Water, Water Everywhere, But Should You Drink It?

Recently I mixed my protein powder into spring water and noticed that it floated rather than sinking to the bottom as it did with my usual filtered water at home. When someone suggested that perhaps my filtered water was acidic, I leered, “That’s impossible, all water is neutral or alkaline.” Nonetheless, my curiosity got the best of me; so when the pH strips came out and my water measured at a pH of 6.5 (acidic!) compared to the spring water’s 8, I was shocked.

I’m no biochemist, so perhaps I was naive believing what I learned in school (water = neutral), and thinking that acid rain was a thing of the past, but how was it that in all my years of practicing as a nutritionist, it never occurred to me to measure the pH of my drinking water? How is it, as well, that we health experts encourage liberal water intake, when the water itself could be poisoning our bodies? And so it became my obsession to measure the pH of various forms of water: Spring water from different springs, distilled water from a plastic container versus glass, tap water, R/O water, and more. Read about my findings this spring on Naturally Savvy.

By the way, adding liquid chlorophyll to any water raises its alkalinity. I had gotten out of that habit, but have since started carrying a bottle in my purse.