Got my ionized water (no it wasn’t struck by lightning), and I’m ready to go.
Each jar has 4 cups of water (or 1/4 gallon). I backed off of the amount of water from the 2011 Great H2O Experiment (to prevent a drinking problem) and am down to 1.5 gallons a day. The reason I drink out of a jar is because the negative ions stay negatively charged in glass, but in plastic it loses it’s charge. I have no idea why, but the plastic bottles make it lose almost 1/2 of it’s charge.
To test for an electrical charge of a liquid, you need a pH / ORP tester. The ORP is Oxidation Reduction Potential, a fancy way of reading an electrical charge to determine if the liquid adds to or subtracts from oxidation. An example of oxidation is when an apple turns brown after it’s been bitten or sliced and exposed to oxygen (air). The same thing happens to the cells in our body. The cells that become oxidized become free radicals, which mean they lack a hydrogen molecule and attempt to steal a hydrogen molecule from other cells, damaging the other cells in the process. To satisfy the free radicals need for hydrogen, we need to consume antioxidants. Antioxidants have an additional hydrogen molecule that it can ‘donate’ to the free radical, making the free radical into H2O (water)
Antioxidant rich foods have a negative OPR value. The more negative the value, the more benefit it has in our body. The higher the value, the worse it is for you. As an example, cola has an ORP of +400, and bottled water is +250 which means by drinking these things, we are introducing things that are going to oxidize in our body. Blueberries on the other end of the spectrum have an ORP of -60 and spinach is -120 which means by eating these things, we are introducing something in our body that can slow or stop oxidation.
I don’t want to oxidize on the inside like an apple does on the outside, so I drink negatively charged water. I think I just turned into a hippie. Below is an ORP reader showing the value of ionized water in a glass (on the left) and ionized water that was in a plastic bottle poured into a glass (on the right). The reader couldn’t fit into the opening on the plastic water bottle. The value of the water stored in a glass is -367 and the value of the water that was stored in a plastic bottle is -207 (still really good!). It’s weird that the value drops so much. Maybe someone can try to explain that to me. Is Mr Brunner still around?
