Have Electrolysis-Based water ionizers lost the battle? An important new report.
Talking to a Chinese friend recently, I learned of why electronic water ionizers in Japan are giving way to the newer non-water separating H2 water filter systems. He imports H2 systems into Japan and is amazed at how fast the industry there is evolving.
He told me that the biggest water ionizer company in Japan fell afoul of the government last year.. to the point of being sued by them.
I had visited the company in question, Nihon Trim on my last research trip. They account for 65% of all ionizers sold in Japan. (Enagic is around 5% according to the last official industry report I read).
Nihon Trim make a great water ionizer and really – in my opinion – care for their customers better than any other company I’ve come across.
When it became obvious that the hydrogen content of water was the real therapeutic element, not the pH, things changed fast. And the company, I assume, decided, like us, that this was the way of the future. The ‘Holy Grail’ of ionized water.
The difficulty they faced was the conversion of their marketing approach from alkaline water to hydrogen water. It’s a difficulty I see many vendors experiencing.
Many readers in the industry may think this conversion of marketing would be simple, but not in Japan, where everything is carefully monitored for honesty and integrity.
So my friend’s story ran like this: (and for obvious reasons, I emphasize that I didn’t personally talk to the companies involved).
“I think Nihon Trim decided that all they needed to do to do capitalise on the new market was to take their present models and begin selling them as hydrogen rich water systems. And that’s when things started going seriously wrong.
In Japan they do it right. If an industry group forms, and is willing to create safety guidelines, the government will enforce them. So when the Hydrogen Water Promotion Association (or a similar name) researched the burgeoning product range and applied the science, they came up with the figure of .8 ppm H2 as a minimum acceptable H2 level in water from a device for it to be sold legally as a beneficial H2 infusion device.”
“The company” he said, “could only respond within the limits of the technology.”
No.. this is important, and it’s something we at AlkaWay have been talking about for over a year.
Electronic water ionizers were never designed for H2 production. The basic design is electrolysis, and the design brief was always to create high pH water – not high H2.
To increase H2 levels in an electrolysis system, there’s only one way. You have to increase the voltage of the electricity passing through the water in the chamber. And when you do this, your pH rises.
We’ve stressed again and again.. one shouldn’t have to have this sort of water just to get an acceptable level of molecular hydrogen infused in your water.
The Plate Accretion Problem
There are two more factors at play. One is the fact that the standard of filtration on most if not all electronic water ionizers is basic, so some particulate gets past the filter into the electrolysis chamber where it is attracted to the plates in the chamber. As soon as this deposition occurs, the ability to get good H2 levels falls away.
Many, many users have mistakenly believed that ORP and pH indicates the level of ‘good’ high H2 water. But recent tests and research have shown this isn’t so.
Unless you perform a 20 minute acid water cleanse very often, your plates may have accreted particulate, thus inhibiting H2 production. We’ve observed that it takes as little as 14 days to take a new machine to a basically useless H2 generator.
The Bubble Story
Secondly, we have seen over the years many water ionizer companies advertising pics of glasses of water full of bubbles. They would usually claim this showed high pH or something like the now debunked ‘microclustering’. It was, we now know, hydrogen bubbles trying to leave! An unsubstantiated observation I’ve heard now from industry peers is that the bubbles are caused because of the agitation at the surface of the electrolysis plates. Now.. we actually don’t wnat bubbles. We want the H2 to infuse, and our innovation, the UltraStream, delivering high H2 levels, has no bubbles, indicating that the infusion process is a less turbulent one than in electrolysis systems, and therefore capable of delivering the H2 more effectively.
The most obvious conclusion we can come to is that electrolysis – the splitting of water into two ‘alkaline’ and ‘acid’ streams, is a basically flawed method of producing H2 infusion. Remember, the original models, right up to this new H2 revolution, were never designed for H2 production.
So what happened?
According to my source, a supplier of H2 systems in Japan, the government sued Nihon Trim. The case was around the fact that the government in Japan insists on a set safe pH level – above which no system may go. The Nihon Trim company, it appears, could not reach the .8 ppm necessary to be approved as an h2 generating deice without increasing the pH of the water above the government’s safety limit.
I don’t know the result of the court case.
What I do know is that the government’s action has affected every Japanese maker of electrolysis based water ionizers. The basic design limitation I talked about puts them, in my opinion, between a rock and a hard place indeed.
What It Means
And what does this mean to water ionizer buyers and potential buyers in all other countries where the relative newness of the technology to each country has allowed vendors to basically say or claim whatever could be believed by a customer. This, I believe, will change, but frankly, I can see no way for the vendors to accommodate the Japan model without completely ditching the electrolysis split water system.
I do appreciate that vendors and manufacturers didn’t willingly create the problem. It was the advance in our understanding of molecular hydrogen delivery that caused the paradigm shift. We sold electrolysis systems for twelve years and had no idea that it was the H2 causing the amazing stories users related back to us. And I also appreciate that we scored the ‘long straw’ when we chose to pursue a natural alternative, moving away from the electrolysis method. And.. the longest of the long straws was that when we tested our UltraStream’s H2 delivery against the biggest selling electrolysis system in the world, the UltraStream delivered almost 4 times the H2 of the far more expensive electronic unit. Remember, the Japanese government says to be designated at a viable H2 system, it must deliver .8ppm H2 infused in the output water. The electrolysis system tested at .3ppm. The UltraStream tested at 1.1ppm.
