Hepatitis From Possibly Contaminated Alkaline Water

[@jonfrigillana5535]

I’m an ER nurse and when I give report on my patients I always say “presenting to the emergency room” now. Love your videos.

[@ballboys607]

Do you do the upward pointing index finger too?

[@A425s]

Absolute legend

[@christopherwilson9979]

I CONCUR

[@talyor602]

I’m an ER scribe. I should start putting that in my charts

[@Justpassingby204]

@@talyor602 hell yeah

[@noahtoombs9351]

“It’s bad for business if your customer’s liver’s are shutting down” - the wise words of chubbyemu

[@maryprantephd6736]

And you don't want those Fed 👀 on you!

[@LillibitOfHere]

The cigarette companies have entered the chat.

[@user-jc7hs1wd1d]

Alcohol companies has entered the chat

[@robertmurphy3014]

Jokes on you, I own a dialysis manufacturing plant.

[@SabreLeonheart]

Make him CEO now. 💕

[@sean..L]

Alkaline water is actually pretty based.

[@ballboys607]

dang it

[@slyster12]

Golden.

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

Bruh moment #34

[@gc4161]

Only a true intellectual gets it 👏😤

[@WineScrounger]

Take my upvote and get out

[@novemberaddams2779]

Imagine thinking ur being healthy by drinking alkaline water and then getting nonviral hepatitis. Big yikes

[@yes0r787]

How frightening and sad.💛

[@NickanM]

That is the reason why I think critically and find out facts before I buy something branded as healthy.

[@darcieclements4880]

Happens a lot with health fad scams. You should see the number of people who send themselves to the ER every year because of malnutrition due to fad diets some time. At least they find out early, it's the ones that give themselves permanent long term organ damage over a couple of decades that make me cringe. Every time they get busted someone renames the same fad diet something new in 5 years and unleashes it again.

[@tcolondovich2996]

It's not hard to imagine people pretending to understand science without looking into a single aspect of it, and never paid attention in school, don't care to learn about science now either, but believe the 1st thing they hear on an advertisement. We have some of the worst educational standards in the world for science in primary school. Crazy high standards for an Engineering degree though, including lots of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Math. The host of this channel is a good example of someone that cares about science even outside of school or work, which is refreshing to see.

[@MsPuffykinz]

Honestly. Do your best. Keep your mind healthy. Your body can do the rest. It’s evolved to deal with all the bullshit that life entails. You don’t need to detox if you have working internal organs, and such. I could go one.

[@scrap5051]

OH BOY! cant wait to eat silica gel cereal with real water instead of milk, maybe some fiber supplements to wash it down too!

[@BytesAndCoffee]

Can’t forget to sprinkle some DNP on top!

[@sundaybesideyou]

Don't forget gas station sushi

[@randel9658]

Add a pound of licorice and you're all good.

[@thekeyhole83]

Don't forget the lava lamp

[@samiraperi467]

@@randel9658 A pound of licorice once in a while isn't that bad. You may get a headache and your stomach probably gets upset but nothing worse if you're otherwise healthy.

[@anotherperson9646]

You know the water's good when the company is called Real Water inc.

[@LumemDH]

I do remember that some years ago Chuck Norris water was a thing…

[@benboguslavsky7089]

I'm genuinely learning so much even as a highschool student. Thanks for helping me explore the medical field!

[@ryankevincano661]

Same

[@maryprantephd6736]

Good luck, you two!

[@LillibitOfHere]

Take chemistry in college, it’s fascinating and so much fun, and a lot of hard work.

[@maryprantephd6736]

It's not so bad. Be prepared, and keep up with it. Have fun!

[@flagmichael]

That is definitely one of the charms of this channel and the Chubbyemu channel - real world OMGs and deep dives into the processes without making all our eyes glass over. I thought I was hooked just because I'm a nerd, but there are a lot of normalish people here too. What is almost entirely missing is the paranoid world that seems to invade and almost completely take over so many channels.

[@CSGhostAnimation]

Can you one day cover a case of Arsenic toxicity? I know nothing about it and am curious about it.

[@faizalf119]

All I know is you can use silverwares to detect arsenic on the food

[@KarisMajik]

@@faizalf119 Not quite. It will tarnish when exposed to arsenic sulfide, but it's not the arsenic it reacts with, it's the sulfur.

[@myozbubble]

@@KarisMajik Thanks for sharing this. It's important to debunk these old wives' tales that people pass along thinking they are fact.

