Lies People Tell About Water - Part 2: Special Waters (Raw, Alkaline, Oxygenated, etc.)
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- Опубликовано: 13 май 2024
- With water fluoridation covered, let's move on to special waters. Raw water, alkaline water, detox water, chlorophyll water, oxygenated water, hydrogen water, moon water, what are all of these things? What are they supposed to do? Are they based on any truth at all? Why do people hate tap water so much? Let's dig into these fads and see what we can turn up!
Oxygenated water and athletic performance: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Hydrogen water and inflammation: www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
Make your own moon water: www.mindbodygreen.com/article...
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My favorite water thing was when Gwyneth Paltrow said she starts each day with a glass of alkaline water with a spritz of lemon added.
lol
lmao
Doesn't she know that lemon juice concentrate with a shot of lye is the new shit? Goddammit Gwynny...
:V
Eh citrus eventually metabolizes in a way that gives an overall alkaline product. Now this doesn't mean a damn thing to your blood and all it'll do is make your urine more Alkaline but... Yea. . Paltrow is still a hack.
"It's oxygenated."
"And if I had gills, that would mean something."
you might use it in your aquarium
You don't inhale water?
@@david2869 If you couldn't afford an oxygenating pump, maybe. I suspect both the pump and its running costs would be cheaper than changing the water in the whole aquarium every few days.
@@ferociousmaliciousghost I tried one time. It was an absolutely stellar experience.
To bad it's a once in a life time opportunity.
i mean, you kinda need that to make energy in your metabolism, sugar and ATP
"A single cup of this elixir could cure any ailment known to Man or Hobbit" This is the best line in this entire debunk.
"This water is much more watery than water”😂 Thanks for these breakdowns on water products. I admit I'd of been fooled by some of these claims. The only reason I never purchased special waters before because I'm to cheap to spend extra money on something I can get for free
i know right?!?
This reminded me of the semantic argument: "Is water wet?" If wetness is described by the interaction of a water molecule with something else, then no water alone is not intrinsically wet. But if there are 2 water molecules that interact with one another you may call them "wet" as one water molecule is interacting with another water molecule. So yes, the water you encounter in your daily life can be considered wet.
I love my dad's response to "but it's natural!"
"So is uranium."
butts are natural, should we be eating what comes out of them?
Cyanide is too. And hemlock
Time to go eat some cyanide and see how that goes
(I’m agreeing with you, but realizing the way it sounds like I said it makes it sound like I’m not)
Botulism is natural.
Some brown substance is also natural. =)
Try getting Malaria lmao
Moon Water based villainy plan:
1. Go to local water treatment facility or reservoir if available during eclipse
2. Follow steps for making moon water
3. Watch as everyone in your town gets eaten by their shadows or something
4. Profit
5: drink tap water forgetting what you did to it
6: die
@@nenmaster5218 That does sound like it would be one of HBomberguy's skits if he ever covered "Moon Water". xD
Throw in a chunk of smoky quartz for extra shadow powers. Muahaha.
Just don't put in obsidian that'd be taking it too far, you'll open the portal.
This would actually be a really cool fantasy spell haha
That's nuts! Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese.
In the US, there’s literally NO regulation on food labels like “natural”, “all natural”, etc., and no restrictions on what you can claim about the product, as long as you have a disclaimer saying “these statements have not been evaluated by the FDA”. Food and Drug Administration, which is supposedly the watchdog for publicly marketed consumables.
They do that because making false statements without that disclaimer is illegal, since the FDA's job is to confirm or deny such claims. That's why covid is approved when glowing rock is not
1,000%
The wet dream joke made my day. I was washing a metal coffee pod while you described the miraculous nature of running water in my home, for which my appreciation manifested exponentially, until I chuckled about the wet dream. Cheers, Dave.
Yeaahhh
Sorry about you liking a schiller, his video on Fluoride, wrong Harvard released a study showing it lowers IQ.s by 7 points on average
@@toddmcafee Judging by your English skills, you've had a whole barrel of it.
I ran a state certified analytical water testing laboratory for a few years and I was very often pained by misinformation coming through our door. We would run city water for people, although the data was already openly published because individuals thought the data was "fabricated". We had people bring in their own raw stream water and be very confused when we presented high bacterial concentrations along with high nitrates from farm runoff. We tried our best to speak to people and educate them, but it was often futile. It's good to hear your take on this, I really appreciate and share your videos.
It seems you can fix ignorance but not stupidity.
It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them they’ve been fooled
@@SergAI so we just have to fool them again, but you know what Bush says, “ fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.”
@@toyotatherapy9685
How so.
@@meyes1098 Anybody who's already distrustful of the government to that extreme will probably see that the test is state approved and say "well if the government says that this is good, clearly it must be bad"
My man said “Living spring water.” I don’t know about you, but I want my water very very dead, with as little living in it as possible
😂 yea...
Tapeworms are great for weight loss though
It used to be thought that finding a live newt in your water proved it was good, clean water. If it was good enough for the newt it was good enough for you.
So dysentery was NOT your favorite part of The Oregon Trail as a kid?
@@biigsmokee Its true! Actor and definitely science guru, Gwyneth Paltrow, said so!
PLEASE cover Dr. Berg. My parents follow him and I don't want anything bad to happen to them. Now that you've revealed how much of a scam he is I'll try to convince my parents myself, but you making a video on it would help more than I ever could.
Would it help if your parents knew he was involved in Scientology? You can get more details on a channel called “Growing Up With Scientology” run by a guy named Aaron. If you search his channel a couple of Br Berg videos come up.
there's a certain group that think that "xetirium" is not poisonous, but, in fact, ~3mg of this elixir can kill *ANY* man.
credit: names and info of chemicals: Wikipedia. perfect spelling: Auto-correct.
@@creatrixZBD DR. BEAAAAAST
Scientologist. Search new doc video on it. Well researched as are others vs just rumours.
Ian Rafalko
I love this channel. I just let the common sense wash over me and it makes me realise that there are sane, critical-thinking, rational people in this world. Dave, have my babies
Either a few dum people speak louder than many smart or common sense is not so common after all
Ermm.. what the flip 😰😭
i was on board with this comment
was
THANK YOU PROF. DAVE! Trying to get my scientifically illiterate family to understand that buying insanely priced ph balanced water does not mean it will adjust your ph level in your blood or stomach is like talking to a brick wall. Please keep this series going.
