Hello Talia alkalizing the body is huge topic and also very important for everyone. PH balnce of our body(or anting) is also connected with electric conductivity and mineralization. Our body are electric as we know and if we want aniting to happen we need to be conductive :)
Here is a link with more info if you intersted on the subject.
https://steemit.com/inspiration/@mihail.tsvetkov/15-inspirational-stroy-dr-robert-cassar-mineral-conductivity