Why I Choose Enagic

I knew I needed a good 0.5 micron carbon block filter with a decent flow rate and a good taste. This took ages by the way, most filters in hardware shops are about 10 micron. Once I located this, the water was good, but I was on a mission and I wanted water from a tap that tasted like it came from a fresh Tasmanian river.

I started to investigate the best water in the world, glacial springs and the fountain of youth etc. the results were fascinating. I had started getting into alkaline and magnesium portable water filters. This lead me to the Enagic Kangen Ioniser, which makes a range of pH water. The interesting thing about this is that in making the alkaline water the Enagic Kangen machine also makes molecular hydrogen, now this is the bomb in terms of health benefits and the water really does taste like it is from a Tasmanian spring!

It has also been discovered that the documented “healing” or “curative” waters of Nordenau, Germany; Tlacote, Mexico; and Hita Tenryosui, Japan waters have a common factor, they contain dissolved hydrogen gas. The existence of molecular hydrogen in these springs could be a result of water reacting with alkali-earth metals, or from molecular hydrogen gas-producing bacteria and algae.

It turns out the prominent and therapeutic effects of molecular hydrogen (H2 gas) are emerging to the forefront of scientific research.

The Molecular Hydration Foundation says...

"The search for a simple method to prevent all such ailments, and in short to halt the aging process and even reverse it to youth, is not a new concept. This idea seems to be prevalent throughout the history of mankind, including the writings of Herodotus about the Fountain of Youth."

The more research that accumulates about molecular hydrogen, the more it appears to have the sought after properties of the Fountain of Youth. Over 400 additional articles have been published substantiating that declaration. Currently about 150 different disease models have been studied, in which molecular hydrogen appears to exert a beneficial effect (including the ones listed above).

HOW IT WORKS

Molecular hydrogen is the smallest element and lightest molecule. There are three main properties that explain hydrogen’s therapeutic effects.

1. Molecular hydrogen can easily diffuse into the subcellular compartments and scavenge cytotoxic oxygen radicals, 5 thus protecting the DNA, RNA and proteins from oxidative stress.

2. Molecular hydrogen also triggers the activation or upregulation of additional antioxidant enzymes (e.g. glutathione, superoxide dismutase, catalase, etc.) and/or cytoprotective proteins of the body.

3. Molecular hydrogen may be a novel-signaling molecule that can alter cell signaling, cell metabolism and gene expression.This gives the anti-inflammatory effects, anti-allergic effects, and anti-apoptotic (or anti-cell death) effects.

H2 is the smallest antioxidant in existence. Other antioxidants such as Vitamin C or Vitamin E are very large molecules compared to H2 and need to go through your digestive tract, absorbed in your intestines, go through your blood, and enter into your cells before they can eliminate free radicals. H2 is so small that it can penetrate through your stomach lining to begin acting inside your cells immediately. H2 is also in a gaseous state. So, it can basicly float through your cells and perform its function as an antioxidant.

This was just the beginning of the bonuses I discovered and 5 years later I have never looked back, which is why I decided to do this blog. I already have a great job, I did not really need to find anything else to do, but I felt drawn to documenting my findings to share with my community. I have found this device has incredible medical grade acidic water for wound cleansing and cleaning. Plus a fabulous degreaser and pesticide remover as the alkaline water. Seriously, this water machine is just essential in any home, villa or yacht these days. The Japanese have them in their hospitals and schools.

There are many good brands in the market place. The brand that you purchase should suit your needs and budget. Based upon my testing, there is no “best” brand out there that does everything.

One brand produces the best acidic water for antiseptic cleaning. Another brand works the best in soft water condtions because of the contents of its filter. Another brand has the best under counter unit. Still another brand produces the highest alkaline pH output which can be used for emulsifying the water, which will allow the user to remove the pesticides from fruit and vegetables. There are a wide selection of lower cost brands that will produce healthy drinking water with useful pH and ORP values. Just do your research first, there are some dodgy ones too with romours of heavy metal poisoning and leakage.

So when you see the term Kangen Water remember it is the very powerful Molecular Hydrogen property of the Antioxidant in this water that makes it so effective. For me it was a wise, life changing, choice getting the ionizer from Enagic. They have the most power, thickest plates and 40+ years of research and development, in my opinion is one of the the best products in the world. The first one ever made is still going strong, in an appartment in |Hong Kong (so the roumour says) and it is 38 years old!

