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pH Balancing - a Vital Key
to Health and Wellbeing
Many doctors, herbalists and nutritionists believe that many of the diseases raging through our
modern society
may have a common cause:
pH Imbalances - also know as Acidosis.
You can change the way things are
by changing the things you do
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 The body strives to maintain a balanced, acid-alkaline ratio, often referred to
as pH, of 7.3 to stay healthy. It maintains that balance by adjusting positively charges ions (acid-forming) and negatively charged ions
(alkaline-forming) in all of its fluids and tissue.
The impact of even a minor change in
alkalinity or acidity has a profound effect on the body.
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pH is a Balancing Act With Your Health and Wellbeing at Stake
The source from which the body draws to adjust the pH balance between
acid
and alkaline is diet - the meat, vegetables, fruit and grain people
consume in each and every meal.
The body continually strives to balance pH by adding or removing alkaline
or acid forming ions using nutrients, typically minerals, contained in the food that has been
consumed.
Understanding pH
pH (potential of hydrogen) is a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a
solution. It is measured on a scale of 0 to 14 - the lower the pH the more acidic the
solution, the higher the pH, the more alkaline (or base) the solution. When a solution
is neither acid nor alkaline it has a pH of 7, which is neutral.
The Most Abundant Compound in the Human Body
is Water.
Making up approximately 60% of the body’s composition, water is the fluid to which the body mixes the appropriate ionic agents that
adjust and maintain pH. Saliva and/or urine are ready sources for measuring
the pH of the body for testing purposes.
What Causes an Acidic Condition (Acidosis)?
The reason acidosis (an acid condition) is more common in our society is due, in great part, to a diet that is too high in acid-producing animal products like meat, eggs and dairy, and too low in alkaline-producing foods like fresh, ripe vegetables and fruit.
Also, processed foods like white flour and sugar; beverages like coffee and soft drinks; prescriptive and OTC drugs; and artificial chemical sweeteners, which are extremely acid forming, are contributing factors to the prevalence of acidosis.
Most often, people who suffer from unbalanced pH are too acidic.
The acidic condition forces the body to borrow minerals, including: calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium, from vital organs,
teeth and bones, to buffer (neutralize) the acid and safely restore pH balance
to the internal terrain of the body.
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This “borrowing” is the body’s safety mechanism that it
uses, in emergency situations, to maintain acid/alkaline balance
that, if prolonged, has dire circumstances.
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pH balancing works like a train.
As the internal biological terrain becomes acidic (the pH level drops), the body pulls Calcium and/or other buffering minerals, from different parts of the body to buffer the acidity of the fluids, cells and the blood.
The body can suffer severe and prolonged damage due to high acidity. A condition that may go undetected for years.
The earliest warning signs of an acidic biological terrain is calcium deposits.
They are often indications that the levels of trace and macro mineral cofactors, responsible for maintaining the serum levels Calcium in the blood stream or interstitial fluids, are insufficient to maintain the suspension.
This deficiency in trace minerals forces the Calcium to “fall out” of suspension to accumulate on bone or in various organs. Calcium deposits come from the structural calcium of blood, fluids, bones and teeth and never from the calcium in the water or diet.
Conversely, when the availability of calcium, in the blood, is below the levels that are needed to buffer acidity, the body
will actively pull Calcium from bones and teeth in an attempt to balance pH.
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Addressing diet, stress and exercise, along with taking specific
nutritional supplements, are important steps you need to take to
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A pH
Imbalance May Create Many Health Challenges
A healthy body maintains adequate alkaline reserves to meet emergency demands. When excess acids
(acidosis) must be neutralized, the alkaline reserves can become depleted, leaving the body in a
weakened condition.
An acidic body (acidosis), which is common today, weakens all of the body’s systems.
It gives rise to an internal environment conducive to disease, as opposed to a pH-balanced environment,
which allows normal body function necessary for the body to resist disease.
Acid/alkaline balance helps maintain oxygen level in the biological terrain.
Acidity reduces the oxygen carrying capacity of blood leaving you tired and fatigued. Also, the reduced
oxygen levels allow fungus, mold, parasites, bad bacteria and viruses to flourish and gain a hold
throughout the body.
If you have Candida yeast, you will likely have bad bacteria, fungus, and
parasites because they all flourish in the same oxygen poor terrain. It is interesting to note that you
often won't have just some of these invaders.
pH balance allow your body to assimilates minerals and nutrients properly.
It is possible for you to be eating and supplementing with healthy nutrients and yet be unable to absorb or use them.
If you are not getting the results you expected from your
nutritional program, look for an acid/alkaline imbalance. Even the right dietary
supplement program may not work if your body is struggling with acidosis.
A state of acidosis is simply the lack of oxygen and available calcium and buffering minerals (which the body uses to maintain its alkaline balance.)
