Cheney on water: distilled, oxygenated, mineralized, reduced/living

[Guest guest]

Al, you asked " I sure would like to know what Dr. Cheney feels about the use

Hyperbaric Oxygen to treat the 2,3-DPG problem in CFS and the A02-bottled oxygen

you add to water and drink, details at: www.activatedoxygen.com " .

I've never asked Cheney about Hyperbaric Oxygen, so I'm clueless there.

I did ask him about distilled water and oxygenated water during my visit three

weeks ago.

Regarding distilled water, he said " If you look at the evolution of life forms,

we didn't exactly grow up drinking distilled water. " It's not part of nature.

He went on to say that lightly mineralized spring water from a really pure

natural aquifer was best. But in our polluted environment we can't be sure about

the purity.

The good thing about distilled water is that it is " free " - nothing but water -

and therefore has no pollutants or toxins.

But the bad thing about distilled water is that it is " free - nothing but water

- and therefore if drunk in large quantities by someone with a bad diet, it

might deplete minerals. (When you drink a gallon of free water, you don't pee a

gallon of free water - it's got minerals in it.)

Dr. Cheney doesn't really like the idea of using distilled water as your main

source of drinking water.

And he felt that pH and oxygenation weren't terribly significant. (I didn't

explore the question of why - the clock was ticking in my head, and I knew we

were already looking at five hours in his office that first day!) He did say

that pH varied greatly among city water. St. Louis tap water was once right at a

pH of 10, and somewhere in Colorado was under 7.

He said what he would look for (besides a lightly mineralized spring water from

a very pure source), was water whose minerals were in a " reduced " or " living "

state versus an " oxidized " or " dead " state. I don't think he knew of any water

in the US that labeled itself that way. He said you really needed a way to

measure the " redox " state to tell you which state it was. He said that in

Germany they sell water that is label " living " , which means " reduced " .

Anybody know if any bottled water sold here is " living " or " reduced " ?

Oh, he also said that water could be too mineralized and burden the kidneys.

Thus his preference for " lightly mineralized " .

Take care. Carol