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Alkalize Your Body

Denice Moffat
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Alkalize or Die was the title of a book that inspired this page. But it’s not so simple. Over the years I’ve noticed that the litmus paper is not that accurate and the time of the day, the time after eating, your emotions–all these influence the acidity of your body. So how DO you alkalize your body?

Alkalize Your Body:

When your doctor orders blood tests, sometimes they will ask for an electrolyte panel but they don’t pay too much attention on what you are trying to do to alkalize your body.

Optimal pH of the blood is 7.2. But the pH can change within a short period of time, so it’s important to have the lab test run immediately and from arterial blood. Inherently the body will do everything it can to maintain the optimal pH. Acid/Base balance is necessary to run the entire body’s biochemical pathways for detoxification, building, and general maintenance.

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The body has several control mechanisms to keep it at this pH and they include getting rid of excess acid or base by-products through the lungs, saliva and kidneys/urine and even sweating.

When your body is sick in any way this pH is disrupted. Most times your body is trying to keep up with the extra acid produced. Acids are produced from lack of oxygen, eating an imbalance of protein and carbohydrates and other acid producing foods, by cellular breakdown and production of metabolic waste and even negative thinking patterns in the body.

The most accurate way to gauge the pH of your body is to go by symptoms. The more symptoms you have, the more acid your body. Frankly, those pH sticks are not that accurate. Here’s that chart:

Symptoms Associated with an Acid Body:

Here are some basic parameters for measuring pH:

Here is a list of acid producing foods that need to be balanced and decreased from your diet to alkalize and to increase your alkaline reserve.

How many of these do you eat regularly? If you “must” have them, then cut back on the portions until you can minimize them from your diet. In alphabetical order:

So the challenge here is that this is a yin-yang kind of continuum. Some foods produce a LOT of acid and other foods produce a little bit over the balance of acid. Replace the acid producing foods with foods that alkalize from the list below. The more alkaline the food is the faster you will alkalize and replenish the alkaline reserve. This is good unless it throws you into what is called a “healing crisis“, in which case, eat more food from the bottom of the list or from the Neutral column to slow things down a bit and alkalize at a more tolerable rate.

Alkalize by Eating More of These:

NOTE: If you take supplements/drugs/foods that are not making your body strong and healthy the body has to expend extra energy to get rid of the substance putting extra stress on your body and depleting it of the energy it could use towards the healing process. This is very important for the effective treatment of chronic diseases such as cancer.

Alkaline Foods (from most alkaline to least):

So, to be chronically ill and have diseases such as cancer, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, arthritis, etc., the body is in a very acid state. The answer is to Alkalize, alkalize, alkalize, but do it gradually and beware of alkalizing too quickly or you’ll end up with a Herxheimer reaction  (a healing crisis).

 

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