alkaline water ...with lemon 

Y'all I didn't know it was a ProZD sketch I thought it was a copypasta. Ha. Here is the link to the original: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4ZK8Z8hulFg.html Performed better there as well.

If she used an organic lemon it all would have been fine. It's that chemical lemon's fault.

There's something fundamentally wrong when people get mad at you for saying "you've been lied to," but they don't get mad at the person who lied to them.

The fact that pH is log absolutely needed to be specified. I recently worked with a couple guys who were trying to start a small business, pH mattered for the business, they didn't understand that it was logarithmic.

When I was a kid, growing up in Canada, we were taught in school that pretty-much every advertisement is a scam and that the scams all fall into a small number of categories. The categories were described and our homework was to find an example of an ad in each category. The lesson really stuck with me my whole life.

For a second I thought it was just going to be an hour of her saying "Alkaline water...with lemon." with varying levels of despair and exasperation. 😂

I had a friend who asked me if I had any alkaline water, I was confused and told them I have some bicarbonate of soda and tap water, and they were free to mix them if they wanted. They got angry and I started googling my faux pas. I was shocked how much misinformation there was about basic chemistry. That friend stopped speaking to me, because I was "problematic" for understanding bench chemistry and claiming lemons were acidic. They went on to join an MLM.... I suspect there's a connection between people with a looser grip on facts and the desire to drink/sell alkaline water and put essential oils in their kids food....

As a nurse, my heart was so sad for the man saying the water was helping his congestive heart failure. His congestive…heart failure. Which is a disease process that will fail to get off the excess fluids from your heart. These patients are on fluid restrictions! Alkaline water is NOT what you want, dear man 😩

As someone who works for a package delivery company, there is nothing I hate more than companies that ship cases of bottled water. What an incredible waste of packaging, fuel, and effort. And there are some psychos who order like six cases at a time. My brother in christ, pipes were invented for a very specific purpose - to deliver liquids in an efficient and convenient manner. Please use them.

I found out the fact with turmeric when I spilled a bunch on the floor one time and I used a cleaning solution to clean up. Everything turned an extreme red and I go “no way, is turmeric a pH indicator??” And then I shared it with all the people I love in my life and their reaction was 🦗🦗

Also I love the baby formula rant. It is crazy that all the overpriced snake oil BS is always available but the stuff you actually really need to survive is de-prioritized by huge multinational corporations.

Shout out to the guy that spent 20 YEARS dehydrated and discovered his body feels better with three glasses of water a day. Too bad he thinks he needs to buy fancy water for the magical effects of being hydrated.

I once had an internship at an oil refinery where there was an alkaline water dispenser in the pantry, together with some pseudo-scientific poster from that manufacturer about how 'blood acidity' causes cancers, hypertension, etc. It's been 12 years, and i still think about the chemical engineers who would queue to fill take-home bottles everyday.

Oh man, when you were talking about the dude in Whole Foods, I couldn't help remember the time I was in the natural food store, and he came in crying that he had eaten everything right all these years and today he was diagnosed with cancer, and it just kind of hit me how all this talk about superfoods, etc was affecting people.

I actually did a water taste test study as my science fair project in high school. I used like a dozen different brand (and tap water from the school), and served them in identical paper cups, which I randomized before serving. They definitely DO taste different. almost everyone could identify which one was the tap water, and quite a few correctly identified their brand of choice. Beyond that, the results were roughly U-shaped, plotting preference vs price. If I were to do another iteration, I would want to try to evaluate the impacts of familiarity and novelty. Personally, a number of the more expensive waters tasted bad, but I did observe some reactions like "that tastes fancy," as opposed to "I like this taste." But there is *definitely* a noticeable difference, which I would assume comes down to the filtration techniques and the specific minerals added for taste.

I was in the middle of having a stroke when my friend put this video on for me and it cured me completely. I've watched this video every day since and it's really given me more energy and fixed my chronic tendinitis!

