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Bleep water

AN ADVERTISEMENT appearing in a free newspaper in Australia tells of the health-giving benefits of the Jupiter Melody Water Alkalizer/Ionizer supplied by a company called Ion Life for A$1595 (US$1200). Apparently, “hundreds” of people “have experienced radical positive health changes…[by] drinking alkaline ionized antioxidant oxygenated micro-clustered water”.

The advert goes on to say that the water on offer has a “hexagonal format” similar to something it calls “bleep water”. This is “further enhanced by the Jupiter Science Water Alkalizer because it changes your water from H2O [sic] to OH, giving a higher percentage of oxygen,…

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