| “It is not the
germs we need
worry about. It is
our inner terrain.”
~ Louis Pasteur
Acid Alkaline Balance
Excess acidity is a condition that
weakens all body systems.
Excess acidity forces the body to
borrow minerals - including calcium,
sodium, potassium and magnesium -
from vital organs and bones to buffer
(neutralize) the acid and to safely remove
it from the body. As a result, the body can
suffer severe and prolonged
‘corrosion’ due to high acidity - a
condition that may go undetected for
years.
It affects virtually every person in our
society because of the way we live, the
way we eat, and the environment we live in.
The result is an internal environment
where disease can easily manifest, as
opposed to a pH-balanced environment
which allows for normal body functions -
necessary for the body to resist disease.
It is true that if we have a healthy body,
we will maintain sufficient alkaline
reserves to meet emergency demands.
However when excess acids must be
continually neutralized, our alkaline
reserves are depleted, leaving the body in
a weakened, disease-prone condition.
Unfortunately, there are still many
practitioners who believe that the body
can somehow miraculously and
‘naturally’ balance its pH - as if we were
living in nature and eating raw foods and
herbs. The truth is so far beyond this ideal.
The truth - according to Dr Lynda Frassett
o, acid/alkaline researcher from the
University of California, is that we have
turned an evolutionary corner.
We simply do not handle acid waste the
way we used to.
Her research showed the sheer volume of
acid waste our body has to handle has
forced it to take drastic ‘war’ style action to
preserve its strategic reserves
- the kidney and liver - our major
essential detoxifying organs.
In her study of almost 1,000
ageing subjects, she found that we
are now‘stockpiling’ acid in fatty deposits rather than
eliminating it via the kidneys and liver.
In its infinite wisdom, the body has
chosen to save the kidney and liver
from degradation by excess acid.
Of course, there is a cost. It’s called
obesity, lowered immunity, lack of
energy and the whole host of acidrelated
diseases we are subject to
including cancer, diabetes, osteoarthritis
and more - much, much more.
Acid Alkaline HISTORY
Theconcept of acid/alkaline imbalance as the
cause of disease isn't a new one. One of
the first persons who talked about the need
to alkalize the body was the great "Sleeping
Prophet," Edgar Cayce. He always referred
to body detoxification with herbs, colonics,
fasting, massage, steam baths and diet
modification with the aim of alkalizing the
body.
Way back in 1933 Dr. William Howard Hay
published a ground-breaking book, A New
Health Era, in which he maintained that all
disease is caused by
‘autotoxication’ (or "self- poisoning") due to
acid accumulation in the body: “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 remarkable book,
‘Alkalize or Die’, Dr. Theodore A. Baroody
said essentially the same thing:
“The countless names of ill- nesses 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!”
Dr. Robert O. Young, Ph.D. in his book,
‘The pH Miracle’ says it this way; “Those
willing to look again, and with clear eyes,
will be rewarded with the secrets to
permanent health. We can heal
ourselves by changing the environment
inside our bodies. Potentially harmful
invaders, then, will have nowhere to grow
and will become harmless.”
Unfortunately, according to Sang Whang,
author of Reverse Aging even if we eat the
best of organic fruit and vegetables,
97% of our food still consists of carbon,
nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, which will
still be reduced to acid waste
He says that it is not what we put into our
bodies it is what stays in our bodies as waste
that creates our over-acidic condition and
what causes us to age prematurely.
Sang Whang says that in terms of acid/
alkaline balance, the only difference
between 'good' food and 'bad food' is
that 'good' food will have less acid waste
and more acid neutralizing result.
Your pH balance depends on what is left
after metabolism. So we’ll take a look in this
article at what foods, lifestyles and
supplements contribute to a ‘clean’ house
within.
Here our metabolism can operate as it is
supposed to instead of acting as a
continual janitor in an increasingly
overloaded toxic warehouse.
Leftover Acid Waste
Very few if any of us are physically
capable of ridding our bodies of all the
acids we create from food, stress and our
own metabolism. These acid wastes move
around the body via the blood and
lymphatic system until our overloaded
kidneys decide to dump them or us within,
as the body struggles to counteract acidproducing
foods, acid- producing pollution
and acid-producing stress. In fact of all
acidifying factors, stress is the greatest. It
can neutralize and acidify an alkaline diet
with one surge of adrenalin.
Long term acidity
is like rust
It corrodes our tissue, eating into our
96,000 kilometers of veins and arteries.
Left unchecked, it eventually interrupts all
cellular activities and functions, from
the beating of the heart to the
way we think.
As we have mentioned, acids can be stored in
fat. Cholesterol and crystallized uric acid are
solidified acids that have been dumped within
the body for 'later' removal - the 'later' that never
comes.
Acid Effects
Acid coagulates blood. Blood has major
problems flowing around fatty acids.
Capillaries clog up and die. The skin,
deprived of life-giving healthy blood,
loses elasticity and begins to wrinkle.
Even with a face lift or liposuction, the
acid remains and continues its relentless
advance. Without a basic acid/alkaline
balancing plan, every part of your body
works ever harder to maintain health -
because every system; all the organs, the
lungs, even the skin - are involved in the
maintenance of correct blood pH.
