Using Kangen Water.

• How much: 1/2 your body weight in ounces of water.  You would drink anywhere from 30 to 50% more than this depending on health considerations you may be trying to improve.   
• 8.5 at first: Drink 8.5 water for the first 2 or 3 days, and 9.5 thereafter.  This is to make sure you don’t detoxify too quickly.  
• Detoxing: Releasing a lot of toxins from your cells into your blood stream can make you feel very sick.  If you have this kind of reaction to the water, keep going.  But take a few capsules of grape seed extract with your water.  This will buffer your body completely from the detoxification process. 
• Late night energy: If you're finding you have too much energy at night, you may want to drink 7.0 or 8.5 water as you head past 3:00 or 4:00PM. .  
• Do NOT take medication with Kangen.  Kangen is micro clustered and tends to deliver any substance it's coupled with deeper into your system.  So, with medication- NO.  Herbs, vitamins, special health juices etc.- YES!
• When Not good when eating: Do not drink Kangen (or anything else) when you eat (but especially Kangen).  The alkaline disrupts the first phase of your digestion process (which is acid based).  You want to stop drinking at least 20 minutes before eating.  You don't want to start drinking again until 20 to 45 minutes after eating, depending on the size and substance of your meal (the point being that drinking water, or any liquid is much better for you on as near of any empty stomach as you can get).   This strengthens the 2nd part of your digestion process, which is alkaline based.  Part one is acid.  Part 2 is alkaline.
  
  NOTE: If you find yourself wanting to drink with your meals it's a good indication that your meal is not that healthy.   Vegetables and salad will not make you thirsty.  Chips, salty meat, processed food and too much breads will.
  
  NOTE: It's also important to not drink your water all at once.  6 to 8 servings through out the day, is much better than 1 to 3.  This is because too much water at once dilutes your electrolytes to a dangerous level.  (Read more).
   
• Most during day: Drink most of your water at least a few hours before going to bed (so that you are not up going to the bathroom all night).
• It's just Part of your jump start: Kangen water is the easiest and most effective way to jump start your health.  Please note that it is just part of your health program.  For significant improvement in your health please consider:
  - walking 1 to 3 miles a day.
  - very little if not zero sugar
  - very little meat (and zero red meat.  Fish is good though, especially Salmon).
  - Zero soda, especially diet and/or caffeine soda (except maybe on very special occasions, where you need to just let it go for a night).
  - Lots of fruits, vegetables and whole grain bread (You remember the old saying, “the whiter the bread, the sooner you’re dead.”)
  - Most of all, lots of service, gratitude, prayer, inspirational music, hard work, hugs and fun—all of which are known to increase your faith and reduce your stress (Stress does more to create acidosis and open you up to degenerative diseases than anything else. No amount of good water, exercise or healthy food can reverse the result of too much stress.)
  
  Please come back every 2 to 3 days for as much as you want.  The ORP starts dropping after 2 days and isn't that good after 3.  The alkaline stays steady however.
  
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  With so many Ionizers, why "Enagic" 
  ("Enagic" is the name of the company that creates the machine puts out what the company calls "Kangen" water)

Enagic's "LeveLuk SD501, producing the hardest hitting ionized water in  the the world (what it's manufacturer, "Enagic", calls "Kangen" water, meaning,  "return to origin")

Enagic's engineering is amazing.  I've studied this question from every angle, on almost every ionizer's and reviewer's site (including a 3 hour one on one conversation and training with a physicist).  Everything adds up to one thing:  If you're going to make the big step to ionized water, the Enagic machines (in any of their price ranges and machines) are the Mercedes of the ionizer industry.  Regardless of what you read to the contrary, if you'll keep researching this issue you'll find that it's worth paying more for the Kangen machine.  (Much more on this for the asking.  But get ready for some facts and figures that are going to take a while to get through.   Click here for more information or write me at: john@johncanaan.com. )

Enagic’s electrolyzed water generators produce the following five types of water right in your home.

• Purified water: Water Only passes through the filter without electrolysis.
  Use it when taking medicines and vitamins.
  
• Kangen water: This is water generated at the negative electrode. It has been recognized by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for "the relief of chronic diarrhea, indigestion, hyperacidity, antacids and abnormal gastric fermentation".  Comes out at 8.5, 9.0 or 9.5.
  
• Weak acidic water: This water, in the pH range 4.0-6.0, and is  recognized as an astringent for cosmetic purposes. Use this for facial washing, bathing and showers. There is no need to rinse it off.
  
