 Is alkaline water a scam? There are thousands of websites and pyramid schemes hooking $6,000 machines to alkalinize our tap water into miracle healing water. And not just any miracle healing water, but magical miracle healing water. With no surprise, miraculous properties. One of the supposed greatest health advances in human history. The secret to optimal health and longevity exclamation point. Though if you actually scroll down, you'll see the disclaimer that they're not allowed to claim their water will actually do any of these things. Does our water actually help restore the body to a youthful condition? We can't say. The skeptics are skeptical. Some waters described as an incredible fraud foisted on the public by desperate, diluted, glue-sniffing wannabes, asserting that there's no credible evidence in the scientific literature that there are any particular benefits. It turns out that they're both wrong. A new study found that compared to a control group drinking regular water, one handled drinking about a quart of alkalinized water a day dropped their bad cholesterol 10% within two months. That's pretty impressive. And older women may achieve a drop of nearly 15%. That's huge, and even help their blood sugars. If you and your doctor want to give it a try, you can make alkaline water this way, or this way. By adding 3 quarters of a teaspoon of baking soda to a liter or quart of water, you can save yourself $5,999.99. Now baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, so this would add about a gram of sodium to our daily diet, but sodium bicarb doesn't seem to have the same effect as sodium chloride or table salt. In this study, those drinking the baking soda water had no change in blood pressure, and the other study actually found that they enjoyed a significant improvement in their blood pressure, but your physician will want to keep an eye on it. So alkaline water machines are indeed a scam, but alkaline water itself may not be.