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When talking about water ionizers or even health in general, I am often asked for my personal testimonial as to why I drink high alkaline ionized water and so much of it. Keep reading below and you'll also find out just how much high pH water I drink, how much you should drink, when to drink, when not to drink and various suggestions for installation of a water ionizer.

Since my teenage years I've been into health food, and as a young adult, I ate better than anyone I knew. I was always on the cutting edge of the latest "truths" in nutrition, not the fads. For instance, I was eating organic whole grains at 16 (1970), as a kid in high school - OK, so I had to mail order them, as there was no health food store in my town! I even had my own stone grinder for making flour! Plus I was cooking "Asian" style stir fry dishes! This was still in the pretty dark ages, before you could even get whole wheat bread in restaurants or supermarkets! Imagine that! Do you remember those days? If so, you're part of my generation!

I graduated to growing sprouts, dehydrating fruits and veggies, and eating lots of salads with all sorts of lightly steamed vegetables. I even made my own granola, soy milk, tofu and yogurt!

RHEUMATOLOGISTS, ORTHOPEDISTS, ENDOCRINOLOGISTS, ONCOLOGISTS all at 16 Years Old:

Despite all of this, I had severe, chronic joint problems. As a young child, I remember my ankles "locking" when I jumped off a rock. I didn't know any different, and thought this happened to everyone. At around age 16 I had serious intermittent knee trouble: red, swollen and achy. Blood tests every three months for about a year showed nothing. The doctors were always giving me their opinion, "Oh maybe its arthritis or lupus." And the worst was when one doctor suggested, "maybe its bone cancer," and I began tests for that, at age 16! It was then I decided to plan for the future, but try to live everyday like it could be your last.

I lost almost all respect for the allopathic medical profession when, at 17, one rheumatologist told my parents, "It's psychosomatic. She probably doesn't want to go away to college." Not only did I know what I wanted to go to college for, but I knew which college I wanted to go to (Alfred University, College of Art & Design) when I was only in junior high! I couldn't wait to go and be out on my own! My parents didn't believe this doctor either, but that still didn't solve my knee problem. I clearly saw the ego-centric fallibility of doctors, and used them more as diagnosticians.

Finally we found our way to a "big" knee doctor, Dr. Ashby Grantham, in New York City, who wouldn't even operate on Joe Namath because "he'll just go out and do it again!" He found that some of my knee cartilage (medial meniscus) was destroyed with three different problems: there was a tear, scarring towards the back, and the cartilage was unconnected from whatever it was supposed to be connected to. The doctor was surprised I never played football, as he said that's what it looked like. An operation was scheduled right after my 18th birthday in December 1972. Back in those days, the almost dark ages, they warned me that not only would they be taking out the bad cartilage, but they'd have a look around and might have to remove the knee cap and/or more. Great! I was only 18, and this was not from an injury, it was just from the way I was. A big mystery to everyone why this had happened. And as a bonus, they told me I just might need a total knee replacement now, or early in adulthood. They were so encouraging!

The operation went fine and only the cartilage was removed, but a year after the surgery, after all the physical therapy (today they do arthroscopic surgery, but in those days they cut through the muscles and it took a while to be able to walk again), I was still having knee trouble. Only now it was also in my hands, elbow and shoulders. The "big" NYC doctor dismissed me from his care, for lack of anything else to do with me.

STILL A HOST OF PROBLEMS AFTER KNEE SURGERY:

These joint problems: the popping, catching, snapping, pain, inflammation, loss of range-of-motion - went on for years, affecting just about every joint, head to toe: jaw, neck, shoulders, back, elbows, wrists, fingers, hips, knees and ankles. Did I miss any? If I did, just assume that popped too! All of this put an end to me working with clay and making pottery - throwing pots, slab and coil building, as I couldn't prepare the clay myself. Since this is what I originally went to art school for it was infuriating (State Univ. of New York at Alfred University, College of Ceramics, School of Art & Design, and then Master's at Un. of CO at Boulder, Fine Arts). It also put an end to lithography, race walking, swimming and weight lifting.

