What is water's primary role?

Water's primary role is to serve as a transportation system, or medium, for carrying on life processes. It transports by holding nutrients and wastes in suspension and solution. Food is carried to all parts of the organism is this fluid. The red cells carrying oxygen are carried along on a stream of water and carried away from the cells to the excretory system. All of the vital processes of the body take place in this fluid.

Why is water essential to me?

Water is absolutely essential to the performance of the vital functions, as it fulfills the primary role of the body’s transportation system and many subsidiary roles. The circulatory system is entirely dependent upon water. Water is the solvent which floats the blood corpuscles. It carries our nutritive load. It transports our wastes to eliminative organs. As the primary component of saliva it is a great digestive aid. In the blood it carries and distributes nutrients to the cells where body repair and growth are effected. There is no other element which is so adapted to the roles that water fulfills. It circulates through the most delicate capillaries without friction, and even passes through membranes into parts that are not accessible by openings. Survival beyond seven days without water is unlikely whereas an individual may live up to 60 days and more without food. Water should be recognized as one of the most important foods for it is essential to the body. It enters into the composition of every tissue and forms on the average about three-quarters of the total weight of the body.

Why is water important for maintaining health?

Water is the most vital and influential component that provides the body with the ability to maintain health and prevent deterioration. This can only happen if the quality and structure of the water meets our requirements. For water to be the most effective in our body, it should be of an alkaline pH, which is necessary to assure that the body fluids do not become and remain acidic, resulting in premature aging and illness. Premature and unnatural aging can result from a continual loss of water volume and the body being exposed to water of poor quality. Another major factor is the body's inability to adequately assimilate essential minerals and nutrients. As the body ages and the immune system declines it becomes possible for certain diseases to arise. The body's chemistry becomes unbalanced, and destructive substances known as active oxygen species or free radicals form. These unpaired electrons carry a positive charge and virtually rob electrons from vital cellular sites, damaging the cells and altering their ability to function or replicate normally. In general, free radicals cause the body to deteriorate, age, and can be a cause of many acute and chronic diseases.

Can ionized water help keep my body in balance?

To stay in balance and healthy, our bodies must continuously be in a proper state of hydration. Between 2 and 3 quarts of water are lost each day through normal bodily functions and this water must be replaced. To prevent toxins and chemical substances from accumulating and creating destructive influences on our cells we must stay hydrated. The water we consume must be able to carry all minerals and nutrients required for cell metabolism and the ability to remove any substances that can damage the cell as well as protecting the cell walls from damage and invasion. Since water is involved in every function of the body, it must act as a conductor of electrochemical activity, such as neurotransmission, by moving water from one nerve cell to another smoothly and effectively. Changes in pressure create movement across the cell membranes and allow proteins, minerals, and other nutrients being carried by the blood to escape into spaces between vessels and deprive the cells of their vital need to sustain life. When the water in the blood is acidic and contaminated with toxins, it enters the cells and changes their structure, which in turn can lead to changes in DNA. This can be the beginning of the disease process which is very similar to the aging process.

What is ionized alkaline water?

