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| Kangen Water, bottled. |
This IS the WATER!
It can cure anything and everything! From diabetes to cancer to eczema or even 'penyakit bodoh' like acne and such.
It's good for your health! Drink this miracle, high pH, very alkaline water and dispose of those medications!
Acidic food and drinks are the reason we got sick! Drink this alkali water to combat it!
Ever heard people selling Kangen Water told you these?
How far the truth behind their out of the world statements?
Some of us, especially our grandparents, easily believe this. Why would someone sell you anything that's dangerous or not good for you? Right?
While some of us, mainly people that I can call Abang and Kakak, mostly don't believe those statements (albeit some does!)
But how far is the truth behind all these statements? Or are they false testimonies that the machines sellers produce just to make sure people buy the machine? *it's Leveluk SD501, cost about RM 12,000 a pop, by the way*.
Well, there are some facts and lies in those statements.
However, before we go through that, I'm going to tell you a story here about this Kangen Water. I actually went to a so-called Kangen Water conference a few days back, courtesy of my mini-thesis supervisor. She called me to join her for that Kangen Water conference (she's also the machine and Kangen Water seller, not to mention a medical doctor, at the Department of Pharmacological and Therapy.
Yes. A licensed MEDICAL DOCTOR, that believe in Kangen Water.
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| the Video showing about Kangen |
Anyways, back to the conference. You've to be invited by someone that's already in the 'Kangen Group' -of some sort; they called this person a sponsor. Not to mention everyone that comes to it has to pay IDR 50,000.00 (about RM15) per person. It's like a bit of exclusive and such to go into this conference. I kept an open mind but a bit on the skeptical and negative side during the whole night it lasted.
I wanted to know what the MC, presenter and also the audiences would be like. I had an idea based on postings I read on an FB page, Pseudoscience Watch. And I was actually quite right.
It began with everyone getting a 600ml bottle of Kangen water (free of course) and a video showing the general idea of where Kangen Water is developed. The video did emphasized that Kangen is originated in Japan, the machine, its development and researches are conducted in Japan.
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| Live Blood Analysis |
Then, the MC started to ask questions whether you want to be healthy-lah, rich-lah and be like those people that had sold more than 100s Kangen Water machines lah. Not that I have anything against those kind of questions but they made me felt... weird. The audiences, on the other hand, responded so lively and enthusiastically. The whole medium-sized ballroom was actually vibrated with their roars and yeses. The presenter was a doctor. They said he had not been a 'doctor' ever since he found of bout Kangen water. Four years, if I'm mistaken. So the conference began with this Maher Zain's doppelganger's speech about water being the 70% make-up of our body (this is a fact!) and hydration. Water and hydration really do correlate but the photo he showed, Live Blood Analysis is something that doesn't make sense.
I have never heard of Live Blood Analysis before. Never. Not in my four years of medical school nor in the 22 years living in this world. And the picture, the 'dehydrated' red blood cells look a lot like coin-stacked peripheral blood smear/rouleaux (when the smear is too thick).
Now I'm skeptical level 2
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| Hypertonic, too much water lost from RBC. Dehydration station |
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| Rouleaux or stacks of coins. When blood smear is too thick (2nd Year Meds) |
If he's A medical doctor, he should at least know about the basic on blood smear.
Then, he kept on blabbering and showing photos on blood, endoscopy and testimonies, in which huge, blockish words such as 'BETUL KE NI!?' 'WHAAA-?' kept on blinking in my mind.
Most of that this so-called 'doctor' said, I could never associated them with those basic sciences I learnt in medical school. They were full of bull!
*Serious lah, aku tak boleh nak compute pun apa 'dokter' ni cakap dengan apa yang aku belajar!*
There was also a demonstration of the Kangen water with pH indicator drop. He did that on various of drinks such as carbonated water, isotonic drinks, bottled juices, mineral water, RO water and of course, the Kangen water. As expected, and known, most of drinks available at the stores are on the acidic side of the indicators. Yes, they are definitely not good for us to consume daily (gula weih gula tinggi!).
Kangen water exhibit a high alkaline level (more towards base than our daily mineral water) and it has the 'power' to neutralise some of the acidic drinks. Remember high school chemistry experiments on acid and alkali? The demo was just like that.