I really felt the "chemistry brain vs physics brain" thing with H+ ions lol. Over the summer I was doing research on proton conducting oxides and H+ ions and protons were both used in the papers I read and even though I knew they were the same thing it scrambled my brain a little 😅

Lots of people have the physics-brain/chemistry-brain problem. I was sharing some lovely sour lemonade with a SCIENTIST friend, and made the comment “Hmm. You can really taste those protons!” This upset him tremendously: “No. Surely protons are too small to detect with your tastebuds! That can’t be right!” etc.

1:01 For a second I thought the whole video was going to be you saying "alkaline water... with lemon" and ngl I'd still watch it.

39:09 "water does not have memory" boy do I have a system of medicine for you

FWIW, Liquid Death is largely meant for teetotalers like me to have something to drink while fitting in at parties and events. I went to a prog-metal concert a few weeks ago, and it was perfect. It absolutely does NOT need to be consumed on the regular.

You should do EMF protection devices next! I just got an ad for a company called “Conscious Copper”. For the low price of $88 plus shipping and tax, you can protect everything in a 500ft radius from spooky 5G fields using a 1.5 cm square of copper with a grid etched in one side. And their wearable necklace has quantum!

Another funny thing about the sale of "alkaline water" is that roughly half of the UK has naturally alkaline water, because the water passes through limestone before entering the reservoirs from which it gets processed into tap water. Basically, if your kettle or steam iron or whatever accumulates limescale, then you have alkaline tap water. I have no idea what proportion of the USA has naturally alkaline tap water.

In terms of packaged water, I think Liquid Death fills an important niche. The idea is you have something in your hand that's kind of fun looking and seems vaguely like a beer, so if you're at a party or something, people don't feel the need to get an alcoholic drink into your hand

I’m convinced a lot of these people are chronically dehydrated & just experiencing the health/energy effects of drinking a healthy amount of water for once

Love the deadpan delivery of sarcasm combined with genuine care and respect for the victims of quantum scams.

This is like the kind of rants I get on personally. Which is nice because it isn't me ranting, it's some else. I find her disposition extremely relatable.

Long form, comedic science content and ProZD references 😂 This might be one of my new, favorite channels.

One of my favorite water scams, and it turns out that it's still around, is Penta Water. They no longer make the claims that started the scam. Now, it's just "pure" water but their original scam was that the H2O molecules were aligned into a 5 molecule arrangement in the shape of a pentagon, hence the "Penta" in its name. This alignment was beneficial to the body absorbing "penta water" and hence providing faster hydration than regular chaotic water. I corresponded with them for a while trying to get them to point to ANY research even remotely suggesting that LIQUID H2O can be arranged into any kind of organization like this. Then they started changing their marketing likely due to getting on some state DA's radar rather than my inquiries.

I sort of wasn't paying attention to the title, but when you went to town hammering "alkaline water with lemons" it finally hit me... I ended up holding my head in disbelief... 😂

I have a condition called GERD, which is basically chronic heartburn, and I was spending a lot of time in GERD discussion groups right around the time when the whole alkaline diet thing was really big. As heartburn is caused by stomach acid and is often exacerbated by consuming acidic food/drink, a lot of people in the group were interested in it, but people kept getting confused by the lists of alkaline foods people pushing the diet put out cos it would include things like lemon and other citrus in the "alkaline" list. With a bit of reading into it it turns out that when they say "alkaline food" it's actually based on the idea that certain foods make the body more acidic or alkaline when they're digested and processed by it and has very little to do with it's acidity outside the body. But of course it's very unclear and confusing, which is why you get shit like this where people think putting lemon in alkaline water will make it more alkaline.

I’m a professional hairstylist and in the simplest terms possible, yes understanding acids and bases is the foundation of basically all hair color (along with understanding color values). Most of the stylists I know still rely on some charts + rules of thumb + just working off a couple memorized formulations because the majority of us are NOT math people but I will say quite a few of my colleagues and I got a kick out of the whole “alkaline water with lemon” thing

