Yes! I said it. Your mouth is
killing you. We are always told to eat more fruits and vegetables but many of
us don’t follow these simple instructions.
I was reading a book about how we
could achieve optimum health and the author, Jon Barron, who’s one of the
world’s foremost authorities in cutting edge nutritionals, member of the advisory
board of Health Sciences explained into
details why it’s necessary for you and I to eat more fruits and vegetable
(ALKALINIZE OUR BODY) so as to live a healthy lifestyle; live longer, look
younger while we get stronger.
Just read this portion of his
book, Lessons From The Miracle Doctors, Chapter 13: Cleansing Your Liver and
Blood, Page 117, and if you find this portion interesting, just let me know and
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Balancing PH
Jon Barron says:
Our bodies function in a very narrow range of acid/alkaline balance (pH).
Our blood in particular is sensitive to these changes. Ideally, blood pH should
be slightly alkaline at about 7.45. If it varies by even as little as a few
tenth of a point, severe illness and death may result. Unfortunately, most of
the food we eat is highly acidic (meat, dairy, soda, alcohol, cooked grains).
In the end, it becomes too much for the bodies to handle. If we don’t correct
the problem by “alkalinizing” the body, disease, sickness and death are the
inevitable results.
What is pH? It’s simply the
measurement f the acid/alkaline balance of anything.
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On the pH scale, water is neutral and rates a
7.0 on the scale.
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Acids (such as hydrochloric acid and citric
acid) are rated as numbers less than 7.0. The further away from 7.0 the number
is, the stronger the acid. Cow’s milk at 6.5 is slightly acidic; soft drinks at
3.0 are strongly acidic; and stomach acid at 1.5 is highly acidic.
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Alkaline substances include everything that rate
above 7.0 on the pH scale. Again, as with acids, the further away from 7.0 the
number, the more the alkaline the substance. Blood at 7.45 is slightly alkaline;
pancreatic juice in your intestines is strongly alkaline at 8.0 and baking soda
at 12.0 is highly alkaline.
Your body has a whole bunch of
different pHs that it has to maintain. Your saliva is slightly alkaline. Your
stomach is strongly acidic. Your intestines are strongly alkaline. Your urine
is acid. But all of the pH’s in your
body, the most crucial is your blood.
If your blood pH deviates even
5/10ths of a point from its normal pH of 7.45, death is likely. Considering the
importance of pH to the body, it’s well worth discussing a little further how
it affects the body, and how we can help maintain the proper pH levels in our
own bodies.
The importance of pH really boils
down to two things:
1. Enzymes. We’ve already discussed the
importance of enzymes. They control every single metabolic function in our
bodies, and they are integral to our immune system. As it says in Anatomy and Physiology by Anthony and
Thibodeau, “Enzymes function optimally
at a specific pH and become inactive if this deviates beyond narrow limits.”
2. Oxygen. Every cell in your body require
oxygen for life—and to maintain optimum health. To put it simply, the more acid the blood the less oxygen
is available for use by the cells. Without going into a discussion of the
chemistry involved, just understand that it’s the same mechanism involved when
acid rain “kills” a lake. The fish literally suffocates to death because the
acid in the lake “binds up” all of the available oxygen. It’s not that the
oxygen has gone anywhere; it’s just no longer available.
Conversely, if you
raise the pH of the lake, oxygen is now available and the lake comes back to
life. Incidentally it’s worth noting that cancer
is related to an acid environment (lack of oxygen). The higher the pH (the more
oxygen present in the cells of the body), the harder it is for cancer to
thrive.
The bottom line is that a
balanced pH is vital. An extended pH imbalance of any kind threatens our
well-being—threatens, in fact our very lives. Managing the pH balance of all of
our bodily fluids is so important that our bodies have developed systems to
monitor and balance acid-alkaline levels in every cell and biosystem.
What affects pH in our
bodies
As I just mentioned, our bodies
have developed a system for maintaining pH balance in all of our body fluids.
To understand this system better, we need to take a look at what changes pH
(usually making it more acid), and how our bodies respond to that change.
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When they are metabolized, carbohydrates,
proteins, and fats produce various acids in our bodies. Proteins produce
sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid. Carbohydrates and fats produce acetic acid
and lactic acid. Since these acids are
poisonous to the body, they must be eliminated. Unfortunately, they can’t
be eliminated through the kidneys or large intestines as they would damage
these organs.
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Acid-Forming
Foods
All meats, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy, cooked grains,
and refined sugars. (Note: probably at the top of the list in the human diet is
soda pop. Not only is it high in refined sugar, which is highly acid forming in
and of itself, but most soda pop contains a large amount of phosphoric acid—not
to mention carbon dioxide (an end product of the acid neutralization process) .
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Alkaline-Forming
Foods
Only fresh
fruits and vegetables are alkaline-forming and help your body maintain a proper
pH. (Note: even though citrus fruits are highly acidic, your body threats them
as alkaline so that they are highly effective alkalinizers.)
