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Does finger pointing really work?

I’m a bit frustrated at my friends in the Alkaline, Ionized water industry.

As best as we can determine, somewhere between 3-5% of the US has heard of Alkaline, Ionized water.  An even smaller percentage of those have taken the plunge so to speak.

Why?  Well how about some history.

Many of that 3-5% were introduced by a Kangen/Enagic rep.   They were the first company marketing into the US 8-10 years ago and had wide open, competitor-less terrain ahead of them.  Most of them are good, honest people who have done a ton to increase awareness.

But in the last few years, things have changed across the industry and it’s beginning to remind me of a grade school playground.

We know the water works.  In nearly every case when the “drinker” wants to improve, they do because the body is allowed to heal itself.   It’s amazing what happens when we stop tearing ourselves down.

So 5 yrs ago, the client who had been drinking the water for a while had 2 choices.  Keep feeling good and improving or go back to the way they were.  To maintain improvement, they had to come up with $4000 to purchase the ionizing machine.  A few could, but many could not.

Enagic was OK with that because there were a couple hundred million more people suffering out there to find.

But then the competitors showed up with a brilliant marketing plan.  Build a great web platform with lots of info, add some video demos showing how their ionizer produced better water, hype bigger is better, keep the cost below Enagic and most importantly, get to the top of Google searches.

But few people will drop a couple of grand on something they’ve never tried themselves.  So how do they drive awareness.  Easy…use the legwork of Enagic distributors.  When the client is told $4000, they search for alternatives, find a company with a video showing their product is just as good, if not better, than what they’ve been drinking with a 60-day money back guarantee and all for 2/3 the cost.

It’s a no-brainer.

But what happens when there are numerous “other” companies doing the same thing?  Then you point fingers and say “they aren’t as good as we are.”

If you’re really dishonest, you set up a non-biased review website like Ionizersreview.com and funnel everyone toward your machine by slighting others.  All while saying you have no financial interest.  Which makes the competition spend precious time defending themselves and putting down the others in response.

In the meantime, those who need the water are left confused.  [Here's the secret by the way...they all work]

A few truly wonderful people have done great over the years actually maintaining a non-biased approach.  They’ve typically stocked a variety of machines and given clients excellent consultation on what would work the best for them and their unique situation.

That was my plan…but not now.  The major manufacturers/importers are beginning to require distributors pick a team. We either stock theirs and theirs only or we can’t have any.

So instead of fighting together against the nearly overwhelming flood of big pharma and food production money, they are fighting themselves.

They are so focused on tearing each other down they don’t even notice the pharma and food types watching from beyond the playground fence with a satisfied smile.

Don’t think negative…drink negative

Have you ever had anyone tell you to think positive and stop being so negative?  Good advice that I wish more people followed.

There’s just something about negativity that draws people towards it.  Whether it’s a car wreck we have to slow down and see, a politician slamming a competitor, a talking head debate on cable news, or the person who has an unfortunate experience with a company and then immediately has to blog about it and tell everyone what a scam, cheat, horrible company it is.

I’ve heard it said a customer with a negative experience will quickly tell 10 of their friends, but with a positive experience its maybe 1.

Why?

Just so you know, there is absolutely no science to back this up, just me spitballing here, but maybe it’s because our bodies are awash in positive charge.  Maybe they are crying out for negativity!

Inside of our bodies, positive charge is not good.  [BTW...the science is turned back on now] Another more popular term for this charge is free-radical.  They are constantly  scavenging through the fluids of our body looking for negative charges [electrons] to steal.  Over time, these thefts wear a body down.  They make cells unhealthy, weaken critical systems, lead to decay and eventually aging and disease.

A body in balance has plenty of “negativity” to ensure the free-radicals find a mate without stealing it from the  current home.

Negative charges are also crucial for the transfer of electrical current through our cells. Without that transfer operating at a high level, vital processes like…well, like everything begin to degrade.  Our body is built to be an electricity transferring machine and without the proper balance of charges, the current just doesn’t flow.