Okay yang ni memang betul lah.
Also, Kangen water has high Oxidation Reduction Potential, something that I'm not familiar with but I'm pretty sure it's called the 'Redox Potential'. Redox potential means that it has the energy to become an antioxidant, removing excess radicals from surrounding. The lower the number, the better it is in being antioxidant. Kangen water has a redox potential somewhere around -600mV and this is like blending three-four types of fruits together and drink the whole thing.
After the demo on the water, the guy started preaching about selling the machine, in which I didn't have a speck of interest. Told my doctor that I wanted to go back and I left. Bits and pieces that I caught during the 'Sale of Machine' (okay, ni aku namakan sendiri) were that you sell to people, you get a certain amount on money from Enagic (the one and only Kangen Water machine maker) and after selling certain amount of machine, the amount of money is increased. Something that looks like pyramid/MLM scheme - which my doctor said IT'S NOT.
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| the Leveluk SD501 |
You decide whether it's or not. I myself didn't bother to get the full info about it.
Alright. So that was what happened during the entire evening I was forced to attend the seminar.
Betul ke air ni boleh buat semua tu? Is this all hoax?
Weih aku tak percaya! Mana boleh minum air baik semua!
I think these are all penipu je.
Let me get this straight. My answers are based on journals that have been published under respectable, reputable publishers such as Elsevier (yang buat buku Pathologic Basic of Diseases, Abbas and Kumar tuu). I read those journals as a requirement to write my mini-thesis proposal as part as being a medical student (wajib leerr ><). The journals are available through Google Scholars.
These are the answers for any of you that doubt this water.
- Anti-cancer - Surprisingly YES! In 2001 a study on human lung adenocarcinoma and cervical carcinoma. Changes in morphology of the cells from cancer cells to normal cells because the water somehow stopped the 'immortality' of cancer cells so only the normal ones multiply.
- Anti-diabetic - Yes! In 1997, a study showed it did reduce blood glucose and also lipid peroxide. The study is continued in 2002, on hamsters and this also showed same result.
- Anti-oxidant - Yes! The biggest property of Kangen water is because of its antioxidan effect due to low redox potential. Also in 1997, Japanese conducted a study and it showed how Kangen water not only did the job like our endogenous antioxidant but it also worked far better with removing radicals that cannot be removed by our naturally occurring antioxidant.
- Anti-cholesterol - Yes. My friend did her thesis on this and the result is impressive! Comparing Kangen water to Simvastatin (the usual drug prescribed for high cholesterolemia, Kangen water shows better result!)
- Dialysis - Showing good signs in people that do dialysis. The machine is equipped with Kangen water and the patients were less tired, felt a lot better and the oxidative stress is reduced in various parameters.
- Effect in guts - Despite having such high pH, the water does not disturb the normal floras (the good bacterias) in our guts. Kangen water (or ERW, if I may) actually helps in people that have chronic diarrhea, constipation and hypercholia (extra secretion of bile)
These are the benefits of drinking Kangen Water/Electrolyzed Reduced Water, among others. LOADS of BENEFITS, I'm not kidding!
So, jadinya, betullah apa those sellers said. BUT! It doesn't mean you can simply throw away your medications, especially those who are suffering from diabetes and other chronic diseases. Kangen water may one day be cure but until this very second, it's only an adjuvant treatment.
ADJUVANT.
SUPPLEMENT.
PENOLONG.
MEMBANTU.
It helps you provided you drink your meds. Jangan pergi buang pulak ubat mahal-mahal tuuuu. Lain jadi kang!
You can read further on journals and such from Google Scholars. It's not the same with normal Google.com. Enter these keywords: Electrolyzed Reduced Water (the scientific name of Kangen Water), antioxidants, anti-diabetic etc.
Sebenarnya, air ni banyak potensi nak jadi a part of our treatment one day. But please, yang jual air-air kangen ni, jangan kasi dakyah. Educate the people, educate yourself before nak jual or suruh patients stop with their meds. Ingat. Nyawa orang.
Till later. Salam.
sources:
images.google.com
scholar.google.com under Elsevier's journals and papers posted in scholar.
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