Mild acidosis can cause such problems as:
- Cardiovascular damage
- Constriction of blood vessels and the reduction of oxygen
- Weight gain, obesity and diabetes.
- Bladder and kidney conditions, including kidney stones
- Immune deficiency
- Acceleration of free radical damage
- Premature aging.
Osteoporosis, weak, brittle bones, hip fractures and bone spurs.
Joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid buildup.
Low energy and chronic fatigue.
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The body borrows calcium from
organs, teeth and bones in order to balance pH.
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The biggest problem scientists have found is, over time, prolonged acidic pH depletes the the organs, teeth and bone of the human body of calcium.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a recent, seven-year study
conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, on 9,000 women. The study shows
that the participants who have chronic acidosis are at greater risk for bone loss than those
who have normal pH levels.
The scientists who carried out this experiment believe that many of
the hip fractures prevalent among middle-aged women are connected to acidity and
directly related to a diet rich in animal foods and low in vegetables.
Calcium makes up 1.6% of our body weight.
It is literally the glue that holds the
human body together. Calcium is so biochemically active that it has been likened to an octopus.
A calcium ion can hold onto seven other molecules while it grabs onto one molecule of water. No other ion can do this.
And it is the right size to easily get in and out of the human cell. As it does this, it takes a chain of nutrients into the cell and then leaves to get more nutrients.
A compound called mono-ortho-calcium phosphate is the chemical buffer for the blood. This buffer maintains the alkaline level (or the lack of acidity) in your blood.
If the acidity level of your blood changes even slightly you die immediately.
In order to supply enough calcium for buffering,
the body must have enough calcium, absorbed from the diet, or it will simply rob the needed calcium from
the bones and teeth.
The more acidic the body - the less oxygen is available and present.
The biological terrain becomes more anaerobic (oxygen depleted). Without
adequate oxygenation, unfriendly bacteria, viruses, molds, and fungus can live
and prosper - and, because our biological chemical reactions need oxygen, cells cannot carry on their life-giving functions efficiently.
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A 19th century scientific and philosophical debate is the foundation for modern
medicine. On one side of the debate was French microbiologist Antoine Bechamp. On the other side was French microbiologist Louis Pasteur.
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Louis Pasteur Versus Antoine Bechamp
- A Historical Perspective
Louis Pasteur, father of the Germ Theory of Disease (also known as
monomorphism), hypothesized that “germs are the cause of disease.”
Pasteur’s theory of disease described non-changeable microbes as the primary cause of disease.
It speculates that a microorganism is static and unchangeable. He theorized that different microbes
or bacteria that invade the body, from the outside, cause disease. This is the theory of monomorphism
or more simply, many germs, many diseases. His theory gave rise to our modern methods for
combating disease.
Bechamp held the view that microorganisms can go through different stages of development.
He theorized that microbes change according to the environment to which they are exposed, evolving into
various forms within their life cycle.
Bechamp observed a microbe, he named microzyma, changing shape as individuals became diseased.
He theorized that disease comes from this microbe from inside the body. This is the theory of
pleomorphism or more simply, one germ, many diseases.
Claude Bernard, another scientist of the day, theorized that the "milieu" or the
internal environment of the body is all important to the disease process.
He believed that microbes change and evolve, as result of the environment (or
terrain) to which they are exposed.
Bernard thought that microbes, being pleomorphic, will change according to the environment
to which they are exposed inside the body. He believed disease, in the body, is a biological process that develops
depending on the state of the internal biological terrain. At the core of that terrain, is pH.
The concept of acid/alkaline imbalance as the cause of disease.
The Theory of Pleomorphism was in direct competition with Pasteur’s Germ
Theory. The Pleomorphic Theory of Disease lost out due, in large part, to
Pasteur's more dynamic personality and the limited technology of the day.
As a result,
today, people attempt to fight their own private chemical war against molds, yeasts,
bacteria, viruses and fungi by using antibiotics as the first line of defense.
Sadly, the immune
system is becoming weaker and over-taxed and all the while, because of the over-use of antibiotics,
germs and bacteria have become more powerful and deadly.
It is
interesting to note that Dr. Pasteur's dying words are reported to have been:
"The germ is nothing, the inner terrain is everything".
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It seems that the cause of disease, and aging, may be less complex than previously thought.
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Dr. William Hay and Dr. Theodore
Baroody - A Modern Perspective
New York
Physician, William Howard Hay, published an alternative perspective to Pasteur in his book,
A New Health Era, in which he writes that all disease is caused by autotoxication
(or self-poisoning) due to acidosis in the body in 1933.
Further, Hay writes: “Now we depart from health in just the proportion to which we have allowed our alkalis to be dissipated by introduction of acid-forming food in too great amount . . .
