Y'all I didn't know it was a ProZD sketch I thought it was a copypasta. Ha. Here is the link to the original: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/asB7a71pzdvQdps.html Performed better there as well.

For a second I thought it was just going to be an hour of her saying "Alkaline water...with lemon." with varying levels of despair and exasperation. 😂

What I'm learning from all of this is that people don't drink enough water, and as soon as they do they start feeling better. Too bad it's 1000 dollar quantum lemon water with added hydrogen

I used to work front end retail, and we'd occasionally get in alkaline water. One time a child of a customer purchasing a bottle asked, "what's alkaline mean?" The parent responded, "more pure."

As a nurse, my heart was so sad for the man saying the water was helping his congestive heart failure. His congestive…heart failure. Which is a disease process that will fail to get off the excess fluids from your heart. These patients are on fluid restrictions! Alkaline water is NOT what you want, dear man 😩

There's something fundamentally wrong when people get mad at you for saying "you've been lied to," but they don't get mad at the person who lied to them.

When I was a kid, growing up in Canada, we were taught in school that pretty-much every advertisement is a scam and that the scams all fall into a small number of categories. The categories were described and our homework was to find an example of an ad in each category. The lesson really stuck with me my whole life.

The fact that pH is log absolutely needed to be specified. I recently worked with a couple guys who were trying to start a small business, pH mattered for the business, they didn't understand that it was logarithmic.

Oh god. I remember this fad starting in 2017 when I worked as a cashier in walmart. Some woman told me she bought it as it helped reduce her body's internal acidity. She claimed lemons would do the same thing, which instantly shot up red flags and if I had the ability to I would've made fun of her. The worst part is she went to a 'nutritionist".

I'm 'bout to watch someone spend an hour over-explaining a joke in _excruciating_ detail and I have no regrets.

Man, imagine if the STEM subject classes at school teach kids by debunking a grifter crank every new topic. Everybody would love science just to show off to their parents and grandparents.

I had a friend who asked me if I had any alkaline water, I was confused and told them I have some bicarbonate of soda and tap water, and they were free to mix them if they wanted. They got angry and I started googling my faux pas. I was shocked how much misinformation there was about basic chemistry. That friend stopped speaking to me, because I was "problematic" for understanding bench chemistry and claiming lemons were acidic. They went on to join an MLM.... I suspect there's a connection between people with a looser grip on facts and the desire to drink/sell alkaline water and put essential oils in their kids food....

39:09 "water does not have memory" boy do I have a system of medicine for you

Shout out to the guy that spent 20 YEARS dehydrated and discovered his body feels better with three glasses of water a day. Too bad he thinks he needs to buy fancy water for the magical effects of being hydrated.

Lots of people have the physics-brain/chemistry-brain problem. I was sharing some lovely sour lemonade with a SCIENTIST friend, and made the comment “Hmm. You can really taste those protons!” This upset him tremendously: “No. Surely protons are too small to detect with your tastebuds! That can’t be right!” etc.

Also I love the baby formula rant. It is crazy that all the overpriced snake oil BS is always available but the stuff you actually really need to survive is de-prioritized by huge multinational corporations.

Oh man, when you were talking about the dude in Whole Foods, I couldn't help remember the time I was in the natural food store, and he came in crying that he had eaten everything right all these years and today he was diagnosed with cancer, and it just kind of hit me how all this talk about superfoods, etc was affecting people.

I once had an internship at an oil refinery where there was an alkaline water dispenser in the pantry, together with some pseudo-scientific poster from that manufacturer about how 'blood acidity' causes cancers, hypertension, etc. It's been 12 years, and i still think about the chemical engineers who would queue to fill take-home bottles everyday.

I found out the fact with turmeric when I spilled a bunch on the floor one time and I used a cleaning solution to clean up. Everything turned an extreme red and I go “no way, is turmeric a pH indicator??” And then I shared it with all the people I love in my life and their reaction was 🦗🦗

I really felt the "chemistry brain vs physics brain" thing with H+ ions lol. Over the summer I was doing research on proton conducting oxides and H+ ions and protons were both used in the papers I read and even though I knew they were the same thing it scrambled my brain a little 😅

pH scale converted to monetary values? Brilliant! I'm stealing that for my high school students. Thanks for the fun content!

I was in the middle of having a stroke when my friend put this video on for me and it cured me completely. I've watched this video every day since and it's really given me more energy and fixed my chronic tendinitis!