"Ph balanced water"
So just water?
@@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz could you imagine actually putting dihydrogen monoxide in your body? Wake up sheeple
@@edditspaghettit9515 not normal oxygen sp3 hybridized oxygen :D
@@edditspaghettit9515 dihydrogen monoxide is so dangerous. Everyone who has ever had it has eventually lost their lives...
@@QUBIQUBED My mom died from dihydrogen monoxide
Remember kids #NotEvenOnce
The PH balance chart reminded me of a city council meeting (Late 70's when I was about to start HS) over drinking water, had a coalition of folk upset that the PH level for the water was from 6 to 8. They wanted it to be zero. They demanded that there was to be _No PH in the water._
Crazy times...
Bruh, you serious?
@@markangeloporcare5289 Yes I am. I had no idea what a PH was (still in middle school at the time), but my sister had started majoring in biology and nearly laughed her head off.
Those arguing for there be zero PH had no clue how the PH scale worked.
@@Wailwulf wow
If the tap water had a ph near 0, then it probably wouldn’t even be water at that point lmao
@@orppranator5230 If I remember correctly, it would be pure acid, but if I am wrong, then it would be pure base.
A friend of mine contracted giardiasis, or "Beaver Fever". He was unable to work for several months. It comes from drinking water containing Giardia, which is a unicellular eukaryote parasite with a true nucleus, like the malaria parasite. This was in Edson, Alberta about 100 miles from the Rocky Mtns. I have back packed up into Alberta's Rocky Mountains where you can get fresh mountain water from melting glaciers. We ALWAYS treated it with tablets, water filters, or by boiling.
Twenty years ago I visited St Petersburg, Russia and was warned not to drink the tap water because of giardia. Not sure how the locals got by. By far the worst time I had was in Cancun, Mexico. Had dinner outside the the tourist strip and forgot about the ice in a cocktail the evening before I left. In three weeks I lost twenty pounds before my GI system recovered.
I had a relative that made water charged with the moon. I mean he called it "moon shine" but I think that's the same thing. That was amazing stuff. People would say it transported them to other worlds of consciousness. I never understood what they were talking about because usually they would be passed out over a tree stump somewhere babbling to themselves. We should have asked for the recipe, could have made a fortune.
If it don't taste like kerosene, yer not makin' it right.
@@wintergray1221 whoa
LMAO Thanks for brightening my day.
I wonder what he put in that water
Raw water is something I have never heard of and I am almost impressed by how bad of an idea it is.
I have drank "raw water" from a spring, it (to noones surprise) tasted like normal water
The funny thing is that it’s marketing doesn’t make sense either. Would you eat raw meat?
@edo medo Fair point. There’s always someone who would.
@@dreadbaron888 it could be tap water renamed and sold.
@edo medo That's sad cause our ancestors revolutionized how we prepare our food by cooking. It was a game changer for us. So by them throwing it out, it causes these long dead ppl to fucking roll in their graves.
As a botanist who passed plant physiology with an A+, I can verify chlorophyll is NOT the same as blood but with magnesium, by any means. Also Plants need oxygenated water, NOT HUMANS!
The claim was that chlorophyll is the same as hemoglobin (not blood) but with magnesium. It still doesn't make any sense. Even if they are otherwise identical -- and I can't be bothered to find out if they are -- changing one element in a molecule completely changes its properties.
Also fish. Fish need oxygenated water.
I read that as plant psychology at first and honestly wasn't even surprised, that's what this pseudo-science proliferation has done to us.
As a plant, I can 100% confirm this statement.
Those people need som water with extra air.
Then what are all the vegan vampires drinking?
Hey Dave thanks for making the video. I work in the water treatment field. People seem to really get confused by the terms alkaline and water and don't really understand what's happening. I deal with this question in our business all of the time. A lot of clients seem to think alkaline water is better for them. Firstly they don't exactly understand what it is thats different about the water other than it has "more minerals". This is true, but to articulate this point a little further, they don't realize how insignificant the difference in mineral content is between "alkaline water" and for example Reverse Osmosis water. When we separate the water molecules in a reverse osmosis membrane, it reduces the total dissolved solids to about 0-1 parts per million. What the consumer calls "alkaline" water is actually just very lightly remineralized water, and on average only has about 24-32 parts per million TDS. This is a very very insignificant difference considering in many municipal water sources, the TDS metre usually will read at over 1000 ppm. Considering we get nearly all the minerals our body seems to need from simply a proper diet, the argument for alkaline water, or more correctly termed, acid neutralized water, holds up less and less. Wanted to share that with you.
yea nice copy paste buddy
@@The9KChannel I literally work in water treatment dude. I'm a tech support analyst for aquamaster products. Lol
@@CrookedHillSound yea same here buddy
@@The9KChannel lol sure
@@CrookedHillSound yeah bro im a fleet tech support analyst for aquamaster products know ur place 💀🤙🚬 never boss up again
I needed this. Been feeling so awful recently and this video is such a great reminder that I’m not alone. There are others out there that are sick of the magic woo and charlatans.
He has plenty of videos like this and they're all fantastic
There is a huge misunderstanding about "electrolytes" in things like Gatorade, and why they're needed. When you sweat a lot (like say when running a marathon), you lose salt by sweating. Drinking plain water can dilute the remaining salt and give you something called hyponatremia which is dangerous. Something like Gatorade replenishes these lost salts. If you aren't an athlete who is sweating a lot, Gatorade won't really benefit you. It'll just make you drink more water and pee more to get rid of the excess salt.
And if someone get dehydrated and you have to diy something for it some salt and sugar in a glass of normal tap water will work (warning, tastes baaad). Or go to an er if they pass out or are confused, have a rapid heart beat, rapid breathing, very dry skin. Severe cramping can be a sign of heat illness and should also prompt a trip to the er.
I have a bottle of Gatorade if I am running a fever and thus sweating like hell. But otherwise I am fine with just water.
Mmm yummy seawater drink
when i went camping in Missouri in the summer with some scouts (i am from michigan, so i am not used to the heat) the scout leader had us drink at least one bottle of Gatorade a day to help replenish electrolytes.
