Do You Know Your Body’s pH?

Acidic bodies are unhealthy bodies. When the body is overly acidic, it creates an unwanted environment where illness, bacteria, and yeast thrive. It also 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, causing damage that can go undetected for years until it reaches unhealthy levels and leads to acidosis.

Many people 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.

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, and 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.”

SOURCES

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)

Reprinted with permission from Collective Evolution.