It 's an accepted fact today that our water requires filtering for optimum health. It's also a fact that many people aren't aware of exactly what water filters do does remove.

The first thing water ionizers do to your input tap water is filter it using a combination of bacteriological and particulate control, incorporating silver activated charcoal, the most accepted and proven method on the market.

Your water passes through ultrafine filtration which removes the following:

• Bacteria
• Inorganic Chemicals
• Lead
• Organic Chemicals
• Particulate
• Pesticides
• Trihalomethanes
• Volatile Organic chemicals
• Detergents
• Asbestos
• Viruses
• Pollens

What it DOESN'T filter out is soluble minerals. This means that unlike distillers or reverse osmosis devices, with water ionizers you still get minerals in your water. This is the way we have always had your water, all the way back to the point where we emerged from the sea.

So after the water filter has done its job, you have purified, (soluble) mineralized water ready for ionizing. Minerals that cannot dissolve in water, do not get through water filters.

There are many devices that claim these qualities, and to the beginner's eyes they might all seem similar. Some use magnets, some magnetic rock, some ceramics.

However there is a very clear way to demonstrate the effectiveness of the water ionizers. For this we use the two measurements of pH (acid/alkaline) and Oxidation/Reduction

Your water now enters the ionization chamber. Here it has a very specific low voltage electric current passed through it, which causes the soluble minerals in it to be attracted to either a positive 'pole' or a negative 'pole' depending on their own valiancy, or electrical energy signature. When this happens, the water separates into alkaline and acid streams. We drink the alkaline water and we use the acid water externally, for skin, healing, plants and disinfecting.

This function is under the watchful eye of the 'brains' of the water ionizer, a solid state onboard computer that determines the exact voltage for each user, chosen by a simple press of a button.

The real beauty of this process is the fact that the minerals in the water that flow out with the alkaline water are all beneficial , while the minerals that flow out with the acid water are, in the main, not. Thus, you drink purified, beneficially mineralized alkaline water. Minerals and mineral compounds such as fluoride, flow out in the acid water.

At the same time, the alkaline water undergoes a profound change. From ordinary H20 it becomes OH- . This means it becomes a powerful antioxidant formula at an atomic level. It also means that it changes the way its molecules group together. Instead of 'clumping' in large groups of 12 molecules, it gathers in much smaller (around half the size) groups. This is why people refer to the experience of drinking from water ionizers as effortless, or 'silken'.

This change of molecular form also means, according to Dr. Hayashi, of the Japanese Water Institute, that it gains the ability to penetrate tissue and cell walls far more easily. This is why many people experience detoxification effects in the first few weeks of drinking the water, as it infiltrates areas that have not been reachable with ordinary H2O. This is what is called ' Microclustered ' water.