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Skeptoid #139: Alkaline Water Systems: Change Your Water, Change Your Bank Balance

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2009

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Sellers of new-age water treatment products charge outrageous prices for a product with zero plausibility.

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One of the things your body handles automatically is its pH level, how alkaline or acidic it is.

0:10.5

Assets can flow into the stomach to neutralize whatever you put in, and the breath you exhale

0:15.6

contains more or less carbon dioxide as needed to keep your blood exactly where it needs

0:20.3

to be.

0:21.5

And yet, there are no end to charlatans selling products they claim can overcome your

0:27.8

body's natural function.

0:30.1

Alkaline water systems are coming up next, unskeptoid.

0:41.2

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

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Today we're going to take a scientific look at one of the latest multi-level marketing

1:36.6

fads, healing water machines, devices costing thousands of dollars claiming to ionize or

1:44.4

alkalize your tap water and claiming a dazzling range of health and medical benefits.

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