alkaline water ...with lemon

[@acollierastro]

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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aouuaY1undqffMk Performed better there as well.

[@bangboom123]

It was still funny though.

[@soganox]

After this great explanation on all the water shenanigans it really fit so well.

[@topg7490]

why did you say twitter is dead? twitter isnt dead

[@burningchrome8622]

talk about the church of jesus christ of laterday saints next pleez or what ever u feel like

[@ryanm21212]

I was like "I swear I've seen this bit already"

[@sowercookie]

What I'm learning from all of this is that people don't drink enough water, and as soon as they do they start feeling better. Too bad it's 1000 dollar quantum lemon water with added hydrogen

[@Ithirahad]

Sometimes I munch on a bit of lemon and I feel better. My teeth don't; they're slowly dying inside and outside, but eh. Lemons are nice and water is life. And woo-woo is woo-woo.

[@LimeyLassen]

This reminds of children who are tricked into eating vegetables because they're cut into dinosaur shapes or whatever.

[@vitormelomedeiros]

Who would've thought? Drinking enough water makes you feel better.

[@niranjannidhi]

Sometimes you just have to pay more to get that organic hydrogen

[@karmabeast]

Exactly! Just drink a ton of water if you think you're not drinking enough. Sure, slap some lemon juice in it if you like the taste! Just don't support scammers like Gwyneth Paltrow selling you $1000 ph 10 pussy juice water.

[@innovativeatavist159]

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. 😂

[@private1177]

I want that. Would def watch 10h of that.

[@oatmealeverymorning]

It would make a good sticker, "this is my alkaline water...with lemon"

[@coolsenjoyer]

That would be perfect Patreon bonus content

[@RaineInChaos]

I did too, and was disappointed for a moment lol

[@thetimebinder]

Would have been a great short

[@FhtagnCthulhu]

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

[@bencooper2722]

Lemichal if you will

[@ChronicAndIronic]

5g vaccine lemons

[@michaelallen1432]

It's those hard glassy silicon based lemons that are the problem.

[@systemoftubes]

Yep, definitely should have used “basic” lemons.

[@AdrianBoyko]

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.

[@claudiaarjangi4914]

@AdrianBoyko Me too, in Australia 🇦🇺 .. Before we left year 6 ( 11- 12 yrs old ) our teacher did a whole lesson on questioning the motives of & not falling for ads , & don't hire-purchase etc 🧐.. 🤔Always thought it was sorta obvious though ( seeing people's motives etc )😁☮️🌏

[@isaacdalziel5772]

I would love to know this info

[@kaemincha]

Your school taught you about scams and advertising? The US tries to avoid that as much as possible lol It would be WW3 if schools tried to implement that kind of curriculum (despite needing it desperately)

[@halfstep44]

In the US we literally consume advertising in the classroom, and we do so completely uncritically. I love my country but there's an example of how we could improve

[@AdrianBoyko]

@@halfstep44 How is it consumed in the classroom?

[@mcolville]

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.

[@KillahMate]

It's sad that the human brain works like that, but unfortunately it does. One of the many caveats to the notion that humans are rational beings.

[@DoNotPushHere]

@@KillahMate I bet it has its evolutionary advantage. Why would you trust new contradictory information instead of what you "know" already? The true fail is not wanting to see the facts, but the initial rejection seems pretty natural to me, and very sensible in most environments, or at least in those not involved with wicked minds setting traps to their peers

[@candyh4284]

@@DoNotPushHere this is a good perspective that I'd bet is accurate to some degree. Rather than "we're easy to lie to and we dig in our heels w/rt information," I'd guess it's more of "we're incredibly good at lying and manipulating people."

[@DoNotPushHere]

@@candyh4284 sadly yes... At least, to each other. I was thinking of animal species baiting and deceiving one another, but not between individuals of the same species, as far as I know...

[@pinec0ne]

"Humans are not trust-seeking machines"

[@bengrace8808]

I used to work front end retail, and we'd occasionally get in alkaline water. One time a child of a customer purchasing a bottle asked, "what's alkaline mean?" The parent responded, "more pure."

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Just tell them alkaline comes from Arabic and they'll stop drinking it... I wish this was a joke but it'd probably work on them.

[@inerkatakan8161]

but we already have that its destillied water and you shouldn't exactly drink it in masses

[@agnelomascarenhas8990]

Caustic knowledge 😂😂😂

[@uwandaroberts9897]

drunk it everyday for the last 4 years. I rather drink distilled water than the shit that comes out the tap

[@inerkatakan8161]

@@uwandaroberts9897 * laughs in getting alpine water straight out the tap *

[@Markfr0mCanada]

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.

[@Markfr0mCanada]

15:33 yeah, we were using those things. Admittedly the 13 and 14 are hard to tell apart because they're both dark purple, but the guys seemed to think it was linear, that by 12 they were most of the way there, would add a bit more, get impatient, call it good enough. It involved mushrooms, we had serious contamination issues any time anyone but me handled shit. Really annoying. So yes, people need to be told that it's logarithmic.

[@lightmorrison5404]

Soaking substrate in alkaline water? Can you explain more

[@Markfr0mCanada]

@@lightmorrison5404 Sure, apparently mushroom spores don't mind a high PH, but things like mold do. It was a low energy, therefore cheap, way to sterilize the straw we were growing the mushrooms in. Any time I did the process using measures quantities based on calculation the system worked. Any time either the guy who was baked all the time did it or the guy who thought he could run a business by cutting a nickle here and a penny there did it we lost batches of product to mold contamination.

[@Markfr0mCanada]

@@lightmorrison5404 Looks like my reply didn't post (unless it's being filtered for some reason). Anyways, typing this out again, apparently mushroom spores don't mind high PH, but contaminants like mold do, so it's a cheap way to sterilize the straw. When done with calculated and measured amounts it worked reliably. When done by someone impatient who is baked and thinks measuring things is boring, or when done by someone who is also impatient and thinks that business success is cutting a nickle here and a penny there, contamination happens and entire batches are lost.

[@felixthehuman]

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.

[@萧沿沿]

Man, imagine if the STEM subject classes at school teach kids by debunking a grifter crank every new topic. Everybody would love science just to show off to their parents and grandparents.

[@brewswillas6635]

I agree, but unfortunately if you show up the parents and grandparents too much, they'll just find a way to outlaw that school of thought.

[@allenaxp6259]

@@brewswillas6635 Very true here in Florida. No independent thought, its against the law here.

[@bulldozer8950]

“Ok so next semester you’re signed up for chem, and the semester after that you’re going to take science grifter debunking 101 sound good?”

[@richardarriaga6271]

​@@allenaxp6259Also Texas. A city there closed the libraries and replaced them with discipline centers.

[@brewswillas6635]

@@allenaxp6259 Wisconsin isn't much different, but our coats of willful ignorance are made of thicker material to protect us in the frozen tundra.

[@sadielappin8862]

I will say, from my understanding,, Liquid Death water is sold like that not because they're trying to seem better than tap water, but so people who don't want to drink alcohol at parties and concerts can look like they're holding a can of beer. It's kind of nice, imo, bc it's weird how much people push back when you say you don't want to have a drink at an Event.