• Strong Kangen water (11.5): This is strong alkaline water with pH of 11.0 or higher.  This Kangen water has solvent and swelling properties, reducing the necessary volumes of soap, laundry detergent and dish detergent.  Also, perfect for washing fruits and vegetables in.  Takes all the toxins and pesticides out.   You'll love the effect of this.  Fruits and vegetables taste so much better after being washed or soaked in 11.5 water.  Washing fruits and vegetables with tap water actually puts chlorine and other impurities in to the fruits and vegetables.
  
• Strong acidic water: Strong acidic water, with pH of 2.7 or below, is “sanitary water”, with strong disinfectant ability due to hypochlorous acid.  

  Enagic's electrolyzed water generators are the only such product to have been awarded a certification mark for quality and safety from the Japanese Association of Preventive Medicine for Adult Disease. This recommendation system is famous for its extraordinarily rigorous inspections, and the mark is awarded to one product from one company in each industry that passes the third inspection.
  
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Comparison with other ionizers

This section is the result of weeks of research.  You can do your own.  But please bear in mind there is a lot of smoke and mirrors representation in comparisons.  Getting to the bottom of things and to the real issues can be tricky.  After all my research though, and anyone else I've talked to who's done the same thing (before buying their machine), it's hard to compare anything to Enagic.  

Also note the only way to effectively get the word out on such a revolutionary concept (and quality device) was through direct sales (network marketing).  So yes, if it was sitting in Wall Mart, the SD501 would be less expensive.  But no one would buy it!  This is the kind of product that takes a while to understand.  Many people try the water for months before buying a machine.  You couldn't do that if it was in Wall Mart.

1) Power  The SD 501 creates 230 watts of electricity which is essential in creating a complete electrolysis and ionization. Other water ionizers run at about 80 watts. This creates a risk of acid and alkaline water mixing together instead of a true separation.   

Other ionizers, claiming to use more sophisticated variable power do so because putting the pedal to the metal (electrically) will fry mesh plates.   Enagic's superior solid takes can have the juice all the way up and consequently can deliver the goods! (More on this below)

2) Big, Solid Plates  Enagic's SD 501 system has 7 large Titanium plates with specially coated Platinum plates. With a proven technology that runs continuously without overheating or stalling.  The total exposure of the water with the 7 plates is approx 450 % greater than other brands. Many other brands use "mesh" plates. Mesh technology is less durable. Moreover, as they expand and contract with heat and cold exposure, the mesh engineering tends to break down, causing the Titanium to be exposed.  

It is important to note that mesh plates are much less expensive to manufacture and bear the liability of break down- even the risk of disseminating metal into your water (which is very dangerous, but hard to discern).

Ironically, to defend the use of these plates the companies that use them declare that they are " advanced" (I suppose because they were developed after the much more powerful solid plates that Enagic uses).  And it's not that the philosophy of the meshed plates doesn't make sense (i.e. more surface area), it's just that in the real world, it hasn't panned out as planned. They simply don't work as well and present a health concern as well!

3) Real world ORP   No matter what you see on You Tube videos (many of which are biased and rigged), the Enagic SD501 by far delivers the most consistent and lowest ORP rating known in the industry.  Dr. Cliff Dunston (my personal doctor) has conducted the tests himself with his own ORP meter! Time after time, up against Tyent's, Jupiter's or you name it, Enagic's ORP is averaging around -400mv, compared to -150mv (real life, real world comparison) of other ionizers.

4) Speed of flow   To get a better ORP from an inferior machine you can slow the water flow.  And many ionizers do just that- slowing the flow with electronic governors.  This only demonstrates the inferior capability of the basic ionization capacity of their machine.

5) Daily, monthly maintenance   The SD 501 is the only unit on the market that has a cleaning cartridge for periodic deep cleaning using a simple yet powerful technology incorporated in the design of the system.  This assists in keeping the system clean and free from scaling that will occur with any water system.  The SD 501also has an automated cleaning system that is voice activated and kicks in with every 15 minutes of use.  This is a highly advanced unit!

6) Long term maintenance   The SD 501 is bolted vs. hard cased.  It is the only system on the market with a technology that allows the unit periodically over the years to be stripped down and cleaned for a nominal fee (including the cleaning of the 7 plates that over time will accumulate scaling).  The entire water cell can actually be dismantled and cleaned by Enagic technicians.  Other competing units do not have this life expanding technology. 

When they are not efficiently producing the correct water because of scaling the water cell must be discarded and replaced at a price that could be prohibitive.  It is because of this technology that the Enagic system will last for 15 years or more and carries a 5 year warranty.