[@janbernasek5417]

If you want TLDR answer arsenic inhibits efficient sugar breakdown, you basically starve to death. Now if you want more advanced answer: glucose (6 carbons) is broken down into 2 pyruvates (3 carbons each pyr.) in a cytosolic process known as glycolysis. Glycolysis produces 4 ATP for initial investment of 2 ATP, you get a net gain of 2 ATP. Now there's enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase that converts pyruvate to acetyl-CoA, which is essentially a fuel for mitochondria (⚡ 🏠 of the cell). You can get 8-10 ATP from just one acetyl-CoA. That's a lot of energy! What arsenic does is it binds itself to pyruvate dehydrogenase permanently, so no more fuel for mitochondria is being made from sugars. Glycolysis can't keep up with energy needs of the cell alone. If cells in your brain or heart get affected, well then you die. Yes you can get ATP from fat, but that's a longer process. I simplified a little, sorry if I underestimated your biochemistry knowledge :D

[@CSGhostAnimation]

@@janbernasek5417 No I love this

[@debbiemansperger3280]

Several years ago, my students and I tested several brands of water. They all were very low in electrolytes - similar to deionized water - even those that said they had added electrolytes. One of the waters we tested was Real Water. It had the same conductivity as deionized water, so whatever they added, they didn't add much. It was also neutral, not alkaline. Since this was posted, a technician at the plant said he added more of the 'concentrate' because the 'readings were low' and said he didn't know what was in the concentrate, but assumed if a little was fine, then more would still be fine. I'm a chemist and I've been trying to figure out what they were adding. If I were unscrupulous and wanted to make alkaline water, I'd bottle the tap water here in AZ, since is naturally has a pH of 8 or so. Or else I'd use DI water and throw in a pinch of baking soda. But maybe they were using something else to raise the pH. Would excess phosphate ion cause liver damage? They could have used sodium phosphate in their concentrate. That's the only thing I can think of - unless there was some contaminant in their concentrate. Many years ago, Perrier water was somehow contaminated with benzene. It wasn't enough to make anyone sick. The only way they found out about it was from some chemists who had used their water as a negative control in their HPLC. All of a sudden, they were getting peaks from it. There's lots of water 'woo' out there and I'm sad that this particular brand of pseudoscience hurt some people.

[@ethanekstrand9780]

Your liver is pretty damn good at handling almost anything you throw at it. So it would have had to been a really toxic substance, or a very high concentration of a less toxic substance. But at that point the water would taste off. Phosphate is processed mainly by the Kidneys. So you would need failing kidneys in order for phosphate to accumulate enough in the liver to cause any damage there. Arsenic is a possibility. A little bit won't kill you, but a little bit taken in everyday will add up.

[@barlera]

i think maybe was a biological contamination

[@therabbithat]

Hey can someone help, I'm not clever: why don't they add milk? Or a tiny bit of baking soda? Or other foods that are already basic?

[@namelessguy199]

​@@therabbithatcost

[@Tibyon]

I'm never drinking water again, thanks Heme

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

Please do, you need enough to flush down the daily dose of silica gel.

[@shaiapouf8486]

@@Stachelbeeerchen its ok, they can just drink a snowglobe or something

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

@@shaiapouf8486 havent thought about that at the time. So many things to consider when you want to eat right. Well, I have to have my 1 liter soy sauce cleansing now. Brb.

[@arcopolo8993]

@@Stachelbeeerchen why would you do a soy sauce cleanse when you can just drink cough syrup?

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

@@arcopolo8993 i didn't had cough sirup at the time since i used it for a tik tok already. I got 69 totally necessary internet points for it.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

• That's alkaline water for plebs, rich people drink "Diamond Water." At the factory, they put a tiny diamond in the bottom of a giant vat of alkaline water which (somehow) imbues all of the water with (some sort of) wonderful magical properties. • I thought the (small) thumbnail was wading flamingos. 😀

[@maryprantephd6736]

Along the same line as Luxury Cucumbers 2.0.

[@alinurgali2968]

Check out Nilered's diamond water

[@maryprantephd6736]

@@alinurgali2968 No thx.

[@poodle5421]

@@maryprantephd6736 you should. He carbonates water with carbon dioxide from diamonds its really cool

[@Zenheizer]

@@poodle5421 (and expensive lol)

[@ballboys607]

Soapy water go brrr

[@HemeReview]

glug glug

[@sharrpshooter1]

legit 9 pH is higher than the standard buffer zone of some soaps idk who in their right mind thinks drinking this is good for you

[@Texas240]

@@sharrpshooter1 - it was an ex strip club bouncer mixing the chemicals in the water. When the ph read low, he called his boss the owner's son. That guy told the guy doing the mixing to "add some more concentrate". The former bouncer added more, but didn't measure. When questioned, he stated that he figured if it was something that the company was selling to people to consume that any amount of whatever he was mixing would be safe for consumption.

[@bigsmall246]

@@Texas240 where did you get this info from?

[@Texas240]

@@bigsmall246 - Googled around. The story made the news and there was an interview with the ex-bouncer/ chemical mixer guy.

