Over-Alkalising?

Here's a question I got recently.

"What I am curious about is, can you cause alkalosis by drinking a high alkaline water? One of the demos suggests to drink water with a pH 9.0 and the only reason tap water is at 7.0 is not a health reason but to prevent erosion of pipes and comparing it to what it is doing inside our bodies.  So, could drinking the higher pH be water be beneficial or drinking too much be detrimental? Because what if someone who doesn't eat right and not enough fruits and vege's, could this help? What about those who do eat right? Could it be harmful?"

Ionised water may have a  high pH but it is seldom overloaded with alkaline minerals. Consider this: the only minerals the water ionizer has at its disposal are those in the inlet water. So at most, you will receive double the quantity of alkaline minerals coming into the unit. A water ionizer splits water based on the minerals in the water. Acid minerals exit via a different path and alkaline via the drinking water outlet.

Proof of what I say is easy. Pour a glass of alkaline ionized water and test the pH. Leave the water for a day and do it again. The hydrogen ions created in the process will have left the water and entered the atmosphere and the minerals alone will be left. The 24-hour test result will be far lower.
 
Now compare this glass of water to the pH of your source water and you'll see only a slight increase .

So alkaline ionized water (from a good water source) isn't laden with alkaline minerals, it's laden with life-force in the form of hydrogen ions.



The only time I've seen excess calcium in ionized water is when the water authorities have been overdosing the water with lime. This only happens in extreme conditions such as drought where the reservoirs become concentrated homes to all sorts of parasites etc, so the chlorine has to be increased to kill them. Then, of course, the lime (calcium) is increased because the chlorine is too acidic and will corrode copper pipes.