Living Water: What to Expect from Drinking Ionized Water
'The Key to Health, Wellbeing and Longevity'
by Dr. Robert F. McCauley, Sr.
Following is a high level summary of Dr. Robert F. McCauley's essay on the main effects of ionized water consumption. Dr. Robert F. McCauley, Sr. holds a Master’s Degree in Civil/Sanitary Engineering and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. for his thesis on Removing Radioactive Strontium from water. He earned his doctorate in Environmental Engineering in less than 2 years, one of the shortest doctoral studies in the history of M.I.T. He taught civil, sanitary and environmental engineering at Michigan State University for 18 years before retiring to run Wolverine Engineers & Surveyors of Mason, one of the most respected and well-known engineering firms in mid-Michigan, for 17 years. Dr. McCauley is also credited with the invention and development of calcite coating for water main pipes, which keeps them from rusting.
For ease of understanding, the effects/ benefits of drinking ionized water have been grouped into categories as follows.
- Detoxifying
- Hydrating
- Alkalizing
- Oxygenating
- Anti-oxydizing
A poor diet consisting of mainly cooked foods over a long period of time results in malnutrition, i.e. the inability for the body to absorb the necessary vitamins and minerals required to life. Aside from the nutritional deficiencies, our intestines also become congested with partially digested, putrefying foods, drugs and other toxins that never found their way out of the body. They swell to many times their original size with only a pencil-size opening for feces to pass through. In time, this results in poor health and many diseases. Congested intestines and blockages in the intestines' lining wall result in nutritional malabsorption. The small water molecules clusters in Ionized Water make it a powerful cleanser of the digestive tract. Unlike other nutrients, the small water molecules are able to penetrate the mucoid plaque attached to the intestinal lining helping to remove it and then to further cleanse and hydrate it so that nutrients can pass into the blood with greater ease. This results in assimilation of nutrients and cellular rejuvenation. The thorough cleansing of the digestive tract also results in an increased frequency of urination and elimination. This slows down as your body becomes accustomed to drinking Ionized Water. The process of detoxification which naturally and effortlessly takes place when consuming ionized water is extremely beneficial to one's health and well-being. Many other benefits result from the consumption of ionized water. Following are some of these key benefits classified by category.
Detoxifying Effects
- Flushes out the digestive tract, which is the best place for detoxification to start
- Significantly improves your state of health (through the cleansing action alone)
- Improves cellular nutrition/ absorption of nutrients (which requires a clean digestive tract)
- Improves the effectiveness of digestive enzymes for optimum nutritional absorption through the blood stream and other body parts (which again requires a clean digestive tract)
- Enhances cellular rejuvenation due to improved nutrition and elimination functions
- Enhances elimination functions with increased frequency of urination and bowel movement which supports the healthy removal of waste material.
Hydrating Effects
- Increases sensitivity to the need to hydrate (i.e. you feel when you are dehydrated.)
- Improves health and staves off disease (through optimum hydration)
- Enhances the quality of our blood (through a perfect balance of water and salt which keeps our blood neither too thin or too thick.)
- Prevents salt retention and high blood pressure
- Ensures optimal functioning and health of all organs, especially the kidneys* which are strengthened through regular use (contrary to the popular misconception that drinking too much water can overtax them.)
- Greatly increases the sensation of thirst in the beginning as the body adjusts to proper hydration and makes up for prior imbalances.
- Teaches the body to know real 'thirst' and to satisfy that essential need.
*People with weak kidneys (resulting from a cooked-food diet) should drink weak Ionized Water (8.0 pH) to start with and then increase the pH level slightly each day. When provided with real nutrients from raw foods and sufficient amount of quality water, weak kidneys strengthen and become healthy once again.
Alkalizing Effects
- Reduces the body’s acidity level by balancing the body’s overall pH, leading to improved health and the disappearance of illness and disease.
- Continues to increase the body's overall pH over time**, as years of acid waste accumulation throughout the entire body (joints, organs, brain, etc.) slowly get eliminated from the body.
**The process will be highly accelerated if you complement drinking ionized alkaline water with a healthy diet.
Oxygenating Effects
- Increases blood oxygen and energy levels (through regular and consistent consumption of ionized water)
- Sharpens alertness as brain functioning increases when highly oxygenated
- Provides an uninterrupted supply of oxygen to the body for optimal cellular functioning (oxygen is a nutrient that can become saturated in the blood but cannot be stored in the body)
- Provides optimal oxygenation of the water - and ultimately to the body - when using fresh, flowing water from the tap.
- Maximizes the distribution of other nutrients throughout the entire body (through the oxygen)
- Kills bacteria, viruses and even cancer cells (which cannot live in a highly oxygenated environment)
- Provides a more suitable environment for us to evolve and thrive in (human beings evolved in a more oxygenated environment with the atmosphere containing as much as 30% more oxygen than it does today.)
Anti-oxidizing Effects
- Provides an extremely potent and highly absorbable antioxidant that carries an extra electron*** (Hydroxyl ion (OH-)) and enables for the delivery of more oxygen to the body
- Promotes rejuvenation of each bodily system at a cellular level (as ionized alkaline water bathes the interior of the body in a negatively charged liquid (ORP) in the same way that fresh raw foods does)
- Lowers and slows down the oxidation process within the body (The lower the negative ORP, the better it is for the body; the higher the positive ORP, the worse it is****)
- Reverses our body's ORP from the positive to the negative, lowering our body's oxidation which already naturally takes place through free radicals
- Reverses the aging process at the cellular level through optimal cellular functioning.
***The extra electron carried by the oxygen molecule - called a free radical scavenger, attaches to a free radical, which then becomes an additional stable oxygen molecule.
****On average, chlorinated city water has a positive +700 ORP. It is oxidized and as such is oxidizing too and should therefore not be consumed.
The effects of drinking ionized water vary slightly based on multiple factors such as body toxicity level, past and current diet, water consumption, exercise regimen, stress level, personal outlook on life, past and present medication. Nonetheless, everyone benefits from drinking ionized alkaline water and feels the immediate health-giving effects and benefits that derive from it..