I had to walk around, and sleep, with a cervical collar when my neck was bad (attractive, eh?), and every chiropractor I saw looked at my x-rays they asked, "Have you been in a car accident?" I've been driving since 16 and I've NEVER had a car accident, not even a minor one. No whiplash, yet that's what my neck resembled. Sometimes I'd simply turn my head and bones in my neck would get caught, pop, and then hurt and burn down my arm. Bad. I had braces for my hands, right arm, neck and knees along with several different sets of orthotics for my feet (I had fallen arches twice as a kid and had to have my feet taped up!). I had occupational therapy and custom-made braces for my hands and right arm along with physical therapy for years to alleviate the trouble with my neck, back, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, knees, ankles and feet! No rheumatologist or orthopedist, nor the meds they had me try, provided any relief. They would examine the current painful joints, but I would tell them that I thought it was something systemic, since it's sort of the same issue, just in different locations. They just wanted me to pay on my way out of their office.

In 1980, at 25 years old, when my daughter Marissa was born, my right elbow got really bad. So painful and swollen that I could no longer get a fork to my mouth or brush my teeth! I couldn't bend my elbow enough! Because of the inflammation, "stuff" in my elbow was slipping and popping and catching with every move. Again, more trials of anti-inflammatory medicine that didn't work, and months and months in physical therapy to regain the range-of-motion. If you have ever been in this situation, and I hope you haven't and never will, it is painful. Very painful. Then, when they are done forcing your arm to bend, they encase it in ice! For me this was the worst part, since I'm cold on a hot day!! (Remember this point for later in the story.)

THE BABY BOOMER GENERATION, EVEN IF NOW INTO HEALTH FOOD, ATE PLENTY OF CRAP!

All during this time I wondered, if I ate better than anyone I knew, and ultimately you are what you eat, why were these joint problems happening? And, I haven't yet mentioned my life-long menstrual problems since age 11! No doctor of any kind ever had an answer for these chronic joint problems. Oh they tried. They all tried. Tests after tests, always hoping to find something they could hang a name on.

In the days before the internet, I researched what I could and tried lots of things including the 4-day rotation diet (not repeating a food within four days), shark cartilage supplements and cutting out the nightshade veggies (peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, etc.) Nothing seemed to make a difference. I did stretching, isometric exercises, light weight lifting, yoga and walking when I could, between "episodes".

As an adult I've always tried to drink "lots" of water and keep up with the recommended 8-10 glasses per day. I never liked the bubbles in soda, so I never drank that, even as a kid, but I drank my fair share, and yours, of milk, Koolaid and juices - remember, this was the dark ages, before we knew milk was for calves and Koolaid was chemicals!

As a kid, I ate dairy products. And lots of them. Milk for breakfast with cereal - I never did like eggs - cottage cheese or a cheese sandwich for lunch - as I didn't like tuna or bologna. Of course all on white bread - remember it was the dark ages of the 50s & 60s. And, of course, I drank milk, and more milk. If I was hungry, I had a slice of cheese, maybe with some fruit or some crackers, and washed it down with milk - but all of this, I now know, is ACIDIC.

Add to this the typical American diet of meats, snacks, ice cream, stew, spaghetti, hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, pizza, colored water/sugar ice pops, Yankee Doodles, Cheese Doodles, Lik-M-Maid, Candy Dots on Paper, Sugar Cigarettes, Bonamo's Turkish Taffy, O Henry's, Almond Joys, Ring Dings, Ding Dongs (any of this sounding familiar), etc., and you begin to see the imbalance. I think the only thing missing was soda! It probably all started as an infant, because my mother always gloated when she told the story, "She was such a big milk drinker, as an infant I had to put her to bed with TWO bottles of milk!" Folks, that's a full 16 ounces in a tiny baby's body. And that was just at night!