[@alexroselle]

Wow, I never even thought about this, even as I’m someone who sometimes gets self-conscious drinking Liquid Death water when driving because it looks like a tall can of beer

[@thepapschmearmd]

That is the reason. Kind of sad though that someone has to drink water that looks like alcohol so they don’t get judged.

[@PigeonLaughter01]

​@thepapschmearmd but now at the park I get judged! 😂

[@rainbowraver666]

also the flavored ones are just really tasty tbh?? highly recommend the mango one 👀👀

[@Mossy5150]

Bingo, this was an explicit part of their marketing and design, to have a club-friendly water that didn't make you look like a dork. ALSO, putting a large serving of water in a can with a small opening makes it more safe than a wide-mouth glass if you're worried about someone putting something in your drink, plus no glass/plastic because they're aluminum. Great example of a product designed entirely around form-factor.

[@mshepard2264]

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.

[@MrJethroha]

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.

[@thetimebinder]

I did postmates. Bottled water is also a pain in the ass the carry and deliver. Big, heavy, not stable. A big heavy box is easy. A case of bottled water sucks.

[@nitehawk86]

And even if you do need to get bottled water for whatever reason, get it locally ffs. Even buying from the grocery store allows them to use the economies of scale in their distribution network, instead of individual trucks dispatched to every house.

[@nitehawk86]

@@thetimebinderAlso its cheap, so I suppose you didn't get paid well for it?

[@thetimebinder]

@@nitehawk86 We got paid by mileage, not weight. Picking up 96 bottles of water from Walmart and taking them up three flights of stairs 1/4 mile into a mega apartment complex in 110° F Phoenix heat isn't fun.

[@something-from-elsewhere]

Literally the only way I would ever get bottle water is as one of those big five gallon bottles for emergencies (And then I prolly jus. Buy the bottle and fill it at home lol)

[@ramzikawa734]

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 🦗🦗

[@sammiller6631]

Only two?

[@varunramakrishnan7676]

Only two people in his life @@sammiller6631

[@walterkruse348]

For what it's worth, I think that's pretty cool.

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

I used to help clean the kitchen after dinner when I was in my teens, and my parents would often have a glass of wine with the meal. It's almost impossible never to spill any wine on the counter (usually a drop or two from the lip of the bottle will just make their way down onto the counter), and that is how I discovered that red wine is a pH indicator when I would clean it with 409. I later learned that it's the same chemical that you find in any red produce, like red cabbage, which we actually used in science class once.

[@NoriMori1992]

Their reaction was grasshopper…?

[@zachlimb2871]

I’m a music major who thought they would become a physicist as a kid. I love science and your videos are really interesting and fun to watch!

[@anonymousfibonacci]

Don’t worry, you’re still a physicist! You’re constantly experimenting with harmonics :)

[@cheek1726]

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.

[@seanbeadles7421]

To be fair we all drink tons more acid than bases

[@samblackstone3400]

@@seanbeadles7421 If that acid is making it through the immense buffering capacity of your body fluids then you must be drinking gallons of soda a day. In my opinion the best advantage of this alkaline stuff is that it doesn’t destroy your teeth like acidic sodas do.

[@cheek1726]

@@seanbeadles7421 how would dietary sources of acid cause health problems, when our blood is a buffer solution that can maintain blood pH by itself? Acidosis is a symptom of bigger health problems like a poor respiratory system, or renal failure, and these issues will land you in front of a doctor before you start realizing that your blood can dissolve steel.

[@pahvi3]

​@@seanbeadles7421Unless it gives you heartburn or destroys your teeth it literally doesn't matter. It might even be good for you (you'll get fewer UTI's!

[@pahvi3]

​@@samblackstone3400Many things can at least make your pee more acidic, but soda probably doesn't because the reason it's acidic is mostly CO2 which gets out pretty fast, neutralising the soda (except for coke, which has a lot of phosphoric acid)

[@kayloiio]

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 😩

[@Yordleton]

let's hope their shortness of breath was caused by cramps from not drinking enough water 🙃

[@YayComity]

It illustrates that there are real human costs for condoning this ignorance and exploitation of stupidity (intentional or not). We'll never know if this person's life was shortened or even ended from this. It's (not) fine. .. Thanks for commenting Kayla. Thanks for the in-depth thoughtful video Angela.

[@eleSDSU]

But is alkaline water with lemon, the lemon makes all the difference /j Charlatans who push this sort of panacea should be drawn and quartered.

[@MichaelMarquez-m3b]

I remember when my father was dying of congestive heart failure I had to measure how much water he was allowed to drink.

[@rmdodsonbills]

I take solace from the statement that the doctor thought the congestive heart failure diagnosis was incorrect and hope maybe he was just dehydrated. I don't have any reason to think that dehydration could be mistaken for congestive heart failure, though. Or maybe, there wasn't actually any guy behind that review at all and it was just an imposter paid to write fake reviews. But, yeah, if it's real... yikes.

[@Ayshafr]

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 😅

[@HerbaMachina]

this further complicates when you realize PH has nothing particularly specific about just being H+ ions and is really just a measure of the overall ionic charge of a fluid, but just gets simplified to H+ ions, but other dissolved ions do infact change the Ph level without the use of any H+ ions or OH- ions.

[@ailblentyn]

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.

[@JulianSildenLanglo]

That's a good one! I'll have to use it sometime.

[@WaluigiisthekingASmith]

Wait till they learn about solvated electrons.

[@SnoFitzroy]

"eating sour food is electrocuting myself," I say as I pry my third eye open with a crowbar

[@petevenuti7355]

​@@WaluigiisthekingASmith spicy solvated electrons!!! Sounds painful...

[@Matty002]

​@@SnoFitzroy it literally shocks our body into face spasms 😄

[@El_Rey_247]

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.

[@tinabean713]

That sounds about right. It could also be due to naturally occurring minerals, at least in the case of spring water. I can't remember if it was America's Test Kitchen or Consumer Reports that reviewed bottled water many years back and reported that people thought Evian tasted rocky. It's my favorite, but I hardly ever buy it. The tap water where I live tastes a lot better than it used to, and if you buy a bottle of Nestle Pure Life around here, chances are it's from my town's municipal supply, which is super weird because we're known for chemical plants, refineries and pollution, not producing water you'd happily pay way too much for at the theater.

[@Kardinull]

​@@tinabean713it's Nestlé...

[@jooot_6850]

Evian and Fiji water taste like mud.

[@tinabean713]

@@jooot_6850 I hate 'mineral water', but I love still water that apparently lots of other people think tastes like rocks or mud. To each their own.

[@Tondadrd]

@@KravMagoo Haha I take this as a reference to the scandal: "Nestlé extracts millions of litres from their land, residents have no drinking water" Where the Nestlé CEO said: "Water is a human right" while forcing locals to pay for it.

