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Natures Cures : Your internal pH balance
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From: MSN NicknameMystic4kitten20  (Original Message)Sent: 2/13/2008 3:13 PM

Your internal pH balance is very important, but few medical practitioners in Western medicine are even aware of how it plays a major role in causing almost all disease. So let's begin with some very basic information on the subject of pH.

What's "pH" ?

You've probably heard from many different sources, that the human body is approximately 80% water. All that water has a biological purpose; it is the basic component of the various mediums that allow nutrients and various chemicals to be transported from one place to another. These water-based mediums can have either acid or alkaline properties. These properties are measured by what we call pH. How pH affects the body is called the "pH Factor." When the acid and alkaline properties are of equal strength, we say the pH is balanced.

Is A Balanced pH important?

Extremely important! Since most of the body is water-based, the pH level (acid-alkaline level) has profound effects on body chemistry, health and disease. Extended pH imbalances of any kind are not well tolerated by the body. Indeed, the entire metabolic process depends on a balanced pH. The management of the pH factor is so important that the body has developed strict accounting procedures to monitor acid-alkaline balances in every cell and biosystem. Fundamentally, all regulatory mechanisms (including breathing, circulation, digestion, hormonal production, etc.) serve the purpose of balancing pH, removing the normally metabolized developed acids and toxins from body tissues/systems without damage to living cells.

Otherwise, an acid pH will develop. The body needs balance to allow it to maintain health. Our temperature is balanced at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. We can be several degrees out of balance before becoming seriously ill. However, pH balance is far more critical. The slightest imbalance will cause serious illness and disease. The body will do whatever necessary to maintain this balance, and it continually steals acid-neutralizing minerals (such as calcium) in its attempt to maintain a healthy balance. Understanding this makes you realize why most elderly people experience osteoporosis after a lifetime of consuming acid-producing nutrients. Only fresh fruits and vegetables are alkaline producing to help your body maintain a healthy pH balance.

What's An Acid pH?

An acid pH, or "acidosis," is the term used to describe the imbalanced acidic condition of all our body fluids. Virtually all cellular functions of the body are sensitive to the pH of their fluids. If the pH deviates too far to the acid side, cells become poisoned in their own toxic acidic wastes and die.

Is An Acid pH Really That Dangerous?

Yes, it is! Nothing does well in an acid pH medium. For instance, "acid rain" destroys the natural environment, killing plants and trees, poisoning the life in all lakes and rivers. An acid pH is even more dangerous for your body, continuously corroding all body tissue, slowly eating into the 60,000 miles of our veins, arteries and capillaries like acid eating into marble. If left unchecked, it will interrupt all cellular activities and functions, from the beating of your heart to the neural firing of your brain... An acid pH interferes with all life itself!

What Causes An Acid pH?

Diet appears to be the major influence in maintaining appropriate pH levels throughout the body. Research demonstrates that when food is metabolized and broken down, it leaves certain chemical and metallic residues, a noncombustible "ash" which, combined with our body fluids, yields either acid or alkaline potentials of pH. Certain foods are "acid-forming" in nature, whereas others are known to be "alkaline-forming."

Which Foods Are Acid-Forming?
And Which Ones Are Alkaline-Forming?

Most high protein foods (such as meat, fish, poultry and eggs), nearly all carbohydrates (including grains, breads, pastas) and fats are acid-forming. And most fruits and vegetables are alkaline forming. Although citrus fruits, such as oranges and grapefruit, contain organic acids and may have an acid taste, they are not acid forming when metabolized and leave an alkaline residue.

How Do I Know If I Have An Acid pH?

By testing your pH! You can determine quickly and easily, in the privacy of your own home, what your pH is. Test Strips can determine your urinary pH, which is generally a good indicator of how acid or alkaline your total body pH is. When urinary pH is continuously between 7.0 and 7.5 (depending upon the time of day), you're functioning in a healthy range.

Is An Acid pH Common?

Yes, very common, but not at all healthy! The bulk of our western diet is made up of acid-forming foods. Most of us habitually consuming a diet high in protein, high in carbohydrate, high in fat and very little, if not completely inadequate amounts of fruits and vegetables. That means that most of us will experience a continual acid pH. And the older we are, the more "acid" we tend to become.

Can I Get Rid Of An Acid-pH?

YES! Watching your diet can help, especially by increasing the number of fruits and vegetables you eat while decreasing the amounts of acid-forming foods consumed. If you're like me, that means changing your entire diet and your way of life. But there are other easier ways to get your pH back into balance.

I have changed my eating habits very little. With the help of redily available products I have a perfectly balanced pH and still enjoy almost all of my favorite foods. I have tried many products and technologies at one time or another and I can tell you from experience that most of them work very well. I am continually experimenting with new discoveries as I find them. I guess I feel like having many choices available is a good thing. (It's like ice cream -- I love the choices of 31 flavors!)