Yeah, electrolytes are basically just some salt that can help your bodies natural electricity and energy when you are active and low. If you are inactive, doesn't exactly do much
"Eclipses are dark, and can reveal our shadows..." Ummm...that's kind of the opposite of how shadows work, but okay. I'll pay gasoline prices for that water!
"I saw my shadow one time... I think it's looking at me :("
Gasoline is cheap compared to some of these special waters.
@@VortexStriker Well, obviously. Think of the overheads. You have to buy land that has a spring on it, build a bottling plant, and put the water in bottles. It's not like all you have to do is buld a few oil rigs, drill a couple of holes in the seabed until you find oil, ship it around the world in some little boats, buy a patch of land and build a mere oil refinery on it, then ship the separated products all over the world...AND charge 60% tax on them.
OMG I've been looking for a good hit piece on this since I digitally pH tested 10 alkaline waters at my old hell job. I recalibrated the pH meter right before many of the testings, but either way, they ALL came at 7... or lower. I wasn't expecting or wanting 10s, but gatdamn.
Also big ups for shouting out Flint, developing nations, and that damn naturalistic fallacy.
I admit alkaline water helped my heartburn while pregnant but I also made it myself with baking soda and tap water in specific safe-for-pregnancy ratios lol (i had it BAD and was maxing out on calcium carb and needed a backup)
@@thatfuzzypotato1877 hope it helped/helps. My go to is picot for immediate relief. It's like Latin American tums meets AlkaSeltzer, but powdered. I will raw that stuff with a gulp of water. Instant effect.
For chronic acid issues, Omeprazole is OTC and pretty powerful.
@@senescence57 the GERD only lasted while I was pregnant, as soon as I gave birth it went away. But the baking soda water was an absolute miracle drink for me, helped me sleep better
Dave's videos are great reminders that scammers rely on misinformation, so be informed.
"You can use moon water to clean your crystals."
Ok.
I mean, thats not an incorect statement water is pretty good at cleaning cysyals. 😆
@@kennymartin5976 as long as its not crystalized salt
You can use moon water to clean your dishes too. Really gives them that "full lunar" glow
Haters be stocking up on that moon water
@@tigerboy4705 When I was in high-school I used to grow table salt crystals.
They were pretty and tasty. :)
Seeing the words "yummy = drink more" in a science video is just perfect.
The screenshot of that image itself is great out of context shitpost material, too
i mean is it wrong?
@@yucky-yucky That's the best part
It isn't
Pfffffffffffft.
I like how you take a fair stance on this stuff. You don't just immediately go bashing stuff like Hydrogen Water, but take a fair stance on it, reviewing its pros and cons, and then offering a (mostly) unbiased evaluation of the idea.
Dr Berg is a lying chiropractor scientologist
omg, wtf is "Hydrogen Water"? Ooh, I'll start selling H₂O₂ water for $500 a gallon! I'll need to charge a lot, because I'll be loosing customers very quickly -- to natural causes of course!
@@firstnamelastname9918 just call it hyperoxygenated water instead of hydrogen peroxide.
Alkaline water is becoming disturbingly common where I go to school. Almost everyday I see someone with a bottle of it, and even big brands like Kirkland (Costco) are making it. It's crazy how much it's ballooned.
Morons: "Anything natural is good for you."
Me: "Come get your all-natural hemlock milkshakes, here!"
Hydrates you for the rest of your life.
Mhhh. Tastes like pain.
Try getting mauled by a bear one day, the most natural experience out there!
Also probably worth noting the very toxic sources of water out there like the region of Greenland which has rocks with extremely high concentrations of mercury which get carried out to sea by glaciers. It has more mercury than industrial waste but it is wholly "natural" and speaking of water those typically volcanic extreme PH lakes/pools which will completely dissolve your body away in minutes to hours.
And regarding poisons like hemlock there are tons of biological poisons nature has concocted like ricin or botulism.
However I think the best counterargument against the whole nature=good fallacy is the existence of parasitoids nothing says "wonderful" like being paralyzed and eaten alive from the inside out. While they served as the inspiration for the Xenomorphs ironically Xenomorphs were toned down because the real parasitoids were considered too terrifying.
@@Dragrath1 or any FPS community
I never thought about how incredible of an achievement running tap water in the home is. Really shows how much people in the development world take it from granted
True. Getting running water from point A to B was conquered very early on in civilization, but doing so in controllable quantities has only been a recent discovery
We vastly underestimate what it takes to get gas heating, electricity and telecommunications as well.
Developed world sure can be medieval.
You think that's amazing. Well put it this way, there are people walking kilometers to find water while we take shits in fresh drinking water and flush it away without a second thought. Privilege.
@@80slimshadys Great analogy. When they realize the cause of this dysfunction is located within their willing ignorance.
Another 'privilege'.
Most of this made me angry, but moon water is just too funny.
"The chemistry of chlorophyll is literally identical to your blood" -- I died 😂 and "plants use if w/ sun to produce energy" -- good for them, I guess?
I do not understand how people praise "Dr." Berg for explaining things so well and trust him?! Is it the dry erase board?
I guess chlorophyll will help your skin by turning it green. It can't do anything else for you.
@@sannab6159 I can finally explain my green undertones ;)
Favorite part is how he says the ONLY difference is the magnesium, which is apparently a good thing. Guess we can say that the only difference between water and hydrogen sulfide is that hydrogen sulfide has sulfur instead of oxygen! Oh wait, a whiff of it will kill you.
They hate science and education but love piggybacking on their prestige
@@justaname999 He's wearing a labcoat, therefore, he's obviously the final authority on all nutritional advice.
Before this video, I lived in a world where I didn’t know moon water was a thing. I wish I could go back there.
Well at least it's harmless as opposed to things like Jilly juice or other dangerous ideas.
@@david2869 so long as the containers they use are sealed and not left exposed where any animals could get into it.
@@david2869 actually, fermented rainwater isn't harmless. I'd bet a lot of money that following that procedure leads to a very lively solution...
@@Rhannmah Don't know much about moon water, but from the images, it just looks like people are putting tap water in a jar and leaving it under the moonlight. Weird, but not harmful
@@enzoqueijao 21:31 "covered or not, the moon doesn't care" -- well, the moon doesn't, but our "friendly" neighborhood ecosystem just might. :-B
Having worked in water treatment for many years the level of misinformation I had to put up with and the time spent debunking this even amongst my coworkers was immense.
