My friend at Anti-Aging Games, Elizabeth Amini (Founder & CEO, Anti-Aging Games, LLC) had a question for me:
Does alkalinizing the body through ingesting food and fluids that ‘alkalinize’ the body have a positive impact on health?
Answer:
I doubt it very much. The body’s pH (acidity/alkalinity index), and here referring to blood and tissue fluids, is tightly regulated by among other organ systems, the lungs and kidneys. These two systems do that in a very magnificent synchronized fashion maintaining this tight range through multiple redundant backup tactics.
The pH of blood should be 7.35 to 7.45 which is truly on the alkaline side, but this shouldn’t translate into drinking or eating alkaline is better for us. I believe this is trying to fine-tune things artificially too much to the exclusion of highly important nutrients such as healthy proteins.
Also in-taking a consistently alkaline fluid or solid would put a burden on the kidneys to counter balance excess alkalinity. It would also trend our breathing to be slower so as to retain more carbon dioxide, especially if the kidneys aren't getting sufficient water (whose pH by the way is 7.0).
In conclusion I would say: eat healthy protein sufficiently (not less than 70 grams per day for a healthy adult), eat healthy fats (hormone free, and non-synthetic) sufficiently to the tune of 40-45% of the conventionally measured calorie intake, unlimited vegetables (preferably not genetically modified and also grown in fertile ground that hasn’t been exhausted of its minerals), and use fruits as a dessert. No refined sugars at all and keep refined carbohydrates (pasta, lasagna, breads, etc.) below 100 grams per day. Drink enough refined-sugar-free fluids to ensure a urine color that is very light yellow with a daily minimum of 3 urinary bladder full micturitions (urinations).
The websites you had referred to are too unscientific in their presumptions.
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