17 Signs Your Body Is Too Acidic and 9 Ways To Quickly Alkalize It

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Acidic bodies are unhealthy bodies. When the body is acidic, it creates an unwanted environment where illness, bacteria, and yeast thrive. When the body is overly acidic, the body takes minerals from vital organs and bones to neutralize the acid and remove it from the body. Because of this, the body’s mineral reserves such as calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium can run dangerously low and cause damage that can go undetected for years, until it reaches unhealthy levels, causing acidosis.
Most of us are already consuming enough acid forming foods, such as dairy, grains, meats and sugar. Since the body is constantly generating acidic waste products from the metabolism, those waste products need to be neutralized or excreted in some way. In order to neutralize the constant acid generation, we need to supply the body with more alkaline foods.

Consider the health problems caused by mild acidosis (poor pH balance):

• Inflamed sensitive gums, cavities
  •Immune deficiency
  •Sciatica, lumbago, stiff neck
  •Respiratory problems, shortness of breath, coughing
  •Yeast fungal overgrowth
  •Low energy and chronic fatigue
  •Cardiovascular damage, including the constriction of blood vessels and reduction in oxygen
  •Heart problems, arrhythmias, increased heart rate
  •Weight gain, obesity and diabetes
  •Bladder and kidney infections
  •Accelerated free radical damage
  •Premature aging
  •Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
  •Osteoporosis, weak brittle bones, hip fractures, bone spurs
  •Headaches, confusion, sleepiness
  •Joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid buildup
  •Allergies, acne

Doesn’t the body adjust pH on its own?

Yes it can, but it does so at a price. The normal pH for all tissues and fluids in the body, except the stomach is alkaline. With the exception of blood, all of the body systems have a wide pH range, in part so they can shift to maintain the blood pH, which must be maintained at the very narrow margin of 7.35 to 7.45.  For example, if the system becomes too acidic, the blood will take alkaline forming elements from the digestive enzyme system of the small intestine. This now creates a less than optimal environment for proper digestion. So while the body can adjust pH on its own, it does so at a price to other systems in the body, which can lead to additional health problems.  

Start by knowing your pH

pH testing is important because it allows an individual to get a numeric representation of the current level of acidification in their body. A healthy average pH reading will range anywhere from 6.75 to 7.25. The optimal pH numeric reading is 7.36. To learn more about ph testing check references at end of article.

You can’t tell if food is acidic or alkaline by taste alone

For example, many people think of lemons as acidic, while it is classified as an acidic fruit, it is actually an alkaline forming food. During the process of digestion the acids are oxidized into carbon dioxide and water, therefore they do not create an acid condition in the system.
Calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium and sodium are the main alkalizing minerals. Foods that are high in this minerals are considered alkaline forming food.  Most foods have both acid and alkaline minerals in them. If acidic minerals are greater in concentration than that food is considered acidic and vice versa.

The body has limits

The body has limits for how much it can compensate for acid imbalance. Therefore food intake plays a critical role in maintaining the acid-alkaline balance. Many diseases and general malaise are the result of the body’s attempt to rebalance the internal environment.
Generally speaking, if the diet includes too many acid forming foods, such as high amounts of meats, grains, dairy, sugars, the body becomes more acidic. If you eat too many alkaline producing foods such as greens, fruits, sea vegetables the body can become too alkaline. Balance is key.

How does your body respond to specific foods?

It’s important to realize that the way your body responds to various foods depends on your dominant constitutional type. If your dominant type is oxidative then fruits and vegetables move the body to the more acid side, while proteins make your body more alkaline. If however you are more dominant to the autonomic system (ANS) then proteins cause your body to become more acidic and fruits and vegetables shift the body to a more alkaline environment.

How to improve your alkalinity

1. Check your pH regularly
2. Drink plenty of water (alkaline water when possible)
3. Remove acidic foods
4. Replace a traditional lunch with a large green salad.
5. Use lettuce leaves and collard greens as wraps.
6. Try not to consume processed foods
7. Eliminate soda, sugars and coffee. Replace them with herbal tea, herbal coffee and green drinks
8. Replace dairy milks with coconut or almond milk
9. Add green juices or smoothies to your diet

What you eat matters

Improving pH levels may require a little more thought, but you’ll appreciate the rewards of your efforts as you begin to feel more energetic and vibrant and your overall health improves.
There is no question about it, what you eat has a direct impact on your overall health. It was Ann Wigmore, founder of the renowned Hippocrates Health Institute who said, “The food you eat can be either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”

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By The Hearty Soul via a guest post written by Elisha of My Health Maven. She is deeply passionate about educating people and empowering them to lead healthier lives. I encourage you to check out her blog.

