Alkaline Stomach Concerns
A question that people often ask, "What happens to your stomach
acid when you ingest alkaline water? Does it hurt your stomach? Does it
nullify the alkalinity of the water? Luckily, the answers to these questions
are that it doesn't hurt your stomach nor does your stomach interfere
with the benefits of ionized water.
Let's describe how the stomach works. The inside of our stomach
is acidic. The acid is used to kill bacteria and viruses that come with
the food. According to Sang Wang, author of "Reverse Aging"
"The stomach pH value is maintained at around 4. When we eat food
and drink water, especially alkaline water, the pH value inside the stomach
goes up. When this happens, there is a feedback mechanism in our stomach
to detect this and commands the stomach wall to secrete more hydrochloric
acid into the stomach to bring the pH value back to 4." So, with
this feedback mechanism, drinking ionized water seems like a lost cause,
right? Not so fast.
The answer to our quandary comes in the way the stomach wall makes hydrochloric
acid. According to popular misconception, our stomach is constantly acidic.
Not true. If there was a pocket of acid anywhere in our body eventually
it would burn a hole inside of us. So, as Sang Wang explains, "The
cells in our stomach wall must produce hydrochloric acid on an instantly,
as-needed basis."
The ingredients in the stomach cell that make hydrochloric acid are
carbon dioxide, water, and sodium chloride. "The byproduct of making
hydrochloric acid is sodium bicarbonate or potassium bicarbonate, which
goes into blood stream. These bicarbonates are the alkaline buffers that
neutralize excess acids in the blood; they dissolve solid acid wastes
into liquid form. As they neutralize the solid acidic wastes, extra carbon
dioxide is released, which is discharged through the lungs."
As Sang Wang explained, the byproducts of making hydrochloric acid are
alkaline buffers. If you read the article I wrote about how an ionizer
works, you'll remember that in order for an ionizer to make alkaline water,
it must have an acidic byproduct. In order for it to make acidic water,
it must have an alkaline byproduct. In order for it to make acidic water,
it must have an alkaline byproduct. The same thing is going on inside
our stomachs. When we eat food, our stomach wall produces acid, then it
sends alkaline buffers through our blood to neutralize acid outside of
our stomach, while the carbon gas is released from our lungs.
So, when we drink ionized water, the alkalinity is passed directly into
our blood stream, along with those alkaline buffers. As Sang Wang explains,
"Alkaline or acid produced by the body must have an equal and opposite
acid or alkaline produced by the body; therefore, there is no net gain.
However, alkaline supplied from outside the body, like drinking alkaline
water, results in a net gain of alkalinity in our body."
You can, therefore, drink alkaline water at any time of the day. If
you drink with a full stomach, the alkalinity is passed into your blood
stream with the alkaline buffers. When you drink with an empty stomach,
the water is entering a neutral environment so there is nothing to interfere
with it and it is passed into the blood stream.
The bottom line is your body likes alkaline products entering it, so
your body has mechanisms in place to make sure it can receive the alkalinity.
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