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Introduction to Balancing Your Body's pH

Step 3 Towards Healing & Maintaining Your Health

 


A Balanced pH in Your Body Is A Critical Factor
For a Healthy Internal Environment and Immune System

Healing or remission of chronic illness takes place
only when your body fluids are restored to a normal pH.

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.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

 


Could You Be Suffering from pH Imbalance?

If you have a health problem, most likely you are acidic. Scientists have discovered that the body fluids of healthy people are alkaline (high pH), whereas the body fluids of sick people are acidic (low pH).

Unless your body's pH level is slightly alkaline, your body cannot heal itself. No matter what method you use to heal, it won't be effective until your blood pH level is normalized.

Balancing your pH is a major step toward well-being and greater health.

Diseases Linked to pH Acidity

All diseases exists in an acidic body, and most people are acidic from poor diet and lifestyle choices. The magnitude of this factor is of incredible importance to someone who is fighting a disease, overcoming an illness, or just wanting to be healthy.

An extended time in an acidic pH state can result in many discomforts and diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, lupus, tuberculosis, osteoporosis, high blood pressure & cholesterol, heart disease, most cancers, eczema & acne, kidney & gall stones, gout, hiatal hernia, indigestion, anxiety, diarrhea, dilated pupils, extroverted behavior, fatigue in early morning, headaches, hyperactivity, insomnia, nervousness, rapid heartbeat, muscle cramps, restless legs, shortness of breath, strong appetite, and many more.

Read more about "The Characteristics of Acidity and Alkalinity"

Your body's pH levels affect every process within. If your pH is acidic, you cannot effectively absorb nutrition (vitamins, minerals or supplements). Research has already proven that disease cannot survive in an alkaline cellular environment, and thrives in an acidic environment.

Our overly acidic lifestyles produce very high rates of disease.

Your body pH affects every aspect of your health, therefore it should be one the first issues to address when experiencing symptoms of ill health. Proper nutrition and activity can help return & maintain your body?s pH levels near normal, promoting health and vitality.

Some Dangers of an Acidic pH

An acidic pH balance will:

  • decrease your body's ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients,
  • decrease energy production in your cells,
  • decrease your ability to repair damaged cells, and your ability to detoxify heavy metals,
  • make tumor cells thrive,
  • and make you more susceptible to fatigue and illness.

     


    pH Balance Is Crucial For Your Health

    Healthy body fluids have a narrow pH range: outside this range is an environment in which disease thrives. Normalizing your body?s pH will adjust the cellular environment to promote health and natural healing.

    Louis Pasteur said before he died, "The germ is nothing. The terrain is everything."

    Diseases are not cured (although this has happened), instead you remove the environment in which they exist. These dynamic reactions are generally not understood by conventional medicine.

    Your body is an amazing, naturally self-correcting system:
    if you work with it, it is capable of tremendous self healing.

     


    How to Balance Your Body's pH

    Balancing your body's pH is really quite simple, once you understand some basics.
    Read about "Diet Guidelines for pH Balancing"

    The most critical supplements to help balance your pH,
    are Superfoods, Minerals and Energized Water.

     

    Natural superfood supplements, from living plants enable pH balancing by supporting proper nutrient absorption and toxin elimination. They are an essential part of your diet if you plan on being naturally healthy and pain free. Read more about Superfoods.

     

    Mineral Supplementation Therapy does not cure disease... it helps keep the pH level of your body fluids balanced, so your body can overcome disease naturally, the way it was meant to. To excrete excess acid build-up (common from acid forming diets & lifestyles) and maintain a balanced pH, your body uses minerals from your bones. Your body will deplete your skeleton (less essential to life) of minerals to maintain your essential organs. Over a lifetime, your alkalizing minerals become depleted, causing osteoporosis. Read more about "How Minerals are Responsible for pH Balancing"

     

    Drinking high pH alkaline, Energized Water will definitely help your body's "terrain" to prevent and even reverse disease. In other words, a body with balanced pH is an environment where disease, including cancer, cannot exist. Alkaline, energized water will help raise the pH of your body fluids, and flush the stored, harmful acid wastes & heavy metals from your tissues. Energized water has had its molecular structure returned to its natural life-giving, super moisturizing state. This allows maximum hydration of your cells; a major key to healing, and the maintenance of your health and vitality. Read more about Energized Water.

     

    Algae supplements deliver large amount of life-giving easily absorbed chlorophyll that enables pH balancing through improved nutrient absorption and toxin elimination. Again... this is essential for you to be naturally healthy and pain free. Read more about Algae.

