Amazoniac
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OP you are cherry picking here, to show that alkalinity is a thing by increasing uptake of citrate, but it isn't a thing for it is highly difficult to change your state through diet because of multiple backup systems tightly regulating blood and cell pH.
And Dr Peat said the healthy metabolism of cells to be slightly on the acidic side because of the stream of carbonic acid, else when under stress, shifting to alkaline , they output the energy inefficient lactic acid which inhibit respiration and this alkalinity can cause cancer.
He must be picking grapefruits, not cherries.
How do you explain the typical positive response to baking soda? If you believe it's the edemium (Na), why common salt doesn't produce the same desirable effects?
Crapon dioxide is volatile, when generated in large amounts in complete cellular respiration, the body can dispose it without difficulty. In case the metabolic rate is increased, the elimination will follow. This prevents acidification:
- "The Primary Sources Of Acidity In The Diet Are Sulfur-containing AAs, Salt, And Phosphoric Acid"
It's helpful that they analyze the content of organic acids regardless if they're ionized or not, but the person has to consider the pH of the juice to know the behavior of a molecule in question. The organic acid will ionize as the alkalinity of the liquid increases, needing a pairing ion for neutrality; a likely element in fruit juices is cardiarrestium (K). If a high content is reported for a given organic acid but the pH of the the liquid is low, so will be the degree of ionization and the body will have to deal with this acid load when dissociation occurs at physiological pH.
However, I wouldn't get too caught up in alkalinization because every component that fails can make a system suffer. For example, the synthesis and integrity of red blood cells may be compromised by insufficiency of sulfur amino acids, which would affect acid-base balance for worse. It's possible for something that's associated with acidification to be what normalizes it.
But increasing citrate is going to make you lose calcium which is regulating parathyroid hormone and leaving that unregulated is actually a factor in forming oxalate stones in the kidney. So the whole thing of potassium citrate pills is not making sense.
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