No wonder I was plagued with strep throats, tonsilitus, sinus problems and headaches as a young child! And let's not minimize the unsightly black tooth plaque on the inside of my teeth and the enormity of the cavities I developed in my molars - now understood to be from acidity in the mouth.

Now this may not sound much different than your culinary childhood past, but here's the thing I've learned: dairy, meats, white flour products, fruit juices, processed foods and sugars are all highly acidic. The acidity that your body can't get rid of, the excess acidity, the over acidity, builds up in your body and settles in the weak spots, which for me was obviously the joints and connective tissue - the soft tissue. And maybe, perhaps, this was the root cause of my menstrual problems beginning at age 11? And, I haven't even told you about my jaw problem yet called "Long Face Syndrome", leading to terrible TMJ pain (Temporol Mandibular Joint), a jaw deformity and eventual ortho-maxillofacial surgery.

Being I was always a skinny kid, and weight was never a problem, I didn't have the reserve of fat cells that most other people seem to have. You see, as I understand it now, excess acidity can get stored away in fat cells, so being a bit overweight actually may protect you somewhat from the ravages of this acidity. It's well known that when they do liposuction, the fat they suck out is highly acidic! But, I'm getting ahead of my story now, so let's get back to the saga.

LIKE ARTHRITIS, BUT NOT ARTHRITIS, THEN WE ADDED LOW THYROID!

My son, Austin, was born in 1984 and my hands flared up really bad. They were swollen and painful when I woke up and for much of the day. So bad that I couldn't pull off the sticky tabs of his used diapers, I had to cut them with a scissor. Functioning normally was a chore, but I never gave in. I've always felt there are no obstacles in life, only ways around them. More physical and occupational therapy, and of course you can imagine how difficult everything was for a young mom with two kids and a house to run. It seemed like there was always something hurting me. The regular routine of doctors couldn't find anything, not even the markers for arthritis.

About 3 months after he was born I saw the rheumatologist I used when I thought I needed another prescription for physical therapy. During the examination he felt that I had a goiter in my neck (like a golf ball) - my thyroid was enlarged and hardly working - this caused the joint problems to flare up - and explained why my hair was falling out and turning white really fast! He sent me right over that afternoon to an endocrinologist who gave me the news that my thyroid pretty much stopped working due to the stress of the pregnancy. "Why," I asked, only to be told, "because". I never got an answer no matter how many times I asked about the "physiology" of this over the years. So, a Synthroid prescription it was for me, in perpetuity!

I also asked, every visit, every year, "Does this tiny little pill replace everything that my thyroid should produce?" The doctors always said yes. I responded with the same question every visit, every year, "So why then am I still cold and losing hair." You know what they answered: "Pay on your way out, I'll see you next year and don't let the door hit you in the rear on the way out." (I had to keep returning for the Synthroid prescription. Now I'm on natural Armour Thyroid, and monitored by a highly esteemed Nutritionist, Dr. Bruce MacFarland, who marketed the first Progesterone Cream for Women.)

FINALLY MAKING SOME PROGRESS - Connective Tissue Disorder, a.k.a. Ehler's Danlos:

A few years later my mom had surgery on her wrists for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and was seen by a top neurologist in New York City. He took a look at my troubled right arm and examined a few other joints and thought I might have a connective tissue disorder. Luckily he knew of a doctor researching this obscure malady at Babies Hospital of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, and got me an appointment with an African doctor, Dr. Kwame Yeboa.

He knew all about this stuff!! It turned out that I had a bona fide condition, called Ehlers-Danlos. The doctor explained that connective tissue disorders are divided into different types, some more serious affecting the organs, some less serious affecting the joints! A bit of good news for me!! We learned that day in 1987 that, in most people, this condition isn't a problem, until it is - if you keep the muscles strong enough, it may never manifest itself. In my case, from about 1969 to now, the doctors had been telling me "Don't exercise; you might be making it worse!" Terrific! So, limiting my activity was perpetuating my condition! Brilliant doctors.

