I don’t buy these varieties of “healthier” water for myself, but I did see two circumstances in which alkaline water made an impressive difference. My elderly neighbor had kidney failure and was suffering from terrible, relentless itching all over her body. It was so bad that she tore her skin open by scratching. Someone told her to try alkaline water, and it made a HUGE difference, within two days the itching had stopped. More recently, my mother-in-law was in hospice and dying of kidney failure. She was also suffering terribly from the itching that comes from the toxins that are released during kidney failure. I recalled my neighbor’s experience and got her alkaline water. Again, the itching was relieved within a short time. It made a great deal of difference to her ability to rest. I don’t think it was a placebo effect. My mother-in-law was not able to comprehend much at the end, and we didn’t tell her the water was any different.

I’m sharing this in the hope that it may help someone else.