I love your channel. (Disclosure, I have a PhD in chemistry and work in the field) I wanted to lose weight and improve my diet, so I asked an MD I trust for a serious dietician. She made a meal plan that made sense along with some strange propositions. Among them was the "alkaline diet". I didn't argue with the lady, I didn't see the point. But I was curious and looked for where the claim comes from. There is actually a fad of people arguing that certain foods, after digested, have alkaline, neutral or acidic metabolites (their pka). The more alkaline one's diet, the healthier it is. Insert black box between cause and consequence. It surprised me further that there is iffy research done on the topic. When I was taught physiology, the body does an incredible job at keeping a pH, keeping very tight concentrations of each ion using many systems, chief among them the urinary system. There are metabolic maps, etc. So I wanted to understand. What is the metabolite of lemon that can possibly have a high pka, hence be alkaline. Turns out this crowd uses an "ash test". They literally burn the foodstuff, add to water and measure the pH! That's it. This is not how a compound is digested (or simply flies by to be excreted) in the body. Because blood pH is carefully kept constant, this community checks the effect of certain diets on the pH of urine as a proxy and try to make the connection between the ash test, the alkaline/neutral/acidic foods the urine pH and the immensely complex black box that could be going on in the blood, organs, cells, etc etc. I'm getting old and tired...so I just brushed it away as more nonsense, from the "fats are bad" then "sugars are bad" and the endless lack of rigour and inconsequential dangerous decisions made in human nutrition that gave us so many problems. Well, I never saw the dietician again. Her diet plan made sense: cut the rubbish, eat real foods, etc. But I was so disappointed she followed the alkaline diet hypothesis, follows a master's degree on it in an accredited Nutritional Sciences Department, that I simply try to eat my veggies, cut on the high calorie stuff and exercise....

Love the tap water promotion. You can even make it alkaline and disgusting by mixing in baking soda, which does work decently as a quick remedy for heartburn.

I was walking through my company's cafeteria and saw Liquid Death sparkling water and thought of this video. You keep dropping hints in your videos about the climate crisis. You're such a gifted story teller and communicator. I think you'd be great at doing a deep dive into this topic, especially with the latest article from James Hansen et al. that just came out. I love all of your content. Keep on keeping on.

I like to add a little sprinkle of non-GMO pink Himalayan salt to my alkaline water with lemon.

Water tasting bad actually can have negative health effects, because it makes people drink less water. But like... the flavour of water is just whatever profile of minerals it has. Bottled water is just water from somewhere else with different minerals. The minerals themselves are in such tiny quantities that they're not going to affect your health, they just taste a bit different.

Please don't change. The lack of pretense, the lack of a practiced fake RU-vid voice. This is what vlogs should be like. It's easier to take you seriously this way. Also, you win at sarcasm.

A note on how popular bottled water is - until last year I ran the on-campus convenience stores for a US university. The biggest seller across all categories that we had were 20oz bottles of water (started as a coke campus, then became a pepsi campus, so it was true with both Dasani and Aquafina). We sold more 20oz bottles of water than all varieties and sizes of sodas combined. It was staggering.

At work, we had a music festival. After they left us 3 pallets of canned and boxed water. "Music Water" Austin, TX city water-reverse osmosis, "Box Water" revs osmo, and "Liquid Death" shipped from Austrian Alps-unfiltered. The Liquid Death tasted best and has the best marketing, but they are all just water, like in the toilet.

I got the joke from the thumbnail, and I'm still so happy to have watched the entire video. You are great. Thank you for showing the general public just how batshit crazy these claims are, in such a funny and educational way.

As someone who got the joke almost right away, I still stuck around to watch you stretch out the explanation over the next 13 minutes, and I must say I quite enjoyed it.

really enjoying this video so far! A minor complaint RE: transitional double-splash noise i do appreciate the Deep Bit Integration very much! however, something about the execution is quite jarring to me. i wouldn't normally leave such nit-picky feedback, but l'm enjoying the rest of the video So Much that the splash noise coming in like a wrecking ball is so tragic and pretty fixable (i think! i don't know how much spare energy you have to devote to fiddling with sound mixing.) anyway- thanks for sharing your research/knowledge in such an engaging, non-condescending way. looking forward to seeing more of your work ✨

Knowing that the pH scale is logarithmic has finally made it make sense in my head. I never understood why you could drink lemon juice and be fine even though it’s so close to stuff like hydrochloric acid on the scale.