Wait, you work in water treatment and you're co-workers are misinformed on what there jobs are?! WTF!!!
31 years in the industry here, too, brother. I feel your pain.
@@zekeiyf2003 yes they come in with little training and believe many dumb things they never thought about before. This goes beyond the water treatment silliness up to water flowing up hill and dowsing
@@zekeiyf2003 Oh shit, Adam Smith was right, God help us all, or even better than that, maybe some, at least some basic level education for these... people would already help humanity.
I have worked in commercial refrigeration for 50 years. Ice machines were one of my specialties. Water treatment is so important.i would often send samples to be tested for water problems. Water being a key element in ice machines. Well water and water softeners cause many problems. It’s difficult to explain to a customer why the machine won’t produce ice from a water softener system. Sometimes depending on the well and impurity’s in the water will plug up machines. Tap water works fine generally after filtering through carbon filters to remove any taste or orders. Bars inparticular because nothing spoils a drink than bad ice
I love your comment at the beginning of the video about running water in the home. Every now and again I do indeed remind myself of this amazing achievement to have clean water in our homes literally 'on tap'. It's very easy to take it for granted.
Thanks for being on team rational and pushing back against the constant wave of sometimes dangerous nonsense out there
Thank you so much! Clean water is one of our greatest achievement! My father knew this first hand! Because of dirty water he became sick with hepatitis and died due to liver disease caused by hepatitis! But as long as he lived he made sure to install clean water reservoirs in remote areas of Pakistan! Clean water is such a blessing!
Your dad is a hero
@@oceancactusrequiem6232 thank you friend! Miss him everyday
Your dad did a great job. Thousands of people are better off because of him.
“This water is much more watery than water” 😂
It tastes way more like H2O than any other water!
@@estebanod this is funny but also breaks my brain
The slogan of every bottled water ever.
@@QUBIQUBED same I lost 10000000000 brain cells
i don't know why you'd bother with water when everyone knows cactus juice is the quenchiest
Thank you for this public service video, you have earned yourself a new subscriber!
Keep up the good (and scientific) work!
"Chlorophyll is IDENTICAL to your blood, except for it being different." Freaking galaxy-brain right there, holy crap.
It is a massive achievement that seems to just be taken for granted by a lot of people living in first world countries. I used to take it for granted too, till we had a massive drought here in SA and only allowes 5l water per person per day. Even now I still use bathwater to flush the toilet, really puts some things into perspective.
truly, hope it gets better there
@@QUBIQUBED it already got better I also live in SA
Well I'm sure water will become a problem even in those countries with time because of climate change
Oh god, tell me about it.
We had no water for a week. We all had to share bathwater and like, we only had a small bucket to hunch over/in to wash with. And yea, it helped to flush the toilet
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 we had the same thing happen to us
Dr. Berg makes my blood boil. I’d love to see a dedicated debunk of him.
I'm all for intermittent fasting, it works for my lifestyle and really makes me more mindful. However other than scheduling tips on that, the rest of his channel is bonkers 🤣
@@thisisme2681 isn't that how most "out there" channels go? First they give some really useful ideas that contradict popular beliefs, then it goes deeper and deeper until you are listening to conspiracy theories on why big farma doesn't give us enough chlorophyll water.
Dr. Berg isn’t even a medical doctor. He’s another chiropractor pretending to understand medicine better than actual medical doctors. Dr. Axe is another example. These people are conmen.
@@northernskies86 funnily enough, he sounds a lot like """""""""""doctor"""""""""" john bergman. seems the name is cursed.
He’s not even a medical doctor. He’s a chiropractor. He also believes all kinds of ridiculous conspiracy theories.
The best moonwater tutorial on the internet, clear and very easy to follow!
Wonderful video. Thank you for applying science and your knowledge to help educate. Please keep up the good work!
Honestly, the coolest thing I learned from this is that you can just... Look up the water test results from your local water supply. The water supply report for south east queensland even contains some minor references to diseases found in the water, not just minerals.
Yes, you absolutely can. That and most other things you want to know.
@@chlorineismyperfume People, especially who believe in this kind of pseudo-science, often paint the government as mysterious and enigmatic, always working against you.
So it does come as a bit of a surprised from that perspective that the government gives up so much information freely that you can readily access without much issue.
humanity: literally invented free clean water for whenever you are thirsty
also humanity: *r a w w a t e r*
Free?
Also not all of it is clean
@@aabahdjfisosososos Everything is free in the minds of those that don't have to foot the bill.
@@aabahdjfisosososos it is exceptionally rare for modern water treatment to go wrong. But we do need to pay water Bill's to help with the cost of such facilities. Personally though I would rather every structure to get free water access in exchange for it going on taxes instead given how vitally important access to clean water is.
@@mwperk02 I’m just, saying. 🤦♂️
I like watching your videos because you're explaining things that's easy to understand since I discovered your channel recently.
Have seen some people and stores selling these special water everywhere, it's just sad that people are believing in those bogus water products.
Though I myself are purchasing flavored water online or on their store without those detoxification or catchy phrases. As it's just a simple store who sells flavored drinks and snacks besides the their flavored water products.
WOW , LOGIC.. another banger by the Professor. Keep up the good work man.
What's even funnier is the alt health trend of positive ions in water being better goes against the other alt health trend of negative ions improving your mood. Both of which make no sense.
Doublethink
You enjoy many things that are not good for your health.
@@ReinoGoo What's your point?
Of course it does make sense, getting electrocuted by any positive or negatively charged current will change your mood. + your health state from living to probably dead.
@@Setixir Health ≠ mood
Its totally possible that something COULD do that, that not doublethink or senseless.
Has something to do with "chirality" which, really really oversimplifyed mean that an molecule can have a "right-handed" and "left-handed" version which in result have diffrent effects. An example would be (the) Contergan(-scandal). One version was a totally fine and safe sleeping medication, the other killed or diabled your fetus.
I still dont know how people connect this to water but.... yeah.
OMG ... im DYING to see Dr Eric Berg BUSTED
These Debunking videos are like booster's of knowledge and how to investigate a topic properly.
