We all know we should be drinking plenty of water each and every day, and although many of us fail to reach our recommended daily target, we generally understand the massively important role it plays in our everyday health and wellbeing. But why? And perhaps more importantly - if we are going to be consuming so much water, shouldn’t we make sure it is the best quality?
Water Facts
Water is widely accepted as one of the most important considerations when creating a healthy lifestyle. Water comprises between 50-70% of an adult’s body (up to 90lbs in a 130lb adult!) - and when water is taken out of our diet our survival time is 2-3 days at best so we have to make sure we are always well hydrated.
According to mayoclinic.com, at the very least dehydration can cause:
- Excessive thirst
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Fatigue
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Headache
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Dry mouth
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Little or no urination
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Muscle weakness
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Dizziness
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Lightheadedness
Just to give a further idea of the importance of water in our diets, to survive the body can stand to lose the following:
- 50% of your glucose
- 50% of your fat
- 50% of your protein; but
- only 20% of your water!
So water is important, but what about the quality of water?
Alkaline Water and the Benefits of Alkaline Drinking Water
The average suggestion of water consumption per day ranges from 2.5 litres to 4 litres - so it is imperative that we ensure that this water is of the highest quality.
There is a lot of discussion about the merits of alkaline water (particularly in the open publishing medium known as the Internet) - however, regardless of who you listen to regarding this debate there is one thing that is certain:
the process of making making water alkaline increases the purity of the water by filtering out toxins and impurities
For those who are not so sceptical about the benefits of the alkaline lifestyle, alkaline water helps to neutralise acids and remove toxins from the body - it is a great cleanser and helps to detoxify our system.
How Do We Make Alkaline Water?
There are three main methods to make alkaline water:
- Using a distiller
- Using a water ioniser
- Adding alkaline ingredients to the water
Using a Distiller: using a distiller is a very efficient and effective method of purifying and alkalising your water. As noted by Dr. Weil:
the process of distillation kills and removes virtually all bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, and other organic and inorganic contaminants. Once distilled, the water is as pure as water can reasonably be.
What a recommendation! He also does a great job here of dispelling the incredibly inaccurate myth about distilled water leaching minerals from the body (ridiculous I know).
Distilled water is water that has been turned to steam and then condensed back into water. This process, as noted above kills all impurities, removes acid toxins and makes the water pH neutral/slightly alkaline. In my opinion, this is the very best type of alkaline water filter.
Water ionisers are, unsurprisingly, products that ionise water. The water is ionised (electrically enhanced) by running it over positive and negative electrodes. This separates the water into alkaline (70%) and acidic (30%). This is exceptionally beneficial as the alkaline water is then used for drinking, while the acidic water can be used on the outside of the body as it is proven to kill many types of bacteria.
These are more expensive that distillers but are FAR more user friendly, as they simply attach to your tap and produce water at a pH of your choice instantly, as soon as you turn the tap on!
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Adding alkaline ingredients to the water
The third method is to add ingredients to the water to increase its alkalinity. I would only make these alkaline water additions to water that had already been put through an alkaline water filter, however they can be handy in an emergency when there is only mineral or tap water to hand.
- Lemon Water: I have already blogged lemon water to death, however, I will mention it here as it really is an alkalising superstar. By squeezing lemon juice (or lime juice) into water you immediately give it a healthful kick. Lemon water is very alkaline and is great in helping to detoxify the liver and kidneys.
- pH Drops: these are an excellent way to dramatically increase the alkalinity of the water. These drops offer intense alkalinity and only a few are needed for an incredible boost to the alkalinity of your drink. There are several types around but I would only really recommend Alkalive’s pH Booster or Innerlight’s Prime pH.
So What is Alkaline Water and Why Make Our Water Alkaline?
Acid wastes (from the lifestyles we lead - not only from food and drink, but also from stress and other pollutants) are dumped into the bloodstream and lymph, and then are transported to the liver and kidneys for the detoxification processing and elimination. The pH level of our internal fluids affects every living cell in our bodies and the effect that over-acidification can have upon the health of our bodies is immense, with a chronically over acidic pH creating an extremely negative environment which affects all cellular functions from the beatings of the heart to the neural workings of the brain.
In order to hydrate your body optimally, you need to drink water that is alkaline and mineral rich. Alkaline water helps to neutralise acids and remove toxins from the body. Alkaline water also acts as a conductor of electrochemical activity from cell to cell. Ideally, water should have a pH between 8 and 9, and you should be drinking 3-4 litres of it daily. As you hydrate your body properly, you’ll develop more of a thirst for water.
