That is an important point, Carol. I have been doing some reading on the Net about it. It seems that there are a fair number of manufacturers making similar water ionization machines, but the Kangen Water ones are much more expensive than most of the others (if I can go by what I'm reading) and this appears to be because Kangen is an MLM operation (multi-level marketing), so there ends up being a big markup on the sale price. It looks like the Kangen machines are about twice as expensive as most of the others, and they're probably not significantly better....but they get a lot more public promotion than the others do.

Other than than, virtually everyone who's tried them says that they have experienced many good health results from them. The main argument seems to be about their comparative price levels, not their effectiveness.

However, I'm just beginning to look into it. I have some people in Barrie who should be able to give me plenty of accurate information about these devices, so I'll see what they have to say.