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Sorry to disappoint y’all. This is actually not so dumb. Chemically she makes a buffer solution.
How a Buffer Solution Works: Example with Baking Soda and Citric Acid
A buffer solution is a system that resists changes in pH when small amounts of acids or bases are added. Buffers are essential in chemistry and biology because many processes require a stable pH.
How Buffer Solutions Work
A buffer usually consists of a weak acid and its corresponding conjugate base (or a weak base and its conjugate acid). When an acidic or basic substance is introduced, the buffer reacts to neutralize the added ions, thus stabilizing the pH.
- When an acid (H⁺) is added, the buffer’s base component reacts with it, “soaking up” the excess H⁺ ions.
- When a base (OH⁻) is added, the acid part of the buffer reacts with it, neutralizing the excess OH⁻ ions.
The ability of a buffer to do this depends on the presence of both a weak acid and its conjugate base in appreciable amounts.
Buffer Example: Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) and Citric Acid
Ingredients Involved
- Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO₃): A weak base that can act as a proton acceptor.
- Citric acid (C₆H₈O₇): A weak acid, commonly found in citrus fruits.
When these two substances are dissolved in water, they interact according to the following reaction:
$$ \text{C}_6\text{H}_8\text{O}_7 + \text{NaHCO}_3 \rightarrow \text{C}_6\text{H}_7\text{O}_7^- + \text{Na}^+ + \text{H}_2\text{O} + \text{CO}_2\uparrow $$
This reaction creates a mixture containing both citric acid (weak acid) and its conjugate base (citrate ion).
How This Buffer System Functions
- If an acid is added to the solution (increasing H⁺), the citrate ion (Citrat-Anion) from the reaction will bind to the excess H⁺, lessening the pH shift.
- If a base is added (increasing OH⁻), the leftover citric acid will release H⁺, which neutralizes the OH⁻, keeping the pH stable.
Key Point:
This buffer is only effective within a certain pH range, which in this case is close to the pKa value of citric acid (around 3-7 depending on which proton is being lost, as citric acid is a triprotic acid).Summary Table
Component Role Action if acid is added Action if base is added Citric acid (C₆H₈O₇) Weak acid Conjugate base absorbs H⁺ Releases more H⁺ to neutralize OH⁻ Sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO₃) Weak base (forms buffer) Provides conjugate base (citrate ion) Provides weak acid (citric acid) This mixture resists pH changes thanks to the reversible interplay between the weak acid (citric acid) and its conjugate base (citrate ion), demonstrating the core principle of buffer solutions.
Do these kinds of buffers have health benefits? Why is it good to drink water that has buffering capacity?
I have no idea. I am a chemical engineer, this question has to be answered by a biologist or physician.
Send me a message too please about the health benefits
All of that fancy chemistry goes out the window because your stomach is full of a strong acid which completely obliterates the buffer solution.
I thought it was about the minerals in alkaline water, not the ph itself?
Mixing an acid and a base makes a salt. She’s drinking saltwater.
It’s got 'lectrolytes!!
Yeah, it’s got what plants crave
GOOP = What your brain is made of if you support or buy these “products”.
She’s just another GRIFTER!
Is there a consensus view on whether or not Gwyneth is a genuine numbnut or is just cynically exploiting people who are?
Ask her vagina candle?
Instructions unclear, vagina candle stuck in ass.
Dude, it explicitly said vagina candle. This one is on you.
Just an aside, you can make Alkaline lemon water.
It do it:
- Peel a lemon using a vegetable peeler
- Squeeze the bits of peel (pith side up) into a glass or bottle. This allows you to express the oils from the peel.
- Add your Alkaline water to the Glass, the oils will rise to the top, some of it (very little as oils are hydrophobic) will mix with the water, giving it a lemon flavor similar to lacroix.
because the body must “grip” the egg to keep it inside the vagina, sellers claim jade egg use also strengthens vaginal muscles.
