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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2186746" data-attributes="member: 11697">Making the body more alkaline in any way that would make a measurable change in blood Ph would make you feel sick, woozy, and if gone too far it'd kill you. The buffers in your blood actively keep your blood Ph in a certain range. If it goes above or below that range, proteins in your body denature (deform) and you start to die.Acid is acid when it comes down to Ph. It's just the concentration of H+ ions in a liquid. I don't recall the exact pathway your body uses to produce gastric juices, but elevated H+ content in the stomach is the end result. Lemon juice just contains citric acid among others, and your body doesn't care where it's getting the substrates from.Nice idea, but not sound from my perspective (I'm currently trying to finish up my thesis in molecular biology, but I've got a fairly decent background in biochem to draw back upon).And on that note, dinner is done and I'm off to go eat that. Chicken w/ mushrooms and a cream sauce. Atkins would probably approve if he wasn't being tormented by imps dressed up as twinkies and sacks of flour. (joking)</blockquote>