Healing To Your Body

Healing To Your Body

pH ion Balance

The term pH represents the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion (H⁺) concentration and reflects acidity and alkalinity. The "p" stands for potential and "H" stands for Hydrogen--the potential of the solution to attract Hydrogen ions. pH values are to acid and alkaline what temperature degrees are to heat and cold. Body pH refers to the pH of the fluids inside and outside of the cells. Since most of the body is water-based, the pH level has profound effects on all body chemistry, health and disease. Extended pH imbalances of any kind are not well tolerated by the body. Fundamentally, all regulatory mechanisms (including breathing, circulation, digestion, hormonal production, etc.) serve the purpose of balancing pH by removing caustic metabolized acid residues from the body tissues without damaging living cells.

If the pH deviates too far to the acid side or too far to the alkaline side, cells become poisoned by their own toxic waste and die. Just as acid rain can destroy a forest and alkaline wastes can pollute a lake, an imbalanced pH continuously corrodes all body tissue, slowly eating into the 60,000 miles of our veins and arteries like corrosives eating into marble. If left unchecked, an imbalanced pH will interrupt all cellular activities and functions, from the beating of your heart to the neural firing of your brain. Although it may generally go unnoticed and undetected for years, an imbalanced pH can lead to the progression of most, if not all, degenerative diseases including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, as well as the never ending frustration of excessive systemic weight gain.

No other single indicator than the body's pH is encountered as often in assessing health and disease. When the pH varies radically, the person is not in the optimum state of health. The pH of your body is something you must not ignore if you wish to maintain perfect health, regain lost immunity, or maintain proper weight. Each solution in your body has its proper pH, and if its pH gets too far out of balance, the secretion or solution loses its effectiveness to assimilate or absorb minerals and vitamins. Enzymes are also affected by the pH of the solution they are contained in. If you are not properly absorbing nutrients from the food you eat, then poor health is going to result. For example, if your body is too alkaline you will have trouble picking up and absorbing Iron. You could take copious amounts of it and it would just go through the body and never be utilized and you could be constantly fatigued. If the pH is too acid, a similar problem applies. Blood has a pH of 7.4 and a variance of just four tenths can cause a coma or death.

Most diets cause an unhealthy acid pH. In fact, diet appears to be the major influence in maintaining appropriate pH levels throughout the body. When food is metabolized and broken down, it leaves certain chemical and metallic residues, a noncombustible "ash" which, when combined with our body fluids, yields either acid or alkali potentials of pH. Certain foods are "acid-forming" in nature, whereas others are known to be "alkaline-forming."

A habitually acid pH can directly cause immediate weight gain by triggering a condition known as insulin sensitivity which causes erratic insulin production by the body. When the body is flooded with insulin, it diligently converts every calorie it can into fat. Thus, an acid pH will likely direct more insulin to be produced, and subsequently demand the body store more fat than usual. Acidosis is thus thought to be an important precursor to diabetes mellitus, and before the advent of synthetic insulin, diabetes was treated historically by buffering the system with base or alkaline causing powders. With increased pressure to continually produce insulin, beta cells lose phase with one another and stress within the cells increases, making it difficult for them to perform adequately, and further, survive. In a very real sense, they simply burn out! Although we commonly diet to lose weight, fasting and dieting are known acid-producing conditions that trigger our body's predetermined genetic response to starvation, wherein insulin floods the body so calories can be converted and stored as fat to prepare for the pending "famine." So, unless you balance your pH level, your best attempts at dieting will be thwarted by your body's own metabolic response to the acid produced by a lower caloric intake.

(the above excerpts are from tuberose.com, the article is Acid/Base Balance) This paper was the most informative and well researched article I have ever read on the subject of pH.

We cannot overstate how important it is to your health and longevity to monitor and change your diet if necessary to accomplish and maintain the correct pH. The question is not how long do you want to live, but how well do you want to live that truly matters.

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