The acid-alkaline discussion has a variety of paradoxes, but natural acids and alkaline-producing foods create an increase in hydrogen in the intracellular environment, also known as the cytoplasm. It is the cytoplasm that uses the hydrogen ion to hydrate. Alkaline water also has a hydrogen, but it is minus the electron, and therefore forms a hydroxyl ion, a powerful free radical that, in essence, oxidizes the system. Oxidization increases aging and degeneration. In other words, the alkaline water’s hydroxyl ions are electron takers, not donors. The alkaline water, however, may give you a feeling of energy because, as cells are destroyed from free-radical oxidation, they give off energy. Unfortunately, this is short-term energy. This is why some of the research in Japan has suggested that there are long-term deleterious effects from drinking alkaline water, particularly water having a pH of 8.5 or higher. The important point here is not getting confused about the word alkaline. Alkaline water isn’t our friend. Naturally purified, acid water is our friend, and it creates an alkaline extracellular fluid and an acid intracellular fluid. As the hydrogen moves intracellularly, it brings oxygen with it and therefore increases the respiration inside the cell and also within the mitochondria. The mitochondria definitely need oxygen to function properly. Gabriel Cousens, MD Spiritual Nutrition
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:05:35 +0000
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