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15 points by animo on Dec 13, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



>drinking water before purging

First of all, PSA that stomach acid is generally not more acidic than Coke.

Second, can anyone with some experience in chemistry and biology actually do the math as to how much drinking four glasses of water before purging actually helps? Assuming you double the volume of fluid in your stomach, I'd think that this would change the pH by less than 0.5. Is this significant?


Yes diluting something by half is significant.




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