Introduction to Balancing Your
Body's Internal pH
Step 3 Towards Healing & Maintaining Your Health
A Balanced pH in Your Body Is A
Critical Factor
For a Healthy Internal Environment and Immune System
Healing or remission of chronic
illness takes place
only when your body fluids are restored to a normal pH.
A recent seven-year study conducted at the University of California,
San Francisco, on 9,000 women showed that those 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 high
acidity caused by a diet rich in animal foods and low in vegetables. This
is because the body borrows calcium from the bones in order to balance
pH.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Could You Be Suffering from pH Imbalance?
If you have a health problem, most likely you are acidic. Scientists
have discovered that the body fluids of healthy people are alkaline (high
pH), whereas the body fluids of sick people are acidic (low pH).
Unless your body's pH level is slightly alkaline, your body cannot
heal itself. No matter what method you use to heal, it won't be effective
until your blood pH level is normalized.
Balancing your pH is a major step
toward well-being and greater health.
Diseases Linked to pH Acidity
All diseases exists in an acidic body, and most people are acidic from
poor diet and lifestyle choices. The magnitude of this factor is of incredible
importance to someone who is fighting a disease, overcoming an illness,
or just wanting to be healthy.
An extended time in an acidic pH state can result in many discomforts
and diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue
syndrome, diabetes, lupus, tuberculosis, osteoporosis, high blood pressure
& cholesterol, heart disease, most cancers, eczema & acne, kidney
& gall stones, gout, hiatal hernia, indigestion, anxiety, diarrhea,
dilated pupils, extroverted behavior, fatigue in early morning, headaches,
hyperactivity, insomnia, nervousness, rapid heartbeat, muscle cramps,
restless legs, shortness of breath, strong appetite, and many more.
Your body's pH levels affect every process within. If your pH is
acidic, you cannot effectively absorb nutrition (vitamins, minerals or
supplements). Research has already proven that disease cannot survive
in an alkaline cellular environment, and thrives in an acidic environment.
Our overly acidic lifestyles produce
very high rates of disease.
Your body pH affects every aspect of your health, therefore it should
be one the first issues to address when experiencing symptoms of ill health.
Proper nutrition and activity can help return & maintain your body?s
pH levels near normal, promoting health and vitality.
Some Dangers of an Acidic pH
- decrease your body's ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients,
- decrease energy production in your cells,
- decrease your ability to repair damaged cells, and your ability to
detoxify heavy metals,
- make tumor cells thrive,
- and make you more susceptible to fatigue and illness.
pH Balance Is Crucial For Your Health
Healthy body fluids have a narrow pH range: outside this range is an
environment in which disease thrives. Normalizing your body?s pH will
adjust the cellular environment to promote health and natural healing.
Louis Pasteur said before he died,
"The germ is nothing. The terrain is everything."
Diseases are not cured (although this has happened), instead you remove
the environment in which they exist. These dynamic reactions are generally
not understood by conventional medicine.
Your body is an amazing, naturally
self-correcting system:
if you work with it, it is capable of tremendous self healing.
by Theodore A. Baroody
By following the guidelines in this book you can evaluate your alkaline/acid
situation, determine a course of correction, and achieve a high level
of vitality and strength.
This powerful title carries an important message that can benefit everyone.
It may revolutionize health care of the future with one simple principle:
Alkalize Yourself!
Dr. Baroody's comprehensive research and clinical findings indicate
that illness and disease are directly linked to over-acidity in the system.
The polluted air we breathe, the nutrient poor food and water we ingest
are just part of the problem. Stress on all levels - physical, emotional,
mental, and even spiritual cause the body to overproduce acid wastes,
upsetting our delicate alkaline/acid balance.
How Your Body's pH Balance
Easily Becomes Too Acidic
Eating processed & cooked foods, smoking, consuming alcohol, lack
of sleep, stress, toxin overload, lack of exercise, and any process that
deprives your cells of oxygen or minerals will turn your pH level towards
acidic. This adversely affects your absorption of nutrients, elimination
of toxins, and the proficient functioning of your immune system. All of
these are crucial for your health and well being.
The Standard American Diet (abbreviated SAD) is extremely acid-forming:
far too high in acid producing animal products (cooked meat, eggs, dairy,
and refined white flour, sugar & salt), and far too low in alkaline
producing foods (fresh fruits & vegetables).
If you drink acid producing beverages like coffee and soft drinks, especially
with artificial sweeteners (NutraSweet, Spoonful, Sweet 'N Low, Equal,
Aspartame) that are extremely acid forming, on top of being poisonous,
you are constantly adding to your acid load. Food consumption surveys
show that Americans now consume more soft drinks than any other beverage,
including water. This is very, very SAD.
The foods we eat are grown in fields that are deficient in alkalizing
minerals. Eating commercially produced foods is an acidic disaster in
the making.
An example of the resulting widespread acidosis is the effect on bone
health. It?s known that high protein diets increase risk for osteoporosis.
Now it appears that a high intake of acid-forming foods (primarily meat,
poultry & eggs) over a lifetime, can accelerate the loss of alkaline
minerals (calcium, magnesium, potassium) from your bones. In other words,
your body may deplete one system (the skeleton) in order to maintain balance
in another more sensitive system (the blood).
Your body will compensate for acidity by using alkaline minerals. If
your diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of
acids in your cells will follow.
Simple changes to your diet and lifestyle can correct an acid imbalance.
To maintain health, your diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods
and 40% acid forming foods.
To restore health, your diet should consist of 80% alkaline forming foods
and 20% acid forming foods.
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