12 Steps to Whole Foods

Achieving an Alkaline Inner Terrain
HOW Do I Get Alkaline Water?
You can purchase sodium chlorite ion drops online. This product will increase the pH of your water. Over the
long run, however, this will be more expensive than purchasing an ionizer and installing it in your kitchen to
make all of your drinking water alkaline (as well as giving you acid water for other purposes, such as killing
bugs on plants in the garden, washing and cleaning, or gargling for a sore throat). I’m also a little
uncomfortable with this way of making water alkaline (or adding hydrogen peroxide to water). I started out
trying alkaline water this way and felt no difference in my energy or health.
A network marketing company called Enagic was the most dominant presence in the U.S. market, with its high
quality but very expensive countertop machine. The $4,000 price tag necessitated by an eight-levels-deep
compensation plan puts the machine out of range for most.
When I determined I wanted my own machine, I began to
research the competitors, all of whom manufacture in Asia, and
the most reputable companies/machines are manufactured in
Korea. Through talking with all the company reps and comparing
machines, I decided to purchase a Life Ionizer because they have
an under-counter-installed model that is very high quality with a
five-year warranty. I love that the water comes out of a stainless
steel faucet drilled into my counter top (where my reverse
osmosis faucet used to be), without the bulky machine and tubes
on top of the counter.
Because readers of my site asked me to obtain discounted pricing,
I do group buys every few months on Life Ionizers (all models) in
order to obtain wholesale pricing. By collecting 10 buyers at a time through my local and online communities,
we have made wholesale group purchases to save well over 60% over the Enagic price several times now. At
the time of this writing (late 20011), Enagic and Jupiter have no under-sink-mounted model. (Life does have
other models, and renters or those who split time between multiple homes may want to choose a more mobile
counter top model.)
If you are interested in participating, you may email us at ionizers@greensmoothiegirl.com for more
information on models, wholesale prices, and when the next group buy will be. We also have a short
educational series of emails for you, which you can sign up for on the Alkaline Water page under “Robyn
Recommends” on GreenSmoothieGirl.com.
What Foods Are Alkaline and Acid?
I am not going to go into great scientific detail in this book, as I am condensing a massive amount of
information on alkalinity, which has been made a lifestyle by the “alkalarians” (most famously including Dr.
Gabriel Cousens, Dr. Robert O. Young, and lifestyle coach and speaker Anthony Robbins). Most of my readers
will not necessarily want a detailed list of the exact “ash level” of every food. (That’s the pH level of the
metabolized residue of any food. We want a food to be “alkaline forming,” or causing a shift toward alkalinity
in the body as the food is metabolized.)
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