Robert Atkins said:

And where did you get that the blood is slightly acidic.
Blood pH is normally between 7.2 – 7.5 if it goes under 7pH you are already dead.

I said blood was basic. However, it’s constant. It can become more acidic in some circumstances. If you exercise heavily, the lactic acid produced will lower the pH of your blood. The body of course compensates for this. If your blood stays at too low a pH for more than a short period of time as it might with a high lactic acid level, that is called acidosis and is vindictive of major problems that a doctor needs to address.

Regardless your body does not have one pH. Your blood is one level and your various fluids are different levels. the digestive tract is always acidic and anything you eat or drink will only impact this directly and only temporarily.

You apparently know nothing about ether biochemistry or homeostasis except what you have read on crank websites. We can see right through you nit-wit, like every other nut-job that shows up you don’t back up a thing you write with evidence or citations. Your statements will be granted the credence they deserve – none.

Some One Who Understand Body pH for over 33 years.

        Jake said:

It’s not just about alkalizing your body.

That is part of it along with cleaning out the toxins and filling your body with good nutrition to keep you naturally healthy and in good condition.

Chemicals don’t do this, and that seems common sense. You need real food and water with good fresh live nutrition.

Acid comes from chemicals we put in our body and our body needs help to get them all out because we live in such a chemical full world thanks to the big pharma companies.

They make money when we get sick duh! They want us sick and tell us chemicals are good.

Lemon is good because it helps clear your system. It acts like a natural cleaner to push all that toxic stuff from your blood and bowels and liver. Good vegies and water and also natural herbs and enzymes. No tap water because they put toxic fluoride in that. If you live somewhere they say there’s no fluoride put in the water, don’t trust them. Get it tested because chances are there is fluoride even if they say no. God knows what other chemicals they are putting there!

This is just another false discussion sponsored by the big companies. I wonder how much their puppets get paid to lie like this and if they ever think about how wrong what they do is.

I’m not going for the lemon option. I’m allergic to lemons. (Pity, too; I didn’t discover the allergy until I was 14, by which time I had developed a great passion for lemons.)

Indeed, you should not trust them if they say there’s no flouride put in the water. Most parts of the world have flouride in the water naturally! HORRORS! How did anyone survive in ancient times, drinking all that flouride? And how can you possibly know what other chemicals are in there? (Hmmm — maybe you could try *asking*? If you’re American, there’s this thing called the Freedom Of Information Act, which means they’re legally obligated to provide that sort of information if you ask.)

Acid comes from the food you eat — but a lot more of it comes from glands in your stomach, which produce peptic acid and hydrochloric acid. It’s potent stuff, which is why heartburn can be so excruciating. Fortunately, your body neutralizes it before it gets into the blood. In fact, your body is very good at buffering the blood. So good that it is actually not possible to change your blood pH in any meaningful way. (Sure, you can get a brief shift, but your body sorts that out promptly.) You can only live in a very narrow range of pH values, right around 7 (neutral). If you actually did manage to alkalize your body, it would have a dramatic effect — you would die. As people on detox regimes aren’t dropping dead, I think we can safely conclude that alkalizing your body in this manner is not actually possible.

You also may want to educate yourself as to what chemicals are. Everything is a chemical. Water itself is a chemical (H20). If you think chemicals are bad while vitamins are good, this means you don’t know what a chemical is, which in turns means you haven’t really thought much about why chemicals are supposed to be bad. Too much sodium chloride (table salt) is bad for you because it raises blood pressure — but not enough, and you will die rather painfully. Vitamin C, perhaps the most famous of the vitamins, prevents a horrific death by scurvy — but it is also a chemical, and an acidic one at that: ascorbic acid. (It’s what gives lemons their distinctive tang. In fact, all acids taste sour.)

It’s very important to keep your body well nourished, and a good variety of fruit and vegetables are one of the best ways to do that. But they are made of chemicals, as are you. It’s not that chemicals are bad. It’s that you need to make sure you are getting enough of some important chemicals, and not overdoing it on others.

        Jake said:

I’m not sure what u r saying? is that supposed to be sarcastic? r u saying that chemicals in water are good for u or r u agreeing?

The fact that you cannot tell and do not understand the reference, speaks volumes…

        Jake said:

That is part of it along with cleaning out the toxins and filling your body with good nutrition to keep you naturally healthy and in good condition. … No tap water because they put toxic fluoride in that. If you live somewhere they say there’s no fluoride put in the water, don’t trust them. Get it tested because chances are there is fluoride even if they say no. God knows what other chemicals they are putting there!

Luckily, Jake was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.

It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.

God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural … fluids.

You know when fluoridation first began?

Lemon is good because it helps clear your system. It acts like a natural cleaner to push all that toxic stuff from your blood and bowels and liver. Good vegies and water and also natural herbs and enzymes. No tap water because they put toxic fluoride in that. If you live somewhere they say there’s no fluoride put in the water, don’t trust them. Get it tested because chances are there is fluoride even if they say no. God knows what other chemicals they are putting there!

This is just another false discussion sponsored by the big companies. I wonder how much their puppets get paid to lie like this and if they ever think about how wrong what they do is.

        Soylent said:

As a swedish citizen I can confirm that pickled herring is about the most delicious thing ever invented.

I am a Minnesotan of largely Swedish descent, and I enthusiastically agree!

Lutefisk, on the other hand, is best eaten on a dare. You eat it so that you can say you did. At least, that’s why people around here will eat it. Its primary value is to hold some sort of sauce that renders it slightly less disgusting. I’ve had both drawn butter and cream sauce with lutefisk. The latter is better; it has more flavor, which is something lutefisk greatly lacks. (To be fair, fresh cod isn’t much more flavorful, and is good primarily for how well it soaks up seasonings.)

Curse you, now I’m craving pickled herring! And my father-in-law finished off the jar last weekend!