HOW IMPORTANT IS ALKALIZING THE BODY?!?!?!?
Let's first talk about what alkalinity is and what is acidic? When talking alkalinity and acidic we are specifically talking about pH levels. The pH scale is based on a 1-14 point scale. 1 being totally acidic which will burn a hole through steal and 14 being pure alkaline. So what does that mean? That means anytime pH levels are below 7 acids start to build up which creates a less alkalized enviornment and a more toxic or acidic enviornment. So what does this mean for you and your body? Everything!!!!!!!! Well for starters your body has be run at a certain pH level for all your body, blood and organs to function properly and that pH level is 7.36 which is slightly alkaline on the scale. Just like your body temperature has to be at 98.6 degrees in order to function properly your pH levels need to be at 7.36 if it varys from that by even by 1 or 2 points and you would die instantly. Thats how important it is.
So what creates acidic enviornments? Everything!!!!!!! The pollutants in the air we breath, the food we eat, stress, our emotions (anger, resentment, frustration) working out too much, lack of sleep, everything we do is pretty much creating acidic enviornments. So what does the body do when theres too much acid. Well one thing it does is produce more fat to protect its self from the acid. So if your trying to lose weight you need pay close attention to you pH levels and create a more alkaline environment for you body!!!!! What also happens to your body in an acidic environment your body breaks down your blood thickens its harder for you blood to gain and transfer oxygen and you can actually see this under a microscope. Its actually pretty amazing!!!!
Acids also manifest in your weakest parts of your body. So if your liver is the weakest its going to start breaking down your liver, if your lungs are the weakest it will congregate there and start to destroy them as well. All this acid is what leads to the break down of your body and the beginning of disease, cancer, high blood pressure, fatigue, arthritis exct.
But what's the best part about this? All this can be prevented. How? By diet!!!!!! And knowing which foods your consuming lead to a more acidic environment or a more alkaline environment!!!!!!!! Greens!!!!!! Dark greens are some of the most alkaline foods available. Wheat grass especially is super alkaline!!!!!!!
Check out this chart to see what foods your eating the most have an alkalizing effect on the body or a acidic effect on your body!
http://rense.com/1.mpicons/acidalka.htm
Here are some more resources and links to check out for more information on the alkalizing the body.
Pretty cool seminar on alkalinity!
Websites to check out.
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http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-benefits-of-a-properly-alkalized-bod...
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Alkaline Diet: Pros, Cons, and Do They Really Affect Acid Levels in the Body?
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What Are The Benefits Of Alkaline In The Body? | LIVESTRONG.COM
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Secrets To Alkalizing Your Body - Pure Inside Out
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The Power and Benefits of Alkalizing Your Body
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AnonFunny I was just touching on this the other day with Nitti when he mentioned heartburn.
Many people dont know that neutralizing acid in the stomach, contributes to acidifying the body.
To alkalize the body one must have acid in the stomach . Lemons are a great way to boost stomach acid and aid digestion, thus helping to alkalize the body
Yes! Lemons are great and you would think they would be acidic but they actually have an alkalizing effect. Three times a day i mix chlorophyll Apple cider vinegar and lemon juice into a water bottle they are great!
AnonIts crucial for preventing cancer..
Cancer forms in a ph of around 5 and dies at a ph of around 8.4! Its the ONE fact of cancer that applies to ALL cancers! Eat greens and nuts and a good dose of fibre every day and your body will look after itself ;)
Finally someone who know what they are talking about! Thanks bro!
Go here and read for yourself about cancer oh wow they also mention pH and alkalizing your blood too... and arthritis and diabetes!!!!! Oh go figure because there is no correlations whatsoever!!!!!!
http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/understanding_cancer_and_cancer_ce...
"Understanding Cancer"
"Cancer does not develop for some unknown reason. Once you understand why and how it develops, and learn how to support your body so that it may more effectively fight cancer, it may never be too late to get healthy again. (No matter what type, they have the same underlying causes.) Cancer is a natural process where, to put it simply, an overworked and weakened immune system cannot kill it as fast as it is multiplying. Toxin, carcinogens, radiation, even viruses, combined with an unhealthy internal environment , and in conjunction with a weakened immune system, cause more cells to turn cancerous, and allows them to thrive.
You must change your internal environment to one in which cancer cannot thrive. Just as we couldn't live on Mars with no oxygen, cancer can't exist in cells where there is enough oxygen. Unfortunately, all too often our cells are low in oxygen. Fortunately it is possible to increase the levels of oxygen in cells, thus, making your body's internal environment a place where cancer can't easily survive.