Wanting to Lose Weight?
It is also true that food cravings are often the body’s cry for water. You might already have more of a thirst than you even realise - and if you are going to quench it, make sure your water is alkaline!
UPDATE: I just found this two minute interview with Dr Young about alkaline water - it is well worth a little look:
Dr. Robert Young Speaks About Alkaline Water & LIFE Ionizers - The best video clips are right here
Cheers!
Ross
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How much does the alkaline machine cost and how can I order one?
hello,
how much it cost…? i want to purchase it online..?
I drink a lot of lemon water a day, BUT i can only stand it ics cold. Is there any problems with drinking it ice cold? And does it affect the bowels adversley being drunk ice cold?
The only problem with drinking hot or cold drinks (to the best of my knowledge) is that it means that your body has to use energy to cool or heat them. It shouldnt have any real negative effect on the benefit of the drink itself.
Best temperature is just slightly warmed.
When I make lemon water I usually squeeze in the lemon, add 3/4 room temp water and then just top it up with a bit from the kettle. Have you tried having it luke warm? You might like it as much as you like it cold…?!
Hope you have a cracker of a weekend
Ross
How do you get alkaline water by adding lemon juice? Lemon juice is acidic (citric acid).
Ok, I’ve seen the theory that when lemon juice is metabolized, the “ash” that remains is alkaline. Still, if anyone has ulcers, drinking lemon water isn’t advisable.
iwant to have it, is it bought even in holland or can i purchase it online and would i lose weight by drinking water with lemon?
lemons are not good. highly acidic and causes alot of mucous. confirmation of this is that i did the master cleanse on lemons instead of limes. limes are alkaline. what i found out is after i did 9 days on master cleanse i had alot of mucous for 5 days after i broke the fast. lemons have incomplete molecular structures. they are man-made. check it out. don’t believe me…………..
Correction: while lemons are acidic, they do provoke an alkaline response in the body. In fact, they are probably the safest (time-tested) option on this list.
@gettingelevated: What you’re saying is incorrect. Both lemons and limes are acidic, and both are natural. There are genetically-engineered (what you could call “man-made” or “man-changed”) variants of both, but there are also many natural forms of both. Both provoke an alkaline response in the body despite being acidic. I don’t understand what’s happening with the “mucous” you’re mentioning. You may have been using a non-natural lemon-based or Vitamin C-based product instead of pure lemon juice, or maybe using a genetically-engineered variant of a lemon, although I doubt the genetically-engineered variant is enough to cause such a problem. Both are chemically and biologically similar and thus should have provoked a similar response. It is true than many people, at first, break out on lemon (or lime) juice, but the problem (if it occurs) goes away almost immediately, and soon after never occurs again. It becomes a miracle cure.
Isn’t the mucous just a result of the body detoxifying?
I would love to believe this, so I did some research and found this from a chemist (I too remember chemistry lab in college and had some of the same questions) As is obvious, this person is somewhat negative, however this is from his website, not my thoughts or beliefs. Any comments would be appreciated.
“Here, in a nutshell, are a few basic facts that I believe anyone with a solid background in chemistry or physiology would concur with”:
* “Ionized water” is nothing more than sales fiction; the term is meaningless to chemists.
* Pure water (that is, water containing no dissolved ions) is too unconductive to undergo signficant electrolysis by “water ionizer” devices.
* Pure water can never be alkaline or acidic, nor can it be made so by electrolysis. Alkaline water must contain metallic ions of some kind — most commonly, sodium, calcium or magnesium.
* The idea that one must consume alkaline water to neutralize the effects of acidic foods is ridiculous; we get rid of excess acid by exhaling carbon dioxide.
* If you do drink alkaline water, its alkalinity is quickly removed by the highly acidic gastric fluid in the stomach.
* Uptake of water occurs mainly in the intestine, not in the stomach. But when stomach contents enter the intestine, they are neutralized and made alkaline by the pancreatic secretions — so all the water you drink eventually becomes alkaline anyway.
* The claims about the health benefits of drinking alkaline water are not supported by credible scientific evidence.
* There is nothing wrong with drinking slightly acidic waters such as rainwater. “Body pH” is a meaningless concept; different parts of the body (and even of individual cells) can have widely different pH values. The pH of drinking water has zero effect on that of the blood or of the body’s cells.