There's no reason to think Paltrow doesn't know what she's doing - she's been called out on her nonsense/scam-peddling many times over the years. This was highly entertaining and informative, as usual.

I do actually like essential oils for the smells, but it’s cause I like making my own perfume 😂. But honestly this kinda stuff is so cathartic. My parents and a…bad…ex believe all this and regularly try to rope me in, so it’s nice to have a kind but sassy channel to go to to remind me I’m not crazy

I’m a music major who thought they would become a physicist as a kid. I love science and your videos are really interesting and fun to watch!

I will say, from my understanding,, Liquid Death water is sold like that not because they're trying to seem better than tap water, but so people who don't want to drink alcohol at parties and concerts can look like they're holding a can of beer. It's kind of nice, imo, bc it's weird how much people push back when you say you don't want to have a drink at an Event.

As someone who works for a package delivery company, there is nothing I hate more than companies that ship cases of bottled water. What an incredible waste of packaging, fuel, and effort. And there are some psychos who order like six cases at a time. My brother in christ, pipes were invented for a very specific purpose - to deliver liquids in an efficient and convenient manner. Please use them.

My sister has been drinking alkaline water for an esophagus issue (i don't know, it was a real ENT). My first thought was also just stirring baking soda into tap water because I mean it's dumb to waste energy carrying water around in trucks. Nice to see someone else thought the same

Your presence on KZfaq is probably the best thing to arise out of the Covid-19 Panic.

Another funny thing about the sale of "alkaline water" is that roughly half of the UK has naturally alkaline water, because the water passes through limestone before entering the reservoirs from which it gets processed into tap water. Basically, if your kettle or steam iron or whatever accumulates limescale, then you have alkaline tap water. I have no idea what proportion of the USA has naturally alkaline tap water.

Instead of drinking alk water I eat an antacid tablet and do a shot of pickle juice. Really syncs up my waves.

I work in the water industry in the UK, tap water which is normally almost pure (99.96%) costs around 16 pence per litre (20 cents per litre). I despair that people buy bottled water, especially as they usually say "well you can't trust the water from taps". But as you point out here, how does the average person know the regulations allow bottled water to far less pure than their tap water? I still despair. It may seem odd but this video really made me feel noticed.

After watching this. I’ve decided to start selling ghost water. It’s harvested from only the most pristine cemeteries and infused with the spookiest of spirits. Let the power of your ancestors rehydrate you. Ghost water!

I actually did a water taste test study as my science fair project in high school. I used like a dozen different brand (and tap water from the school), and served them in identical paper cups, which I randomized before serving. They definitely DO taste different. almost everyone could identify which one was the tap water, and quite a few correctly identified their brand of choice. Beyond that, the results were roughly U-shaped, plotting preference vs price. If I were to do another iteration, I would want to try to evaluate the impacts of familiarity and novelty. Personally, a number of the more expensive waters tasted bad, but I did observe some reactions like "that tastes fancy," as opposed to "I like this taste." But there is *definitely* a noticeable difference, which I would assume comes down to the filtration techniques and the specific minerals added for taste.

The pH calculation with the water and the lemon is such a nice exam task :D

You sound like someone who understands the importance of being up-to-date on your boosters. It's so refreshing. Great video!

Long form, comedic science content and ProZD references 😂 This might be one of my new, favorite channels.

This feels like a reverse Limmy sketch where Limmy is the one who gets the science and the other people don't "Lemons are alkaline! -But lemons are acidic. -Lemons have an alkaline effect! -But lemons are acidic."

39:05 Look at how happy that water is. Imagine how sad a water that was shipped all the way from New Zealand must feel, I'd never drink jet-lagged water

I have a condition called GERD, which is basically chronic heartburn, and I was spending a lot of time in GERD discussion groups right around the time when the whole alkaline diet thing was really big. As heartburn is caused by stomach acid and is often exacerbated by consuming acidic food/drink, a lot of people in the group were interested in it, but people kept getting confused by the lists of alkaline foods people pushing the diet put out cos it would include things like lemon and other citrus in the "alkaline" list. With a bit of reading into it it turns out that when they say "alkaline food" it's actually based on the idea that certain foods make the body more acidic or alkaline when they're digested and processed by it and has very little to do with it's acidity outside the body. But of course it's very unclear and confusing, which is why you get shit like this where people think putting lemon in alkaline water will make it more alkaline.

Dr. Collier, thank you for making videos that both take my mind off my troubles and teach me about things I didn't even know I wanted know.