ACID vs. ALKALINITY
In chemistry, alkali solutions (pH over 7.0) tend to absorb oxygen, while acids (pH under 7.0) tend to expel oxygen. For example, a mild alkali can absorb over 100 times as much oxygen as a mild acid. Therefore, when the body becomes acidic by dropping below pH 7.0 (note: all body fluids, except for stomach and urine, are supposed to be mildly alkaline at pH 7.4), oxygen is driven out of the body thereby, according to Nobel Prize winner Otto Warburg, inducing cancer. Stomach fluids must remain acidic to digest food and urine must remain acidic to remove wastes from the body. Blood is the exception. Blood must always remain at an alkaline pH 7.4 so that it can retain its oxygen. When adequate mineral consumption is in the diet, the blood is supplied the crucial minerals required to maintain an alkaline pH of 7.4.
However when insufficient mineral consumption is in the diet, the body is forced to rob Peter (other body fluids) to pay Paul (the blood). In doing so, it removes crucial minerals, such as calcium, from the saliva, spinal fluids, kidneys, liver, etc., in order to maintain the blood at pH 7.4. This causes the de-mineralized fluids and organs to become acidic and therefore anaerobic, thus inducing not only cancer, but a host of other degenerative diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, lupus, etc.. Everyone knows that the human body is made up of 78% water by weight, and that water is hydrogen and oxygen gases. When nitrogen gas and carbon in the form of carbon dioxide and methane gases are added, the total gas in the body by weight becomes over 95%. Almost half of the remaining 5% that makes up the human body and controls all biological functions is the mineral calcium. No other mineral is capable of performing as many biological functions as is calcium. Calcium is involved in almost every biological function. This amazing mineral provides the electrical energy for the heart to beat and for all muscle movement. It is the calcium ion that is responsible for feeding every cell. It does this by latching on to seven nutrient molecules and one water molecule and pulls them through the nutrient channel. It then detaches its load and returns to repeat the process. Another important biological job for calcium is DNA replication, which is crucial for maintaining youth and a healthy body. DNA replication is the basis for all body repair and can only occur on a substrate of calcium.
Thus, low calcium means low body repair and premature aging. As important as all these and hundreds of other biological functions of calcium are to human health, none is more important than the job of pH control. Calcium to acid, is like water to a fire. Calcium quickly destroys oxygen robbing acid in the body fluids. Thus, the more calcium, the more oxygen, and therefore, the less cancer and other degenerative disease."
Terephthalic Pt...First of all I'd just like to point out that you mention the pH of blood changing "even by 1 or 2 points and you would die instantly." is an extremely shady thing to say.
Your body has a phosphoric and carbonic buffer system which make it almost impossible to change the pH of your blood even by half a point. Second your numbers aren't optimal levels, but average levels.
98.6 is average body temperature and 7.36 is average blood pH. Your body goes through a variety of changes in the day dependent on a number of factors. If you took your body temperature at 7 at night you'd see that your temperature is probably close to 100 degrees. This isn't because you're sick, but because that's the time which your body temperature is highest during the day (this has to do with a number of factors like metabolism and whatnot). As with body temperature the pH of your blood changes regularly through the day as you produce hormones and undergo regular body activity.
The real deal here is that this is just a fad. You people see the word acidic and you think breaks down or eats away at. The pH of milk is 6.5. That's lower than you're ever going to be able to make your blood become. Milk doesn't eat away at things. "...disease, cancer, high blood pressure, fatigue, arthritis exct." really? Are you trying to tell me that you think a lower pH of blood causes all these things?
I'm not saying that eating greens is a bad thing. As he said greens are good. They are exceptionally low in glycemic index and are a great source of complex carbohydrates. They'll help control insulin levels, and hormone production, cholesterol, and a bunch of other things.
But this basicity thing is just fad crap.
Also check out this and acid
http://envirohealthtech.com/ph.htm
http://www.relfe.com/health_natural/pH_human_body_balance_health_level_3...
http://preventdisease.com/fundament/articles/acid_alkaline.shtml
http://www.naturalhealthschool.com/acid-alkaline.html
" Mild acidosis can cause such problems as:
Arteriosclerosis, Heart Attacks, Stroke, High Cholesterol, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure
All Forms of Cancer
Diabetes, Insulin Sensitivity, Obesity, Weight Gain
*Neurological Diseases, MS, MD, ALS and Parkinson's Disease
*Liver & Kidney Disease, Bladder Dysfunction
*Senility, Dementia, Alzheimer's
*Immune Deficiencies & Dysfunction
*Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, Arthritis, Joint Pain
*Hormonal Imbalances, Endocrine & Adrenal, Thyroid Conditions
*Premature Aging, Male Prostate Problems
Weakening of the skin, hair, nails, teeth
Deterioration of the digestive tract
Excitability of the nervous system, sciatica
Tendency to depressive illness
Muscular spasms and cramps
Enhances susceptibility to infections
Chronic fatigue
Blockage and bio-availability of essential minerals
Cardiovascular damage, including the constriction of blood vessels and the reduction of oxygen.