The War Within
Within your body, your organs and cells
are totally subservient to your blood. All
organs work to keep your blood at a
balanced pH, to the point where your
body is willing to inflict major damage on
organs if they appear to stand in the way
of correct blood pH. If its pH drops
from its optimum pH 7.36 down to pH 7,
you will lapse into a coma and die.
“..we have turned
an evolutionary
corner ”
That's why you get such a charge from a
can of Cola. Its pH of 2.5 acidity sets alarm
bells ringing all over your body. Alkaline
chemical stores that should be used
elsewhere are sacrificed to the call of the
adrenalin that floods your system.
The ‘high’ you have learned to expect is
no different to the high a drug user
experiences as his artificial sensory
elevation. It is your body screaming
"Help” and you enjoying the thrill of the
fear. It’s “The Real thing”.
It's not just a glass of Cola that causes such
effect. (32 glasses of neutral pH water are
needed to balance one glass of Cola). Most
of us already have a running battle
In summary, over-acidification interferes with
life itself leading to virtually all sickness
and disease! Finally, it ages then kills us.
When we die, it celebrates by turning the
whole body acid, inviting foreign
antagonistic organisms to the party!
Dr. Baroody expresses it very well: "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. It starts
creaking to a stop along the byways of life
and you find yourself in some kind of
discomfort. I watch with great concern as
people of all classes and lifestyles suffer
from this excess."
He attributes no less than 68 major health
conditions to a prior existing acidic inner
terrain.
Why are
Westerners so
prone to obesity?
Is it just food? Of course, the food we eat,
its quantity and quality has a large effect on
our waist measurement.
But because the body has made a habit of
its 'last chance' solution (pirating calcium
from the bones and teeth) of what to do
with excess toxic acid waste, there is
another reason we deposit fat.
As Dr Frassetto
discovered, when we
are faced with
shortage of options
due to an acidbesieged
inner terrain,
we dump
toxic wastes in fatty deposits as far away
from the organs and heart as possible; on
the buttocks, the chest, the thighs and the
belly.
Dr Robert O. Young writes convincingly on
the same subject. He sees sugar as an acid
and as the reason we are so fat, but not as
we have been taught. He says that the body
has to protect itself from the excess sugar
we consume, and so it
co-ops fat - to encase it and protect us from
it. “Fat” he says, “is saving our lives”.
Alkalinity and
Energy levels
Acidity or alkalinity of our internal fluids
has a profound effect even at the
individual cellular level
MITOCHO NDRIA;
THE BODY’S CELLULAR POWERPLANT
In our bodies our entire metabolic process is
dependent upon balance, right down to the
cellular level. Our 75 trillion cells are slightly
acidic within, dependent on our inner sea -
the surrounding alkaline interstitial fluid to
surround them.
Without this relationship, no useful chemical
or energy interchange will occur because no
pH balance exists. pH opposites - acid and
alkaline - in the body are the chemical
method for electricity to flow. Without
sufficient ‘polarity’ between the interior of the
cell and the fluid surrounding it, the energy
of the cell has difficulty flowing into the
surrounding tissues. Weight loss and the
regaining of energy occur more easily when
we take the first steps towards an alkaline
‘rebalance’.
Alkalinity and your blood
Blood is always slightly alkaline (or at least it
should be!). As the only transport system
for nutrients to every part of your body,
blood ccannot afford to be acidic. It needs
to stay within a pH range that will maintain
resistance to decay or putrefaction, and
growth of malevolent organisms. Hence
pH 7.365 is the ideal environment in which
mmicro-organisms remain in co-existent or
symbiotic harmony with the body.
“Fat is saving
our lives.”
- Dr Robert O. Young
Allow the blood to shift slightly either way
and results will be felt in every part of the
body. Beneficial microforms die, and
aggressive microforms sustained by an
acidic environment begin to multiply and
mutate, taking the form of aggressive,
parasitic and pathogenic agents. Scientists
studying live blood using dark field
microscopy can see the changes in
the blood taking place and correlate it with
Imbalance Firserms Second
the progression of the disease process
They witness a repetitive pattern unfolding
that has prompted them to state that the
over-acidification of the body, caused by
improper eating and living, causes a
proliferation of antagonistic microforms
which debilitates the body and, if not
corrected, may ultimately cause our demise
The Real Power of pH
If any substance changes from pH 7 to pH
8, it has become ten times more alkaline.
Conversely, if it has changes from neutral
pH 7 to pH 6, it is 10 times more acidic.
As an example, a popular Cola, at pH 2.5
is almost 50,000 times more acidic than
neutral water, and needs 32 glasses of
neutral (pH 7) water to counteract the
consumption of one glass of Cola. (Active
ingredient: Phosphoric Acid)
You can now see that a change from the
normal level 7.365 to pH 7 would mean
that your blood would suddenly be around
4 times as acid as it should be. You would
die from poisoning by your own blood. This
is why every body system is used to
support the correct blood pH
You can also understand from this that our
blood pH can be affected at any time of the
day by a myriad of events; food, drink,
stress, pollution, exercise, or beneficially,
by meditation, by drinking alkaline water, by
deep breathing, even by being happy
MEDITATION IS
ALKALISING. START
EARLY
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