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Originally Posted by troutman

The links were all to do with pH balance or alkaline balance diets (post # 130).

http://sciencebasedpharmacy.wordpres...sis/#more-1424

Lol @ one of the comments:

Thanks for this, I have been waging a quiet battle against this sort of nonsense for a while now. I worked in a clinical biochemistry lab measuring blood pH and bicarbonate for several years and I can confirm that unless a person is very ill, their blood pH will be very close to 7.4.
By the way, our bodies produce about 1 kg or 20,000 mmol of acids every day as carbon dioxide, a lot more if we exercise vigorously, and eliminate them effortlessly. A 4 ounce piece of beef generates about 8 mmol of acids, a liter of Coke contains 2.5 mmol of acids (pH 2.6 = 0.0025M). So the amount of acids generated in our diet is tiny compared to the amount our metabolism produces constantly. Experiments using ammonium chloride to induce a metabolic acidosis require
4 mmol/kg and a low alkali diet to achieve this, or 15 mmol/kg and a high alkali diet. That means a 60 kg person would have to consume 240 mmol of acids daily, the equivalent of 7.5 pounds of beef or 96 liters of Coke each and every day to overwhelm their homeostatic mechanisms and produce acidosis.

LOL!


So exercising generates far more acid than drinking 96 liters of Coke each day does. That means everyone should stop exercising immediately if they want to stop leeching nutrients from their bodies!!!

Originally Posted by troutman

This reminds me of proponents of super-oxygenated water. Too bad humans don't have gills, and can't absorb extra oxygen from the stomach.

Heh, yup.