Is Kangen Water Better For Your Body?
Submitted by Beauty Brains Blog
Calla.lilly is curious…Can you help shed some scientific light into this? Kangen Waters boasts you can “ Lose Weight, Slow Down The Aging Process, Remove Kitchen Grease And Grime, Clean And Disinfect Germs, Create Healthy Skin And Best Of All Fight Disease With Kangen Water.” I tried searching for some real reviews of this but mostly found websites selling their product. If this is true, I’m assuming many drug and cosmetic companies would be in trouble.
The Left Brain says Kangen Water is all wet:
Well Lilly, as Taiwanese Girl pointed out in our Forum, the drug companies have nothing to worry about. Kangen water is just another psuedoscientific scam.
Wacky Kangen Water
Companies that make Kangen water claim that their (very expensive) equipment ionizes “pure” water to make it more alkaline so it over comes the acidic conditions of your body, thus improving your health and beauty.
The concept is fine except for one small detail: it has no scientific basis what so ever. If you’re so inclined, you can find an excellent debunking discussion on the webpage of Stephen Lower, retired faculty member of the Dept of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University Burnaby/Vancouver, Canada. Stephen pulls no punches in giving you the true scientific scoop on this psuedoscience. But to save you time, I’ll summarize his three key points below:
Why Kangen Water Is Crazy
1. Pure water that doesn’t contain dissolved salts can’t be ionized. In order to be made alkaline, water must contain some kind of dissolved metal ions like sodium, calcium or magnesium.
2. The notion that you should drink alkaline water to counteract the acidic condition of your body is just plain wrong. Even if you were to drink alkaline water, the highly acidic gastric juices in your stomach would quickly neutralize it. Besides. absorption of water doesn’t occur in the stomach, it happens in the intestine, where the fluids are already made alkaline by the pancreatic secretions. So, anything you eat or drink eventually becomes alkaline anyway.
3. The idea that drinking alkaline water is better for your body is not supported by scientific data. If you really need to de-acidify your stomach, you can do so simply by taking common antacids. There’s no need to spend hundreds of dollars for special water ionizing devices like those used to produce Kangen water.
The Beauty Brains bottom line
Like Kinoki Detox Foot Pads, this product is another pseudoscientific scam. PLEASE, don’t fall for this!
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