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Alkaline Water Now Available

Dr. McKernan at McKernan Chiropractic, PC is now offering Alkaline Water to Shelby Township residents.  Alkaline water helps your body combat acidic foods and a toxic environment.  It helps promote antioxidants and boost your immune system.  

Fitting more antioxidants into your diet is one of the best things you can do for your body. Antioxidants help your body recover from disease and heavy exercise, and they have the physical benefit of slowing down your skin’s aging process. Antioxidants improve your inner and outer health, and they come in a variety of delicious foods and alkaline water.  In terms of types of water, here are some basic definitions to keep in mind:

  • Purified water: Water that is physically processed to remove impurities (e.g., distillation, deionization, reverse osmosis, carbon filtration, etc.)
  • Distilled water: Water that is boiled and evaporated away from its dissolved minerals, and then the vapor is condensed.
  • Bottled Water. This water is typically from a spring or has gone through reverse osmosis before it is bottled. However, some brands are simply bottled tap water that may or may not have gone through any additional filtering.
  • Alkaline water: Water that has been separated into alkaline and acid fractions using electrolysis, which takes advantage of the naturally occurring electric charges found in the magnesium and calcium ions; in the drinking water industry.
  • Deionized or demineralized water: Water in which the mineral ions (salts such as sodium, calcium, iron, copper, chloride and bromide) have been removed by exposing it to electrically charged resins that attract and bind to the salts.
  • Hard and soft water: Hard water is any water containing an appreciable quantity of dissolved minerals; soft water is treated water in which the only cation (positively charged ion) is sodium.

As you can imagine, avoiding the bad guys is nearly impossible (especially if you live in a sunny or polluted place), but that’s where antioxidants come in. According to research at Penn State, antioxidants neutralize the pollutants from free radicals and literally attack those cells. One of the researchers explains, “Antioxidants stop the chain reaction of free radical formation and benefit our health by boosting our immune system.”

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Call Dr. McKernan’s office at (586) 532-1448 and ask to speak to Susann.  She can fill you in more about this exciting new water.  The price is cheaper than most retailers and is available for $3 per gallon.  


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