     

    Enzymes are the spark of life... a critical energy that runs your entire body. Without them, you couldn't digest or absorb food and all your cellular functioning would stop. At the foundation of all body functions, enzymes are essential activators in chemical reactions that are continually taking place within your body. They are specific catalysts that join with coenzymes (vitamins & minerals), to be used by your body. Learn more about Enzyme Supplementation

     

    At the risk of your long term health, your body will draw magnesium (and other minerals) out of storage in your bones, to maintain pH balance, required for health. Unlike calcium that is easily obtained from foods we eat, magnesium is deficient in most soils, and is therefore deficient in your diet. Supplementation of magnesium is essential to maintain healthy mineral levels. Read more about Magnesium Supplementation.

     

    Regular consumption of natural salt provides your body with natural minerals, trace elements and living energy. This will help balance your pH and the electrolytes in fluids of your body, support proper nutrient absorption and toxin elimination. Natural salt is a whole food: an essential nutrient with exceptional abilities and qualities that are fundamental to keeping us alive. Refined table salt (sodium chloride) produces acidifying brine. Our natural Himalayan Crystal Salt produces alkalizing brine that is rich in trace minerals. Read more about Natural Himalayan Crystal Salt, and Himalayan Crystal Salt, Brine Therapy.

     

    Using the principles or osmosis you can naturally alkalize, or more appropriately de-acidify, your body through detoxifying baths. Effective beyond their chemical composition, Miracle II products were spiritually revealed and formulated as an organic mixture that has produced results not available from the use of other bath products. They contain and hold spiritual energy beyond measure. Learn more about Miracle II products.

     

    Believed to help cell to cell communication, ORMUS can strengthen your immune system, repair damaged DNA, slow or halt aging, increase psychic awareness, and energize your light body. The purpose of ingesting Nano Minerals or ORMUS Alchemical products is healing and enlightenment. By increasing the subtle, natural energy of life force (holy spirit, prana or chi) at the cellular level, you can increase your physical and spiritual health. Read about Nano Minerals/ORMUS Alchemy.

     


    by Theodore A. Baroody

    By following the guidelines in this book you can evaluate your alkaline/acid situation, determine a course of correction, and achieve a high level of vitality and strength.

    This powerful title carries an important message that can benefit everyone. It may revolutionize health care of the future with one simple principle: Alkalize Yourself!

    Dr. Baroody's comprehensive research and clinical findings indicate that illness and disease are directly linked to over-acidity in the system. The polluted air we breathe, the nutrient poor food and water we ingest are just part of the problem. Stress on all levels - physical, emotional, mental, and even spiritual cause the body to overproduce acid wastes, upsetting our delicate alkaline/acid balance.


    How Your Body's pH Balance
    Easily Becomes Too Acidic

    Eating processed & cooked foods, smoking, consuming alcohol, lack of sleep, stress, toxin overload, lack of exercise, and any process that deprives your cells of oxygen or minerals will turn your pH level towards acidic. This adversely affects your absorption of nutrients, elimination of toxins, and the proficient functioning of your immune system. All of these are crucial for your health and well being.

    The Standard American Diet (abbreviated SAD) is extremely acid-forming: far too high in acid producing animal products (cooked meat, eggs, dairy, and refined white flour, sugar & salt), and far too low in alkaline producing foods (fresh fruits & vegetables).

    If you drink acid producing beverages like coffee and soft drinks, especially with artificial sweeteners (NutraSweet, Spoonful, Sweet 'N Low, Equal, Aspartame) that are extremely acid forming, on top of being poisonous, you are constantly adding to your acid load. Food consumption surveys show that Americans now consume more soft drinks than any other beverage, including water. This is very, very SAD.

    Read about why you should "Eliminate Aspartame and All Artificial Sweeteners"

    The foods we eat are grown in fields that are deficient in alkalizing minerals. Eating commercially produced foods is an acidic disaster in the making.

    An example of the resulting widespread acidosis is the effect on bone health. It?s known that high protein diets increase risk for osteoporosis. Now it appears that a high intake of acid-forming foods (primarily meat, poultry & eggs) over a lifetime, can accelerate the loss of alkaline minerals (calcium, magnesium, potassium) from your bones. In other words, your body may deplete one system (the skeleton) in order to maintain balance in another more sensitive system (the blood).

    Your body will compensate for acidity by using alkaline minerals. If your diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of acids in your cells will follow.

    Simple changes to your diet and lifestyle can correct an acid imbalance.
    To maintain health, your diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods and 40% acid forming foods.
    To restore health, your diet should consist of 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acid forming foods.

    Read more about "Acid and Alkaline Forming Foods"

     

    Learn How To Test Your Own pH


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