I would be thinking very carefully before making the major monetary investment in any unit that can’t provide valid independent H2 tests.
If they don’t have them, and they are a big company, there has to be a reason, doesn’t there?
Another Mass Media Predictable Article on Molecular Hydrogen
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Another AMAZING study on Molecular Hydrogen and its effect on Rheumatoid Arthritis
Another excellent 2012 study concludes drinking molecular hydrogen infused water’s impact on Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
The study also shows that H2 water had an ongoing therapeutic affect and remained efficacious even during the washout period..wow!
The study concluded that consumption of water containing a high concentration of molecular hydrogen reduces oxidative stress and disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis:. It was an an open-label pilot study of twenty patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) They drank 530 ml of water containing 4 to 5 ppm molecular hydrogen (high H2 water) every day for 4 weeks.
After a 4-week wash-out period, the patients drank the high H2 water for another 4 weeks…In total 47.4% of patients (9/19) achieved the remission, except for one patient who had been in remission at the baseline assessment…All the 5 patients with early RA (duration < 12 months) who did not show antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptides (ACPAs) achieved remission, and 4 of them became symptom-free at the end of the study.
Ian: Note that the high levels of H2 are higher than any water ionizer can produce. here at AlkaWay we use our high H2 water from our UltraStream to fill a 300ml bottle. We then add TWO tablets of I LOVE H2 and cap the bottle. This prevents the H2 from leaving and concentrates it far more. Normally, all it takes is 5-10m to dissolve the tablets and infuse the added H2. We then drink the whole bottle.
Note: We are not permitted to make therapeutic claims for our products, and do not do so. This article refers to H2. We supply products capable of generating it. It is still up to you to research H2 and to check with a qualified medical practitioner as to possible effects.
The study also shows that H2 water had an ongoing therapeutic affect and remained efficacious even during the washout period..wow!
The study concluded that consumption of water containing a high concentration of molecular hydrogen reduces oxidative stress and disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis:. It was an an open-label pilot study of twenty patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) They drank 530 ml of water containing 4 to 5 ppm molecular hydrogen (high H2 water) every day for 4 weeks.
After a 4-week wash-out period, the patients drank the high H2 water for another 4 weeks…In total 47.4% of patients (9/19) achieved the remission, except for one patient who had been in remission at the baseline assessment…All the 5 patients with early RA (duration < 12 months) who did not show antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptides (ACPAs) achieved remission, and 4 of them became symptom-free at the end of the study.
Ian: Note that the high levels of H2 are higher than any water ionizer can produce. here at AlkaWay we use our high H2 water from our UltraStream to fill a 300ml bottle. We then add TWO tablets of I LOVE H2 and cap the bottle. This prevents the H2 from leaving and concentrates it far more. Normally, all it takes is 5-10m to dissolve the tablets and infuse the added H2. We then drink the whole bottle.
FIVE Fruits or Vegetables you really can do without.
You won’t hear this in mainstream media. They seem to downplay the importance of eating organic, even though more and more people switch it rather than persisting with “conventional” food often laced with synthetic pesticides.
Many people are familiar with the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen from the Environmental Working Group. It’s a list that highlights the most important fruits and vegetables to buy organic in order to maximize your dollars (of course it’s always wise to buy all organic if you can afford it).
But despite the growing number of readers of such lists, we must realize just how contaminated many of the most popular fruits and vegetables really are.
The amount of pesticides on these 5 most polluted types of produce is quite staggering, especially when taking into consideration that so many “healthy eating programs” still recommend them or pass them out at health events and omit any mention of the high levels of toxic pesticide residues they contain.
Four fruits and vegetables actually have actually been found to have more than 45 different pesticide residues over large samples taken by the USDA; so keep this in mind next time you reach for another “healthy” snack for your kids in the produce aisle.
The Top Five Pesticide Soaked Fruits and Vegetables
With such a crazy level of pesticides on each of these “conventional” produce items, it just makes sense to drop them off your list entirely (even though most people buy them non-organic without second thought).
1. Strawberries-
According to the EWG’s research, topping the list for the second time are strawberries. They may seem healthy at first glance but can actually be loaded with synthetic, toxic pesticides. As an ex-strawberry farmer, I can attest to this. Strawberries have a thin skin, meaning chemicals enter them easily. When an infestation of say, Heliothis arrives in your patch, you have about 3 days to save your strawberries so it’s a choice of throwing away months of hard labour.. or hitting the sprayer again. And because strawbs ripen in less than 3 days, they have to be sold in that time.. even though the pesticides used have at least 14 days with holding period!
Pesticides that have negative effects on our brain and nervous system have been found in terrible quantities on strawberries, with 45 total pesticide residues found by the PDP in 2009. The most contaminated single sample in 2017 had 20 different pesticide residues on it, the EWG reported.
Organic strawberries are especially pricier but well worth the investment; buy them in season and freeze to save big money.
2. Spinach–
According to the EWG, the samples of spinach tested contained a bigger pesticide load by weight than any other crop tested, landing it number two on the list for 2017. In total, three-quarters of all spinach samples tested had residues of a particular type of potentially neurotoxic pesticide banned in Europe for use on food crops.
Its lack of an outer skin means that pesticides soak directly into the crop. Luckily for us, organic spinach is relatively cheap. While non-organic spinach is even cheaper, I just will not gamble on my health with a crop as heavily soaked with pesticides as this one.
