pH Balance - Striving for Alkalinity

Eating foods that are high in enzymes will keep your body from depleting its precious store. But the end game is achieving a proper pH balance.

If you have a pool you know that you must test the water for pH balance - too acidic, add chemicals until you achieve desired alkalinity. The same is true for your body. Your body has a pH factor ranging from acidic to alkaline. Specifically, a healthy alkalinity would be 7.1 - 7.4; illness occurs in the 4.5 range.

"On a scale of 1-10, 7 represents neutrality, lower
numbers indicate increasing acidity and higher numbers increasing
alkalinity. Each unit of change represents a tenfold change in acidity or
alkalinity. The pH of urine can range from an extremely unhealthy low of
4.5 to a high of 8.5"

www.testmedica.com

All bodies are acidic during illness. In order to push the body back toward alkalinity (health) it is necessary to only ingest items that result in alkalizing the body. To illustrate how the body uses pH to heal consider this: when you are sick your body pH will register acidic. Fever is alkalizing. Your body uses a fever to right your pH and kill infection. If your temperature registers 100 degrees and you decide to take an Advil to stop the fever, it will bring the fever down but will also stop the alkalizing of the body. Now your body is still fighting an infection but wellness has been stalled by the Advil and your illness is prolonged.



"Cancer cannot exist in an alkaline environment. All forms of arthritis are associated with excess acidity. Acid in the body dissolves both teeth and bones. Whatever health situation you are faced with, you can monitor your progress toward a proper acid/alkaline balance by testing your saliva pH."

www.alkalizeforhealth.net/salivatest.htm


As you could guess, those food stuffs that alkalize the body are raw fruits, raw vegetables and whole grains with their husk in tact which are steamed below 110 degrees. Those food stuffs that are acidic to the body are meat, dairy, food with preservatives, white flour and fried foods. For instance, soda pop is instantly acidic to your system regardless of sugar or caffeine content.

What if I ate only that which alkalizes my body, righting its pH?

What if I ate only foods which carry with them their own enzyme store, thereby refraining from depleting my own precious store?

Enzymes

Key to the body's immune system is the ability to make enzymes. Digestive enzymes are used in the process of turning food into usable fuel. Unfortunately, eating cooked food requires far more enzymes than eating raw food. Equally disturbing is the fact that your body has a limited level of enzymes - or more to the point - a limited ability to manufacture enzymes.

"Enzyme potential is the number of enzymes we can manufacture in our
lifetime, either metabolic or digestive. The more digestive enzymes your
body is forced to manufacture, the fewer metabolic enzymes your body will have
the ability to produce. This in turn, leads to an enzyme shortage and the
quickest way to disease and death."

Enzymes: What the Experts Know
Bohager

Can you purchase digestive enzymes in pill form? Of course.
Does this truly allow your body to turn a pepperoni pizza into a living fuel for your body. No.

What if I ate only foods that contain living enzymes?

What foods contain enzymes?

Raw fruit,

raw vegetables,

lightly steamed vegetables,

steamed whole grains,

cooked beans and legumes.

Interestingly, enzymes require water and proper pH to play their role metabolically (creating energy in the body) and from a digestive standpoint (assisting with extracting energy from nutrients). Without digestive enzymes you have resulting malnutrition.

What happens when you go from eating chicken Caesar salad and iced tea to eating whole organic foods in raw, highly enzymatic state? I'll tell you!

The body is equipped to heal itself of almost anything

9 years ago I felt lousy. I was a working wife and mother with 3 small children and no energy. I couldn't sleep through the night, caught every cold and sinus infection, had year-round "seasonal" allergies, night sweats and severe joint pain. So I did what every red-blooded American does, I self-diagnosed and called a doctor. An allergist to be exact. They told me to come in in 6 weeks. But I couldn't wait 6 weeks to feel OK...

So I decided to use my body as a scientific experiment. I ignored my wants, cravings, habits, desires and taste buds...
I ATE ONLY TO FEED MY BODY.

I have drastically changed my health. Here's what I learned: Given half a chance, the human body is ready to heal itself of just about anything.

"When illness strikes, we rely on our doctors to cure us. What
we fail to realize is that 'the cure' comes from within. Nature has
provided us with a wondrous immune system, and all we have to do is take proper
care of the inner healing force."

Prescription for Nutritional Healing

Balch & Balch

The way to utilize your body's inner healing force is to eat only that which boosts the immune system thereby healing the body. Raw vegetables and fruits and a select few whole grains are acceptable healing substances when the body is ill.

"The more toxic the patient, the deeper the penetration of symptoms into the hierarchy of the body. The greater the level of toxicity in the body, the more severe the disturbance in the defense mechanism and the longer detoxification therapy will need to be used. We heal from the top, down; from the inside, out; and from the most recent disease to the oldest."

7 Day Detox Miracle

Bennet and Barrie

What if I eat to Feed My Body?

What if I only ate whole healthy living foods
that nourish my body, its organs, my blood, my skin, my muscles and my bones?

What if I did NOT ingest anything that discouraged health?
What if I did NOT eat to satisfy a craving, stay a hunger pang, please my mom, please my friends, save money, finish off the leftovers?

What if the cure for cancer is eating right and exercising?