References:

http://www.myhealthmaven.com/diy/health-tests-at-home/understanding-ph/     Understanding pH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001181.htm        Acidosis
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/     The Alkaline Diet: Is There Evidence That an Alkaline pH Diet Benefits Health?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11842945    Diet, evolution and aging–the pathophysiologic effects of the post-agricultural inversion of the potassium-to-sodium and base-to-chloride ratios in the human diet.
http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1995/pdf/1995-v10n0304-p177.pdf    Minerals and Disease; Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 10, No. 3 & 4, 1995; Joseph D. Campbell
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Your Body’s Acidic pH is Allowing Cancer to Multiply. Here is How to Restore Balance Fast

We risk to suffer from serious diseases and even death, if we fail to maintain balanced pH levels in our body, since it is an essential homeostatic function. Too low or too high pH levels lead to diseases and in some cases, death. In most cases, people are in an acidic state- when their blood pH is below 7.35. This acidic state allows cancer to thrive in the body.

Increased metabolism of glucose and poor perfusion can lead to acidic external pH of a solid tumor.Namely, we to maintain normal acid-base balance in our body in order to remain in a state of health or homeostasis, and the blood needs to stay in a pH range between 7.35-7.45 in order to remain in homeostasis.

One of the prevention measure to reduce the rate of cancer is to keep normal acid-base balance-homeostasis, as it enables the body to defend itself against cancer and other diseases.

It is very important to establish your pH level in the body. In this case, you need to buy a testing kit from your local pharmacy or local health food store. These usually come in rolls and consists small set of pH balance test strips.

The one test strip is by testing your saliva and the other is your urine.

When testing your saliva, make sure you have not eaten or had drink within two hours. Wash your mouth with your own saliva, and then swallow. Make sure you keep your saliva in your mouth and then place the strip on your tongue. Afterwards, compare the results against to the color chart that goes along with your strips and establish your pH.

In case the saliva pH is too high (over 6.8), it indicates that body suffers from excess gas, constipation and production of yeast, mold and fungus. If the saliva pH is too low (below 6.5), it indicates that the body eliminated them through the urine.

On the other hand, the best time do to the urine test is in the morning after you get up. You simply just need to urinate on the strip and compare it the results with the guide on the kit. You need to pay more attention to the lower acid levels. When the average urine pH is below 6.5, it indicates on an overwhelmed buffered system and body’s fluids are too acid.

Correcting your pH 

Your pH levels are influenced by various factors. More importantly, what you put into your body affects the creation of the pH level.

Unhealthy diet, a diet too high in fatty foods, contributes for our body chemistry to become too acidic which increases the risk of illness, including cancer.

The bet way to balance your pH level is to eat as clean as possible, which means to restrict yourself from processed food. Instead, consume organic foods which can reduce the number of chemicals that enter your body.

Namely, the acidic state of your body is referred to as its pH balance. It is similar to the one of a swimming pool, and if the water is with a high pH balance, it indicates that it become too alkaline and has similar effects on the human body. On the other hand, if the pH balance of a pool is low, it indicates that the water became too acidic and leads to dry itchy skin and sore, burning eyes and nose.
Proper diet is essential to restore your body’s pH to homeostasis. Therefore, it is of great importance to distinguish what foods are alkaline and what are acid.

Raw vegetables are alkaline and meats are acidic, but this does not mean that you need to completely eliminate meat and eat only raw vegetables. Instead, you simply need to consume greater portions of vegetables than meat.

Dr. Lindsey is an author of a number of books and articles, and has earned a doctorate degree in education specializing in instructional technology and adult education. He has also served in different roles as a paramedic, firefighter and educator and served in different leadership positions in the Fire Chief rank.

In 2007, his wife was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, and after numerous chemotherapy treatments, his education of acid-base balance and living in homeostasis helped him to clarify the situation of the western culture failure.

Namely, in order to protect from diseases, the body requires maintenance of normal acid-base balance. Struggling to save his wife’s life, Dr. Lindsey changed his lifestyle entirely. Unfortunately, his wife died 4 years after she was diagnosed with cancer for still living in a western culture has shown as too much for the 6 months of a holistic lifestyle.

After her death, Dr. Lindsey has dedicated himself to the homeopathic and naturopathic aspects of medicine, in order to educate others how to prevent themselves from the same devastation he encountered with his wife’s battle with cancer.

He now lives in the Tampa Bay (FL) area and continues his education in the fire and EMS industry.

Moreover, he is PhD at the Global of Natural Medicine and completed his Master Herbal and Nutritional Consultant certifications.

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