Digestive Health – –
In Japan and Korea, ionized alkaline water is prescribed by doctor for treatment of chronic, mild digestive upset. The US FDA hasn’t reviewed alkaline water’s digestive benefits, nor is it likely to. The cost of having the FDA review a new medicine is over a billion dollars!
Clinical studies conducted in Japan showed that an average of 88% of patients who drank alkaline water got full or partial relief of their symptoms of digestive upset. The studies showed that drinking alkaline water with a pH of 9.5 or greater raised the pH of the stomach by as much as 1 pH, leading researchers to conclude that alkaline water is a mild antacid. Keep in mind, the pH scale is logarithmic, so an increase of 1 pH is a 10-fold increase in alkalinity!