The Molecular Hydrogen foundation have heaps of cited evidence regarding the benefits of molecular hydrogen. See it all HERE

Research and Further Reading

1. HOPKINS, E. W. (1905). The fountain of youth. Journal of the American Oriental Society 26, 1-67.
2. HUANG, C. S., KAWAMURA, T., TOYODA, Y. & NAKAO, A. (2010). Recent advances in hydrogen research as a therapeutic medical gas. Free Radical Research 44, 971-982.
3. CAVALLO, T. (1798). An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs: with an appendix on the nature of blood. Printed for the author, and sold by C. Dilly [and 2 others].
4. OHSAWA, I., ISHIKAWA, M., TAKAHASHI, K., WATANABE, M., NISHIMAKI, K., YAMAGATA, K., KATSURA, K., KATAYAMA, Y., ASOH, S. & OHTA, S. (2007). Hydrogen acts as a therapeutic antioxidant by selectively reducing cytotoxic oxygen radicals. Nat Med 13, 688-694.
5. DOLE, M., WILSON, F. R. & FIFE, W. P. (1975). Hyperbaric hydrogen therapy: a possible treatment for cancer. Science 190, 152-4.
6. Farrell, Jeffrey M., Jillian A. Hatnean, and Douglas W. Stephan. "Activation of Hydrogen and Hydrogenation Catalysis by a Borenium Cation." Journal of the American Chemical Society 134.38 (2012): 15728-15731.
7. SHULIN LIU, X. S. A. H. T. (2012). Hydrogen from a biologically inert gas to a unique antioxidant. Second Military Medical University,www.intechopen.
8. LEE, M. Y., KIM, Y. K., RYOO, K. K., LEE, Y. B. & PARK, E. J. (2006). Electrolyzed-reduced water protects against oxidative damage to DNA, RNA, and protein. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 135, 133-44.
9. SUN, H. Chen, L. Zhou, W. Hu, L. Li, L. Tu, Q. Chang, Y. Liu, Q. Sun, X. Wu, M. Wang, H. (2011). The protective role of hydrogen-rich saline in experimental liver injury in mice. Journal of Hepatology 54, (3) 471-80
10. ITOH, T., FUJITA, Y., ITO, M., MASUDA, A., OHNO, K., ICHIHARA, M., KOJIMA, T., NOZAWA, Y. & ITO, M. (2009). Molecular hydrogen suppresses FcepsilonRI-mediated signal transduction and prevents degranulation of mast cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 389, 651-6.
11. KAMIMURA, N., NISHIMAKI, K., OHSAWA, I. & OHTA, S. (2011). Molecular Hydrogen Improves Obesity and Diabetes by Inducing Hepatic FGF21 and Stimulating Energy Metabolism in db/db Mice. Obesity.
12. NAKAI, Y., SATO, B., USHIAMA, S., OKADA, S., ABE, K. & ARAI, S. (2011). Hepatic oxidoreduction-related genes are upregulated by administration of hydrogen-saturated drinking water. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry 75, 774-6.
13. DIXON, B. J., TANG, J. & ZHANG, J. H. (2013). The evolution of molecular hydrogen: a noteworthy potential therapy with clinical significance. Med Gas Res 3, 10.
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15. SHIRAHATA, S. A. N. E. T. A. K. A. (2002). Reduced water for prevention of diseases. Animal Cell Technology: Basic and Applied Aspects 12, 25-30.
16. SHIRAHATA, S., HAMASAKI, T. & TERUYA, K. (2012). Advanced research on the health benefit of reduced water. Trends in Food Science & Technology 23, 124-131.
17. CONRAD, R., ARAGNO, M. & SEILER, W. (1983). Production and consumption of hydrogen in a eutrophic lake. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 45, 502-10.
18. STROCCHI, A. & LEVITT, M. D. (1992). Maintaining intestinal H2 balance: credit the colonic bacteria. Gastroenterology 102, 1424-6.
19. CHEN, X., ZHAI, X., SHI, J., LIU, W. W., TAO, H., SUN, X. & KANG, Z. (2013). Lactulose Mediates Suppression of Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Colon Inflammation by Increasing Hydrogen Production. Dig Dis Sci.
20. SUZUKI, Y., SANO, M., HAYASHIDA, K., OHSAWA, I., OHTA, S. & FUKUDA, K. (2009). Are the effects of alpha-glucosidase inhibitors on cardiovascular events related to elevated levels of hydrogen gas in the gastrointestinal tract? FEBS Letters 583, 2157-9.
21. CHEN, X., ZUO, Q., HAI, Y. & SUN, X. J. (2011). Lactulose: an indirect antioxidant ameliorating inflammatory bowel disease by increasing hydrogen production. Medical Hypotheses 76, 325-7.
22. BLACK, J. H. (2006). Chemistry and cosmology. Faraday Discussions 133, 27-32; discussion 83-102, 449-52.
23. JIN, Q., ZHU, K., CUI, W., XIE, Y., HAN, B. & SHEN, W. (2013). Hydrogen gas acts as a novel bioactive molecule in enhancing plant tolerance to paraquat-induced oxidative stress via the modulation of heme oxygenase-1 signalling system. Plant Cell and Environment 36, 956-69.
24. HONG, Y., CHEN, S. & ZHANG, J. M. (2010). Hydrogen as a selective antioxidant: a review of clinical and experimental studies. Journal of International Medical Research 38, 1893-903.