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[–] 171 points 1 year ago (41 children)

Alkaline water won't be alkaline for long after it enters the stomach, so it doesn't really matter

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  • [–] 169 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Alkaline water does have a place for LPR sufferers like me because it deactivates the pepsin that has vaporized and deposited itself in my esophagus and throat which when activated by acidic foods will begin to digest my soft tissues. The rest of ways to sell it I agree are completely bunk.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hey fellow LPR person! Ever looked into baclofen? It's an oddball, but it helped me and a friend with our LPR.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    No but I will take a look, thanks! Always pursuing any lead on this particular issue ;-).

    Edit: took a look, looks like pretty serious stuff, any side effects?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    The biggest initial issue for many is that it's pretty sedating, but that lessens with time. I slept like the dead for the first three weeks as baclofen is one of the few drugs that increases the frequency and duration of deep sleep. Now I can take 100 milligrams in a day and not feel a thing. I have literally no side effects.

    One downside is sudden cessation is hell. If I miss an entire day, my anxiety gradually increases until it's through the roof until I start taking it again. Two days results in gradually increasing visual hallucinations. All of this completely reverses within an hour of taking a dose. You must taper off this stuff, but doing it isn't hard at all. Just don't go cold turkey.

    It's also a medication that people tend not to grow resistant to. It hasn't lost any effectiveness for me despite having taken 60-80mg/day for almost two decades.

    I used to have constant burning throat pain and the taste of stomach contents. Not anymore! It reduces the frequency of transient lower esophageal sphincter (LES) relaxation and increases its resting tone. Here's a relevant paper for anyone interested:

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9981648/

    Bonus: 20 mg for non-users will halt hiccups but will likely also sedate them pretty hard. 10-20 mg will prevent MDMA hyperthermia.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    So I said, blue M&M, red M&M, they all wind up the same colour in the end.

    - Homer Simpson

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Which is reason number two (pun intended) why brown M&Ms are the superior ones.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

    I believe the intended purpose is to reduce the overall acidity of your body, which it will do (negligibly, maybe even immeasuably). Your stomach acid will compensate regardless, but, in doing so, it uses acidic compounds in the process to do so. Whether that is even beneficial in general is debatable at best, though likely not. But mixing in other acids does negate at least some of the alkalinity, which would defeat the entire point, if there is any effect from it.

    Edit: Clarified my position a bit. I'm not suggesting that alkaline water is effective at doing anything at all, nor even that its intended purpose would be a health benefit.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    Stomach acid is like 10,000,000x more acidic than most alkaline water is basic. Dilution is probably doing an order of magnitude more work than the hydroxide here (meaning just drink more tap water)

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    I didnt say it would make a significant or even measurable difference. But it will technically drop your overall pH. If I drop any mass of basic material in any volume of acidic material with which it can react, there will be some net change in acidity, even if negligible.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ahh I see you have forgotten pH buffering solutions.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I was more of a physics nerd. Can't say I've heard of such a thing.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Weak acids/bases tend to not fully convert their potential free ions, stabilizing at particular pHs for relatively large ranges of concentration.

    You can use that as a basis for solutions that aren't super-basic but will preserve their pH in response to drips of acid.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The body maintains homeostasis. It cannot afford to change pH. It is capable to buffer pH by neat biochemical mechanisms.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Yes, I know. And to maintain homeostasis, it has means to make adjustments to changes, like pH. Which means you can change the pH of some fluid in the body within reason, and it will correct this change. We are not saying anything different.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yep, we agree. I was just pointing out the overall pH doen not change, there are ways to avoid that. From the the previous comment it kimd of seemed as though if you put something acidic in, the overall acidity must increase, which is not the case, so I wanted to make sure random readers don't get the wrong idea.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    It absolutely will not. If it did, it would kill you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    How would a negligible change in your stomach acidity kill you? What do you think tums do?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It absolutely will not. If it did, it would kill you.

    Then what does that mean?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They said:

    1. Alkaline water won't change your body's pH.
    2. Changing your body's pH would kill you.

    Since alkaline water does not change body pH, it would not necessarily kill the drinker.

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  • Ok. Then they're wrong. The human body's overall pH can vary within to a small degree with little to no effect on your health, let alone kill you. Changing the pH in small amounts, particularly in different areas like the stomach, will not typically harm the body at all. The entire purpose of some medications like antacids is to do that specifically with the stomach, for example.

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  • Probably either referring to a non-negligible difference or to how being alkaline enough to make a real difference would make it basically poisonous.

    I'm no phlebectomist, so I can't say whether they're right about it or not 🤷🏻

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Even if you drink 10 liter and piss all of it out?

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    So should I put AA batteries in my water bottle or not?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I believe the AAs go in your vagina. She does a lot of vagina stuff, like my ex.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I can confirm the vagina stuff with his ex

    She was a freak!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Vagina stuff. AKA sex.

    Don't tell me you did it missionary!

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The best way to remain beautiful your whole life is being born in a family of (white) millionaires, remain a millionaire through inheritance and by working on your family's cushy business without ever having to worry about nothing for not even a second of your life and also having access and being able to aford the most modern and technological advancements in beauty. If that is not enough and you still feel time is getting close you can create your own fake science and get even more money (maybe that helps?)

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    For us poors sunscreen is the best value per dollar. Especially men, because women often include it with other cosmetics (even if it's not that effective and you should be using a straight up sunscreen)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Pretty sure millionaires age better regardless of skin color, don't know why race is involved

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I imagine due to media beauty standards being quite racist

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  • Beauty standards are more classist than racist, they always point to what the powerful perceived as attractive or things that set them apart from their "lessers", the farmhand was hardly considered more attractive than the slaves his boss's neighbor owned. That said race plays a part but it isn't THE answer

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I added that because for black milionaires the "ever having to worry about nothing for not even a second of your life" don't apply

    You know they worried at least once in their lifes about a police siren lol

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I dont think most people that specifically purchase it know what alkaline water is.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Apparently it works better than rechargable water.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Is there a consensus view on whether or not Gwyneth is a genuine numbnut or is just cynically exploiting people who are?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (5 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Instructions unclear, vagina candle stuck in ass.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Dude, it explicitly said vagina candle. This one is on you.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mixing an acid and a base makes a salt. She's drinking saltwater.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    GOOP = What your brain is made of if you support or buy these “products”.

    She’s just another GRIFTER!

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