Testimonials

Dr. Robert D. Willix, Jr., M.D.
“If you decide on bottled water, make sure it’s distilled, (however), in the long run you’ll save money if you clean your water at home. It’s more convenient than hauling gallon jugs from the store. The ‘gold standard’ for purifying your water is a system that distills your water and filters it. You have the comfort of knowing there is no chlorine, fluoride, bacteria, viruses, pesticides, or lead. You get nothing but H2O.”
Maximum Health.
Dr. Robert D. Willix, JR., M.D.
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
Years ago, the late Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, learned of the virtues of distilled water, and always claimed that distilled water had prolonged his life. He wrote of his experiences as follows:
“I have found that distilled water is a sovereign remedy for rheumatism, at least as far as my own case is concerned. Some years ago doctors could not find anything to relieve me. The attack came just as I was investigating certain subjects related to deposits of salts. One was as to the deposit of salts in the human system. A well known scientist had written a book in which he said that old age came from such deposits, and that the ills of advanced years were due to the lack of their elimination. This man thought that when such deposits went to the joints man had rheumatism. When they went to the kidneys, he had kidney trouble and stones in the urinary organs; and when they lodged in the arteries, they produced what is called hardening of the arteries. In the same way, when such deposits coated the nerves, they produced sciatica. At that time I had been studying about the Dead Sea, the great Salt Lake, and other bodies of water which have no outlets. The Dead Sea is one-fourth salt and the Great Salt Lake is loaded with salt. Well, it occurred to me that my body was much like the Dead Sea and that it needed less salt coming and plenty of ways to get salt out. I knew that distilled water was pure. I thought if I drank plenty of it, I might get rid of some of the salts that were covering my sciatic nerves. I tried drinking it, and it worked like a charm. Within a short time my sciatica left me and I have been free of rheumatism from that day to this. I have kept up my drinking of distilled water and I attribute my almost perfect health largely to it.”
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
Dr. Allen E. Banik
“Let me classify the nine kinds of water. They are hard water, raw water, boiled water, soft water, rain water, snow water, filtered water, de-ionized water, and distilled water. All are kinds of water – but remember this: only one of these nine kinds of water is good for you.
Distilled water is water which has been turned into vapor, so that all its impurities are left behind. Then, by condensing, it is turned back to pure water. It is the only water which is pure – the only water free from all impurities”.
Dr. Allen E. Banik
Harvey & Marilyn Diamond
“Distillation provides us with the purest water obtainable . . . by all means make the smart choice in the type of water you drink. There should only be one choice – PURE! And pure means distilled.”
Fit For Life II: Living Health
Harvey & Marilyn Diamond
Dr. David Kennedy, D.D.S.
“Even tap water invariably contains a variety of poisons such as chlorine, chloramine, asbestos, pesticides, fluoride, copper, mercury, and lead. The best way to remove all these contaminants is by distilling.”
How To Save Your Teeth: Toxic-Free Preventitive Dentistry
Dr. David Kennedy, D.D.S.
Dr. John Yiamoyuiannis, Ph.D.
“The home distiller is the best method and also the best way to get distilled water. It is the only reliable home water purification for taking fluoride out of the water.”
Fluoride: The Aging Factor
Dr. John Yiamoyuiannis, Ph.D.
Dr. Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic
“Water hardness (inorganic minerals in solution) is the underlying cause of many, if not all, of the diseases resulting from poisons in the intestinal tract. These (hard minerals) pass from the intestinal walls and get into the lymphatic system, which delivers all of its products to the blood, which in turn, distributes to all parts of the body. This is the cause of much human disease.”
Dr. Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic

Water Conditioning

There are many different types of conditioners, each with its own benefits. The method used most often in homes is cation exchange, the principles of which are simple. An ion is an electrically charged atom or group of atoms. A cation is a positively charged ion. The water is conditioned when the hardness ions (magnesium and calcium) are exchanged for sodium ions. This exchange occurs in a resin bed during the softening cycle.

Three main parts make up most water conditioners:

Resin Tank – Contains the resin bed.
Resin Bed – This is made up of tiny bead-like material often made of styrene and divinylbenzene. The beads attract and hold positively charged ions such as sodium, but will exchange them whenever the bead encounters another positively charged ion such as calcium or magnesium.
Brine Tank – This tank holds the dissolved salt solution that is necessary to regenerate the resin. Regeneration refers to reversing the ion exchange operation. The magnesium and calcium ions are driven off of the resin beads and replaced by positively charged sodium ions. The regeneration occurs when the resin beads are washed with a strong salt-water solution. The salt forces the calcium and magnesium ions to be released, and they are then discharged as waste during the backwashing cycle. The beads are ready to once again attract hardness ions from the water.

Many installed water conditioners are fully automatic. An automatic unit regenerates according to a preset clock. For example, it might be set to regenerate every third night at 3am. Other systems may use an electronic sensor that regenerates the system according to water usage.

Size and Type Considerations

When water conditioners were first manufactured, manual and semi-automatic models, where the homeowner started the regeneration process “manually”, were the most common types sold. Today, the two main types on the market are automatic and demand-initiated regeneration (DIR) water conditioners. Automatic conditioners regenerate on a schedule regulated by a timer. DIR conditioners are the most sophisticated, containing a hardness sensor or water meter which triggers regeneration as needed.

There are several factors that a person must take into consideration before purchasing a conditioner, including the number of people in the home, how much water is used, and the hardness of the water.

Determining the size of the conditioner, knowing these factors, is rather simple. Multiply 75 (average gallons per day used per person) by the number of people in your household. For example, four people in a household will likely use 300 gallons of water per day. Multiply the 300 gallons per day by the number of grains per gallon of hardness present in your water. Continuing the example, 300 gallons per day times 20 gpg gives a figure of 6000 grains of hardness per day that would require removal. Given a typical regeneration capacity of 18.000 to 30,000 grains per regeneration, a softening system in this case would optimally be regenerated every three to five days.

The Sodium Issue

For some consumers, the fact that sodium is used to soften water raises a concern about their drinking water and a potential health risk. However, what many people may not know is that when doctors and researchers discuss salt and its effects on a person’s health, they usually refer to sodium chloride, and not sodium bicarbonate, which is the result of softening.
Further, according to Dr. Andrew Zeifer, Director of the Hypertension Clinic at the University of Michigan, “Drinking water represents a very small part of sodium intake in most persons. Even water softening systems using salt don’t introduce enough salt to be of concern.” Similar views were expressed in the New England Journal of Medicine, and by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
If consumers do not want to add any additional sodium to their diet, or if they are on a medically prescribed diet, they may choose to connect their water conditioner to the hot water line only, thus leaving consumers able to drink and cook with unconditioned cold water. Another option would be to install a reverse osmosis or distillation system, and have the full benefits of both technologies in their home.

Posted on : July 7, 2014 - Last updated on Jul 11, 2014

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