What is Alkaline Ionised Water?
The term "alkaline ionised water" is one of many terms that arise when we begin to explore the hidden properties of water.
All natural water consists of H2O molecules and OH- and H+ ions in very small quantities. It is these ions that give acidity or alkalinity of the water. When these ions are equal in number, the water is neutral with a pH of 7.0. When OH-ions predominate, there are more H+ ions, the water is alkaline.
Hydrogen stabilises unstable oxygen. Alkaline ionised water contains active hydrogen. Alkaline ionised water has plenty of very small molecules of active hydrogen, which can deoxidise the oxidised cells in one’s body.
Alkaline water has more oxygen and alkaline minerals than neutral water. It is highly oxygenated water, with oxygen in the stable OH-form, which is necessary for our cells. At a pH level between 8-10, alkaline ionised water will have 100′s of times more excess oxygen than neutral water.
ORP – Oxidation Reduction Potential
Looking at how water affects our health is a very interesting topic. Ionised water is saturated with negatively charged ions. These negatively charged ions attract the positively charged ions of harmful acids and neutralise them. Scientists have developed a method to measure and assign values to these electron activities. The measurement is known as oxidation-reduction potential or ORP and is measured in millivolts (mV).
- The value of ORP quantifies the amount of energy in water by numbering electrons.
- ORP values are expressed as millivolts or mV.
- Drinking water should always have a negative ORP measurement of at least-50MV.
- Water with an ORP of-50MV get enough negative ions to attract and neutralise excess acids.
- A negative ORP provides abundance of negative electrons which makes the water into a powerful liquid antioxidant more effective than vitamin C because of its smaller molecular size.
Normal tap water often has a pH level around 7 and is therefore neutral on the pH scale (from 0 to 14). When the water is measured with an ORP meter, the redox potential is approximately 200 to 300 mV (also called redox voltage).
Typical mineral water has ORP values in the range of +100 to +200 mV. Because it has a positive redox potential, it may acquire electrons and oxidise other molecules. Ionised water has a negative redox potential of approximately -100 to -250 mV.
This means that this water has a large mass of electrons ready to be given to the electron-thieving active oxygen, also called free radicals.
Micro-Clusters Provide Better Hydration
When water molecules are missing an electron (positive ionised) start to share the missing electron. They borrow an electron from each other, causing the water molecules to clump. This is a typical result of bottled water and tap water and creates a problem because your cells have difficulty absorbing such large, clumped molecules.
Our cell walls have channels in them called aquaporins. The aquaporins are the “gatekeepers” that decide what is allowed in our cells and what isn’t. These aquaporins do not accept clumped and positive ionised water molecules in through the water channel. This is for good reason, as they are basically free radicals that will damage your cells.
Since most water carries a high positive (+) charge, the aquaporins keep the water out. So even though you are drinking a lot of water, you probably are not hydrating very well on a cellular level.
The molecular structure of normal tap water is reduced and reshaped through a natural process, which is why alkaline ionised water so easily absorbed by the body. Alkaline ionised water creates micro-water molecule clusters. Water exists as groups of water molecules that are weakly bound together. Ionic results in these clusters are reduced to much smaller clusters, making absorption in the body much more efficiently, thus providing better hydration.
Water is thus also very useful as an aid to weight loss. In fact, many cases of obesity are characterised by poor hydration. Drinking alkaline ionised water with its micro-water molecule properties hydrate your body and helps to eliminate acids and fats.
Production of Alkaline Ionised Water from Minerals
In an AlkaPod, natural minerals in contact with water makes it alkaline and produces hydrogen. It includes minerals with more ionising effects than hydrogen, such as magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca) and lithium (Li). Calcium and lithium help give the water a good structure. Magnesium, which dissolves in water, releases electrons as shown by the following formula:
Mg + 2 H2O -> Mg2 + + 2OH- + H2 (H-+ H–> H2)
The water is alkaline by forming OH- and hydrogen (active hydrogen formed at the same time) to lower water ORP (redox potential) and enabling it to eliminate active oxygen.
Magnesium is an important component in the process of making alkaline ionised water, but unfortunately has several shortcomings. Compared to calcium it is relatively poor in making a condensed structure in water and its effect on water makes it bitter, in contrast to calcium. Its effectiveness to react with water to produce alkaline deionised water and hydrogen is reduced gradually. To remedy these weaknesses, magnesium’s physical properties must be improved by producing special alloys that provide a long-term impact to create diffused water and produce hydrogen with alkaline water.
There are other combinations: Ceramics based on calcium, special minerals, which stabilises the active hydrogen, natural stone, which makes the water structural compaction and increases water solvent and minerals which can cause a catalytic effect. This creates hexagonal water with abundant small clusters of molecules and maintains the ability to eliminate reactive oxygen species for longer.
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