What I loved about Vasey’s book, The Acid Alkaline Diet for optimum health was how he showed us how we got were we are with what ever few or many ailments we suffer with. How to overcome this by correcting our diet and even more importantly turning back the clock and removing the accumulation of collected acid wastes from our tissues without starving oneself silly, without eating 90% or 80% alkaline all the time. I love his two fold approach; one for rectifying the diet on a daily basis and the second for getting into the deeper underlying issues. I love that I can understand it, that I can visualise what is really happening to my body (or has been) and I especially love that I can reverse it.
The two other books I have on the subject are the PH Miracle which has a mean and I mean mean and damn effective cleanse using oxygen. Man I peed, and my nose run, I even thought I had an eyes enfection the way stuff was coming out of my eyes. Afterwards I had to get smaller jeans. What I didn’t like so much was the protrayal of fruits as bad. And that’s one hell of a problem for a gal who hails from an exotic (as some people think) island. Imagine not eating mangoes or oranges! This part of the book almost put me off the whole alkalising concept. If it was going to be spinach and parsley for the rest of my life well forget it. And I almost did. Vasey helped me put their point of view in perspective as as it seems not everyone in the world reacts to fruit acids as well as I do. Whereas on one hand they can be higly alkalizing foods other people whose bodies can’t rid itself effectivley of their weak acids will have problems.
Theodore Barody in Alkalize or Die reignited my belief in this way of eating, in fact of living, because with him its not only what we eat which will acidify us, but rather anything which we put in our bodies like negative thought emotions, pain etc. I loved the book. I still do. And fruits were on the menu. It’s just that since reading Vasey’s Acid Alkaline Diet I understand that I won’t have to be cutting my intake of acid food dramatically for the rest of my life. In fact that’s how long it would take me to rid my body of its share of acid deposits it I were to do it at this rate. And unfortunately I don’t have so much time to get well. Three months six months one year at the most. I want to live now. Not just talk about and go about gettng really well. I’ve been doing that long enough. With his easy to follow recommedations on improving the efficiency of my kidneys lungs and skin and the most useful alkaline elemnets suggestions I think, no I believe I can achieve in a short space of time what I have been working at for years. I have in my ead a vision of what I want to look like and feel like when I’m there.
And now as promised part two of the newsletter.
Today we’ll talk a little about how to detect for acidification in your body. It’s important to know where your pH stands so that you can get an idea of how you need to proceed.
pH is a measure of acidity and alkalinity. The pH scale goes from 0 to 14. At pH 7, the half way point, there is a balance between acidity and alkalinity.
The “p” comes from the word power or potential. The “H” is the symbol for the element of hydrogen. Together, the term pH means “Potential of hydrogen”.
The pH scale is logarithmic. So, for example, urinary pH of 6 is 10 times more acidic than 7. This imbalance is relatively easy to correct.
On the other hand, urinary pH of 5 is quite a different story. While it may appear that 5 is only “One point less” than a reading of 6, in actuality it is 100 times more acidic than 7.
To maintain good health the body is constantly seeking to get rid of the excess acids that irritate the tissues and deplete them of minerals.
One of the principal systems it uses for this purpose is the renal system (kidneys). The normal rate of acid excretion through the kidneys gives urine a pH that falls between 7.0 and 7.5.
By testing the degree of acidity of the urine, you can determine whether your body is eliminating a normal quantity of acids. If the acid excretion rate is higher than normal, the urinary pH will be more acidic.
This low urinary pH is also an indication that the body is saturated and therefore in an acid state. Another indicator of the overall pH balance in your body is the pH of your saliva.
When your body has the mineral reserves that it should, the abundance of minerals will show up in a saliva ph test as a pH reading of 7.0 to 7.50.
A low saliva pH reading indicates that the mineral reserves in your body are low, and are being used to buffer acids elsewhere in the body.
There is a strong correlation between the pH of the body’s internal environment and that of the urine and saliva: urine and saliva become acidic when the body’s internal environment becomes acidic.
You can test the pH of these fluids by using Alkalive(TM) pH Stix(TM).
These pH test strips are made specifically to test saliva and urine, and are easier to use and more accurate than litmus or pH paper.
Tomorrow, we’ll discuss the role that diet plays in affecting the pH of your body.
Wishing You Vibrant Health,
Christopher Vasey, N.D.
www.ph-ion.com
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Although I believe that what I do does not define who I am how I do it does. I like peace, I like joy. You know that feeling which just overcomes you when you're doing nothing particularly spectacular. Just standing crunching into an apple listening to the boys and you realise, man this is who I am. This person who is there in the 'silence'. Wish she'd come out more often. I can't tell you more about her because I'm still getting to know her myself. Trying to encourage her to stay for longer visits, maybe one day stay forever. That aside I am a thirty one year old mother of two boys, five and three who enjoys writing and staying healthy.
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