In terms of packaged water, I think Liquid Death fills an important niche. The idea is you have something in your hand that's kind of fun looking and seems vaguely like a beer, so if you're at a party or something, people don't feel the need to get an alcoholic drink into your hand

My dad is super into this stuff and watching your videos is so cathartic. I feel like i’m being gaslit all the time and I come to your channel to feel sane again. thank you. I will say- you can definitely taste a difference between different water brands. i’ve done blind taste tests a few times at fairs and such and I have never gotten it wrong.

I just recently discovered this channel. It's quickly becoming my favourite. I recently gave up talking to humans because... well everything in these videos. I don't have the energy anymore to debate flat earths and magic potions, my brain cannot take it anymore. So you are my now my champion, keep up the good fight. Love from Scotland.

Just stumbled across your channel and living these videos, your attitude and approach is perfect and makes me laugh 😂

I have a theory: When you put lemon in alkaline water, you get magnesium citrate. Which is a laxative. And when you have a good dump, you feel good.

Love the tap water promotion. You can even make it alkaline and disgusting by mixing in baking soda, which does work decently as a quick remedy for heartburn.

At work, we had a music festival. After they left us 3 pallets of canned and boxed water. "Music Water" Austin, TX city water-reverse osmosis, "Box Water" revs osmo, and "Liquid Death" shipped from Austrian Alps-unfiltered. The Liquid Death tasted best and has the best marketing, but they are all just water, like in the toilet.

It is such a pleasure listening to you. And the part where you do a calculation on a piece of paper "of course I had to make some assumptions" just made me smile with joy. And I even got the joke withalkaline water and lemon. Thanks.

Love the deadpan delivery of sarcasm combined with genuine care and respect for the victims of quantum scams.

I sort of wasn't paying attention to the title, but when you went to town hammering "alkaline water with lemons" it finally hit me... I ended up holding my head in disbelief... 😂

I was walking through my company's cafeteria and saw Liquid Death sparkling water and thought of this video. You keep dropping hints in your videos about the climate crisis. You're such a gifted story teller and communicator. I think you'd be great at doing a deep dive into this topic, especially with the latest article from James Hansen et al. that just came out. I love all of your content. Keep on keeping on.

Been too long since watching one of your videos. Just realized what makes me feel so good is your smarts, sense of humor, and your youth… yes, youth. Being an uneducated but curious grandpa most of the younger folk I deal with, let’s say under 30, in social situations and hobbies are almost but not quite as awful as us old farts, and that’s pretty bad. But listening to you wax on and wax off about whatever burns your biscuits makes me laugh and gives me hope just knowing youngins like you are somewhere out there. Tyvm!

I'm only 15 minutes in so far, but wanted to share this before I forgot. I used to work in biotech. One of the things this involved was interviewing graduate job applicants. These were nearly all youngsters fresh out of university with some kind of life-science bachelor's degree. In technical interviews, a question that I found quite useful is "What is pH?". Over the course of a few years, I must have interviewed well over thirty candidates (we tended to conduct interviews roughly once a year, and I was only involved in interviews for the R&D department). Not one of the candidates could tell me that the number is just the negative log of the hydrogen ion concentration. I find it astonishing that graduates with a life-science degree were never taught where the number comes from. The concept of pH is absolutely fundamental in many biochemical processes. Oh, also, back in my undergraduate days, we encountered both "protons" and "hydrogen ions" as pretty much interchangeable. But, technically, a hydrogen ion doesn't exist in aqueous solution. Instead, the local surplus proton exists as the H3O+ ion (that's effectively a water molecule plus a hydrogen ion, with the positive charge distributed among the three O-H bonds). One more thing: electronic pH meters are only finicky if you use them in certain types of solution. There's a commonly-used buffer known as Tris (short for tris-(hydroxymethyl) aminomethane), which can desensitise a pH electrode. Single-junction electrodes are especially susceptible to this effect; double-junction electrodes are nearly immune to it. Either way, giving your electrode a good soak in an acid such as 1 M HCl will recover its function.

One of my favorite water scams, and it turns out that it's still around, is Penta Water. They no longer make the claims that started the scam. Now, it's just "pure" water but their original scam was that the H2O molecules were aligned into a 5 molecule arrangement in the shape of a pentagon, hence the "Penta" in its name. This alignment was beneficial to the body absorbing "penta water" and hence providing faster hydration than regular chaotic water. I corresponded with them for a while trying to get them to point to ANY research even remotely suggesting that LIQUID H2O can be arranged into any kind of organization like this. Then they started changing their marketing likely due to getting on some state DA's radar rather than my inquiries.

