Understanding pH

An excellent article by James von Feldt, PH. D.

UNDERSTANDING pH

Pills and Scalpels Do Not Cure Chronically Unhealthy Behavior. 

“Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, Oh What a Relief It Is?” 

 Do you remember the old commercial? It was popular years ago. 

 What made it popular was that it went right to the heart of an emerging health issue which now has grown to epidemic proportions.  The symptom that the commercial addresses is acid reflux, heartburn or sometimes called stomach discomfort.  The underlying cause is too much acid in your body.  This is more serious than most people understand.

 THE BODY’S INTRICATE SYSTEM OF BALANCE

The human body is designed to fix itself through endless checks and balances – all without asking you; it does it because if it doesn’t take action you will die.  This LIFE OR DEATH principle is especially apparent with the body’s acid/alkaline balance. 

 The body continually monitors and instantly responds to even the slightest variance in the acidity in your blood. If the blood becomes too alkaline the body makes a correction.  If the body becomes too acid the body goes into action to correct that problem.  Why you ask, does it do this?  The answer: if the balance gets even a slight bit off, serious life-threatening events begin.  In other words, your life span is seriously reduced by premature death.

 The amazing and great news is that your body has a number of processes it can call on to re-balance the blood into a working range; again, without asking you.  The body’s unwavering standard is a range of pH between 7.3 and 7.4; anything outside that pH range calls for EMERGENCY BODILY ACTION TO COUNTERACT THE THREAT.

 The scale of pH measurement ranges from 0 (extremely acid) to 14 (extremely alkaline).  A neutral pH would be 7.0  

 As you can see the required human blood range 7.3 – 7.4 pH is alkaline.

 Another thing to understand about the pH scale is that it is not linear.  It is exponential; that is, for each point greater in number it increases by a factor of 10.   So a 7.4 alkaline is 10 times more potent than a 7.3 and a 7.5 is 10 times 10, or 100 times more potent than 7.3. These numbers get big very fast with a small change in pH.

 

THE BUFFERING SYSTEM

The body has a system called the buffering system that compensates when your blood gets out of balance.  This is good news and bad news.  The bad news is that with each action the buffering system takes something essential from the body.  

 RESPIRATION

One way of compensation has to do with your breathing.  The body, when sensing danger in your acid/alkaline balance will trigger your rate of respiration almost to a point of hyper-ventilation.  The chemical exchanges between carbon dioxide and oxygen in your lungs cause a reaction that will help balance the blood pH.  However, the high respiration rate also has side effects which are not good for your long term health.

 MINERAL DEPLETION

If the acid intake is too severe for the respiration fix, your body uses alkaline-forming minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iodine, potassium and sodium.  These minerals work in the blood, lymphatic system, inter-cellular, and extra-cellular fluids to bind acids and are removed through a process using the liver and kidney then move out of your body as sweat and or urine. 

 That is the good news.  The bad news is that you are depleting essential nutrients setting the stage for another health crisis due to mineral depletion – again, resulting in a reduced life span and reduced quality of life.  See how delicately balanced all the requirements of your body are?  It is marvelously made and complex beyond our understanding.

 THE PROBLEM SNEAKS UP ON YOU

When you are born your body is as close to perfect as it will ever be.  Your mother and father’s nutrition provided your health.  From the time you were born until today many factors determine your current health, your future health and lifespan. 

 THE CELL

Life is defined at the cellular level; that is, if your cells die you are dead.  If your cells are healthy and vibrant you are healthy and full of energy.  If, on the other hand, your cells are struggling to barely exist you are struggling along falling prey to one health crisis after another.

 ESSENTIALS OF LIFE

Air, water, food, exercise, spirituality and community all contribute to the healthy life of the cell:  all are important, let’s consider the importance of drinking alkaline water as the foundation. 

 Common drinking water that is even slightly acidic is detrimental to your health, well-being and length of life.  Most bottled water purchased at the store is acidic, full of active Oxidants and puts stress on your body.  Your life, if you are a typical American, is full of beverages some are acidic to the extreme:  coffee, caffeine, soda, alcohol, milk, sport drinks, tea and anything with high fructose corn syrup. 

 SWEET KISS OF DEATH

Soda, the most common of drinks today, is deadly acidic.  It is 2.5 pH; almost equivalent to battery acid.  Want to know why you get a rush from a bottle of Mountain Dew?  It’s because your body is panicking.  It has sensed that “HE IS TRYING TO KILL HIMSELF -- WE HAVE TO RESPOND TO THIS EMERGENCY”: that’s when you feel the rush.  The minerals, calcium, magnesium etc are pulled out of the bone and tissues – even heart muscle and brain cells to counteract this act of destruction. 

 It takes 32 ounces of 9.5 pH alkaline water to neutralize 1 ounce of soda; it’s that potent.

 In my opinion every can of pop should have a scull and cross bones depicting the seriousness of this poison.