 





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From: MSN NicknameMystic4kitten20Sent: 2/13/2008 3:27 PM
 
Total healing of chronic illness only takes place when and
if the blood is restored to a normal, slightly alkaline pH.

pH:  What does it mean?  pH is the abbreviation for potential hydrogen.  The pH of any solution is the measure of its hydrogen-ion concentration.  The higher the pH reading, the more alkaline and oxygen rich the fluid is.  The lower the pH reading, the more acidic and oxygen deprived the fluid is.  The pH range is from 0 to 14, with 7.0 being neutral.  Anything above 7.0 is alkaline, anything below 7.0 is considered acidic.

The pH scale is from   0 - 14
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 healthy  8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Human blood stays in a very narrow pH range right around ( 7.35 - 7.45 ).  Below or above this range means symptoms and disease.  If blood pH moves to much below 6.8 or above 7.8, cells stop functioning and the patient dies.  The ideal pH for blood is 7.4

A healthy blood pH without cancer has acid + alkaline balance almost equal.  Actually a healthy body is slightly alkaline measuring approximately 7.4.  This ideal blood 7.4 pH measurement means it is just slightly more alkaline than acid.

0 is acid ------ blood pH ( 7.35 - 7.45 ) healthy ------ over 7 to 14 is alkaline

If you have a health problem, most likely you are acidic.  Research shows that unless the body's pH level is slightly alkaline, the body cannot heal itself.  So, no matter what type of modality you choose to use to take care of your health problem, it won't be effective until the pH level is up.  If your body's pH is not balanced, you cannot effectively assimilate vitamins, minerals and food supplements.  Your body pH affects everything.

The body has to have a balanced pH like most living things on earth or it does not function correctly.  The alkaline level is very important because research has already proven that disease cannot survive in an alkaline state and yet they thrive in an acidic environment.

An acidic balance will:  decrease the body's ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients, decrease the energy production in the cells, decrease it's ability to repair damaged cells, decrease it's ability to detoxify heavy metals, make tumor cells thrive, and make it more susceptible to fatigue and illness.

An acidic pH can occur from, an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload, and/or immune reactions or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients.  The body will try to compensate for acidic pH by using alkaline minerals.  If the diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of acids in the cells will occur.

There are two factors that are ALWAYS present with cancer no matter what else may be present.  Those two factors are Acid pH and Lack of Oxygen.  Can we manipulate those two factors that always have to be present for cancer to develop and by doing so will that help reverse the cancer?  If so, we need to learn how to manipulate those two factors.

Cancer needs an acid and low oxygen environment to survive and flourish within.  Terminal cancer patients are around 1000 times more acidic than normal healthy people.  The vast majority of terminal cancer patients possess a very low body pH.  Why?

In the absence of oxygen, glucose undergoes fermentation to lactic acid.  This causes the pH of the cell to drop from between 7.3 to 7.2 down to 7 and later to 6.5 in more advanced stages of cancer and in metastases the pH drops to 6.0 and even 5.7 or lower.  Our bodies simply can not fight disease if our body pH is not properly balanced.

The normal human cell has a lot of molecular oxygen and a slightly alkaline pH.  The cancer cell has an acid pH and lack of oxygen.  Cancer cells cannot survive in an oxygen rich environment.  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.  Again, the higher the pH reading, the more alkaline and oxygen rich the fluid is.  Cancer and all diseases hate oxygen / pH balance.  The proper alkalinity pH of the blood ( 7.35 - 7.45 ) is critical for the overall health of the body.  In other words... alkaline or die.

Remember that the pH number is an exponent number of 10; therefore, a small difference in pH translates to a big difference in the number of oxygen or OH-ions.  A difference of 1 in a pH value means ten times the difference in the number of OH-ions, a difference of 2 means one hundred times the difference in the number of OH-ions.  In other words, blood with a pH value of 7.45 contains 64.9% more oxygen than blood with a pH value of 7.30.


If your body pH is not balanced, you cannot effectively assimilate vitamins, minerals and food supplements.  Also, mucus on the small intestine can block your body from vitamin and mineral absorption.  Learn how to cleanse the Small Intestine... Click Here


How To Test Your pH Level

Test your pH level:  If you are sick or have cancer simply wet a piece of Litmus Paper with your saliva 2 hours after a meal.  This will give a reflection of your state of health.

Salivary pH Test:  While generally more acidic than blood, salivary pH mirrors the blood ( if not around meals ) and is also a fairly good indicator of health.  It tells us what the body retains.  Salivary pH is a fair indicator of the health of the extracellular fluids and their alkaline mineral reserves.

Optimal pH for saliva is 6.4 to 6.8.  Spit upon arising before anything is put into the mouth.  A reading lower than 6.4 is indicative of insufficient alkaline reserves.  After eating, the saliva pH should rise to 7.8 or higher.  Unless this occurs, the body has alkaline mineral deficiencies ( mainly Calcium and Magnesium ) and will not assimilate food very well.  To deviate from ideal salivary pH for an extended time invites illness.

