Help! Brilliant minds needed! I am still trying to figure out the pH reaction in the body of citric acid.
Last week I read that citrates are alkalinizing. I therefore thought that citric acid was also. I have since been in email conversation with a chemist about it. He says that citrates are indeed alkalanizing....they are the mineral salts of citric acid. However, he says that citric acid itself is *very acidic*, and so is lemon. Here is his quote: "Citric acid is very acidic. It has three carboxylic acid groups. It is attracted to cations. This does not matter if it is in a beaker, a body, or a lemon. Many fruits and vegetables also have a mineral content. This may partially neutralize some of the acids. If you pyrolyze the item, then the organic moiety is primarily disposed of as carbon dioxide and the inorganic component sits in the ash. This is why ashes containing, say, Potassium hydroxide, are used in traditional soap making to hydrolyzed the triglycerides and saponify the free fatty acids. Lemons are acidic. No matter how they are sliced or diced." Now, I don't know about the citric acid, but I KNOW I have read that lemons are alkalinizing in the body. Does anyone have a source or reference for that? The reason I am so gung-ho to figure this out is that I am trying to understand the program in the book DR. MOERMANN'S ANTI-CANCER DIET. His diet is basically alkalinizing. He also recommends lots of lemon juice and citric acid. I am trying to figure out whether this is an alkalinzing diet or an acidic diet. My chemist friend insists the diet creates a very acid condition in the body, and that that actually fights the cancer. I do not think so, but I do not have facts. Got any facts about any of this to lay on me? ~^^V^^~ -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
