Greetings from Canada. The world is a very small place with the internet.

I agree with your doctor about the importance of an alkaline diet when it comes to psoriasis, and many other health issues. If you have access to a water ionizer, you can drink the alkaline water and apply the acidic water (the second stream of water produced from the waste water line) directly on your skin. The results can be outstanding. When I was in the water ionizer business, I directed many people to the water that had great results with their psoriasis and exzema.

A quick internet serarch of “alkaline food chart” will provide you with many different alkaline foods.

Good luck.

Thanks for the commenting on the blog. I apologize for for taking a couple of days to get back to you, as I normally try to respond to comments asap. The weather is awesome in Muskoka, the kids have been up to visit this week, and I have just been too busy living to work on the blog.

I spent a couple of years at the Ivey School of Business in London a long long long time ago. Never made it to St. Thomas, but I know it is close by.

Counter top units are less expensive and equally effective to under counter units. The under counter units have the advantage of minimizing the need for counter space and the unit itself is out of site. The under counter units should be only slightly higher in cost than the above counter units, but the marketing people in the industry think they should sell for about a $500 premium. I don’t get it, but my vote doesn’t count.

I understand your confusion about all the claims of “we are the best”. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would just say: “we have a really good product at a fair price and we will do our best to help make your experience with water ionizers a good one”. I know, too much exposure to sun for me!

reasonable price great unit at a great price and we will give you great service…and we would greatful for your business”
I would be happy to provide you with whatever information I have. You can reach me by emailing me directly or finding me on Skype at: robthewaterguy.

Thanks for the kind words.

I don’t make recommendations on line because it can turn into a promotional thing by people who sell the machines. If you contact me at my personal email, I would be happy to help you. I don’t make recommendations on the blog as I don’t want a salesperson to use the recommendation as an endorsement. I will ask you a few questions about your needs and water, and then tell you what I think would best suit your needs. You can then go online and shop for the best deal.

I checked out the website that you provided. It looks to me like the product it is a very expensive remineralization filter. The site doesn’t offer any details on the product, so it is impossible to tell what is in the filter. I suppose you could call the company, but I have tried that before with different products and the response is always the same “oh, we can’t tell you that as our formula is proprietary”. That resonse always gets the same response from me…”goodbye”.

There are many products on the market that add minerals to the water (remineralization), which in turn raises the pH of the water. However, these products are not anything like a water ionizer based upon electrolysis.

There are a number of water ionzers available that are priced under $1,000. They all work in good source water conditions, but they are typically underpowered and only have one to three plates. Eventually, I hope we will see the best machines priced under $1,000 as competition and awareness increase.

Thanks for this great site. I live in Calgary and am looking to improve my health. Since you have done all the research I was wondering if you could suggest an ionizer that is affordable.

I presently have an RO system and was wondering if you know anything about the system below.

http://www.water80.com/products/en-us/microclusteredcartridge.htm

Thank You and God Bless,

Michelle

Thanks for your question. It is a good one.

When I visited Korea in April to meet engineers and scientists and visit production facilities, I came across hydrogen water machines. These machines were about the same price as water ionizers and the Koreans were excited about their ability to raise the pH of water that was processed by the machines. It turns out that the hydrogen machines produce similar pH levels as water ionizers, but don’t produce the negative ORP. After looking at a number of machines from different makers, it appeared to me that they were not an improvement to water ionizers.

The authors that you have quoted are highly respected researchers in Asia. The hydrogen water that they are talking about is in fact ionized water. When you see all the bubbles in freshly made ionized water, what you are seeing is the hydrogen bubbles being released and rising to the surface.

I assume the cost difference that you are referring is between hydrogen sticks and water ioinizers. I have tested the inexpensive hydrogen sticks. While they produce elevated pH levels for a short period of time, they also produce water that develops a nasty taste and odour after a few hours. I’m not a fan of the hydrogen sticks.

I checked out your website and I see you are a Kangen dealer. Enagic dealers are proud of their products because they see how well they perform and how their products help so many people. When someone comes along and says that a product that costs less than half the money is as good or better, it represents a big challenge to the Kangen story.

Why don’t you come to visit me in my lab in September when I return from my summer vacation, and we can test the units together. I own and test about ten different brands. Every one of the brands works. There is no such thing as a best brand, but there are specific machines that perform better than others under different source water conditions.

My testing shows that the $1,700 machine produces results that match or beat all of the more expensive machines. However, that doesn’t mean the more expensive machines are bad. The lower cost machine has some great new features that I expect will be on most of the new models of the leading machines in the coming months. I don’t want to be like everyone else and bash the Enagic machines, but they have not been updated in many years and as such have fallen behind many different models that are now available on the market.

I expect we will see lower prices across the board in the near future People simply won’t pay more than they have to unless they don’t do their homework.

I enjoyed speaking with you and I was glad to help.