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CMV: No matter what you eat, you cannot make your body into an "alkaline state".

I have a couple friends who consistently try to convince me that disease is impossible in an alkaline environment. They tell me of all the food I should eat which is "alkaline forming" in the body. My moderate education in biology tells me that if you do change the ph of you body - you will die. Who among you has any credible evidence in this "alkaline diet" stuff. It just doesn't make any sense to me.  


As a preemptive statement: please don't include links to websites that solely peddle alkaline diet information. I'm not looking for unbiased sources, as they don't exists, but sources that do not have the "alkaline diet" as their main shtick.
gpt
Eating alkaline food or supplements (like antacid/tums tabs) will mostly change the pH of your stomach. So yes, it will have 'some' effect on you body. Beyond your stomach, it won't change much. You can always define 'alkaline state' as increasing the pH in your stomach. Note that increasing the pH in your stomach might make your body more vulnerable to infections as a less acidic environment might allow for mere bacteria and viruses to survive ingestion.  


Edit: corrected one of the two 'increasing' (was 'decreasing' before)