Many chiropractors and neuropathic docs can measure our body’s balance by pushing in one place on our body and measuring our ability to resist force at another.  It tests balance, function and energy.

Lately, I’ve been duplicating this test.  Not by pushing on a particular point in the body, but by having someone hold a soda or cell phone to their chest with the other arm extended horizontally to the side.  When holding something which weakens the body, it’s very hard to resist downward force on the extended arm.  Then I replace the soda or cell phone with negatively ionized [charged] water.  The resistance is much easier to maintain.

Simply by holding a substance your body craves and which resonates with your cells, you can increase the strength of muscles and improve every function under the skin.  Now think about what drinking it can do.

I’d post a video, but who believes those anymore.  It would just be bombarded by people looking for negativity and calling it a slight of hand trick.

Let me know if you’d like to try.  Better yet, try it yourself with your phone.

How a grape becomes a raisin

At birth, we are 95% water.   From that moment forward, we begin to slowly progress to an average of 50-55% by the end of our life.  

Throughout our adult lives, our blood is about 90% water, the brain is around 85%, kidneys about 83%, even our bones are 20% water.

So why do we lose nearly 40% of our water weight as we age?

There are a couple of reasons.  Most are obvious…things we subconsciously know.  But there is one that has come to light just within the last decade which may be the most important.

Here are the obvious ones.

1.  We don’t drink enough water.  Instead we replace good ‘ol fashioned H2O with soda, coffee, “flavored water beverages” like Propel, sports drinks, etc.  Not only are they not water, they actually require water be pulled from the body to process them.  It’s a double whammy.

2. We train ourselves to ignore our thirst mechanism.  When we were toddlers, we’d whine to our parents when thirsty.  How many parents in response  hand their child water?  Some do, especially when it’s hot.  But we’ve been educated to give milk and juices with 100% vitamin-c instead because we’re told they are better for the child.  I see my folks do it with my kids all the time.

Drinking ionized water has awoken my mechanism again.  I’m now thirsty if I don’t drink water for more than an hour.   So it’s amazing to hear stories from clients who can go an entire day on 2 cups of coffee and a soda or tea for lunch.  They may drink a glass of water in the evening with supper or if they have to take a pill, but that’s it.

3.  Recent literature from mainstream docs and medical professionals have now introduced the idea of getting water from the foods we consume.  Nearly everything has some water in it, so they’ve just quantified the average amount of water in meats, veggies, etc.  By doing so, they’ve made the recommended standard of 8, 8-oz glasses a day out-of-date. We can get by with half of that now.   I don’t know about you, but it’s hard to squeeze water out of a cooked steak or a pan of lasagna.

Now the most recent.

In 2003, Peter Agre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of Aquaporins. You can read more about them here, but the jist of aquaporins is that they control the flow of substances in and out of our cells.  If what we drink doesn’t have the correct negative electrical charge, then it doesn’t get through.

It turns out there is only one substance we can drink that meets that requirement.  Sodas, coffees, sports drinks, tap and bottled water are all much more positive than negative.

So, hypothetically, if 70% of a bottle of water is positively charged, then only 30% of it [the negatively charged ions] are available for hydration.   On the flip side, if 70% is negative and available to the cells, you get a much better hydration.

We all know how a grape becomes a raisin.  We just don’t look at our body as the grape.

If you want your bottom to remain baby smooth, then drink ionized water.  Trust me.

World Alzheimer’s Day

I woke up this morning to a news story on the radio.  It turn’s out today is World Alzheimer’s Day.

Many of us know someone who suffers from this horrendous condition.  The person we’ve known and loved for so long slowly disappears before our eyes.  We’re left with a physical shell and fleeting glimpses of the person who used to be.

So today is meant to increase awareness and raise $$ for more research.   After all, the last major drug meant to cure Alzheimer’s actually made it worse and cost a couple hundred million.  We need more.

