“This day is your opportunity to find one, two, or even dozen ways to ensure that future generations will enjoy all the healthy benefits of a greener planet!”

Dear Children of Mother Earth,

Celebrate Earth Day Together!

Today, thousands of good people have joined together in a unified effort to celebrate and protect our home – Planet Earth.

This day is your opportunity to find one, two, or even dozen ways to ensure that future generations will enjoy all the healthy benefits of a greener planet!

IonWays Ionizer = No Plastic Bottles = Happy Earth!

To all our of our Team Members & Customers who have already cut down on plastic waste through the purchase of a water ionizer – we salute you!

Already, your decision has helped ease the burden of accumulated plastic waste in our landfills.

Let’s move forward with our healthy planet-healthy beings and water ionizers, teaching others how they too can “go green” with IonWays!

Happy Planet Coming Right Up!

Thanks for making a difference!  This one choice is HUGE!  :0)

Happy Earth Day to All ~With Love and Caring Awareness,
Debra & Mark, WellSpring

Changing Water, Changing Lives through Alkaline Ionized Water from IonWays & WellSpring!

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By Ian Blair Hamilton

It’s a rhetorical question. We all know the answer – but in my experience the only time such a question seems to become important is when people don’t actually have five years of life left.

It’s often said that people spend more money on their health in the last two years of their life than the total of the rest of their life. In my experience this is so very true.

I don’t want to waste time telling you how naughty you’ve been to fail to learn about your own health. God knows we are all so “busy” just surviving in this crazy world that oftentimes health takes a backstage position until it fails. It’s like my son’s car. He simply doesn’t change the oil. He believes everything lasts forever. At age 26, so did I.

I have been asked many times to write down my understanding of acid and alkaline balance and its effects on health. This has usually been asked after I have spent an hour explaining it to someone, for the umpteenth time! So I’m going to give you my grand theory of everything about acid/alkaline balance now, and if you hear what I am saying, I know you’ll understand and act upon this most fundamental of all health secrets.

Why is acid/alkaline balance ‘fundamental’? Because this is about what happens at the microscopic level within our bodies; beyond the cellular level – at the atomic level. It’s all about electricity, and about what happens to create energy in your body at the atomic level. It’s about what doesn’t happen, what should happen, and what will happen if you follow what I am suggesting. Most people I talk to already know that we are too acidic, because of acidic foods, drinks, pollution, lifestyle, stress … almost everything is acidifying including watching the news at six.

We are told we need to alkalize, but what does that really mean? Many of us think that acidic water is just water with lots of acidic minerals in it, and alkaline water is water with lots of alkaline minerals in it – calcium, magnesium, potassium etc. But you can have acidic water with both acid and alkaline minerals in it; just more acids than alkalis, so it’s not quite as simple as you may have thought.

Why am I explaining all this? Because if you can really understand this, you can begin a new way of thinking about your own and your loved one’s health. The conventional approach to alkalizing something like water has been to take tap water, with its mix of acids and alkalis, then add more alkalis.

What’s wrong with that? You’re drinking a chemical cocktail – just to get your alkaline water.

But in this twenty minutes we’re going to go far farther than this small point.

Let’s assume that we have water with no minerals at all; distilled for instance. Then we add some calcium. Now we have alkaline water. The pH of this water may have gone from a neutral pH 7 to an alkaline pH 8; ten times more alkaline that pH 7. Most of us learned all this in chemistry class – as long as you weren’t looking out the window like me!

Do you know what pH stands for? It comes from French, and means “per Hydrogen”, which is a measure of the amount of Hydrogen in a liquid. Note; we’re not talking about the amount of alkalizing or acidifying chemicals in a liquid. No, we’re talking about the amount of hydrogen atoms. The chemicals or minerals just react with the water to create hydrogen atoms.

Why is this so important? Hydrogen fuels us. Hydrogen heals us. Hydrogen is our most essential nutrient. Hydrogen provides our life force! And pH equals amount of hydrogen in liquid, so it’s a measure, if you like, of available life force in a liquid.

Continued with Reverse Aging article by Sang Whang

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Dangers of Plastic Water Bottles
P.W. McRandle

Whether you buy bottled water or conscientiously tote some from home, you’ll want to avoid swallowing chemicals along with it. Particularly for small children, whose bodies are developing, it’s best to steer clear of plastics that can release chemicals that could harm them in the long term. Below, the plastics not to choose (check the recycling number on the bottom of your bottle) and those that are safer:

Plastics to Avoid

• #3 Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) commonly contains di-2-ehtylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), an endocrine disruptor and probable human carcinogen, as a softener.

• #6 Polystyrene (PS) may leach styrene, a possible endocrine disruptor and human carcinogen, into water and food.

