Top Nutrition and Alternative Medicine Myths, Debunked
During my research into health, nutrition and disease prevention, I came across many “truths” preached by the alternative and conventional medicine fields.
Luckily, I’ve learned that you can’t take anything at face value. You have to dig deeper, ask more questions, and get the real truth.
And boy have I found some doozies.
Let’s get to it:
Alkaline Diet
I talked about this in another post. It’s almost a universally accepted, unquestioned truth in the natural medicine community that “cancer cannot survive in an alkaline environment”.
This is true, actually. But, and that’s a big but, food cannot alter the pH of your blood.
Researchers found that in vitro (test tubes and petri dishes), that cancer cells died when exposed to alkaline elements.
But that’s in a test tube. Cancer lives in or near blood, and blood pH is a different story.
Your blood’s pH is tightly regulated to 7.4 — anything below or above that is life-threatening. Alkaline “remedies” won’t move your blood’s pH needle.
So it looks like it’s time to put down the alkaline water.