* If you really want to de-acidify your stomach (at the possible cost of interfering with protein digestion), why spend hundreds of dollars for an electrolysis device when you can take calcium-magnesium pills, Alka-Seltzer or Milk of Magnesia?
* Electrolysis devices are generally worthless for treating water for health enhancement, removal of common impurities, disinfection, and scale control. Claims that “ionized” waters are antioxidants are untrue; hypochlorites (present in most such waters) are in fact oxidizing agents.
Hi Dabig
Thanks for raising your concerns and contributing to the blog!
I hear why you would have questions, and you are right to question not only sites such as mine, but also the source of the criticisms you have posted.
It is difficult to comment on these bullet points one by one because they are so fundamentally incorrect it is difficult to break them down. Being a chemist does not make someone understand microbiology, or any of the effects that alkaline water could have on other areas of our health. Being a chemist gives this person no credibility in this area.
Similarly, being a doctor/GP does not make you a nutritionist, and it frustrates me how many doctors there are out there who prescribe people to do certain things with their diet.
Here are some of my comments:
“Pure water can never be alkaline or acidic, nor can it be made so by electrolysis. Alkaline water must contain metallic ions of some kind — most commonly, sodium, calcium or magnesium.”
Exactly. Acidic water contains minerals and other ingredients that cause it to have an acidifying effect on the body. Filtering the water through ionisation/distillation cleanses it of these acidifying minerals. This gives us nicely balanced water that is pure and clean. Following this, I add pH drops that alkalise the water by doing exactly what this chemist suggests. The pH drops contain the alkaline minerals of potassium, calcium and sodium.
“The idea that one must consume alkaline water to neutralize the effects of acidic foods is ridiculous; we get rid of excess acid by exhaling carbon dioxide.”
This, 100%, is ridiculous. I don’t even know where to start. I guess the best way is with an example. It has been scientifically proven that the consumption of highly acidic food and drink (such as colas) is directly related to the onset of osteoporosis. The reason is because the body HAS to maintain a pH of approx 7.365 in your blood and body fluidds (any doctor will tell you this) and in the same way that the body has to maintain a certain temperature range and will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to do so - your body will also go to whatever measures it has to in order to maintain this pH level in your blood and other fluids. Here is where it gets really obvious that the chemist had no idea what he was talking about. So, to maintain a pH of 7.365 your body draws alkaline minerals to neutralise the acidic food and drink we consume. The body does have SOME buffers to draw from, but if we exhaust these buffers it looks elsewhere. Calcium is the most easily accessible and highly alkaline mineral we have in our body and so the body draws calcium from our bones and other tissues. Hence the onset of osteoporosis.
If the body could neutralise acid simply through breath alone then we would rarely get cancer. Cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline environment and thrive in acidity. So if all we had to do to maintain alkalinity was breathe, then I think there would be a lot less cancer.
“If you do drink alkaline water, its alkalinity is quickly removed by the highly acidic gastric fluid in the stomach.”
Again - fundamentally not true. The stomach produces gastric acid on an as-needed basis.
“* The claims about the health benefits of drinking alkaline water are not supported by credible scientific evidence.”
Nor are the claims supporting accupuncture, reiki, iridology, naturopathy or anything else other than mainstream medicine or other endevours that are supported by big business. As if any major pharmaceutical company is going to sponsor research to prove that you don’t need to use their medicines to make yourself well. Credible scientific research costs millions.
“There is nothing wrong with drinking slightly acidic waters such as rainwater. “Body pH” is a meaningless concept; different parts of the body (and even of individual cells) can have widely different pH values. The pH of drinking water has zero effect on that of the blood or of the body’s cells.”
Indeed different areas of the body do have widely different pH values. It is the pH of the blood that we are really interested in.
“If you really want to de-acidify your stomach (at the possible cost of interfering with protein digestion), why spend hundreds of dollars for an electrolysis device when you can take calcium-magnesium pills, Alka-Seltzer or Milk of Magnesia?”
Again, this chemist has not a clue about this approach to health and really should not be commenting on it. If he had read even one article about it he would not have made such ridiculously uninformed comments. This approach to health is not about deacidifying the stomach! How absurd! His earlier comment showed that. Man, this just makes me laugh! As mentioned, the stomach regulates itself by producing hydrochloric acid on demand. This is about alkalising your blood and other cells. Protein digestion has NOTHING to do with anything!
Crikey. He is a million miles off the mark with most of his comments.
I hope this helps to some degree! Good one for questioning things - I really encourage that. And even better for coming here to get both sides of the argument.
Have a great day and definitely let me know if you have any other questions!
