A simple free way to alkalinize the body

So many people here on CZ are pushing costly and dangerous products to alkalinize the body. What they are not telling people is that the body does a very good job of maintaining its own pH since both acidosis and alkalosis are dangerous to the body.  This is except in rare cases such as some poisonings and in some disease conditions like COPD.

The primary means by which the body maintains its pH is through respiration.  If the body starts becoming too acidic then respiration increases to reduce carbonic acid and lactate.  If the body becomes too alkaline then respiration decreases to retain acidic carbonic acid and lactate.

So as a demonstration of how easy it is to alkalinize the body and how dangerous over alkalinization can be consider hyperventilating.  If done in a controlled manner the blowing off of carbon dioxide and increasing oxygen to remove lactate puts the body in to an alkaline state right away.  If  the hyperventilation is overdone though the body will go in to state of alkalosis, and the over reduction of carbonic acid causes the blood vessels around the brain to constrict pushing the blood out of the brain and the person passes out.

This is an example of why we need to maintain pH balance and not force the pH either to the acid or alkaline side.  And the body can do a much better job of this can we can hope to do.