I do actually like essential oils for the smells, but it’s cause I like making my own perfume 😂. But honestly this kinda stuff is so cathartic. My parents and a…bad…ex believe all this and regularly try to rope me in, so it’s nice to have a kind but sassy channel to go to to remind me I’m not crazy

Going to start my own trend of acidic water... with a dash of beetroot

There is only one reason to drink alkaline water. To treat heartburn or reduce acid on your teeth immediately after drinking something slightly acidic. When it gets into your stomach it's not going to help. But lingering acid on teeth and esophagus would help. It's such a narrow path of helpfulness.

Strongly agree about the proton versus hydrogen +1. Heck even Hydrogen +0 is just a proton and electron, but I still think "You are an element and elements are atoms and how dare you sell hydrogen short by not using it's name."

My physics brain can’t reconcile the H+ being the same as a Proton thing either, but it doesn’t really matter because when chemists say there’s “H+” in the water what they’re actually saying is that there’s a compound called hydronium in aqueous solution. Hydronium being H3O+, it’s just shorthand to say H+. Loved the video great work!

For added hilarity, basically all domestic tap water (in the US, no idea about international standards) is alkaline due to EPA guidelines. Mainly because keeping the water somewhat alkaline helps to reduce corrosion in the pipes. Where I am it's kept between 8.5 and 9 or so and it costs about .2 cents per gallon. Which is, uh, slightly cheaper than flow.

Idk why the water splash brings out a primal rage within me

I once had a teammate in a class that worked in a water treatment plant here in Colorado. We were doing an engineering class where are team project was focused on drinkable water. They have something like 5 stages of treatment going on to ensure water quality, it's tested for heavy metals, hydrocarbons, bacteria levels and so on. They do so much work to deliver safe water in many municipalities. I appreciate that my tax paying dollars go to have drinkable clean water for all!

I’m sorry in advance. I haven’t read all the comments, I haven’t even finished the video. I’m SURE someone has already said what I’m about to, and it’s not to take anything away from this awesome video. I loved the explanation of pH and log scales (also, I was today years old when I learned milk is slightly acidic, for some reason I always thought it was basic!), but I think there’s a more direct route to explaining the joke: if you put enough lemon in your magic water to *taste* the lemon, then you’ve made it “pleasantly acidic”. I guess that’s how you know it’s working haha!

I can't wait for my family to ignore all the evidence in this 1h video I'm digesting right now. I should probably have some lemon and alkaline water to help

"this is for the people that go to a restaurant and ask what the name of the lamb was" absolutely and completely killed me. For weeks to come I will wake up to nightmares of this kind of people

The Acollierastro new vid day has arrived. Life is good.

My favorite backhanded insult is in Kurt Vonnegut's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater", where Elliot Rosewater's father responds to a man 's stating "I know where I'm not wanted" with "I imagine you've had plenty of chances to learn". My new second favorite is "Why would you remember 25 minutes of 8th grade?".

"I've slept on it, and it's fine. It's okay." -best influencer ever

I absolutely love how angry the water splashing sound effect is. I can hear your frustration, and i share it

As a person with a degree in chemistry, from an accredited school, and patents for chemical processes, I just want to say that you completely forgot about plasma water. And you were doing SO well! ; )

The first plot is sooo much better lol it conveys the message

"This water is for people who go to a restaurant and ask what the lamb's name was." F'n hilarious! She is among my favorite scientists. Two biggest takeaways: "I am a physicist. This is bullsh*t!," and, "It's just water!"

When I moved to SF for a doctoral nursing program... I remember going to the grocery store and seeing alkaline water. I was both entertained and horrified; its also hilarious that people think our kidneys will not absolutely balance out some barely alkaline intake and ensure homeostasis... can you imagine how careful we would need to be if eating mildly acidic/alkaline foods/fluids could actually impact our systemic acid-base balance... EDIT: I should learn to finish watching videos before I comment... I love these videos.