I died inside with every amazon review you read, particularly those with health conditions who have been scammed into thinking expensive water is comparable to medical treatment. It's okay though, your new brand of water you advertise in the video description brought me back.

Just wanna say I love your presentation style. Long videos that feel short. Awesome stuff!

Tap water in my city is pH 8.3 according to our water works. I don't know how much a cubic metre of water costs, but less than five dollars. Wellness tourists are welcome. Lemons are widely available

This is like the kind of rants I get on personally. Which is nice because it isn't me ranting, it's some else. I find her disposition extremely relatable.

I just found your channel. Wow, it is like a diamond to me. Despite I don't understand most of the things you say, I love to get the gist of what you talk about and listening to you (anyone actually) on brainstorming topics. Thank you, keep it up. :)

It's so refreshing(lol) for ppl to call Gwinneth Paltrough on her bs, when I saw the title of the video, I was like that Gwynneth isn't it? And felt every exasperated sigh in my soul, deffo earned a new sub, love the way you explain stuff

‘I’m not a chemist, actually, I just assumed it was gonna be a simple, like, algebra situation.’ Me applying for my first lab tech position.

FWIW, Liquid Death is largely meant for teetotalers like me to have something to drink while fitting in at parties and events. I went to a prog-metal concert a few weeks ago, and it was perfect. It absolutely does NOT need to be consumed on the regular.

You should do EMF protection devices next! I just got an ad for a company called “Conscious Copper”. For the low price of $88 plus shipping and tax, you can protect everything in a 500ft radius from spooky 5G fields using a 1.5 cm square of copper with a grid etched in one side. And their wearable necklace has quantum!

I just discovered your channel recently and I think your videos are great

I’m a professional hairstylist and in the simplest terms possible, yes understanding acids and bases is the foundation of basically all hair color (along with understanding color values). Most of the stylists I know still rely on some charts + rules of thumb + just working off a couple memorized formulations because the majority of us are NOT math people but I will say quite a few of my colleagues and I got a kick out of the whole “alkaline water with lemon” thing

OMG your video is so great! I'm just loving your content - it's always informative and funny :) Thanks for your time and effort!😊

This video was so much more then I thought it would be when I clicked on it. Great job and thank you for allthe laughs

Love this. You know, that scenario you talked about where rich people control wll the water and poorer people don't have access to clean water? Yeah, that definitely is a thing that's already happening in many places of the world. Water is a resource that people will go to war over.

The best review is from the person at 43:00. They say they had chest pain for years and the doctor was really confused by the test results. And it went away when they bought that water and drank 2 bottles of it... because they only drank an abysmal amount of 450ml of water per day before! How can anyone drink this little water?!?!

Lol, Just so you know, I literally got an ad for Smart Alkaline water during this video... Advertising dollars well spent. (P.S. Your content is amazing; I always learn so much!)

This really wet my appetite ! Subscribed. You go girl !

I love your channel. (Disclosure, I have a PhD in chemistry and work in the field) I wanted to lose weight and improve my diet, so I asked an MD I trust for a serious dietician. She made a meal plan that made sense along with some strange propositions. Among them was the "alkaline diet". I didn't argue with the lady, I didn't see the point. But I was curious and looked for where the claim comes from. There is actually a fad of people arguing that certain foods, after digested, have alkaline, neutral or acidic metabolites (their pka). The more alkaline one's diet, the healthier it is. Insert black box between cause and consequence. It surprised me further that there is iffy research done on the topic. When I was taught physiology, the body does an incredible job at keeping a pH, keeping very tight concentrations of each ion using many systems, chief among them the urinary system. There are metabolic maps, etc. So I wanted to understand. What is the metabolite of lemon that can possibly have a high pka, hence be alkaline. Turns out this crowd uses an "ash test". They literally burn the foodstuff, add to water and measure the pH! That's it. This is not how a compound is digested (or simply flies by to be excreted) in the body. Because blood pH is carefully kept constant, this community checks the effect of certain diets on the pH of urine as a proxy and try to make the connection between the ash test, the alkaline/neutral/acidic foods the urine pH and the immensely complex black box that could be going on in the blood, organs, cells, etc etc. I'm getting old and tired...so I just brushed it away as more nonsense, from the "fats are bad" then "sugars are bad" and the endless lack of rigour and inconsequential dangerous decisions made in human nutrition that gave us so many problems. Well, I never saw the dietician again. Her diet plan made sense: cut the rubbish, eat real foods, etc. But I was so disappointed she followed the alkaline diet hypothesis, follows a master's degree on it in an accredited Nutritional Sciences Department, that I simply try to eat my veggies, cut on the high calorie stuff and exercise....

