Archive for the "Body pH" Category

You may review this series of articles on Body pH here:

1. Body pH – a Guide to Health or Disease

2. How Does An Acid Body Lead to Disease?

3. What Causes pH Imbalance in My Body?

4. Body pH – What Should I Do Now?

5. Body pH – the Alkaline-Acid Foods

You may need to add some of these tricks to help you deal with over-acidity and return to a balanced pH condition:

Several substances/supplements will work to reverse the over acidity problem but you may find that certain ones work better for you. What … Read the rest

You may review this series of articles on Body pH here:

1. Body pH – a Guide to Health or Disease

2. How Does An Acid Body Lead to Disease?

3. What Causes pH Imbalance in My Body?

4. Body pH – What Should I Do Now?

Here’s a simple list of foods ranked by greatest alkaline producing effect in the body at the top:

70 to 80% of a person’s diet should be alkaline to preserve the correct balance for life. The table below shows the acidity/alkalinity of common foods after they are digested. The most alkaline … Read the rest

Review the other articles in this series:

1. Body pH – a Guide to Health or Disease

2. How Does An Acid Body Lead to Disease?

3. What Causes pH Imbalance in My Body?

1. Measure your saliva pH as described in “What Causes pH Imbalance in My Body” every morning upon awakening for about a week. That should give you a good idea of your level of acidity or alkalinity.

2. If your first morning saliva runs acidic, save your life by developing good life-style habits:

Age – well you can’t change the number of years, … Read the rest

Review Body pH articles here:

1. Body pH – a Guide to Health or Disease

2. How Does an Acid Body Lead to Disease?

Many factors can disrupt the ideal body pH including:

Age (oh shoot – not much we can do about that.)

Exercise level

The water we drink (or don’t drink enough of)

The other beverages we consume

The air we breathe (or don’t breathe enough of)

How much we laugh

The food we eat

How much we upset the body’s homeostasis (knock it out of balance)

Allergies – including food and inhalant (but these may be a … Read the rest

Review previous body pH article here:

1. Body pH – a Guide to Health or Disease

Oxygen is key to cellular health. We must keep the oxygen levels around our cells and in the blood at a good level. Acidic fluids cannot hold dissolved oxygen very well. We need alkaline fluids in our bodies to hold the oxygen. Since alkaline fluids hold dissolved oxygen, the blood has to be slightly alkaline to carry oxygen to our cells.

Since alkaline fluid carries oxygen to muscles, exercise becomes easier when the body fluids remain or return to that slightly alkaline, healthy state. … Read the rest

The previous article http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/soft-drinks-and-heart-disease reviewed a medical study that concluded that sugared soft drinks could cause heart disease in women. However, artificially sweetened soft drinks did not show that propensity.

But artificial sweeteners may pose other health threats. At your request we will take a look at artificial sweeteners in future articles.

For now, we’re launching into a series on body pH, a critically important issue for regaining and maintain vibrantly good health.

The nature of our modern lifestyle and eating habits tend to push the pH of our bodies into the acid range.

Your body pH tells how acid … Read the rest