dianahester said:
It is so strange to me to read such narrow minded comments. I have known for many, many years that your body can indeed become to acidic and it causes health problems. That is why if you have cancer, too much acid in your system is absolutely the cause of the problem. The food you eat, the drinks you drink, if the pH is less than 4.5 (sodas' by the way are around 2.8,) it creates a firestorm in your body (just a metaphor science guys...settle down) it causes those buffering systems in the body designed to keep the pH of the body between 7.35 and 7.45 to break down. That is why all the books on treating cancer start with a change of diet to an alkaline diet. Drinking alkaline water is actually a much easier way to change the environment in your body than eating alkaline food but doing both is advisable. It is just common sense!
It cracks me up that "chemist" and scientist are so smart that they don't understand the most fundamental things about caring for the body. Sounds fishy? Doesn't fit into your paradigm. I expect more from a group like this. I mean there are plenty of scientist and doctors who do get it. One doctor, Dr. Timothy McKnight wrote a book "Confessions of a Skeptical Physician" Half of the book contains the resources he discovered once he actually bothered doing the research. Those who don't bother think that calling themselves a scientist and a chemist makes them an authority on all things and automatically exempts them from studying the subject because they always know so much more than everyone else. Legends in their own mind.
I was reading in NT the other day and Fallon's recommendation is mineral water. For whatever that's worth. Personally, I find that I like the taste of our well water, which is moderately hard. I even take it to work in order to avoid the heavily chlorinated city water.
The issue of pH is very important----so important that your cells regulate it themselves. pH is so basic that it's part of every chemical reaction that makes you, well, you. For example, respiration depends on and uses pH. You can read about the solubility of CO2 and carbonic anhydrase if you're interested in the details. But for the most part, pH takes care of itself. As far as I know, the micro and macro pH regulation of your body is totally inaccessible---through diet or otherwise.
At the Mayo Clinic, in the library, there's a series of huge stone panels in the ceiling that have the names of various famous physicians and scientists. One is left blank. The legend is that this place is reserved for whoever cures cancer. This blank slab of stone is a tribute to the simplistic ideas of a bye-gone era. There is no single cure for cancer and there never will be. There's no silver bullet. There ARE effective therapies but the idea that cancer is a single disease or that you can modulate your pH with the water you drink is quaint and simplistic. I realize that this is hard to take in and I don't mean to make you feel bad. There's nothing wrong with not knowing, yet.
Questioning the claims of other people is not necessarily narrow minded. Calling other people narrow minded, in my experience, can be a symptom of a narrow mind. I hope that's not the case here. It's hard to tell when encountering a new member. So let's keep the conversation going and maybe we'll learn something from each other.
Also, the idea the physicians and scientists are automatically wrong or part of a conspiracy theory is, well, wrong. It's not evil medical school. It's just medical school
Sometimes people who are educated dismiss ideas that are outright foolish or wrongheaded. For example, the Tappet brothers openly mock magentic fuel-molecule alignment systems and additives. There's a physics crackpot index [1], etc. Clearly, an idea isn't right just because you think of it or read about it. There ARE wrong ideas out there. Although it can hurt feelings of those deeply invested in a particular idea, the physicians, scientists, and other experts are often right. There are, too, examples of experts arriving at the wrong conclusion. There was a Nobel prize given for work on muscle contraction that turned out to be totally wrong, years later. In other areas, there is still debate. For example, fats are bad for your heart. Another: Salt causes hypertension. But those are areas of on-going research and it's hardly a conspiracy. You can read the papers yourself on PubMed for free.
Well, I'm off to read more about this ionized water idea.
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http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