• #7 Polycarbonate contains the hormone disruptor bisphenol-A, which can leach out as bottles age, are heated or exposed to acidic solutions. Unfortunately, #7 is used in most baby bottles and five-gallon water jugs and in many reusable sports bottles.

Better Plastics

• #1 polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE), the most common and easily recycled plastic for bottled water and soft drinks, has also been considered the most safe. However, one 2003 Italian study found that the amount of DEHP in bottled spring water increased after 9 months of storage in a PET bottle.

• #2 High Density Polyethylene

• #4 Low Density Polyethylene

• #5 Polypropylene

Better Baby Bottles:

Choose tempered glass or opaque plastic made of polypropylene (#5) or polyethylene (#1), which do not contain bisphenol-A.

Best Reusable Bottles:

kleankanteen – (except with Ionized water, it destroys the ORP and pH – use glass)

Tips for Use:

• Sniff and Taste: If there’s a hint of plastic in your water, don’t drink it.
• Keep bottled water away from heat, which promotes leaching of chemicals.
• Use bottled water quickly, as chemicals may migrate from plastic during storage. Ask retailers how long water has been on their shelves, and don’t buy if it’s been months.
• Do not reuse bottles intended for single use. Reused water bottles also make good breeding grounds for bacteria.
• Choose rigid, reusable containers or, for hot/acidic liquids, thermoses with stainless steel or ceramic interiors.

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What about Plastic?

Dr. Don Colbert, MD, author of Toxic Relief

Some bottled waters contain more toxins than tap water and are not as closely regulated as tap water. Two of the biggest bottled water brands, Dasani and AquaFina, are reprocessed tap water from cities around the country.  About 1/4 of all bottled waters are from tap water. The other problem with bottled water is that it comes in plastic.  Studies continue to show that plastic is not as safe as people believe.

· The very worst plastic is polyvinyl chloride (PVC), it is a known carcinogen that emits pollutants from the moment it is created until long after it is discarded.  Studies show that PVCC leaches vinyl chloride and other pollutants, thus disrupting the hormonal balance, causing fertility problems and damaging cells, organs, and tissues.

· Another common ingredient in some plastics, bisphenol A, is used in reusable water bottles.  It can change the course of fetal development and cause abnormal chromosome loss or gain, which leads to miscarriage or disorders like Down syndrome.  It has also been linked to obesity.

· Nalgene water bottles and 5 gallon bottles also contain bisphenol A (number 7 bottles) Studies show the chemical leaches into the water at room temperature.

· Most water bottles are made from a plastic called PET or PETE (polyethylene terephthalate) This kind of plastic is considered safer than PVC, but it has been shown to leach plasticizer chemicals called phthalates  into the water when used repeatedly or when water is bottled for too long.  Phthalates disrupt the production of fatty acids and interfere with the production of sex hormones.  They may be safe if used within a few months of the date the water was bottled – check for an expiration date.

Avoid bad plastics

Use glass containers or bio-based plastic (made of all natural products like starch, cellulose, and raw rubber)  The safety of plastics will continue, for now the safest plastic to use are PET or PETE as long as they have not been heated and are not old or reused.

· PET or PETE: used  to bottle soda,  most  bottled  water,  cooking oils, juice, salad  dressing,  peanut  butter, and other  foods.

· HDPE:  milk jugs,  one gallon water  bottles, some bottled  foods

· PVC: cling  wraps,  Reynolds Wrap,  Stretch-tite, Freeze-tite (used by many grocery stores  for  meats), four ounce Wesson Cooking  Oil, Appalachian Mountain spring water, some  plastic  squeeze  bottles

· LDPE: food storage  bags (like  Glad and Ziploc)

· PP: deli soup containers, most Rubbermaid containers,  cloudy plastic baby bottles, ketchup bottles, other cloudy plastic  bottles

· PS: Styrofoam, some disposable plastic cups and bowls, and most opaque plastic cutlery

· “Other” resins, usually polycarbonate, which contains bisphenol A:  most plastic baby bottles, five gallon water bottles, clear  plastic “sippy” cups, some types of clear plastic cutlery, inner lining of food cans

· PLA – bioplastic called polylactic acid

Use and Storage of Bottled Water

Reusing your water bottle is terrible for your body; studies show dangerous levels of bacteria accumulate on and in the bottle as you reuse it.  The water may become so contaminated that, if it were tap water, cities wouldn’t use it!

Keep your bottled water away from cleaning compounds, paints, gasoline, or other household or industrial chemicals.  Do not store it in the garage or in direct sun light.

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Alkaline Water and Stomach Acid

By Sang Whang

Among the people who question the validity of alkaline water, the biggest question is, “What happens to the alkaline water once it reaches the stomach, which is highly acidic?” People who have some knowledge of the human body, including medical doctors, ask this question. Let me answer that question once and for all to erase any doubts about the health benefits of alkaline water.

