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Alkaline Water is best for Water Fasting

Ionfarms — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 03:41:42 +0000

Alkaline Water is best for Water Fasting

Water fasting is becoming a popular way to lose weight. It has also been suggested in studies as a way to lower

How Water Fasting Worksyour risk of chronic diseases and extend your lifespan. One big downside to water fasting is that it induces fasting acidosis: A condition where blood pH drops to unsafe levels during the fast. Fasting acidosis can lead to acid reflux, nausea, and heartburn, among other effects. Alkaline water is the best water for water fasting because it can raise blood pH from 40 – 70% under acidosis conditions. It also inactivates pepsin, the enzyme that triggers the painful burning of acid reflux.

During a water fast, you consume nothing but water. If you are water fasting without medical supervision, your fast should last no longer than 24 to 72 hours. You should choose the dates you plan to fast carefully: You will experience low energy levels, so try to select days where you can keep your activities to a minimum. I definitely, plan on not driving or operating machinery.

It’s a good idea to build up to fasting slowly. Begin in the days ahead of your fast by reducing the size of your meals. Avoid fasting if you are feeling unwell or exhausted, When fasting, be sure to drink plenty of alkaline water. You should drink about 3 liters per day.

After your fast, you should begin with small, easy-to-digest meals like chicken soup. Then build up gradually to normal-sized meals.

Benefits of Alkaline Water for Water Fasting

Stop acidosis

Alkaline water will help raise your blood pH when your body enters into a state of fasting-induced acidosis. Acidosis is a temporary condition where the blood pH drops to unsafe levels. Your body can compensate for it, but that compensation might cost you some bone mass. That is because the body will steal calcium from your bones to neutralize the excess acidity. Drinking alkaline water during your fast helps protect your bones.

Stop acid reflux

You are also likely to experience acid reflux while water fasting if you don’t drink alkaline water. Acid reflux is a common side effect of water fasting. Alkaline water inactivates pepsin, the enzyme that triggers the painful burning of acid reflux.

Detoxification

Alkaline water hydrates you faster and more thoroughly than plain water. While fasting, you want to flush your body of toxins as much as possible. Alkaline water’s alkaline pH enables your kidneys to effectively flush toxins like fluoride and heavy metals.

What to do during a Water Fast

You’re going to feel tired and low on energy, so plan to get lots of rest, avoid intensive exercise, and drink lots of alkaline water. You need to drink more water than usual because 20 – 30% of the water you consume on a daily basis comes from your food. You’ll need to replace that water.

Caution: It’s normal to feel a little dizzy when you get up during a fast, so be careful that you don’t fall down. If a person doing a fast begins to feel disoriented or confused, seek medical help right away.

People who should not fast

Some people shouldn’t fast. If you are under a doctor’s care for any reason, you must ask your doctor before starting a fast. If you are over 65 or under 18, talk to your doctor before starting a fast. In addition, the following people should never fast:

People with an eating disorder
Those who are underweight
Women that are pregnant or breastfeeding
People with heart trouble
Anybody who has type one diabetes
Persons with uncontrolled migraines
People receiving blood transfusions

It is a good idea for anyone planning to do a water fast to talk to their doctor first. Your doctor can make specific recommendations that will enable you to get the most out of your water fast.

For best results, use alkaline water from a water ionizer

During your water fast, you’ll be drinking about 3 or more liters of alkaline water per day. A water ionizer is ideal because you can make and drink as much alkaline water as you want. You should also drink the highest pH alkaline water your machine makes. You need high pH alkaline water because your body will be in a state of fasting-induced acidosis. The bottled alkaline water at the store isn’t as strong as the ionized alkaline water from a water ionizer, it won’t fight your acidosis as effectively as the alkaline water from a water ionizer.

The Alkaline Diets

Ionfarms — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:35:07 +0000

The Alkaline Diet? Is it because of alkaline minerals, or is it something else?

By replacing acidic foods with alkaline foods, proponents say that alkaline diets can help improve health, prevent disease, and lose weight by adjusting the body’s acidity to alkaline.

50% is correct, and 50% is incorrect.

