Simply drinking water that is alkaline is unlikely to give you any long-term health benefits. In fact, if you want to feel any of the benefits of drinking alkaline water you are going to need to be drinking the right kind of stuff and in the right way. And seeing as alkaline water from the right source can help boost your metabolism, help your body absorb nutrients, and reduce acid in your bloodstream, among other benefits, it’s something that more people should be clued up about.
Sure, we’ve all been bombarded by the ‘healthy alkaline water’ buzzword of late, but that term is a little disingenuous as it implies that any H20 that has an alkalinity is good for you. To understand why this is a little inaccurate, and to discover how you truly can get the benefits of drinking alkaline water, let me explain further.
Science lesson for you: The pH scale is a method to determine the acidity or basicity/alkalinity of an aqueous solution. Solutions (in this case, water) with a pH less than 7 are termed acidic and solutions with a pH greater than 7 are called ‘basic’ or alkaline. So it may surprise you to read that just about the entire state of Florida drinks alkaline water every day…from their taps!
That’s because tap water from Florida has an alkaline level of pH 9. So surely then, people in Florida must be super healthy and more immune to diseases, right? Unfortunately not. There is no metric that shows Floridians – or people from Southern California, New Mexico or Arizona, where the water is just as alkaline – receive notable health benefits of drinking alkaline water. So you aren’t going to see the benefits of drinking alkaline water if it’s just the pH level you are concerned about. Nor are simple alkaline water machines, that push a water’s pH level up, the answer. So how can you really get the benefits of drinking alkaline water?
There are two ways to get the full benefits of drinking alkaline water:
1.Book a flight to a place called Lourdes, in France, and find the water which flows from a spring in the Grotto of Massabielle. Or other rare, exotic sources of water around the globe that is naturally alkaline and packed full of minerals and antioxidants.
2.Buy a water ionizer machine.
With the option to install one in your kitchen or any countertop tap, a water ionizer machine is the next best thing to giving you access to that super healing H20 that gives us all the benefits of drinking alkaline water. As well as dealing with free radicals in our bodies, drinking ionized alkaline water can neutralize the body’s acidic levels and wash out the toxins from your cells. These health boosting properties are achieved by replicating the natural process that bestows those health boosting properties to the water.
Now that sounds like more than just a gimmick.
To your health,
