What is ionized water and how is it made?
The term ionized water is a bit of a buzz word lately. So what is ionized water and what is it used for? Well ionized water, by definition is just water that has gone through ionization, which a process that separates the acid and alkaline found in water. This is accomplished through a processes known as water electrolysis. This process splits the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in water (H2O) using an electric current. It’s at this point when it is possible to separate the acidic water from the alkaline water to create ionized alkaline or acidic water. So if the machine is producing 9.0 pH ionized alkaline water on one end it is also producing 5.0 ionized acidic water simultaneously. The sum will always equal 14. Typically the highly acidic water is either discarded or used for cleaning.
Is drinking ionized water good for you?
This is where things get a little fuzzy. It seems like almost all of the websites that claim that ionized water is going to cure all of your health problems are more than a little bit biased. Most of these sites are sponsored by water ionization companies. There is a lot of contradicting information out there. Drinking ionized water may have some health benefits, but a lot of the claims are pretty outrageous, if not impossible to verify.
What is the pH level of ionized water?
Every water ionizer is going to be different, but generally speaking ionized water is going to be extremely alkaline in the 9 or 10 pH range. Often you can adjust the water ionizer to different settings to make water between 7 and 11 pH.
Do you recommend ionized water?
In order to produce ionized water in your home, you’ll need to invest several thousand dollars in a water ionizer, and at the end of the day you are still drinking tap water. I also recommend this article for anyone with a water ionizer or is thinking of buying a water ionizer. I will say that it is never a good idea to drink extremely alkaline (or extremely acidic) water for an elongated period of time. It will certainly throw your body out of balance.
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