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Recently, a water company in Kunming, Yunnan claimed that alkaline water has therapeutic properties. On the homepage of the company’s official website, slogans such as “alkaline life every day, a new way of quality life” can be seen everywhere. At the same time, the company also set up a column to introduce alkaline water and health series popular science, alkaline treatment and other related content, indicating that drinking Alkaline water can “cure” and regulate the body’s acid-base constitution.
1. What kind of water is alkaline water?
Generally, it depends on the pH value of the water. If it is greater than 7, it is alkaline water.
But this is an analysis from common sense. From a national perspective, there is no specific standard, which means it is just a common sense judgment.
2. Does alkaline water have special effects?
For some patients with hyperacidity or gout, some alkaline components such as sodium bicarbonate may be used clinically to alkalize the urine, so as to play some role in the neutralization of the urine. and gastric acid.
But that dose is very large. If you just look at the dose, theoretically you have to drink more than ten liters of water to reach a prescribed dose.
What’s more, the two treatment methods I just mentioned are not the first-line treatment methods for this disease, which means that they have little effect.
For healthy people, drinking water normally is to obtain water itself, and there is no need to obtain any minerals. In addition to adding moisture or some taste, alkaline water will not have any special effects even if there are more minerals or other ingredients in it.
First of all, I think that if he does not promote any function, it is just equivalent to making the information more transparent, identifying his pH, etc. This is normal, but it does not matter.
There is really no need to buy alkaline water to drink.