The Alkaline Diet: Is There Evidence That an Alkaline pH Diet Benefits Health
Gerry K Schwalfenberg
An alkaline diet may have some health benefits for chronic diseases, but more research is needed to confirm this.
This review looks at the role of an alkaline diet in health. Pubmed was searched looking for articles on pH, potential renal acid loads, bone health, muscle, growth hormone, back pain, vitamin D and chemotherapy. Many books written in the lay literature on the alkaline diet were also reviewed and evaluated in light of the published medical literature. There may be some value in considering an alkaline diet in reducing morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases and further studies are warranted in this area of medicine.
The episode was first published on the Swedish podcast Fasciaguiden on June 4, 2025. In this unique episode, we meet Professor Gerald Pollack — one of the world’s most influential…
Fascia research has sparked a wildfire of new insights that are challenging conventional belief about how the living body works. In the last 15-20 years thousands of high quality…