Alkalize your Body for Optimum Health

Research shows that unless the body's pH level is slightly alkaline, the body cannot heal itself. So no matter what means you choose to take care of your health, it won't be effective until the pH level is balanced. If your body's pH is not balanced, for example, you cannot effectively assimilate vitamins, minerals and food supplements. Your body pH affects everything.

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

An acidic pH can occur from an acid-forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload, and/or immune reactions or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients. The body will try to compensate for acidic pH by using alkaline minerals. If the diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of acids in the cells will occur.

Most of us aren’t aware of what foods causes an increase of acid vs. alkaline. Having your body in a more alkaline state is what you want. The benefit of having less acid and more alkaline is better health and thus fewer diseases. Think of it this way, when your body is full of acid, it is in a constant state of trying to regain its balance. Your body is open to all kinds of diseases that it cannot fight off because it is at a low. Fatigue, migraines, heartburn, diabetes, Osteoporosis, joint pain, weight gain and obesity, etc. could all be avoided in an alkaline body.

SWIM OR SINK

Think of your body as a fish tank. Imagine the importance of maintaining the integrity of the internal flu ids of the body that we swim in daily. Imagine the fish in this tank are your cells and organ systems bathing in the fluids, which transport food and remove waste. Now imagine I back up my car and put the tailpipe up against the air intake filter supplying oxygen to the water in the tank. The water becomes filled with carbon monoxide lowering the pH, creating and acidic envi­ronment and threatening the health of the (fish), (your cells and organs). What if throw in too much food or the wrong kind of food and the fish are unable to consume or digest it all and the food starts to decompose and putrefy? Toxic waste chemicals build up as the food breaks down, creating more acidic by-products, altering the optimal pH. This is a small example of what we are doing to our internal fluids daily, some of us more than others. We are polluting our internal flu ids with acidic toxins like nicotine, drugs, excessive in take of acid forming foods, acidic beverages and social drugs such as coffee, carbonated beverages and alcohol, which all compromise the delicate balance of pH that maintains homeostasis.


When you give your body foods that have an alkaline base, you promote a healthy environment and your body can fight off the diseases that try to invade it. It takes a commitment on your part to eat the right foods and to eliminate the acid causing foods, but it can be done.


Here are the most important tips to rid your body of that over-acidic state:


-Avoid artificial sweeteners! and also eliminate sugar. Sugar is poison and not only increases your body’s acid levels but it eats away at your brain. I know this is hard to digest but it is true. You can find tons of information supporting why we should eliminate sugar, yet everything on the supermarket shelves has sugar. Agave and grade B maple syrup, maple sugar (from dried maple syrup), and date sugar (from dried dates) (all alkaline sweeteners) are great substitutes for processed sugar and honey. If you don’t want to do it for yourself than do it for your children.

-Eat more vegetables that are alkaline. Especially Celery.This is one of the most alkaline foods you can eat. It quickly neutralizes acids. Eat it before, after or during a meal. Celery is so high in water content that is also works as an excellent thirst quencher. Celery is excellent for digestion. Eating more green vegetables will decrease the acidity in your body and make it more alkaline. Vegetables like avocado, asparagus, bell peppers, cucumber, kale, okra, mustard greens, squash, and green beans are just a few to get you started.

-Switch from cow’s milk, to coconut or almond milk. Cows milk has shown to produce an abundance of mucous in the human body. There are also few adults who can metabolize the protein in cow’s milk properly. This protein, casein, is what a cow’s metabolism needs for proper health, not for a human beings health. Also note that most dairy cows are injected with hormones such as the Bovine Growth Hormone to increase their milk production. Many of these hormones have potentially horrific side effects that can be passed on when consumed. Coconut and almond milk are excellent alternatives to dairy. They are well worth trying out.

-Minimize/Avoid processed and refined foods.That means anything made with white flour and white sugar or food coloring. Our bodies were not designed to digest these chemicals. Eliminating processed foods is very challenging to do because we are living in a fast-food society but is it vital to your ability to become less acidic. Remember to shop on the walls of the supermarket and you will stay away from the processed foods. If it is on the shelf unfortunately that means it is processed.

-Eat a grapefruit in the morning wait 15 minutes before ingesting a carb or protein.
Grapefruit, similar to lemons, is also alkalizing when ingested. Some people believe grapefruit to be a miracle fruit and I tend to support that group. Grapefruits have a very high water content and are highly alkalizing. Eat one first thing in the morning, and wait 15 minutes before eating a carbohydrate or protein (one or the other – do not mix). (The 15-minute suggestion is in accordance with proper food combining and allows your system to more easily digest. This recommendation applies to eating any fruit – fruit shouldn’t be combined with any other food type.


-Eliminate consumption of red meat, pork, lamb…substitute chicken, turkey or fresh fish in small quantities. Red meats, pork and lamb are highly acidic a very low water content, not to mention being hard on the digestive system. If you must have meat, opt for chicken or turkey.

-Drink pure alkaline water. Pure water meaning water that is filtered – the finest choice is an alkaline ionization unit. Alkaline water means water with a pH over 7.5. Alkaline water adds oxygen to your water and helps to neutralize acids. A simple way to alkalize your water is with a dash of baking soda. There are also wonderful alkalizing agents you can purchase to buffer and alkalize the water.There are several companies that sells these ionic water systems. For example, you can try the pH ion booster that www.phionbalance.com offer.

-Drink a top quality super green supplement. Organic super greens are known to be some of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. They infuse the body with easily absorbed vitamins, minerals, amino acids chlorophyll, enzymes, phytonutients and alkaline salts that help neutralize acids in the blood and tissues.

Be aware that a food's acid or alkaline-forming tendency in the body has nothing to do with the actual pH of the food itself. For example, lemons are very acidic, however the end-products they produce after digestion and assimilation are alkaline so lemons are alkaline-forming in the body. Likewise, meat will test alkaline before digestion but it leaves acidic residue in the body so, like nearly all animal products, meat is classified as acid-forming.





It is recommended that you test your pH levels to determine if your body's pH needs immediate attention. By using pH test strips (Litmus Paper), you can determine your pH factor quickly and easily in the privacy of your own home. The best time to test your pH is about one hour before a meal and two hours after a meal.

For many people, these secrets represent a huge life change. I urge you to educate yourself on alkalinity and the pH balance. I highly recommend Christopher Vasey's Book: "The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health".