7) 2.5 / 11.5   Enagic's amazing and sophisticated use of a saline injector to create the 2.5 and 11.5 water is worth the entire price of their machine!  As you'll see in the videos above, 2.5 as a disinfectant has been known in many instances, to prevent amputation! And the first time you wash your vegetables in 11.5, (and see what comes out of them) you'll run over and kiss your Enagic machine (and perhaps even stroke the 2.5 "strong acid" button). 

[Note: Bear in mind that all bacteria, viruses and molds can live only 30 seconds in 2.9 or less, environment. It must be this strong. And there isn't a machine on the market that can get under 3.0 (other than Enagic's) without some jerry rigging (which many will do, but is not recommended by the manufacture and will nullify the warranty)].  

8) Heavy Hitting Endorsements   The Japanese Association of Preventative Medicine for Adult Disease (a group of over 6500 doctors famous for their extraordinarily rigorous inspections) has endorsed only one ionizer- Enagic's.  There's a reason for this (covered above). Similarly, Canadian "Health Canada" (Canada's Health Care) after intensive research determined that they would assist customers in acquiring a water ionizer. But the only assistance they will give is for Enagic's. Again, there's a reason for this. Well, the first one is a no brainer; If Canadians get healthy, the health department saves money. But this is something that the Canadian government will bet on, only if it's Enagic.
 

Dr. Peggy Parker's comparison studies. Dr. Peggy Parker is a Naturopathic Physician who also received a post doctoral degree in Biological Medicine from the PBMN in Lustmühle, Switzerland.   Every year,  Dr. Parker does a comprehensive comparison of ionizers and every year she comes to the same conclusion:  Test after test shows Enagic's approach to the electrolysis process (Kangen Water) to be superior in it's engineering, parts, reliability and ability to put out an extremely high quality high ORP, high Alkaline water.  Dr. Parker maintains that Enagic's ionizers hold their  O.R.P. longer and stronger than any other machine

Comparison Power Point Presentation - Jupiter vs. Enagic 
This is a very fact-packed, well put together presentation on Enagic's machine vs. another leading ionizer.
If you're a "kick the tire" person like me, you'll love this, (even though it is a little cheesy).  I would have, for instance, NOT used the picture of the used car salesman.  In any case, you'll love this:

www.thewatertruth.com/cgi-bin/d.cgi/1000/home.html There are 4 videos here. Each time you finish one, (and you see the "login" sign) you need to close the window and go back to the page that shows the 4 tabs to each of the 4 videos.  

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Why Kangen is better for you than distilled water.

Fasting, especially, using distilled water can be dangerous because of the rapid loss of electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and trace minerals like magnesium, deficiencies of which can cause heart beat irregularities and high blood pressure.  Cooking foods in distilled water pulls the minerals out of them and lowers their nutrient value.  Distilled water is an active absorber and when it comes into contact with air, it absorbs carbon dioxide, making it acidic.   The more distilled water a person drinks, the higher the body acidity becomes.  According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Distilled water, being essentially mineral-free, is very aggressive, in that it tends to dissolve substances with which it is in contact.   Notably, carbon dioxide from the air is rapidly absorbed, making the water acidic and even more aggressive.   Many metals are dissolved by distilled water.”

More on the science of Electrolyzed Water

What in the heck is a negative ion?  (and where it is found naturally)

The negative hydrogen ion bears an extra electron (thus giving it a negative charge).  Until recent years, It was thought to be extremely short-lived on the surface of the earth at standard pressures and temperatures (STP), and rather, it was considered to primarily exist, at least for any lifetime beyond a few nanoseconds, in plasmas in the laboratory and in the interior of stars (including our sun.)  

In its antioxidant role, negative ions function as the powerful and primary antioxidant found in all raw, unprocessed foods (plant and animal) and in many "wild" unprocessed, untreated water sources in the biosphere (the area around the surface of the planet where life exists.)  Some sources of water which contain the H-minus ion are glacial runoff water, high altitude lakes, wells and springs and some deep wells where the aquifer has been stable over millennia. 

It appears that this tiny and lightweight ion was the original antioxidant for all life forms on earth, and is likely the single most optimal antioxidant for life forms even today.  

Alkaline (Antioxidant). Micro-clustered (or restructured) Water
The research in the scientific literature and in dozens of labs around the world has shown that micro-clustered ("structured") water often does exhibit markedly strong health-enhancing benefits, among which, the most primary effect is an antioxidant effect.  

