Further
Technical Information
How long
have Water Ionizers been on the market?
Water
Ionizers have been available in the orient for over forty years and in
the United States for about 10 years. They were popularized in Japan and
began to become somewhat common there around the mid 1980's used in
hospitals, clinics, agriculture and homes. Our ICM ionizer is
manufacted by Jupiter Dang Yong Science who have been manufacturing for
18 years and in fact supply the competition with their ionization cells
as well as clinics and hospitals.
Why
do different Water Ionizers come with different selection levels of
intensity?
A Water
Ionizer should have at least 3 levels of intensity to chose from, The
Fountainhead ICM© Ionizer has 5. This is mainly because
Ionized Water is extremely detoxifying and people who have toxins built
up in their system can suffer reactions such as headaches or diarrhea.
This is especially true of the elderly because they often have built up
many toxins in their bodies over the years. It offers the convenience
of slowly building up tolerance to ionized water.
Does the volume a Water
Ionizer produces per minute important?
Are some Water Ionizers on the market
stronger than other Water Ionizers?
All
home Water Ionizers currently manufactured deliver approximately 1 to 1
1/2 gallons per minute. There is very little difference between the
strength of the various Water Ionizers on the market. Ionized Water with
a 10 pH or higher takes only an unflattering taste, almost as though it
is salty. The slower you run water through a Water Ionizer, the stronger
it will become because the source water has more contact time with the
electrodes. This is why the flow rate of Water Ionizers essentially does
not matter. If you wish to drink strong Ionized Water then running the
source water through it very slowly will accomplish this.
Do all
Water Ionizers have a Calcium Port and what is its function?
Some
Water Ionizers such as The Fountainhead ICM© Ionizer
come with a port where calcium, can be added, which boosts the intensity
of the Ionized Water. Once minerals have been ionized they are
assimilated into the body more easily. The more minerals that are in the
source water used to produce the Ionized Water, the stronger it will be.
This is why Ionized Water can NOT be made from distilled, purified or
reverse osmosis.
Does it
matter what the electrodes on a Water Ionizer are composed of?
The
electrodes are one of the most important components of a Water Ionizer.
All Water Ionizers currently manufactured have titanium electrodes with
platinum tips, which is one of the biggest costs of a Water Ionizer.
Do
all Water Ionizers have a carbon filter? Why do some carbon filter have
silver impregnation?
All
continuous flow Home Water Ionizers on the market have a carbon filter.
The Fountainhead ICM© Ionizer comes with a silver
impregnated carbon filter. The carbon in the filter is silver
impregnated in order to retard bacterial growth (as seen in our
colloidal silver article) The silver that is impregnated in the carbon
will NOT leach into the water. Every major manufacturer of carbon
filters in the US produces carbon filters with silver impregnation.
Do Water
Ionizers remove fluoride from the water as some have claimed?
There
have been statements made regarding Water Ionizers removing fluoride
from municipal water. Water Ionizers can not remove anything from the
water. To ionize means simply to gain or loose an electron. The amount
and type of minerals that are present in the water before ionization is
the same after ionization. In every test we are aware of, no more than
50% of the fluoride in the water was lost on the alkaline side of the
Ionized Water. This means that half but not all of the fluoride in the
Ionized Water after ionization had migrated to the acidic side of the
ionization process which runs into the drain. |