So should I put AA batteries in my water bottle or not?
No, AA batteries don’t have enough alkaline flavor, what you need is to throw a car battery into the sea
I believe the AAs go in your vagina. She does a lot of vagina stuff, like my ex.
Don’t the batteries go in the vaginal laser?
I can confirm the vagina stuff with his ex
She was a freak!
I liked her, she was warm. I could read a book under the covers just by screwing in a lightbulb down there
I’m reading these comments and I’m thinking I should call this dude’s ex. I can only hope I’m worthy.
I’ll tell her to expect you
That sounds like her alright. You should definitely go get tested, fyi.
Sounds like we have the same ex kinda.
Vagina stuff. AKA sex.
Don’t tell me you did it missionary!
She did at least a few missionaries, among others.
Such a stupid cunt snake oil salesperson.
What’s the pH of snake oil?
With or without lemon slice?
Maybe the same as her “Goop”.
Or is she a stupid snake cunt oil salesperson?
Hmm, does “Goop” sell Cunt oil?
Okay, let’s see … stupid cunt sales oil snakeperson?
Can you say that again without the misogyny?
I mean salesperson is gender neutral and stupid cunt is pretty gender neutral too, even if it originally referred to female genitalia. Somehow genitalia based insults have become gender neutral, or some of them at least.
“You dick”. Or “suck my balls”.
I assumed the cunt part was to tie in her bizarre candles
She’s a rotten cunt, scam artist. Don’t care how you label it.
Alkaline water won’t be alkaline for long after it enters the stomach, so it doesn’t really matter
Alkaline water does have a place for LPR sufferers like me because it deactivates the pepsin that has vaporized and deposited itself in my esophagus and throat which when activated by acidic foods will begin to digest my soft tissues. The rest of ways to sell it I agree are completely bunk.
TIL, thank you. It indeed makes perfect sense that it would help for this.
This is true for most fad health things. They come from a place of “this is good for one hyper specific medical outcome” and then extrapolate to “this is good for literally all medical outcomes”
Remember the gluten free phase where people with no gluten alergy whatsoever decided they wanted to eat breads stripped of most of their protien(gluten) because they thought it was healthier.
And thank God for that fad, now I can actually find food for my celiac wife everywhere.
That’s still unbelievably common where I live. Some restaurants will have zero vegan options, but you can be sure they’ll offer half a dozen clearly marked gluten free items. Come on, you can’t spare the overhead for a block of tofu, but you can keep gluten free breads and pastas?
The whole gluten thing is pretty interesting.
Low carb diets led to commercial production on non-wheat breads in the western world, creating more options for people with celiacs and increasing public awareness of gluten allergies. With more bread options some people noticed they felt better after chowing non-wheat bread.
Without a lot of health info and bullshit american healthcare, they figured they had gluten allergies or celiacs and adjusted their diet accordingly.
A widely publicized study on non-celiacs gluten allergies found no gluten allergy, media took it out of context and implied those people were full of shit. This polarized the public against anyone claiming a gluten allergy.
But! More and more people self-diagnosed gluten allergies, and more study led to discoveries on how fermentation helps digestion (like with sourdough), that parts of grains contain enzymes that aid digestion, found industry-wide problems with undercooked grains, and allergies to different classes of grains.
So it was healthier for a lot of people, they just didn’t know why.
I have a very high family risk of diabetes and my rule of thum for carbs has always been the more fiber the better. White breads, especially wonder bread has so little fiber you’re basically just eating fluffy sugars. I’m no doctor and my body isn’t everyone’s body but If someone was asking me why bread messes with them my first question will always be, well how much fiber are in the bread you eat? Less then or equal to 10g carbs per 1g fiber? Alright. If you can get to 7:1 better. If you can crack 5:1, that’s pretty good for bread.
That’s a great point, too. Our digestive systems didn’t evolve as fast as food processing.
