For you I have just fallen down the rabbit hole

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Because I'm no longer a star member I see adverts (sorry if I sound like a small boy being interviewed by Bruce Willis). One of these adverts was for "alkaline water" or more accurately a device that separates"alkaline water" from "acid water" by ions, the Life 9100 by Enagic. Obviously with a model number that high the devices must be pretty near perfect ...

Sorry, I'm having difficulty keeping a straight face - just a mo

Right, Sorry

Now, according to the theory hypothesis proposal word salad

Alkaline Water being the healthiest drinking water available to us, because it will increase the pH of your body, detoxifies and has an abundance of anti-oxidants

This via Dr Aust's Spleen Where Dr Aust correctly points out that anti-oxidants are organic materials and that contaminating your water with organic materials is not a good idea indeed I describe it on a scale ranging from "pollution" via "soup" to "poisoning"

This lead me onto a blog post from 2010 at Respectful Insolence Which describes one such device being a "biophoton ionizer". the blog post contains a quote from Photonic Water Systems website

After hundreds of years spent studying the nature of matter, physicists can now demonstrate that everything in our world is made of molecules that are made of atoms that are made of subatomic bits of energy endlessly vibrating at different frequencies. These units of energy carry information. That information interacts with the information of our cells in either beneficial or damaging ways.

We now know that the photonic energy carried by Nature’s original, living water is far more important than the particulates it may contain. In fact, revitalizing water to its creative state not only inactivates harmful pathogens and chemicals, it does so by removing the memory they leave behind.

Photon energy is light energy, and when the frequency of light is present, life is enhanced and optimized. We are re-entering the era of light because we’re now able to detect, understand and photograph what has been there for us all along.

I'm sorry ... I can't take it any more

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1. A noble sacrifice

You took one for the team, but please, your critical thinking skills remain intact. There is science to back-up maintaining a healthy PH balance and apparently adding magical thinking to water is a goldmine, as the purveyors are now paying for advertising. 'There is a sucker born every minute' and 'Fools to their folly', lack the Internet's awesome capacity to exploit gullibility in nanoseconds. We need a new adage.

[Archae]

2. I see ads for woo all the time.

Water like you describe, "Dr" Andrew Weil, etc.

[Warpy]

3. Try working in a health food store someday

Quacks doing con jobs with water are the mildest of the screwball shit half the customers believe.

"Uh, pH? I think I heard something about that in high school. This guy is smart, really knows his stuff. I need to go out and get some alkaline water!"

I'd love to know what he puts into it. Lye, anyone?

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4. About "Nature's original, living water"

And "In fact, revitalizing water to its creative state not only inactivates harmful pathogens and chemicals, it does so by removing the memory they leave behind." I have a theory - they "revitalize" the water with unicorn horns! Or maybe narwhals.



It makes as much sense as the Life 9100 by Enagic.

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5. The Jedi of the Sea!