[@janedoeYT]

> they do weird stuff in classes like that Ughh, hits too close to home

[@mihirpatil8843]

AP chem moment

[@boltlight1244]

@@mihirpatil8843 Yup.

[@ArashixArashi]

As I med student I appreciate this channel so much more. I started off years ago on the ChubbyEmu channel, but I know the narration is geared more towards a regular audience for entertainment (and maybe somewhat educational) purposes.

[@therabbithat]

I love this one even though more of it goes over my head. Biology in secondary school here is at a high level and I did it in first year in college too so I can get the gist and learn stuff, and I don't work in a related field so me misunderstanding without realising won't kill anyone 😂 I imagine these videos take just as long, he still edits them and scripts them. If only we could make a copy of him happy to do youtube full time 😁

[@xyz6106]

"It's bad for business if your customer's livers are shutting down." Except only if you don't get them drunk or high at the same time.

[@LightPhoenix7000]

Sounds like they didn't add enough psyllium husk. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that it's an impurity in whatever they are adding to raise the pH. It's possible they got a non-food grade reagent by accident, or a lot of something that failed. These are the sorts of things that should be caught by QC, but who knows.

[@blue_anemone]

I don't think these people know chemistry so I don't think they would be able to do QC properly

[@flagmichael]

It appears the ingredients are purified water and potassium bicarbonate, which must surely explain the high price. If the bicarb came from China, the land of contaminated food and drug products, it might explain a lot. They seem to have trouble keeping melamine out of food products. Just spitballing.

[@deductivevariance3497]

@@flagmichael They also seem to have trouble with keeping viruses on the inside the labs.

[@Sceptonic]

@@deductivevariance3497 lmao

[@LoisoPondohva]

@@deductivevariance3497 on the brighter side, they don't seem to have problems keeping millions of people in extermination camps. Oh, wait

[@lisamoulton2540]

Great video, I'd love to see an UPDATE when more info is available 👍 😀 😊

[@bjarnes.4423]

Some natural springs are alkaline, and are said to be good for your health. Because of the minerals, not the high pH

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Yeah, there's one of those bottled near where I live and I drink that one sometimes. It's pretty good

[@horacewonghy]

8ph or below is ok And I like that mineral taste too

[@chrsmcwtrs]

its alkaline and high Ph because, its correlated... you cant have one with out the other

[@sammyeveret6401]

The mention of Le Chatelier's principal gave me a very violent flashback to my AP chemistry class electing me to decorate the class poster and that eventually resulting in me drawing an anime boy version of Le Chatelier

[@mihirpatil8843]

another reminder to study for my ap chem test in a month :(

[@isabellajenny]

Fuck I really wanna see an anime boy version of Le Chateliar now

[@BRUXXUS]

Water.....concentrate.... I am in the wrong business.

[@kristenkrueger5527]

Thank you I actually got sick in November...

[@francisrivas9497]

Report it to the fda

[@spookygreg]

In the lab, we call deionized water “the good stuff.”

[@maryprantephd6736]

Quantitative analysis (chemistry)! Yes! I loved that course!

[@georgejanzen774]

You could also call it "water concentrate".

[@Morbacounet]

If you want to drink alkaline water, buy some food grade baking soda and dissolve a small amount in your water. It's non toxic, has a displeasing taste at high dose (avoids over consumption) and is cheap. If you're afraid of heavy metals, buy a resin exchange filter.

[@Humongous_Pig_Benis]

_" If you're afraid of heavy metals, buy a resin exchange filter"_ I should buy some resin exchange filter ear plugs for my mom, for when I'm listening to heavy metal.

[@fastrack2170]

I like how you explain yourself very thoroughly and at the same time educating us before just carrying on with the story. That's why I'm hooked!

[@reynard2ki]

Love your channels, Dr Bernard! This reminded me of a time when I was participating at a ten day road bike stage race about 8 years ago and there was a booth pushing alkaline water as a performance enhancer. Being a skeptic, I looked up the concept and learned about homeostasis and determined that the idea of alkaline water is a scam. Keep up the good work!

[@Frdyan]

How many people remember chubbyemu as a fitness youtuber?

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

I do. He got rcomended to me when he did those, I watched a view vids and disconnected. Few years later he starts the medical videos and I was like: "hmm... I know this dude, but I dont know why." And after binging all of his videos I found his very old videos and remembered.

[@Mr59J]

@@Stachelbeeerchen this is the exact same thing that happened to me

[@geoffreyaugust0]

"Just bought some powdered water." "Now I don't know what to mix with it"

[@Humongous_Pig_Benis]

6:45 - Concentrated water. Then you just add water to it.

[@Humongous_Pig_Benis]

This reminds me when I was a child. Here in Portugal as little children we were used to be given some money and ordered to go to the grocery store to buy powdered electricity and, if they didn't have it, you could bring candy instead.

