I hate hearing stories like this. I have never contacted the Kangen head office, but I assume that they would be able to help you.

Enagic is definitely not a scam company at all. I’m sure they will provide you with a refund.

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Thanks for your comment.

The Enagic representatives are typically genuine good people who are passionate about sharing their message.

I agree that we need more people to be aware of the water as I spend a lot of time trying to spread the word with my blog.

The Enagic people are wonderful at spreading the word. It is too bad that they are saddled with such an overpriced product, because they could be achieving so much more in terms of helping people if they had a unit that was affordable to the “common folk” as you say

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I was introduce Kangen and the Water Filtering machines, The Gentleman and his wife are and seem to be very nice folks, I was very impress with the quality of the water, but for me the price is a bit high for thier products and as you have mentioned here, We need more people to be aware of the water they drinking and provide a product that will be better affordable to the common folk.

Please contact me Sir

Ruben

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Thanks for your comments. I have done a lot of research since I wrote the article and I’m now much better informed. I agree with you that it is all about Hydrogen ions.

I still don’t care for the hydrogen sticks except for travel because they don’t clean the water, they are slow and therefore not convenient, and they are expensive for what you get. After saying that, if someone can’t afford $399 for an Alkastream, then a Hydrogen Stick is a lot better than nothing.

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Once again, thanks for the kind words. I really appreciate them, especially when there are people out there who are trying to hurt me for what I’m trying to do.

You have absolutely grasped the essence of the ingredients for good health…eat well, exercise, get outdoors, sleep, live and love, and hydrate.

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Yes, good nutrition is number one(but even with this subject there is such wide ranging debate over what is truly good nutrition and from which food sources). I’ve gone through this maze, and actually decided to go(dietary habits) with what kept my long lived relatives healthy and happy(incidentally–maternal grandfather drank well water all 99 years of his healthy/active life!). Who knows, right?

So, the foods for health, exercise, vegetable juicing, enough sunshine, no meds, outside air, love, some fortunate good genes, and now finally deciding on what type of water to consume and I should be set and prepared to maintain good health. It’s just so incredibly amazing how diligent one has to be in deciding which way to go on nearly all of these topics for health. The shame of it all is that there are so many people writing books, promoting a certain diet, pushing a certain juice, or health plan, or whatever, under the guise of wanting to truly help people, when in reality it’s the dollar that is pushing them. I honestly believe that most health care practitioners—whether allopathic or naturopathic–genuinely start out with the noblest of intentions….but sometimes along the way….. And then the consumer becomes a kind of faceless victim.

This is why I appreciate blogs and sights like yours so very very much.

Thanks again,

Kip

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The Alkastream will clean the water better than a pre-filter imo.

The Alkastream will produce water produce water with a pH of 8.5 to 10.0 depending upon source water conditions and the flow rate of the water. Therefore, if you are just looking for healthy drinking water, the Alkastream will do very well. It’s ORP is also much more stable so it will last if you don’t plan to always drink the ionized water right away.

If you want acidic water, you will need a EWI. In the alternative, you could buy a Alkastream for purity and drinking water, and an acid machine such as an E2 Spray made by Hyunsung E&E. The E2 Spray makes acid water via ionizing tap water with salt (NaCl). The acid machines sell for about $300, which is overpriced by about $100 imo based upon what they cost to make. When you start to add up the cost of an Alkastream ($399) and an E2 Spray ($299), you are at $700. A good water ionizer costs about $1,500 and the pre-filter costs about $250 for a total of $1,750.

If you run water through an Alkasteam, and then through an EWI, you will get clean water, but the pH will be very high (the ionized source water entering the EWI would likely be well over 9.0), so you wouldn’t be able to get acid water. The Conventional Wisdom (see my recent article) of the water ionizer companies will be that the Alkastream won’t be enough. They will be right if a person is looking for a wide range of pH levels. However, I have read statistics that EWI owners use their machines 30 times for drinking water for every time they use it for acidic water.

If you can afford the $1,750 for the EWI and pre-filter and you want to be able to have acidic water, then buy an EWI and a pre-filter system. If you are just looking for clean, safe drinking water, the Alkastream is a much more reasonable choice. Different people….different needs….different choices. Thank goodness for that, or we would all be just like me:)

People don’t need a water ionizer if they pay attention to their diet. A water ionizer provides and easy way to obtain antioxidants while hydrating. You would be surprised how little good nutrition is in many of the foods that we eat.

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The other thing I’m not certain I understand is the whole idea of needing the minerals that are in the water to begin with. Are we mainly talking about Calcium/Magnesium? I would think that the amounts are negligible compared to what we receive in our food and, in my case, supplements. Unless we were consuming well water, it just seems that, for instance, a glass of milk would contain more calcium than many glasses of water. That whole reverse osmosis/distilled debate never really struck me as very important. I am no scientist, though, and probably never fully understood it completely.

Thanks again,

Kip

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