worked at Johns Hopkins Universit, he was a nobel peace pri!e winner "or discovering the #a$uaporin%. It is the channel in a cell wall where hdration o" a cell takes place. He used to take the time to uncover scam waters. &t the time I discovered his site I saw a list o" do!ens o" so called #health waters% "or which a brand o" water the drink coming "rom blue label and red label waters are sold. It might be In'nit (ater or some name like that. ¬her water is )icheals ) water. *his scientist "riend o" mine debunked both waters and showed wh. I remember sending ou the stud with the U+,s "or proo". Here is a lesson in (ater. -ou read so much about o.gen waters sold in the market. *heir claims to "ame is that the have done something magic to water so that it has more o.gen or has smaller clusters o" molecules so it can be absorbed better in the blood stream. *ruth /.genated water 0or spun, stirred, agitated, or what ever the do to build up /1 in the water i" it were even true2 would not last long. /.gen in water dissipates over time. *hat bottled water becomes tap water in a "ew das. So called methods o" spinning vorte.es or other methods to break down the so called clusters o" molecules o" water so it is absorbed into the cells easier is also not true. In truth molecules o" water pass into the cell walls through the a$uaporin3s single 'le b the millions to hdrate a cell. 4ot in clusters small or large like some "olks tr to make ou believe. (hat trul brings o.gen into our blood is e.change in our lungs through our ver breath o" li"e. (hat determines the level o" o.gen in our blood and tissues are the 5h "actor o" our tissue. &round 6.7 is normal. 8elow that is acid and home to disease, cancer and destruction o" cells in our bod. *ap water comes to us generall right at around 6.7, however we as &mericans enjo the S.&.D. Diet, or Standard &merican Diet o" acid "oods. 9.ample is a soda pop, which is around 1.: 5h on the scale, causes us to go highl acid, ver ver bad. 9ven i" ou introduce water higher than 6.7 our bod struggles to return to 6.7 or above. -ou can improve the 5h o" our bod b drinking ioni!ed water "resh "rom the process. I sa "resh because just like o.genated water ioni!ed water looses its 5h over time as well. So I recommend not bottled water people can bu, but a rich e.perience at an 9duen Center where the get it "resh "rom the source. *hen when the can3t be at 9duen, then the should bu a water Ioni!er sstem that 9duen markets and either coprights its own invention or gets to brand a generic model that we know creates $ualit water. /ur water centers can manu"acture herbals ;avors such as 5ina Colada, /range, ,ime, Cherr, etc. &s an additive to ;avor naturall the water so it3s no calories and ver good "or ou. << Ioni!ed (ater is bene'cial "or more reasons than just its alkalinit, "rom the process o" alkalini!ing the water super antio.idants are created that are usuall not abundant in tap water the higher 5h water used on outside o" bod and lower 5h water used on outside o" bod In summar, it appears that an bene'cial health e=ects o" alkaline ioni!ed water, or more properl, 9+(, are due not just to its alkalinit or alkaline mineral 0calcium, magnesium2 content, but also due to the presence o" a simple, primal, primitive and primeval antio.idant called the negative hdrogen ion, which has been called the original primordial antio.idant which was present "or use b li"e on earth when it 'rst evolved. *here ma be some secondar bene'cial bio<e=ects due to the reduced cluster si!e o" the water and its reduced sur"ace tension. *o learn more about the H<minus ion and its bioe=ects, please re"er to other pages on this website. ,astl, it is important to understand that the alkalinit o" 9+(, even when in the pH >> to pH >1 range, is what is known as ?weakl bu=ered?, and thus will usuall not damage tissue, as it is almost immediatel neutrali!ed b other substances. However, "or this same reason, this alkalinit is not enough strong or well<bu=ered enough to signi'cantl shi"t the acid<alkaline balance o" the bod. Close-up: Acid Ionized Water, or Electrolyzed Oxidized Water )an vendors o" commercial and household water ioni!ers call the water "rom the o.idi!ing, or positive pole, side o" the ioni!ers ?acid water? or ?acid ioni!ed water?. However, this name is somewhat misleading, since it could impl that the antimicrobial and antiseptic e=ects o" the water are due to its acidit. Indeed, man vendors and manu"acturers o" water ioni!ers who claim bene'cial e=ects upon human and animal skin health and upon plants "rom the ?acid water? do attribute the bene'cial e=ects rather vaguel to the ?acidit? o" the water. (henever articles have appeared in the peer<reviewed scienti'c literature about so<called ?acid ioni!ed water?, the water has, more appropriatel, usuall been re"erred to as ?electrol!ed o.idi!ed water?, or 9&(, and more rarel, sometimes as ?electrol!ed acidic water?, or 9&(. *he word ?o.idi!ed? comes "rom the "act that the water has been chemicall ?o.idi!ed? b electrolsis, where o.idation 0as in rust2 is a chemical process which is the opposite o" reduction. *he research in the scienti'c literature and in do!ens o" labs around the world has shown that 9&( o"ten does e.hibit markedl strong antiseptic and anti<microbial e=ects, o"ten with no damage to skin o" humans or animals, and with little or no damage to the e.terior sur"aces o" plants. *he antiseptic e=ects o" 9&(, in the lab, and on the e.ternal skin o" humans, animals and plants, does not seem to be due at all to is acidit, which is a prett much accidental corollar, but rather due to the