Weight gain, obesity and diabetes.
Bladder and kidney conditions, including kidney stones.
Immune deficiency.
Acceleration of free radical damage, possibly contributing to cancerous mutations.
Hormone concerns.
Premature aging.
Osteoporosis; weak, brittle bones, hip fractures and bone spurs.
Joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid buildup.
Low energy and chronic fatigue.
Slow digestion and elimination.
Yeast/fungal overgrowth. "
is an extremely shady thing to say????? What are you even talking about???? I understand your body has it's own mechanism to regulate it and releases pockets of alkalinity into your blood as a buffer for when you get to acidic just like you sweat to regulate your body temputre... If you would of done a little bit of reading and researching yourself you would have already know that informations is already in there.. So I have now idea what you are even talking about for that matter!!!! DId you even read the resources and links? It's not just a fad theres tons of science to back these finding up!!!! And YES IT DOES!!!!!!! if you stop being such and idiot and do some outside research for yourself then you will find out how dumb you really are!!!!! Acidic build up does lead to all of those and yes it does effect your bones and everythig else stop being such and ignorant fool and do your own investigation!!!!!!!
"The real deal here is that this is just a fad. You people see the word acidic and you think breaks down or eats away at. The pH of milk is 6.5. That's lower than you're ever going to be able to make your blood become. Milk doesn't eat away at things. "...disease, cancer, high blood pressure, fatigue, arthritis exct." really? Are you trying to tell me that you think a lower pH of blood causes all these things?"
I will also tell you I do not appreciate you calling me shady refering to my words being shady or anything related to be shady!!!!! If you knew me you or knew what I do for a living you would not be speaking like such a stuck up idiot that doesnt know what you are even talking about!!!!! So im just gonna make a suggestion to you and do not respond back becasue I am done talking to someone of your intelligence level!!!!! Go to med school and learn how to read!!!!!!!! Because surely you have no idea what your talking about!!!!! Have a nice day!!!!!! ;-)
Human blood pH should be slightly alkaline ( 7.35 - 7.45 ). Below or above this range means symptoms and disease. A pH of 7.0 is neutral. A pH below 7.0 is acidic. A pH above 7.0 is alkaline.
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.
An acidic balance 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. A blood pH of 6.9, which is only slightly acidic, can induce coma and death.
The reason acidosis is more common in our society is mostly due to the typical American diet, which is far too high in acid producing animal products like meat, eggs and dairy, and far too low in alkaline producing foods like fresh vegetables. Additionally, we eat acid producing processed foods like white flour and sugar and drink acid producing beverages like coffee and soft drinks. We use too many drugs, which are acid forming; and we use artificial chemical sweetners like NutraSweet, Spoonful, Sweet 'N Low, Equal, or Aspartame, which are poison and extremely acid forming. One of the best things we can do to correct an overly acid body is to clean up the diet and lifestyle.
To maintain health, the diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods and 40% acid forming foods. To restore health, the diet should consist of 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acid forming foods.
Generally, alkaline forming foods include: most fruits, green vegetables, peas, beans, lentils, spices, herbs and seasonings, and seeds and nuts.
Generally, acid forming foods include: meat, fish, poultry, eggs, grains, and legumes.
Shifting Your pH Toward Alkaline...
This chart is for those trying to "adjust" their body pH. The pH scale is from 0 to 14, with numbers below 7 acidic ( low on oxygen ) and numbers above 7 alkaline. An acidic body is a sickness magnet. What you eat and drink will impact where your body's pH level falls. Balance is Key !!!
Terephthalic Pt...Oh man. Pockets of alkalinity. That's laugh out loud funny man.
H3PO4 <------> H2PO4- and H+
H2CO3 <------> HCO3- and H+
(use above as reference)
See your body doesn't have pockets of alkalinity. It has a buffer system. See phosphoric acid (H3PO4) and carbonic acid (H2CO3) exist in equilibrium with their conjugate bases (H2PO4 with a negative 1 formal charge and HCO3 with a negative one formal charge). As your body becomes more basic the phosphoric acid and carbonic acid's equilibrium gets pushed to the right of the equations above and the acids decompose into their conjugate bases and lose hydrogen increasing acidity. The reverse happens when your body becomes too acidic. Equilibrium is pushed to the left and excess hydrogens are absorbed.
