RE: Alkaline diets – Can you really affect the pH balance of your body with what you eat, to get rid of disease? Do they work at all?

[altherion]

As someone dealing a lot with nutrition I love this post. If there is one thing our body loves its homeostasis, it doesn't want to change anything and especially pH values. Big pH adjustments you will see are in the stomach due to buffering of the ingested food. But our gastric wall quickly secretes gastric acid to reduce it back to pH ~ 2.