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Don't try to change your pH

"There is no one single food that can change the pH of your blood — and if it did, it'd be because it was poisonous and you were dying," says English. She further explains that the cells in our body all operate within different tight pH ranges — and if those change even a little bit, they stop working. So that alkaline diet? Yeah, it's probably not going to do much.

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