An Expensive Environmental Disaster

Plastic soda and water bottles clog our landfills and float as vast vortices on the world’s oceans. Of the 33.6 million tons of plastic discarded in the U.S. each year, only 6.5% of it is recycled according to Columbia University’s Earth Center. What happens to the rest? Bottled water also has a horrific carbon footprint.

Worst yet, consumers are being hoodwinked at the cash register. When you do the math, bottled water is up to 1,900 times more expensive than tap water.

Sadly, all this is completely unnecessary. For a fraction of the cost of bottled water, consumers can (with advanced filtration products) use their own tap water to create clean and drinking healthy water.

It’s Easy Being Green – and it’s Affordable

AlkaViva spent over three years researching and developing our own UltraWater filter technology designed to dramatically improve the contaminant reduction. The aim was to create the cleanest, healthiest and best tasting water possible — at an affordable price.

The result is the range of AlkaViva UltraWater filtration products.

• Affordable
• Rigorously lab tested
• USA made
• Great tasting
• A full range of product options from pitchers to premium water ionizers

UltraWater products are capable of the most advanced contaminant removal while retaining the beneficial alkalizing minerals. UltraWater filtration has been extensively tested in NELAP / EPA certified third party labs to show stunning reductions of 172 contaminants.

What Does Dry Feel Like?

In addition to feeling thirsty, there are a number of symptoms associated with being mildly dehydrated and some serious ones associated with acute dehydration.

Mild symptoms include:

Headache Low Energy Low Mental Acuity Low Back Pain Digestive Disorders Constipation Weight Issues Dry Skin and Hair Irritability

Acute symptoms include: Asthma Allergies Arthritis and Joint Pain Type II Diabetes Hypertension / Arrhythmia Obesity Osteoporosis

A Journal of Applied Physiology study¹ found that dehydration by 2.5% to 5.0% of body mass strongly increased cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine, the primary stress hormones. So dehydration is a cause of stress and stress often leads to dehydration. Are you feeling stressed out? The symptoms above are enough to cause stress in anyone. The best way to break this vicious cycle, avoid the symptoms above, and reap the benefits of hydration is to simply relax and drink up!

1) Judelson AD. et al. “Effect of hydration state on resistance exercise-induced endocrine markers of anabolism, catabolism, and metabolism.” Journal of Applied Physiology September 2008 vol. 105 no. 3 816-824.

How Ionized Water is Different

AlkaViva ionized water is tap water that firstly has been very efficiently filtered using our own patent pending, USA made, UltraWater filters – while still retaining the essential alkalizing minerals. It is then altered using electrolysis to create OH- ons (that increase the pH), plus molecular hydrogen (H₂). Preliminary testing in Reno, using our 5 plate Athena model, showed a significant production of hydrogen-rich water at a palatable pH, that was at least comparable to other larger plate, ionizer brands on the market.

When water is passed through the electrolysis chamber over charged platinum-electroplated, titanium electrodes, water is physically split into acidic and alkaline water. These two types of water concentrate on different sides of a membrane. Alkaline water has an abundance of hydrogen molecules (H₂), while acidic water has an abundance of positively charged hydrogen ions (H⁺). The alkaline water exits through the drinking water spout, and the acidic water exits through the acidic water hose.

pH, Hydrogen and Alkaline Minerals

If the TDS (total dissolved solids) levels are low then when water passes through an AlkaViva ionizer, it concentrates the essential alkaline minerals like magnesium, calcium and potassium (that occur naturally in water) in the alkaline water output. As previously mentioned, ionized water also contains an abundance of hydrogen molecules; the same super-small molecules that the body uses to help reduce free radicals and heal itself. These molecules and minerals are essential in maintaining optimal health.

Redox Potential

Normal tap water, for example, with a pH around 7 is neutral on the pH scale of 0 to 14. When measured with an ORP (oxidation reduction potential) meter its redox potential is approximately +400 to +500 mV. Because it has a positive redox potential, it is apt to acquire electrons and oxidize other molecules. Reduced ionized water, on the other hand, has a negative redox potential of approximately -250 to -550 mV (or less). This means it has a large mass of antioxidants or hydrogen gas, ready to donate to electron-thieving, free radicals.

Optimal Hydration

The turnover of “fresh water in and waste out” helps our cells to work at peak performance. Foggy thinking, joint pains, constipation and digestive issues often resolve with proper hydration. Proper hydration takes your body from a stagnant “polluted lake” to one that is sparkling and “fed by glacial streams”.

Antioxidant Activity

The hydrogen molecule is a perfect antioxidant found naturally in ancient water sources like glacier streams, deep wells or aquifers, springs and lakes. The H₂ molecule is the original antioxidant that allowed life to form and sustain itself. An AlkaViva water ionizer produces clean water with an abundance of H₂ molecules.

Ionized water carries hydrogen molecules that can (as you change from dehydrated to hydrated) help neutralize free radicals in the body and block the oxidation of normal cells. It’s like drinking glass after glass of anti-oxidants that cling to and help neutralize the damaging, oxidizing, free-radicals within your body.

Only AlkaViva has the confidence to test against other brands using a US EPA-Certified lab. See the results here.