Did you insult my intelligence and then say something like that in the same post? That's like hilarious to me. You didn't even know that the pH scale was from 0-14. You are so below my intelligence level just proves how stupid you actually are.
Oh and yes I do call scare tactics to make your fad sound like a good idea by saying a 1 to 2 point change (which most people would consider small except that the pH system is an exponential scale so one point away from 7 would be 9 hundred thousand away from 8 or 6 in hydrogen content of your blood) will kill you. Because the likelihood of you being able to do something like that is roundable to zero percent.
Correlation does not equate causation. Here I'll dumb that down for you. Basically when two things happen simultaneously it does not mean that one thing is the cause of the other. Just because people who are sick with something have lower pH values doesn't mean that the reason for them being sick is because their pH value is low.
You talk about "chemicals" like they're some evil man made thing. First of all every fucking thing in the world that has mass is a chemical. Testosterone is a chemical, water is a chemical, diamonds are chemicals. Secondly most things are toxic in some way to the body. Oxygen is one of the most toxic things we put into our body. It's extremely corrosive and eats away at our cells way more than a lowered pH will. This is due to the free radicals on O2 molecules. See oxygen contains 6 valence electrons, but it wants to have 8 (or 0 in the P shell and 2 in the S shell) because it's a period two element and wants to follow the octet rule like all period two elements do. So it bonds to another oxygen with a single bond and contains a single free radical with two lone pairs. These free radicals are just terrible for reasons I couldn't explain to you because I doubt you've even taken high school chemistry and you need at least some organic to understand.
Anyway I kind of got off topic and lost where I was originally heading, but I'm pretty done here. You can continue to spout your crap you read like it's truth just because you sourced the places you read your crap.
Ok...Ya your right!!!! Hahaha.... I explained it in layman terms for a reason so idiots like you could understand!!!!! But obviously you still don't!!!!! keep on googleing eventually you will figure the rest out!!!! Good job!!!! Am actually surprised you know how to read!!!!! ;-)
Terephthalic Pt...Yeah... You keep believing I googled that. I mean with a name like terephthalic pterodactyl there's no way I'd be a chemist.
then go check out what chemicals are doing to the bee population and our entire food chain!!!!!
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2012/04/09/epa-approved-gmo-insectic...
Ok genius check out what chemicals are doing to the oceans!!!! Let alone our ozone layer and our bodies!!!!
Oh ya acid is of no importance!!!!! Keep copy and pasting!!!!!! ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqCvcX7buo
Terephthalic Pt...You're the one who is copy and pasting. I'm only copying and pasting from my brain.
Also the multiple exclamation points make you look like you're in grade school. I'm done here.
Edit: Oh my god that's so funny. For shits and giggles I tried googling random cutouts of your text and it's literally word for word copy pasted. I thought you were dumb, but seriously?
Dude that's so weak.
And it's humorous to say that oxygen is the most harmful things we put in our bodies!!!! Come on if you know anything about cancer you know that the lack of oxgygen to cells is what leads to cancer in the first place and that is exactly why you need to alkalize your body and blood!!!!! Go look at your blood under a microscope when your more acidic and then when your more alkalized you can buy the strips at your local drug store for a few bucks!!!!!! Then come back and talk to me!!!!! You are completly ignorant and talk about intenlligence please!!!! Spare me you have no idea!!!!!
And yes i was copying and pasting excerpts from the article in my replys to you only bc you obviouly didn't read any of it and had no idea what you were talking about so i copied and pasted for you bc your too ignorant and lazy to read it for yourself!!!! Because you already know everything!!!!!!
"People don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
Bet you have no idea who even said that!!!!
nice article
And yes ... good read. thank you
Thanks!!!
A couple years back I was training for a fight I had to drop 10 pounds and I wanted to do it right. I went on the alkaline diet.; I felt great, I also won the fight ... One bad thing about that diet in perticular was I was as lean as lean could be and couldnt keep muscle on to save my life ! But for someone that has alot of self control and wants to be lean it would be a perfect fit
Nice read, thanks.
And just to be an ass, PH does not range from 1 to 14. U can actually have negative PH.
Terephthalic Pt...Actually pH can only be from 0-14. There are super acids which would have an acidic value below zero however they wouldn't be measurable on a pH scale and are mathematically determined from pKa values of conjugate bases to that acid.
The pH scale is a measure based on water. Values below zero aren't actually on the scale.
Thanks bro!