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For farm animals, acids are used to reduce the pH value of drinking water and to increase health. If you consume vitamin C via citrus fruits like oranges, then

• duskwuff 5y ago
  > For farm animals, acids are used to reduce the pH value of drinking water and to increase health. I have never heard of this practice, and can find no evidence of it online. Can you provide a citation? > If you consume vitamin C via citrus fruits like oranges, then you are making a more hostile environment for bacterial infections. This is utter nonsense. The pH of a living organism is tightly regulated, and a failure of this regulation can be rapidly fatal. Consuming small (sub-gram) quantities of vitamin C does not have any meaningful effect on blood or extracellular pH.
  • YesThatTom2 5y ago
    > This is utter nonsense. The pH of a living organism is tightly regulated, and a failure of this regulation can be rapidly fatal. Consuming small (sub-gram) quantities of vitamin C does not have any meaningful effect on blood or extracellular pH. Translated for laypeople: This is BS. The pH of your body is constant and your body has mechanisms to make sure it stays constant. If your pH changed as claimed, you’d die.
    • upsidesinclude 5y ago
      The mechanisms that maintain a stable pH are driving outcomes. Your statement is accurate, just doesn't acknowledge the changes required for homeostasis. There is considerable effect merely in osmotic pressure relative to cellular function. To dismiss that carries as much error