PH BALANCE AND HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR HEALTH

 Our bodies are biochemical machines that require thousands of chemical actions and reactions to function properly. Everything from digestion to thought involves a chemical interaction. Now we all know what happens when an acid and an alkaline meet. Try mixing baking soda and vinegar for example. The human body is 3\4th alkaline and if our food intake is too acidic then the blood electrolyte seeks to balance itself. In order to balance the blood electrolyte the body uses stored alkaline minerals.

An acidic diet robs the system of alkaline minerals such as sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium and leaves us prone to such degenerative diseases as Gallstones, Kidney stones, Gout and Osteoporosis. The stress on our kidneys and cells has a depleting effect on our immune systems leaving us prone to colds, virus infections and cancers. Normally, bile produced by the liver takes care of complete eradication of parasites, eggs and stages in a healthy organism. Bile neutralizes the acid environment of food leaving the stomach to destroy parasites and prepares the food leaving the stomach for digestion and absorption in the small intestine.

Excess acidity due to intake of wrong acid-forming food places too much of a load on bile production and detoxification by the liver, and the body seeks elsewhere for the neutralizing minerals. Chronic acidosis promotes the formation of gall stones and liver exhaustion. The result is the eventual over run by parasites and their stages which can lead to cancer. When we have a proper pH diet and healthy intestinal flora then we have an environment where parasites cannot thrive and where calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium minerals can be properly assimilated into the body.

Vitamin B-12 is produced in the body, when we have a proper pH and healthful intestinal flora. B-12 is very difficult to absorb when ingested, as the stomach will most likely digest it as food and it won't reach the small intestine where it can be absorbed intact as Vitamin B-12. For this reason those short of B-12 are usually given a semi-annual injection of the Vitamin. However, with proper pH levels in the food intake and a healthful thriving intestinal flora, B-12 should be produced in adequate amounts by the body.

One should not mistake the acidity in the stomach, however, as part of an acidosis problem. The hydrochloric acid in the stomach is required for digestion. What we are concerned about is the pH level in the ash, left behind following digestion. In fact, high acidic levels in the body actually inhibit the proper production of stomach acids. The absorption of B-12, as the described in the previous paragraph depends upon a high level of HCL in the stomach, and this is assured by an alkaline diet. What happens when the body pH is too acidic is that the body's response is to compensate by secreting less acidic fluids and a shortage of proper stomach acid is the result.

Here's another example of how our bodies react to this acidosis and how the body tries to regulate the blood pH. Walk through any cancer ward and the smell of ammonia permeates the air and it's not from the cleaning fluid. After the body has used the readily available supplies of sodium from the liver and the calcium that is floating around in the blood stream, it then goes to the bones for more calcium to neutralize this acidosis, but it can't leach enough calcium fast enough to meet the pH demands of the blood electrolyte, so the liver begins to manufacture ammonia for this purpose. Ammonia is one of the worst solvents to have in the body and the solvents set up the environment for parasites to flourish. This, according to Dr. Hulda Clarke in her book, "A cure for all cancers", is the cause of cancer.

Cancer patients have a High [alkaline] pH but it is because of the ammonia being produced to neutralize the acidosis. This high PH reading should NOT BE MISUNDERSTOOD. It is because of the acidosis, that the ammonia is produced and the ammonia giving this High pH reading.

Foods that leave an acidic ash: Proteins, Starches, Alcohol and Sugar.

Foods that leave and alkaline ash: Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs, Sprouts and Millet.

*Note that although lemons and other citric fruits as well as apples are acidic to the taste and in the digestion process, they leave an Alkaline Ash. And note that legumes, seeds and grains are proteins, but when sprouted they also leave Alkaline Ash.

So when making that wonderful Vegetarian salad you should remember to substitute Lemon juice for vinegar and eliminate starches such as croutons and pasta.

An interesting observation from studies on the skeletal remains of native Africans who had died from natural causes or starvation is the absence of any evidence of Osteoporosis. This can be attributed to a natural alkaline diet. Vegetarian or Vegan diets alone do not necessarily address this situation. Many vegetarians are Protein crazy adding tofu or yogurt to almost every meal. After a few years they're as easy to spot as carnivores, stooping over with Osteoporosis or limping from Gout. They, like carnivores, are also prone to parasitic infections which can lead to cancer. Our diets therefore should include many snacks throughout the day of fresh fruits or vegetables but not including proteins, sugars or starches at these snack times.

An added bonus of consuming these fresh fruits and vegetables is the ingestion of phytochemicals which the senior science advisor of the U.S. Public Health Service, Devra Lee Davis, says, "can take tumors and defuse them, they can turn off the proliferative process of cancer."

Therefore, the less likely we are to become sick.

Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Cancer, Fibromyalgia, Psoriasis, Diabetes, Acid Reflux and Gout are just a few of the more than 200 diseases Research has linked to an acidic body & Calcium Deficiency. Calcium has been called the most important mineral our body needs.

In the Okinawa Island chain which is home to some of the oldest living groups of people, the pH of the water on these islands is over 8.0 and some of the inhabitants have lived to be over 115 years old.

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