[@grilledflatbread4692]

My sister has been drinking alkaline water for an esophagus issue (i don't know, it was a real ENT). My first thought was also just stirring baking soda into tap water because I mean it's dumb to waste energy carrying water around in trucks. Nice to see someone else thought the same

[@NM-wd7kx]

Did it actually help with her issue? because I can see a softer (naturally acidic) water aggravating a mouth/throat issue

[@isomeme]

Chemist here. That "soapy texture" of alkaline solutions is actually a soapy texture of you. An alkaline solution in contact with body tissues (like skin or mouth lining) converts the fats in those tissues into soap in a reaction called saponification. In fact, people used to create home-made soap by treating animal fat with lye (a highly concentrated aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide, e.g. NaOH). A small amount of alkaline solution won't do lasting damage, but realizing that your fingers feel slippery because the NaOH you're working with is literally turning them into soap is a very helpful lab safety reminder. 🙂🧪

[@NoahStephens]

I’ve noticed this bleach! Thank you for this explanation!

[@salty-horse]

There's no reason to think Paltrow doesn't know what she's doing - she's been called out on her nonsense/scam-peddling many times over the years. This was highly entertaining and informative, as usual.

[@PeteSchult]

I can actually believe she doesn't: 1) Many people have a mental block when it comes to anything mathy 2) "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair

[@salty-horse]

@@PeteSchult Paltrow's company, Goop, has been sued over false advertising in the past (settled for $145,00), and have received several complaints from customer protection groups since that lawsuit. She knows exactly how dubious her claims are, and it's profitable enough to keep going.

[@NoriMori1992]

Someone being called out on something multiple times doesn't indicate anything whatsoever about what they believe.

[@salty-horse]

@@NoriMori1992 I meant knowledge, not belief. She is aware, at least through lawsuits, that there's no basis to some of the claims she's promoting.

[@mikethepigeonwhisperer]

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....

[@xBINARYGODx]

Well people into MLM have a strong cross over with people who abuse their kids, so that fits nicely. Or not so nicely, I suppose. At any rate, you dodged a bullet.

[@williambenson1477]

i work in the medical field....it is disturbing how many "professionals" will get very angry arguing things they are totally wrong about. physically demonstrating their errors to them in person has gotten me screamed and cussed at...even though i was demonstrating the correct way to use medical equipment (i am a trainer and biomedical tech).... i even pissed off a charge nurse once, trying to show her the flaws in her belief that evolution was a lie, the earth was only 4000 years old, and dinosaurs had never been real animals... she was a fundamentalist christian (cult). and she was in charge of treating patients with terminal illnesses.....

[@ftircom]

Fun videos. I like your satire

[@I-h4t3-4ll-0f-y0u]

"basic chemistry" lmao

[@Oneiroclast]

This is just more evidence that their line of thinking is just "alkaline = natural = good, acid = artificial = bad."

[@4801534501]

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!

[@ihavenoson3384]

Wow that is a cool comment, man. Funny af

[@azuredystopia3751]

​@@ihavenoson3384Maybe it will cure your anomic despair??

[@Draliseth]

These are becoming increasingly tiresome.

[@4801534501]

Well I made my comment like 20 minutes after the video came out so how bout you just take your sleepy ass to bed

[@ROBERTGOTSCHALL-j8u]

I highly recommend a cup of alkaline water and watching this video before taking a dump.

[@piedpiper1172]

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.

[@notnullnotvoid]

That one made me so sad, like it sounds like he's suffered apparently serious health consequences from spending literally his entire life chronically dehydrated because he refused to drink water for some reason, who knows why, and now that he's accidentally been tricked into drinking water he's experiencing something like normal health for the first time ever, but he doesn't realize that that's what's happened... I really, really hope he figures it out.

[@AnarchoCatBoyEthan]

super depressing he just ignored what seem like serious health problems with his heart.

[@ivanvelkovsky4161]

Right? Still probably dehydrated but going from ~10% of recommended daily intake of fluids to >50% is a huge shift and I hope his health continues to improve... just yeah sucks that he thinks it's the fancy water and not just the effects of better hydration. Although well water can taste awful depending on the well, so slightly more understandable.

[@Tasarran]

@@notnullnotvoid I never ever drink water, and I'm healthy as a horse. Every fluid you can drink has water in it, and your body is expert in separating substances.

[@Rockzilla1122]

​@@Tasarransoda isn't good for you.

[@dikaionetai]

I died inside with every amazon review you read, particularly those with health conditions who have been scammed into thinking expensive water is comparable to medical treatment. It's okay though, your new brand of water you advertise in the video description brought me back.

[@tomflanagan878]

I wonder how many of them are real reviews, and how many are botted? I have seen some sketchy companies in different give discounts for people if they give a good review before they add to cart?

[@nigeldepledge3790]

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.

[@thistle_ish]

i live in iowa where our bedrock is limestone, and this is what our DNR says: "The pH of Iowa surface waters generally ranges from 8.0 to 8.4." so at least one place over here also has alkaline water. the US is so big though that i could probably go to like, nebraska or something and they'd have a wildly different answer even though they're a neighboring state so it might not be the most accurate to talk about the US as a whole? idk i didn't pay attention in earth science 😿

[@julianbrelsford]

I think it's extremely common in the USA for.there to be various minerals in the water. Where I live an electric kettle will produce scale over time. I'm not sure what, but if you boil water for a thousand cups of tea in your kettle enough stuff will precipitate out, you'll have stuff that has a limestone-like appearance stuck to your kettle. I think this is true in most parts of the country.

[@rich1051414]

We call it 'hard water', and it's very common and NOT desired.

[@whatabouttheearth]

​@@thistle_ish PH 8.5 in Rockaway Beach Missouri

[@nagoranerides3150]

Yes. England in particular has a lot of hard water. However, its not bad for you; it's bad for your kettle and other water systems.

[@joeo6378]

Instead of drinking alk water I eat an antacid tablet and do a shot of pickle juice. Really syncs up my waves.

[@oatmealeverymorning]

I love this method Alternatively you can also administer the pickle juice as eye drops.

[@LimeyLassen]

I cut the antacids on my coffee table with a credit card.

[@oatmealeverymorning]

That's weekends only for me

[@PartanBree]

You can tell your energies are synergizing by the volume of the belching

[@KristofskiKabuki]

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.

[@azuredystopia3751]

I have this too and have seen recent tiktoks from 'nutritionists' recommending citrus fruits for this reason. I love oranges but my lower esophagus hates them.

[@justinflor6997]

If the pH is higher than what's in your body, it's physically impossible for adding more hydrogen ions will make it less acidic. Does hydrogen undergo some nuclear reaction in your body that changes it from hydrogen to something else? I don't think so. Therefore more hydrogen means lower ph...

[@KristofskiKabuki]

@@azuredystopia3751 There is a theory I've heard that GERD is actually caused by *low* stomach acidity, because food in the stomach begins to ferment which causes gas to form, and that pushes the valve at the top of the stomach open and lets stomach acid out, no idea if there's any truth to that but in my case it was cos I had a hiatus hernia

[@ExcuseTheTea]

I was told by my doctor that loc stomach acid is initially the issue, as the esophageal valve relaxes when the acid amount lowers in the stomach. This allows small amounts of acid to splash up into the esophagus, causing erosion issues. Then antacids and low acid diets are necessary since there is a greater chance of erosion damage.