3. Nectarines-
Similar to peaches with their soft, round shape and orange color, nectarines soak up pesticides like a sponge, making it important to always buy them organic or at the very least to limit consumption.
According to a 2012 EWG report, nectarines previously had the most overall weight of pesticides of any fruit or vegetable, meaning that you’re probably consuming these dangerous carcinogens in every bite and taxing the health of your liver.
4. Apples-
Apples are one of the highest pesticide residue fruits out there. Will you think twice about that next apple orchard trip?
Perhaps the most notable inclusion on this list is the apple, considering its reputation as a health food, and the lack of organic apple orchards for that matter. The vast majority of apple orchards remain “conventional,” and yet American apples were recently banned in Europe by regulators.
More than 47 pesticide residues were identified in ‘conventional’ apples by the USDA’s pesticide data program in 2010 and the crop is still heavily sprayed today. Apple juice, anyone?
5. Peaches-
The soft furry skin of peaches combined with the amount of chemicals they’re treated with may spell serious trouble for your health over the long term.
A 2008 study by the PDP found 62 different pesticide residues on conventional peaches; several are considered as neurotoxins and/or known carcinogens. While you can wash some of the residue off much of it remains in the soft flesh and skin of the peach.
Pass it on.
In my opinion, any pesticide I consume contributes directly to the inevitability of ultimate cancer. I know that’s a harsh conclusion, but as my relatives die around me – relatives who never understood the whole organic debate -I’m hanging on to my organic lifestyle.
Oxygen Therapy: A Sleeping Giant?
We’ve been so busy getting righteously excited about the many health benefits of molecular hydrogen that we have neglected what many people tell us is a ‘sleeping giant’ in our product lineup.
But before I talk about it I’ll share some observations I’ve been having on oxygen in the last few weeks.
Let’s say you have brain lesions. The cause can be anything. That’s not the point. But if someone said you could heal them with oxygen therapy, would you believe them? I wouldn’t.. or at least until I read a new article I wouldn’t.
New research shows that low oxygen therapy is able to eliminate brain lesions developed from mitochondrial dysfunction in mice. Eventually, hypoxia therapy could be used to treat people with similar disorders and maybe even reverse signs of aging in otherwise healthy individuals.
The researchers researchers from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) first genetically engineered mice to lack a gene that affects the mitochondria and that is mutated in some people suffering from a neurological disorder known as Leigh syndrome.
They then exposed some of those mice to air with about half the oxygen levels typically found at sea level.
The mice breathing the hypoxic air didn’t develop brain lesions and lived a median age of 270 days. The group breathing “normal” air did develop lesions and lived a median age of only 58 days.
Even more exciting was what happened when mice who already had brain lesions were exposed to hypoxic air. After just one month, scans revealed that their brain lesions disappeared.
“We found, much to our surprise and delight, that we could actually reverse advanced disease,” said lead HHMI investigator Vamsi Mootha, a mitochondrial biologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, in a press release. “I don’t think anybody thought that these types of neurological diseases could be reversible.”
The results of the study seem to suggest that only a continuous exposure to 11 percent oxygen would work. Though tolerable, that oxygen level wouldn’t be terribly comfortable for a healthy individual, so while this research is both “profound and striking,” according to Mootha, developing similar hypoxia therapy for humans is still some way off. “We are not ready yet to go into the clinic,” he said.
Now.. this is so amazing to me. Particularly when everything I have seen and heard back from our clients is the DIRECT OPPOSITE! We have a steady delivery of our own ROCKET FUEL sports supplement to people who swear by its energy enhancement capabilities. One client is even negotiating with us to sell it as a form of water based bottled drink nationally and even internationally. Another company has a worldwide multilevel marketing outfit selling a product identical to ours at hugely inflated prices.
I’m recognising the miracle and the burden of immediate and total access to all the information in the world (A.K.A the World Wide Web) In the not so distant past we could forgive ourselves for not knowing everything about a health strategy because the gatekeepers of the knowledge were the medical and pharmaceutical establishment. Then came the alternative therapy healers who, I have to observe, also held tight to their special knowledge. We had to go see them to learn. But the WWW has blown that completely apart. Every fact, every claim, every product is now exposed to the totality of information access, good and bad. What we now lack is simply the time to research one subject or therapy once we learn of it.
So here’s a case in point: one study suggests we may live longer if we deduce our oxygen levels. Others say exactly the opposite, and we can also throw in the idea of oxygen free radicals – that’s oxygen in our bodies that go ‘rogue’.
Are we better off in our capability to learn the truth of whether something works best for us now? I really don’t know. All I know is what is my personal experience: that oxygen therapy – if we must call it that.. perhaps oxygen supplementation is a better phrase has a long history, including ground breaking work by world famous scientists, and even the famous hyperbaric oxygen chamber, that basically forces the body into a hyperoxygenated state.
Have you tried our Rocket Fuel yet? This is what my client wants to give to the world, and this is what is virtually identical to the highpriced (almost US$40 for a bottle the size of our pH test kits – tiny!) international MLM version.
We make no claims for Rocket Fuel, but check what they claim!
