Dr. Hiromi Shinya developed an accessory to the colonoscope which allowed the surgical removal of any polyps that were discovered during a colonoscopy. He did not "invent" the colonoscope.

By the way, GfS, your confusion of "colostomy" and "colonoscopy" was a bit more than a mere typo. It indicated to me that you are trying to use words that you don't really understand (early on, my mother told me that wasn't a good idea). And it wasn't that long ago that when I made a geniune typo (slip if the fingers), you danced around in glee and tried to claim that it proved I was mentally incompetent.

The Kangan Water device, developed by Dr. Hiromi Shinya, alters the acid/alkaline balance of water through ionization. Therefore, it is a water ionizer. I believe that it also makes some use of electrolysis (the process by which water is separated into its component gases, hydrogen and oxygen), but the information on the internet about how the device works is sufficiently vague to preclude any kind of scientific analysis.

Some pretty far-fetched health claims are made for this device. Far-fetched enough to make any reasonable person highly skeptical of the claims made for it.

There may be something to this gadget. But—it has all the earmarks of the kind of potions and gadgets that my sister (whom, as I mentioned, worked for a time in a health food store) kept running into, and which were being hawked as cure-alls for everything from toenail fungus to heart disease.

Yes, there is a brief article about Dr. Hiromi Shinya in Wikipedia.   But here's a news flash, GfS:

Wikipedia is not a medical journal!

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't accept an article in Wikipedia as being as authoritative as peer-review articles in scientific or medical journals.

And the repetitive insults and abuse you keep throwing in my direction are a dead giveaway that you know you are on very shaky ground, and you are doing your damnedest to try to carry off the bluff.

Go take your meds.

Don Firth

P. S. By the way, GfS, doctors generally don't require a blood test to check a person's PH balance. That's done simply by having the patient pee on a piece of litmus paper. The color of the wet paper indicates the acid/alkaline balance.

Have you had a physical lately? You seem to be a bit fuzzy about how doctors work. Maybe it's time.

P. P. S. I suppose this little exchange of pleasantries is related to the health care reform debate, but Carol's most recent post brings it right back to what this thread is all about. There are people ~ many people ~ in this country who are in need of medical attention. And can't get it!