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The Importance of Alkaline and Acid Balance in Our Bodies |
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Storing Acid in our Bodies :
Dr. Lynda Frassetto from the University of California believes that humans, in evolutionary terms, have changed. Once upon a time, our bodies used to break down food and dispose of the acid waste with our kidneys and livers. But now, because of the sheer amount of acid waste the average American produces, she sees our inner bodies being turned into a war zone, where our body is fighting to protect its most strategic reserves --- our kidney and liver -- from total degradation and failure.
To prove this theory, Dr. Frassetto studied 1000 people and discovered that we are indeed stockpiling acid waste in our fatty deposits instead of eliminating it with our kidneys and liver. Cholesterol and crystallized uric acid are solidified acids that have been dumped within the body for later disposal, which never comes. Our bodies have made the choice to preserve our kidney and liver instead of processing the acid waste.
The cost is tremendous -- obesity, low energy, and many acid-related diseases such as osteoarthritis, diabetes, cancer, and many more.
When our bodies are excessively acidic, they borrow essential minerals such as calcium, sodium, potassium, and magnesium from our vital organs and bones in order to buffer or neutralize the acid. The result is that our bodies suffer from prolonged degradation or corrosion which manifests into debilitating conditions.
The reason for this situation is simple -- the average American diet contains way too much acid. At a pH of 2.5, diet cokes and other sodas are probably the most acidic food people consume. Beer and meat are at 3.5 pH. Then there’s dairy, white pasta, most water, wine, hard alcohol, nuts and butters, beans, oils -- all acidic foods. All of these foods produce acid wastes that our bodies cannot handle.
Dr. Robert O. Young agrees with Dr. Frassetto‘s theory. Sugar is an acid and he sees Westerners’ consumption of sugar as the reason why so many are overweight. The body has to protect itself from the excess sugar, so it creates fat to encase the acid. “Fat,” he says. “Is saving our lives.”
Then there’s the problem of disease. The stomach works by producing acid to break down food. Whenever this acid is made, alkaline buffers are also created and sent through our blood stream, naturally alkalizing our body. A healthy balanced body has alkaline reserves to battle diseases, infections, and viruses. But if excessive acid must be continuously neutralized or stored, our alkaline reserves will be depleted, leaving our bodies weakened and prone to disease.
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Acid comes from three sources -- food, pollution, and stress. Of these three, stress is the greatest problem. One shot of adrenaline can neutralize and acidify an alkaline diet. So stress management as well as diet management is essential to maintaining an alkaline body.
Westerners fit into the worst case scenario -- we work 40- to 50-hour stressful weeks with very few breaks to calm ourselves down. We consume fast food and coffee for quick bursts of artificial energy just to get through our work day. Then we come home to family stresses, household chores, bills, and more. We never really relax and give our bodies a chance to neutralize all the acid that we produced through stress and from eating very acidic foods.
So acid in our bodies builds up until we begin to show symptoms -- digestive problems, headaches, overweight, bone pains, elimination issues, muscle tension and pain, heart problems, high blood pressure, and more.
We spend our lives giving ourselves to our jobs and families and never take the time to nourish our bodies, mind, and soul.
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More Effects of Acid on Our Body :
Acidity is like rust. We have 96,000 kilometers of veins and arteries, all of which are subject to acidic corrosion. If nothing is done, acid interrupts all cellular activities and functions -- from our beating heart to the way we think.
Acid coagulates blood. Blood cannot flow around fatty acids so capillaries clog up and die. Our skin begins to wrinkle and becomes less flexible. Even if you put out the money for a face lift or liposuction, the acid still remains and will do damage. Our lungs and all other organs are involved in maintaining correct blood pH. If all of them work harder to deal with excessive acid, they will stop functioning much sooner than we want them to.
Did you know that if any substance changes from a 7 pH to an 8 pH, that it has become ten times more alkaline? The opposite is also true, if a substance changes from a 7 pH to a 6 pH, it has become ten times more acidic.
If your blood pH drops from its optimum level of 7.36 pH to 7 pH, you will lapse into a coma and die. This change represents your body becoming four times more acidic than it should be. In this environment, beneficial micro-forms will die and aggressive micro-forms that thrive in an acidic environment will begin to multiply and mutate into parasitic and pathogenic agents. Then you will die from poisoning from your own blood. Because of this fact, your organs are totally subservient to your blood's pH, meaning that your body will destroy its organs before it lets your blood's pH deviate even a small amount from 7.36 pH. Coca Cola gives us such a charge -- not just from the caffeine -- but because its very acidic level of 2.5 pH sets off alarms all over your body and stored alkaline reserves are then called in to fight the surge of adrenaline. Coca-Cola, is 50,000 times more acidic than neutral water -- it takes 32 glasses of neutral pH water to balance one glass of soda! The “high” you experience is your body screaming for help while you enjoy the thrill of its fear.