- Can dramatically boosts energy levels
- Can be used for skin and acne care
- Can be used for dental and oral care
- Can be used as a safe vegetable and fruit wash
- Helps improve blood circulation without drug side effects
- May help strengthen the immune system
- May heighten concentration and alertness
- May exert a calming effect on the nervous system
- May help relieve headaches
- May reduce the symptoms of hangovers
- May help the liver in cleansing itself of toxins
- May promote faster recovery from injury, stress or strenuous exercise
- May help promote weight loss by increasing energy production and fat burning
- Increases blood flow and oxygen to the skin makes the skin look more beautiful
- May help relieve the pain and itching of bug bites and skin rashes and promote healing
- Has been used clinically to reduce gum disease and kill bacteria in the mouth
- May be used as a gargle to relieve sore throat conditions
- May be used as a completely safe and natural hand sanitizer
- May be used as a safe biocidal counter and bathroom spray
- May be used as a preservative for short-term water storage to control harmful anaerobes
- May help with inflammation by assisting body in carrying away cellular debris and free radical toxins
- May be used as a nasal irrigation spray to offer moisture and to help control bacteria in the nasal cavity
When I saw what the MLM company were charging for a tiny squeeze bottle, my greedy self screamed “You idiot! Double the Price!”
But no, I’d simply like to see more out there helping people.
Here’s the link to check it out.
The Psychology of Eating
This morning Kerrie Cox came to visit.
She has just completed her ‘Psychology of Eating‘ Certificate program, and her ideas on diets really ‘click’ with what we feel about diets as well.
It’s our long term observation – often angrily denied – that underneath the symptoms of many, many health conditions there lies a decision we had made, sometimes even as a baby. She’s a busy lady, consulting with people with eating ‘disorders’ and with partner Jeff, running her own retreat centre based on raw foods and educating people to make better choices.
By the way, Kerrie offers a FREE (yes, free!) 30 minute consultation to discuss your health goals. She’s gentle but strong and I heartily endorse her.
By the way, Kerrie offers a FREE (yes, free!) 30 minute consultation to discuss your health goals. She’s gentle but strong and I heartily endorse her.
~Ian
A Common Diet-based anti-cancer compound may work by influence on cellular genetics
Researchers have discovered one of the reasons why broccoli may be good for your health.
Sulforaphane, a dietary compound in broccoli known to help prevent prostate cancer, may work through its influence on long, non-coding RNAs.
The findings were published by researchers from Oregon State University in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.
They provide even more evidence for how these lncRNAs, which were once thought to be a type of “junk DNA” of no particular value or function, may actually play a critical role in triggering cells to become malignant and spread.
We’re now hearing that that lncRNAs, which number in the thousands, do indeed have a major role in cell biology and development, often by controlling what genes are turned on, or “expressed” to carry out their genetic function. Scientists now believe that when these lncRNAs are dysregulated they can contribute to multiple disease processes, including cancer.
The lncRNAs are also of special interest because they are very cell- and tissue – specific.
As we all know, many chemotherapeutic drugs that affect healthy cells as well as malignant ones and can cause undesired side effects, so the control of lncRNAs may offer a new way to specifically prevent or slow the progression of malignant cells.
“This could be a turning point in our understanding of how cancer may be triggered and spreads,” said Emily Ho, the endowed director of the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition and Preventive Health at OSU, a professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences and principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute.
Read this carefully.
“It’s obviously of interest that this dietary compound, found at some of its highest levels in broccoli, can affect lncRNAs. This could open the door to a whole range of new dietary strategies, foods or drugs that might play a role in cancer suppression or therapeutic control.”
In particular, this research showed that one lncRNA, called LINC01116, is upregulated in a human cell line of prostate cancer, but can be decreased by treatment with sulforaphane. The data “reinforce the idea that lncRNAs are an exciting new avenue for chemoprevention research, and chemicals derived from diet can alter their expression,”.
“We showed that treatment with sulforaphane could normalize the levels of this lncRNA,” said Laura Beaver, a research associate in the Linus Pauling Institute and College of Public Health and Human Sciences, and lead author on the study. “This may relate to more than just cancer prevention. It would be of significant value if we could develop methods to greatly slow the progress of cancer, help keep it from becoming invasive.”
The impact of diet on lncRNA expression has been largely unknown until now. In this study, they identified a four-fold decrease in the ability of prostate cancer cells to form colonies when LINC01116 was disrupted.
Among men, prostate cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer globally, and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.
Researchers said, is that an increased consumption of cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, which are high in sulforaphane, appears to be associated with a lower risk of developing prostate cancer.
That same lncRNA, they noted, is also overexpressed in studies of several other types of cancer, including brain, lung and colon cancer. Some other lncRNAs have been found at higher levels in breast, stomach, lung, prostate cancer and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
In other research, a knockout of the gene that encodes one type of lncRNA in mice conferred some resistance to obesity caused by a high-fat diet.
“Taken together, this literature and our own study begin to paint a picture of the important and previously unappreciated role of lncRNAs in the body’s response to diet,” the researchers wrote in the study. “These discoveries illustrate that lncRNAs can play important roles in cancer development and may be useful targets for cancer prevention, detection and treatment.”
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The Fill2Pure Jug. How to optimise its alkalizing power.
We are always asked how to assess the best alkalizing method.
It’s a long story but Ian has attempted to simplify it for people considering the Fill2Pure Jug.
Alkaline Water or Hydrogen Water? What is best for you?
Dr Mami Noda is Associate Professor, in the laboratory of Pathophysiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan.
She has been witness to the rise of the electric water ionizer and of molecular hydrogen. Her comments here come with real authority. If you are still wondering whether you should go the ‘old’ way of an electric water ionizer or the ‘new’ way of a molecular hydrogen water system, her comments have great relevancy.