I drink my tap water out of a mug. I mean, can you really trust glas? It's almost invisible!

Angela, you are a wonderful educator! Love your stuff, Doc.

Structured water... So ice? Thats ice. Water structured into a crystalline lattice. We call this ice.

I like to add a little sprinkle of non-GMO pink Himalayan salt to my alkaline water with lemon.

This channel is so awesome. Thanks for explaining physics like I'm a child, and it's also cool when you play games and rant!

I love the way you used Paltrow's pic with the "Alkaline water...with lemon", it makes me chuckle every time I come across this video. I've been poking like buttons on several of your videos, Thanks for your channel, lol!

One of your best / sarcastic videos … brilliant

Knowing that the pH scale is logarithmic has finally made it make sense in my head. I never understood why you could drink lemon juice and be fine even though it’s so close to stuff like hydrochloric acid on the scale.

really enjoying this video so far! A minor complaint RE: transitional double-splash noise i do appreciate the Deep Bit Integration very much! however, something about the execution is quite jarring to me. i wouldn't normally leave such nit-picky feedback, but l'm enjoying the rest of the video So Much that the splash noise coming in like a wrecking ball is so tragic and pretty fixable (i think! i don't know how much spare energy you have to devote to fiddling with sound mixing.) anyway- thanks for sharing your research/knowledge in such an engaging, non-condescending way. looking forward to seeing more of your work ✨

Please don't change. The lack of pretense, the lack of a practiced fake KZfaq voice. This is what vlogs should be like. It's easier to take you seriously this way. Also, you win at sarcasm.

A note on how popular bottled water is - until last year I ran the on-campus convenience stores for a US university. The biggest seller across all categories that we had were 20oz bottles of water (started as a coke campus, then became a pepsi campus, so it was true with both Dasani and Aquafina). We sold more 20oz bottles of water than all varieties and sizes of sodas combined. It was staggering.

After watching all of your videos (thank you, by the way, it's been a fun and educational ride) I think it's imperative that you and @JennyNicholson collab on a podcast titled something like "Two Ladies Nerding Out" and you can just trade off explaining your different fields of interest to each other. And I will listen. And I will laugh. And it will be glorious.

The rant at about 25:00 on going to get baby formula is classic! Subscribed. I hope you keep doing debunkings, you’re great at it.

"Artesian" water is literally groundwater - it's tap water, but from New Zealand! Personally I like to sometimes add a bit of ascorbic acid to my tap water. Technically that would make it vitamin water (in this case really!) but I just like the citrusy taste. Cheap, refreshing, and without any sugar.

you're currently my favourite person on youtube. idk when was the last time i enjoyed a creators work so much... it's such a breath of fresh air to have videos that are both informative but also fun and have a distinct personality, aren't stiff, i suppose. you're a pleasure to watch

I love you. I laughed so hard. Thank you. subscribed.

It cracks me up that most of the benefit descriptions like up with the benefits of simple hydration

I used to be a goblin, but then I started drinking alkaline water

"this is for the people that go to a restaurant and ask what the name of the lamb was" absolutely and completely killed me. For weeks to come I will wake up to nightmares of this kind of people

Come on, people, let's get this channel to 100,000 subscribers. This is clearly the most broadly useful thing going in the indie science youtube arena, pace all the many many worthy practitioners. This has the stuff we need to get traction as informed people doing things out there.

The Acollierastro new vid day has arrived. Life is good.

I got the joke from the thumbnail, and I'm still so happy to have watched the entire video. You are great. Thank you for showing the general public just how batshit crazy these claims are, in such a funny and educational way.

I'm about a minute in and definitely not going to watch the rest but boy do I respect the fact you made a one hour video about this.

you're my find of the day!! ;DD kudos!

I'm so happy to hear someone speak out against alkaline water. I work at a grocery store and it hurts me that we stock it.

The acollierastro uncertainty principle: when you can not think of a H+ ion and a proton at the same time without observing it from either chemistry brain or physics brain.

You're a recent discovery for me and I've been enjoying the content. I've also recently become concerned about micro-plastics in tap water. Most plumbing these days is PVC and PEX, and I was wondering if you had any thoughts about aging PVC pipes decaying and releasing plastics into our drinking water. If you already talk about microplastics in another video, I'll probably find it before too long. Keep up the good work young lady.