[@sentheaS]

24:00

[@dylangergutierrez]

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

[@plzletmebefrank]

​@littlemeg137True, though I am curious about all the printing on aluminum cans and how that affects their ability to be recycled... Also the manufacturing process. Idk, it's kinda funny where companies will conserve resources and where they will spend them.

[@RetirededKat]

​@littlemeg137I've always found the idea that we, as humans, could have any actual lasting impact on a planet that existed for billions of years before we did, surviving multiple planet wide catastrophes, as a very subtle and short-sighted form of arrogance.

[@katherineburke609]

​@@RetirededKatClimate denial under the guise of humility? Groundbreaking!!

[@goateeguy11221122]

The impact we have on it only has to be as "lasting" as we are for it to be really really bad. I don't much care if the climate gets better in a few more billion years if right now we're having more wildfires, worse hurricanes, if species are being threatened...@@RetirededKat

[@RetirededKat]

@@katherineburke609 I'm not denying the change, I'm saying it doesn't matter as much as we like to think it does. It matters for US, and our COMFORT but for little else.

[@randomassortmentofthings]

Oh god. I remember this fad starting in 2017 when I worked as a cashier in walmart. Some woman told me she bought it as it helped reduce her body's internal acidity. She claimed lemons would do the same thing, which instantly shot up red flags and if I had the ability to I would've made fun of her. The worst part is she went to a 'nutritionist".

[@heatherkuhn6559]

Oh this has been around long before 2017. I ran into this crap when I owned a New Age store and I don't think it was new then. The store closed in 2006.

[@icannotchoose]

I remember back in 2014 when a family member told me that even though lemon is acidic, it is "alkalizing". To this day, I have no idea what he meant. Edit: Nvm, she's talking about it in the video.

[@nescius2]

@@icannotchoose damn, you edited the comment to mention that she mentioned it, could you also add a timestamp next time this happens to you? thanks!

[@dmgroberts5471]

My sister in law got into this crap. I told her that no amount of alkaline water is going to change the PH of her blood - and that's good, because if it did, she'd die. Then she moved on to "deionized" water. She was just determined to fall for a water-based scam.

[@Loanshark753]

Nutritionist is not a protected title, dietitian is

[@michaelscott993]

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

[@nigeldepledge3790]

I'm only 15 minutes in so far, but wanted to share this before I forgot. I used to work in biotech. One of the things this involved was interviewing graduate job applicants. These were nearly all youngsters fresh out of university with some kind of life-science bachelor's degree. In technical interviews, a question that I found quite useful is "What is pH?". Over the course of a few years, I must have interviewed well over thirty candidates (we tended to conduct interviews roughly once a year, and I was only involved in interviews for the R&D department). Not one of the candidates could tell me that the number is just the negative log of the hydrogen ion concentration. I find it astonishing that graduates with a life-science degree were never taught where the number comes from. The concept of pH is absolutely fundamental in many biochemical processes. Oh, also, back in my undergraduate days, we encountered both "protons" and "hydrogen ions" as pretty much interchangeable. But, technically, a hydrogen ion doesn't exist in aqueous solution. Instead, the local surplus proton exists as the H3O+ ion (that's effectively a water molecule plus a hydrogen ion, with the positive charge distributed among the three O-H bonds). One more thing: electronic pH meters are only finicky if you use them in certain types of solution. There's a commonly-used buffer known as Tris (short for tris-(hydroxymethyl) aminomethane), which can desensitise a pH electrode. Single-junction electrodes are especially susceptible to this effect; double-junction electrodes are nearly immune to it. Either way, giving your electrode a good soak in an acid such as 1 M HCl will recover its function.

[@extrafreshhh]

This just confirms my already existing bias that engineering majors are the superior STEM undergraduates lol.

[@HansLemurson]

"negative log" is a weird concept, so I just like to rephrase pH in my head to "The number of decimal points in the H+ concentration". 0.00001 Molar Acid? pH 5!

[@nigeldepledge3790]

@HansLemurson - there comes a danger when dealing with acids that don't fully dissociate in aqueous solution. That method is fine with strong acids like HCl, which dissociates so nearly completely as to make no difference, so the concentration of H+ is the same as the concentration of acid. Weak acids such as citric acid, acetic acid, phosphoric acid and many others, though, do not fully dissociate in aqueous solution. To get the pH in these cases, you need to know the acid dissociation constant (pKa) and how to use the maths to get the pH. (It's the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation.)

[@HansLemurson]

@@nigeldepledge3790 Yeah, I didn't want to overcomplicate my answer with weak dissociation and buffers, but I probably should have!

[@RastusSoup]

​@yyattttheir knowledge of the subject is worth evaluating, I would imagine. Presumably he would've voiced a preference for the candidates that passed his quiz.

[@chloejones6240]

My dad is super into this stuff and watching your videos is so cathartic. I feel like i’m being gaslit all the time and I come to your channel to feel sane again. thank you. I will say- you can definitely taste a difference between different water brands. i’ve done blind taste tests a few times at fairs and such and I have never gotten it wrong.

[@Jelissei]

yeah, bottled water is afaik not only h2o. There are impurities, different amount of different minerals and so forth. That does change the drinking experience. Usually tap water is tested as the most clean water when compared to bottled water.

[@JonBrase]

Pretty much all of your bottled water brands are tap water from some municipal supply somewhere. The taste will depend on what minerals are in the local supply where it's bottled and how it's treated.

[@tinabean713]

@@JonBrase This is why I hate to pay for purified water. I usually drink tap or filtered tap, but when you go out to certain venues the only water they offer is bottled, purified and I especially hate if it's from my town. I don't even know how Nestle manages to sell that based on how bad our reputation has been most of my life. I often find myself telling people from other parts of town that our air doesn't smell nearly as bad as it used to, and that's also true for the water (unless I've gone nose-blind), but paying $4 for 1/2 a liter of my own tapwater at a musical hurts me to my core.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

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.

[@IvoryValentine22]

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

[@mxpants4884]

As someone who dyes my own hair a lot I'm curious how this comes up, beyond the different strengths of developer. (Because this sounds like you're referring to something beyond that.) I'm thinking maybe it matters for permanent dye? (I mostly bleach and then add rainbow colors, and with fairly short hair it limits the complexity, especially since Olaplex makes bleaching hair a lot more forgiving.)

[@tbbk201]

You do know what "Rule of thumb" means, don't you?

[@Tommyjhonpork]

​@@tbbk201they used it right.

[@notnullnotvoid]

@@tbbk201 What in their comment could possible suggest that they don't know what the phrase "rule of thumb" means?

[@sammiller6631]

@@tbbk201 I assume you've heard the false history about "Rule of thumb" because the Internet will choose a trashy story over anything less sensational and cling to it

[@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan]

The pH calculation with the water and the lemon is such a nice exam task :D

[@aidanwarren4980]

This is an exam problem I’d solve just for the sake of it

[@Sonny_McMacsson]

@@aidanwarren4980 The problem's been solved. Lemon flavored Alka-Seltzer is a thing.

[@CaveSquig]

I just recently discovered this channel. It's quickly becoming my favourite. I recently gave up talking to humans because... well everything in these videos. I don't have the energy anymore to debate flat earths and magic potions, my brain cannot take it anymore. So you are my now my champion, keep up the good fight. Love from Scotland.

