Balancing Body Chemistry
Our creator endowed us with balanced body chemistry, which if properly maintained, provides us with a long, healthy life. Unfortunately, doctors pay little or no attention to balancing body chemistry. If they did, it would unbalance their pocket books, because the more we stay in acid/alkaline balance, the healthier we are and the longer we live. The exciting thing is that we can control our acid/alkaline pH balance extremely easily. We can test ourselves and modify our body chemistry as needed absolutely without risk. A healthy man, woman or child is in acid/alkaline pH balance, slightly in favor of alkalinity. If we are too acid, we are unhealthy. It is this simple! And if we get totally acid, we are dead! Dr. George W. Crile, a great surgeon, said, “There is no such thing as natural death. All deaths from so-called natural causes are merely the endpoint of progressive acid saturation.” Any form of poor health indicates a disturbed state of body chemistry balance – generally an acid state. In fact, over-acidity is common to all health-robbing conditions. An infant is highly alkaline. An 80-year-old person is highly acid. Death is 100% acidity.
Causes of Acidity:
The relationship between acid and alkaline is scientifically quantified on a scale of 0 to 14 known as pH. On this scale, 7 is neutral. Below 7 is acid and above 7 is alkaline. The ideal range is between 7.35 and 7.45 with most of us falling in the acid range of 6.2 to 6.4. Why are we a full point or more below the ideal alkaline range? Three big reasons: Stress, diet and dehydration. If you live and work in America you’re swamped in stress and stress is a BIG cause of increased acid production. As we age we become more acid because we build up more acid waste. A poor diet is the principal cause. You’re probably eating 80% acid foods and only 20% alkaline foods, when just the opposite ratio is the one that will help you stay healthy. Commercially processed foods are very acid and most people live on processed foods. Beef, pork, fish, turkey, chicken, pasta, hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, cheese, bread, butter, cookies, crackers, eggs, rice, and cereals… just to name a few… All ARE ACID FAVORITES! And we skimp or flat out avoid alkaline-forming foods, which are primarily fruits, vegetables and mineralized spring water. As a result, our current diet craze is the perfect host environment for harmful pathogens to thrive. Virtually all health-robbing conditions are directly linked to ECCESS ACIDITY in the body. What’s worse is adult health problems are now prevalent at much younger ages simply because of our modern diet! Another serious consequence of over-acidity(meaning a pH below 7.0) is the replacement of oxygen with sugar fermentation in the respiratory chemistry of normal cells, causing them to become damaged. A German biochemist, Dr. Otto Warburg, discovered the cause of cancer in 1923, winning him the Nobel Prize. In his book, The Metabolism of Tumors, Dr. Warburg demonstrated that the primary cause of this relationship is the replacement of oxygen in the respiratory chemistry of normal cells by the fermentation of sugar. He discovered that the growth of damaged cells is a fermentation process, which is initiated, only in the relative absence of oxygen. Of course, alkalization restores the oxygen and stops the fermentation process and the damaged cells. Sugar and artificial sweeteners are a huge part of the American diet and all (except Stevia) are acid and acid forming. No one can deny that sugar makes us fat, contributes to poor health, and rushes the accumulation of acid and aging. Seven out of 10 people are chronically dehydrated – which means they suffer from dehydration fatigue, sluggish metabolism and an urge to eat all the time because the thirst mechanism is so weak that it’s often mistaken for hunger.
Consequences of Acidity:
We age in direct proportion to how acid our diet is. The good news is that an acid body can be reversed. All one needs is a simple do-it-yourself litmus test, fruits, vegetables and alkaline drinking water. Every man, woman and child should have an acid/alkaline balance of +/-7.4.
The more acid we are, the worse our health. Harmful pathogens in the body can only survive in an acid environment. Any kind of infection will thrive in an acid body. Excessive acid causes thick blood that over coagulates. Acidosis means less oxygen in the blood. Increasing alkalinity means increasing oxygen. All drugs accumulate as acid waste in the body. Most people with high blood pressure are overly acid. But since the alkaline or higher pH blood contains excess oxygen, the heart doesn’t have to work as hard. Soft drinks are very acidic. Sugar grabs oxygen with the highest priority. Soft drinks are highly acid with an average pH of 2.5. That much acid will dissolve anything. Younger people are becoming highly acidic and are developing more and more adult health problems due in part to their high intake of soft drinks. By drinking alkaline water we restore oxygen, not in the form of 02, but in the form of 0H, which is very stable because it is mated with positively ionized alkaline minerals, which detoxify poisonous acid waste. Alkaline water raises oxygen saturation and restores body chemistry balance. Understanding acid/alkaline balance of the blood is a simple matter to maintain health.
2pH Systems:
There are 2 pH systems in the body and both are equally critical and independent. The first is the pH acid/alkaline balance of the blood, which should be maintained at +/7.4. The second is the pH balance of the stomach, which should be maintained at 2 to 4 pH or very acid. All foods are “burned” or digested in the body and leave behind an ash that can be neutral, acid or alkaline depending on the mineral composition of the food. When your body burns an alkaline ash, you develop a strong immune function. On the other hand, acid-ash foods are linked to many of today’s health complaints. Said another way: A healthy body is always slightly alkaline. When you alkalize your body, you oxygenate, detoxify, and energize your cells. It’s important to note, I’m not talking about stomach acid here, but the fluids and tissues of the body that comprise over 70% of what you are! Commercial advertising has built a very profitable industry promoting antacids that destroy normal and absolutely essential stomach acid. It’s the perfect crime because when the body gives a signal of acid indigestion, it does not come from over-acidity but under acidity. Our body produces organic acids of fermentation when stomach acids are low, causing undigested food to rot in the stomach, which of course causes symptoms of indigestion. Antacids help deplete an already low stomach acid. The deception is temporary relief, but the poor customers never understand cause and effect. Proper stomach acid of 2 to 4 must be maintained to properly digest and assimilate food. Stomach hydrochloric acid goes down with age so supplementation is called for.
Benefits of Alkaline/Acid Balance:
Aging is slowed when acid waste is removed from the body. An acid environment has to be changed as healthy cells are alkaline and unhealthy cells are acidic. Drinking alkaline water will not harm healthy cells while it may destroy unhealthy cells. Acid accumulation causes aging and poor health. We therefore develop lack of oxygen and shortness of breath caused by over-acidity. Likewise, as we reverse acidity to alkalinity, we get more oxygen, more stamina and restored health. No matter how much nutrition we take, we cannot be healthy without a balanced body chemistry.
What’s the easy way for you to achieve your pH balance? First check your pH balance. Next, eat fresh vegetables, especially green ones, along with fresh fruit and drink a lot of good natural mineralized spring water every day. You will soon be out of your over- acidic state!
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