Don, you just made another typo. It is "Kangen" water, not "Kangan" water.

Not that it matters much, but I thought I'd mention it so you'd know in future how to spell it. I don't think it indicates any mental instability on your part. ;-)

Interestingly enough, I went to Toronto today on business, got that taken care of, then dropped by my favorite hobby shop to see what new stuff might be in (model kits, that is).

To my great surprise what was the first thing I see as I park the car? Two doors down from my hobby shop, which I've been patronizing for years, is a large storefront with a sign about Kangen Water! Gad! Talk about synchronicity. Un-frikkin'-believable. I only first heard about the stuff yesterday....I spent some time reading about it on the Internet yesterday....and today I find a whole store devoted to it and some other health-related stuff right next to my favorite hobby shop.

Do I believe in fortunate synchronicites? Yeah....I've seen them happen before quite a few times. Anyway, I went in to that place and spent a couple of very interesting hours talking to a young Chinese man and a young Chinese woman all about those machines you allude to so suspiciously, and seeing demonstrations of the Ph levels of common varieties of commercially bottled water, ionized water from the machine, etc. Most interesting, to be sure.

I intend to investigate it further.

I also got a free 40-minute massage by a type of oriental massage table they have there. It uses heat and a set of jade rollers that work up and down the entire spine while you lie there and they massage every part along the five meridians (see acupuncture meridians) that run up the back. In short, there is a central meridian going up the spine, there are two more close to the spine running parallel on either side, and two more running parallel to those, but farther out from the spine. These same long meridians can be worked on by a masseuse or a chiropractor. The mechanized table massages all these meridians with heat and pressure while you lie there, according to a computerized program, and the whole thing takes 40 minutes.

They have about 15 of the tables in the store, and anyone can walk in off the street and get a free massage from the table. One guy in the neighborhood came in every day for nearly a year, because it was helping him so much.

Long story short....I got my 40 minute massage and felt absolutely great afterward.

Why do they offer free massages? So people can find out how good this massage table is, in which case they may or may not decide to buy one. If they don't buy one, the store has lost nothing, and the person has gained a great massage...or a whole series of them, because you can come back every day if you want to, for as long as you want to.

I will be doing a good deal more reading on the Kangen water device and how it works. The demonstrations with various types of water were quite interesting. You should have been there. ;-)

The only way anyone can possibly find out about this stuff is...try it. Or know someone else who has tried it and whose opinion and judgement you trust.

Other than that, it's all just a big blather of opinion (most of it based on some sort of prior prejudice that the opinionator has), and you know that everyone in this world has:

2 armpits
2 knees
2 eyes
1 asshole
and a whole bunch of opinions!

I take people's opinions with a grain of salt unless I know them very, very well indeed...but the one thing that really impresses me is my own direct experience, because then...I know. I have yet to reach any particular conclusion about the Kangen Water. I am in the process of investigating it. My conclusion about the oriental massage table is...it's darned good. I would go for that massage every single day if I lived closer to that store (but it's in Toronto, and I'm an hour and a half north of Toronto).