Thank's Professor Dave :)
Omg i used to watch his videos religiously then realized he’s no even an md
Is Dr Berg a doctor of anything?
@@archivist17 He's a chiropractor, I believe
@@DehimVerveen Counts as a woo merchant and snake oil salesman in my book!
So a community college grad in chemistry suddenly knows more about human physiology than a chiropractor? both laughable. Try consulting someone who actually has degrees and real knowledge on physiology with peer reviewed literature like Bart Kay.
I love your usage and literary tools and puns. Only on my second video of yours and already a big fan.
Haha I can't help but subscribe. This is gold.
This reminded me of how my mom insisted I took some weird unknown substance she heard and believed it's beneficial to health. It was a long talk every time where I demanded scientific basis or else I wouldn't take it.
Speaking of detox, just a few days ago I was reading a book on toxicology and in it was a rather graphic description of what detoxification actually means in a technical/scientific context. So, if you've eaten something dangerous such as the wrong kinds of mushrooms, or if the Russian government is out there to get you and has slipped something harmful to your drink, there may be a way to detoxify your system and avoid fatal damage to your organs. It may involve drinking something that will make you vomit like you're about to die, but doing so may still save your life. Oh, and there are also some situations where a doctor will prescribe you to take a massive dose of laxatives. In that case, you'll be pooping out the toxins like you're about to die, and this may save your life and potentially even prevent you from ever needing a liver transplant. Isn't detoxification fun and great? How is actual detoxification related to this fake detoxification marketed by snake oil merchants? Not in any way, shape or form. Detox is harsh and brutal. You really don't want to have anything to do with detox unless your life depends on it.
I believe blood dialysis for kidney failure patients counts as detox…i hope you never need it because it’s horrible
Are you referring to ipecac, the thing people take to vomit up an ungodly amount of stuff?
@@alisaurus4224 As someone who has had that, yes. It is horrible.
"I'm going to detox" - cringe. No, you're going to eat and drink light, nutritious food for a week.
I learnt about all the real detox stuff during inorganic chem classes at uni and I've never forgotten it.
For real, whenever I hear detox I always ask “which specific toxins?”. Never fails lol
The funny thing for me about the positive ion thing is that our choice to name them positive was almost completely random, and it might as well have been the other way around. It's like saying that the north pole of a magnet will heal you, but not the south pole.
I've often wondered whether or not the assignment of positive was random or not. A couple hrs of digging on the innertube (ha-ha) produced an answer that certain ions had an apparently 'negative" effect on some charge. Sadly can't remember what the answer was.
@@granthurlburt4062 That's my kind of thinking about the basics... "An acid is a solution that has a higher concentration of positively charged hydrogen ions (H) than negatively charged hydroxide ions (OH)." Thing is, the acid, by itself, has as many H+ as, lets say, CL-. Now, someone commented that a base is specifically more OH−. Water, itself, is H2O and can disassociate into an H+ and an OH-. So it has both acid and base in it, just in equal quantities, making in neutral. Some article about water autoionization says that it is actually H3O+ and OH- that form. H3O+ is H2O with an H+ attached, so that works out electrically, but new to me.
Now, hydrogen peroxide is not an acid or a base but has a free radical oxygen. I thought that this is because H2O2 gives up an oxygen that is not electrically neutral, I can't work out how and what exactly. Oxygen prefers to be in pairs as O2. It has 6 electrons in the outer shell (using the Bohr model?) The outer shell can contain 8 but the oxygen atom has 6 protons, so at 8 electrons is electrically neutral. It can accept two more electrons in the valence band. While Hydrogen Peroxide is shown as being 2 H2O2 -> 2 H2O + 1 O2, it obviously and momentarily be two oxygen atoms that then combine into an oxygen molecule. From what I can tell, all this is still electrically neutral but those oxygen molecules are still highly reactive.
My point is that while acids and bases are reactive with their non-neutral electrical charge, there are other reactive atoms and molecules involving electrons. Also, HCL would yield H+ and CL-, making it electrically neutral (I think) but I read it has a pH of 1.1 at 3% concentation. That would have to be more H+s, right? And what is that CL-? It isn't a neutral atom, it's got that -. So also reactive, but doesn't make a base cuz a base is specifically on OH-?
What was the original question?
Oh, the assignment of + and - was given by Ben Franklin, as my science teacher told us. He had a 50/50 chance of getting it right and missed. That is why current flows in the opposite direction of the electron flow. Maybe that's what you read? And, of course, assigning pH+ and pH- would be equally as random, I'd think.
So there we have it. After some research on the webbernet, I know a little more and understand it a lot less. This is why I hated college chemistry.
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@@johnfitzgerald8879 I had a few chemistry lectures in my first and second semester, so - while I don't fully remember or understand everything - I do know that chemistry can get very very complex. "An acid is a solution that has a higher concentration of positively charged hydrogen ions (H) than negatively charged hydroxide ions (OH)." this is roughly the definition of an "acid" according to Arrhenius. There are however different ideas of what an "acid" is. One such definition is that of Brönsted, where an acid is defined as a substance that gives off protons and a base is a substance that takes in protons. So in a way, Cl- would be a base.
The Bohr model is also rather oversimplified and it doesn't accurately portray the distribution of electrons in the atom. From what I understand, there are different shapes of orbitals that essentially predict were an electron is most likely to be. This is important for understanding why a molecule isn't just aligned in a straight line (like how water molecules are angled).
H2O is a very stable molecule but in H2O2 there is a peroxide bond (O-O) in the middle which is very unstable. So in a way, H2O2 isn't the problem, but it breaks apart really easily to form oxygen radicals which are extremely reactive because they have a free electron that isn't paired up (I don't really know a better way to describe it).
Now for the real questions: pH (from my understanding) doesn't have a lot to do with the electrical charge of the solution. It is a sort of simplification of Ka, which is used to measure how "strong" an acid is. It is calculated by using the concentration of H3O+ ions in the solution, rather than the OH- ions (along with other components of course). The pH (where the "H" refers to the protons I guess) is calculated by using the negative logarithm of that (along with other math stuff). I think it is the negative logarithm because every number below 1 becomes negative when you calculate the logarithm of it so if you put "-" in front of it, it becomes positive and you have to write less. And "3,38" is just a lot easier to grasp than "1.77827941x10^-5". As to why we specifically use the concentration of H3O+ and OH-, I don't know, but a few things we calculate are in some relation to Hydrogen and Water, because that is seen as the "standard" substance (e.g. the Celsius-system, electrode potential).