This year, dementia will cost the world $604B.   In the US, there are 5.1 million people who currently suffer and that number is expected to climb 300% by 2050.   It’s the 5th leading cause of death for those over 65.

The same experts who predict the massive climb in diagnosis are the same ones who say we don’t know what causes it. It’s just another one of those random diseases that keeps attacking us for no good reason.

Really?

There are many contributing factors.  Here’s one.

Remember this story on cholesterol?

Now take it one step further.  It’s no secret that brain inflammation is one of the major factors and signs on dementia.  If our LDLs have been prevented from doing their job, then the level of acid will increase throughout our bodies and as a result, so will the level of inflammation.

We pop statin drugs like candy in this country.  In fact, there is now even a push to get them into fast food restaurants right next to the kitchen packets.

Statin reduces our LDL and increases inflammation.

If we would just change our diets and get a little exercise we’d been healthier now and later. Or we can keep going as we are and end up meeting ourselves for the first time each morning while brushing our teeth.

Created nor destroyed

Back in the good ‘ol days, I remember learning  in school that matter cannot be created or destroyed.  All the particles could do was change form.  Most of us never think about that, yet every day in the kitchen we witness it.  We grab the recipe book and change individual ingredients into a delicious feast.  10 simple things can turn into Grandma’s killer chocolate chip cookies.   None of them taste as good separate…except for maybe the chocolate chips. The darker the better.

We take matter and we change it.  The butter and flour are not destroyed, they are improved.

Now apply those chocolate chip cookies to health.

The USA Today published a story today that a new superbug is now spreading across 35 states.  Seems a bit early, but here’s a map of the 35.

Big deal right? We’ve heard this nearly every winter for the last 5 years at least.

But this one is different.  Docs have always had a drug of last resort called carbapenam antibiotics.  When all else failed, this medicine “worked”.   But with this new version, it doesn’t.

As Neil Fishman, director of infection control and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiologists said, ”We’ve lost our drug of last resort”.

For those who depend on modern medicine to cure them and believe antibiotics do the trick, this is not good.  Essentially what Mr. Fishman is saying is that there is no “cure”.  No medicine they can administer will help.

So let’s go back to the law of conservation of matter.  If that’s true, which every physicist will say it is, then how can antibiotics ever work?  All they could possibly do is cause the “bacteria” to change.  To evolve into something else.

And that’s the problem with the way we’ve approached medicine the last 170 years…give or take a few.  We think we’ve been eliminating the cause of our sickness.  All we’ve been doing is causing it to morph into something else.

This video will give you an example.  A simple linear, rod bacteria transforms into an entirely different and unique specimen.

In the 1840′s, Antoine Bechamp called it polymorphism.   But he was ignored.  Pasteur’s flawed germ theory was chosen instead.  There is a lot more profit opportunity in medicine, vaccines and treatments.

After all, who makes money telling people to eat their vegetables?

It’s unfortunate, because disease and sickness would never be a problem if the terrain of our bodies was as it should be.  Full of oxygen, hydrated, nutrient rich, and active.

But they aren’t.  So we are starting to pay.  Some of us will pay dearly.

You don’t have to though.  There is a choice.  All it takes is asking the question “why?”, and then being open to the answers you find.  No matter how different they may be than current reality leads you to believe.

A restaurant that cares…

I have to thank Rob for showing me this.

Most restaurants rarely consider what the food they serve does to their customers.  Especially chains.  They advertise fresh and made daily, but that doesn’t make it beneficial.  Lawrence is great in that we have unique local food passionate people who do care.  But this isn’t on their radar….YET.  The next time you’re enjoying their handiwork, tell them you’d love it if they served Alkaline Water.

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A Recipe for Success

On the corner of So. Coast Highway and D Street, the Roxy Restaurant has been serving loyal customers for over 30 years. One of the secrets to its success is, no doubt, in their delicious, healthy, vegetarian menu.  Locals from all over San Diego and tourists alike are drawn to the hip, Mediterranean-style restaurant.

The Roxy Restaurant Adds Ionized Water to Drink Menu

Apart from more than quadrupling the square footage of his establishment, Naimi continues to expand his menu. One example of such an expansion is in plain view on his espresso bar. “People always ask me, what is that machine on your counter?” says Naimi. Roughly the size of a shoebox, with a brightly lit LED display and sleek silver and black housing, this machine looks like something out of a futuristic kitchen.

“‘It’s a water ionizer,’ I tell them. It’s the future.”

It isn’t just a healthy, delicious menu and hippy-Mediterranean décor, friendly staff and strategic location that have been Naimi’s recipe for success; it’s also that Naimi keeps an open mind about trying new things—like alkaline water from an ionizer—to meet the healthy demands of his guests. In this case, Naimi is offering purified alkaline drinking water to customers, a natural fit for Naimi’s forward-thinking, mostly-vegetarian clientele. Most of them have already heard about an ionizer, or they already understand the positive results from drinking alkaline water.

Naimi’s Introduction to the Ionizer Lifestyle

Naimi credits his first introduction to ionizers to his waitress Windy, who has been working with Naimi for over 18 years. She would always bring a bottle of ionized water from home, he noticed. He also noticed that she only drank her water from that bottle, so he decided to ask her about it one day, marking Naimi’s first introduction to the water ionizer.

Windy walks over to the tables nearby to do some spot cleaning just as Naimi and I are discussing the benefits of acid water. She is a tall woman with a warm, bubbly personality. When I ask her about her experience with her water ionizer, her enthusiasm for the results she has experienced is contagious.

“My mom is really kind of ahead of the whole health food health food thing. For like 30 years, she has been doing research into alternative health practices. She actually bought me my water ionizer, so that’s how I heard about it. I first thought to myself, ‘This is water. What difference could water make?’ But it’s been amazing since we started drinking it.”

Setting the Trend

I ask her if she has noticed the trend that is starting to take off in her area. Without hesitating, Windy tells me, “Well, after I got one, then Shoja got one, and then a couple of girls who work here tried the water, and then got one for their family, too. So it’s definitely spreading. [The water] is amazing stuff.”

Windy describes to curious customers the benefits of alkaline water when they ask her about it—which is often. “When she serves customers, she offers them alkaline water with their meal. She can describe all of the benefits to customers, what it does, how to use it apply it at home,” says Naimi—and the response has been very positive.

“I have customers bring their water bottles in from home to fill up with alkaline water. They come back again and again. People come in here buying a gallon here and there. Sometimes as a promotion, we give away free alkaline water to our repeat customers.”

Windy is the perfect water ionizer evangelist. Without hesitating, Windy lists off creative ways that she uses alkaline or acid water in her home. “I cook with the alkaline water all the time. I cook my beans with them, and they come out super tender. It’s good stuff. I even carry a little bottle of acid water I keep with me in my purse and I spray my face with it. It’s a wonderful skin toner.”

A Long and Successful History in Alternative Health

With all of its useful trends and health benefits, it’s a wonder why the trend hasn’t been introduced to the United States sooner. The ionizer has been used as a medical device in Korean and Japan for over 40 years, and has been popping up in mainstream holistic health circles for the last decade in the United States and Europe. Part purifier, part electrolysis machine, a water ionizer produces two categories of water: alkaline and acid water. Alkaline drinking water is reported to offer health benefits such as bowel regularity, clearer skin, more energy, faster post-workout recovery time, and is a natural antioxidant. Acid water, is strictly for topical use, and is an excellent skin toner and organic counter-top sanitizer.

Naimi himself is now a believer in the practical uses of a water ionizer. He says he uses the acid water to wash his face in the morning.  The cut flowers adorning the tables in the Roxy are watered with acid water, according to Windy.  Acid water is a natural skin toner, a fact which Naimi has noticed from using it as aftershave on his own skin. “Besides drinking alkaline water, I use acid water to take home and wash my face, spot-clean my clothes.” He has a small puppy, which he occasionally washes with acid water, making his coat shiny and clean. Moreover, he says, the puppy likes the alkaline water for drinking too!

