Q1. How do I install a Ion LIfe Jupiter Water ionizer?

If you want it to sit on your kitchen bench it's a ten minute installation by anyone. Basically, you attach it to your tap by unscrewing the aerator from the end of your tap, and replace it with the Jupiter combo aerator and diverter. Attach two hoses to the Ionizer and plug it in. We even include a DVD for you to learn from.

If you have chosen to install it undersink it's a bit harder, and needs a plumber. You'll receive a full undersink kit along with detailed instructions for your plumber.

Q2. Can Alkaline water from an Jupiter Science water alkalizer assist me to alkalize my body?

We are no longer permitted to make therapeutic claims. We can only refer to the list of people who have reported health changes to us, usually related to the easing of symptoms of acid-related complaints. Please refer to our website for more detail. We would also refer you to Dr Theodore Baroody, author of Alkalize or Die, who states that he has recommended thousands of people over a long period of time and continues to do so. So do countless more clinics and medical practices in Japan where Water Alkalizers are sold over the counter in local electrical stores.

Q3. Why hasn't Alkaline Water been taken up earlier in the West?

Unfortunately the West is still very biased against Asian research. Although Japan translates over 90% of Western scientific papers, the West only translates 10% of Japanese scientific papers. If they had bothered, they would have unearthed an amazing phenomena; a million water alkalizers sold in Japan every year, by major manufacturers like Panasonic, Akai and Toyo.

They would have also found that alkaline water is used throughout Japan and Korea in hospitals and clinics. The would also have asked Japan for more scientific reports than are currently available.

Today South Korea is the world leader, manufacturing over 40,000 alkalizers per month for domestic consumption only. The technology, however, was originally Russian but was taken up by Japan in 1980. Japan began to have them made in Korea, and Korea took up the challenge to make a better unit. Jupiter Science has been making water alkalizers for over 20 years and is by far the largest maker in Korea and now the world.

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Q4. I am told that you claim a lemon will help to alkalize your body, but other people say the opposite. What's the truth?

This is all about a basic misconception most people have about food and its effect on the body.

It is true that if you plunge a pH meter into a lemon it will read as acid. But once you have consumed (burnt up/converted to energy/metabolised) a lemon, what is left is alkaline.

It is what is left of all of our foods that determines our acid/alkaline balance, not the pH of the food we are about to consume. This is known as the 'ash' of a food.

After food has been completely burned up and converted to energy, the leftover minerals are what makes up our mineral content and therefore our pH or acid/alkaline balance.

Unfortunately many other factors affect our pH balance, including pollution, stress and our own body's metabolic wastes.

We are not "what we eat". We are what is left over after we eat.

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Q5. I have read elsewhere that I should have slightly acid to neutral body tissue.

It's not so simple.

Different parts of the body need different pH levels. At a cellular level, there are two factors working together to keep our energy up.

The interior of each cell is alkaline. The Mitochondria - the power producer of the body, swims in an alkaline sea inside the cell’s membrane. Outside, the interstitial (between cells) fluid is saline, alkaline and mineralised. This is the fluid that transports nutrition to the cells. The cell allows it in after checking it with its many receptor antennae that swim in the alkaline fluid. Once inside, the mitochondria consumes it and converts it to energy -
electrical energy. Here’s where the minor miracle of life repeats itself billions of times a day. Through the tiny antennae that protrude into the interstitial fluid, and via the actual cell membrane, electrical energy is transmitted. This process permits the cell to pass the energy as electricity from positive to negative, just like a car or household wire passes power! Consider for a moment the effect of poor conductivity. (acid to alkaline) Energy flow would be greatly reduced.

So it’s incredibly important for the interstitial fluid to be correctly alkaline because if it’s not, the power can’t flow, the tiny antennae that detect germs etc can’t work properly, and we lose energy.

It’s also important to realize that we are never just acid or alkaline. We change by the hour, even the minute, and our body is a marvel of design and engineering as it shunts around alkaline minerals to neutralise excess acids within minutes of them entering the body.

It’s probably also obvious to you now that if we use minerals to maintain our balance, they must come from somewhere.

This idea of a body miraculously adjusting its balance really makes no sense at all because without a ready supply of alkaline minerals how could it balance anything? These are the same minerals we spoke about in the ‘lemon’ question, and the great advantage of drinking water loaded with ionized alkaline minerals that they get into the body without metabolism occurring - that is, they just go straight to work!

When we hear someone say ‘being alkaline is no better than being acid’ we really do wonder what comic book they have been reading.
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Q6. What is the difference between

"balanced water" and alkaline water?

There is no such thing as "balanced water". It is a myth created by a water system seller whose system cannot alkalize on demand. All water has its own pH or acid/alkaline value, based on its mineral content.

"Balanced" water therefore has no relationship to reality.

Q.7 Are Water alkalizers safe for gastric problems?

ION LIFE have delivered far in excess of 1000 systems in Australia. Only one case of stomach problem has been reported. The user was refunded her purchase money and advised to seek medical advice.

Many users have reported cessation of heartburn and other gastric problems.

Q.8 Are your Water alkalizers electrically approved?

They are. We have the internationally accepted CE certificate of compliance. They are currently undergoing US "UL" approval plus US NSF approval.


Q.9 Can I install Melody under the sink instead of counter top?
Yes. Please check the drawing of under the sink set up. (Additional simple hardware may be needed depends on your sink set ups.)

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