Ehlers-Danlos affects the soft connective tissue and causes it to either be too loose (hence "loose joints"), doesn't heal properly and/or easily injured. The looseness causes joints to slip in and out of place easily, causing small traumas leading to inflammation and pain. This explained the systemic problem I always believed existed, but not the root cause. The doctor said it was genetic, which made no sense since neither my mother nor father had anything like this. Nor did any relatives on either side.

Upon examining my kids, my 7-year-old daughter was found to have this to an even greater degree than me!! It is diagnosed by the lack of elasticity of the skin and over extension of the joints (hyperextension). Her elbows bend back when she straightens them - like you may have seen when gymnasts salute at the end of their routine. This is very interesting because my daughter desperately wanted to do gymnastics, and Dr. Yeboa said most gymnasts have this, but they are very strong so its not a problem. He gave my daughter the green light to try gymnastics but warned that she must stop should she develop similar problems as her mom. She went on to be #1 in New York State on her level and "retired" at 16 years old to pursue other interests.

With this new found understanding I carefully began exercising which was a continuous battle of 3 steps ahead, 2 1/2 steps or a full 3 back. Add to the list of doctors quite a few chiropractors who were essential at putting things back in place, as the spinal joints were not spared from this slipping. Knowing that it was a connective tissue disorder didn't make it all stop.

UH OH, BIG, BIG KNEE TROUBLE:

Sometime in 1990, 35 years old, my right knee was popping in and out of joint, and swelled up. Oh, it would go down for a day or two, but then swelled up again. It was like an elephant's leg to me, and prevented me from walking on it correctly and I had to use a cane (NOT easy on days when your hand, wrist or elbow hurt!). I drove with my left foot operating both the gas and break, and used cruise control around town whenever I could. It was a difficult day when the doctor got me a handicapped tag for my car. 35 years old, two kids, working part-time (as a religious school teacher), wearing a knee brace and walking with a cane! At least I had some fun canes - a Labrador Retriever sculpted into a handle, and a parrot with a glass eye!!

The worst day of all this was the day my family was all psyched up to go to this big flea market/collectible show and I didn't want to disappoint them, but there was no way I could walk all day with a cane. So, I relented and rented a wheel chair. It was awful, although the kids had fun pushing me. It was cumbersome on the dirt and gravel walkways and I felt like such a burden instead of the supermom keeping everything together.

I tried lots more supplements, but never tried cutting out the dairy completely. We ate small amounts of meat, but I was leaning towards being a vegetarian. Still drinking milk occasionally, albeit it was raw milk when I could get it, I tried to cut down and cut back on other dairy products too, but it was very hard. For lack of anything else proactive to try, I kept charts of the barometric pressure, weather conditions and my swelling. Over time I saw about a 75% correlation with rapidly changing barometric pressure and my knee swelling. GREAT! However, silly me, there was nothing I could do about the barometric pressure, but it gave me something to focus on to feel like I was helping the situation.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, or you've had something similar, I couldn't play tennis, roller blade or play soccer with my son. I had beautiful gardens, but now it was hard to get up and down (I couldn't kneel) and get the countless things you need when gardening. Everything was hard, and walking with a cane was the pits.

THERE IS A FUNGUS AMONGUS!

Then in 1993, with a hugely swollen knee, I was referred to the Olympic Ski Team's knee doctor, Dr. David Mensch (if you know the Yiddish language, you know why I had to see this doctor - a mensch is an upstanding person with integrity and a good heart), once again in New York City. After months of anxiously waiting for the appointment, as soon as he heard the history and poked at my knee, he said he wanted to operate ASAP, as he was sure he'd find a fungus in there! I high-tailed it out of there, as I thought this sounded just way too bizarre, but I never forgot this peculiar concept - fungus in the joint.