The Alkaline Water Club is Now Open!!

Bottled water’s marketing efforts have been some of the most successful in history.  We are told that processed, reverse osmosis, distilled or purified water is good for us.

We buy it by the bottle or the case and have burly men delivering it.

Unfortunately, it’s not good for us because of 3 major qualities: acidic pH level, poor hydration capability and positive electrical charge.

So how about transferring those purchases to something that is good for you?

Starting today, you can become a club member and have access to gallons of the best water on the planet at a very low cost.  For those you now who buy cases of bottles at the store or have a large truck deliver it to the home and/or office, this option is perfect.

In most cases it even costs less.

Call 785-856-3912, email phislife@gmail.com or Facebook message for details.  Numerous flexible plans are available.

If you’ve never tried the water and are curious, your first 10 gallons are free after a quick consultation.

Bottoms Up!

We’ve got it all backwards

I’ve spent a lot of time highlighting the benefits of alkaline water.  After all, our internal bodies are alkaline by design and acidic by function.  We crave alkaline food and water and will operate at peak efficiency when our diet provides it.

However, the outside layer of our body is acidic.  Right at about a pH of 5.5.  It’s one of the major reasons our skin provides such a great defense mechanism.

So what do we do to help maintain that defense?  You guessed it…we apply alkaline substances to it!  Things like soap, shampoo, lotions, age-defying wrinkle removal beauty creams, hand sanitizer, etc.  Pretty much everything we’ve been told to use for hygiene falls prey to this shortcoming.

It’s a good thing we have a solution.

Water ionizers produce 2 types of water.  Alkaline for consuming and acidic for external uses and cleaning.

To prevent any confusion, when I say acidic, don’t mistake that for something so corrosive it eats through concrete. Acidic water falls between 2.5 and 5.5 on the pH scale, has high +ORP and comes in the same restructured form that alkaline does.  Many people call it “beauty water” with each level capable of multiple uses.  From washing your face to killing the worst germs laying on the kitchen counter.

Here’s 66 of them as listed by Chanson.  A well-respected ionizer manufacturer that’s been around for a long, long time.  My list is a bit longer, but just so you know I’m not the only one who thinks and talks about alkaline water, here’s theirs.

Skin & Hair

1. Use to lessen the appearance of lines and wrinkles on the face. Actually speeds skin renewal process!!
2. Use as a skin toner.
3. Use to lessen the appearance of age spots.
4. Use for dry skin patches or rough skin.
5. Carry a bottle around and use as a hand sanitizer. It will not dry the hands out.
6. Use to replace expensive skin moisturizers and creams.
7. Use as a hair conditioner.
8. Use for skin rashes or baby diaper rash.
9. Use to prevent shaving bumps.
10. Use as an aftershave.
11. Use for poison ivy and other plant rashes.
12. Use on skin for Eczema. Spritz three times a day and let air dry.
13. Use on skin for Psoriasis.
14. Use on skin for Rrosacea.
15. Use for dandruff. Spritz on after shampoo and let air dry.
16. Use for acne of every type. Spritz on after washing and let air dry.
17. Use to lessen the appearance of scars.
18. Use to spray in shoes to disinfect and deodorize.
19. Use in place of deodorant
20. Pour into bath water to soften skin.
21. Spritz on face for a refreshing pick me up.
22. Use as a soak for sore rough feet.
23. Use for Athletes Foot.
24. Use for Jockitch.
25. Use for female yeast infections and other female issues.
26. Use for Toe Fungus.
27. Use for Ingrown toenails.

Food Preparation

1. Use to kill bacteria on fruits and vegetables by using the mist or dipping.
2. Use in meat and dairy product facilities as a sterilizing and cleaning agent.

Internal Disinfectant

1. Use as a mouthwash and gargle.
2. Use as a toothpaste.
3. Use for pink eye.
4. Use for ear infections.
5. Use for infected tooth or gums.
6. Use as a gargle for a sore throat.
7. Use as an enema.
8. Use to treat bad breath.

First Aid & Sterilizer

1. Use for burns.
2. Use for minor cuts and scrapes.
3. Use to promote faster healing of cuts and wounds.
4. Use to stop bleeding in minor cuts.
5. Use on boils.
6. Use in doctor and dentist office for cleaning and antibacterial.
7. Use in clinical applications to sterilize surgical instruments.

Cleaning Purposes

1. Use to sanitize bathrooms and kitchen counters.
2. Use on cutting boards.
3. Use to spray directly in refrigerator for foul odors.
4. Use to spray on carpets and rubber bathtub mats.
5. Use as a streak free glass and mirror cleaner.
6. Use for cleaning wood floors (a light mist is all that is needed).
7. Use to clean dirt and grime all over the house (removes fingerprints from drywall), etc.
8. Use to sanitize the interior of your washer and dryer.
9. Use on household sponges to extend their life and prevent foul odors.
10. Use to spray into laundry baskets to kill mold and fungi.
11. Use to disinfect human and pet bedding.
12. Use for auto glass.
13. Use for chrome polishing.
14. Use to sanitize phones.
15. Use to sanitize computer keyboards (light spritz).
16. Use on doorknobs and handles to disinfect them.
17. Use for deodorizing.

Pets

1. Use in cat litter boxes to kill odors and bacteria.
2. Use on animal’s skin for any kind of skin issue.
3. Spray in bird cages. The water will not hurt the bird.

Bug Control

1. Spray on ant trails to deter them.
2. Kills many types of spiders and insects.

There is no bad cholesterol

Last weekend, while I was waiting for a chance to visit with a very successful natural health doctor, I overheard him working with a patient in the next room over.

Walls are thin, and I distinctly heard him say, “there is no bad cholesterol”  

Wait a minute…no bad cholesterol?  That can’t be true. I’ve heard since grade school that there are good and bad forms of cholesterol.  As I’ve gotten older and had the standard physicals, the doctor has always stressed to keep the LDLs low and the HDLs high.

Luckily, my ratios have always been good so the doctor has simply encouraged me to keep eating foods low in fat. That made me assume those foods created the cholesterol which then led to other problems down the road.

When I heard him say that, I had to follow-up and get more specifics.  You won’t believe what I’ve learned. [Well maybe you will if you've been around a while]

There are 2 types of cholesterol.  LDL and HDL.  The purpose of LDL is to attach to and transport acidic waste to the liver.  That waste can be the result of environmental impurities, emotional toxins like stress or dietary induced acid.  The LDL takes those waste to the liver which the filters off the waste for removal and then recycles the cholesterol back into the bloodstream for another round trip.

The other type, HDL, serves 2 main purposes.  First it provides a component needed to create cellular membranes.  We want pliable cells.   Secondly, it is responsible for driving nutrients into those cells.  Also very important.

So the LDL gets rid of the bad stuff, like your local trash service, and the HDL takes care of the good.  Pretty simple right?

Now follow this logic.  If we have high LDL, then that means we have an abundance of acidic waste in our blood stream.  The trash pile on the curb is overflowing.  Cholesterol is sticky and as quantities rise, it begins to clump [aka clot] together.  Persistent inflammation [which will be discussed in a later post] causes the body to line our vessels and arteries with LDL as a buffer to stop the irritation.   So we end up with blockage, clots and poor circulation.  Hello “heart disesase”!

On the flip side, if our HDL is low, then we do not have the level of nutrients in our bodies that we should.  If we did, then the liver would create HDL to deliver it.

But how does conventional medicine treat high cholesterol?  Do they educate and tell people to cut the acid build up?  Nope.  They prescribe a statin drug to stop the liver’s production of cholesterol.  They may also blame genetics or tell you to start exercising and cut out fatty foods.

Do the fix the “cholesterol problem”…absolutely.  Too bad that’s not the problem.  Cholesterol is actually trying to help you.