. It may seem strange to say that all disease is the same thing, no matter what its myriad modes of expression, but it is verily so.”
More recently, in his book, Alkalize or Die, Dr. Theodore A. Baroody, ND, DC, PhD writes essentially the same thing: “The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What does matter is that they all come from the same root cause...too much tissue acid waste in the body.”
Almost 99% of the components of food that people consume, every day, are highly acidic due to processing,
flavor and color enhancing chemicals and preservatives, with only 1% been alkalizing minerals and
natural phytochemicals.
Acid waste is excreted from the human body in the form of urine or sweat.
When level of acidity exceeds the body’s ability to process the acidity, the excess wastes, that are not excreted, will continue circulating around the body in the blood. This acidic waste changes the pH of the blood and other bodily fluids exerting a direct affect on tissue at the cellular level.
Also, as a consequence of this situation, the cells of the human body will be deprived of their supply of oxygen and essential nutrients, rendering these cells inactive in regeneration.
That could be the explanation for aging
and disease?
Plus, with the blood vessels restricted, the function of every organ in the human body accumulating acidic waste will begin to deteriorate, causing serious illnesses in the long run.
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These, and other findings suggest that acidic foods and acidosis is one of the
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When does the accumulation of age-contributing
acidic waste begin?
Aging begins once a child starts to wean.
An unborn child flourishes on nutrients from his mother while in the womb and, after birth; the
baby's body is able to maintain the acid/alkaline, owing to the consumption of rich mother’s milk
containing alkaline minerals from the mother.
This release of alkaline minerals during pregnancy does however, temporarily weaken the mother's body, cause craving and increase appetite. The baby will remain alkaline while breast-feeding, but will begin to reduce in alkalinity once put on acidifying commercial formula and infant cereals.
If, as this research suggests, the cause of aging lies in acidosis, the answer to longer life must lie in eliminating acidic wastes. Therefore, to neutralize acidity, alkalizing meals could be the answer.
Many doctors recommend a vegetarian or low meat diet because vegetables and certain fruit (containing alkaline minerals and phyto-chemcials) help neutralize acidic waste.
But, commercially grown vegetables and fruit only contain a very small amount of alkaline minerals since they have long since been depleted from the soil on which the plants grow.
And, large quantities of vegetables and fruit must be consumed in order ingest a sufficient amount of alkalizing minerals and phytochemicals to neutralize these wastes in the body.
The body lives and dies at the cellular level.
All of the billions of cells that make up the human body are slightly alkaline, and must maintain that alkalinity level in order to function and remain healthy and alive. However, their cellular activity creates acid to produce energy and to function. As each alkaline cell performs its task of respiration, it secretes metabolic wastes, and these end products of cellular metabolism are acid in nature.
The wastes of energy and function must not be allowed to build up.
An example of this is the uncomfortable, sometimes painful build up of lactic acid when you exercise. The body will go to great lengths to neutralize and detoxify these acids before they act as poisons in and around the muscle tissue and ultimately changing the environment of the cell.
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Most people and clinical practitioners believe the immune system is the body's first line of defense - it is very important - but it has a very sophisticated partner.
pH balance as the first and major line of defense against sickness and disease and for promoting health and vitality.
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Test Your Body's Acidity or Alkalinity with pH Strips
It is recommended that you test your pH levels to determine if your body's pH needs immediate attention. By using pH test strips (litmus paper
is available at most pharmacies), you can determine your pH factor quickly and easily in the privacy of your own home. There is much to discover so that pH test result can be meaningful. Rather than give simplistic guidelines here it is recommended you purchase a book on the
subject.
Urine pH
The results of urine testing indicate how well your body is assimilating minerals, especially calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. These are called the "acid buffers" uses them to control acid level. If acid levels are too high, the body will not be able to excrete acid. It must either: store the acid in body tissues (autotoxication), or buffer it by “borrowing” minerals from the other fluids, tissue, organs and bone in order to neutralize acidity.
Saliva pH
You may also want to test the pH of your saliva. The results of saliva testing indicate the activity of digestive enzymes in your body, especially the activity of the liver and stomach. This reveals the flow of enzymes running through your body and shows their effect on all the body systems. Some people will have acidic pH readings from both urine and saliva. This is referred to as "double acid."
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Mystery Solved
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If asked: “What is killing us?” the answer might be Acidosis.
It has been demonstrated that an acidic, anaerobic (lacking oxygen) body environment encourages the breeding of fungus, mold, bacteria, and viruses.
Question: If the door to a freezer was sealed and then unplug it, what would be present when the door was opened after two weeks?
Answer: Mold, bacteria and microscopic organisms that are growing and multiplying.
Where did all those "critters" come from?
They did not sneak in - remember the door was sealed.