I should mention here that on top of all this, at about 42 years old I was found to have SEVERE Osteoporosis. Not just osteopenia but alarming T scores, well into the -2 T score range. "You have the bones of a 60 year old woman, and could have a spontaneous fracture at any time," they warned me. Terrific. But they also admitted there was very little research, if any, done on pre-menopausal women, and tiny, light-weight women were even more of an anomaly.

Over time, with additional physical therapy, the swelling in my right knee pretty much went down, and I only needed the cane intermittently, so it wasn't too debilitating. From 1993 through early 2005, there was always something hurting, I was also diagnosed with fibromyalgia, which seemed to be a garbage term for "a lot of things hurt, a lot of points are tender, and we doctors don't know why, but here's a big fancy name to make you go away." I was always exercising carefully, always seeing a chiropractor, rheumatologist and physical therapist, and always wary of what would get chronic next.

I became a total vegetarian in 2001 (except for occasional fish), gave up dairy soon after that, drank lots of homemade vegetable and fruit juices and tried to increase my water. Still though, I drank about 2 cups of coffee a day. And, still had milk and cereal, but it was soy milk now (I eventually switched to almond milk, and even make my own!).

THE BIG 5 - 0:

Then in December 2004 I turned 50. Now, being in pretty good shape (despite all this) and looking younger than my years, I wasn't really freaked out about hitting this milestone. I was feeling better than in the past and able to work hard as a now single mom. Neurontin for the pain in my back and neck (bulging, desiccated and herniated discs - all soft tissue damage), Flexiril muscle relaxers when things spasmed up occasionally, Vioxx in the cabinet if I had a really bad swelling episode, Fosamax for two years for the osteoporosis, Synthroid for the low thyroid and progesterone cream for menstrual problems, I had everything under fairly good control.

But when I turned 50, I wondered what was next. My hands hurt and were swollen every morning. My back was better - better than awful - maybe just pretty bad. I'd do my fast walking only around the block, just in case something hurt so I could get home fast. I never gave in. Ever. I fought this thing constantly, being certain that one day I'd find the answer. So, on the eve of my 50th birthday, after celebrating with my family, lying down at night, I took stock of how I was feeling. The right knee was only swollen a bit once in a while; the back was slowly improving over time. But I had this pain on the right side of my back/shoulder/hip for a couple of years now, and my hands hurt so bad, that only just touching the knuckles and squeezing lightly hurt.

I felt that it would only be a matter of time until I was using a walker, or worse.

NO, NO, NO RO (REVERSE OSMOSIS!

Having recently moved into a new home in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, notorious for lousy water, I wanted to install some type of filtration system and thought Reverse Osmosis (RO) was the answer. I fell for the scare tactics the salesman used - inserting two electrodes into the water, turning your tap water into an awful murky brownish-greenish sludge. So of course I wanted an RO unit installed right away! I didn't want to drink even one more glass of THAT water! But when he said they'd be there in an hour to install it, I got suspicious and told them to hold off, as I wanted to do a bit more research. I found out this "electrode trick" solidifies the TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) in the water, so it will ALWAYS look nasty, unless, of course, there are no minerals present (dead water) as is the case with reverse osmosis. I also found out RO water is very acidic!! I didn't want this at all!!! With the RO system cancelled, I was on a quest to find a system that cleaned the water and was safe to drink.

Over the past two years I had been slowly learning about the acid alkaline balance in the body and the havoc this can wreak but I had not yet made the connection with my "problems" and this issue. And now, gosh, water could be acidic? This was never really talked about in past information about water. I found out distilled water was also acidic, as were many brands of bottled water. This is when I discovered water ionizers. WOW.

