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
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.
bjorney@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 hours 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 10 hours ago
Ahh I see you have forgotten pH buffering solutions.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I was more of a physics nerd. Can’t say I’ve heard of such a thing.
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The body maintains homeostasis. It cannot afford to change pH. It is capable to buffer pH by neat biochemical mechanisms.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
It absolutely will not.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
How would a negligible change in your stomach acidity kill you? What do you think tums do?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
I never said it does.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It absolutely will not. If it did, it would kill you.
Then what does that mean?
Honytawk@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
Even if you drink 10 liter and piss all of it out?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
If you drink 10L of anything it will kill you.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Depends on how much time you have…
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s not debatable.