Acidosis, an extended time in the acid pH state, can result in rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, lupus, tuberculosis, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, most cancers and many more.  If salivary pH stays too low, the diet should focus on fruit, vegetables and mineral water as well as remove strong acidifiers such as sodas, whole wheat and red meat.

Urinary pH Test:  The pH of the urine indicates how the body is working to maintain the proper pH of the blood.  The urine reveals the alkaline building (anabolic) and acid tearing down (catabolic) cycles.  The pH of urine indicates the efforts of the body via the kidneys, adrenals, lungs and gonads to regulate pH through the buffer salts and hormones.  Urine can provide a fairly accurate picture of body chemistry, because the kidneys filter out the buffer salts of pH regulation and provide values based on what the body is eliminating.  Urine pH can vary from around 4.5 to 9.0 for its extremes, but the ideal range is 5.8 to 6.8.

Foods considered to be alkaline-forming and thus helpful to people with consistently acid pH include:  almonds, aloe vera, apples, apricots, bee pollen, buckwheat, cabbage, cantaloupe, celery, carrots, cucumbers, dairy products except hard cheese, dates, dulse, poached eggs, figs, grapefruit, honey, lettuce, millet, parsley, raisins, peaches, fresh red potatoes, pineapple, soy products, sprouted seeds, cooked spinach, turnip tops, wakame miso soup, azuki beans, rice, mineral water.  More alkaline-forming foods... Click Here

People who remain too acid often display symptoms such as:  anxiety, diarrhea, dilated pupils, extroverted behavior, fatigue in early morning, headaches, hyperactivity, hypersexuality, insomnia, nervousness, rapid heartbeat, restless legs, shortness of breath, strong appetite, high blood pressure, warm dry hands and feet.

Balancing the pH is a major step toward well-being and greater health.  Acidosis ( overly acidic body ) is the primary indicator of Calcium Deficiency Disease.  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 ).  As nutritional support coral calcium, alkaline forming foods and drinking high pH alkaline natural spring or mineral water can help balance your body pH.


Alkalinity Body pH Support
High pH Alkaline Water - Coral Calcium - Alkaline Forming Foods

How to drink water for MAXIMUM effectiveness:
Drink ½ your body weight of water in ounces, daily.  Example: 180 lb = 90 oz. of water daily.  Divide that into 8 or 10 oz. glasses and that's how many glasses you will need to drink, daily.  Use ¼ tsp. of Sea salt (celtic sea salt being the highest in mineral content) as seaoning on your food for every quart of water you drink.  As long as you drink the water, you can use the salt.  Avoid caffeinated or alcoholic drinks.  These are diuretics and will dehydrate you.  Every 6 oz. of caffeine or alcohol requires an additional 10 to 12 oz. of water to re-hydrate you.  Interesting Facts About Water and Salt... Click Here

The Minimum Recommendations For Water:  ( Use Sea salt same as above )
Drink a minimum of 64 ounces ( about 2 liters ) of water every day.  I know this is easier said than done.  Don't wait until you're thirsty to drink - you'll likely never get this much down.  Instead, keep filled water bottles at your desk, in your car, by your bed, and near your favorite chair as a reminder.  A lot of information and testimonials... Click Here

[ If you have congestive heart failure or kidney disease, or if you are taking diuretics, talk to your doctor before increasing your water intake.]

Coral Calcium has a pH of 10-12 which is extremely high on the alkalinizing side.  This means coral calcium will help offset the acid / alkaline ratio within your acidic body, thereby will help return your body to the normal slightly alkaline level.  Calcium does not cure disease.  As nutritional support, it simply helps keep the pH level of our body fluids in sync so the body fights disease naturally, like it was meant to.  Suggested Intake: See Chart, below.

To maintain health, the diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods and 40% acid forming foods.  To restore health, the diet should consist of 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acid forming foods.  A list of Acid / Alkaline Forming Foods... Click Here

 

Coral Calcium (1100 mg capsules)
Your pH level Suggested Intake to Increase Your pH
below 6.0 2 capsules, 4 times daily = 8800 mg
6.0 - 6.5 2 capsules, 3 times daily = 6600 mg
7.0 or higher 1 capsule, 3 times daily = 3300 mg

Which Coral Calcium is Best for Optimum Nutrition?.. Click Here

 

WARNING:  IF YOU ARE DRINKING DIET SODAS WHICH CONTAIN ASPARTAME OR USING SUGAR-FREE PRODUCTS - READ THIS!!  Diet sodas, foods labeled as "sugarless" "sugar free" "diet foods" "low calorie" and the like - You had better be careful and read the label to see if they contain ASPARTAME.  Please check labels carefully Aspartame is poison and extremely acid forming.  Take the 60 day aspartame test.  Give up all aspartame for 60 days and note the improvements in your health.  Check it out... Do internet search on "aspartame and/or diet cola".  [ note in Australia ( and UK ) who just have numbers on things - not names - Aspartame is 951 ]

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