[@maryprantephd6736]

Lol!

[@VintageToiletsRock]

This is the exact reason why I drink ACIDIC water instead of garbage alkaline water. I always carry a bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid with me as my "water concentrate"

[@flagmichael]

Same here! Sometimes I forget the bottle and have to siphon some out of my car battery. The minerals really juice it up.

[@randomtidbits7695]

Vintage was a chemists son but Vintage is no more. For what he thought was H₂0 was H₂SO₄. Sorry, couldn't help it, I was instantly taken back to my intro chemistry class and the professor who would burst out with little sayings like that to catch us off guard.

[@sheepewe4505]

According to the alkaline diet, eating lemons will magically make your body more alkaline. Proponents suggest starting your day with a tall glass of water with baking soda plus lemon juice to make the alkaline more effective, or some shit.

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

My throat burns only reading this.

[@rachelk4805]

I will say, when I was pregnant I sometimes mixed a little baking soda into water to settle my stomach, and it worked like a charm. Also, lemon water is yummy.

[@Humongous_Pig_Benis]

_"or some shit"_ 'Nuff said!

[@Erewhon2024]

Well, baking soda and lemon juice will give you a satisfying fizz, if you are extraordinarily bored I guess.

[@blue_anemone]

I know this is obvious to everyone here but that doesn't make any sense

[@vaibhav1618]

Successfully selling "water concentrate" speaks volumes towards how ill informed people are...

[@MariaFernandazz]

I just started med school this year (i just finished my second week of college) and i really look up to you, watching your videos and all the knowledge you have makes me really admire you and push myself to hopefully one day become a great professional as well. Thanks for all the videos you make, greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷 ❤️

[@gmrads]

“Alkaline water cures everything” -NileRed (pro science man)

[@ballboys607]

wait did Nile actually say that lmao

[@TheVermilliaFamily]

@@ballboys607 he said it ironically

[@gmrads]

@@ballboys607 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZbCqXypastkqaM Oh it was actually nileblue

[@ballboys607]

@@TheVermilliaFamily whew almost gave me a heart attack

[@flagmichael]

@@gmrads I'm glad I saw the explanation about all the things it can do for us. I definitely want to get to the next level the guy was talking about. On this level kobolds keep killing me and taking all my gold.

[@Erewhon2024]

The concentrate could be Drano. Personally, I would rather avoid strong caustics, be they acids or bases. They burn a bit.

[@crowdemon_archives]

"a bit" is an understatement

[@ItsAsparageese]

I knew I loved bingeing your videos, and I knew medical videos help me get over motivation humps and generally be more productive and less cognitively out of whack any given day, because I just love the subject so much that it's neurologically grounding/cognitively defibrillating (for lack of a better figurative word) just to immerse in it ... But tonight I learned that this particular flavor of content attracts my interest consistently enough to help me calm down and snap out of obsessing about an unexpectedly-poked past trauma, when nothing else can take my attention off of it. Just wanted to say thank you, on the off-chance you see this. I love your videos for their informativeness and excellent presentation and the character and personality you bring to the info, but also I'm very grateful that these videos happen to be an effective therapeutic tool for me at times. :)

[@TonyFDiego]

I like how this young man has grown up since his early blogs and videos. My respects to a devoted presenter.

[@Erc7822]

I love watching these videos while I eat and learning to be afraid of my food.

[@brucewayne1777]

6:30, the sheer confusion of "what is alkaline water /concentrate/?" And I was thinking the same thing. What even is that? Just the "base" they're adding to the water? Or are they making the alkaline water then....boiling it to remove the water? Either way, I still have to ask. Why?

[@maryprantephd6736]

"Alkaline water concentrate"🤦‍♀️🤣

[@XxALRxX1995]

That is a bit scary or bizarre. I really hope they do find a cause because I am invested now.

[@AlkisGD]

I can't remember how PH was taught in high school, but water being neutral made sense to me because acids start with an H and bases end with an OH but water is simply H-OH so ... an acidbase? 😛

[@5688gamble]

Water is mainly in it's molecular form, however some of it dissociate into H+ or OH- ions, pH7 is generally considered to be where the concentration is roughly equal even if they were to be fully ionized, though if there are equal concentrations in a solution they will tend to combine unless you have some way of preventing it, eg by applying a voltage across it, in which case the ions will move to the respective electrode and pick up or drop off an electron to form hydrogen gas and oxygen gas.

