Our diet, including the water we drink and the medications
and supplements we take, can only alter the pH of our urine. Home test kits to
measure the pH of urine do not relay any information about the body's pH at
all.
The lungs and kidneys are the organs that regulate the
body's pH, which is always kept in a very narrow range because all our enzymes
are designed to work at pH 7.4. Even a small fluctuation, as little as 0.05 in
our blood, can become life-threatening. That is why patients with kidney
disease and lung dysfunction often rely on dialysis machines and mechanical ventilators
respectively to avoid even a small disruption of pH balance in the blood.
In the stomach, where stomach acid is secreted, the pH is
1.5 to 3.5. It is a very acidic environment because the acid is necessary to
break down the food and to kill all the germs and bacteria that may be in our
food.
When we drink alkaline water and it comes in contact with
the very acidic stomach, it is immediately neutralized because alkaline water
has no buffers. A buffer is a chemical that can react with small amounts of
either acid or alkaline substance to prevent changes in pH. An example of an
alkaline buffer is baking soda (or sodium bicarbonate). Our lungs use
bicarbonate as a pH-stabilizing buffer to maintain a constant blood pH.
Stomach acid neutralizes the alkaline water, bicarbonate
ions are released into the blood, resulting in an alkalizing effect. This could
only be true if the alkaline water effectively neutralized all the stomach
acid, like baking soda would have done. But in reality, it is impossible for
alkaline water to neutralize any significant quantity of stomach acid to create
this "net alkalizing effect". As it happens, it is the other way
around, the stomach acid completely neutralizes the alkaline water!
ALKWA is one who
provides Ionized alkaline water India at
best price with high quality to be healthy always. Visit http://alkwa.in OR call 9028779823.
No comments:
Post a Comment