Ross
I drink and recommend Saka Water, an all Natural Alkaline Mineral Water, very smooth with 8.22pH balance, I’ve had my knesiologist test it against my body, it has a 95% absorption rate against 63% with tap water.
I just thought people should know about it, I love it!
We have an alkalizer and wanted to know if it takes
chlorine out of the water? our manual didn’t say
anything about it.
I just introduced to an equipment producing alkaline waters it cost Php. 18k plus. should you be interested i am willing to be of help.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
tintin
Thank you Ross,
Its great to see you active on this blog and sharing your thoughts, especially when people write stuff about so called facts/claims that are completely untrue. Its great that you can clarify and explain the truth so others don’t read these claims and become confused.
Its a shame it has to be fresh lemon as bottled lemon is so easy to buy! I am going to take fresh lemons to work and just use the filtered water there rather then buy a filtering system for at home - for the start anyway,
I have psosarsis and am trying to lower my diary, eat more fresh rather then called veg and now drink lemon water. I also occasionally put 4-5 tblsn of baking soda into my bath as per some sugguestions on a previous site, I would be keen to know your thoughts on this, whether its actually helping to lower my acid level.
Thanks again! Great read.
Opps just realised the water at work is filtered, not distilled.
Can you please clarify a couple of things….
If I drink a cup of distilled water and fresh lemon, then a hour later drink normal water does that in any way have a negative effect?
Do I have to drink distilled water constantly, or can I drink only distilled water when I have the lemon juice drinks?
Is there a stand down time between consuming the lemon drink and either drinking other non distilled drinks, or consuming food?
Thank you.
Hi, I had a customer recently ask me if Alkalized water loses its alkalinity when in contact with sunlight. Is this true?
with regards to calamansi as components in making alkaline water, what is the exact measure (as drops: 1, 2, or 3; or 1 pc to drop all) to a glass of water?
Lemon juice is acidic. Lemon fruit belongs to the citrus family of fruits that produce citric acid.
Squeezing lemon can make water more acidic.
Check your Chemistry 101 using litmus paper and see if you can make it blue by dipping it to lemon water.
Philip: Lemon juice is acidic but once metabolized has an alkaline effect on the body. That’s the point, not whether the food itself has a low pH.
Hello everyone!
So many questions! Here goes:
Andrew: That is fantastic and I’ll definitely look into it! Good on you for testing and investigating with your kinesiologist (sp). Absorption is so important and is why products like pH Ion’s pH Booster are so great.
Fred: I’d need to know what your alkaliser is - is it a distiller? If so then, yep the chlorine will be removed. Distilled water is completely pure pH 7 water.
Anna: a few questions! Here goes - baking soda baths are great, as are epsom salt baths. I recently saw a blood microscopist who showed me research to suggest that alkaline minerals (magnesium in particular - which is why I say epsom salt baths) is really well absorbed through the skin. I definitely believe in it! The main alkaline minerals are magnesium, sodium, calcium and potassium so I don’t see any harm in having baking soda baths! If nothing else, it makes your skin feel good!
You should try to drink distilled water as much as possible, but don’t worry too much if you have to have occasional tap water too. And generally you should try to wait fifteen mins or so between having water and then eating but again - not a major tragedy if you don’t.
Try not to over think all of this stuff. Stay relaxed and don’t worry too much about the minor details - if you nail the three big things (proper hydration, plenty of fresh, green foods and exercise) then the rest will follow and you’ll get great results.
Brian: I can honestly say I have never heard that and it sounds a little random! I wouldn’t worry about it!
Lissa: sorry, I don’t understand the question! Happy to help if you can rephrase it!
Sandy: thanks for clearing that up with Phillip. Indeed it is the effect it has on the body, not the alkalinity or acidity of it in its natural state. Lemons and limes contain almost no sugar but do contain alkalising minerals, which means that when metabolised they have an alkalising effect on our blood and other cells.
Thanks for contributing everyone! Have a great week!
Ross
ps we now have a very active alkaline diet forum/message board - go there if you want to ask more questions and chat!
I rep a water that is already alkaline and has many other benefits including being oxygenated. I had major knee problems that have completely disappeared and I’m sure it is because of this water. I will never go a day without it again! It’s amazing. Contact myself for more info!!
I am just totally amazed that this business of accidity and its dangers are not made more known to all..
