Why would you want to alkalize your body in the first place?
Because acid is bad, hadn’t you heard? Having acid in your body is so, so bad. (Never mind that your body requires acid to digest your food – acid is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad). No need for deep thought, just repeat.
The human body doesn’t even have a single pH. The blood is at 7.4, but the skin is 5.5, and the stomach ranges from 1.5 to 3.5. A healthy person has no trouble maintaining these various pH levels at the right levels in the right places, regardless of what they eat.
Latverian Diplomat, now you’re just confusing things! Don’t you know that everything has a simple answer? Of course we have different pH in different parts of the body; that’s why we need to make sure that we fix that – how can it possibly be healthy to be so imbalanced?
Yes, I do teach science, and yes, I do hear that sort of thing…all the time.
Why would anyone think something acidic would alkalise (my spelling checker doesn’t like this word having a ‘z’) your body?
IIRC eating lemons causes your urine to become more alkaline. Digestion and your cells after absorption of various things found in lemons can do strange things to chemicals…
But the big catch is that urine is waste. The number of times I’ve had to explain that acidic urine doesn’t mean acidic blood…
Brilliant. Fits the meme:
“Keep calm and keep breathing.”
Why would anyone think something acidic would alkalise (my spelling checker doesn’t like this word having a ‘z’) your body?
Sounds like some kind of sympathetic magic (much akin to balancing humours).
Why would you want to alkalize your body in the first place?
Because acid is bad, hadn’t you heard? Having acid in your body is so, so bad. (Never mind that your body requires acid to digest your food – acid is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad). No need for deep thought, just repeat.
The human body doesn’t even have a single pH. The blood is at 7.4, but the skin is 5.5, and the stomach ranges from 1.5 to 3.5. A healthy person has no trouble maintaining these various pH levels at the right levels in the right places, regardless of what they eat.
Latverian Diplomat, now you’re just confusing things! Don’t you know that everything has a simple answer? Of course we have different pH in different parts of the body; that’s why we need to make sure that we fix that – how can it possibly be healthy to be so imbalanced?
Yes, I do teach science, and yes, I do hear that sort of thing…all the time.
Lemons may not alkalize your body, but they do cure AIDS: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-401485/South-Africas-health-minister-advocates-treating-AIDS-lemon-beetroot-garlic.html
Re ‘…Of course we have different pH in different parts of the body; that’s why we need to make sure that we fix that..’
Oh, that’s easy! (1) Take body, (2) Place in blender…
(/Yes, Cohen brothers fans, a wood chipper is also good.)
“Ya-ah!”
Oh how I loved Fargo! The only actually Swedish actor never spoke.
“Because acid is bad, hadn’t you heard? Having acid in your body is so, so bad.”
One of the worlds in Philip K. Dick’s Eye in the Sky collapses when the character controlling the world agrees that acids are bad and abolishes acids.
IIRC eating lemons causes your urine to become more alkaline. Digestion and your cells after absorption of various things found in lemons can do strange things to chemicals…
But the big catch is that urine is waste. The number of times I’ve had to explain that acidic urine doesn’t mean acidic blood…