Are You Eating Enough Alkaline Foods to Maintain VitalHealth

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Alkaline Your Body pH For Good Health
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We live and die at the cellular level. All the cells (billions of them) that make up the human body are slightly alkaline, and must maintain alkalinity in order to function and remain healthy and alive. However, their cellular activity creates acid, and this acid is what gives the cell energy and function. As each alkaline cell performs its task of respiration, it secretes metabolic wastes, and these end products of cellular metabolism are acidic in nature. Although these wastes are used for energy and function, they must not be allowed to build up. One example of this is the often painful lactic acid, which is created through exercise.

The body will go to great lengths to neutralize and detoxify these acids before they act as poisons in and around the cell, ultimately changing the cellular environment. Most people and clinical practitioners believe the immune system is the body's first line of defense, but in actuality it is not. It is very important, but more like a very sophisticated clean-up service. We must instead look at the importance of pH balance as the first and major line of defense against sickness and disease; and for health and vitality.

If we were to ask "What is killing us?", the answer might be "ACIDOSIS"! It has been demonstrated that an acidic, anaerobic (lacking oxygen) body environment encourages the breeding of fungus, mold, bacteria, and viruses. And as we have seen through the work of Nobel Prize winner Otto Warburg, this acidic environment is directly related to cancer.

Let's look at an example. If we were to seal the door to our freezer and then unplug it, come back and open the door in two weeks, what would we find? Mold, bacteria, microscopic bugs. Things will be growing and multiplying. Where did they all come from? They did not sneak in - remember the door was sealed. The answer is... "they were always there". It is simply that the environment changed to a more inviting and healthy one for the "critters" to live in. This can be likened to a shift in our biological terrain from a healthy oxygenated, alkaline environment to an unhealthy anaerobic acidic environment. You see, what is healthy for us is unhealthy for the body's attackers, and what is healthy for them is what is unhealthy for our body.

Calcium: the Biochemical Key to Oxygen

A state of acidosis is simply the lack of oxygen and available calcium, which the body uses to maintain its alkaline balance. Calcium makes up 1.6% of our body weight. It is literally the human glue that holds the body together. Calcium is so biochemically active that it has been likened to an octopus. A calcium ion can hold onto seven other molecules while it grabs onto one molecule of water. No other ion can do this. And it is the right size to easily get in and out of the human cell. As it does this, it takes a chain of nutrients into the cell and then leaves to get more.

The biggest problem scientists have found is that over time, the human body becomes depleted of calcium. A compound called mono-ortho-calcium phosphate is the chemical buffer for the blood. This buffer maintains the alkaline level (or the lack of acidity) in your blood. Without it, you would die. If the acidity level of your blood changes even slightly, you die immediately. But in order to supply enough calcium for buffering, we must have enough calcium being absorbed from our diet or our body will simply rob the needed calcium from our bones and teeth. The more acidic we become, the harder it is for oxygen to be present, so our biological terrain also becomes more anaerobic.

Without adequate oxygenation, unfriendly bacteria, viruses, molds, and fungi can live and prosper, and the risk of cancer is greatly increased. Then, our cells cannot carry on their life-giving functions in a very efficient manner, because our biological chemical reactions need oxygen.

Life and death are in the biological terrain and the battle cry here is: reclaim your biological terrain! This is so important that some practitioners working with the inner biological terrain and its implications to the health of our bodies are beginning to say "There are no specific diseases, only specific disease conditions, and there is only one disease. And that one disease is acidosis."

The human body is very intelligent. As we become more and more acidic, the body starts to set up defense mechanisms to keep the damaging acid from entering our vital organs. It is known that acid gets stored in fat cells. After all, if the acid does come into contact with an organ, the acid has a chance to eat holes in the tissue. This may cause the cells to mutate. The oxygen level drops in this acidic environment and calcium begins to be depleted. So as a defense mechanism, your body may actually make fat to protect you from your overly-acidic self.

Those fat cells and cellulite deposits may actually be packing up the acid and trying to keep it at a safe distance from your organs. The fat may be saving your vital organs from damage. Many people have found that a return to a healthy inner biological terrain helps them to lose excess fat.

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is very confusing for many people. Most people think they can eliminate it by increasing their consumption of milk and dairy products. But in the countries where the consumption of dairy products is very low, the instances of osteoporosis is very rare.

Osteoporosis is an acidosis problem. As the body becomes more acidic - to protect against the event of heart attack, stroke, illness, or even cancer - the body attempts to remain healthy. So, it steals calcium from the bones, teeth, and tissue. As bone mass becomes depleted, this is what we call osteoporosis. As we saturate the body with calcium, this brings the alkaline pH up and drops the acid levels down.

Calcium Deposits Warning Of Acidic Condition

One of the first warning signs of an acidic biological terrain is the presence of calcium deposits. A little known fact is that there has never been a scientifically proven association between calcium deposits in the body and nutritional calcium. In fact, quite the opposite is found in the results of testing calcium deposits of the body. Calcium deposits come not from dietary calcium but from the structural calcium of our bones and teeth!

So, if calcium deposits are forming, we know our inner biological terrain is too acidic. Our dietary intake of calcium is not keeping up with the calcium buffering needed and we are actively pulling calcium from our bones and teeth.

It all works like a little train, from the bones to the fluids and cells, to the blood. As our biological terrain becomes acidic, our pH level drops. When this happens, we start losing calcium out of the blood, bones, and tissues. This is a safety mechanism. Now your biological terrain's oxygen level drops, leaving you tired and fatigued, and allowing fungi, mold, parasites, bad bacteria, and viral infections to flourish and gain a hold throughout the body. To combat this, we must maintain a balance in the foods that we eat.

Are You Eating Enough Alkaline Foods to Maintain Vital Health?

The chart below provides information showing the contribution of various food substances to the acidifying of body fluids and, ultimately, to the urine, saliva, and blood. In general, it is important to eat a diet that contains foods from both sides of the chart.

Allergic reactions and other forms of stress tend to produce acids in the body. The presence of high acidity indicates that more of your foods should be selected from the alkalizing group. Check your pH level often by using pH paper that can be purchased at any good health food store, and maintain a healthy alkaline level of pH 7.4 to 7.5 by taking a good calcium supplement and eating foods from the chart below.