YOUR PRECIOUS pH

My Acid-Alkaline Balance Sort of Takes Care of Itself, right?

It is true that your body has very effective systems for setting up suitable acid-alkaline levels in your body fluids for biochemical reactions to occur. Nevertheless, you may overtax these systems.

We know that if you attempt to grow plants in soil that does not have suitable pH, they will either do poorly or not survive, regardless of care taken. From recent scientific findings, it is known that the oceans are becoming slightly more acid and that this small increment is actually a threat to some marine life.

All life forms, your body included, require optimal pH for a healthy existence. Poor health, disease and premature death are the price you will pay if you maintain inappropriate acid-alkaline states. Without suitable pH, your body’s delicate physiological, biochemical and nutritional functions are compromised with dire consequences. The importance of maintaining suitable pH levels in terms of your health and wellbeing cannot be overstated as it is something even under naturopathic care that is sometimes overlooked.

Your body is wonderful in maintaining its balance (homeostasis), pH levels being a central theme, but it is a very wise choice to give it a hand.

Maybe I’m Too Acid or Too Alkaline

Most people in our society, and there is a good chance that this could also mean you, have a tendency to be excessively acid. This is a result of several major factors – generally acid promoting diet with excesses of animal proteins, grains, sugar and beverages such as coffee and alcohol, with relatively low consumption of alkalising vegetables and fruit; toxic metals accumulation in the tissues; mineral deficiencies and imbalances; improper energy production and on-going mental-emotional (psychosocial) stress.

On the other hand, you may be one of the minority with alkaline excess. This is commonly due to a vegetarian or vegan diet and sometimes it is a result of a person going too far in their efforts to prevent having an acid system. An excessively alkaline system suffers from stagnation in bodily functions and chemical reactions and has its characteristic health challenges.

If you are excessively acid, there is energy wastage, overstimulation, excessive inflammation and disease processes arising from these imbalances. Regardless of what you feel your body pH may generally gravitate toward – acidity or alkalinity, the most accurate method of establishing either way, is to have both the pH of your urine and your saliva accurately measured. From these readings, very valuable information is revealed about the pH levels of various body organs and fluids – stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, intestines, blood and tissues. You see, parts of you may be functioning in overly acid states and other parts in alkaline excess.

What Happens If I’m Generally Too Acid?

A suitable way to answer this question would be to mention the so-called Pleomorphic model. This European model based on microbiological investigation over the last 150 years, contends that most diseases or disorders have as a central theme, a form of infection. It is the excessively acid environment, according to the Pleomorphic model that sets up such undetected infections and their associated disease processes.

So, in answer to your question, if you are chronically too acid, you are setting the scene for the genetic expression of an assortment of disease processes that otherwise would not be expressed! Are you such a time-bomb? Don’t you think/feel that it would be a top idea to know about your acid-alkaline imbalances so that something effective and permanent could be set up to prevent ill health and diseases in your body?