The video or transcript provides data I had not seen elsewhere on the full story of acid\/alkaline balance:<\/p>\n
Ari: You just reminded me of something when you mentioned acid acids and bases, something that I feel is almost never talked about. And it has this really interesting controversy around it, which is the idea of eating an acidic versus an alkaline diet. And sort of there\u2019s a surface level conversation that I\u2019ve noticed around this, which is certain people in the general public and certain diet book authors have promoted the idea that that animal foods and processed foods are generally acidic and that unprocessed plant foods, particularly fruits and vegetables, are very alkaline rising. And therefore we alkalise our body by consuming more of those foods and avoiding the acidic foods. And then there are people in evidence base circles, self-proclaimed evidence base circles who yeah, as you call them, evidence based Internet trolls who have said no, that\u2019s a bunch of pseudoscience. All you natural health hippie types have got this all wrong. And actually the body maintains pH very precisely. No matter what you eat. And they will cite data to support that view. And they believe that the case, they rest their case. The idea of the acidic and alkaline stuff has been debunked.<\/p>\n
But what\u2019s interesting is actually there is this body of literature that most of those evidence based Internet trolls don\u2019t seem to be aware of around something called potential renal acid load. And there are a number of studies where they\u2019ve shown that sort of reconciling these two views that foods do seem to have an acidic or alkaline effect on the body. But the body also has buffering mechanisms to maintain pH in a very narrow range despite what we eat, but what we eat also taxes the buffering system in a particular way that can lead to consequences. I\u2019ve actually been exploring the research on how this actually interplays with how we breathe and how we offload. And there\u2019s an interplay of nutrition on breathing habits as well.<\/p>\n