The added minerals help to correct deficiency...
“You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.”
– Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner
“The lack of minerals is the root of all disease.”
– Dr. Gary Price Todd
http://www.theeventchronicle.com/health/mineral-deficiency-linked-every-disease-sickness/#
"In 1931, Otto Warburg, M.D., won the Nobel Prize for his findings of cancer cells being acidic cells and that cancer can't survive in an alkaline environment."
https://csn.cancer.org/node/240720
At a pH of 7.6 the cancer cell division will stop, at a pH of 8.0 to 8.5 the lifespan of it is considerably shortened (only hours).
http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/Killing_Cancer_Cells_with_High_pH_Therapy.html
At a pH slightly above 7.4 cancer cells become dormant and at pH 8.5 cancer cells will die while healthy cells will live.
http://altered-states.net/barry/newsletter339/bicarbonateofsoda.htm
...Drink water to raise body pH.