[@paulojacobsilva3018]

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....

[@GrantSR]

😂 But.... The food pyramid! But... but.... 😊

[@vlogerhood]

Yeah, nutrition "science" is not. Everything they think and say is basically woo. And on top of that, all their research is paid for by companies that are selling this thing or that thing (mostly weight loss).

[@DavidLoveMore]

one of the ways pH of the blood is kept constant is by breathing. Another is by excretion through kidneys. Another is by demineralisation of bones. Another is by allowing pH of the body to increase, acidosis at that point you will feel pain, or if the pH changes in the amygdala anxiety or panic. If you are going to wait, like doctors are trained do for your blood pH to change before seeking remedy then, well then you have been warned.

[@yaldabaoth2]

You don't need a dietician. If you are absolutely serious about it, do it yourself. Weigh your food (for things like meat, bread etc) if it doesn't say on the packaging, calculate your caloric intake, WRITE A FOOD DIARY, then compare with how many calories you burn per day. You can find calculation for that on the internet (if you have a PhD, you should be able to identify legit websites). Losing weight is as simple as burning more calories than you take in. That is all there is to it. Target about 90-95% of what you burn for your intake. WHAT you eat is mostly irrelevant, you will not run out of anything vital if you eat a normal mixed diet (some bread, some meat if you want, a fruit every 3-4 days, etc). However, your body is a bit stupid and burns easily accessed material first, meaning sugar and proteins, ie your muscles. That's why working out is an important part instead of simply starving (yes, there are diets that are essentially starving yourself, they dont work). Be disciplined for 14-21 days until your new routine turns into habit and you will never look back. Let me state again how important the diary part is. This is you controlling yourself. You don't need another person for it if you are honest with yourself.

[@paulojacobsilva3018]

@@DavidLoveMore Sorry David, I'm not sure what you are trying to communicate. I taught biochemistry to medical students and we start with the main buffer in blood being the CO2 bicarbonate equilibrium - so, of course if one holds their breath, or more typically, if there is ischeamia, the pH will drop. I think the message I tried to write was how myself, as someone who pays his bills with research in chemistry and I have a strong foot in human physiology, was confronted with professionals using hypotheses not based on what we understand about homeostasis and metabolism.

[@cyndoherty563]

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.

[@thequarkchronicles2486]

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

[@miketothe2ndpwr]

While I don't drink these "special" waters I am chronically dehydrated and go on spats of drinking a correct amount of water and can confirm it feels like I'm a healthy superstar.

[@AppoloniaK]

Tap water in my city is pH 8.3 according to our water works. I don't know how much a cubic metre of water costs, but less than five dollars. Wellness tourists are welcome. Lemons are widely available

[@nefariousyawn]

Ditto. I tested it myself because apparently keeping an aquarium also means becoming an amateur water chemist.

[@AppoloniaK]

@@nefariousyawn your fish are probably unbelievably healthy and beautiful 🐙

[@nefariousyawn]

@@AppoloniaK but only because of the alkalinity, I'm sure!

[@AppoloniaK]

@@nefariousyawn but of course 😂

[@seanbeadles7421]

Yup you got hard water which is actually fairly common to encounter Causes scale and lime buildup

[@Sycokay]

I have a theory: When you put lemon in alkaline water, you get magnesium citrate. Which is a laxative. And when you have a good dump, you feel good.

[@whit38]

most people don’t get enough fiber so this makes sense

[@julianbell9161]

So ironically, Gweneth Paltrow is correct and Angela is actually wrong. The whole thesis of this video is that alkaline and lemon is completely pointless, but you just told me that there is a point to it.

[@ratgr]

@@julianbell9161 Well no, as the amount is so low that it wouldn't work

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

​@@julianbell9161even if the magnesium citrate was in concentrations high enough to matter (which it isn't), Paltrow isn't promoting that, she's promoting the alkalinity. The alkalinity stuff is bunk, no two ways about it.

[@rmdodsonbills]

I did think the video glided pretty blithely over the reaction of base with acid producing a salt of some kind.

[@stevebadachmusic]

You sound like someone who understands the importance of being up-to-date on your boosters. It's so refreshing. Great video!

[@nicolasolton]

👍

[@issecret1]

🙄

[@albudynski2408]

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.

[@irenemax3574]

Penta Water 😅 But also, wtf? Thanks for sharing, I hadn't heard about it.

[@julianbrelsford]

Not a scam because there wasn't anything for sale, but I saw 1 or 2 claiming online (maybe in youtube comments) that microwaving will change the DNA of your water in a bad way. No, no it won't. There is absolutely no way to change the DNA of water, whether it's distilled water or water has salts dissolved in it.

[@antonc81]

The only reason it’s alkaline is because of other molecules (“impurities”) dissolved in the water. You can’t really make pure water alkaline. Chemist and KZbinr Myles Power did a good video on this.

[@ADthehawk]

​@@antonc81 pure water is literally the definition of neutral pH. I mean not just an example.

[@DESOUSAB]

This is hilarious. I was also corresponding with this company regarding their bogus claims.

[@JBrd79]

I only just stumbled upon your channel within the past few weeks, but like, I was immediately hooked after the first video I watched (If I remember correctly, that would have been the video about Michio Kaku and Gell-Mann Amnesia). I'm a 44yo nerd from a small town in NW Indiana - I'm immensely fascinated by astronomy and astrophysics (and if I'm being totally honest, I'm intrigued by physics, in general). I was a Star Trek fan in high school (Next Generation, mostly, but I didn't hate the original series either lol), and I played the standard 'Nerd RPGs' like D&D, Cyberpunk, and MechWarrior. I'm a Stephen King fan, which I'm mentioning because of the Stephen King novel that's in view on many of your videos. I sincerely appreciate your honest and straightforward views on science and science-related topics! I would absolutely love to have the opportunity to have a phone call with you, or to sit in a coffee shop with you for a couple hours and just pick your brain, lol. You're definitely a person whom I could learn from, and you have a very refreshing way of making your points and keeping the topics interesting. I think you're awesome, Angela! Thank you for being you! 😊

[@Andlekin]

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.

[@badger6728]

You’re not that important. Nobody gives a shit what you drink. If you really want to be sober you’ll behave sober, not have pretend drinks trying to fit in with drunk people. That’s not sobriety.

[@whatabouttheearth]

I'll stick to the real liquid death... whiskey

[@fiercerodent]

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

[@bartmoss]

I work in the water industry in the UK, tap water which is normally almost pure (99.96%) costs around 16 pence per litre (20 cents per litre). I despair that people buy bottled water, especially as they usually say "well you can't trust the water from taps". But as you point out here, how does the average person know the regulations allow bottled water to far less pure than their tap water? I still despair. It may seem odd but this video really made me feel noticed.

[@MattCulturaPopulare]

I live in London and only drink bottled water (nothing fancy, Highland Spring currently costs 50p/litre if you buy a six-pack). I just don't want all the estrogen and nitrites as well as other impurities in London tap-water.

[@notsam498]

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.

[@Beastw1ck]

I have literally ranted to my poor wife about this exact thing. This is a sublime moment for me.