 MORE PROBLEMS

The natural process of metabolism at the cell level produces acid by-products and pushes them into the extra-cellular fluids.  Put another way: acids are created by the process of life inside the cell.  The acid by-products move from the cell into the fluids outside and between the cells.  When the fluid between the cells becomes saturated with acid, the by-products within the cells become concentrated creating a toxic environment which can cause disease such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

 Over time, with the American diet, the majority of the body fluids (about 70% of the fluids in the body – not blood) drop below the critical blood pH range (too acidic).   All of the cells become bogged down in fluids too acidic to allow the body to function at its best.  The extra-cellular fluids feed into the blood system by way of the lymphatic system causing a chronic rise in blood pH:  all systems in the body are compromised.  The Lymphatic system and its process of clearing out fluids from between the cells is hyper-critical in maintaining your immune system. 

 OSTEOPOROSIS

When your body is constantly loosing calcium to the buffering system it cannot fulfill all the many missions required by the cells of the body; one of which is to build strong bones, another is to facilitate the beating of your heart. 

 Osteoporosis is endemic in our over 60 population and is now showing up in children.  At the turn of the last century it was an oddity to find the diagnosis now it is common; so common that specific drugs have been developed for this health crisis.  However, now we are told that one of the many side effects of the drug (which itself is acidic) stops new bone cells from forming and makes existing bones brittle and easier to break.  OOPS!

 There are many foods rich in calcium.  Americans are reportedly the highest consumers of calcium products in the world and yet are in the worst shape.  Why can’t people get enough calcium to maintain good health?  The answer is in the acidic drinks we drink, the acidic food we eat, the stressful lifestyles we lead, and the acidic state of our bodily fluids.

 THYROID

Women over 50 have an inordinate number of health problems with their thyroid.  One main function of the thyroid gland is to control metabolism.  Metabolism, determines the burn rate of the food in each cell.  If you have an under-producing thyroid gland your metabolism can become sluggish (you have low energy levels) and you gain weight easily.

 The mineral iodine is essential to your thyroid.  Your iodine reserves, like your calcium reserves, become depleted over time when your pH stays out of balance (too acidic).  This is one reason why diet soda that contains zero calories indirectly cause weight gain.  The soda contains phosphoric acid creating an acid emergency leaching out, among other minerals, the iodine the thyroid needs to function.

 ANTIBIOTICS.

Antibiotics kill bad bacteria.  Unfortunately they can’t tell good bacteria from bad bacteria so it kills as many as the dosage has the strength to kill.  The reason antibiotics are used is because your immune system has been compromised and no longer can defend your body against the attack of the bad bacteria.  The first thing you should do in this case is rebuild your immune system to take its place as first defense against all kinds of health problems. 

 I bring this up as medical practitioners are using antibiotics for almost any problem – much at the insistence of the patient.  The result is a huge mass of dead bacteria in the body.  Dead bacteria debris is acidic and adds to the high acid level in the extra-cellular fluids (between the cells) as well as the blood.  Your lymph system is over-loaded trying to counter the effect.  Your liver and kidneys are stressed.  Your buffer systems are over worked. 

 THE BLACK PLAGUE – CHEMO THERAPY

This is hard to deal with.  Chemo therapy is the process of introducing potent poisons into your system to kill cells - some of which are cancerous.  It literally takes you to the edge of death on purpose.  Again, like antibiotics but on a colossal scale, the destruction does not apply only to cancer cells but every kind of cell in you.  Most importantly, the immune cells in your body, the system which normally destroy cancer are destroyed in the process.  Once your immune system is critically compromised you will surely have a recurrence of the cancer.  There is nothing left to stop it.  Cancer doctors deem a 60 month life span after chemo treatment to be “SUCCESS”.    

 Chemotherapy does not claim to cure cancer or to correct the cause of cancer in your body.  It is a destructive therapy to buy you time. 

In the mean time, what happens to all the cells destroyed in the process?  That’s right; they are dead debris floating all over in your body creating a very high acidic state of toxicity which is itself a pre-cursor to causing cancer.  Cancer must have an acidic environment without oxygen to thrive.  Your lymph system‘s function is to clear the debris out.  If you find yourself in this state you need to hydrate with alkaline fluids and work the debris out of your system with exercise.

 RESULTS OF DRINKING ALKALINE WATER

Each individual is unique.  Your health and nutritional needs are unique to you, your history and your future.   

 Your future health is clearly a product of your action to gain and maintain health as well as the avoidance of health destruction activities. 

 I have seen the following results from drinking Ionized Alkaline water myself and in observing the results in others.

 Increased energy                                 Reduced hip pain

Acid reflux gone                                   Reduced Knee pain

Weight loss                                           Greater flexibility

Clear thinking                                       Reduced Glaucoma to normal numbers

Better Mental attitude                           Neuritis of the feet and legs resolved

Lower Cholesterol numbers                  Resolved Liver problem           

Lower Blood sugar numbers                 Greater walking stability

Lower Blood pressure                          Gaul bladder problems resolved

Reduced arthritis pain                           Kidney stones dissolved

Reduced lower back pain                     Gout eliminated

Diuretic effects             

                                    And more, much more……. 

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