[@mihirpatil8843]

Yes. Water is amphoteric as it can both donate and accept protons. Also all ph 7 water has 10^-14 M of H+ and OH-

[@evelessforever2714]

“Alkaline water concentrate” LOL that’s like an expensive April fools joke

[@maryprantephd6736]

☝🤣

[@RikoLime]

As a math major its hard for me to remember "acute" in medical means "sudden" and not "slightly" or "small". No one had (or has ever had to) explain it before with my family being relatively healthy overall. Im glad you reiterate it in videos because we all hear "acute blah blah failure" and others.may think "small" as well (thinking not serious). Part of it is also any reports or whatnot always say "acute sudden onset". Now knowing, i see theyre being redundant.

[@greenfloatingtoad]

Accute angles are sharper

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Perhaps it would be helpful to think of "acute" as meaning something akin to "pinpoint" -- as in, a very small angle, or a very specific moment in time.

[@benpero6510]

"Assuming that you have functioning kidneys" ha bold of you to assume thay

[@maryprantephd6736]

And thorough, I'd say.😄

[@williamgorham7339]

The water supply in my local area was contaminated with a brain eating microorganisms due to low residual chlorine concentration from the utility. The city is Lake Jackson Texas if you want to look it up.

[@ehcmier]

Walgreen's sells name-brand *purified* and *distilled* water stating that minerals were added for flavoring. I get that for drinking water, but not water that is being purchased for batteries, or other reasons where more purity is desired. They also sell fluoridated water for infants alongside the general drinking water, like it's a food supplement, making dosing a potential problem. Strange to see nowadays.

[@ishmail3966]

Does the king himself respond?

[@afeathereddinosaur]

Got scared for a moment there. I occasionally drink from alkaline water, because there is a distributor of water near where I live, and one of the two sources from where they extract it is alkaline, so sometimes I drink from it. But it comes directly from the mineral fountain(you can even see the machines, it's pretty cool), so I'm safe.

[@ReportTheHackers]

There are more regulations and steps in making sure tap water is safe than there are for "natural spring water". Just remember, there's many things in nature that can kill you.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

@@ReportTheHackers of course, it just wasn't the point of contention this time. Next time though maybe another mushroom chubby emu video.

[@ReportTheHackers]

@@afeathereddinosaur a mushroom chubby emu...? are you ok my dude? Edit: oohh the other channel name. sorry new around here. carry on.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

@@ReportTheHackers np, the Internet do be like that sometimes. One day you'll be numb enough to not even question these things

[@darcieclements4880]

Actually, no. You are not default safe. It is extremely possible that this case actually came from a contaminated ground water source rather than a contaminated additive. The region it happened in has natural alkaline water with a ph of around 10 in most places, so they could have been using a spring. I wouldn't drink any commercial alkaline water sources until they pin this down. Personal wells are fine though. Hard water isn't a concern as long as it gets tested every few years for contamination.

[@petermc_grann4192]

You know, it wouldn't surprise me if the "negative ions" were more than just OH- !

[@MGlBlaze]

Even outside of your body forming a pH buffer, I would also imagine that the base content of the 'alkaline water' would react with your stomach acid on consumption; so that would, by my understanding, result in being left with water and some form of salt. Maybe also carbon dioxide or some other gas, depending on the exact reaction. Like the classic primary school demonstration of adding baking soda to vinegar. Whatever made the water a base probably isn't meant to make it past the stomach, as a result. The most obvious explanation would indeed be that that particular batch was contaminated by something that wasn't supposed to be there.

[@tomfeng5645]

This could also be a reason why the alkaline water specifically had issues, neutralizing stomach acid which may have otherwise dealt with the contaminant, especially if it's biological.

[@dexterantonio3070]

I think your stomach is pH 3 so you need 1 mL of the volume of stomach acid to neutralize 1 L of pH 8 water

[@ethanekstrand9780]

It would be impossible to drink enough alkaline water to neutralize your stomach acid even the slightest bit.

[@johnnysasakithethird1209]

Lead pipes are still in use, as well as asbestos concrete mains. Mostly in rural areas. But not that rural.

[@maryprantephd6736]

Such a compelling story-teller--such brilliance flashing in those fabulous eyes! You're the absolute best, Dr Bernard!💖

[@dylancleverdon486]

i buy ph water for dental health its important that your mouth remains at least neutral to not promote decay. so after a sweet meal its good to wash it down with something thats gonna neutralize the acids in my mouth but i’m aware that drinking water could be the thing thats keeping my mouth healthy and not necessarily the fact that its ph water. also i don’t know if it helps in this scenario but when my stomach feels not great i’ll take an alkaseltzer or some ph water and that can cool it down.

[@squirrelycritter]

Yikes. My mom made me drink this a LOT as a kid. She was a major health nut. I believe since I've had various bloodwork done since then, I should be safe, but I can't remember if I've had a test for Hepatitis. My hopes are since I'm 30 now, there's no way I had it. (Plus, we live in Georgia.)

[@therabbithat]

Chances are it was just water and only a waste of money. Did you ever find out?

