Is Alkaline Water Better for Hydration? | Dr. Andrew Huberman 

This clip is from the Huberman Lab episode "How to Optimize Your Water Quality & Intake for Health." The full episode can be found on RU-vid here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-at37Y8rKDlA.html

Fantastic lesson 🎉

Adding inexpensive baking soda to water makes it Alkaline... also adds electrolytes without the added sugar often found in sports drinks.

The last sentence sold it for me

I was told that anything that goes into my gut becomes acidic regardless of PH.

Alkaline water is useful for people with Laryngopharyngeal Reflux (LPR) or silent reflux which can cause Globus sensation and hoarsness of the voice. Pepsin can vaporise and lodge in the throat, ears, nose, larynx and either burn and irritate through reacidification (when eating acidic foods/drinks) or endocytosis where it is shuttled into the golgi apparatus of the cells and causes damage. Water with a PH of 9+ can permanently deactivate any pepsin in those areas until the next reflux event. There are good data to support Alkaline water along with a Mediterranean plant based diet. PPI's which will decrease pepsin volume actually increase pepsin concentration 3x due to hyperplasia of the chief cells.

Thank you 😊

Interesting topic

Hello...at minute 4 you mention evidence of reducing inflammatory response and improve immune system, do you have any articles regarding this topic?

isn't it the negatively charged ions that make kangen healthy?

I have listened to your input on our drinking water, especially the effects of fluoride on my body... just wondering why you didn't mention benefits on old-fashioned benefits of boiling tap water before drinking it. Would like to hear you talk about this

It's been observed that generally- diseased bodies are more acidic than healthy ones. What then, besides water -does- affect or create the acidic (or alkyline) state of one's body?

Revitalized water is where its at! Would love to hear huberman speak on that technology

Would your opinion be that if one has a gastroparesis diagnosis that higher alkaline water could have a positive impact on the disease?

@ethimself5064 1 second ago Curious - Is Hard water of the High PH type? Thanks

I had a friend who fixed her water for some God awful PH and when I took a few sips of her water I felt sick for two days. Felt like I drank hydrogen peroxide. 😢 my tongue felt contaminated as tongues are quite absorbent and hold water more than regular skin. It was horrible.

I buy all my 3 gal jugs of water that's called reverse osmosis. Am i ok w it?

ERW water which is what produced from a water ionizer like Tyent or Kangen produce molecular hydrogen rich water which is the benefit not that its alkaline.

How about all those Hydrogen portable water bottles we see with 3k-5kppm claims? Any benefit to drinking hydrogen water from these devices/bottles and NOT the huge machines just the portable bottles???

Now this is just a teaser for the full episode, I watched it! I am looking for a distillation of useful, useable protocols! You know you and your team can do better. I want to ENJOY the full episodes NOT jut down notes during it.

I have been drinking ionised water for the last 7 months and found it very effective in improving my immunity as everyone around me was getting affected by seasonal flu whereas my family remained unaffected. So not sure how it works but it seems to be effective.

I think nobody really knows tbh, so we have to figure this stuff out for ourselves. The ancestors model is best imo. Of course it may be impossible to figure exactly what our ancestors actually did, but my best guess is: *not* drinking water all day. They probably had water holes where they drank a lot at but consumed most of their water / hydration through foods. It could be fruit or whatever they were coming across. That’s why I believe bringing a piece of fruit with you and eating it through the day is far superior to water. Bottled water is corporate, so of course it’s been pushed excessively. Idk about ph I think it’s almost a silly topic tbh.

What about mineral water?

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Is there evidence that cancer cannot live in an alkaline environment, thus benefits to drinking high ph water? Thank you.

I recommend alkaline water if you have pain in your teeth or facial neuralgia. Also avoid all caffeine.

I love your show, but I'm going to have to push back a bit on this one. The reason is that you didn't bring up any actual studies where people drank actual high pH water and no changes were observed in their actual blood. So, in lieu of such evidence, what I hear when I hear you say this isn't how pH works in the body, is that you have a certain model of how pH works in the body and according to that model high pH water should not be able to change the pH of various systems in the body. However, even if you have some reason to be confident in that model, in order to be truly scientific about it you really have to test it under conditions where people are drinking high pH water. Because if that hasn't been tested, then you're just making assumptions based on a model that was validated under conditions that are unrelated to the condition being speculated about. Additionally, my understanding is that this water is actually widely used in hospitals in Japan, and presumably the Japanese are not taken in by pseudoscience enough to implement this type of water in their hospital systems, so they must have had some form of evidence for it. Lastly, part of the logic behind alkalized water particularly with the kangen machine is that it actually contains more oxygen, that's actually how the process of alkalization happens, so you would also need to demonstrate that people aren't receiving the benefits of additional oxygen being added into the system via this water, if you indeed think that that is the case.

Geez, just pop an Alka-Seltzer, at least you'll get some aspirin with it.

Good to know. I was poo pooing Starbucks for only offering alkaline water

This was taught in chemistry. Don’t know why people fall for false advertisement.

High pH water at Whole Foods is super cheap, you can get 5-gallon jugs filled for like $5 each. It's got a pH of about 9.5 Still looking for a good high-pH water delivery service though.

Grapefruits and pomelos are alkaline :) I’m telling you. We talking wonder foods here

I'd be more interested in low-deuterium water if it were available at a reasonable price.

KNEW IT! Clients of mine that "hydrate" by drinking carbonated water feel significantly less hydrated on a palpable level than clients that hydrate with good ole flat water as nature intended. Stuff you learn doing Massage Therapy

I like that the water has zero fat in it. Much healthier than the tap water out here in my community. They drink the water and they are a bunch of fat heads.

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Alkaline water can be made at home no need to buy expensive water from outside