10-12 beers? I don’t know if you are serious or just playing with me. Your inevitable hangover would likely be the result of dehydration caused by the diuretic effect of the alcohol in the beer.

Alcohol is diuretic. This means it encourages the body to lose more water than it takes on by halting the production of the body’s anti-diuretic hormone, resulting in you needing to go to the toilet excessively and so speeding up the loss of fluid from your body, leading to dehydration.

It is virtually impossible to drink too much water for most people, but it has been known to occur in infants that are force fed too much water, and in long distance runners who drink too much water too fast. For the rest of us….drink up….water that is!

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I do have a question though. If alcohol is a diuretic can you lose more than you consume? Let’s say I go out drinking with my friends and have 10-12 beers, will I actually become dehydrated because I’ve lost more fluids than I consumed? I was trying to figure this out.

Also, I know in theory you can always consume to much in life, but can I consume too much water?

Thanks,

Chip in U.S.

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Perhaps you should read my article again. I specifically stated “The one significant omission to the article is that the acidity of coffee was not addressed. Coffee is acidic which is not good for a body that craves to be alkaline. A list of the pH levels of ten coffees show a range of 4.9 to 5.7 ”

The only beverage that I drink is ionized water whenever possible. When ionized water is not available, I drink regular water as an alternative. I understand that the body doesn’t require any liquids other than water, which means that drinking anything else requires your body to perform uneccessary work.

Nearly half of adult Americans enjoy their coffee. It is not my place to judge or preach to people about what they should or shouldn’t do. I just provide information in an effort to make people aware of things. I have been involved with water for long enough to know that the people that want to listen and act upon it will do so. Others will choose to believe what they want to believe, and that is OK.

Coffee is acidic, but so is almost everything else most of us eat or drink. Soda, or pop as we call it in Canada, is 100 to 1,000 times more acidic than coffee. Many of the things most of us eat or drink are equally or more acidic than coffee.

The point of the article is that recent studies indicate coffee may in fact have some positive effects on our health. I question some of the studies as I think they need to consider other factors and be conducted over a longer period of time. However, I thought that the tens of millions of adults among us that drink coffee might enjoy some good news for a change.

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I appreciate the compliment, and your comments about the water, but please don’t use the blog to advertise your company and your products. People come to this forum for information and to learn. I don’t appreciate your thinly veiled attempts to promote your MLM company. Everytime you try to sneak in another plug for your company, you provide me with another opportunity to expose your line of outrageously overpriced products.

Rob

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