 Posted 27/11/2011 23:11:34
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After reading a blog on the acidity of water, and that you should put lemon or lime into water to help make it alkali I tested my tap water with a PH strips.
The tap water is 7.25.
Tap water with lemon is 4.25
So does alkali tap water go acid once it has been drunk?
And does acid water go alkali once it has been drunk?
Very confused.
SarahW
Tscore Lumbar spine -3.3, Femoral neck -2.6, Hip -2.2
Alkali diet (+ no caffeine/sugar/salt/rhubarb/spinach) and exercise and supplements of Vit D (2,000IUs daily), Vit K2 as MK7, vit K2 Menatetrenone, Cod liver oil.
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Posted 28/11/2011 08:50:26
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| Someone showed me a list they found on the internet. It showed tap water as acid but filtered water as alkaline. I have a water filter fitted to a separate tap and we change the filter once a year. Lucky for me it's the only water I drink (at home) and I also use it to cook/steam vegetables. Where do you get your pH strips from Sarah? I've tried all the pharmacists around here and the all look at me blankly - one even tried to sell me some dipstix which could tell you everything including what colour socks you were wearing! 
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Posted 29/11/2011 23:01:30
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Eliza
Like you I went into local chemists and asked for PH strips, and like your experience they looked at me as if I was asking for illegal drugs. so i bought them from the internet http://www.amazon.co.uk/PACK-Health-Strips-Saliva-strips/dp/B0052XHTHM/ref=tag_stp_s2_edpp_url.
Buying three packs at a time is the cheapest way to buy them, as one pack is nearly £9.00. The ones I bought I got and email from them saying 'Thank your for your purchase of comfy condoms...' so I was abit worried.
But the PH strips arrived! And they are easy to use and understand.
SarahW
Tscore Lumbar spine -3.3, Femoral neck -2.6, Hip -2.2
Alkali diet (+ no caffeine/sugar/salt/rhubarb/spinach) and exercise and supplements of Vit D (2,000IUs daily), Vit K2 as MK7, vit K2 Menatetrenone, Cod liver oil.
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Posted 30/11/2011 17:18:20
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| Pure water is neutral, neither acid nor alkaline, which is pH 7. Tap water is not pure water. If you live in a hard water area it contains a certain amount of calcium which will give it a higher (alkaline) pH. Water softeners remove the calcium. You make pure water acid or alkaline by dissolving or mixing stuff in it. For example, if you take vinegar (acetic acid) and dissolve it in water, the result is acidic - dilute vinegar. Same goes for fruit juices, which are generally acidic. Dissolve sodium bicarbonate in water and you get a solution of sodium bicarbonate, which is alkaline. Once you drink water it will mix with whatever else is in your digestive system and dilute it. Tap water with pH 7.25 is slightly alkaline. Adding lime or lemon juice makes it more acidic, as shown by the lower pH.
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Posted 30/11/2011 19:00:05
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I suppose the answer to Sarah's original question would depend on whether citric acid is acid or alkili loading?
diagnosed OP at 40, menopause at 42. Intolerant of AA and SR. Got along on Adcal D3, diet and exercise for last ten years. OP worsening. Fractured knee, fibula and shoulder this year. About to commence annual infusion.......
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Posted 01/12/2011 16:01:54
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Kelly Ton
What really matters is whether something is alkalising once in your body rather than it's PH outside your body.
So water with low PH because of added lemon in it is actually alkalising once inside you.
SarahW
Tscore Lumbar spine -3.3, Femoral neck -2.6, Hip -2.2
Alkali diet (+ no caffeine/sugar/salt/rhubarb/spinach) and exercise and supplements of Vit D (2,000IUs daily), Vit K2 as MK7, vit K2 Menatetrenone, Cod liver oil.
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Posted 02/12/2011 01:23:07
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| But that's not the water, it's whatever you put in it. Add lemon and you have dilute lemon juice.
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Posted 02/12/2011 08:22:28
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The body strives to maintain homeostasis - a state of balance - by releasing different substances to neutralise whatever we absorb by whatever means. Therefore, if we consume something acidic, it will release sodium bicarbonate. There is no point adding lemon juice to water to 'make' it alkaline; that's just doubling the body's work! Foods don't 'turn' into something different in the body - the body itself tries to balance what's there in order to function. That's why the NHS advocates the Healthy Plate - a balanced diet.
diagnosed OP at 40, menopause at 42. Intolerant of AA and SR. Got along on Adcal D3, diet and exercise for last ten years. OP worsening. Fractured knee, fibula and shoulder this year. About to commence annual infusion.......
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