IT ALL COMES TOGETHER:

I read the research from Asia. I researched and researched, studied about the acid-alkaline effects in the body and the only ONE disease - too much acidity. Understanding that the acidic wastes and the acidity from what we eat accumulate in weak areas of each person's body, I began to piece this all together. Remember the Olympic Ski Team's knee doctor who was sure I had a fungus in my hugely swollen knee? Well he knew. I knew also, now. Rather than making me fat, the acidity compromised the connective tissue in my joints, and settled real bad in my right knee. I understand now that you can't have pain and inflammation without yeasts, molds and fungus being present. They thrive in an acidic environment, and they produce their own acidic wastes, which feeds the process. Dr. Robert O. Young's information is invaluable for understanding all of this, particularly his book "Sick and Tired" which has photos of a lung and heart encased in fungus. The doctor's see this when they cut people open, they just don't know how to advise you to get rid of it, other than cutting or maybe swabbing it to kill it. Change your inner terrain, and change your life and health profile! It all made so much sense, now.

MY SWIFT AND SPEEDY DETOX:

So I got my first water ionizer and jumped right into drinking high pH number 10 water. I figured I was a vegetarian, I ate a real healthy diet, and basically I was in better shape than most people I knew my age. Well, before I started feeling great, I felt downright lousy for a couple of days, and I believe THIS is my greatest testimonial:

• At that time I hadn't had a cold or flu in 9 years, and now, my eyes were watering, my nose was running, and I had phlegm in my chest!
• I never had stomach aches or other gastric problems, and now, my stomach hurt!
• My finger joints had been so painful, even just to gently squeeze, and now, they felt like they had needles coming out of them!
• My lousy knees ached in a way they never ached before - it was very strange
• Not a stranger to headaches (that's ANOTHER story!), I now had the worst headache I'd ever had for two days!

Had I not understood this was detoxifying, I'd have been downright frightened!

It took 2 or 3 days for all this to pass and then...

MY WORLD CHANGED

The energy was boundless, the mental clarity was razor-sharp, there was NO fatigue, but best of all, NO MORE BRAIN FOG!

Among my myriad of entrepreneurial endeavors, I do video editing and graphics. The particular video editing I was working on at the time took a lot of focus and memory. It was a very involved, high-level, corporate financial training video for Janus Funds. Very detailed and meticulous. With bouts of brain fog, there were days I didn't dare go near the video editing, knowing I couldn't concentrate or hold in my head the plethora of details. Miraculously, this feeling of fog fled, never to return again.

It was like a miracle. My fingers didn't hurt, my knees were great, the fog was gone, and my energy was ceaseless. At night I was no longer exhausted. When I DECIDED to go to sleep, I got into bed and slept great (I've always been skilled at sleeping). The difference now was I wasn't falling asleep reading or watching TV anymore. I found that I could pull all-nighters if I was on a good roll with the video editing! This made me feel like a college kid again!!! I was loving it!! I also no longer got drowsy when driving - this may be because I was always drinking my ionized water!

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After a lifetime of searching out the health modalities that really work, and refining my diet and lifestyle accordingly, I knew I was on to something big. Right around this time I saw "What the BLEEP" complete with Dr. Masuro Emoto's photos of healthy water's hexagonal crystalline structure. It was all making so much sense. Now I come to understand, on a deeper, molecular level, how these hexagonal "microclustered" water clusters produced by the water ionizer protect our DNA and our health. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT HEXAGONAL WATER

Over the next several months, while researching ionized water and water ionizers to perhaps start selling them, I improved my nutritional profile further. I began daily supplementation with the following