[@BigDaddyWes]

Love this. You know, that scenario you talked about where rich people control wll the water and poorer people don't have access to clean water? Yeah, that definitely is a thing that's already happening in many places of the world. Water is a resource that people will go to war over.

[@rotopope]

That scenario is nestle's stated goal.

[@notnotkavi]

Almost always this is for agriculture and not drinking though Humans drink very little water as a % of water we consume

[@kinseyjr21]

​@@notnotkaviBut humans pay ahigher percentage of the total cost for water when you take billing for municipal water access as well as purchases of water based products into account.

[@benchafe]

Lol, Just so you know, I literally got an ad for Smart Alkaline water during this video... Advertising dollars well spent. (P.S. Your content is amazing; I always learn so much!)

[@user-td3yi1mq7p]

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.

[@rakino4418]

Very quick - the bicarbonate just neutralizes your stomach acid pH - which your gastric lining quickly changes back. Get some omeprazole tablets - they inhibit the proton pumps in your gastric cells while they're avtive

[@helenamcginty4920]

Hot water plus bicarb plus vinegar makes a lovely hissy bubbly mixture which may or may not be good for mopping ceramic floors after the dxxxn dog has piddled on it instead of walking outside via THE OPEN DOOR.

[@rdizzy1]

@@squidward5110 Gerolsteiner is actually slightly acidic. Not very good for this purpose, just take a tums.

[@rdizzy1]

@@squidward5110 The point is that the effect of a bottle of 6ph gerolsteiner will have nearly zero effect. Either way, the body will be back to normal within 30 minutes. Compare this to 2 tablets of carbonates (which can raise gastric ph up to 5+ in studies, for upwards of 2 hours AND reduce activity of protein damaging pepsin) Then also compare the cost difference. What is this "more" that the gerolsteiner is achieving?? Tell us all.

[@ghoust592]

@@rdizzy1I hope you realize that carbonates don't have a pH of 15, they have a pH of about 9-8 (depends on a type), but the thing is those are buffers, they keep the pH stable at some value, also why buy tablets? do you think I will go out of my way to try and buy these because the pharmacy probably doesn't have them. While I can go to the closest grocery story and buy water there, also alkaline water tastes good

[@turun_ambartanen]

The best review is from the person at 43:00. They say they had chest pain for years and the doctor was really confused by the test results. And it went away when they bought that water and drank 2 bottles of it... because they only drank an abysmal amount of 450ml of water per day before! How can anyone drink this little water?!?!

[@haph2087]

Yeah. Perhaps if they’d just drank more tap water they could’ve resolved their condition years earlier. Or perhaps it was coincidence, and unrelated to their terrible drinking habits… But it’s pretty important to drink enough water.

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

Their blood was like a sludge. No wonder they had artery congestion.

[@Tasarran]

Don't try to play the drinking game where you have to drink every time Angela says "alkaline water with lemon."

[@BrightBlueJim]

Not even a drink of alkaline water ... with lemon?

[@tranquility6358]

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... 😂

[@oddlyspecificmath]

I came here _because_ of the title 😊 and was not disappointed when she really drove it home. +1

[@michaelh42]

This feels like a reverse Limmy sketch where Limmy is the one who gets the science and the other people don't "Lemons are alkaline! -But lemons are acidic. -Lemons have an alkaline effect! -But lemons are acidic."

[@LordWaterBottle]

But steel is heavier than feathers...

[@azuredystopia3751]

​@@LordWaterBottleBut...feathers...lighter...(sense of quiet despair increases)...

[@stollidinero]

Omg thank you so much for this great video. Super helpful for me in explaining to my poor mom why the body does not need to be "alkaline."

[@7thegoldfish]

This channel is so awesome. Thanks for explaining physics like I'm a child, and it's also cool when you play games and rant!

[@schrodinger1374]

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.

[@NoriMori1992]

I think there's more to it than that - the way a chemical affects you (and anything) depends on a lot more than just its pH value - but that may be one reason.

[@EvillAnime]

Hydrochloric acid is probably bad because it has chloride in it, not just for the pH Additionally it matters if you have a strong or weak acid

[@jonathanhufford4518]

It’s not the chloride lol. Sodium chloride also has chloride in it. It’s better known as table salt. Also, acid strength is (simplified) an indication of the extent to which an acid dissolves in solution, i.e. directly proportional to the pH (negative log of concentration of hydronium ions) of an aqueous solution of a given concentration of an acid has.

[@vadernation1233]

It might also have something to do with concentration. Hydrochloric acid is bad but diluted enough I think it wouldn’t harm you as much. Idk the concentration of citric acid in lemons but it could be (relatively) low compared to more dangerous concentrations of HCl. Could be wrong I’m just an autistic kid who likes to learn stuff about chemistry from time to time.

[@ZeroPlayerGame]

@@vadernation1233 if you dilute an acid, the pH goes to neutral - pH is concentration of the stuff that makes acids acidic and attacks chemical bonds.

[@gyrateful]

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.

[@krautergarten4529]

Wait what 😂 ... u are right, they just bottle my austrian tap water (1,71€ per 1000l) and sell it for 3,5€ per l (3500€ per 1000l) ... lmao

[@PhyllisLane-xj5uf]

​@@krautergarten4529Eh reverse osmosis ain't easy. And unless done at scale ain't cheap.

[@ivarwind]

"Artesian" water is literally groundwater - it's tap water, but from New Zealand! Personally I like to sometimes add a bit of ascorbic acid to my tap water. Technically that would make it vitamin water (in this case really!) but I just like the citrusy taste. Cheap, refreshing, and without any sugar.

[@WAMTAT]

As a Kiwi I drink it for free ... it's just water

[@austinchasteeny]

Artesian just refers to water from artesian aquifers

[@the_devils_jester]

I found a genius way to increase the energy of water: you put it into a container and raise it up a bit. That should increase the potential energy.

[@carwyn3691]

39:05 Look at how happy that water is. Imagine how sad a water that was shipped all the way from New Zealand must feel, I'd never drink jet-lagged water

[@richardarriaga6271]

Water is sent to a death camp. They never return after their trip.

[@WAMTAT]

As a Kiwi I can say that our water is no different than any other water

[@sammiller6631]

@@WAMTAT Kiwi water is better mixed due to the Roaring Forties. The winds in Wellington are much stronger than winds at 40°N passing through Columbus, Ohio or Philadelphia, PA or New Jersey.

[@TonyApuzzo]

@@sammiller6631 you see, because of the Coriolis effect, the air molecules in the in the Southern hemisphere hit on the front side instead of the back side which is why Kiwi wind seems colder and more alkaline than New Jersey wind.

[@talonthehand]

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.

[@Tamacat388]

Its odd that having a thermos for water isnt that common. Coffee? Sure but it seems few people use them for water.

[@FreeFireFull]

I didn't think about it before, but using a thermos for cold water is genius. Just toss in a few ice cubes, and it will stay cold for a looong time

[@jamescunningham8092]

@@Tamacat388 My girlfriend uses one of those giant metal cups with a straw. It’s not a thermos, but it’ll keep something cold for many hours.

[@gstlynx]

Your presence on KZbin is probably the best thing to arise out of the Covid-19 Panic.