It's so refreshing(lol) for ppl to call Gwinneth Paltrough on her bs, when I saw the title of the video, I was like that Gwynneth isn't it? And felt every exasperated sigh in my soul, deffo earned a new sub, love the way you explain stuff

I had an online statistics professor who made a point of coloring the y axis and marking the small ticks in bold when they used a log plot. It was ugly and it kind of irritated me .... _but_ ... I *never* mistook it for a linear plot. all those small ticks piiling up as they approached a large tick was a visual dead giveaway.

I can not believe you made an entire hour of pure knowledge out of "I drink alkaline water with a bit of lemon in it" Everything about this is so funny

i live in mexico so i literally cannot drink anything that isn't bottled water because our government doesn't give a crap and doesn't want to invest in drinkable water, it comes out as mud sometimes. and gives all our water to industries to the point our water supply is sometimes cut up to save up water but the only ones that don't have to do this saving water are industrial plants. feels like we're getting held ransom and forced to buy our own available water.

I lost it when I read the title of this video, loved it all the way through, and lost it again at the end with the ProZD reference. How did I not know about this channel before?

🎶The best part of making plots Is choosing log or not🎶

Who wants to buy my $200 crystalized water? [Gestures at fancy ice machine]

Dying easter eggs with boiled purple cabbage is fun because you can get many different shades of red to blue by changing the amount of vinegar added to the solution.

The 42 minute mark is totally true and something I wish more people talked about, lol. I grew up without clean water in eastern KY, where we had to use purified water (usually we got huge jugs and filled them up at Walmart). The water where I'm at now (SoCal) is safe to drink, but I worry about the lead pipes in the old house I'm in now. Most of the people that can afford to buy bottled water don't actually need to buy it because they live in places with clean water + non-lead pipes. However, instead of worry about lead pipes or pollution from factories - a lot of people drink purified water because of the added fluoride or some shit.

I'm seriously considering changing my ringtone to QUANTUM QUANTUM. Sounds like a pokemon.

"it's hard to tell how my cells are doing" love it

Plots on a log are my favorite way to eat celery

24:26 "She has a basic misunderstanding on how the human body" I really hope that was intentional >

It’s so funny you used that king of the hill clip, that’s literally what my brain uses to remember what not to mix

It never fails ... at some point during one of these hour long videos there is some line that causes me, without warning, to burst in to hysterical laughter that threatens to suffocate me. In this video that moment came at 25:24 with the line "you can only have the one kind [of baby formula] ... because otherwise the baby has hives and a fever" ... that was it ... i probably have not laughed that hard in 5 years ... unless you are counting other acollierastro videos. ... so thanks acollierastro... i needed that. Full disclosure: im a parent, i know what happens when you "change brands" of baby formula. In real time i have empathy for people ... and i agree that capitalism sucks ... and i know that struggling parents and suffering children are not humane subjects for humor. but when the old saying says "some day we will look back on this and laugh"? ... well for me that day is today ... so please let me have this. 🙏

I was over at a friend's house and wanted some water. He did not let me drink it out of the tape. Instead, he put the water in a blender, with magnets on each side to 'demagnetize' the water. At least it was free.

Lmao this video is the equivalent of writing a 25 page essay to answer your 5yo’s question about how we can open and close our hands, instead of saying “bones give your hand a shape and muscles give it movement”

2:32 This is a common problem in my field where whenever we have to do literature review for refractive indices of materials, if it comes from a chemistry journal i know for a fact it will usually be λ=589 nm so I have to dig until I find the rare physics letter which has actual dispersion information on materials

i didn't realize this was an hour until 20 minutes in this is great

tldw: putting lemon juice, an acid, into alkaline water, makes the water not alkaline anymore

The ProZD reference at the end is very much appreciated

I wish there were more people like her on internet and our schools helping us out spoting falacies. Thankyou silent science hero.

Paltrow's career path from actress to con-artist is quite intriguing

You're a recent discovery for me and I've been enjoying the content. I've also recently become concerned about micro-plastics in tap water. Most plumbing these days is PVC and PEX, and I was wondering if you had any thoughts about aging PVC pipes decaying and releasing plastics into our drinking water. If you already talk about microplastics in another video, I'll probably find it before too long. Keep up the good work young lady.

Am far too old to care what I look like but if there was an advert for water that promised to make me as smart and funny as acollierastro... not gonna lie, even though it is a scam, I would be tempted.