“I have been involved with pharmacology for over 30 years. After my postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller University, I continued my research at Kyushu University, where “alkaline ionized water” was initially studied in 1997. Although there was a significant amount of false information contained in the marketing, and it became quite popular in Japan, I remained skeptical. However, in 2005, a colleague shared some interesting data from a Parkinson’s disease patient who had been drinking this type of water, which prompted me to investigate its effects.
We knew that H2 gas was being produced during the process, but we did not think that H2 could have any biological effects, especially given hydrogen’s extremely low solubility in water (0.8 mM at SATP). However, by testing every variable of the water (e.g. minerals, pH, H2, etc.), it was clear that only H2 was exerting the benefit.
This became more believable once we saw the 2007 Nature Medicine publication, which demonstrated H2’s therapeutic effects. Our 2009 publication of an MPTP-induced mouse model of Parkinson’s disease also showed beneficial effects from H2. We later discovered that the benefits in this model were mediated by H2-induced gastric ghrelin secretion via a ß1 adrenergic receptor-dependent pathway.
Although hydrogen’s effect in Parkinson’s disease has now been confirmed in a human clinical trial, more research is necessary to reveal the molecular mechanisms responsible for the therapeutic benefits of H2. Because of hydrogen’s high safety profile, ease of administration, and its promising medical effects, I feel obligated as a pharmacologist to continue my investigations of H2 as a novel medical gas.”
Thank you Dr Noda! Dr Noda has recently become senior advisor at the Molecular Hydrogen Foundation
Katherine Home Owners! IS PERFLUORO-OCTANE SULFONATE (AKA PFOAS) IN YOUR HOME WATER SUPPLY?
It’s Not Funny!
Vast areas of America contaminated by this combination of toxic chemicals in aqueous film-forming foam (fire fighting foam) has seeped into public water supplies from California to Rhode Island.
And now one of our happy customers in Katherine, NT, tells me her whole town is also contaminated! Please read on to understand what it’s all about and how to fix it.
According to an Environmental Science and Technology Letters report, “the study suggests at least six million people across the U.S. in 2016 had drinking water that exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s lifetime health advisory for certain acids associated with the foams.”
Researchers from UC Berkeley and Harvard University report that these “highly fluorinated chemicals are linked to cancer, obesity, high cholesterol and endocrine problems, among other concerns” .
Australians are no strangers to the same nasty chemical. Residents living close to air bases are fighting an intransigent Department of Defence which seems to be doing all it can to deny existence of a problem.
How to get rid of Perfluorinated Compounds
Last month the U.S. EPA updated its drinking water guidelines for PFOA and PFOS (also known as perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, respectively) apparently in response to rising attention paid to the dangers of these chemicals in drinking water. The agency’s assessment is that drinking water with concentrations of PFOA and PFOS below 70 parts per trillion will not result in adverse health effects over a lifetime of exposure.
The Water Research Foundation assessed every possible filtration method.
They found that aeration, chlorine dioxide, dissolved air flotation, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, granular filtration, and microfiltration were all ineffective for removing PFASs including PFOA and PFOS. Anion exchange was moderately effective in treating PFOA, highly effective for PFOS, and failed to remove several other PFASs.
Nanofiltration and reverse osmosis proved to be the most effective methods of removing even the smallest PFASs.
Granular activated carbon (GAC) was shown to be adept at removing most PFASs and it may be the average utility’s best bet for PFOA and PFOS contamination.
“In many cases, the most cost-effective treatment for removing PFOA and PFOS will be Granular Activated carbon, though water utilities will need to test GAC to determine site-specific performance,” the WRF said.
GAC is the most common method of filtration available to homeowners, but there are grades of effectiveness. Most basic GAC water filters do not offer life-of-filter test data, so buyers cannot know how long they remain effective. A better form of this form of media is termed catalytic carbon. Its vastly increased surface area and method of production means it is not only capable of removing contaminants longer, but it has a far wider range of contaminants that it removes. Nanofiltration has, as seen above, also proved to be effective and the new UltraStream uses the new cutting edge Red-E nano filtration system which has a huge range of contaminant removal without loss of good flow rate.
Note: Most electric water ionizers on the market have far less filter efficiency.
Alzheimers: New study identifies how it starts and we suggest how you might slow it up.
A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston offers important insight into how Alzheimer’s disease begins within the brain.
The researchers found a relationship between inflammation, a toxic protein and the onset of the disease.
The study also identified a way that doctors can detect early signs of Alzheimer’s by looking at the back of patients’ eyes.
“Early detection of Alzheimer’s warning signs would allow for early intervention and prevention of neurodegeneration before major brain cell loss and cognitive decline occurs,” said lead author Ashley Nilson, a neuroscience graduate student. “Using the retina for detecting AD and other neurodegenerative diseases would be non-invasive, inexpensive and could become a part of a normal screening done at patient checkups.”
UTMB researchers have previously found evidence that a toxic form of tau protein may underlie the early stages of Alzheimer’s.
Brain cells depend on tau protein to form highways for the cell to receive nutrients and get rid of waste. In some neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, the tau protein becomes a toxic form called tau oligomers and begins clumping into neurofibrillary tangles. When this happens, nutrients can no longer move to where they are needed and the oligomers produce toxic effects leading to the eventual death of the brain cells.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that inflammation within the brain plays an important role in Alzheimer’s development and progression. Inflammation and loss of connections between nerves within the brain happen before the formation of the tangles that are characteristic of this disease.