I have now read many articles on this subject and I actually feel angry for not knowing anything about it at all. I had cancer and now I know cancer can not live in alkaline body. Why is this not taught to everyone…given great publicity! I suppose, because it will not make the wallets of pharmaceutical comppanies fatter. - By the way, if any of you know someone with cancer, do ask them to turn to homoeopathic doctor…I had 8 months chemo and did not vomit till on the 8th month. I listened music and ate sandwiches during my chemo..thanks to homoeopathy.
I am sitting here with my bottle of high magnesium content water and I cheer you! Will try the lemon water later too. I don’t want cancer back!
Thank you for the great work you do!
Hi Sirpa
Thanks for your message! It has made me smile!
Have a fantastic day
Ross
In Chemistry 101 - A substance is more alkaline if its pH values are from 7 to 14, more acidic if its pH values below 7.0.
Citric acid from citrus can never be have pH value above 7.0 or alkaline, if metabolized it’s no longer Citric acid.
To say lemon juice can be alkaline, is to show pure ignorance of Chemistry.
Good english 101, bad Chemistry 101.
Hi Phillip
Why you’re kinda rude aren’t you!
Alkaline Diet 101: it is not about the pH of the food or drink prior to consumption, it is about how the body metabolises it. Lemons, due to their high content in alkaline minerals and extremely low sugar content have a very alkalising effect on the body.
I hope this clears things up for you.
Ross
ps. English should be spelt with a capital E to make it good English 101
Dear Ross,
I am writing to thank you!
Some days ago I found a page with lots of recipes from you. I have made several of the drinks, which I thoroughly enjoy. Today I made the Liver Cleanser drink. How fantastic taste! This was my first time to come to contact with Acidophillus..never heard of it before, so decided to read more about it. Got mad again as did not know of the havoc chemo and radio does to our stomach could be vastly improved with Acidophillus.
What can we do to make all this information that only handfull of people have in this world, to become universally taught information?
All that I have read on your pages, I have double and triple checked on other pages with expertese of the same…and the same answers come out strongly and clearly. There is a lot we can do ourselves to improve and maintain good health. It is far easier to buy lemons and squeeze them than stand in a queue for doctors and then stand in a queue in a pharmacy..and then battle with the side effects on what we have swallowed.
I do not knock the paharmaceuticals down totally. There are times when their findings are extremely valuable, but I urge them: please do not monopolize our healthcare . Work in harmony with the alternative natural methods, so us the people on this earth can enjoy secure and trustworthy healthcare.
Thank you for the knowledge you spread!
Sincerist and very best wishes,
Sirpa
Dear ross….
your topic on alkaline water benefits gives me lot of information and very interesting. I just want to know if its a correct procedure. A close relative gave us alkaline powder…we add a dose of it to a liter ofpurified water. we wait for a certain time to settle, then use the waterfor drinking. is it valid procedure?
Hey REY
What is the powder? It all depends on the ingredients of the powder!
Cheers
Ross
Hi Ross,
Thanks for the information. Just wondering what effect alkalising water with lemon will have when the water reaches the bladder. Will it acidify or alkalise the urine? I ask this as I tend to suffer from cystitis a lot and have found my bladder feels more comfortable if I keep it alkaline and take a little bicarbonate of soda when it is sore. Will the lemon juice be ‘converted’ to an alkaline state in the bladder as it is in the blood?
Many thanks for your help, Barbara
Hi Barbara
Lemons have a similar alkaline effect in the body to bicarb, and so this should help.
However, I cannot offer any medical advice related to any diagnosed condition so you should check with a registered health care practitioner.
Sorry, I have to point that out once anything diagnosed is mentioned
Ross
How much Lemon juice to a gallon or glass of water you recomend.
I was so affected by alkaline water, according to my doctor this made me suseptible to the formation of kidney stones, besides, he also told me that, alkaline water is more of a placebo for most people. I honestly dont like to be a party pooper for most of you, but I just want to let everybody know that if you are kidney stone former DONT DRINK THIS WATER! it wil form calcium stones in your kidney! besides according to research, the realeas of gatrin in your stomach makes your “alkaline” water not so. meaning that the body always tends to compensate that is why we all have buffer systems. but truth is that if you do not get to compensate properly in your stomach, you will be suseptible to stone forming.
great thankx for your new tec
Could someone please explain the pH cycle as one eats or drinks. Say eating an apple or even drinking the lemon water. Start with initial pH of food or dring, its combined with saliva what the pH reverts to, what the stomach acid and enzymes change it to, once breakdown occurs its neutralization as it is released from the stomache to the duodeum and its pH at that point, obviously various minerals and vitamins are absorbed at different sites along the small intestines, what is the pH at the beginning of the large intestine and throughout it, then waiting in the cecum for expulsion with final pH. I think it would make more sense to understand digesition and absorbtion
The subject of Alkaline Water and it’s benefits have truly sparked a controversy in the United States over these past several years - so much so that the LA Times came out with a article on February 23, 2009 which Headlines read “Simple Elixir called a Miracle Liquid ” - The article concluded with the statement “It won’t be long before this (Ionized Water) becomes Mainstream”.