[@shittysashimi5184]

you're currently my favourite person on youtube. idk when was the last time i enjoyed a creators work so much... it's such a breath of fresh air to have videos that are both informative but also fun and have a distinct personality, aren't stiff, i suppose. you're a pleasure to watch

[@ila9063]

and the videos aren’t over edited either!

[@GuillotinedChemistry]

pH scale converted to monetary values? Brilliant! I'm stealing that for my high school students. Thanks for the fun content!

[@BrightBlueJim]

Agreed. If you just say "100,000 times as much", that kind of falls flat, but $100,000 compared with a small bag of chips is meaningful.

[@Simon14916]

@0:17 Note that the packaging for Flow water reports that the pH is PLUS OR MINUS 8.1. What does that mean? Does that mean that the pH might be -8.1 (in which case a strong acid) and might be +8.1 (in which case a weak base), or perhaps that it is somewhere in between those values. Or just perhaps the people at Flow don't understand anything about pH.

[@notgonatell3154]

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

[@ittaiklein8541]

Not Gona Tell how homeopathy is one of the biggest piles of BS out there?! Not nice keeping it all to yourself. You Should let people know.

[@OmniversalInsect]

"Medicine"

[@NoriMori1992]

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.

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

A few years back in the UK, there was a TV program called "How Clean is Your House?", hosted by two middle aged "professional cleaners" or something. During the half hour episode they used to dole out various tips for cleaning XYZ. One time they gave the following advice: Mix Bicarbonate of Soda with Vinegar to remove dirt from your bath... Well there you go.

[@plasticfrank]

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

[@tornadostories]

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.

[@stoepsi]

It is such a pleasure listening to you. And the part where you do a calculation on a piece of paper "of course I had to make some assumptions" just made me smile with joy. And I even got the joke withalkaline water and lemon. Thanks.

[@sonorasgirl]

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

[@stevengill1736]

Me too - I used to collect them for the same reason. Cheers...

[@Pengochan]

I loved the explanation of the physics vs. chemistry "brain". While I'm only equipped with a "physics brain" i see the difference between physicists and chemists, and it starts in school. In my experience physics is more about understanding concepts, and chemistry always seemed more like learning a language to me. When i much later learned to "translate" some chemistry to physics i saw that what my teacher then presented to me as some stuff you "just have to learn", like e.g. solubility ("multiply this with that and when it exceeds some number out of some table ..."), was actually quite easy to understand as a concept. Physicists often joke that Chemistry is just applied physics, but in reality until recent decades the physics of atoms, let alone molecules was just too complex to really apply that to anything more complex than a Hydrogen Molecule. So historically Chemistry is much more empirically based and thus taught than physics, and hence attracts different people, which seems strange considering how close both really are. Maybe there should be some lecture series "chemistry for physicists".

[@oddlyspecificmath]

Hm. The delineation of brains [note, edit] is not something I was hoping to see (I don't mean your comment; just in general). I'm of the opinion that after a (rather) significant amount of effort, abstractions fuse to cover multiple fields, so that the details are just something you have to do when you specialize (or, you hire that out). What people "call things" in their specialty is what gets me most of the time...with a nod towards an earlier video ("that's not how I'd say it") people are often talking about the same concepts with local refinements. This bridge across "brains" is, I think, the role filled by systems engineers. _[edit: I expected this to be further along than I can watch today, and it's more lightly put than I was concerned about; I'll leave this comment for people who (like I did) would otherwise learn about SE a bit late]_

[@goclbert]

You can take classes on and easily find lectures about physical chemistry, stochastic systems, solid state chemistry, quantum chemistry, etc. On your point about the empirical nature of chemistry, when both physicists and chemists are doing experiments, they care about empirical results just as much. Chemistry has more terminological baggage than physics, sure but that doesn't mean it isn't conceptual. Walk through an organic chemistry department and you'll be greeted with whiteboards working through organic reactions in much the same way you see whiteboards of differential equations in a physics department. The thought process feels very similar, the only difference is the specificity of transformations you are allowed to perform in organic chemistry as opposed to classic algebra.

[@Pengochan]

@@goclbert I was more thinking about how the subjects are presented in school, and that was also based mainly on how i perceived it, which is that physics is more like math, which may be unsurprising, given the number of chemical reactions even in inorganic chemistry, but i also believe that the different teaching attracts different people to the subjects, which in turn affects the teaching.

[@oddlyspecificmath]

@@goclbert Could you...elaborate more on what you mean by "the specificity of transformations"? If this is a bit of an ask, can you give me a research hint?

[@terminalreset7659]

@@oddlyspecificmath Stuff like biochemical transformations. How biomolecules exchange energy, for one. There is a lot of math in calculating how and why electrons jump shells, and reactions with isomers. And then there's the whole bit with fission and fusion (rubbing shoulders with physics, maybe even a bit of petting there).

[@beutelschwitz]

Every water is fine if you put a crystal into it to give it information. You just have to leave the crystals in the moonlight once a month. I really knew someone who did this. They claimed that water loses information by going through pipes, because pipes don't go in a natural way (all those corners and such). A lot more of this bs. But they claimed you can also add information to water by thanking it before drinking. That one I liked. So sometimes when I drink a sip of water I say "Thank you dear water".

[@guppy9250]

The calculations at 13:18 are the wrong way to think about hydrogen ion concentrations. To see why they have to be wrong, note that they give basically the same result regardless of whether you are mixing the lemon juice with "alkaline water" or with 1.0M sodium hydroxide solution. Obviously that can't be right, so what's going on? The reason it doesn't work is that the first line (C_F*V_F + C_L*V_L = C_W*V_W) is fine for working out the concentration of something like sugar molecules, but it doesn't work for hydrogen ions. Hydrogen ion concentrations (unlike sugar concentrations) are determined by equilibria between hydrogen ions, hydroxide ions, and other relevant chemical species (in this case, citric acid and citrate, and potentially whatever is making the pH of "alkaline water" higher than 7). The mixing experiment still gives the expected result, because whatever basic species are in the alkaline water, they're present at very low concentration that easily get overwhelmed by the citric acid in the lemon juice. But this doesn't have much to do with the fact that pH is a log scale - that's a bit of a red herring. What gets overwhelmed is not the low concentration of hydrogen ions in the alkaline water, it's the low concentration of "hydrogen ion sinks" (= Bronsted-Lowry bases): basically the opposite of the explanation given in the video. More generally, if you want to calculate the final pH when mixing acidic and alkaline solutions, it isn't enough to know the pH and volumes of the starting solutions. You also need to know all the relevant acid/base pairs, their concentrations, and their pKa values. (Undergraduate chemistry lecturers love assigning these sorts of problems on exams, because they're not very intuitive and they're easy to get wrong if students don't have a strong grasp of all the relevant concepts.)

[@Sohexmetphospha]

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.

[@jooot_6850]

Makes sense. Slightly acidic water and, say, old lead piping would not make a great combination.

[@undertow2142]

After watching this. I’ve decided to start selling ghost water. It’s harvested from only the most pristine cemeteries and infused with the spookiest of spirits. Let the power of your ancestors rehydrate you. Ghost water!

