50+ Fascinating Facts about water and pH

We are 90% water at birth, slowly reducing to as little as 10% in old age.
Reduction in body hydration or body water has been linked with increasing acidification of the body.
Enzyme absorption may be directly related to correct body pH levels. This would mean an acidic body = low enzyme absorption.
Absorption of minerals from supplement and food absorption may be directly related to pH balance of the body. Iodine, as an example, may not be absorbed except by a perfectly pH balanced body.
All major organs work in service of the blood. If blood pH lowers (i.e. becomes more acidic) all other body functions are used to support correction to pH 7.35
If our blood pH drops from 7.35 to lower than 7, we may lapse into a coma and die.
Breath is a major alkalizer. Deep breathing converts waste carbonic acid into CO2 (exhaled) and harmless salts.
Virtually all food contains acids. Far fewer foods contain alkalis. The recommended 80/20 ratio of alkaline to acid foods has been reversed by the SAD (Standard Australian Diet) to more like 90% acidic food and 10% alkaline.
People who claim they don’t eat enough to get fat, but pile on the kilos anyway, may be right. If they have a stressful life, and eat acidic foods, the body may be using consumed fat to stash acidic wastes on hips, thighs and belly. It does this to protect overloaded kidneys.
US Studies indicate that the older we get the more acidic we get.
Inflammation can be caused by acid, but acids can be caused by inflammation. Acids are a by-product of any stressful event in the body.
Chronic fatigue may be seen as stress causing acidity causing inflammation causing stress causing acidity causing…
Acidity is considered by many alkaline researchers to be the precursor to every illness ending with ‘itis’.
Over eating does not assist energy. In fact excess food intake ends up as acidic waste that may actually poison you.
The more acidic we become the more water we may need to drink because we becomes less able to absorb water in a dehydrated acidic body.
8 glasses of water a day is not a proven formula for health. 8 glasses equal 2 litres of water but we lose a net average of 2.6 litres of water a day.
The state of your acid/alkaline balance is now considered by alkaline reserachers to be a major determinant in your ability to hydrate sufficiently.
The pH of your between-cell (interstitial) fluid may determine the ability for the mitochondria inside your cell to transfer electrical energy out of the cell.
Our interstitial fluid is very similar to the mineral content of the sea. It is alkaline, saline and mineralised. It follows, therefore, that if we drink pure water we may dilute the mineral and pH balance of our interstitial fluid.
Pure mineral free water is not a part of human history. We have evolved to expect mineralised water. Distilled and Reverse Osmosis water, therefore, are unhealthy and unnatural.
Your stomach is not a permanent bag of acid. It only receives acid when food is detected and analysed by nerves in the mouth. After receiving this ‘analysis report’ the nervous system requests the blood system to release both hydrochloric acid from its store, plus bicarbonate of soda to protect the stomach wall. As we age, we lose our ability to supply enough acid to our stomachs because as we acidify, our blood becomes a less efficient transport system of acids and alkalis. It thickens up. A.K.A ‘High Blood Pressure’.
An alkaline substance is not necessarily a liquid with more alkaline minerals than acid minerals in it. ‘Alkaline’ refers to the ability of a liquid to produce more hydroxyl ions (negatively charged hydrogen atoms) than positively charged hydrogen ions. It is possible, using electrolysis, to produce water that has high Hydroxyl ions without high alkaline mineral content. It is not the alkaline minerals that work on the body to create the perfect pH working environment; it is the Hydrogen ions.
One good fright crossing the road may create enough stress to turn an alkaline balanced body into immediate acidic state.
Watching the news at seven may beacidifying.
Getting caught in a traffic jam may beacidifying.
Running a sprint or a vigorous workout may be acidifying.
Gentle exercise may be alkalizing.
Meditation may be alkalizing.
The Shaolin monks of China are known to be highly alkaline.
Acidic blood is capable of holding far less oxygen than alkaline blood.
After a rich protein or carbohydrate (sugary) meal, our urine pH may become alkaline. Protein and sugar nourishment then may create acidity in the body not only by the production of sulphuric, phosphoric, nitric, uric, lactic and acetylaldehyde acids, respectively, but also through the formation and excretion of alkalis in the urine. This may be a double loss of alkalis.
When our bodies are acidic, none of our systems may work properly. We may be on permanent ‘tilt’.
Sweat is basically acidic waste, excreted via the skin. It has a double purpose of maintaining skin’s resistance to bacteria. When we wash sweat off the skin with alkaline soap, we expose our skin to bacteria without defences. Acid water is an excellent bacterial protection for our skin.
The plague of Osteoporosis affecting Western women and to a lesser extent, men, may be a direct result of an acidic lifestyle.
Alkaline food and water are both natural antioxidants because natural antioxidants are Hydroxyl ions, which are a major component of water.
Guilt may be acidifying. Any trauma we choose to hold in our body may be stored as acidic waste.
Acidic people may be on an ‘acid trip’. They may crave the 'high' an acid snack gives them but disconnect from the acid 'low' that comes soon after.
Weight loss may come more naturally to alkaline balanced people because they have less inflammation and no need to store acid excess in fats.
