Alkaline water and benefits? Heart attack and Cancer

Cancer does not like an Alkaline body which I have already spoken about in another previous post. Having had a heart attack and now having leukaemia it is important for me to understand why Alkalinity is important for my health.

After buying a PH test kit I found that my PH was about 6.5 which is not bad when between 7 to 8 is OK optimum being 7.2.

Now the research comes in and it has been another journey finding facts and fiction and no one really agreeing with each other. One thing after another being conflicting and misleading information enough to drive you crazy when searching the Internet for answers.



So let's start with home tap water firstly mentioning that we live in the highlands of Scotland and that our water quite literally comes off the mountains. it's PH being 6.2 around where we live although we would not drink it because of ''What ever else is in there'' and we are much lower down from actual source, but still a fair to good PH reading and its mineral content. Next, test our tap water, surprisingly it was the near same at 6.5 where a water company should be looking at delivering at 7.0 maybe something happens along the pipe run? anyway, it is good.

Can we raise the PH further to 7.5 and drink daily and be safe? Our thoughts went to the Alkaline filter kettle, so we bought one. There is much evidence on the Internet about these gadgets plus the plug in the wall table top models (I am not going to talk about the plug ins, I am staying away from them completely, they scared me already).

Having filtered our tap water it took a PH of it, not I sec in did change extremely fast and after the required dunking time 15 seconds, removed it and already I could see there was a problem, the colour had gone straight up to 9.0 and if I had a chart of the max which is up to 14 I would have said 9.5 to 10 PH way too high to be healthy. I even boiled it to see if any reaction but still the same. For us and now confirmed, we will not be using the device. This by no means that where you live that water filtered from your tap will have the same as ours (If that makes any difference) so just check you PH on both and make your own decision.

I am still not convinced that high or low is detrimental to my health issues so I keep looking for 

information, here is an example of what I call conflicting information or misinformation.

Food is important, Mac Burgers and fat sausages beer and fags maybe the diet of many but for the body, it could do well without and would not miss anything it does not require. Only the receptors in your mind make you eat what you see and smell is also a very good enticer, a nice steak with some fat smells all to good when smelling your neighbour's barbeque. Manufacturers and growers know all this and at any opportunity will use your sensors to make you walk in and buy. You know that coffee shop aroma wafting down the street and a carrot cake waiting for you. 

I cannot any longer enjoy what my senses like but now must move forward to eating a more balanced enriched food source, vegetables and fruit which I am now enjoying a lot more than I ever did, steamed and not boiled anymore and more than 4/5 veg a day, fish which I like anyway, pork chops, bacon (Bye Bye Bacon buttie), some chicken are out and more now as a treat (Organic), nothing processed at all in meats, that has all stopped and lets face it you do not know what is in it anyway.

Our garden has become more veg now and lettuce that bunnies would die for, radish, cabbage, corn, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, peas and beans, onions. Another veg like kale, beetroot I am having an issue growing due to our weather, very wet and low sunshine, must get myself a poly tunnel.

All these foods help with PH balance in the body to create a healthy you. 

I am an engineer by trade Air-conditioning and Catering equipment which includes Ice machines. I have worked on hundreds of Ice machines and seen some nasty stuff growing in them, from pink to green and brown moulds caused by either bad water or lack of disinfection of the machine and always a build up of calcium on the inner water flow parts (Including hot water boilers, Tea/Coffee Urns pretty much anything that water is used for food preparation or drinking. If you are an avid ice machine user then always check or ask if the water is filtered, if you can see behind the machine you will see a cylindrical shape hanging down, that will be the filter, although sometimes they can look like a long cigar in line with the waterline.

Water filters I know something about and have installed many of them. Which brings me to this one and only website that I found that tells me what I have been looking for although I don't quite agree with their 8.0 I certainly would not go any higher than that figure if you were to drink pints per day. I am no way affiliated or endorsing this website for its products but I am endorsing their facts and at last finally found the answer to many questions including their comment on how high alkaline water can affect body organs, one of them being MY HEART. 

https://www.aqualiv.com/the-truth-about-alkaline-water-ionizers-common-misconceptions-about-ph/

A word of caution on any bottled water you buy, it is easy to buy water off the shelf but did you know that the PH can differ quite dramatically so if you are that person, test the waters PH you may have to change it for something less potentially harmful to your organs. 

Have I done my research? you tell me if I am wrong.

I think in my opinion that the food and beverage found on the shelf are not just food but food that is in some way to keep you in a state of illness maybe not right away but some time later and in the future, you will be going to the doctor or worse to the hospital.

Although choice is nice to have, it is causing ourselves great harm, where-else on the planet where food is grown for survival and a supermarket is unheard off, live healthy people.

Rules, regulations, laws, are only guide lines for manufacturers as long as no one dies from their products immediately then it's a free market to make profit and taxes and you are nothing more than a consumer and a patient.

How did I have my heart attack? - How did I get leukaemia?

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Update; 20/07/2017 rather than throw away the kettle I have decided to use it but only with my bicarb drink and that's just a cupful. Seeing it is my night cap and alkalinity is what I need to happen and for the amount of water used it is not harmful to me.