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Understaning pH
By administrator | February 28, 2008
If the laws of proper eating are followed you will have chemical balance throughout the body. One of the subtlest forms of bodily imbalances involves excess acids left over from digestion.
In order to maintain a healthy body we must eat food. Food is generally classified into three categories, carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Mixed in with these foods are many inorganic minerals which are either acid forming or alkaline forming elements. Acid forming elements are sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine and iodine. Alkaline forming elements consist of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and iron.
Almost all the calcium and phosphorus in our body are in the bones and teeth, though the blood does contain trace amounts of calcium. Irritability of the nerves is a result of an imbalance of calcium in the blood. When the calcium content of the blood falls below normal levels, it has to be taken from the bone structure itself.
Phosphorus is an essential part of every living cell. It takes part in the chemical reactions with proteins, fats and carbohydrates to give the body energy and to repair itself.
Sodium and potassium are both similar in their chemical properties but have different locations in the body. Sodium is chiefly in the fluids that circulate outside the cells, with only a small amount in the cells. Potassium is mostly in the cells, with only a small amount in the extra cellular fluids. They are both needed for keeping a proper water balance between the cells and the extra cellular fluids. A decline in sodium results in a transfer of water from the fluids to the cells. An increase causes a transfer of water from the cells to the fluids.
Sodium and potassium are essential for nerves to respond to stimulation and for muscles to contract. Thus it is vitally important to maintain a proper balance of these two minerals.
The major proportion of iron in the body is in the form of hemoglobin, though it is found in the liver and bone marrow as well. Iron is essential both for the transport of oxygen to the tissues, and for the maintenance of oxidative systems within the tissue cells. Without it, we would be dead in seconds.
Magnesium is closely related to calcium and phosphorus in its location and function in the body. As much as 70% is found in the bones, with the rest in the soft tissues and blood. Muscle tissue contains more magnesium than calcium. Blood contains more calcium than magnesium.
Being a muscle, a healthy well functioning bowel contains sodium, potassium and magnesium. These three chemical elements are sorely lacking in biochemical form in our modern foods. Sodium neutralizes acid and is required by the tissues that are pliable, active and movable – joints, ligaments and tendons. It is found in the lymphatic system, assists in the reconstruction of the bowel wall and helps the bowel to regain pliability in its ligamentous support structures. Sodium neutralizes the gases of putrefication and acts as a sweetener in the intestinal tract, much the same way that baking soda “sweetens” the mouth when used to brush the teeth.
Potassium is necessary for the muscle structure and elasticity that speed transit time in the bowel. Like sodium, it is needed to neutralize acids in the body. Potassium should always be supplied in the proper proportion to sodium. That proportion is nine parts potassium to four parts sodium.
Magnesium, in association with calcium, relaxes the muscles of the body and helps hold potassium in the cells. It helps to eliminate spastic conditions, strictures, tension, disorders resulting from emotional strain, loss of tone and ballooned conditions in the colon itself. It acts like a laxative and therefore is an essential element for healthy bowel movements. Milk of Magnesia, one of the most popular over the counter medications, is a good peristaltic stimulator. However, it contains an inorganic form of magnesium that gives only symptomatic relief, not natural and long lasting correction. Inorganic substances in foods and medications do not act favorably in rebuilding body tissues. Many of these inorganic substances become toxic pockets when they are unable to pass through out tissues. This alters our pH balance and disease sets in.
When these three important minerals – sodium, potassium and magnesium – are lacking in the diet, they must be obtained from the tissues of the bowel wall where they are stored. The most important elements found in the bowel wall must be kept in constant supply or the body suffers the consequences; premature aging or chronic and degenerative disease.
Foods Rich in Sodium
-apples, dried apricots, asparagus, barley, beet greens, beets, black olives, carrots, celery, cheese, dried chickpeas, dried coconut, collard greens, dandelion greens, dates, dulse, egg yolks, figs, fish, goat’s milk, horseradish, Irish moss, kale, kelp, lentils, raw milk, mustard greens, okra, parsley, dried peas, dried prunes, raisins, red cabbage, red peppers, sesame seeds, spinach, strawberries, sunflower seeds, swiss chard and turnips.