I researched the gluten thing because I was a chef around the time it took off in my part of the world, and almost had to fire a line cook when he flat out refused to follow protcol because of the gluten study.
I wasn’t super on board at the time, but now I think we should just listen to people. They know their bodies even if they don’t understand the mechanisms.
cough keto cough
Huh, cool.
Hey fellow LPR person! Ever looked into baclofen? It’s an oddball, but it helped me and a friend with our LPR.
So I said, blue M&M, red M&M, they all wind up the same colour in the end.
- Homer Simpson
Which is reason number two (pun intended) why brown M&Ms are the superior ones.
Light brown or dark brown?
Yes.
Depends on how many you eat…
Light brown aka tan.
Slightly better for the teeth maybe? And maybe a slight benefit if heartburn is an issue.
Better for the teeth than pH neutral? Nope. For heartburn it might help, but only for a real short time. Non-fat milk would probably be the better choice.
I believe the intended purpose is to reduce the overall acidity of your body, which it will do (negligibly, maybe even immeasuably). Your stomach acid will compensate regardless, but, in doing so, it uses acidic compounds in the process to do so. Whether that is even beneficial in general is debatable at best, though likely not. But mixing in other acids does negate at least some of the alkalinity, which would defeat the entire point, if there is any effect from it.
Edit: Clarified my position a bit. I’m not suggesting that alkaline water is effective at doing anything at all, nor even that its intended purpose would be a health benefit.
Stomach acid is like 10,000,000x more acidic than most alkaline water is basic. Dilution is probably doing an order of magnitude more work than the hydroxide here (meaning just drink more tap water)
I didnt say it would make a significant or even measurable difference. But it will technically drop your overall pH. If I drop any mass of basic material in any volume of acidic material with which it can react, there will be some net change in acidity, even if negligible.
The body maintains homeostasis. It cannot afford to change pH. It is capable to buffer pH by neat biochemical mechanisms.
Yes, I know. And to maintain homeostasis, it has means to make adjustments to changes, like pH. Which means you can change the pH of some fluid in the body, and it will correct this change. We are not saying anything different.
Ahh I see you have forgotten pH buffering solutions.
I was more of a physics nerd. Can’t say I’ve heard of such a thing.
Weak acids/bases tend to not fully convert their potential free ions, stabilizing at particular pHs for relatively large ranges of concentration.
You can use that as a basis for solutions that aren’t super-basic but will preserve their pH in response to drips of acid.
Hmm TIL
But please…go on.
It absolutely will not. If it did, it would kill you.
How would a negligible change in your stomach acidity kill you? What do you think tums do?
I never said it does.
It absolutely will not. If it did, it would kill you.
Then what does that mean?
They said:
- Alkaline water won’t change your body’s pH.
- Changing your body’s pH would kill you.
Since alkaline water does not change body pH, it would not necessarily kill the drinker.
- It originally said it would change your bodies pH.
Ok. Then they’re wrong. The human body’s overall pH can vary within to a small degree with little to no effect on your health, let alone kill you. Changing the pH in small amounts, particularly in different areas like the stomach, will not typically harm the body at all. The entire purpose of some medications like antacids is to do that specifically with the stomach, for example.
Probably either referring to a non-negligible difference or to how being alkaline enough to make a real difference would make it basically poisonous.
I’m no phlebectomist, so I can’t say whether they’re right about it or not 🤷🏻
Read what I replied to.
You replied to me, dude. And I said more than one thing. Idk what the hell you’re claiming will kill you.
Even if you drink 10 liter and piss all of it out?
If you drink 10L of anything it will kill you.
Depends on how much time you have…
Fair. Ha ha
Unrelated but they put out water at my work that’s like just tap water sitting in a dispenser that they’ll sometimes slice like, a couple oranges or lemons or cucumbers into. It adds no flavor and just wastes the fruit or cucumbers
I’ve tasted cucumber water and can definitely taste the cucumber (I also drink unsweetened seltzers). I wonder why theirs isn’t working.