• Chlorella and Spirulina - I take between 6 and 10 grams a day (24-40 tablets of URparamount's Chlorella & Spirulina Combo Tablets) for protein, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants and, of course, ongoing heavy metal detox.
• Himalayan Crystal Salt - we are an electrical body, running on salt and water - but it has to be good salt, which "tunes" our frequency - Himalayan Crystal Salt matches our bodies' frequency and our mineral composition
• Green Drink - chlorophyll is so vital, again, I researched most of the market, and chose Dr. Young's Innerlight SuperGreens, but I like to "rotate the crops" so I also use Green's Complex Capsules
• Good Oils - about 2-3 tablespoons a day of extra-virgin, cold-pressed olive oil, walnut oil, coconut oil, flax oil, hemp oil, plus I eat an avocado almost every day (see my Kermit Sandwiches), and fatty-fish (see my Wild Alaskan Sesame Salmon and Tina's Better Butters that have no butter in them)
• Rebounding - I'd been rebounding for a couple years before all this, but it's worth mentioning here, since it's fabulous, fun exercise, with incredible, documented health benefits - NASA found rebounding to be the exercise of choice for astronauts to regain bone density after tooling around in outer space! Watch me on the Needak Rebounder!

NOW I'M SURE I HAVE ANOTHER 50 YEARS AHEAD OF ME!

So, now, at this writing in early 2009, I'm 54, feeling younger than I did at 40. Most folks think I'm at least 10 years younger! When I visit at my mom's South Florida seniors-only condo, they all think I'm a "young girl" in my 30s and can't believe I have a married daughter who is a lawyer and a 24 year old son who is a computer programming genius! I love it! What woman doesn't like everyone thinking they're younger! Truthfully, I'm sure some of it is in the genes, but I cannot negate the water and my diet protocol when it comes to my skin and vibrance.

I've done lots of trade shows, and talked to thousands of people who are looking, just like you might be, for what works. I'm a living, powerful testimonial for this whole protocol, and now lots of you out there are following my lead. I can sum it up in a simple word: COWS. That's right, C-O-W-S. Just remember that, research each item, and you're on your way:

SO, NOW WE ARRIVE AT THE PRESENT:

I continue to drink about 4 quarts of water a day. I've been in the water ionizer business since 2004. URparamount is my new company, having sold my share of my previous company to an ex-partner. I live now on a solar, organic farm in beautiful West Virginia with the most amazing, wonderful man, Justin Wizard.

One day, in the not too distant future, ionized water will be as well known as air ionizers are now. Think back a ways, when no one heard of air ionizers, and now the science is common knowledge, and lots of folks have them, breathing healthier air. Ionizers do the same thing for water. But you have to do your part too, and drop the bad habits over time - quicker if you're chronically ill.

Drop the soda (EXTREMELY acidic), white flour, all forms of sugar, sugar substituted (stevia, the sweet herb is fine), animal products (all very acidic), and move towards eating more vegetables and eating them raw. Add fresh, raw peppers, garlic and onions to tomato sauce, after it's cooked! It takes some thinking, but you can do it if I can! Eat only whole grains and whole grain products. Add good oils AFTER food has cooked! Steam veggies in a tablespoon or so of water, rather than stir frying in oil! I'll be writing a book - short and easy to read, about how I do what I do and why. Remember, I've been doing all this a long time, but I had to give up yummies along the way - I LOVED my coffee, my milk, pizza, cheese, grilled chicken, bacon. I've been there, although I've never drank soda.

Why am I such a staunch advocate of all this? Why do I rarely sway from this protocol? It's simple...

I'm addicted to feeling well. I've felt so lousy for most of my life, it JUST FEELS GREAT TO FEEL GREAT!! You can feel this way too!

Read and learn. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Don't be insane. Change now! If you have to lose weight, understand that fat is acidic (doctors know the stuff they suck out during liposuction is HIGHLY acidic!). Lose the fat, lose the weight - with water, an alkaline diet and of course remember COWS.

For my favorite recipes (even the highly illicit whole grain chocolate cake) and the stories and hints of how I got where I am, including hints for making your own sprouts and dehydrating your own crackers, read my book, when it's ready. If there is no link here yet to it, email me and pester me to get it done already!

One last thing. If you've read this far, you might be interested to read how I saved my puppy's life, Rocky, with ionized water, the Rife Machine (Pro Wave 101) and lots of loving singing.

My best to you and your loved ones,
in health and happiness,
Tina at URparamount.com