bodhisatta said:

I would be curious to see how long an alkaline beverage stays that way anyway. CO2 from the air will dissolve and render it neutral in short order would be my guess.

weak solutions of sodium hydroxide get neutralized by air and those are far more alkaline than any alkaline water for drinking

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Enkidu said:

Well my diet consists of mainly things labeled alkaline

And I'm heeltheir than the last majority of people, especially those fosuming things considered acidic...

So I trust what I'm doing as I can see the effect

I'm 28 and people literally think I'm 19-21 range

That's more than genetics

It's lifestyle

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The role of the diet and its influence on the acidity of urine has been studied for decades, as physiologists have studied the kidney's role in the body's regulatory mechanisms for controlling the acidity of body fluids.

The French biologist Claude Bernard provided the classical observation of this effect when he found that changing the diet of rabbits from an herbivore (mainly plant) diet to a carnivore (mainly meat) diet changed the urine from more alkaline to more acid. Spurred by these observations, subsequent investigations focused on the chemical properties and acidity of constituents of the remains of foods combusted in a bomb calorimeter, described as ash. The "dietary ash hypothesis" proposed that these foods, when metabolized, would leave a similar "acid ash" or "alkaline ash" in the body as those oxidized in combustion

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Other investigations showed specific foods, such as cranberries, prunes and plums had unusual effects on urine pH. While these foods provided an alkaline ash in the laboratory, they contain a weak organic acid, hippuric acid, which caused the urine to become more acidic instead

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Enkidu said:

Lol I hear that from lots of sources that aren't trying to sell me anything man

What do they have to gain by telling me to eat fruits ajd vegetables ajd just and seeds ajd drink water and tea )/)?

Stock in the farming industry))?

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bodhisatta said:

our blood and body does everything it can every moment to keep your blood at 7.4 if it goes above that by even a small bit you'll go into a coma at best or die. We regulate pH by our CO2 concentration your body holds onto or releases more or less co2 to do this. before that would even need to happen your stomach would take care of what you drink. your stomach pH is close to 1 this corresponds to being 10⁷ times as much acidity as neutral 10,000,000 times as many acid molecules aka hydronium ions. drinking something that's say pH of 9 (100x as much hydroxide ions as neutral) would change your stomach pH to around 1.5 if you could instantaneously drink a a half liter volume. even the little stomach acid would completely neutralize it and barely be effected and would also go back to normal nearly as fast as your body compensated for drinking something no human or mammal has ever had to endure for survival. but our bodies are pretty fantastic and even if you throw them a curve ball you sometimes can pull through.

also the TLDR more simple rationale is that there's 0 science arguing alkaline diet or alkaline water is good and there's only pseudoscience arguing for it. Find me credible anything relating to alkaline consumption

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bodhisatta said:

I've heard of wim hof plenty. Lots of people can climb those mountains speed climbing in the warm seasons in shorts and tshirts with some practice.

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