Experimenting with ionizing water and found out through research that the lower ORP (oxidation reduction potential) and the higher the pH (potential Hydrogen) liquid has, the better it is for you when you drink it. Conshohocken, PA tap water has an ORP of +250 and a pH of 7.7. While attempting to ionize the water and finding a cleaner product to start with I picked a bottled water that I drink all the time. It has an ORP of +220 and a pH of 7.7. That’s pretty much the same as tap water, meaning they have the same effect on your body (one just costs more). So much for that idea. Oh, how about filtering the water through a Brita filter first? That should purify it and make the water cleaner. Not so much. The water actually became more acidic (something I don’t want to even drink (6.2 pH)) and the ORP hovered around +280.
With various charging voltages and miliAmps, the water always eventually had a negative charge and the pH rose to 8.9 pretty consistently. I thought a car battery charger with 12v should really ionize the water quickly and efficiently. It did, but the amps were too high and the outcome wasn’t as good as I hoped. It seems that a 6v phone charger with 600 miliamps yielded the best result so far: ORP of -300 and pH of 9.1. Any negative number makes the water an antioxidant. Values of -500 or less becomes medicinal. The whole process of ionizing the water takes about 8 hours with the low charge, but it’s enough water (200 plus ounces) to last a day.
Once the water is ionized, I fill up my mason jar and I drink water that I’m happy to know is hydrating, alkalizing, and an antioxidant. A weird side note, putting the ionized water in plastic bottles changes the ORP level. That’s why I choose the glass jar (that plus I’m a little strange).