presence in the water o" a wide variet o" power"ul and primitive o.idi!ing agents, collectivel known as pero.ides and supero.ide ions, as well as a variet o" other highl reactive "orms o" o.gen ions. *he scienti'c research shows that it is the presence o" these strong and primitive o.idi!ing ions which gives so<called ?acid ioni!ed water? its power"ul antio.idant e=ects. In summar, it appears that an antiseptic e=ects o" acid ioni!ed water, or more properl, 9&(, are due not to its acidit or acid mineral content, but rather due primaril to the presence o" several simple species o" primal, primitive and primeval o.idi!ers, some o" which are supero.ide ions and pero.ide ions. It is important to understand that the acidit o" 9&(, even when in the pH 1 to pH : range, is what is known as ?weakl bu=ered?, and this e.plains wh it will will usuall not damage human, plant or animal tissue, as it is almost immediatel neutrali!ed b other substances. Indeed, man commercial over<the<counter cola drinks show a pH in the range o" 1 to :@ However, "or this same reason, this acidit is not enough strong or well< bu=ered enough to signi'cantl shi"t the acid<alkaline balance in the environment and thereb damage micro<organisms in that wa. +ather, an antiseptic e=ects o" 9&( 0and the are o"ten pronounced2 are due to the o.idi!ing e=ects. *he H<minus ion 0another name "or this ion2 has, in the past ten ears, been "ound to be $uite plenti"ul in the earthAs interior and even on the sur"ace o" the earth. 5erhaps even more surprisingl, although there have been hints o" this phenomenon in the literature o" biochemistr since at least >B:6, the H<minus ion 0or H< ion2 also plas a critical role in all known li"e "orms on earth. It act as both an energ carrier 0providing ?energ currenc?2 and as an antio.idant in numerous biological sstems. In its antio.idant role, this ion "unctions as a power"ul primal, primitive, primeval, primordial and primar antio.idant "ound in all raw, unprocessed "oods 0plant and animal2 and in man ?wild? unprocessed, untreated water sources in the biosphere 0the area around the sur"ace o" the planet where li"e e.ists.2 Some sources o" water which contain the H<minus ion are glacial runo= water, high altitude lakes, wells and springs and some deep wells where the a$ui"er has been stable over millennia. It appears that this tin and lightweight ion was the original antio.idant "or all li"e "orms on earth, and is likel the single most optimal antio.idant "or li"e "orms even toda. However, this ion is rather "ragile in our biosphere, and it is easil driven o= or destroed b processing, bleaching, blanching, or heat. It appears that our ancestors likel ingested a signi'cant amount o" this ion in their dail "ood and water intake, while we modern 0?civili!ed?2 "olk o"ten receive ver little in our diets. *his article describes primaril the antio.idant properties o" primal 0aka primeval2 e.tremel low molecular weight 09,)(2 "amil o" antio.idants known as active hdrogen, atomic hdrogen and the negative hdrogen ion 0H< ion2 << "ound in ioni!ed 0reduced2 alkaline water 0also called 9lectrol!ed +educed (ater or 9+(2 and in certain nutritional supplement products such as )egaH and )egahdrate. *his page also describes "oods and other nutrients 0as well as supplements2 which contain these same primal 9,)( antio.idants. *he negative hdrogen ion has been known to science "or about >77 ears, i" not longer. 9arl in the 17th centur Carl ,angmuir, the luminar and ?"ather? o" modern inorganic chemistr, investigated, among other things, the occurrence o" atomic hdrogen and the negative hdrogen ion in nature and in a ;ame, and o=ered some observations on the degree o" dissociation o" H1 gas 0the stable "orm2 at standard temperature and pressure 0S*5, o"ten commonl thought o" as ?room temperature and sea level air pressure?2 into atomic hdrogen 0H or singlet H2 and the H< ion as well as higher temperatures. He observed that the amount o" dissociation o" H1 to H and H< at S*5 was incredibl small, and increased drasticall as temperature was increased. It has since been discovered that the occurrence and stabilit o" the H<minus ion on 9arth at S*5 is "ar more common than ,angmuir ma have guessed, although it will almost alwas be "ound hidden lattices o" crstals, loosel bound in structural hdrides, or more tightl bound in chemical 0ionic2 hdrides or even in organic chemicals 0e.g., d<alpha< tocopherol, 4&DH2 *o summari!e what I have just gone overD >. 8lood gets o.gen "rom "rom the lungs through an e.change at the aviolari level. &s we breath in o.gen is e.changed "or carbon mono.ide. 1. Cell hdration takes place one molecule at a time single 'le not in clusters through the #a$uaporins% 0hdration tubes2 in each cell. :. Eolume o" /.gen levels in the tissues o" our bod are determined b pH ,evel o" tissue 0e.ample "or ever tenth o" a point we go up the scale "rom 6.7 there is ten times more o.gen in the tissues2. So a good balance o" pH is re$uired "or a health bod. Diseases such as cancer can not e.ist in a o.gen rich environment. F. /.genated and Inoni!ed water shel" li"e is about : das. 0the antio.idants created b Inoni!ation are "ragile2. &nthing done to water has to be done immediatel be"ore consumption. 0e.ampleG Soda 5op is usuall created at a +estaurant using thick srups, C/1 tanks and a vending machine2 Inoni!ed (ater can be created with a High $ualit Inoni!er and ;avored at a +estaurant or Health Hacilit. 4ame 8randed Hlavorings nutritionall "orti'ed to a standard we decide can be sold along with a Small Home Inoni!er Unit that we recommend or sell. Sincerel, Don Hunt