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Have you been following all the news about the microbiome the past few years? This field of science has been exploding and represents a true paradigm shift in health and medicine. Science is rapidly revealing the reciprocal relationship we have with our microbes. Quite simply, we depend on a healthy balance of microbiota for our health and survival.
Now, let’s make the case that the health mechanism behind high alkaline water isn’t just about creating antioxidants, but in maintaining an environment by which our protective microbiota thrive. This environment is the small intestine where most of our water is absorbed by far:
The small intestine may be construed as the center of all health. And it’s here where a balance of microbes is crucial. This is where our nutrients are absorbed or malabsorbed. This is where all health begins, or it’s the beginning of the end!
Most people would think that drinking high alkaline water would make our intestines more alkaline, but the opposite is true. Drinking high alkaline water actually favors the growth of microbes which maintain the intestinal pH at healthy acidic levels.
Contrary to popular belief, the so-called alkaline diet is one that feeds the protective microbiota in order to maintain a healthy acidic gut. A low acid gut means acid reflux where the cure is to raise acid. When the gut produces acid, bicarbonate is sent into circulation to maintain healthy alkaline blood. Such are the inverse relationships of our compartmentalized bodies. These inverse relationships include gut-brain and intracellular pH. But it all starts in the gut where our water is absorbed.
Studies conclude that certain bacteria, the anaerobes, thrive best in negative ORP (oxidation reduction potential) and this is exactly what is provided by consistent use of high alkaline drinking water. This ORP represents the antioxidant value of high alkaline water. It allows for the growth of protective microflora, especially the lactic acid bacteria such as Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria. These bacteria guard against overgrowth of gram-negative, toxin-producing aerobes.
These toxin-producing aerobes are also important to health, but they shouldn’t be overgrown in the small intestine as this leads to malabsorption syndrome and is associated with metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cancer and neurodegenerative disease. A recent study shows how pathogenic bacteria such as E. coli thrive in an aerobic environment fueling their aerobic respiration.
So, by creating an environment with a high negative-value ORP drinking water which is high alkaline water, we’re helping our protective microbes to guard the intestinal fort.
How’s that for counterintuitive? High alkaline water creates a healthy acidic gut!
To purchase a high alkaline water machine, The Gut Club recommends:
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(The Gut Club founder, Keith Bell, has used their machines for over 10 years and both equipment and service have been excellent.)
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2019 UPDATES:
Positive effect of an electrolyzed reduced water on gut permeability, fecal microbiota and liver in an animal model of Parkinson’s disease
Effects of Alkaline-Reduced Drinking Water on Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea: A Randomized Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study
“Microorganisms have their own intrinsic reduction potential (Eh) for each species, and aerobic and anaerobic bacteria grow at different oxidation-reduction potentials. Aerobic bacteria require a positive potential of +400 mV and facultative anaerobic bacteria require negative electric potential between −300 and −400 mV. Electrochemically generated reduced water has a negative potential of 0 to −300 mV, while the tap water has a potential of +300 to +450 mV [38]. By drinking reduced water, it is possible to improve symptoms of functional bowel disease by accelerating the growth of anaerobic bacteria (Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria) and inhibiting the growth of aerobic pathogens.” (2018)
Here’s where The GUT CLUB is compiling research about high alkaline water, redox, negative ORP and how this can lead to a beneficial flora shift where anaerobic bacteria flourish:
