Being a household with a Brain Cancer survivor and has opened us up to a lot of healing modalities. We recently invested substantially in three household items that have our home a healthier place to live, and have diminished our environmental footprint. Each of the next three blogs will discuss how these investments have empowered us to become a healthier and greener household. The first subject is our water ionizer.
Volara’s LivingWater System
The technology to ionize water so that it becomes more alkaline or acidic has been available since the 1950’s. It has been used in urban water purification systems, swimming pools and hot tubs. With skyrocketing cancer rates in the United States and the world, water ionizers that provide alkaline water are becoming increasingly popular. The reason is that many diseases, in addition to cancer, are associated with acidic internal body tissues. Acidic tissues become inflamed. Obesity is often linked to inflammation as well. Interestingly enough, in the year since my wife and I have been regularly drinking filtered alkaline water, we have both lost about 10 pounds each. Our diets, which were nutritionally sound in the beginning, have not significantly changed.
Where did the idea of excessive internal acidity fostering diseases including cancer? Dr Otto Warburg, a physiological researcher and double Nobel Laureate, mentions the work of physicist Manfred Von Ardenne in his 1966 address to the Nobel Prize Committee. Warburg’s address primarily focused on cell metabolism and the fact that cancer cells are primitive in nature, and that they use glycosis for respiration as opposed to healthy cells that metabolize oxygen. Glycosis must take place in an acidic environment, which explains why almost all cancer tissue is acidic. So, with that data, we conclude that the more we do to bring out our internal tissues’ natural tendency towards alkalinity, the more we do to alter our chemistry in a way that makes our bodies inhospitable to cancer and many other diseases. I have seen people in the alkaline water industry credit Warburg for positing that cancer cannot live in an alkaline environment, but have not seen him write those specific words in my research thus far. I have seen him crediting Von Ardenne with the acid cancer connection. So I infer, as many have, that the more I do to combat acidity in my body’s internal tissues, the less hospitable my body becomes for cancer. When our bodies are battling excessive acidity, they will borrow from alkaline stores like the calcium in our bones and other tissues to maintain homeostasis. This invites a host of secondary and tertiary diseases associated with acidic internal body tissues. Warburg’s address concludes that cancer cells cannot survive in an oxygen rich metabolic environment, since they rely on glycosis.
Water ionization systems like the one we got from Volara combat cancer and disease on a number of different levels. They produce alkaline drinking water, which helps to combat internal body tissue acidity. The ionization process breaks down water molecule size, making hydration more rapid and effective and releases hydrogen molecules into the drinking water. Hydrogen molecules are negatively charged. They, by their nature, seek out positive ions. One of the biggest threats to the body’s physical wellness is positively charged oxygen free-radicals. This is why so many supplements and food items advertise their anti-oxidant contents. So, by drinking alkaline water, which is also rich in hydrogen, we oxygenate out systems with smaller water molecules, provide our bodies with a powerful antioxidant to help eliminate free radicals and we assist our bodies in balancing out acidity.
A note on internal tissue vs. skin Ph. I’ve used the words “internal body tissues” specifically because not all body tissues work most effectively in an alkaline environment. The skin, for instance, has a lower ph than other parts of the body because bacteria and microbes are all around us and always landing on our skin. The body defends it’s self by maintaining a defensive acidic barrier against these microbes.
Other great uses for alkaline and acid waters produced with our Volara system:
Greening Up the House: Many environmentally conscious and health conscious people are choosing to switch to “Green” cleaning chemicals in their homes. The alkaline water we drink is ph 9.5, with a byproduct of ph 5-5.5. The acid (low ph water) is a really good astringent skin toner. Our system can be adjusted to produce up to ph 10.5 alkaline and acidic water around ph 3. These stronger alkaline and acid waters are very effective cleaners and disinfectants, respectively, and yet, they’re water! How do we know the ph of these different waters? We have a ph test kit and have confirmed all of what I am writing. How do we know they work? We use them all the time, and our kitchen is just as clean as it was when we were spraying Clorox cleaner on the counters. We no longer need environmentally damaging chemicals to keep our home clean.
Green Uses for Acidic Water: Strong acidic water is a powerful anti-bacterial and anti-microbial agent. Once we have cleaned the surfaces in the household with alkaline water, we sterilize them with strong acid water and wipe them again. In addition, most plants love acidic water. It makes the minerals in soil more accessible to them. We’ve been using the by-product acidic water
since we got the system, and it is producing big returns this year. I watered the huge head of broccoli pictured at the beginning of this blog with acid water). Acidic water is also very effective for keeping things like Downey Mildew in check. For the past 7 years, our grape vines have broken our hearts by producing grapes that almost mature and then begin to split and rot due to the prevalence of Downey Mildew in our region. This year we have been spraying strong acid water with a touch of apple cider vinegar on the grapes. So far we have eradicated the beginning stage of Downey Mildew, a white powder that covers the grapes, before it penetrates and the fruit begins to split decay. I never took a chemistry course, but now I’m discovering more and more applications for basic chemistry. Things that survive in an acidic environment will break down when exposed to enough alkaline. By changing the surface ph on our grapes, we are eradicating something we had previously been unable to, using organic means. Keeping an organic garden is a huge priority for us.
We’re very excited to have this wonderful Volara water ionizer. I even use ionized alkaline water in Smarter Cookies! We chose this system because it produces all of the alkaline and acid waters we need to keep a healthy and green household, yet compared to other ionization systems that do the same thing, it is priced very reasonably.
Footprint: It’s been years since we quit buying bottled water, which, when tested, is often shockingly acidic. We have been reusing our BPA free containers thousands of times a year, and now we do so with alkaline water. As Southern California residents, we strive to conserve water. This system provides us with helpful products that allow us to avoid wasting water and producing post-consumer waste.
If you have any questions about water ionization systems, please contact us or leave a comment at the end of this blog. We fully support this technology and want to encourage people to benefit from it as much as we have.
Peace, Wellness and Blessings
Richard Harvey
Reference:
Excerpt from Dr. Warburg’s address to the Nobel Prize Committee:
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