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body quickly compensates, mainly by releasing neutralizing said to include malignant cells and acid ‘accumulations’. agents into the bloodstream or changing the acidity level of your "This theory seems very well developed and may sound urine. If your blood starts to become too acidic, the kidneys will plausible to some, but it is absolutely untrue. I get a lot of uickly compensate by releasing more acid into the urine. questions about alkalinity and acidity and whether eating Similarly, if the alkaline level rises above normal, your kidneys alkaline foods (or acidic ones) influence the body's pH ina will release more basic solution into the urine. Because urine is healthful direction. There is no scientific research supporting held apart from the rest of the body fluids and soon excreted, the this line of thinking..." body can maintain a stable pH by adjusting the pH of the urine, (Source: Dr Andrew Weil, 29 July 1999, http://tinyurl.com/4ajmb6) then getting rid of it. "Although claims have been made that a diet high in alkaline However, this is not the first time that the health claims for food or water will slow down the aging process or inhibit the alkaline water have been found wanting. growth of cancer cells, there is no human research to support this. Cancer cells may die in a test tube environment more Alkaline water warning? alkaline than the normal body, but healthy cells cannot survive We all know that the dangers of living under electrical power in that kind of environment either. So reducing acid levels in lines include higher incidence of leukaemia and other forms of the body might kill cancer cells, but it rare cancers. And let's not forget the would probably kill the rest of your cells dangers posed by mobile phones and too. In addition, important chemical transmission towers. The point is that many reactions such as those involved in of these technologies were once considered igestion can only take place within the safe or posed what the experts call normal 7.35-7.45 range. That is why the "minimal risk". body so carefully moderates its own The same principle applies to electrical acid/alkaline balance." . . water ionisers. (Source: http://tinyurl.com/6x82j5) Every time you drink Clinical evidence recently uncovered by artificially high pH researchers on the US National Institutes of No matter how it is produced, water is . we . " Health's medical research database weakly buffered and will always be (alkaline) ionised (http://www.pubmed.com) has found strong neutralised by a true acid or alkali. For water, your stomach evidence that alkaline water can increase example, our stomach contains hydrochloric acid with a pH of around 3.0 to 4.0. If we drink water with a pH 8.5 or 9.0, it is immediately neutralised by our gastric acids and loses its ability to alkalise our body as soon as it enters the highly acidic stomach environment. the risk of heart attack: produces more acid to compensate for the dilution of acid in the stomach. * "Influence of alkaline ionized water on rat erythrocyte hexokinase activity and myocardium" (Watanabe T. et al., J Toxicol Sci 1997 May; 22[2]:141-52): "Alkaline ionized water (AKW) produced by the electrolysis of tap water (TPW) was given to pregnant rats throughout gestation... Hyperkalemia was observed in males and females given AKW at 15 weeks old. Especially in males, pathological changes of necrosis in myocardiac muscle were observed." (Emphasis Health professionals speak out The renowned complementary health specialist and author Andrew Weil, MD, is one of the most respected health specialists in the USA. He is the founder of the Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Arizona and is a best-selling author. Dr Weil's added.) books include Spontaneous Healing, 8 Weeks to Optimum Hyperkalaemia is a life-threatening condition that can lead to Health, Eating Well for Optimum Health and The Healthy sudden death from heart attack! Kitchen. He commented in 2002: "Home water ionizers, which I've seen offered for sale on the * "Degradation of myocardiac myosin and creatine kinase in internet, are just the latest twist in the ongoing effort to promote rats given alkaline ionized water" (Watanabe, T., Kishikawa, Y., the notion that alkaline water is somehow protective of your J Vet Med Sci 1998 Feb; 60[2]:245-50): health. The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by "Recently, the authors have shown that marked necrosis and balancing your body's pH... fibrosis of myocardium were observed in rats given alkaline "None of these claims are [sic] true." ionized water (AKW)... The activities of myosin ATPase and (Source: Dr Andrew Weil, 4 September 2002, actomyosin ATPase in the AKW group were higher than those http://tinyurl.com/2fplhn) in the TPW group, and these elevated activities were tha A af nin tha AWW Tea said to include malignant cells and acid ‘accumulations’. "This theory seems very well developed and may sound plausible to some, but it is absolutely untrue. I get a lot of questions about alkalinity and acidity and whether eating alkaline foods (or acidic ones) influence the body's pH ina healthful direction. There is no scientific research supporting this line of thinking..." (Source: Dr Andrew Weil, 29 July 1999, http://tinyurl.com/4ajmb6) However, this is not the first time that the health claims for alkaline water have been found wanting. Every time you drink artificially high pH (alkaline) "ionised" water, your stomach produces more acid to compensate for the dilution of acid in the stomach. added.) Hyperkalaemia is a life-threatening condition that can lead to sudden death from heart attack! * "Degradation of myocardiac myosin and creatine kinase in rats given alkaline ionized water" (Watanabe, T., Kishikawa, Y., J Vet Med Sci 1998 Feb; 60[2]:245-50): "Recently, the authors have shown that marked necrosis and fibrosis of myocardium were observed in rats given alkaline ionized water (AKW)... The activities of myosin ATPase and actomyosin ATPase in the AKW group were higher than those in the TPW group, and these elevated activities were caused by the degradation of myosin in the AKW group... It is concluded that this disorder of coupled reaction may cause marked myocardiac necrosis and fibrosis in rats given AKW." (Emphasis added.) While this sounds all scientific, the bottom line is that "alkaline water" is causing "pathological changes" in heart muscle cells. Dr Weil also stated back in 1999: "Rumours are circulating on the Internet and elsewhere that drinking alkaline water is beneficial to health and can miraculously cure everything from obesity and high blood pressure to breast cancer. Alkaline water purportedly ‘neutralizes’ the ‘acidic wastes' in the body. These 'wastes' are 22 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com