Ionizers have been in Japan for over 35 years and 1 in 5 homes in Japan have a machine in their homes. Many of the hospitals in Japan have Ionizers and they use it to help patients recover from a wide range of health issues.
So to the Japanese this is part of health maintenance.
In fact Dr. Shinya (the inventor of the colonoscopy) prescribes alkaline water to his patients for keeping the colon and body clean.
Doctors in the US are still skeptics when it comes to ionized alkaline water but with time some MD’s have come around and many more will have to examine it more closely because of the positive results many are having from drinking this water.
I personally own a home ionizer and because of the positive results I had with my health - I became a distributor - helping people with their health has truly been rewarding.
If you would like to take a look at my website it is: http://www.itswatertime.com/ (EDIT - ONLY IF IN THE USA - FOR THE UK SEE http://www.energiseforlife.com) and if you are interested in purchasing a unit let me know.
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thanks
I am curious as to how much lemon juice to add to a glass or a litre of water and does it have to sit for a while to become more alkaline. I added a teaspoon of lemon juice to a 4 oz glass of water and checked it with PH paper and there was no change. I have read that one is more susceptible to kidney stones when consuming high alkaline water, is this true ?? What does one have to spend to get a decent water purifier? Thank you
Lemon juice is acidic, you will make acid water. However, it may have an alkaline effect on some people. Some people will have an acidic effect with the lemon juice.
Distilled water is acidic, all you need is a ph strip to prove that. You need spring water with natural calcium and other minerals in it to make it alkaline.
WHy not add some baking soda, very alkaline?
I have concerns about drinking high ph (9.5) water, since my thyroid levels have changed greatly. Is there a conection to medications and drinking alkaline water?
Hi everybody,
Incontribution of various opinion and reseached i believed that lemon is one God healthy natural fruit for us and does lots of good in our body. thanks .
Citrus is highly acid however, when the juice from a lemon is ingested it produces aklinity in our body chemistry. Water from the tap is often on the acid side of the scale, sometimes it will settle on the akaline side if it comes from the ground leeched with the right minerals. If you want to make your Tap water a little more condusive to promoting the body fluids to a more akaline state, add lemon juice, a couple teaspoons of Raw Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) and sweeten it up by adding Stevia in the mixture. It taste good and promotes akalinity.
Even though the lemon and ACV in itself is highly acid, they are akaline producing. Stevia is a natural sweetner and is highly akaline.
If you can maintain your body fluids other than blood in a akaline state for an extended period of time, the Hydrocloric Acid produced in the stomach has away of providing the acid buffer Bicarbonate which helps regulate the blood acid preventing, Acidosis.
So eating and drinking akaline food does help in the long term in balancing the Ph in our blood which gives us the ability to fight the many diseases trying to play havoc in our bodies.
It is not an easy answer subject and does take some study and understanding of body chemistry. The modern day diet of highly acid producing products that we ingest is our worst enemy.
I have been reading all of this with great interest. A couple of questions ……… what about Brita filters? Is that good water to use?
Also …… if you eat the proper diet . ie lots of fruits and vegetables, do you really need the akalized water?
How do you rate Alkaline water to Reverse Osmosis water and which is better in term of maintaining good health?
Regards and Thanks,
pang
Here is a comparision chart of Alkaline filters.
http://www.ionizers.o rg/othermodels.html
Thanks for the comparison Andi - but bear in mind that they rate towards the models they sell. Life Ionisers are actually more technologically advanced than the Jupiter range.
Humm… I think there is something to this alkaline water. My friend gives her dog alkaline water and a supplement called dinovite. She said the combination has helped her dogs health soooo much. She was having trouble with her dogs nasty scratching that now is gone.
I agreed with the benefits of alkaline water. i have a machine not only increase the alkakine level but the ORP as well. The machine also break the water molekul to smaller cluster which mean better absortion for our system
Yeah I agree with Lenore… lemon juice is acidic
I tested bottled water before and after adding lemon juice and the acid level got worse