In order to digest food and kill the kinds of bacteria and viruses that come with the food, the inside of our stomach is acidic. The stomach pH value is maintained at around 4. When we eat food and drink water, especially alkaline water, the pH value inside the stomach goes up. When this happens, there is a feedback mechanism in our stomach to detect this and commands the stomach wall to secrete more hydrochloric acid into the stomach to bring the pH value back to 4. So the stomach becomes acidic again. When we drink more alkaline water, more hydrochloric acid is secreted to maintain the stomach pH value. It seems like a losing battle.

However, when you understand how the stomach wall makes hydrochloric acid, your concerns will disappear. A pathologist friend of mine gave me the following explanation. There is no hydrochloric acid pouch in our body. If there were, it would burn a hole in our body. The cells in our stomach wall must produce it on an instantly-as-needed basis. The ingredients in the stomach cell that make hydrochloric acid (HCl) are carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O), and sodium chloride (NaCl) or potassium chloride (KCl). NaCl + H2O + CO2 = HCl + NaHCO3, or

KCl + H2O + CO2 = HCl + KHCO3

As we can see, the byproduct of making hydrochloric acid is sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) or potassium bicarbonate (KHCO3), which goes into blood stream. These bicarbonates are the alkaline buffers that neutralize excess acids in the blood; they dissolve solid acid wastes into liquid form. As they neutralize the solid acidic wastes, extra carbon dioxide is released, which is discharged through the lungs. As our body gets old, these alkaline buffers get low; this phenomenon is called acidosis. This is a natural occurrence as our body accumulates more acidic waste products. There is, therefore, a relationship between the aging process and the accumulation of acids.

By looking at the pH value of the stomach alone, it seems that alkaline water never reaches the body. But when you look at the whole body, there is a net gain of alkalinity as we drink alkaline water. Our body cells are slightly alkaline. In order for them to produce acid, they must also produce alkaline, and vice versa; just as a water ionizer cannot produce alkaline water without producing acid water, since tap water is almost neutral.

When the stomach pH value gets higher than 4, the stomach knows what to do to lower it. However, if the pH value goes below 4, for any reason, the stomach doesn’t know what to do. That’s why we take Alka-Seltzer, which is alkaline, to relieve acidic stomach gas pain. In this case, hydrochloric acid is not produced by the stomach wall, therefore, no alkaline buffer is being added to the blood stream.

Let me give you another example of a body organ that produces acid in order to produce alkaline. After the food in the stomach is digested, it must come out to the small intestine. The food at this point is so acidic that it will damage the intestine wall. In order to avoid this problem, the pancreas makes alkaline juice (known as pancreatic juice). This juice is sodium bicarbonate, and is mixed with the acidic food coming out of the stomach. From the above formulae, in order to produce bicarbonates, the pancreas must make hydrochloric acid, which goes into our blood stream.

We experience sleepiness after a big meal (not during the meal or while the food is being digested in the stomach), when the digested food is coming out of the stomach; that’s the time when hydrochloric acid goes into our blood. Hydrochloric acid is the main ingredient in antihistamines and that is what causes drowsiness.

Alkaline or acid produced by the body must have an equal and opposite acid or alkaline produced by the body; therefore, there is no net gain. However, alkaline supplied from outside the body, like drinking alkaline water, results in a net gain of alkalinity in our body.

Copyright 1997 by Sang Whang Enterprises, Inc.

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Toxic Acidic Water & The Perfect Drinking Water

No one “makes” water — it’s made for us by nature.

We’re all familiar with the cycle: rain, snow — melt, rivers, lakes, oceans, evaporation, condensation, clouds, rain, snow . . . The cycle is still unchanged. But what happens to the water during that cycle, at the hands of man, has changed enormously — even catastrophically — during the last 150 years. That’s why, for optimum health, you have to “make” water – electron rich alkaline water. Before I tell you how to do this, here’s a quick review of why you should.

Toxic Acidic Chemicals

On the average, drinking water in the United States currently contains over 2,100 toxic chemicals that are known to cause cancerous states, cell mutation through acidic fermentation, and nervous system disorders created by these toxic acidic chemicals. This is not particularly surprising considering that there are close to 100,000 acidic chemicals now in everyday use — with over 1,000 new ones being added each year.

In fact, according to the EPA, US industries generate some 79 million pounds of toxic acidic waste each year that is not disposed of properly – most of it ends up in our oceans leading to acid rain.

2nd Hand Acidic Water

What is probably more surprising to most people, though, is the fact that, according to the EPA, 53 million Americans unknowingly drink acidic tap water that is polluted by feces, radiation, or other acidic contaminants.