It’s possible that the tau oligomers may be responsible for this inflammation.
In a recent paper in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, UTMB’s research team detailed their investigation on the relationship between inflammation, toxic tau and Alzheimer’s onset by performing systematic analyses of brain and retina samples from people with Alzheimer’s and a mouse model of Alzheimer’s.
The results demonstrated that the toxic tau may induce inflammation in Alzheimer’s. The toxic tau spreads between connected brain regions, which may initiate inflammation in these new regions. This situation can create a cycle of toxic tau, inflammation and cell death throughout the brain over time.
Beyond determining eye health and corrective lens prescriptions, having an eye exam can alert health care professionals of several different health conditions including diabetic complications, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Now, UTMB researchers found that retina tissue that they studied can show evidence of toxic tau and inflammation.
“Our findings suggest that the degeneration of nerve cells due to chronic inflammation induced by the tau oligomers may be combated through the combination of anti-tau oligomer and anti-inflammatory therapeutics for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and related diseases,” said senior author Rakez Kayed, associate professor in the UTMB Department of Neurology. “Our is continuing to expand our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases.”
Ian: This article piqued my interest because (apart from my own brush with dementia back in 20111) I have been researching the properties of molecular hydrogen, which may be produced by infusion in our water filter invention, or through a special form of magnesium tablet. One of three major reported benefits to the use of molecular hydrogen infused in water has been support for our natural anti-inflammation process and healing. The other two major reported benefits are selective antioxidant abilities and anti allergenic ability.
(To learn more go to the Molecular Hydrogen Foundation).
So far molecular hydrogen looks like many other products touted as anti inflammatory. But there’s a big difference. H2 is the smallest molecule in the universe. It passes through the body with ease. And unlike all other supplements, it also passes through the blood-brain barrier, accessing the brain. This barrier is a natural defence to preserve the brain’s integrity against anything that may harm it, and as such is a marvellous piece of design. But just take a look at this video, (the sound is rough) to see what happened to an old friend when we gave him a bottle of molecular hydrogen generating tablets! (here’s a link to our UltraStream and another link to the H2 producing tablets.
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ASHLEY N. NILSON, KELSEY C. ENGLISH, JULIA E. GERSON, T. BARTON WHITTLE, C. NICOLAS CRAIN, JUDY XUE, URMI SENGUPTA, DIANA L. CASTILLO-CARRANZA, WENBO ZHANG, PRAVEENA GUPTA, RAKEZ KAYED. TAU OLIGOMERS ASSOCIATE WITH INFLAMMATION IN THE BRAIN AND RETINA OF TAUOPATHY MICE AND IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES. JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, 2016; 1 DOI: 10.3233/JAD-160912
OK. Let’s get down to it. What IS Ionized Water?
I’ve written this on our US site. If you are confused about what ionized ‘alkaline’ water is.. and isn’t.. this is worth a read.
Go here to learn more
IS PERFLUORO-OCTANE SULFONATE (AKA PFOAS) IN YOUR HOME WATER SUPPLY?
It’s Not Funny!
Vast areas of America contaminated by this combination of toxic chemicals in aqueous film-forming foam (fire fighting foam) has seeped into public water supplies from California to Rhode Island.
According to an Environmental Science and Technology Letters report, “the study suggests at least six million people across the U.S. in 2016 had drinking water that exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s lifetime health advisory for certain acids associated with the foams.”
Researchers from UC Berkeley and Harvard University report that these “highly fluorinated chemicals are linked to cancer, obesity, high cholesterol and endocrine problems, among other concerns” .
Australians are no strangers to the same nasty chemical. Residents living close to air bases are fighting an intransigent Department of Defence which seems to be doing all it can to deny existence of a problem.
How to get rid of Perfluorinated Compounds
Last month the U.S. EPA updated its drinking water guidelines for PFOA and PFOS (also known as perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, respectively) apparently in response to rising attention paid to the dangers of these chemicals in drinking water. The agency’s assessment is that drinking water with concentrations of PFOA and PFOS below 70 parts per trillion will not result in adverse health effects over a lifetime of exposure.
The Water Research Foundation assessed every possible filtration method.
They found that aeration, chlorine dioxide, dissolved air flotation, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, granular filtration, and microfiltration were all ineffective for removing PFASs including PFOA and PFOS. Anion exchange was moderately effective in treating PFOA, highly effective for PFOS, and failed to remove several other PFASs.
Nanofiltration and reverse osmosis proved to be the most effective methods of removing even the smallest PFASs.
Granular activated carbon (GAC) was shown to be adept at removing most PFASs and it may be the average utility’s best bet for PFOA and PFOS contamination.
“In many cases, the most cost-effective treatment for removing PFOA and PFOS will be Granular Activated carbon, though water utilities will need to test GAC to determine site-specific performance,” the WRF said.
GAC is the most common method of filtration available to homeowners, but there are grades of effectiveness. Most basic GAC water filters do not offer life-of-filter test data, so buyers cannot know how long they remain effective. A better form of this form of media is termed catalytic carbon. Its vastly increased surface area and method of production means it is not only capable of removing contaminants longer, but it has a far wider range of contaminants that it removes. Nanofiltration has, as seen above, also proved to be effective and the new UltraStream uses the new cutting edge Red-E nano filtration system which has a huge range of contaminant removal without loss of good flow rate.