I'm not much of a health professional at all but I think some of the people taking the magnesium "add more hydrogen to your water" pills are probably benefiting from the magnesium going into their diet. I remember learning in my Anatomy class that most people have a magnesium deficiency, which can cause all sorts of problems like pain, fatigue, spasms, etc. Taking a quick look at Amazon, most of these pills have 80mg of Magnesium, which is 19% of the DV for males (420mg) and 25% of the DV for females (320mg). So that may help lots of people reach their recommended dose. It's unfortunate though that they associate the benefits with the alkalinity of the water or whatever they think is causing any benefits when in reality it's most likely a mix of placebo and proper amounts of magnesium in the diet, the latter of which can be fixed without a reliance on sus pills off the internet.

As a someone who was pandemic front liner with a background in public health the whole log/linear thing pissed me off to no end. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE GARY THATS WHAT THE PLOT MEANS this is not the tine to talk about how the ignorant public should have been taught math better

American videos about water controversies always make me deeply aware of the differences between how drinking water works around the world. I live in Rio de Janeiro, and here (I know it's the same in all major, urban Brazilian cities like São Paulo and Salvador) we cannot drink tap water, because it's pretty much always contaminated. When I first learned of the issue in Flint, MI I was confused as to what was going on, I thought everywhere was always like that. Then I learned most people in America and Europe actually drink tap water and was mindblown. Here in Rio, in middle and upper-middle class homes (what I'm familiar with), everyone just has a water purifier at home (sidenote: it seems in America there's a difference between pitcher water filter and water purifier, I'm talking about the one that's not like a plastic jug, I've never seen one of those in my life). In smaller, rural towns I've seen it's common to drink tap water, and most bottle water brands claim they collect spring water from highly fetishized small towns in rural Brazil (I suspect they also just bottle the tap water there and sell it for an outrageous profit margin in the big cities). People usually only buy bottled water right after they move and haven't yet installed their purifier (we just call it a "filter") or when they are not home, since you usually have no other option at like school or work, since drinking water fountains are usually very poor quality even in the richest places (don't know what's the politics of water fountains in America lol). Great video, btw!

I'm a physicist and not a nutrition specialist, so naturally I had Mann-Gell amnesia watching this video. My reaction to the first 13 minutes was: the nutritional value of foods is not effected by their PH, but by their components, like minerals and such. But watching further I realised you are reacting to some bullshit diet fad in the U.S. that completely uneffects the middle eastern country I live in because we don't have time for made up problems. But good for you for countering bullshit claims in an interesting and informative way. Hell, you could probably talk for two hours about paint drying and I'd happily watch. Keep up the good work!

I love these type of debunking videos cause the ads are always for something either getting debunked or tangentially related

I learned of these perils as a child once when I went to a restaurant that allowed me to mix in any flavoring with any beverage. Since I liked both, I ordered a cola and chose chocolate. Alas! It tasted bland, gritty, and generally horrible. I think what happened is that the chocolate liquid contained calcium, which reacted with the carbonic acid in the cola to create calcium carbonate, a.k.a. limestone, a.k.a. chalk xD

Genuinely funny and entertaining plus legitimately educational. You're gonna get hella famous and I feel excited for you!

Just stumbled across your channel and living these videos, your attitude and approach is perfect and makes me laugh 😂

Ugh. I can’t believe I’m about to fanboy out, but, your channel has become one of my favorites. You’re an amazing person. You’re so smart and witty. Your videos are interesting and educational. (I’m mainly into edutainment these days.) Your teaching style is amazing. I wish I had had more teacher like you when I was in school. I’ve subscribed. I’m poor at the moment so I can’t Patreon, but #goals 😂

“It’s just water. It’s a scam. It makes me sad”. 😂

Here we go! You just made my Sunday. 👏

Gosh I remember someone telling me tomatoes are alkaline years ago because they turn alkaline in the bloodstream and it bugged the crap out of me because I know they're acidic and was talking about how acidic foods upset my stomach. I spent 5 minutes googling this stuff to find out it doesn't matter and I should continue being wary of acidic foods because of my f'd up stomach.