They link to two studies under this heading, suggesting alkaline water has a benefit for cancer. One heading that caught my eye was “cancer”. If you look at the Sexy Water website, for example, you will find a really long list of research they claim shows the benefits of their product. This would be extraordinarily difficult and time-consuming!Ĭan you imagine trying to balance the pH of everything you ate, time it appropriately, while accounting for your physical activity levels? We’d never get anything else done! Is there research proving alkaline water works? It would mean we would need to constantly balance the acidity and alkalinity of everything we consume to keep our body within a healthy range. All our foods and drinks could have the same effect. If it did, it may lead to other complications. So it’s not clear that it’s even possible for alkaline water to have an effect on the pH of our body.

Any changes in our body’s pH are quickly corrected. In fact, our body does a great job of maintaining the pH of different organs and systems, through a process known as homeostasis. And our urine is acidic, which limits the growth of microbes. The acidity of our body varies greatly, with stomach acid being very acidic (of course!), while bile, which neutralises stomach acid on our intestines, is alkaline. They claim that much ill health occurs because our body being too acidic, but this is a little too vague to properly assess. You can look and feel younger, prevent or manage illness, and improve exercise performance. We will focus on claims made specifically about Kangen water, from the website of my local distributors (who go by the name “Sexy Water”).Īn example of one of the water filters we are discussingĭifferent distributors, or different products, may make slightly different claims. This is a difficult question to answer, because there are so many claims made about alkaline water. But this guy is a chemist, does a great job explaining it, and has a delightfully retro website! What does alkaline water do? I’m not a chemist, so have held back from trying to explain this in more detail. When you add some table salt to the water, and run it through a machine causing electrolysis, you can a mildly alkaline solution of sodium hydroxide.

The pH of distilled water is 7.0, which is neutral. In pure (distilled) water, there are an equal amount of both, as they’ve come from the same broken up molecule. This happens regularly, and these ions bind together again when they encounter another oppositely charged ion. In water H2O molecules sometimes disassociate, or break apart, into H+ (A hydrogen ion), and an OH–. What makes alkaline water so special? What is alkaline water?

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