Dr. Theodore A. Baroody, author of “Alkalize or Die,” warns us, “Too much acidity in the body is like having too little oil in the car. It just grinds to a halt one lazy Sunday afternoon. There you are -- stuck. The body does the same thing.”
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Our metabolic process is dependent on balance. Our 75 trillion cells are slightly acidic on the inside, while our outside inner sea should be alkaline. Without this acid/alkaline relationship, no chemical or energy interchange could happen because there would not be any pH balance. There needs to be polarity between our cells and inner sea or else the energy of the cell has difficulty flowing into the surrounding tissues. Thus, we do not get the energy from the food we eat. In fact, if it is too acidic, it will make us tired-- the opposite result of what we need!
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More and more doctors are beginning to understand that disease is caused by an imbalance of the nutritional, electrical, structural, toxicological, and/or biological systems of our body, allowing germs to flourish. Micro-forms such as yeast, fungi, viruses, and molds can only exist if our bodies are too acidic. They feed on the glucose, fats, and proteins that are beneficial to our bodies. Then they deposit their toxic excretions in us, making us even more acidic.
Disease can only be cured when our blood is maintained at a normal, slightly alkaline level, where these germs cannot thrive. We need to reestablish balance and work with our bodies, not against them.
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People spend a lot of money on supplements each year -- and most of it is wasted. That is because there are many factors that influence which minerals are absorbed by the body and which are not absorbed.
Every mineral has its own signature pH. When you look at an element chart, those elements at the lower end of the chart can be absorbed at a high range of pH. But those at the higher end need a much smaller pH range to be absorbed. If your body is not balanced, it will reject most minerals.
Iodine, for example, is high on the atomic scale and thus needs near perfect pH for it to be absorbed. Iodine is a requirement for a healthy thyroid. Thyroid deterioration has been linked to arthritis, heart attacks, diabetes, depression, cancer, obesity, and fatigue.
There has also been a depletion of minerals in our agriculture lands, leading to inadequate mineral supply in our diets. Among the many functions of minerals in the body, one of the most important is facilitating the conductivity of electricity in our bodies. Our nervous system uses electricity to monitor and report on the status of our organs and subsystems. If our bodies are not balanced, our nervous system cannot report accurate information, and thus our organs and subsystems will not get what they need to function correctly.
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Mercury and other Heavy Metals :
The more acidic a body is, the more it holds onto heavy metals such as mercury. Heavy metals create a high oxidative stress that makes the body even more acidic. A recent study of Alzheimer’s disease identifies mercury as the suspected prime cause.
The good news is that alkaline water has been shown to have an immediate detoxifying effect on the body. Many people experience the normalizing of bowel movements and classic detoxification symptoms such as itching, body aches, and headaches as the toxins leave their bodies.
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Balancing with Alkaline Water and Food :
To achieve balance, health practitioners recommend an 80/20 mix of alkaline and acidic foods. The problem is that most people do not like and do not normally eat enough alkaline food such as spinach, broccoli, and silver beets.(Here’s a complete list of alkaline and acidic foods).
Alkaline water from a water ionizer, however, is much easier to adapt to your eating lifestyle. Not only does it help you to achieve that 80/20 alkaline to acidic balance, it also hydrates your body as much as three times more effectively than regular water because the water molecule has been reduced in size. The minerals in the water are negatively charged, making them much easier for your body to absorb. Also, alkaline ionized water is full of bound oxygen plus negative hydrogen ions that are nature’s original antioxidants. Then you also have a state-of-the-art nine-stage water purifier working for you that will remove 99.9% of most organic and inorganic contaminants.
Just carry around a water bottle full of ionized, alkaline water to drink while you are at work or school, and drink a glass in the morning and before bed.
If you can drink alkaline ionized water while also eating a sensible diet and incorporating alkalizing activities into your lifestyle such as meditation and prayer, your body will balance.
Sang Wang, scientist, inventor and drinker of alkaline water for seventeen years, says that the problem with trying to alkalize with food is that -- unless you can afford organic -- you will metabolize large amounts of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other chemical residues. He adds that if you drink too much alkaline water, it will simply pass through the kidneys and flush away any germs that might be there.
The effectiveness of alkaline ionized water is evidenced by the fact that it is found in hospitals, sanitariums, and clinics throughout Japan and Korea, and has been a part of the culture of millions of Japanese and Korean families since the 1980’s. KYK Water Ionizers sells $13,000,000 worth of water ionizers a year in South Korea, a country with one-sixth the population of the USA.
Alkaline ionized water is an effective tool to help your body achieve balance and with the KYK Water Ionizers, the technology is now better than ever.
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