When we drink micro clustered water our bodies can use the water the way God intended. We can hydrate our cells.

When we are first born we are a higher percentage of water than when we are older. Most of the water in our bodies as infants is in our cells. As we age, most of the water in our bodies is outside our cells where it has little value to our health & well being. When we drink micro clustered water we are re-hydrating our cells. This brings water, nutrients and oxygen back into the cells. This also removes built up toxins and waste products from the cells. Wow, that sounds pretty important.

The third characteristic of ionized water is that it is rich in antioxidants. As the water passes through the ionic water machine, the water is negatively charged. That means it has electrons that are negatively charged. When we drink the ionized water these negative electrons seek out free radicals and neutralize them. Free radicals cause a lot of damage in the body and antioxidants are very important in keeping the damage to a minimum.

So, what is the most important aspect of ionized water? I still don't know, they all sound important.

Learning about Ionic Water

The purpose of this blog is to learn about water. It will cover whole house purifiers & the best drinking water, which is Alkaline, Micro Clustered, Antioxidant rich water. The way to make this drinking water is to use a Water Ionizer. This is a water machine that either sits on the counter & attaches to the faucet or is installed under the sink & has its own faucet. There are several companies that have water ionizers made for them. If you have been drinking this ionized water for some time we would like to hear your experience