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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Did you try kangen water? i do not think so. i know people who change mentality just when they opened own mind…
It seems to me that anyone who believes in Kangen water is so open minded that their brains fell out.
Psst.your right it is just water,like all cynics(know all ,know nothing )i like to tell them its just a water product that normal,small guys,are just out to try and make a living.Why don’t you go and pick on a blue chip and have a go at their health products.
After all if drinking more water (70% of the body)is the outcome and it gives people hope and helps with their health and wellness,and makes them aware you are what you eat and drink.Who cares what price!Just like to help people ,maybe you could help me with articles and blog?Pass it on ,you never know you may need a “bunk-up” yourself one day.
ALL THE BEST (ATB)
@PaulSimonMac: I don’t know if I agree with you or not because I have NO FRIGGIN’ idea what you’re talking about.
Well, I really do appreciate a skeptic, everyone is at first. So I’ll try and keep this short.
The books have been written, The facts are the facts, I’ve lost 20 lbs, have more energy, sleep like a baby, my brain fog is lifted as the brain is 90% H20 it does make a difference when you drink the ionized Kangen Water.
Bottled water is Acidic, so are 95% of the drinks and foods we eat.
“In order to be healthy we need only do three things: Alkalize, hydrate and detoxify the body…”
If we accomplish this we can prevent and even cure the body of any disease. All we need to know is “HOW” to achieve this. Ionized water accomplishes all these things and more. It alkalized, hydrates and detoxify the body more effectively than any other substance. NO other water can accomplish this. Running normal water through an ionizer creates a miracle that can help put your body into a position of health you never imagined you could achieve.
Excerpt from The Miraculous Properties of Ionized Water – The Definitive Guide to the World’s Healthiest Substance by Bob McCauley and CNC
If you’re curious about the Health and disease benefits of Kangen? http://www.KangenWaterMagic.info
When Henry Ford came out with the first autombile, they thought he had flipped his lid, 10 years latter they were building the roads for cars.
When the telegraph was updated to a thing called the telephone, well you know the rest of that story.
And when people started caring around cell phones I remember 11 years ago it was a luxury only for sales and serious business people. Today 8 year old have a cell. THING change, and If you think our water is O.K.? You need to rent and watch the documentary “FLOW” awarded the most ‘Shocking’ documentary at the SunDance film Festival in 2008.
It’s O.K. if YOU don’t think it’s of value, BUT your way out of line telling others that when you obviously have NO clue as to the science and PROOF.
What books have been written, by who, what “facts are facts”? You provide platitudes without proof. Do you have ANY scientific, peer reviewed resource that demonstrate any beneficial effect to using Kangen water?
Incidentally, Henry Ford didn’t create the first automobile. He invented a process for mass producing cars. He didn’t invent the car.
I don’t drink water with my meals so that nothing dilutes my digestive process. Also, even if you call yourselves “scientists” just wait until you are sick yourself and then try this water. Even you will think that your opinion was just that, simply your opinion and those are subject to change. The proof is in the puddin’ as they say and any person that is sick that tries the water won’t need a scientist to tell them what they think. I do not own a Kangen myself but we have a store in a nearby city that sells it by the gallon. I tried a gallon and it was definitely worth every penny! My teeth and gums even felt better and that speaks for itself. Never to late to learn I say!
Isn’t is funny how people will defend what they believe even if their opinion is without proof?
Here is mine…the body has a defense mechanism that creates the exact opposite of what is introduced to create a balance. Too alkaline…body adds acids…returns to neutral. Too much sugar…same thing happens. Too much salt…guess what?
Alkaline water is BS. Follow the money. Who is it that is pushing the magic cure? The companies who make the most money from it. Ask a filter company what water is best. Their answer will be filtered water. Ask someone selling RO water or distilled water and all will have ample proof that their system is the only cure.
First, don’t believe what you hear from an MLM company.
Second, don’t believe there is a magic cure.
Third, really do your own, unbiased studies.
Go research what plants need acidic or alkaline soil and then introduce your magic water into the soil of those plants and see what happens over time. Plants are food and they can be an indicator as to what will happen to the human body when they are used as food.
Take off the blinders and research the truth.
Unless you have no real concern for health and just want to jump onto the MLM bandwagon and make a lot of money by getting two people who get two people who sell to two people, etc. then you will take the time to learn and experiment for yourself.
That is my opinion and I will defend it to death. HAHA
Very nice post, I share the same position about this.
if the types of food ingested into the body can create an acidic internal state or an alkaline internal state, why would the type of drink consumed be irrelevant to your bodys ph balance? thats essentially what youre saying.
who says the types of foods you eat are going to significantly modify your body’s internal state. What is the “internal state” anyway? Are you talking about blood pH?
I guess it’s always easy to be cynical when you haven’t tried something. Interesting how the writer only quoted one source that refutes the effectiveness of alkaline water but failed to mention the number of professionals and experts that advocate its use! It’s one thing trying a product and saying it doesn’t work….another thing altogether when you knock something that you seem to know little about.
If there is even the slightest chance that this water could affect people’s lives positively, why discourge it so passionately?
Poor pyramid scheme scammed people… this machine does not work miracles…it will not save you from an inevitable death that awaits, wether from cancer or heart failure..or who knows what! Eat a balanced diet, exercise, and love your family while you are here on the earth
and i have tried it
ok im reading what beautydead brain is saying and you r like what books what facts, helloooo maybe you should do your homework before u try to put down something you probably havent even tried. ill give you 1 book to read since your like (what books) “THE ENZYME FACTOR” WRITING BY HIROMI SHINYA,MD. and please learn something before you start talking out of your ass same goes for you katt! with your (i have tried it) first of all if u have tried it im sure you drank like one cup at the most so please cut it out with your stupid attitude(inevitable death)what a positve way to think loser.
Miscellaneous:
Blood PH stays the same, healthy or not.
Stomach acid comes and goes upon demand when food is introduced, therefore does not immediately counteract alkaline liquids as was claimed.
Garbage in garbage out. If you don’t think the quality of the water you drink is important, you are indeed short-sighted.
This water will give super hydration due to reduced surface tension in the water, it will even emulsify oil and fat.
The burden is not on us to prove it works, its on you to prove that it does not. Watch demo at http://www.kangendemo.com and then give us your “expert” opinion as to what is happening with those tests. We await your peer-reviewed “expert” research that it does NOT work.
Hahha. your “medical” research is not even close to sound.
Ummm, I think you should recheck your facts. I have been drinking kangen water for 2 months now and can personally say since then i’ve lost 22 pounds, I quite using my acne medicine since i don’t get it anymore, and i quite taking those “inexpensive” heartburn medicines since i no longer have it. I didn’t realize my heartburn was gone until i went out of town and didn’t drink the water and all of a sudden my heartburn came back with a vengence, since returning home and drinking the water again, my heartburn has disappeared. I’m 22 years old and don’t buy into alot of that health stuff but my mother in law started drinking it and the doctor couldn’t figure out why her blood work started coming back so good and i was a believer after seeing her.
How about a double blind, placebo, controlled study? Antecdotal opinions are just that, opinions. If the makers, sellers and believers of Kangan Water are so convinced of efficacy of their product, they should welcome such a study and not be afraid of the outcome.
i think ustole this from someone else