Imagine a land where cancer has not yet been invented. A land where an optometrist discovers to his amazement that everyone has perfect 20-20 vision, and cardiologists cannot find a single trace of coronary heart disease. Men of 80 and 90 father children, and there’s nothing unusual about men and women enjoying vigorous life at the age of 100 or 120.

Sound too good to be true? Well such places do exist – 5 of them to be exact: The land of Hunza in northern Pakistan, Vilcambamba in Ecuador, and high mountain valleys in the countries of Georgia, Mongolia and Peru.

Scientists have flocked to each of these locations for decades now trying to discover the secret to long life. The cultures are different, and so are the diets. What could it possibly be?

Well, there’s still a lot of debate. But one thing that is mentioned over and over is that each of these locations have unique, special water.

Of course, in such remote areas the water is clean and pure. But others have clean, pure water and don’t routinely live to be 100. Some of them (like the Hunzas) have a very high colloidal mineral content.

But the main thing these places have in common that doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world is that their water contains microclusters. Water molecules come in clusters rather than single molecules. Tap water, for example, has very large clusters (10 to 13 molecules per cluster). “Microclusters” have only 5 or 6 molecules per cluster.

Water with large clusters has a higher surface tension and doesn’t penetrate cells as easily. Microclustered water, with its lower surface tension and smaller clusters, penetrates cells more easily for better hydration and nutrient absorption.

Well, I don’t know about you but I can’t travel to far off regions of the globe to stock up on water. But I can bring a little bit of the land of Hunza to my own kitchen.

Because it turns out that one of the benefits of an Ionized alkaline water system is that ionized water is also broken into – you guessed it – microclusters.

Will installing one in your kitchen make you live to be 100? Maybe not. But it will mean you get more benefits from the foods you eat and the supplements you take. And with all the other benefits that they bring, they seem like a good idea to us.

You can find out more about ionized alkaline water here.