With every change in our lives the naysayers line up to convince you that you are on the wrong track. If pure logic doesn’t work, guilt comes second. Here’s a post I got from a guy who works for (I assume) Life ionizers, sellers of a Korean assembled electric ionizer:
He was referring to the imminent release of our new Ultrastream non-electric water ionizer’s use of magnesium to ionize output water.
“Magnesium doesn’t provide a proton donor in alkaline water, It is balanced by a hydroxyl ion. Magnesium hydrate in alkaline water is: Mg++(aq) + OH-(aq) = Mg2OH(aq) + H2O.
You cannot produce a proton donor in alkaline water. You need an acid – like Ascorbic Acid – to donate a proton to the reaction.
Pseudoscience hurts the alkaline water industry. (Ian: The guilt card) Please read the Japanese antioxidant studies carefully. Those studies make it clear that you must have a proton donor to unlock the antioxidant effect of alkaline water.”
I sent Leo an emailed response, but never heard from him again. Here’s our reply:
“Hi, Leo,
just checking your equation. Mg++(aq) + OH-(aq) = Mg2OH(aq) + H2O.
Not sure it’s correct.
Magnesium is a base once it combines with water and the chemical formula that your are using is not entirely correct: the reaction that takes place is Mg (s) + 2H2O(g) -> Mg(OH)2(aq) + H2(g)
Mg(OH)2 – magnesium hydroxide is alkaline.
You are more than than welcome to test this procedure yourself and check the before and after results
We would welcome you to our office where you can do the experiments and we are happy to film that as well.
I am sure you are aware of our many years of water ionizer experience. It took us a while to realise what we had here too. The University lab tests we carried out shocked us too.”
Yes, shocked about how darn good they were!Now here’s the real news: magnesium, according to this study, is about the best defence possible against heart disease. To quote,
‘A lower incidence of cardiovascular diseases has been observed in areas with hard water. However, numerous debates and controversies prevailed over time. Some scientists had been trying to correlate cardio-protective factor of hard water while others were working on the toxic factor of soft water with this geo-selective predisposition to cardiovascular events. Now the factor unanimously agreed upon can be concluded as Magnesium. The proofs in favour of Magnesium(Mg) come from studies reporting (i) sudden deaths in areas with Mg deficient drinking water, (ii) low myocardial Mg content in sudden death cases, (iii) cardiac arrhythmias & coronary artery vasospasms being precipitated by Mg deficiency and (iv) intravenous Mg reducing the risks of Arrhythmias & deaths immediately after Acute Myocardial Infarction. Magnesium is a structural component of cardiac muscle and is required by as many as 1300 enzymes for different biochemical reactions. It is an important co-factor for ATPase; hence, is needed in every cell. Mg modulates cellular events involved in inflammation and is important for proteolytic enzymes, which counteract inflammation.”
Now here’s some more real news. Your electric ionizer doesn’t add magnesium to your water.
If there is magnesium in your tap water, it will concentrate it so that you’ll get the same effect as drinking 2 glasses of water. But it adds NO minerals, only concentrating the calcium and magnesium in your water. Now.. to put things in perspective, it’s still good, because if you drank 8 glasses of tap water before drinking water from your electric water ionizer, you now get the magnesium effect of around 14 glasses without the added H20.
That’s why we were so excited to receive our University Independent lab report. It showed consistent donation of magnesium over the whole life of the filter. magnesium coming FROM the UltraStream, which adds to the magnesium already in the tap water. So you are guaranteed a daily dose of slow release magnesium no matter how mineral-deficient your tap water!