[@tonyp6631]

Basic-ass water..😒

[@NitFlickwick]

I believe “basic ass-water” is the proper hyphenation here.

[@tonyp6631]

@@NitFlickwick well, initially I wrote, "basic ass water" but later edited it to avoid it being read as such. if you wish to create basic 'ass-water', mix three teaspoons of magnesium sulfate with eight ounces of water, drink it and wait thirty minutes. 👍 It's called: 'the pee out of your butt challenge' Google it on KZbin!

[@tashtant]

You simply, amazing Bernard! You are so good at compiling and explaining these cases and teaching terminology.

[@grannykiminalaska]

I had a dr tell me drinking a little baking soda in water for acid indigestion would cause me to develop ketoacidosis. She capped that with....drink vinegar instead.....😒

[@archinsoni1254]

His channel convinced me that liver is the most important organ in the body

[@flagmichael]

An interesting aside to that: we have a 5 month old German Shepard puppy that just kept losing weight, and the vet didn't know why until her symptoms got really bad - she would walk in circles and just stop if she contacted a wall, like a defective Roomba. She was diagnosed with a liver shunt. We had never heard of it, but here's the deal. Mammals are born with livers, but in utero the liver had nothing to do so bypass veins (often only one) grows to pass most of the blood flow around the liver. Around birth the bypass vein, called a "shunt" is supposed to close off. When it doesn't metabolism is really messed up. Next week we will pay $6000-$8000 to get it fixed. I bet it would be more in humans!

[@CarthagoMike]

Very interesting video topic!

[@danielleterrell2311]

An update from the future: "Real Water sold in jugs. A jury this week awarded $228.5 million to seven plaintiffs in their case against Nevada-based water company Real Water, which sold alkaline water tainted with hydrazine, a highly toxic chemical found in fuel for rockets and spacecraft.Oct 6, 2023"

[@junkjunkloot4357]

This video had great takeaways. Thanks for giving something to think about!

[@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641]

People really seem think your body just lets stuff straight from your stomach in to your blood stream unaltered. People take collagen supplements thinking the same thing.

[@Erewhon2024]

People taking collagen supplements should think about gelatin. Probably cheaper.

[@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641]

@@Erewhon2024 it all gets broken down in to amino acids in your stomach, and your body uses them as it would any other amino acids...

[@Erewhon2024]

@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 Agreed. Gelatin/collagen will give you about the same amino acid ratios as in the collagen your body makes whereas eating alfalfa will be deficient in one or more. But I just eat more meat/eggs/etc than needed to meet the minimum requirements, which solves the problem.

[@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641]

@@Erewhon2024 eggs are great for that, they've got so much good nutrition in them. They get a bad rap from the cholesterol, but dietary cholesterol doesn't actually seem to increase serum cholesterol levels. At least that's what the studies I've read say.

[@Daswassuphomie]

@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 100% correct :-)

[@I_Am_Connected]

Dude how have I never seen this channel before. It’s like finding a goldmine of your favourite YT videos

[@JoelFeila]

I grew up in an area where the tap water was naturally alkaline, also I did have a chemistry teacher that di ask a few question about pOH. pH + pOH = 14, just case anyone here need a quick way to answer the question.

[@brotherbear1162]

"Alkaline water concentrate". Damp baking soda? Maybe bleach? 😂😂😂

[@notthatcreativewithnames]

Possibly concentrated sodium hydroxide.

[@maryprantephd6736]

All suggestions sound *so* palatable!

[@Moosewad]

I wonder what your take on waters like BLK water is where it's super mineral heavy, not necessarily alkaline

[@chase6428]

Alkaline water does actually really help my acid reflux/GERD problems; but I feel like soothing an acidic stomach is its only real practical use.

[@KyleInOklahoma]

*_Our bodies are truly amazing_*

[@roxywright5558]

It horrifies me that in a developed country like the US you guys have accepted that being unable to drink the tap water is a norm :(

[@Chewsstudio]

please follow-up on this when there are enough updates to make a video. I am really curious about this

[@BlackHawkElite]

Been a viewer for quite a while and a fellow powerlifter. I am glad that you always are serious and you don't make stupid jokes ( for me I qould greatly appreciate even if you did some lecture type videos on different topics) . I believe that a video explaining the new vaccines and types of vaccines along with their differences including pros and cons would be amazing and also it would really clear the waters. (No pun intended) Much love from Greece!

[@kinifeidl4179]

Thank you Dr. Bernie. This is very informative. One question though. How did the patients recover? Did they have to be given medicines ?

[@sukul3889]

It says “infused with negative ions” I would be more worried about it having thorium powder like those negative ion bracelets scams

[@Ash-kf1zc]

I'm an RN in Medical and when we get someone from ED admitted, I usually say in handover "[name] PRESENTED to the emergency room for ..." I can't help myself.

