Almost everyone has a hard time staying pH-balanced these days, but especially gestating mothers. Here are two good reasons to drink ionized water: 1) The baby needs alkalinity in order to stay healthy and grow properly. He is taking a whole lot of the mother’s alkaline buffers while in the womb. 2) The pregnant mother-to-be has not only her own bodily acids that need to be neutralized but also the baby’s. (Note: Almost all bodily wastes are acidic wastes. These acid wastes are expelled, by way of the placenta, back into the mother’s body, but if they build up too much it can be at the root of swelling and many of the other conditions that often arise during pregnancy. The only way the blood can remove acidic wastes is if alkaline buffers are available to bond with them and neutralize them.)
The growing baby needs lots of water, not only because its body is 75% water, but also the growing amniotic sac is full of almost 100% water. The mother, herself, needs more water. During pregnancy the woman’s blood-volume increases by about 50%. With all this extra need for water, during pregnancy, many women have a hard time keeping water down, because of morning sickness. Alkaline ionized water has two benefits which help with this: 1) its micro-clustered and 2) ionized water tends to have a settling effect on a nauseous stomach.
Benefits of drinking ionized water have been demonstrated by tens of thousands of patients of leading Japanese gynaecologist, Prof. Watanabe Ifao of Watanabe Hospital, Japan [Head of Gynaecology]. His extensive studies have shown that drinking alkaline ionized water can lower the risk of pre-eclampsia, a dangerous condition that develops because of the over-acidity of the mother’s body for an extended time. Dr Watanabe worked with gynaecological patients exclusively. Many of these patients had pre-eclamptic toxemia and made a special trip to see him at his hospital, where he was well-known to have the best results. Dr. Watanabe used alkaline ionized water to help heal all of these patients.
Also, these same studies have demonstrated that drinking ionized water helps stabilize blood pressure, reduce water retention and reduce the swelling in hands, ankles and feet. Interestingly, the follow-up reporting on patients treated in Dr. Watanabe’s hospital showed the babies intelligence to be above average as well. There are many benefits of drinking ionized water during pregnancy. This has been thoroughly researched.