I have a friend who is very keen for me to try ASEA Water to help with a health condition I have (autoimmune). She has apparently had quite incredible improvement after using it for a month in relation to her health condition (also autoimmune but different to mine). The ASEA website says it contains redox signaling molecules, which are apparently key to cell health / healing, ie they can help the body to tell itself to sort itself out instead of staying ill / inflamed.
That all sounds great except, on my reading of their website and a bit of googling, they seem to be a MLM company - which makes me skeptical in the first instance - and the ingredients of their ASEA water seem to be salt, and water. Apparently, they do various processes to it to create /release these redox signaling molecules.
I am not a scientist, in any way, and I don't have anyone sciencey enough to ask. Is this just snake oil in the form of salt water? The testimonials look incredible, the science looks indecipherable, and the stuff costs something like $35 US dollars per litre (hard to know, exactly, as it is only supposed to be available through their MLM distributers, but seems to also show up on Amazon).
My friend is absolutely adamant that they've been able to cut down hugely on their painkillers after starting to take this stuff. My friend isn't a distributor of it, and I really don't think she is trying to be misleading in any way. But I am very confused about how something that seems to be salt water could have even a placebo effect this good, let alone an actual effect --?
If anyone has any insight I would be enormously grateful. I'm 99% confidant that, surely, it has to just be all hype rather than that much of an incredible product, but the other 1% of me REALLY wants it to do exactly what is says on the bottle because that could be life changing for me. But so expensive and I'm so skeptical!!
aseascience.com/
aseaglobal.com/products/asearedoxsupplement/