[@yeetghostrat]

I take strange pride in drinking plain dihydrogen monoxide. Not really the same topic, but, drink water, kids.

[@alevxzx]

Wow. Did you know that everyone who consumed this chemical has died?

[@yes0r787]

Not everyone... not yet.

[@yeetghostrat]

@@alevxzx :'O Oh nooo! Thanks for informing me, maybe I should stop...

[@Stachelbeeerchen]

@@alevxzx i heard some even had heartattacks after drinking some. Same goes for breathing in an mixture with 20% dioxide and 78% nitrogen It is said that this nitrogen can make the frogs turn gay, I have that from my uncle who does his own research and is the only one who truly questions the government

[@joe2501echo]

I found some alkaline water that was made with Himalayan rock salt. It was pretty good, and didn't actually change the pH. The label said it was too pure to test with a pH strip and I couldn't stop laughing.

[@blue_anemone]

Please do a follow-up on this I am fascinated by this topic for some reason

[@AaronShenghao]

Dr Bernard I have a question: Will Alkaline water help heart burn or stomach ulcers? I expect the water will neutralize some stomach acid.

[@amybaron8285]

No. The ulcers in the stomach and the duodenum, first part of the small intestine, are caused by bacterium called H. Pylori.

[@Pyroverbs205]

Thanks for all these precious life-giving info. God bless

[@Psychx_]

Buffers are explained by the "Henderson-Hasselbalch equation" and not by Le Chatelier's principle btw.

[@ItsTeezoUBZ]

Can’t you just add Baking soda to tap water to make “akaline water”

[@trews1]

yes

[@utopianfiat]

Think about what kinds of substances heavily alkaline solutions will leach off of containers. Heavy metals are typically more soluble in acidic solution, and not basic solution.

[@victoriaevelyn3953]

to me this alkaline water sounds like a type of homeopathic fad why do people go for this woo woo when normal water is just as good and cheaper

[@OceanAce]

People could just as easily add baking soda if they want this dumb water.

[@lobsterbark]

Maybe they just like the taste. American tap water often tastes horrible.

[@catatoblob8598]

I like to drink it when I'm out running to soothe any acid reflux that comes up.

[@tuvelat7302]

I found an alkaline mineral water, but we only used it for the coffee maker. Hubs is sensitive to the acid in coffee, so I use an alkaline water to balance it out.

[@maryprantephd6736]

Timely topic, well-constructed, logical discussion. Thx so much, Dr Bernard!💖

[@BlinkyLass]

I have an uncle who is a medical doctor, and his wife is a nurse. I found an alkaline water filtration system and antibacterial soap in their kitchen. Always found that pretty sketchy.

[@SamanthaVimes]

I'm asthmatic. It leads to acid stomach and reflux. Yes, I take famitodine to help control it, but some days, even 40 mg isn't enough. I can chew tums, or mix some baking soda into water, but when I'm in the office, drinking the alkaline water seems like a pleasant and unobtrusive way to treat it. In fact, asthma also makes me thirsty-- and the alkaline water contains electrolytes. It's not a necessity and most people using it probably just caught some pseudoscience or are following trends but thanks for not slamming people who do use it.

[@myozbubble]

We drink bottled water knowing that it is actually somewhere else's tap water but, that water has no taste. Our local water not only tastes yucky it also smells heavily of sulfur. Filtering it doesn't remove the smell and it still tastes unpleasant.

[@emmonstrex65]

Paying premium for something we get out of the tap, and having your liver shut down, unbelievable!

[@jewelmathews1444]

Not all tap water is safe tho

[@PanicGiraffe]

Fun fact, neutral pH is only 7 at room temperature. It's just that pOH is also 7 at that temp. As temperatures rise, more water dissociates and the concentration of both increases.

[@AlwayzPr0]

People should add soap if they need alkaline water.

[@tiryaclearsong421]

I didn't rinse all the soap out of my glass this morning and I gotta say, it's not fun.

[@user-tf9wo7dd9b]

Dang I drink it sometimes to help with my acid reflux, hopefully it's just that specific brand of water.

[@noob19087]

You can also just mix a bit of baking soda into regular tap water. I do it all the time and it works just fine.

[@Aetherian1]

It might better to try more formal medications anyway, water won't remain in your oesophagus for more than a few seconds but most modern treatments try to form a gel that sticks and maintains a higher pH for longer. Up to you though, best of luck!

[@user-tf9wo7dd9b]

@@Aetherian1 I'd already tried some medications but they didn't do much for the sore throats which were my main symptoms. I wanted to try the alkaline water based on some loose science about pepsin and I completely forgot about baking soda. I don't rlly drink it that much nowadays. Kind of forgot about it.