The negative hydrogen ions found in ionized water are very short-lived in nature.   However, in ionization these ions are actually protected by a cage (or cluster) of water molecules.  The scientific research shows that it is the presence of this H-minus ion which gives alkaline ionized water its powerful antioxidant effect.  

Due to the presence of the H-minus ion, the water also exhibits a reduced cluster size and reduced surface tension.  These two latter properties (reduced cluster size and reduced surface tension), which are also created by the presence of the H-minus ion, also have beneficial effect upon the health of humans and animals.

In summary, the beneficial health effects of ionized water  are due to the presence of a simple antioxidant called the negative hydrogen ion, which has been called the original primordial antioxidant- present for use by life on earth when it first evolved.  


Acid Water - Some technical explanations 
Whenever articles have appeared in the peer-reviewed scientific literature about "acid ionized water", the water has, more appropriately been referred to as "electrolyzed oxidized water", or EAW.  The word "oxidized" comes from the fact that the water has been chemically "oxidized" by electrolysis.  The research in the scientific literature and in dozens of labs around the world has shown that EAW exhibits markedly strong antiseptic and anti-microbial effects, with no damage to skin.  These effects are due to the presence of powerful oxidizing agents, collectively known as peroxides and superoxide ions, as well as a variety of other highly reactive forms of oxygen ions.   The research shows that it is the presence of these oxidizing ions which gives so-called "acid ionized water" its it's ability to kill microbes. 

Electrolysis (or, ionization) graphic
When you reduce active oxygen from the water you increase its power to slow down the oxidation process by eliminating Free Radicals safely from your body.

Active oxygen, however, is not healthy for the body and is what you feel if you have ever exercised too hard and feel your lungs burn.

This is the type of oxygen reduced and removed from the water in electrolysis (or, ionization).  

Dissolved Oxygen is the kind that what you want left in the water to create a healthy and strong body.

Examples of research on Ionized Water

The information below is sourced from various peer reviewed literature as well as various Internet sites. This information is for educational purposes only and is not meant to cure or treat any disease or illness. Consult your doctor for specialized medical advice.  

Please note that most research on ionized water is done in Japan and other countries outside of the USA.  The reason for this is that most American research focuses on treatment for conditions rather than prevention.  And that certainly has it's place.  But American doctors are fairly far behind a lot f other countries in terms of alternative and holistic health processes and products.  I think the philosophy is "if it's not broken, don't fix it."   Thousands of traditional doctors have scores of satisfied customers.   Many are are becoming well versed in both traditional and holistic medicine.  But it will take a lot more in order to convince researchers to start looking a little wider.



Cancer

By the Department of Parasitology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry, Wonju College of Medicine , Yonsei University Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science and Institute of Health Science, College of Health Science, Yonsei University 

Certain minerals can produce alkaline water with high pH and low oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) when dissolved in water.   Alkaline reduced water showed significant anticancer effect.   When B16 melanoma cells were inoculated subcutaneous and intra-peritoneally, C56BL/6 mice fed with alkaline water showed tumor growth delay and the survival span was significantly lengthened.   Alkaline water also showed the inhibition of metastasis  by reducing the numbers of B16 melanoma colonies when injected through tail vein.  The amount of reactive oxygen species  (ROS) was very reduced when fed with alkaline water except for spleen, which is a major organ for immunity.   Even for normal mice, alkaline water intake invoked systemic cytokines, such as, Th1 (IFN- g, IL-12) and Th2 (IL-4, IL-5), suggesting strong immuno-modulation effect. Both ROS scavenging effect and immuno-modulation effect might be responsible for anticancer effect of alkaline reduced water. Continue reading the full study

Preservative Effect of Electrolyzed Reduced Water on Pancreatic β-Cell Mass in Diabetic db/db Mice

Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin 2007 Feb;30(2):234-6

Mi-Ja Kim1,2, Kyung Hee Jung,3 Yoon Kyung Uhm,3 Kang-Hyun Leem,4 and Hye Kyung Kim,5

1) Department of Obesity Management, Graduate School of Obesity Science, Dongduk Women's University
2) Imagine Obesity Institute, 117 Purynsol Mun Wa Gyun, Kyung Hee University
3) Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University
4) College of Korean Medicine, Semyung University
5) Department of Food and Biotechnology, Hanseo University

Oxidative stress is produced under diabetic conditions and involved in progression of pancreatic β-cell dysfunction. Both an increase in reactive oxygen free radical species (ROS) and a decrease in the antioxidant defense mechanism lead to the increase in oxidative stress in diabetes. Electrolyzed reduced water (ERW) with ROS scavenging ability may have a potential effect on diabetic animals, a model for high oxidative stress. Therefore, the present study examined the possible anti-diabetic effect of ERW in genetically diabetic mouse strain C57BL/6J-db/db (db/db). ERW with ROS scavenging ability reduced the blood glucose concentration, increased blood insulin level, improved glucose tolerance and preserved β-cell mass in db/db mice. The present data suggest that ERW may protects β-cell damage and would be useful for antidiabetic agent.