You can also calculate the Kb-value which uses the concentration of OH-ions and from that you can calculate the pOH, but it's probably easier to just use one of the two because they essentially say the same thing and it would get confusing otherwise. As for the "positive" and "negative" association for pH, I can only guess that because basic solutions have a higher pH, this is seen as more "positive" in the way that it's just a bigger number rather than a "good" thing. Although usually acids don't have a negative pH, so... yeah.
I hope that made a little bit of sense, but I only passed 2 of my three chemistry exams in uni, so take everything with a grain of salt 😅
THAT'S JUST BIG POLE TALKING 😡
Best comedy I've heard for a while, thank you for showing me this you deserve your subscription
Thanks for this Dave. So good!
alkaline water 8:20
raw water: around 4:30
detox water: 11:48
oxygenated water: 15:26
i missed a few im not gonna bother doing the rest.
I'm curious about distilled water
Thanks
@@nicholasmuro1742 Distillation will render water about as pure as you're going to get it unless there's some ethanol in there and you aren't careful with your heating.
As far as health benefits go it doesn't have anything over sanitized filtered water and in fact is missing minerals that are good for you. It's usually pretty cheap though (at least around here, there's machines that'll dispense a gallon of it for less than a dollar) so if you prefer the taste over tap or what have you there's very little harm in using it as your main source of drinking water.
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Ok thanks for the info 👍
“Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. 'More watery than water' is our motto.”
I only drink water without H2O. Much healthier 😉
Water is just like tears in the rain, its all water
Just stay away from any water that contains dihydrogen monoxide.
Gamer girl bathwater is far superior than tap water. Professor dave can't debunk this lol
Have you heard of wetter water? It's for cooling engines 😂
As someone with bad acid reflux, alkaline water actually really helps with alleviating the pain from it. I'm sure it gets neutralized once it reaches the stomach, but it stops the burning in my mouth and throat better than tums does
Saved my sanity at night while I was pregnant. But I made it myself because screw that $4/liter bs
In Brazil, oxygenated water means Hydrogen Peroxide.
Whenever I go to a restaurant, I order the chicken RAW, because that's the healthiest you can have it.
IT'S FUCKING RAAAAAAW
-Dr. Ramsay, multiple PHDs and an IQ of 215
@@Fred_the_1996 no it’s lower then a obsolete 0
With extra salmonella on the side yes?
@@mwperk02 Only if it's organic salmonella. Not that factory grown stuff
I would love to see you do a video debunking the “benefits” of solfeggio frequencies and 432 hz tuning in music. RUclips is choc full of music claiming these frequencies have magical healing properties. It’s so commonly accepted amongst alternative healers and spiritualists. (BTW I’m a spiritual person myself but I know pseudoscience when I see it and I love calling it out).
As an audio designer, I have to debunk this stuff far too often. Even many audio/music professionals who are supposed to know better fall for the magical frequency hoaxes, especially the 432hz one. The most ridiculous part is that they're all debunked by elementary level knowledge of acoustics and music history.
@@Ceekayedmusic I hear you. I’m a professional composer specialising in music for meditation. I love what I do, but I’m deep inside an industry that is rife with fantasy. If you try to explain the reasons why solfeggio frequencies are of no benefit, you are often labeled “closed-minded”. Ironically these same people, many of whom are lovely people, are too closed-minded to re-evaluate their own beliefs.
Most music: A=440
New age: A=432
Gregorian chant: A=whatever the heck I want it to be
Orchestra: A=whatever the oboist tuned to
(Not mine, I saw this on Adam Neely’s 432 Hz vídeo)
@Charlie i think the thing about spirituality is that it’s inherently unscientific because it largely is supposed to impact your mental and emotional well-being ie your feelings. The thing about your feelings is that not even science understands them to an objective degree. Not only that, but spirituality also skirts around any evidence-related corners that science might back it into, by saying things like “everyone’s spiritual journey is unique, so obviously science can’t verify it” and “try measuring your feelings with a ruler”
Adam Neely has two videos on A = 432
I honestly love this stuff, chemistry is often misunderstood by people and this sort of thing is unfortunately more common than is safe, I honestly feel like this video gives me more reason to continue detesting such idiotic products, I really appreciate your dissection of these bogus products
Chemistry is much stranger than magic. Like, hydrogen is rocket fuel, oxygen is extremely corrosive and explosive, but combine them and we require it to survive, but only if the amounts are right otherwise you get a medical disinfectant or other corrosive shite. Same thing with salt, sodium is almost as reactive and explosive as oxygen or hydrogen, and chlorine was literally a chemical weapon, but combined they're harmless and also essential to not just life but food supply and cleaning and all sorts of wild stuff. And then remember, too much oxygen in 1 molecule is ozone, which is toxic and absorbs radiation in the atmosphere.
Harry Potter just says some latin shit and bippity boppity I'm levitating your property like seriously, the boggart spell is a homophone with an English word describing what it does to the damn thing: Ridiculous.
This is FANTASTIC info. Thank you for posting these. Debunking these charlatans is saving lives.
Imagine having "raw" water coming out of your tap...I'm sitting on a freaking gold mine!!
oh, and removing the stuff that causes death? and adding electrolytes to help your bod... and we're back to 2021
@@harrietjameson electrolytes... their what plants crave!
The fact that the stomach neutralizes alkaline water actually highlights its one and only possible use: treatment for heartburn. An antacid will probably do the trick better, but I know from experience that alkaline water does definitely help with stomach acidity. Does not justify purchasing it though. You can get a lot more bang for your buck with antacids.
Different thing if you have the rarer laringo-pharingeal reflux, in which your upper oesophagus doesn't close properly, rather than the lower valve. In this case, stomach acid production is normal and antacids are useless. Still, the perfectly normal occasional minor reflux gets up to the throat and irritates it, sometimes severely. For these people, washing it constantly with alkaline water is very useful and can even solve the problem altogether, as it keeps neutralizing acid and denaturating digestive enzymes. If the water is expensive, a pinch of bicarbonate in your regular water should work just the same!