Alkaline ionized water contains hydroxyl ions that are negatively charged. These ions exist in the form of stabilized oxygen molecules that have gained an electron, therefore making the water a superior antioxidant, that scavenge free radical (unpaired oxygen molecules that possess only one electron) which are one of the causes of premature aging and disease. The ionized alkaline minerals detoxify poisonous acid wastes and frees up the hydroxyl ion (OH-) to supply excess oxygen to the cells improving circulation and increasing energy. Through the process of metabolism acid wastes are deposited in our bodies. The degree of these deposited wastes depends largely upon what our diets consist of, but all foods consumed will create these acidic wastes. This creates an environment that is conducive toward diseases starting and flourishing. It is one of the most simple, yet overlooked, aspects of staying healthy. Keeping an alkaline diet is at the heart of excellent health. The alkaline properties of ionized water can help us to combat this acid condition and fight off diseases simply by balancing our body’s pH and the elimination of these accumulated acidic toxins. Water molecules tend to bond in groups of 10-13. Ionized water molecules are in groups of 5-6, therefore they are “reduced” in size and shape becoming geometrically restructured. The ionized water passes through body tissue more efficiently than conventional water, therefore it hydrates us much more effectively. For the same reason, it’s also very detoxifying. When you drink ionized water with reduced surface tension, then the water can actually get into the cell (intracellular hydration). The type of water you drink is one the most, if not the most important thing that you can do for your body. You want to be in a state where your cells are constantly hydrated not dehydrated. The great majority of people do not recognize the absolutely crucial value of drinking the right kind of water. Research in the field of cellular hydration has shown that when the cell swells up it triggers an anabolic mechanism in the body, which is a healing mechanism. It is accompanied by positive nitrogen balance, protein synthesis, and growth hormone release. Cellular hydration also results in a reduction of cell acidity, reduced auto-immune response, increased fat burning, DNA repair, and increased resistance to pathogenic microbes. This all happens as a result of cellular hydration. Now when the cells become dehydrated, it triggers a catabolic state accompanied by muscle wasting, cell hypoxia (oxygen starvation), DNA damage, and accelerated aging. As a result the cell becomes more sensitive to free radicals and more susceptible to viruses and auto-immune diseases. Virtually all symptoms of aging are the result of cellular dehydration accompanied by free radical damage and an excess of acidic toxins creating a lack of available oxygen. Because the accumulation of waste products inside the body is part of the aging process, helping the body to get rid of these old waste products is to reverse the aging process. All waste products are acidic and the best kind of water to drink to remove these wastes and toxins is The Fountain of Life™ ionized alkaline water.

How does the water get ionized?

The Fountain of Life™ BTM-2000 water ionizer consists of a water chamber (electrolysis chamber) that has two platinum coated titanium electrodes (four times more platinum than comparable ionizers), one positively charged and the other negatively charged. The negative electrode attracts positive minerals (calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium) which are alkaline minerals and the positive electrode attracts negative minerals (phosphorus, chlorine, and sulfur) which are acidic minerals. The value or degree of a solutions acidity or alkalinity is measured as pH. This logarithmic scale or pH scale ranges from 0 (acidic / H+) to 14 (alkaline / OH-) with 7 being neutral or having equal concentrations of hydrogen ions (H+) and hydroxyl ions (OH-). For example a pH of 6 is 10 times more acidic than a pH of 7 and a pH of 5 is 100 times more acidic and so on. Through the ionizing process the water molecules attracted to the negative electrode gains a negatively charged electron (e-) and the net charge of the molecule has been reduced (OH-) while the molecule attracted to the positive electrode loses an electron and becomes oxidized (H+) because it has lost an electron. Cations or positively charged ions are attracted to the negative electrodes to create reduced water (OH-) while anions or negative ions are attracted to the positive electrode creating oxidized water (H+). This removal or addition of electrons is known as an oxidation-reduction reaction or redox reaction. The redox of water can be measured through the use of an ORP (oxidation-reduction potential) meter where acidic water has a positive mV (millivolt) redox potential while alkaline water will have a negative mV redox potential. By ionizing the water through the electrolysis chamber, the reduced water (OH-) molecule clusters are reduced in size or clustered from 10 to 13 molecules to 5 to 6 molecules per cluster. The molecular weight is altered and the surface tension of the water has been reduced. The smaller water clusters with a lower surface tension (dynes) can penetrate the cellular membranes of the body easier, increasing nutrient absorption (assimilation), aiding in acidic waste removal (elimination), and improving tissue health. The ionized reduced alkaline water, produced by the separation of the H+ and OH- ions, has twice the amount of stabilized oxygen compared to tap water or bottled water. The hydroxyl ion (OH-) is an oxygen donor while the hydrogen ion (H+) is an oxygen taker. Acid water (H+) is oxygen deficient and alkaline water (OH-) is abundant with oxygen.