UserFriendly
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What are you talking about?Excuse me? You are the one who got off topic to begin with!
Take your negativity somewhere else please.
& I'm done.
Brand of water to use for LOWEST PH
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SlickRickMcgee
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thanks for input everybody! I think I need to get a ph up/down kit anyway.
So, I'm curious about what you might be using water with a low pH for. Certainly not for drinking, since your body actually needs water with a higher pH (alkaline).
Your body runs with a blood pH level of around ~7.34 (sources vary from pH 7.2 to 7.5), and drinking water with lower (more acidic) or higher (more alkaline) pH causes a homeostatic response by your body to bring it closer to ~7.34, which draws upon stored minerals to achieve that effect. If the pH of your blood were to dip below ~7.34 then it lead to creating a favorable environment for bad things like cancer cells to thrive. So drinking water with an acidic (lower) pH than 7.34 could actually be FEEDING deadly conditions in your body. Drinking water with a higher pH (up to ~10) hasn't been shown to create any physiological issues at all, to date. And logic dictates that the more extreme the water is on the pH scale, the more of your body's stored minerals are depleted in the homeostatic process. I do not know which minerals your body uses to achieve this, nor how quickly they are replenished from a "normal" diet. Do you?
Here is a link to one article that discusses some of this in a bit more detail. Although I am quick to point out that certain assertions in the linked document are clearly marketing propaganda, the portions of the information relevant to my own assertion is actually scientifically proven:
http://www.comfytummy.com/2010/06/21/ph-levels-of-bottled-water/
Furthermore, the US EPA identifies the acceptable range of pH in consumable water to be between 6.5 and 8.5. Anything lower or higher than this has been repeatedly shown to introduce unnecessary health (lower=environmentally friendly to free radicals) and/or aesthetic (higher=bad taste, etc) concerns.
In summary, if you're actually attempting to maintain or improve your health to the point of measuring the pH level of the water you drink, those of you who are choosing water with pH in the 4's and 5's seem to be quite misguided. The closer your water is to 7.34, the better off you are.
Your body runs with a blood pH level of around ~7.34 (sources vary from pH 7.2 to 7.5), and drinking water with lower (more acidic) or higher (more alkaline) pH causes a homeostatic response by your body to bring it closer to ~7.34, which draws upon stored minerals to achieve that effect. If the pH of your blood were to dip below ~7.34 then it lead to creating a favorable environment for bad things like cancer cells to thrive. So drinking water with an acidic (lower) pH than 7.34 could actually be FEEDING deadly conditions in your body. Drinking water with a higher pH (up to ~10) hasn't been shown to create any physiological issues at all, to date. And logic dictates that the more extreme the water is on the pH scale, the more of your body's stored minerals are depleted in the homeostatic process. I do not know which minerals your body uses to achieve this, nor how quickly they are replenished from a "normal" diet. Do you?
Here is a link to one article that discusses some of this in a bit more detail. Although I am quick to point out that certain assertions in the linked document are clearly marketing propaganda, the portions of the information relevant to my own assertion is actually scientifically proven:
http://www.comfytummy.com/2010/06/21/ph-levels-of-bottled-water/
Furthermore, the US EPA identifies the acceptable range of pH in consumable water to be between 6.5 and 8.5. Anything lower or higher than this has been repeatedly shown to introduce unnecessary health (lower=environmentally friendly to free radicals) and/or aesthetic (higher=bad taste, etc) concerns.
In summary, if you're actually attempting to maintain or improve your health to the point of measuring the pH level of the water you drink, those of you who are choosing water with pH in the 4's and 5's seem to be quite misguided. The closer your water is to 7.34, the better off you are.