Foods Rich in Magnesium
-apples, dried apricots, avocados, dried bananas, dried beans, beet greens, beets, black walnuts, brazil nuts, brown rice, cabbage, cashews, coconuts, comfrey leaves, dates, dulse, endive, english walnuts, dried figs, filberts, fish, goat’s milk, grapes, green peppers, hickory nuts, honey, lentils, mint, New Zealand spinach, oats, okra, onion tops, parsley, peaches, dried pears, pecans, pistachio nuts, prunes, sorrel, dried soybeans, soy milk, sunflower seeds, sweet yellow corn, swiss chard, tofu, turbot, turnip greens, watercress, wheat germ, whole rye, whole wheat, wild rice, and yellow cornmeal*
-*Magnesium is found most abundantly in yellow cornmeal
-unpolished rice has eleven times the magnesium content of polished rice and rice polishings are an even higher concentrated source of the mineral
Foods Rich in Potassium
-Dried apricots, baked potatoes, and bananas
-Potassium is a trace mineral and is not found in a lot of foods. Thus, supplementing potassium tablets can be most beneficial.
Understanding pH Level and Why Many People Have Disease, Including Cancer.
According to the research of Dr. Enderlein, total healing of chronic illness only takes place when and if the blood is restored to a normal, slightly alkaline pH. In case you missed it, let me say it again…
Total healing of chronic illness only takes place when and if the blood is restored to a normal, slightly alkaline pH.
pH: What does it mean? pH is the abbreviation for potential hydrogen. The pH of any solution is the measure of its hydrogen-ion concentration. The higher the pH reading, the more alkaline and oxygen rich the fluid is. The lower the pH reading, the more acidic and oxygen deprived the fluid is. The pH range is from 0 to 14, with 7.0 being neutral. Anything above 7.0 is alkaline, anything below 7.0 is considered acidic.
The pH scale is from 0 – 14 – 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 healthy 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Human blood stays in a very narrow pH range right around (7.35 – 7.45). Below or above this range means symptoms and disease. If blood pH moves too much below 6.8 or above 7.8, cells stop functioning and the patient dies. The ideal pH for blood is 7.4
A healthy blood pH without cancer has acid + alkaline balance almost equal. Actually a healthy body is slightly alkaline measuring approximately 7.4. This ideal blood 7.4 pH measurement means it is just slightly more alkaline than acid.
0 is acid —— blood pH (7.35 – 7.45 ) healthy —— over 7 to 14 is alkaline
If you have a health problem, most likely you are acidic. Research shows that unless the body’s pH level is slightly alkaline, the body cannot heal itself. So, no matter what type of modality you choose to use to take care of your health problem, it won’t be effective until the pH level is up. If your body’s pH is not balanced, you cannot effectively assimilate vitamins, minerals and food supplements. Your body pH affects everything.
The body has to have a balanced pH like most living things on earth or it does not function correctly. The alkaline level is very important because research has already proven that disease cannot survive in an alkaline state and yet they thrive in an acidic environment.
An acidic environment 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.
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.
There are two factors that are ALWAYS present with aging and chronic disease, no matter what else may be present. Those two factors are Acid pH and Lack of Oxygen.
Can we manipulate those two factors that always have to be present for disease like cancer to develop and by doing so will that help reverse the cancer? Definitely, but we need to learn how to manipulate those two factors.
Cancer needs an acid and low oxygen environment to survive and flourish within. Terminal cancer patients are around 1000 times more acidic than normal healthy people. The vast majority of terminal cancer patients possess a very low body pH. Why?
In the absence of oxygen, glucose undergoes fermentation to lactic acid. This causes the pH of the cell to drop from between 7.3 to 7.2 down to 7 and later to 6.5 in more advanced stages of cancer and in metastases the pH drops to 6.0 and even 5.7 or lower. Our bodies simply can not fight disease if our body pH is not properly balanced.
The normal human cell has a lot of molecular oxygen and a slightly alkaline pH. The cancer cell has an acid pH and lack of oxygen. Cancer cells cannot survive in an oxygen rich environment. At a pH slightly above 7.4 cancer cells become dormant and at pH 8.5 cancer cells will die while healthy cells will live. Again, the higher the pH reading, the more alkaline and oxygen rich the fluid is. Cancer and all diseases hate oxygen / pH balance. The proper alkalinity pH of the blood ( 7.35 – 7.45 ) is critical for the overall health of the body. In other words… alkaline or die.
Remember that the pH number is an exponent number of 10; therefore, a small difference in pH translates to a big difference in the number of oxygen or OH-ions. A difference of 1 in a pH value means ten times the difference in the number of OH-ions, a difference of 2 means one hundred times the difference in the number of OH-ions. In other words, blood with a pH value of 7.45 contains 64.9% more oxygen than blood with a pH value of 7.30.
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