Taste is what justifies it for me. Alkaline water just hits different on the tongue.
@@halversonnoel0 true, I clicked on the video just because I tasted some. putting it overpriced is a scam but over here in canada I found some like 2$ per bottle cause its naturally 8.something pH.
As a 40 year sufferer I can tell you it is not the acid its the substance that causes the reflux. Cutting your body fat and removing trigger foods containing gluten is key. A healthy gut flora is happy when not being exposed to Alkaline.
@@thomasowens5824 Hahaha, the gut flora in your intestine? the place after the stomach? the one after the sack of acid? That place?
great video Dave, my two cents is the worst case of bacterial giardia or other critters in water Ive ever seen came from someone drinking the clearest apparently cleanest water Ive ever seen, that super clear spring water is so appealing and so dangerous at once.
Giardia actually is a eukyarote single-celled organism, which has a nucleus and organelles, like cells of humans and all plants and other animals. (and the malaria parasite) Bacteria have no nucleus (DNA is free in the cell) and no membranous organelles. www.cdc.gov/parasites/giardia/index.html
I remember in my high school classes that water is essentially neutral with a veeeeery slight Alkaline lean, but that isn't due to the H2O itself, rather the minerals freely suspended in the water.
Let's see if I remembered that correctly ☺️
Depends on what's in there. Pure water is neutral, other stuff could be acidic or basic.
The fact that Evian is still named Evian is a beautiful irony. (spell it backwards)
naive... huh
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You win the internet
Re: Hydrogen water: I had heard that anti-oxidants were all hype anyway. As in, there's some biological plausibility for benefit, but in general your body buffers free radical levels in the same way it buffers the PH level and trying to affect that is pointless.
Yes, anti oxidants are redundant if you eat well. Adding more can actually be detrimental if you do a lot of cardio exercise
It's not 100% false, but the actual quantities needed are fare smaller than what marketing companies would like you to think. They're also far cheaper and easier to source from regular foods, so before buying any "magical" supplements one should just try to balance their diet, in this day and age there's plenty of free online information about basic human dietary needs, plus the detailed chemical composition of the most common food products.
I don't know a lot about it. But from what I know, it's a lot like vitamins. If you eat well, you don't really need it, and it can actually be harmful. But if you have a poor diet, there can be a benefit to it.
Eat some fruit, that's about all you need to do anti-oxidant wise.
Also a certain amount of free radicals are necessary for your body's normal function, just like the natural bacteria in your gut are essential, for example.
I love your Content Dave❤️✨These Debuking Videos are really funny asf😂you have me in tears
I didn't have running water inside until about a month ago. Even still, my water is limited to the 250gal water tank I have, which lasts about 5-7days before I have to take it and fill it up again. It's spring water, but my wife and I only use it for bathing, washing clothes and dishes etc. I do filter it with carbon filters, but we don't drink it or let our animals drink it. We buy water to drink.
Love the science videos, Dave 👍 'God' knows we need more science literacy, especially here in the south US 😉
14:17
“Virtually everything out of his mouth is just lies for cash”
That should be Dr. Berg’s official slogan and channel description. It PERFECTLY describes him!
My favourite oxygenated water is hydrogen peroxide. It's just water with extra oxygen it does wonders for you! Just one sip of it and u'll want more with burning passion.
This was an excellent presentation. I really hate that I didn't take a course in critical thinking until a mandatory course in college. I am glad I took it, but I am disappointed it was not a class required in high school. I feel like people learned it's good to ask questions, but were never taught how to evaluate evidence, and sources, or understand fallacies. In general I feel we have confused cynicism with skepticism.
That 8 minute introduction was very well done!
When I heard that guy talking about how chlorophyll counteracts meat I asked two questions.
What was that harmful byproduct that overcooked meat produces?
What negative health effects does it cause?
He did not immediately elaborate on those claims he made, and I already know that's a red flag.
Me thinks he either made shit up or was regurgitating something he heard from someone else with zero thought process going on in his brain at any point.
I don't know if overcooked meat can ever produce a harmful byproduct unless you leave it to mold. You can overcook it into charcoal and ash, in which case drinking any liquid will either help you wash it down or help activate your gag reflex to throw it up, but tap water will work the same.
We all know that the byproduct of eating meat is enjoying a delicious meal and things that are delicious make your brain experience tasty feel good chemicals and as we know things that feel good are addiction so save yourself from this horrific consequence by immediately consuming Dr. Bergs wheatgrass juice powder with extra drywall and sawdust so that any positive emotions you got from your meal are immediately counteracted by consuming a bunch of disgusting powder.
Yep. I remember drinking "raw water" while camping when I was boyscout in the Dominican Republic. I also remember me and my troop mates getting hospitalized with a case of all natural E coli. 🥵🤮🤮🤮🤢
Huh. Big shocker.
As a kid I got over the 'natural spring water' fad really quick when I saw a bunch of mosquito larvae swimming around in my 'pure spring water' that I had just filled my cup with, directly form said spring. Out there in nature. Au naturale. So nope. Give me treated, filtered water thanks.
I'm so sorry that happened!
The wet dream joke at 1 min was hilarious. Thanks for this water series, prof!
I like to imbibe my water having been mixed with malt and hops, fermented to strengthen its detoxicity, and build its positive feelings. If you drink enough in one go, it can help you feel amazing!
Is that beer?
@@blakksheep736 yup!
Its like Professor Dave has remastered an episode of 'Penn and Teller's Bullshit', but added additional scientific content and removed the swearing. Their bottled water episode is excellent.
I had raw water in Romania once by accident. It ruined my holiday, for the very reasons you talk about in the sentence about the Oregon Trail.
I do prefer 'yummy' water but that's because I find plain water boring. Also, because I can't drink alcohol due to medication, tonic water with some pear/apple juice produces a very yummy wine substitute :).
I have been to several Eastern European countries with non-drinkable tap water. People there need to get multiple liters of fresh water in huge plastic bottles every day just to drink, brush their teeth and such. Americans and Western Europeans who shit on tap water are spoiled and privileged.
Any tips for yummy water? Never flavored my own water, interested in making it more enjoyable lol.
