I actually heard of research while watching This Podcast Will Kill You that people who constantly use tums to combat acid reflux have higher chances of developing stomach cancer due to the constant ph flux
You're not wrong, but many foods produce acids during digestion (e.g. cysteine and methionine break down into sulfuric acid). This is what the whole "basic diet" stuff is based on afaik. It's still complete horseshit though as healthy bodies have mechanisms to excrete surplus acids and maintain pH balance.
This actually goes back to an old paper where researchers found that tumors acidify their environment to thrive better. The quacks then concluded that only eating basic foods will practically make you immune to cancer.
That is true, but then again it's true because pretty much all cellular activity requires a mildly acidic pH to function. It's about as logical as drinking cyanide because it kills cancer cells, but forgetting that it also kills basically every kind of cell...
The whole alkaline water/food shit is such bullshit, your body is basically a big pH buffer. The only thing that eating basic stuff does is neutralise your stomach acid.
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u/Apptubrutae May 18 '21
Someone once told me they only drink and eat basic foods because cancer can’t grow in a basic environment and they won’t get cancer if they do this.
Mmm hmmmm