To be your very healthiest, your body needs to be slightly alkaline; your cells, the chemical reactions inside them, beneficial bacteria in your gut, and your immune system, all work better in a slightly alkaline environment. Therefore, an acidic body won’t work as smoothly as it should.

In fact, it’s been scientifically proven that acidic pH levels (a condition known as acidosis), make you more susceptible to diseases like:

• Obesity, slow metabolism, and an inability to lose weight
• Chronic inflammation
• High blood pressure
• Weight gain, obesity, and diabetes
• Bladder and kidney conditions (including kidney stones)
• Weakened immunity
• Premature aging
• Osteoporosis, weak or brittle bones, fractures and bone spurs.
• Joint pain, aching muscles, and lactic acid buildup
• Low energy and chronic fatigue
• Mood swings
• Slow digestion and elimination
• Yeast/fungal overgrowth

From the article:

“Drugs, medications and toxic chemicals have the effect of lowering the pH of the body, that is the reason why there are side effects to drugs and none of them effect a cure. When body pH drops below 6.4, enzymes are deactivated, digestion does not work properly, vitamins, minerals and food supplements cannot effectively assimilate. Acid decreases energy production in the cells, the ability to repair damaged cells, the ability to detoxify heavy metals, and makes the body more susceptible to fatigue and illness. Your body pH affects everything. Research has proven that disease cannot survive in an alkaline state, and that, viruses, bacteria, yeast, mold, fungus, candida and cancer cells thrive in an acidic, low oxygen, low pH environment. An acidic pH can result from an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload, and immune reactions or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients. The body will try to compensate for acid by utilizing alkaline mineral reserves, like sodium from the stomach, and calcium from the bones. This is a primary cause of osteoporosis and a number of other diseases. If there are not enough minerals in the diet to compensate, acid build-up in the cells will occur, resulting in symptoms like pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, MS, and lupus. Cancer is not compatible in a healthy pH environment full of oxygen. For example, cancer of the heart doesn’t exist. This is because blood flowing from the lungs into the heart are at the highest pH and oxygen levels within the entire body. As the blood travels through the lungs, acidic toxins are thrown out of the system leaving it rich with oxygen and a high blood pH. In the absence of oxygen, glucose undergoes fermentation to lactic acid. This causes the pH of the cell to drop even lower. Urine and saliva pH of terminal cancer patients almost always runs between 4.0 and 5.5. When the cancer goes into metastases the pH drops even lower.”

The truth is that thanks to our highly chemical environment and what we put in our mouth, we’re not as healthy as we used to be. Keiichi Morishita, from Hidden Truth of Cancer, writes, “In 1964, only 1 person in 214 contracted cancer. Today it is 1 in 3 females and 1 in 2 males. The determining factor between health and disease is pH. It is not uncommon for the average American to test between 4 pH and 5 pH.”  

We’ve got to wake up. We have to take back control of our health.

Checking Your pH Balance

But how can you know what your pH balance is? You can test it, YOURSELF! All you need to do is purchase a pack of pH test strips and test your levels throughout the day.

Begin each morning because your body will be more acidic earlier in the day. A good goal to shoot for is morning urine with a pH between 6.5 and 7.5.

Your saliva pH should be similar to your urine but wait at least two hours after you eat to measure: fill your mouth with saliva and then swallow it, repeat the step again and then place some saliva on the pH strip.

Living in Balance

The best way to become less acidic is to completely change your diet. However, if you aren’t ready to do that, aim for a 70-30 ratio of alkaline to acid foods. And remember to breathe out stress. And move your body. And eat your vegetables. And drink lots and lots of water.

Radically changing your life might seem daunting but it doesn’t have to be. Here at Health Nut News, there is a community of people around you who would love to help, cheer you on, and offer you loads of advice- we even have amazing low acid recipes. Trust me, I changed my life years ago and have never regretted it. Click here for more info on my story.

XO- Erin

Source: Living Traditionally