Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 days agoI believe the purpose is to reduce the overall acidity of your body, which it will do. Your stomach acid will compensate, but it loses acidic compounds in the process to do so. But mixing in other acids does negate at least some of the effectiveness.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
It absolutely will not.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How would a negligible change in your stomach acidity kill you? What do you think tums do?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I never said it does.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It absolutely will not. If it did, it would kill you.
Then what does that mean?
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Even if you drink 10 liter and piss all of it out?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
If you drink 10L of anything it will kill you.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Depends on how much time you have…
bjorney@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Stomach acid is like 10,000,000x more acidic than most alkaline water is basic. Dilution is probably doing an order of magnitude more work than the hydroxide here
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I didnt say it would make a significant or even measurable difference. But it will technically drop your overall pH. If I drop any mass basic material in any volume of acidic material with which it can react, there will be some net change in acidity, even if negligible.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Ahh I see you have forgotten pH buffering solutions.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was more of a physics nerd. Can’t say I’ve heard of such a thing.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The body maintains homeostasis. It cannot afford to change pH. It is capable to buffer pH by neat biochemical mechanisms.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, I know. And to maintain homeostasis, it has means to make adjustments to changes, like pH. Which means you can change the pH of some fluid in the body, and it will correct this change. We are not saying anything different.