So I said, blue M&M, red M&M, they all wind up the same colour in the end.
- Homer Simpson
Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water.
zout@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Alkaline water won't be alkaline for long after it enters the stomach, so it doesn't really matter
Klear@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Which is reason number two (pun intended) why brown M&Ms are the superior ones.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Light brown or dark brown?
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yes.
Hawke@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Light brown aka tan.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Slightly better for the teeth maybe? And maybe a slight benefit if heartburn is an issue.
zout@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Better for the teeth than pH neutral? Nope. For heartburn it might help, but only for a real short time. Non-fat milk would probably be the better choice.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I 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.
bjorney@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Ahh I see you have forgotten pH buffering solutions.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The body maintains homeostasis. It cannot afford to change pH. It is capable to buffer pH by neat biochemical mechanisms.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It absolutely will not.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How would a negligible change in your stomach acidity kill you? What do you think tums do?
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Even if you drink 10 liter and piss all of it out?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If you drink 10L of anything it will kill you.
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Alkaline water does have a place for LPR sufferers like me because it deactivates the pepsin that has vaporized and deposited itself in my esophagus and throat which when activated by acidic foods will begin to digest my soft tissues.
Infamousblt@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
This is true for most fad health things. They come from a place of “this is good for one hyper specific medical outcome” and then extrapolate to “this is good for literally all medical outcomes”
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Remember the gluten free phase where people with no gluten alergy whatsoever decided they wanted to eat breads stripped of most of their protien(gluten) because they thought it was healthier.
graymess@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
That’s still unbelievably common where I live. Some restaurants will have zero vegan options, but you can be sure they’ll offer half a dozen clearly marked gluten free items. Come on, you can’t spare the overhead for a block of tofu, but you can keep gluten free breads and pastas?
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
And thank God for that fad, now I can actually find food for my celiac wife everywhere.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Huh, cool.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Hey fellow LPR person! Ever looked into baclofen? It’s an oddball, but it helped me and a friend with our LPR.
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
No but I will take a look, thanks! Always pursuing any lead on this particular issue ;-).
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The biggest initial issue for many is that it’s pretty sedating, but that lessens with time. I slept like the dead for the first three weeks as baclofen is one of the few drugs that increases the frequency and duration of deep sleep. Now I can take 100 milligrams in a day and not feel a thing. I have literally no side effects.
One downside is sudden cessation is hell. If I miss an entire day, my anxiety graduallygoes through the roof the following day until I start taking it again. Two days results in gradually increasing hallucinations. All of this reverses within an hour of taking a dose. You must taper off this stuff, but doing it isn’t hard. Just don’t go cold turkey.
It’s also a medication that people tend not to grow resistant to. It hasn’t lost any effectiveness for me despite having taken 60-80mg/day for almost two decades.
I used to have constant burning throat pain and the taste of stomach contents. Not anymore! It reduces the frequency of transient lower esophageal sphincter (LES) relaxation and increases its resting tone. Here’s a relevant paper for anyone interested:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9981648/
Bonus: 20 mg for non-users will halt hiccups but will likely also sedate them pretty hard. 10-20 mg will prevent MDMA hyperthermia.
zout@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
TIL, thank you. It indeed makes perfect sense that it would help for this.