Eating alkaline fruits, vegetables, and legumes can cause weight loss and lower urine acidity. But it doesn’t affect body pH.

Since this diet is primarily fruits and vegetables, it may benefit your health. This is because a diet centered on vegetables or fruits is a nutrient source for intestinal lactic acid bacteria. A small amount of hydrogen is generated in these intestinal lactic acid bacteria decomposing fibers and vegetables. Hydrogen generated here is evenly distributed throughout the body, improving health and preventing diseases.

In other words, this effect is not caused by alkaline pH.
Still, alkaline minerals are abundant in vegetables, and the hydrogen generated in decomposing these plant fibers cures diet and disease.

Then, what role does alkaline water play?
Of course, it is basic common sense that alkaline minerals benefit the human body, so it is not worth discussing further.
Alkaline water is also electrolyzed in making alkaline water rather than alkaline minerals, and a trace amount of hydrogen is generated in this process. And the hydrogen generated in this way helps prevent and treat diseases.

However, drinking water containing hydrogen to treat diseases is not practical, but it is effective only when hydrogen concentrations are at least 800 ppb.

Then, the question arises as to whether more than 800ppb of hydrogen is generated with the alkaline water ionizer, but it is possible with water.

For example, you can make alkaline water with a pH of 11 or more than pH 12. However, even if you make strong alkaline water with high hydrogen concentration and drink it, it is a problem whether it is harmful to the human body.

I am very pessimistic about this and limit the WHO recommended maximum pH for drinking water to 9.5.

It destroys cells if you drink strong alkaline water to drink more than 800ppb of hydrogen water. So, when tomatoes are immersed in strongly alkaline water, the epidermal cells of the tomatoes are destroyed, the pigment is released, and the plant leaves are discolored yellow and burned.

Then you might be wondering what the alternative is.
It’s surprisingly straightforward.
I recommend often drinking alkaline water with a pH of 9.5 or less pH as an alternative.
If you want to drink alkaline water to treat diseases, you can expect good results by drinking at least 3 liters with a pH of 9.5 or less every day.

Oxidation-Reduction Potential

Ionfarms — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 02:39:04 +0000

Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP)

What is oxidation-reduction potential?

Oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) measures the ability of a lake or river to cleanse itself or break down waste products, such as contaminants and dead plants and animals.

When the ORP value is high, there is lots of oxygen present in the water. This means that bacteria that decompose dead tissue and contaminants can work more efficiently.

In general, the higher the ORP value, the healthier the lake or river is.

However, even in healthy lakes and rivers, there is less oxygen (and therefore lower ORP values) as you get closer to the bottom sediments (mud; see the picture below of a lake bottom).

This is because there are many bacteria working hard in the sediments to decompose dead tissue, and they use up a lot of the available oxygen.

In fact, oxygen disappears very quickly in the bottom mud (often within a centimeter or two) and ORP falls quickly. ORP is measured in addition to dissolved oxygen because ORP can provide scientists with additional information of the water quality and degree of pollution, if present.

Also, there are other elements that can function like oxygen (in terms of chemistry) and contribute to increased ORP.

Why does oxidation-reduction potential matter?

ORP depends on the amount of dissolved oxygen that is in the water, as well as the number of other elements that function similarly to oxygen.

Though not technically correct, oxygen and other elements that contribute to high ORP effectively help ‘eat’ things that we don’t want in the water – such as contaminants and dead tissues.

When ORP is low, dissolved oxygen is low, the toxicity of certain metals and contaminants can increase, and there is lots of dead and decaying material in the water that cannot be cleared or decomposed.

This is not a healthy environment for fish or bugs.

In healthy waters, ORP should read high between 300 and 500 millivolts.

In the North, we might expect low ORP in waters that receive sewage inputs or industrial waste.

[Oxidants = Damaging Cells]

[Antioxdidants = Protecting Cells]

How do we measure oxidation-reduction potential?

ORP is measured directly in the lake or river water that you are investigating using an ORP sensor.

ORP is measured in millivolts (mV) and the more oxygen that is present in the water, the higher the ORP reading is.

ORP can either be above zero or below zero.

References For More Information

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