Also according to EPA, some 45 million people drink water contaminated with the parasite cryptosporidium that killed more than 100 people in Milwaukee in 1993.

Or that over half of all Americans drink acid water that has been used at least once before.

To summarize: You have to “make” good electron rich alkaline water because of acidic chemical residues, heavy metals, parasites, bacteria, human waste, agricultural waste, industrial waste, chlorine, fluoride — all the insults imposed upon water by man.

“Man” does it, and we — man by man, woman by woman — have to undo it. And in doing so, as you’ll see, we can even improve a bit on nature.

Industrial Pollution

Industrialization & technology have introduced new, complex, and sometimes lethal pollutants into our nation’s water systems.

• The underground aquifers that feed city water supplies may catch runoff from dump sites, landfills, and even underground storage tanks.
• The chemical we pump into the air from automobiles or factories eventually settle onto the land. Sooner or later, anything we bury, spray, emit, or flush, finds its way into our drinking water.
• According to Environmental Defense Group, more than 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment each year, 72 million pounds of which are known carcinogens.

This is why about half of America’s ground water is contaminated; meaning about 1/4 of the population is exposed to contaminated drinking water.

Agri-Pollution

· Pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers used in massive quantities end up in underground aquifers

Drugs and Shampoo

· Pharmaceuticals end up in wastewater treatment plants then recycled for water use.  Antibiotics, hormones and painkillers have been found in public drinking water.

· Personal care products like cosmetics, toiletries and fragrances are chemicals put into water supplies

Little Critters

· Cities treat water to kill most bacteria, they usually cannot kill all viruses and parasites, such as amoeba, Guardia, and cryptosporidium.

Chlorine in Drinking Water

· Cities add chlorine to kill microorganisms but it is not entirely safe.  It can combine with organic materials to form thihalomethanes – a cancer promoting substance.

· Bladder cancer has been linked to chlorinated drinking water in 10 out of 11 most reliable studies.

· Chlorinated  water has  also  been linked  to  birth  defects  and  spina bifida

· Chlorinated tap water can hurt you even if you don’t drink it.  Those trihalomethanes get into your body when you shower they evaporate out of the water and you inhale them.  They are also absorbed into your body, more than drinking ½ gallon of chlorinated tap water.

Fluoride

Fluoride is a proven toxin.

· The sodium fluoride is added to toothpaste and is created by aluminum smelting

· The more toxic hydrofluosilicic acid or sodium silicofluoride is most commonly used in the water systems in the US and considered one  of the most  corrosive chemical agents known to man.

· Fluoride can interfere with vitamin and mineral functions; it is also linked to calcium deposits and arthritis.

· Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, past president of the American Medical Association, stated, “Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis.”

Aluminum Problems

· Water is also treated with aluminum to remove organic material.  Aluminum coagulates organic material into clumps but it is impossible to remove all the aluminum.

· Boiling water may get rid of bacteria but the chemicals remain.

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Excess acidity is a condition that weakens all body systems.

Excess acidity forces the body to borrow minerals – including sodium, calcium, potassium and magnesium – from vital organs and bones to buffer (neutralize) the acid and to safely remove it from the body. As a result, the body can suffer severe and prolonged ‘corrosion’ due to high acidity – a condition that may go undetected for years.

It affects virtually every person in our society because of the way we live, the way we eat, the way we think, and the environment we live in. The result is an internal environment where disease can easily manifest, as opposed to a pH-balanced environment which allows for normal body functions – necessary for the body to resist dis-ease. It is true that if we have a healthy body, we will maintain sufficient alkaline reserves to meet emergency demands.

However when excess acids must be continually neutralized, our alkaline reserves are depleted, leaving the body in a weakened, dis-ease-prone condition.

Unfortunately, there are still many practitioners who believe that the body can somehow miraculously and ‘naturally’ balance its pH – as if we were living in nature and eating raw foods and herbs. The truth is so far beyond this ideal. The truth – according to Dr Lynda Frassetto, acid/alkaline researcher from the University of California, is that we have turned an evolutionary corner.

We simply do not handle acid waste the way we used to.

Her research showed the sheer volume of acid waste our body has to handle has forced it to take drastic ‘war’ style action to preserve its strategic reserves – the kidney and liver – our major essential detoxifying organs. In her study of almost 1,000 aging subjects, she found that we are now ’stockpiling’ acid in fatty deposits rather than eliminating it via the kidneys and liver.

In its infinite wisdom, the body has chosen to save the kidney and liver from degradation by excess acid.

Of course, there is a cost. It’s called obesity, lowered immunity, lack of energy and the whole host of acid related dis-eases we are subject to including cancer, diabetes, osteoarthritis and more – much, much more.

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