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Reclaim your body. Balance out your pH.
Most people with our modern lifestyles are suffering from imbalance. They are obese. Tired. Prematurely aging. And more importantly the world’s top three killers (cancer, heart disease, and diabetes). All are directly linked to diet. Eating the proper foods and getting the best nutrients, in balance, will help you avoid all that—along with the misery and poor quality of life that so often precede death, sometimes by decades. The simple secrets to finding the right combinations are what The pH Miracle is all about.
We often hear of acid and alkaline balance in the body, but what does this mean or relate to?
Our body has an acid-alkaline (or acid base) ratio called the pH (potential of hydrogen). This is a balance between positively charges ions (acid forming) and negatively charged ions (alkaline forming.) Our body continually strives to balance pH. When this balance is compromised and the pH becomes too acidic, many problems can occur. These are said to include skin problems, such as acne, psoriasis & eczema, cardiovascular damage, including the constriction of blood vessels and the reduction of oxygen, weight gain, obesity and diabetes, bladder and kidney conditions, including kidney stones, immune deficiency, acceleration of free radical damage, possibly contributing to cancerous mutations, premature aging, infertility, osteoporosis; weak, brittle bones, hip fractures and bone spurs, joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid buildup, low energy and chronic fatigue (to name a few).
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. This can be just as much of a problem for men, as it is for women.
pH is measured on a scale of 0 to 14. The lower the pH, the more acidic the solution is; where the higher the pH the more alkaline (or base) the solution is. When a solution is neither acid nor alkaline it has a pH of 7, which is neutral.
The concept of acid alkaline balance or imbalance in the body is not a new one. In 1933 a New York doctor named William Howard Hay published a ground-breaking book called A New Health Era. In this he states that all disease is caused by autotoxication (or "self-poisoning") due to acid accumulation in the body. He states:
“Now we depart from health in just the proportion to which we have allowed our alkalies 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, Dr Theodore A Baroody wrote in his book “Alkalize or Die” essentially the same thing …..The countless names of illnesses 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!
It is important to remember that when we are talking about acid and alkaline, we are not talking about stomach acid or the pH of the stomach. We are talking about the pH of the body's fluids and tissues, something very different.
Most people who suffer from an unbalanced pH are too acidic, rather than too alkaline. When this acid condition happens, the body tries to correct this imbalance by drawing on its reserves of vital minerals, such as magnesium, calcium, potassium, manganese and sodium. It uses these to buffer or neutralize the acid, so it can be safely removed from the body. If this happens regularly, the body becomes depleted of these vital minerals and many other health problems can manifest, due to this lack of minerals.
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