Meat products are extremely acid forming foods.
It may be common that you also lose your sweet tooth as you become more alkaline
Love alkalizes. No 'may be's' about it.
Chemically grown or processed food is often more acidic.
Because there is no payoff for the medical industry, acid/alkaline balance is seldom discussed in mainstream medicine. This has nothing to do with its efficacy and everything to do with its ease of implementation and low cost.
Balance is the key; when we are out of balance we apply more pressure or input to the opposite. That’s why alkalizing may be necessary. Most of us may be already seriously unbalanced towards acidity.
Think of your extra weight as a parking lot to park excess metabolic or dietary acid that is not being eliminated through urination, perspiration, respiration or defecation. Fat may be saving people from the excess acidity. It is not fat that makes you overweight; it may beacid from an acidic lifestyle and diet.
Fat may be one of the body's best alkaline buffers, because of its ability to take on extra acids or hydrogen ions on its carbon chain.
Insulin may spike when we are acidic.
One of the most dangerous acids in the body is sugar, in any form. That includes sucrose, fructose, glucose, maltose, dextrose.
Insulin is an alkaline buffer. And it may spike in order to neutralize an excess spike in acidity from acidic food, drink or metabolism. So if insulin is spiking, then acid may bespiking, and the body may be in a defensive mechanism to bring back the delicate pH balance of the fluids of the body at 7.35.
All high-glycaemic foods are acidic. Lemons and limes are not high-glycaemic because of their low sugar content and high alkaline sodium and potassium salts. Apples and oranges are high-glycaemic and will spike insulin because they are full of the acid called sugar.
You may lose weight on a high calorie, high alkaline diet. Losing weight is not necessarily about calories; it may be about maintaining the alkaline design of the body.
Overly-acidic obese people may definitely feel lethargic because they are intoxicated with their own waste products that have not been properly eliminated.
When anyone morbidly obese is eating and drinking an electron-rich, alkaline diet, that person may feel more energy. And when you have more energy you may eliminate your metabolic and dietary waste better. When you improve the elimination of acidic waste you may start feeling better and feeling stronger.
Alkaline foods are full of electrons or electrical energy. This is the energy the body runs on. Electrons -NOT calories. Alkaline foods and drinks wouldn't be alkaline if they didn't have electrons. That’s what makes them alkaline.
Remember the Ever Ready Battery Bunny who keeps on running and running and running? The reason the Bunny keeps on running is because he is an alkaline bunny saturated with electrons. When batteries die or have no life, they become acidic and saturated with protons.
Dr Robert O. Young believes that "All sickness and disease is a result of an inverted way of living, eating, and thinking.".
The Standard American diet is 100% acid.
Testing the body fluid pH may the most important daily measurement anyone can do to maintain health and fitness and may assist in prevention of all sickness and disease.
When you are alkalized you may be also energized. And when you are energized you may feel better and think better. You may have sustainable energy when you are alkalized. When you eat and drink alkaline foods you may be making energy deposits to your body, like a bank account.
Very few waters in the world are healthy. In fact, the majority of them are unhealthy or acidic.
When you ionize water you not only increase the pH, but you also increase the electrical potential of the water. When you drink ionized water you are drinking water that has more surface area that can carry more electrical energy. Ionized, smaller diameter water can hydrate, alkalize and energize every cell in the human body. And when your cells are hydrated, alkalized and energized you feel stronger, healthier and more vibrant.
When someone becomes dehydrated, besides the feeling that they're constantly thirsty, the skin may become dry and the bowels may become constipated. The skin may not be supple--it may become dry.
All of the cells of the body that make all tissues and organs need water for staying healthy. After salt, water is one of the most important buffers of dietary and metabolic acid. When you do not have sufficient water, you may not be able to buffer the acids from diet and/or metabolism. Also, you may not be able to adequately remove the dietary and/or metabolic acids through the four channels of elimination.
Dr Robert O. Young says "I have tested several hundred municipal waters and I have yet to test one that is good or healthful to drink. They are all electron-hungry and will acidify the blood and tissues."
If you’re eating an alkaline diet and you’re overwhelmed with negative emotions, thank God you’re eating an alkaline diet! Your 'acidic' emotions are definitely NOT life supporting.
"In our attempts to find a drug to treat everything, we (more often than not) create more problems than we eliminate...one step forward and three steps backward. We know that ADHD responds to an alkaline regime....and hyperactivity is an Amygdala function ..so it may follow that an alkaline lifestyle would produce less "stress" (really just the fight or flight mechanism by another name) as well." Dr Robert O. Young.
"As people age - overall renal function declines including the ability to excrete acid"

Frassetto et al. Am J Physiol 1996;271:F1114-1122
With increasing age, humans become slightly but significantly more acidic

Frassetto et al. J Gerontol 1996;51A:B91-99