[@chrispicakes6577]

@@noob19087 there is a ton of sodium in baking soda. I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone who needs to watch their sodium intake.

[@chrispicakes6577]

I got a filter/pitcher for it. I only use it to make cold brew coffee with alkaline water because it doesn’t bother my reflux that way. It probably isn’t as alkaline as store bought stuff though.

[@aldechanfull]

Came back to this video in 2022 when there's outbreak of infant and children hepatitis

[@fishainsley]

I always find it quite humorous when I see alkaline water on store shelves where I live. As an aquarium hobbyist, I’ve done pretty thiorough testing on the local tap water and the pH of the tap water is 9. That’s the same pH of most alkaline water.

[@SgtMantis]

It possible it's not the water, but the container. Throwing off the pH could lead to chemicals leaching from the bottles into the water.

[@idrankwhatt]

I thought I would share with you that I am a liver transplant + lymphoma diagnosis 18 years old. Everything has blown over but I thought that you’d find my story interesting. The lymphoma was discovered after only surgery. a multitude of scans were conducted and nothing showed up for 2 years of testing. My doctor says it’s the rarest case she’s ever seen. Though this weird time in my life, i truly didn’t know what my life has planned. I went to high school jaundiced as a lemon having a legitimate existential crisis at 17 years old. I picked up books in the meantime and have aspirations to major in math and engineering later on. I thought we had a lot in common being a weightlifter for 6 years now. I love your content let me know if you’re interested further.

[@RealRuler2112]

I'll never understand people... pay extra money to buy something that's unregulated with no oversight or outside testing because you don't trust the tap water that's tested by multiple independent agencies from the collection point all the way into people's homes. Bottled water always reminds me of the intro to one of Jackie Chan's old movies - starts with a tranquil scene in the woods & a deer peeing in a stream; camera follows the urine downstream into a water collection plant & directly into bottles. =) XD

[@darcieclements4880]

You would think people would just get a tap filter. I do understand the mistrust though, there was an entire conspiracy behind the poisonings in Flint Michigan. It goes waaaaaay deeper into absolutely abhorrent levels of corruption than what the media has chosen to cover in detail, but those living in Michigan are more aware. However, the investigation go slowed down a lot by the assassinations... I mean "random unrelated killings that wiped out all the original key witnesses in a short period of time", so it has not concluded yet. But a home tap filter will offer better protection than bottled water by far.

[@RealRuler2112]

​@@darcieclements4880 A tap filter is certainly an effective way to go, as is a pitcher filter. I get the mistrust, but don't into the conspiracy theories about Flint. I actually live near there & what really happened was the city went broke, a bean counter was appointed by Governor Snyder with the exclusive goal of reducing expenditures, he changed the source of their drinking water from Detroit to the Flint River, but didn't know enough about water systems to realize that a chemical (don't remember the name & am too lazy to look it up, but *think* it was some kind of oxyphosphate) which is added to drinking most most everywhere needed to be added. Unfortunately, this is the chemical which forms a shield over the exceedingly old lead water pipes to prevent the lead from leeching into the water. Once the chemical maintaining it was gone, this crust over the lead eroded away & exposed the lead itself. (The majority of houses still have lead solder joints, so the chemical is still needed.) There wasn't anything malicious behind it - the guy was just ignorant of what he was changing & didn't consult with water system experts first. (Probably because that would've cost money... how'd that work out in the long run finance-wise? ;-) ) No idea what 'assassinations' you're talking about... sounds like one of those off-the-wall internet conspiracy theories.

[@badddkattt]

It’s convenience it’s easier to take on the go even though it’s not that hard to fill up a few bottles at home. Also the water at home might have off orders or taste. And the bottled water can be bought with flavor added. And carbonated. And if your refrigerator doesn’t dispense iced water you can put the bottled water in the frig and have cold water anytime. But yeah overall I agree with you, I refill water bottles, I wouldn’t buy a refrigerator without a iced water dispenser, I sometimes add water flavorings, and am going to buy a water carbonation machine. Besides the cost of the water there’s the hassle of storing and returning the empty bottles and cans.

[@aresjerry]

I love this channel style more, Feel like i am learning more from heme review

[@selfcensorship1]

Alkaline water concentrate is most probably a mixture of alkaline salts, or water with a higher concentration of alkaline salts.

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

one time i drank water from a little stream because i was hiking and didn't have any water with me

[@jllemin4]

I want to know what happens to heavy metals that are too small to be caught by your organs. I've heard they collect in the brain because of the slight EM field, but I have only heard and have no idea

[@Erewhon2024]

It isn't size. It is chemistry. BTW, "heavy metals" are usually ingested as cations/salts not metals. Very few metals are inert, and those that are truly inert (gold?) rather than catalytic aren't the dangerous ones.