I frickin love cucumber water
Putting a single cucumber into gallons of water isn’t gonna do nothin
Maybe they’re just skimping on it. Cucumber water is pretty good with a couple slices per glass.
Not defending pseudoscientific health regimens, but the acid in “a spritz of lemon” doesn’t neutralize an arbitrary amount of alkalinity
No, but it does reveal a distinct lack of understanding on her her part as to what these pseudoscientific health products even are that are supposedly doing things for her. Like saying “I always drink decaf coffee and pop a shot of 5 hour energy in the morning.” “I drink skim milk with a splash of double cream.” “I love honey on my keto toast.” Like, even if it’s not enough acidity to completely negate the alkalinity, it’s literally antithetical to the supposed goal.
All the posts advocating for combining baking soda and vinegar for cleaning.
I am reminded of the detail in The Office where Michael Scott is stirring sugar into his diet coke.
I think it was Angela Collier that did a pretty basic test with a common store bought alkaline water, a lemon and some test strips. The water doesn’t start very alkaline at all.
edit: Yep, here we go. https://youtu.be/rBQhdO2UxaQ
It’s an amusing video.
She did the math (with some assumptions), but basically 0.25 mL of lemon juice will turn 500 mL of alkaline water into neutral water:
This is in the video at 13:16.The reason is that pH is a logarithmic scale. Alkaline water has a pH of about 8, which means it has a tenth of the hydrogen ions compared to neutral water at pH 7.
Lemon juice has a pH value of 2, which is 1,000,000 times more hydrogen ions than there are in pH 8. So, you just need a little bit of lemon juice to increase the hydrogen ions in alkaline water tenfold, which makes it neutral.0.25 mL of lemon juice is probably too much already.
She’s doing the maths for the concentration of citric acid in lemon juice through the formula C(acid) = 10^(-pH). That works fine for a strong acid, because you can be pretty sure all that acid in the solution is dissociated, and thus lowering its pH… but citric acid is weak - and weak acids don’t dissociate properly in already acidic conditions.
This means there’s probably way more acid in that solution than the pH makes you believe, but that acid will react once you raise the pH, by mixing the lemon juice into the water.
(I don’t blame her for using the strong acid maths. It’s already enough to convey her point, plus the maths for weak acids is a bloody pain.)
Facts baby :)
That girl can rant. Love her work, but always watch it at 2x to maximize the frustrated-teacher vibe.
Even regular neutral water shift to slightly acidic (5.6) as long as it have contact to air (CO2 dissolving). Would be interesting to know how long those store bought alkaline water becomes base or acidic.
True, but your body will not enjoy water that’s very alkaline, so there’s a chance it’s sufficient since lemon is pretty acidic.
Plus, if the whole point of it is to be alkaline, why directly counter that with what you add?
The body doesn’t care much about alkaline water, since the stomach acid is so acidic that it will easily overpower it…
That’s only after your mouth and esophagus. Those aren’t really geared to tolerate exposure to strong acids or bases. Even foods that aren’t acidic enough to immediately damage these regions can still contribute to tooth enamel being worn away, for example. It’s either strong enough to at least consider the impact on those, or it’s weak enough that adding lemon is a questionable move.
Alright, yeah, we’re talking about a pH value of around 8 for alkaline water. That’s also the pH value for eggs, sea water or blood. So, I do imagine our mouth+esophagus can deal with that. At the very least, alkaline water should be food-safe.
“You know what would make this poison really pop? A fistful of active charcoal and prompt medical treatment!”
I dont think most people that specifically purchase it know what alkaline water is.
Apparently it works better than rechargable water.
Call me old-fashioned, but if it doesn’t run on diesel, I’m not drinking it!
Isn’t that the water that’s inside my Alkaline batteries? It must be good to energize the body.
Drinking right from the battery tastes so much better.
Is called a bird
Sells vagina eggs
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