Kangen Healing Water 

Why are we doing this?

Despite its long history of clinical testing, Kangen water (and the machines) has been increasingly popular only in recent years, thanks to the recent media publicity since the discovery made by Dr. Shirahata.

Since then, hundreds of hospitals all across Japan started experimenting with the Kangen Water (and many cases, Super Acidic Water as well) as a part of their medical practices for all kinds of cases and diseases.

Coupled with its impeccable track record of this water treatment, it has been getting a huge attention from the public in Japan, fueled by series of documentary programs as well as countless numbers of testimonials from former patients appearing in many books and some even in talk shows.

As far as its market penetration goes, it is said to be anywhere between 1% to 3% across Japan, on a household installation basis, as of 2004. However, the overall acknowledgement of this water and its benefits among the general public is much higher, and most likely will only grow.

While it seems that this water is reaching the tipping point, there are also some issues that are preventing it.

• Cost: As you might have guessed, these machines are not exactly cheap. Decent one starts around $2000 (USD) and some of the best ones top around $6000 (USD). And we are only talking about the home use models, NOT those bigger, more powerful industrial models the hospitals are using. So even with the unbelievable track record of recovering from all kinds of illness and diseases, most people can't afford this until they face life-threatning situations.

• Political Battle: This is an easy guess as well. Doctors and the pharmaceutical industry want to protect their own interests. The Japanese government wants to slow down the hype and decides that the Kangen water industry cannot advertise or speak publically of its merits, using "cure" language, until the scinece of this water is 100% proven. Hmmm, this sounds familiar, doesn't it?

• Confusion: While the Japanese government bans medical claims on a grander scale, they have also admitted to certain health benefits of Kangen Water, and just upgraded certain models' status from being a health appliance to a medical device recently. This contradiction and the resemblance with the cheaper but the lesser grade alternative, Ionized Alkaline Water, are causing the general public enough confusion.

If you put this in a global perspective, it gets even trickier. This water technology is practically non-existent outside Japan. What this means is that there is very little information available in English to us, not to mention the actual products we can buy here in the States. Even worse, there are some people who are trying to sell cheaper Ionized Alkaline Water machines as if they were at the same or a similar level as with the Kangen Water machines, only cheaper. (Sigh) Cheaper for what? Something that's been officially declared to have no medical benefits by doctors and scientists?

So we figured somebody has to put this act together. This water technology is just too good to be missed, or to be fooled around!

Focus of this Site

Spreading the word about this water technology and provide as much information and documentation to back up the claim are the main focus of this site.

And since we can't "claim" any medical merits in the future tense, according to FDA, we can only show you how effective it was with many different cases in the past as personal testimonials.

That being said, while we will have to rely (most likely, heavily) on the translation of the Japanese materials to English initially, we'd like to start collecting the actual testimonials, primarily but definitely not limited to, from people in the U.S. as well.

Also, we'd like to provide what's available for us to buy in the US as well as some cautious notes for those who are considering to purchase one.

We strongly feel that this water unit should be installed in each and every home to protect ourselves from our ever increasingly toxic and unhealthy environment.

Our mission here, as a grassroots industry newsletter, is to help the industry achieve that tall goal one day, for the sake of the common human interests.

That'll be our goal as well.