The answer is . . . they were always there.
Simply, the environment changed. The freezer's internal environment, in which these
"critters" live, became a more inviting, healthy-for-them-environment to live
and flourish.
That "shift" can be likened to the shift in our biological terrain from a healthy oxygenated (aerobic),
pH balanced environment to an unhealthy, low oxygen (anaerobic), acidic environment.
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What is healthy for the body is unhealthy for the body's attackers.
What is healthy for the
body's attackers is unhealthy for the body.
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Conclusion
The body is very sensitive to pH levels; therefore, strong mechanisms maintain pH balance.
Conditions outside the acceptable range of pH gives rise to an internal environment conducive to disease, as opposed to a pH balanced environment which allows normal body function necessary for the body to resist disease.
When excess acids must be neutralized our alkaline reserves are
depleted leaving the body in a weakened condition.
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Many experts agree: a balanced pH, achieved through diet, lifestyle choices, exercise,
rest and when necessary, the judicious uses of dietary supplements, is a vital key to
promoting and maintaining radiant health.
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Some Common Diseases and Their Relationship to Acidity
Cancer
While the normal cells of the human body degenerate, and acidic wastes accumulate, cells may undergo a genetic transformation that allow them to keep propagating themselves in order to survive in such acidic surroundings.
There have been two theories on the basic causes of cancer.
One is the oxygen deficiency theory by a German biochemist, Dr. Warback. Dr. Warback discovered that if oxygen is removed from a health cell, the cell starts to turn cancerous. Dr. Warback won the Nobel Peace Prize by proving this theory through his many experiments.
The other is the theory of acidic cells, by a Japanese doctor, Dr. Airashi. Dr. Airashi showed that cells that survive in acidic environments eventually develop cancerous characteristics. Even though cancer cells are eliminated surgerically, they reoccur because the acidic biologic terrain still remains after the surgery.
Obesity
The human body is very intelligent. As it becomes more and more acidic the body starts to set up defense mechanisms to keep the damaging acid from entering our vital organs. It is commonly known that acid gets stored in fat cells. After all, if the acid does come into contact with an organ the acid has a chance to eat holes in the tissue.
As a defense mechanism, the body produces fat to protect itself from acidity. Those fat cells and cellulite deposits may actually be packing up the acid and trying to keep it a safe distance from your organs, tissue and cells. The fat may be saving your vital organs from damage. Many people have found that a return to a healthy inner biological terrain helps them to lose excess fat.
Diabetes
Doctors report that symptoms of diabetes appear mainly in people above 40, with no symptoms of diabetes in their 20s.
How do they differ from each other?
In general, the quantity of accumulated acidic wastes after the age of 40 is far more than those in their 20s, especially in the pancreas. When acidic wastes accumulate in, and damage the pancreas it may be affecting production of insulin. Onset diabetes may develop due to lack of insulin in the body.
Hypertension
Hypertension is a common illness that occurs due to three reasons.
- Hypertension caused by clogged capillary vessels due to physical reasons.
- Narrowed blood vessels caused by acidic wastes. Blood pressure has to be higher naturally in order to supply sufficient quantities of blood through the narrow vessels.
- Lack of oxygen due to chemical reasons, namely solidified acidic waste in the vessels.
Hypotension
Hypotension can occur as the heart muscles deteriorate due to a lack of calcium ions, caused by acidic waste.
Kidney Ailment and Kidney Stone
One of the major functions of alkaline buffers is to purify or help remove the wastes in the body. The accumulation of excessive acidic wastes in the kidneys weakens the kidneys, inflammation and swelling of the kidneys may occur in an excessive acidic environment,.
In order to remain healthy, kidney cells should expel all the their accumulated wastes. But if the blood becomes more acidic, the waste will cling to the walls of cells, causing solidification of acidic fluoride in the kidneys and contribute to the development of kidney stones.
Osteoporosis and Gout
Human bones function as a calcium bank for the body - a combination of calcium and phosphorus. Bones stay healthy as long as there are adequate amounts of these two substances present. To neutralize excessive quantities of acidic waste, the body starts to “borrow” calcium from bone. Symptoms of calcium deficiency are evident through X-ray examinations when 30-40% of the calcium in the bone has been depleted.
Gout happens when calcium accumulates in the capillary blood vessels of the hands and legs. Normally, gout occurs in toe joints, knee joints, and finger joints.
Stress and Headache
Stress produces more acidic waste, leading to acidosis. Today, most of us do not find the time to relieve mental stress. Continued long-term stress will create harmful problems like headaches, mental disorder, bad temper and unbalanced hormone excretion and other concerns. There are two kinds of stress. One is physical stress caused by physical activities and the other is mental stress caused by mental fatigue - getting a good rest can relieve stress.
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