Prof. Kuwata Keijiroo, Doctor of Medicine

"When I was serving in the Fire Insurance Association, I used to examine many diabetic patients. Besides treating them with drugs, I provided them with antioxidant water. After drinking antioxidant water for one month, 15 diabetic patients were selected and sent to Tokyo University for further test and observations.

Initially, the more serious patients were a bit apprehensive about the treatment. When the antioxidant water was consumed for some time, the sugar in the blood and urine ranged from a ratio of 300 mg/l to 2 mg / dc. There was a time where the patient had undergone 5 to 6 blood tests a day and detected to be within normal range. Results also showed that even 1 ½ hour after meals, the blood sugar and urine ratio was 100 mg/dc: 0 mg/dc . The sugar in the urine has completely disappeared."

NOTE:
More Americans than ever before are suffering from diabetes, with the number of new cases averaging almost 800,000 each year. The disease has steadily increased in the United States since 1980, and in 1998, 16 million Americans were diagnosed with diabetes (10.3 million diagnosed; 5.4 million undiagnosed). Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, and more than 193,000 died from the disease and its related complication in 1996. The greatest increase - 76 percent - occurred in people age 30 to 30. ….
From: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, October 13, 2000 Fact Sheet.\



Allergies

"Mr. Yamada, the head of Police Research Institute, suffered from severe allergy. He was treated repeatedly by skin specialist, but with no success. Then he started consuming antioxidant water. The allergy responded very well and was soon completely cured. No relapse had occurred, although he had taken all kinds of food. He was most grateful and excited about this treatment.

As for myself, I had also suffered severe allergy. Ever since I began to consume antioxidant water, the allergy has recovered. Since then, I started a research on the effectiveness of antioxidant water.

I discovered that most allergies are due to acidification of body condition and is also related to consuming too much meat and sugar. In every allergy case, the patient's antioxidant minerals are excessively low which in turn lower the body resistance significantly. The body becomes overly sensitive and develops allergy easily. To stabilize the sensitivity, calcium solution in injected into the vein. Therefore, it is clear that the antioxidant water has ionic calcium, which can help alleviate allergy.

The ionic calcium not only enhances the heart, urination, and neutralization of toxins but controls acidity. It also enhances the digestive system and liver function. This will promote natural healing power and hence increase its resistance to allergy. In some special cases of illness, which do not respond to drugs, it is found, it is found to respond well to antioxidant water."



Digestive Problems

Prof. Kogure Keizou, Kogure Clinic of Juntendo Hospital

"The stomach is readily upset both by diseases affecting the stomach and by other general illnesses. In addition, any nervous tension or anxiety frequently causes gastric upset, vague symptoms when This information is under some strain.

The important role of antioxidant water in our stomach is to neutralize the secretion and strengthen it s functions. Usually, after consuming the antioxidant water for 1 to 3 minutes, the gastric juice increase to 1½ times. For those suffering from hypochlorhydria or achlorhydria ( low in gastric juice ) the presence of antioxidant water will stimulate the stomach cells to secrete more gastric juice. This in turn enhances digestion and absorption of minerals.

However, on the other hand, those with hyperchlorhydria ( high in gastric juice ), the antioxidant water neutralizes the excessive gastric juice. Hence, it does not create any adverse reaction.

According to the medical lecturer from Maeba University, the pH of the gastric secretion will still remain normal when antioxidant water is consumed. This proves that the ability of the antioxidant water is able to neutralize as well as to stimulate the secretion."



Electrolyzed-reduced water protects DNA from oxidative damage.

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 
1997 May 8;234(1):269-74.

Shirahata S, Kabayama S, Nakano M, Miura T, Kusumoto K, Gotoh M, Hayashi H, Otsubo K, Morisawa S, Katakura Y.

Institute of Cellular Regulation Technology, Graduate School of Genetic Resources Technology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. sirahata@grt.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Reduced (akaline) water suppresses single-strand breakage of DNA b active oxygen species produced by the Cu(II)-catalyzed oxidation of ascorbic acid in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting that reduced (alkaline) water can scavenge not only O2.- and H2O2, but also 1O2 and .OH.

PMID: 9169001 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE

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