The Alkaline Body and pH Balance

Archive for April, 2009

pH balance and it’s effect on weight loss is a well know mechanism. As  is well known, America has become one of the heaviest countries in the world, as Americans continue to have more and more health challenges. At present 2/3 rds of all Americans are overweight. pH balance can play a major factor in the body becoming more and more overweight.

Our bodies are constantly self-regulating to maintain balance. In the same way that our bodies maintain a body temperature of 98.6, they also strive to maintain pH balance. The pH of the blood needs to be maintained at 7.365, slightly alkaline. A major challenge to our bodies is the SAD diet or standard American diet which is 90% or more consisting of acidic foods. A condition called metabolic acidosis begins to occur.

When our bodies start developing metabloic acidosis it is a threat to it’s well being. So our bodies go into preservation or protection mode. One of it’s actions is to deposit the toxic acids into fat tissue becasue fat neutralizes acids. In this way the dangerous acids become isolated from the rest of the body and the major organs such as our heart, kidneys; liver and lungs are protected. The more the acid we are accumulating the more fat your body will need to maintain.

So are you overweight or are you over acidic? My own personal experience was that I lost 35 lbs. in 8 weeks simply by transitioning to an alkaline lifestyle. My wife also lost 35 lbs. in 8 weeks.  To learn more you can read “The pH Miracle For Weight Loss” by Dr. Robert Young. You can read my wife’s personal testimony and see her photos on page 109.

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pH and osteoporosis are intimately linked together.

Osteoporosis affects an estimated 75 million people in Europe, USA and Japan

• Osteoporosis causes over 1.5 million fractures each year in the USA (National Osteoporosis Foundation, 2004)
• Osteoporosis causes over 300,000 hip fractures each year in the USA (National Osteoporosis Foundation, 2004)
• Osteoporosis causes over 700,000 vertebral fractures each year in the USA (National Osteoporosis Foundation, 2004)
• Osteoporosis causes over 250,000 wrist fractures each year in the USA (National Osteoporosis Foundation, 2004)
• Osteoporosis accounts for 70% of all fractures for people over 45 in the US (NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases - National Resource Center)

The body’s pH levels play an important fundamental role in the development of osteoporosis. The blood had an alkaline pH of 7.365. AS the body becomes more acidic it will take measures to keep the blood alkaline. One of these measures is it will begin pulling alkaline minerals from the bones, tissues, joints and organs and dumping them into the blood to keep the blood alkaline. in the meantime the bones become weaker and weaker eventually leading to the condition called osteoporosis.

As a part of normal metabolism, the body produces acids. When the body has an excess of acid it can’t get rid of at the moment (due to acid excess or a lack of alkaline reserve minerals), the acid can get stored. Where does it get stored? Mostly in the interstitial spaces, also called the extracellular matrix - this is the space around the cells. It also gets stored in fat tissue and will cause a person to gain weight, particularly around the mid section.

As way of illustration, it can be said that when the body stores this acid in the extracellular matrix, it believes that one day, the acid is going to be removed. Therefore, in order to be in balance, it knows that for every molecule of acid that gets stored in the tissues and fat, an equal molecule of bicarbonate or base substance needs to be put into the blood because one day it will need to escort the acid out of the body.

This is the body’s amazing compensatory mechanism at work. What we see here is the pH interplay between the blood and the tissues. If the body has an acid overload, it stores the acid in the tissues (the tissue pH decreases) and the blood compensates and becomes alkaline (the blood pH increases).

As the body degenerates further into ill health, the blood pH often will turn from it’s overly alkaline condition and then start to move down. When that happens, the body is losing it’s compensatory mechanisms. If the proper intensive intervention is not engaged, physical death will often ensue.

As more acid accumulates in our body, it gets stored and pushed further, and ultimately it can get pushed into the cell. When it gets pushed into the cell, the first thing it does is displace POTASSIUM and then MAGNESIUM and then SODIUM.

Those are three critical minerals in our body. The potassium and magnesium will leave the body. As potassium leaves it needs phosphate in the process and the body will get that from bone, the result is calcium is released and ends up as free calcium in the system. (As a preservation mechanism the sodium will be retained through the operation of the kidney). This calcium leaving the bone as phosphate is released to bind with potassium is something you don’t want and it is a big part of what’s behind osteoporosis, arthritic pain, etc. It has just recently been brought to light by scientists that high serum calcium levels can be an indicator of a propensity to get prostrate cancer. It is brought about by the body compensating for an ever increasing tissue acidosis and potassium loss somewhere in the body.

What you might not want to do in this case is take more calcium supplements that won’t be utilized down at the cellular level. With that said, you can now understand why most generic calcium products, antacids, etc. are one of the most over-prescribed supplements. In these situations what the body really needs is more of the right alkalizing minerals to put potassium back in its place, more magnesium, and possibly zinc - like zinc picolinate - which lends help to the whole digestion process for making adequate levels of HCL in the gut so minerals can be broken down to begin with when you eat.

With a good understanding of the pH interplay in the body, natural answers can be derived for good health, including good bone health. Taking high quality organic alkalizing mineral supplements on a daily basis can provide a great degree of protection against the ravages of acid in our bodies.

Did you ever wonder if water really spins in different directions depending on whether you are at the equator or north or south of it. In this video shot at the equator you will see the answer with your own eyes.

‘Veggie Love’: PETA’s Banned Super Bowl Ad

BEING A VEGETARIAN IS GREAT FOR YOUR SEX LIFE.

Children’s bath products are often marketed as safe and gentle. However, laboratory tests commissioned
by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics found these products are commonly contaminated with formaldehyde or 1,4-dioxane – and, in many cases, both. These two chemicals, linked to cancer and skin allergies, are anything but safe and gentle and are completely unregulated in children’s bath products.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees the safety of personal care products in the U.S., but
lacks basic authority needed to ensure that products are actually safe. The FDA cannot require companies
to test products for safety before they are sold, does not systematically review the safety of ingredients and
does not set limits for common, harmful contaminants in products. The FDA also does not require
contaminants to be listed on product ingredient labels.1 As a result, consumers have no way of knowing
if their products contain toxic contaminants.This report is the first to document the widespread
contamination of children’s products with formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 1,4-dioxane is a probable carcinogen.2 The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission states that “the presence of 1,4-dioxane, even as a trace contaminant, is cause for concern.”3 1,4-dioxane is a byproduct of a chemical processing technique called ethoxylation in which cosmetic ingredients are processed with ethylene oxide. Manufacturers can easily remove the toxic byproduct,

Formaldehyde is a probable carcinogen, according to the EPA,4 though the risk of cancer from absorption
through the skin is not fully understood.5 The chemical can also trigger adverse skin reactions in children and adults who are sensitive to the chemical.6-9 Contact dermatitis specialists recommend that children avoid exposure to products containing formaldehyde.10 Formaldehyde contaminates personal care products when common preservatives, such as Quaternium-15, release formaldehyde over time in the container.
None of the products tested list formaldehyde or 1,4-dioxane on the ingredient label. They are not
ingredients in the products, but are toxic byproducts of chemical manufacturing and product formulation.
To better understand the extent of the problem, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and its partner
Environmental Working Group sent samples of popular children’s bath products to Analytical
Sciences, an independent laboratory in Petaluma, Calif., to be tested. The products chosen for testing contained ingredients commonly associated with 1,4-dioxane or formaldehyde contamination.11

Click here for a complete list of products tested and their results.