Note: Most electric water ionizers on the market have far less filter efficiency.
Inflammation, inflammation, inflammation: it’s everywhere on the net and used to sell millions of dollars worth of supplements. We are proud of the anti-inflammation properties of I LOVE H2, our molecular hydrogen supplement, but are ready to admit that diet always come first as our preferred health strategy. So we were excited to read that real science rather than marketing has narrowed down our food choices to the best anti inflammation foods on the planet.
A Menu against inflammation
A few common foods may help rein in the chronic inflammation that contributes to so many diseases. A new study by the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease found that the polyphenols in onions, turmeric, red grapes, green tea and acai berries may be key to fighting the swelling.
To hone in on which foods might be most helpful in halting inflammation, scientists tested 31 polyphenols and six polyphenol combinations to see how they affected T-cells in the blood.
T cells are a type of white blood cell that circulates throughout our bodies, scanning for cellular abnormalities. Through cell-signaling molecules called cytokines, they call in the troops—other cells—when they find a problem that needs help. Prior to the study, little was known about the relative potency of different polyphenols in modulating cytokine release, according to a University of Liverpool release about the research.
University of Liverpool’s Sian Richardson, a co-author of the study, said: “The results of our study suggest that (poly)phenols derived from onions, turmeric, red grapes, green tea and açai berries may help reduce the release of pro-inflammatory mediators in people at risk of chronic inflammation. Older people are more susceptible to chronic inflammation and as such they may benefit from supplementing their diets with isorhamnetin, resveratrol, curcumin and vanillic acid or with food sources that yield these bioactive molecules.”
Ian: I agree with everything this study concludes. personally, however, I use I LOVE H2 for its anti inflammatory, antioxidant, anti allergenic, anti apoptotic and cell signalling support properties. All in one effervescent tablet.
The results were published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
Recent research has also suggested that vitamin D may be a part of a powerful strategy to reduce chronic inflammation and the related risk of disease.
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Benefits of Alkalizing
We run a great page on Facebook about alkaline diet. (You’re welcome to join!)
Antreas is just one of over 1000 people I have got to know through the group and his post today was amazing.
“Ian, the best way to harness a disease is to get informed and thank God for technological progression and breakthrough treatments… especially on the internet and sites like the Alkalinity forum… diabetes is therefore an acidic problem… to my understanding. Basically I have reduced carbohydrates , breads, biscuits oats, flour based sweets, sugar and so on.
Uric levels have dropped, therefore inflammation has also decreased, especially around the shoulders neck knees and backside.
Acidosis is a very severe condition. Urinating every ten minutes isn’t pleasant. I didn’t close an eye or have any sleep for a long period of time. I was walking zombie until I discovered alkalinity so I do know a bit and can relate it, feeling a lot better like I did when I was much younger. Trust me, alkalinity gives you elasticity and lightness with super powers. and mind you I will be sixty in a few years time!”
Ian: He followed up with a second post.
The heart loves an alkaline environment. If it speeds up it lets you know by Revving up as it increases the beats -then you have increased acidity.”
Flint Michigan: the Facts and what it means to all of us.
Don Chisholm interviews Ian Blair Hamilton about lead in our drinking water.
Alkaline Booster: a new use for it?
Alkaline Booster is a staple of my alkalizing regimen.
It’s the most effective, fastest and simplest method I have to replenish my internal store of alkaline minerals, so vital for combating the ongoing acid overload 99.99% of people now face daily. It’s the ‘Big four’ alkaline minerals with an organic sweetener, and we sell it as a sports supplement.
Now this report on a virtually identical product sheds new light on products like this.
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Sam Carpenter’s Travel Plan goes seriously wrong.
Sam Carpenter wrote a book on business organisation that really impressed me, and he travels the world helping small businesses like ours to become better operators.
But on a recent trip to Romania, Sam, the master planner, upset his plans with one small mistake.
“On my trip to Romania I drank from a public drinking fountain. I was told I shouldn’t have, and sure enough, over the months since I got back I’ve been feeling more and more horrible every week until it got to the point that it came time for me to go back to work. I was finding myselof feeling exhausted by 11am.
I went to a doctor I realised I had something serious going on, and found that I had parasites and bacteria!
I got these powerful antibiotics to kill the parasites and another one to kill the bacteria.”
Now.. Sam, much as I respect your organisational ability.. look what that slipup cost you! Weeks of discomfort, exhaustion, business disruption, and not one but TWO rounds of the dreaded antibiotics, laying waste to your internal flora!
And Sam, all you needed to do was take an AlkaWay Fill2Pure portable water bottle with you. It has the best filtration in the world for portable bottles. I NEVER travel without it!
Lead in your Drinking Water?
The recent SBS news article on lead in our water exposed a potentially serious problem for all Australians.
It comes in a wave of exposes worldwide that focus on high lead levels in drinking water.
So here’s the ‘lowdown’ on getting rid of lead in your drinking water.
(And please note: we’re not trying to panic you. It’s a simple fact that if you have a faucet you installed before 1990, there’s a good chance it’s leaking lead.)
Here’s the actual study results.
We are actually talking about lead and copper.
“My results show that there is quite a significant concentration of lead and copper in the drinking water that is coming out of people’s kitchen taps into their morning cup of tea, or baby formula,” says lead author of the study, PhD researcher Paul Harvey.