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Since the body cannot eliminate acids through
the kidneys, the way it handles them is to neutralize them with the minerals
sodium, calcium, potassium and magnesium. Of these calcium is the most
important. Now, here is the key to the
whole deal, your body makes use of a priority system if there are not enough
available minerals to neutralize all of the acids present.
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Blood is at the top of the pack. Your body will
steal minerals from anywhere and everywhere before it will let your blood go
too acidic. Remember, even a slight
deviation in blood pH results in death.
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Saliva is at the bottom of the pack. Saliva is
the first place your body steals minerals from to balance the blood. That’s why
pH testing saliva provides an early warning system for when you are becoming
too acidic. At optimum health, your saliva will test at 7.45. At 6.5 – 7.0,
you’ll find yourself frequently succumbing to colds and sickness. At 5.5 and
lower, you can pretty much count on the fact that that major disease has
already taken hold. Virtually, all cancer patients test strongly acidic on a
saliva pH test.
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Unfortunately, your saliva just doesn’t contain
that big a reserve of minerals so you soon run out. That places your bones next
on the priority list. Surprise, your bones are your body’s prime mineral
reserve. That’s right, if your diet is too acid forming (too much meat, dairy,
carbohydrates and sugars) your body will begin leaching calcium from your bones
to balance the pH and avoid death. In effect, your body says osteoporosis is
preferable to death.
How can we help?
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Change your diet. Follow the guideline laid out
in Chapter 6.
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In addition, there are several special
alkalinizing agents available.
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There is a machine from Japan that will
“micronize” your water. What it actually does is take your tap water and divide
it into two. One stream is acidic and can be used for washing and cleaning. The
other stream is alkaline and is used for drinking. It works really well. Unfortunately
it’s really expensive—about $1,200.
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One of the best alternatives is to simply
magnetize your water. Applying a magnetic field to a pitcher of water for a
short period of time will make it more alkaline. It also offers the added advantage
of lessening the surface tension, which makes the water wetter and more usable
by the cells of your body.
RECOMMENDATIONS
BLOOD
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CLEANSING. 2-4 times a year (even more often if
ill) you need to go on an herbal cleansing of the blood.
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Note: Never do a blood cleanse without first
cleaning out the colon to provide an outlet for the toxins released by the
blood.
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Oral
Chelation. 3-4 times per year for a period of 2-3 weeks at a time, using
either:
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Cilantro pesto as described earlier in the
chapter.
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Malic acid tablets.
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If you want, you can also use one of the
low—level oral chelators on the market.
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Alkalinize
or Die.
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Cut away back on acid producing foods such as
meat, dairy, sugar, soda pop, refined grains, etc. Add alkalinizing foods to
your diet.
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Drink water that has been magnetized.
Magnetizing raises the pH by almost one full point.
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One final though on pH. It really makes sense to
test the pH of your saliva on a regular basis as a touchstone of your overall
health. You can pick up pH paper specifically designed for this purpose at most
health food stores. Make sure you test in the morning before brushing or eating
as these things can temporarily alter the pH in your mouth. Just spit out a
couple of times into the sink, then unto the pH paper. Ideally, your pH should be about 7.45. If it tests below 7.0, you
should get aggressive in terms of alkalinizing your body.
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Fasting. There
are many number of books on fasting to help guide you through the process. The
principles of fasting are simple.
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First, when you deprive your body of food, your
body begins to consume itself to survive. Being geared to self-survival, your
body chooses to consume damaged cells and toxic cells first, saving the
healthiest for later.
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It takes a tremendous amount of energy, and put
a tremendous strain on your body’s organs, to process food. (Check your heart
rate after eating a large meal and observe how exhausted you feel.). When you
fast, your body diverts that energy to repair and to rebuilding.
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No matter what medical doctors may say, the
process works. In fact, a simple thought that should clue you in to the
necessity for periodic fasting is the fact that human beings are the only animals that eat when they’re sick. Think
about that for a moment. Have you ever observed how dogs or cats, for example,
stop eating while they are recovering? They intuitively understand the healing
power of fasting. There are three levels of fasting worth considering.
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The pure
water fast. This is the most powerful, but also produces the most toxic
side effects. I do not recommend it unless you have a great deal of experience
in fasting or are working directly with a qualified healer.
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Juice
Fasting. Fasting on fresh juices help smooth out many of the negatives of
fasting.
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Spirulina or Chlorella Fasting. Even gentler
is supplementing your juice fast with spirulina or Chlorella throughout the
day.
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The one thing you need to be careful of while
fasting is the build up of ketones in the body. Make sure you drink large
amounts of water to flush out the ketones from your body.
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One final note on fasting. In Chapter 3, we
discussed the herbal colon—activator formula that provides both cleansing and
healing to the entire gastrointestinal system. It’s highly recommended that you
use such a formula while fasting to accelerate removal of toxins from the
colon. If not, you will have to take a colonic or an enema every day.
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