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

With all the chemicals that leech into the ground in cemeteries your water will make people hallucinate seeing ghosts so, I guess this checks out!

[@__edorian]

Thank you

[@notsam498]

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!

[@ItsAsparageese]

Also Coloradoan here, had a family friend who worked for the Bureau of Water Reclamation in Lakewood for a few decades. Yeah our tap water is better than much in the country, but it's still not ideal, iirc lack of removal of drug contamination was a big issue (e.g. drugs people unwisely flush etc) because it's so expensive

[@kahlilbt]

As a native Coloradan l8v8ng elsewhere in the states, I gotta say Colorado is the gold standard for drinking water lol. Here in Philly, I don't touch the stuff without a filter for several reasons, but mostly for taste. But I just run it through a Brita and it tastes fine.

[@kevinbissinger]

Its great that the water source is clean, it's the pipes that are the problem

[@notsam498]

@@kevinbissinger elaborate

[@hedgehog3180]

@@notsam498 A lot of the US has old lead pipes, this is the issue in Flint Michigan for example, they switched to a more corrosive source of water that started wearing down the old pipes and thus contaminating the water with lead.

[@pyingst]

‘I’m not a chemist, actually, I just assumed it was gonna be a simple, like, algebra situation.’ Me applying for my first lab tech position.

[@Seagull512]

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

[@willjones8261]

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

[@sadface7457]

Electrolytes 😂

[@glarynth]

More genetically modified salt for me then

[@critormiss6084]

Gotta love that organic salt

[@geetarkev14]

This channel is going to blow up at some point even more than it has now, probably past your expectations. You should prepare for all the good and the bad that comes with that. Love your work and wish you the best success.

[@efkastner]

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!

[@pluralkumquat]

I'm so happy to hear someone speak out against alkaline water. I work at a grocery store and it hurts me that we stock it.

[@rdizzy1]

The higher PH stuff can be ok if you have acid reflux issues, for a quick fix. Certainly tastes a lot better than mixing baking soda and water.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@rdizzy1 You could probably also just add some calcium to the water and it should taste the same as bottled water.

[@CorbiniteVids]

Ooh perfect timing for one of my favorite fun facts. So, turns out, hydrangea flowers aren't actually pH indicators! The reason why hydrangeas change color with pH is because they build the blue pigment in their flowers with aluminum ions, and depending on the pH of the soil that can drastically affect whether aluminum is available to the plant. So if the hydrangea is in a pH environment where it cannot absorb aluminum, it just won't build that pigment and the flowers will lack it

[@FrederSnorlax]

i love this!

[@HansLemurson]

Are there soils that have too little Aluminum in them for acidic conditions to make any difference?

[@CorbiniteVids]

@@HansLemurson Yes! Acidic soils normally produce blue flowers but if there's a severe lack of aluminum, they'll come out pink or green anyway. It's possible to supplement aluminum in those cases to get the blue back

[@HansLemurson]

@@CorbiniteVids Aluminum is usually found in clays, right? Is a low-aluminum soil a low-clay soil, or are there clays that are also low in aluminum?

[@CorbiniteVids]

@@HansLemurson gonna be honest, that's where my brain runs out. Researching it it looks like non-aluminum phllyosilicate minerals typically don't form clays though, so it sounds like you're probably onto something, though I'm not certain how available that aluminum from the clay itself typically is

[@jffrysith4365]

One of the people buying water said they didn't drink much water and instead drunk a lot of coffee and tea. They were experiencing adverse health effects which 'strangely disappeared when they drank the special water". It's almost like changing from sugary and caffeine filled drinks to water is actually beneficial. Like come on...

[@comatose1818]

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

[@bengtstrand4476]

I drink my tap water out of a mug. I mean, can you really trust glas? It's almost invisible!

[@ICanDoThatToo2]

*Glass* is the purest and cleanest of stone, hand-crafted by artisanal virgins. "Mug" is just, I mean even the word sounds dirty.

[@DustinHarms]

I could hear someone refute ridiculous claims and lament societal wrongs with righteous indignation for hours. This was right up my alley. Yet another channel to add to my "effective communication and research of some random niche internet rants" subscriptions. xD "In order of increasing whackadoo" will absolutely be entering into my verbal repertoire. Thank you

[@AlBarathur]

The word "alkaline" originated from the word ash in Arabic (I think). I think it will be difficult to find food, fruit, vegetable or meat, that is not alkaline after you reduce it to ashes.

[@terminalreset7659]

Ashes are one of the ways that soap is made, using lye (sodium hydroxide). Thanks, "Fight Club!"

[@hedgehog3180]

@@terminalreset7659 Soap is basically just made by combining a fat with an acid, depending on the acid and fat you use and their ratio you get different qualities like how easily the soap foams or whether it is liquid. Then you just add some colouring and perfumes to customize it. The structure of soap is also very similar to the phosphorlipids that cell membranes are made up.

[@FranColeman0]

As a former chemist and as an M.D., This video gave me a huge throbbing equilibrium. This is a masterpiece! I might be a bit biased because you were saying exactly what I was thinking, as I was thinking it. Me: "What if you just added maybe 2g of baking soda to the..." Acollierastro: *adds baking soda to water* Me: "Well pH is just the negative log of the H+ ion concentration..." Acollierastro: "Here's the formula: pH = - log [H+]" Me: "But human physiology STRENUOUSLY works to maintain a pH of 7.4 +/- 0.5..." Acollierastro: "Any barely alkaline solution will be instantaneously acidified by pH 1 stomach acid." By the time you got to quantum water (Quantum, quantum?) I was ROFLing so hard, I developed a transient respiratory alkalosis! I could continue ad nauseam, but I didn't want anyone to get actually nauseous and vomit, and throw off their pH! Thank you so much for this video. It made my day, my week, my month.

[@thepapschmearmd]

Also an MD. I have to explain this kind of stuff to patients all the time since pregnant women seem to be frequent targets of crap like this.

[@stefangadshijew1682]

@@thepapschmearmd You probably know this better then me, but I still feel it might add something for somebody if I give my two cents. I think one shouldn't antagonize those people when explaining to them they are getting scammed. They won't believe it easily, and they are hard to educate. Instead of going: This quantum water is meaningless because of [technical details], it might be better to have a practical aproach. "It is extremely important to drink the right amount of water, but I feel that this quantum water is way overpriced for what it promises. Most municipal tap water is safe to drink and already fairly alkaline, otherwise, go with bottled water that is low in sodium and high in calcium and you will have the same effect for cheap. You can spend the money you saved on a college fund for your kids, so they do not end up as clueless and embarrasing as you", and maybe only think the last part and don't say it out loud.

[@thexosian]

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

[@pauforcadellcampos4452]

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

[@terminalreset7659]

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! ; )

[@jonathanbush6197]

Well so did Gwyneth :-)

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

Can I drink it with a spritz of lemon?

[@johannbauer2863]

Also 10:27 is wrong, thats not how you make mustard gas, wth

[@authomat6236]

wut?

[@stonecoldscubasteveo4827]

@@johannbauer2863 They confused it with chlorine gas. It's understandable, most people aren't up on their WWI chemical weapon typology.