The team tested 212 such ‘first draw’ samples, and found copper in nearly all of them, while lead was present in 56 per cent of the households tested. According to guidelines, drinking water should contain no more than 10 micrograms of lead per litre – but 8% of the lead samples contained higher levels that that.
“The highest concentration sample that I collected in this study was 89 micrograms [of lead] per litre,” says Harvey. “The results of this study demonstrate that along with other potential sources of contamination in households, plumbing products that contain up to 2.84 per cent of detectable lead are contributing to contamination of household drinking water.”
There isn’t a simple test and you’d need to send a sample to a water test lab, but let’s assume for the moment that you do have a problem.
The problem can emanate from your faucet or from your plumbing, particularly if it is the old style copper pipe installation. The heavy metals are coming from the brazed joints in the piping.
You can relatively easily replace your faucet.. but replacing copper piping that may even be embedded in your slab is a much bigger problem.
So what can you do?
A good water filter is already worth its salt in any home, but if it will remove heavy metals – and the vendor can show you the test results over the life of the filter – it’s worth its weight in gold.
When we invented the UltraStream we went to America, the home of the best water filtration technologies in the world. We asked our engineers there to give us the best, and the safest, most long lasting media possible. When they produced the prototype some people thought it was ‘overkill’ – too much filtration – but today his – and our – choice has been vindicated.
The expensive filtration media, all of it certified and some of it patented, now offers people with lead and copper and life-of-filter solution.
Now.. I must stress. You won’t get this with an off-the-shelf carbon filter. They may say ‘up to 98%’ lead removal, but that only means that on the day they tested a brand new filter, it got UP TO 98% removal. One health food store brand I checked recently claimed ‘up to’ 98% fluoride removal, but when I checked they were just quoting WikiPedia – word for word! They had never tested their filter!
And that’s exactly why we spent the money to have the UltraStream tested for it whole effective life, plus submitting it to the EU for its stringent safety certification.
You can install it on your benchtop or undersink. We have installation videos and because WE invented it, wrote the manuals. So we can say you can have it up and running in under ten minutes, savouring the best water you’ll ever drink.
We wanted to feel good about recommending it to our customers. Take a look yourself here.
Why All Australians need to look at a water filter
This report comes from Water technologist Neil Sweeney. He is passionate about clean water. Here’s his facebook page.
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AUSTRALIA WITH WATER INFRASTRUCTURE?
If we are to go by the latest media reports, current water guidelines and the current state of disrepair of the mains pipe delivery system in our country then the health report card presented doesn’t look good for the country over the next decade; considering the size of our current deficit and what is put aside for water infrastructure and repair in the Budget.
Guys, Australia is in a WATER HEALTH CRISIS SITUATION which I would categorize as DEFCON 4.
In 2015 the Australian government released the Australian Infrastructure Audit-Executive Summary.
They only committed one page to discussing the water crisis in the nation but their conclusions were clear and damning.
“The water sector needs reforms to address quality, reliability and supply issues.”
The latest Water Health Guidelines provided by the NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council) which details the state of our current water system and how to treat it is now a huge volume to try and digest. The book is 1178 pages and the latest update in February 2016 discussed:
“Interim guideline values for chemicals that have “now” been detected in drinking water.” (extra chemicals since the last update)
Clarification of approval process for “new” drinking water chemicals, and modifications to inconsistencies to section 8.5 to 8.8.’ (recommendations were not sufficient to deal with contaminants)
Water infrastructure costs for each state are now beyond state government guidelines for expenditure and so they work on media campaigns to assure the Australian public that everything is ok and employ an “it’s broken, let’s repair that section” mentality.
To undertake major repair work on the thousands of kilometers of water pipes and upgrade the water treatment facilities in this country would be in the tens, if not hundreds of billions in capital expenditure.
Australia has let it go and simply can’t afford the repair bill, so they engage technology companies who can only monitor 1% of our underground water pipes.
Ian: Here’s the links if you are into a bit of masochism…
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“The failure of a major pipeline or reservoir could have far-reaching consequences. Not only could such an event have immediate catastrophic impacts to the surrounding area, there would also be long-term economic impacts on water, and possibly power, supplies to cities and towns. Repair and rebuilding costs would also be high.
As most pipelines are buried “out of sight and mind,” the water industry has had a reactive approach to maintenance whereby the pipes are run to failure, with individual pipe failures repaired until the failure rate reaches a predetermined level, at which point the entire section of pipeline is replaced. For smaller pipes, this is still considered “best practice” for the industry, but for larger critical pipelines a more proactive approach is being adopted.
“Replacing or repairing asbestos-laced cement pipes in the water network could cost about $8 billion over the next decade, an urban water sector industry group has estimated, adding to concerns about the cost of upgrades to Australia’s aging infrastructure.
The ABC yesterday reported that many water pipes were manufactured by James Hardie and that there were concerns that the government’s Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency was being “stifled”.
They said work from bodies including the National Health and Medical Research Council ‘showed there was not a health risk to drinking water that was carried through the pipes’.
“The issue is not from drinking it,” Mr Lovell said, noting that work had to be done on ageing pipes as part of renewal programs. “The real issue here is around worker safety, community safety. That’s the key issue.”
The big delay in Australia to repair these broken Asbestos pipes is the fear of worker contamination. So repairs are often delayed; which affects water quality to your home tap.
Ian: More to come as Neil reports.
Want to learn more about how to protect your family? Go here or here.
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