@@impishlyit9780 it depends on how you want to do it, i like chopping up fruits/veggies and putting them in the freezer and using them like icecubes, cucumbers and limes work well togeather, or cucumbers and mint.
@@impishlyit9780 You could also buy those small flavor packets at some stores like weis that you mix up into water before drinking it. I prefer juice myself instead of water plus fruit flavor, but to each their own.
Agreed
As someone who never really has time to get (or wants) the massive sugary drinks to use while gaming, I enjoy fruity water because it tastes better and isn't straight sugar :)
Thank you for all you do for us Dave - Request: Can you please debunk chem trails? 🙏 I'm SICK of hearing morons trying to convince me that "they" are trying to control us 🤦♂️
I even saw someone throw a fit over chem trails in Animal Crossing.
Control is the cross conspiracy
@@blakksheep736 yikes,send him to the psych ward
@@blakksheep736LMFAO
Very informative video as always Professor Dave! You're definitely right about one thing though, going through his comment sections on that chlorophyll video definitely is depressing as I couldn't believe that there are very few people who call him out on his bullshit just because he has the title "Dr."
My favorite part in cartoon history is during a Scooby Doo show or movie (I forgot which one) where some girl refused a normal water bottle and said that she "doesn't want some fatty fat water" then talks about a special type of bottled water
You’re thinking of the show “Scooby doo mystery incorporated” from the episode attack of the man crab. The special water in that case is “Trickell's Trickquid” marketed as a “diet moisture substitute” that contains no calories. Almost all non flavored water contains no calories.
@@zanforian yeah xD what a selling point. Its like trying to sell air as "breathable intake gas" by saying it has oxygen in it
@@Hexra_ “Diet air, contains no calories to help you slim down fast!”
@@zanforian "Water with oxygen! Great for people with lung and breathing problems"
@@zanforian Ah man I miss that show. It was unironically really good
Awesome and hilarious! You're sarcasm makes my day!
This was hilarious. Professor Dave is the best. When he says also, you know your screwed
Something that most people don't know about lead, is that not only is there a whole host of reasons it's bad for humans, it's also really hard on plumbing. With some alloys of brass, the lead will displace the zinc in it, and the metal immediately starts losing its integrity.
Here in Utah, there are a couple of aquifers that have naturally high lead concentrations. It's not drinkable, usable for livestock or farming, but some instustrial uses can get away with it. Like an initial washdown for something like a gravel plant. Brass plumbing fittings that would normally outlast the house they're put in were rotting away and crumbling within a couple of years.
I fully expect, that when (god I hope it's a 'when' and that it's soon) they get the water cleared up in Flint, that they'll find their entire water infrastructure will have acculmulated decades worth of corrosion for every year it's been like this.
And now a quick pause to thank the sponsore for this episode:
Nestlé - We'll put a price on it
-Even of we have to deprive 3rd world children of it
Nestle "water being a human right is extreme". Thanks Nestle.
yep! great company! totally wasnt paid a fat stack to say tha-
*this message has been redacted my NESTLE*
Minor quibble, but Nestle got out of the bottled water business. Sold Nestle Waters to private equity, now it is called Blue Triton. To be fair, I am not sure if that changed any business practices.
Thank you. Great intro.
you made this video sooo funny. Ive seen the fun side of you now . You are ususually very serious. Great vid. Thanx
"Avoid lunar eclipses, the darkness can reveal your shadow."
Isn't that... literally exactly the opposite of how shadows work?
There is a kernel of truth to this, as it is the one thing that reveals the shadow of our entire planet.
yeah isn't shadows are just where light don't reach
Given the obvious mysticism in the passage, I would assume the writer was referring to metaphysical shadows, i.e. harmful impulses or negative personality traits.
@@PolarisNC001 Well, yes, but if you're going to appeal to mysticism it's really easy to say that anything means anything.
Literally, name any physical/natural phenomenon/place and I can spin an equally convincing line about how it brings out metaphysical shadows.
@@brifox You're not wrong there. I just don't think that "Moon water" is in the same category as the other nonsense in the video. It's not pseudoscience, because it's not trying to be scientific at all. It's not even really a scam because it's not trying to sell you anything. It's a how-to guide for creating a magic spell. And while I'm sure we both consider that to be silly, at least the channel isn't trying to sell a $40 tub of powdered grass.
Eau dear! An ad that popped up while I was watching this was for a particular brand of water "ionizer." It is enough to make electrolyte-rich water flow from my eyes.
Just found your channel and love it!!!
"Chlorophyll is identical to blood...accept for the fact that base element is completely different from blood."
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If chlorophyll is similar to blood (as a matter of fact, it is), why no drink the thing that is exactly the same as blood?
Vampires are said to live much longer than non-vampires, so here is your proof.
@@juanausensi499 PLEAAAYE SAY YOU ARE SARCASTIC
@@generalflopper9697 As a matter of fact, i was.
Nevertheless, cooked blood with onion is a thing and it tastes great (cooked blood becomes solid). And you have also blood sausages.
The rules are: a) don't eat too much blood because it has too much iron and b) never DRINK blood
@@juanausensi499 yeah so?
@@generalflopper9697 Nothing, i was just throwing random facts and ideas. Chlorophyll and Hemoglobyn are both similar, both edible, but none of them are magical, that's all.
I've always found the idea of special types of water being sold a bit ridiculous. To me the only kind of special water you could sell is flavored water. However, I work at a tiny water bottling business in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and let me tell you that here you are not a con-man for selling bottled water, our water supply has waaay too many heavy minerals to be consumed regularly, so we just take them all out and add back in a bit of salt, that as far as I've been told is just to help the body retain the liquid it is ingesting.
Hehe, a bottling plant in the city of "Waters calientes", where the municipal water is poisonous.
Thank you telling us what we need to hear and see. So many huxters that try to manipulate our fear.
Can you do more, "Lies people tell about X", I really enjoy this format!
11:40 :) I lost it...."That's right! This water is much more watery than water!"
The irony is that in the middle of this video I got an ad for alkaline water lmao
RUclips used to have a "report" button on the ads. Every time there was one that was shaddy, I clicked and fill the form. Nowadays YT does not have, or at least does not appear to me anymore.
I also got an ad since I use the mobile app, it was a near-seamless transition from YT that if I hadn't been actively watching I coulda been fooled, ngl.