You've probably heard about the alkaline diet. The foods you consume can have acidic or alkaline effects on your body after digestion.
How it works ?
You should know that acidosis is triggered by the acidic foods you eat daily, as well as stress and other toxins due to your environment. Indeed, if the acidity rate is rising in your body, you run a greater risk of suffering from digestive problems, fatigue and even overweight.
Which means that if your body is acidic for a long time, your normal cells can become toxic and turn into cancerous entities.
Alkalinity plays an important role in keeping your body healthy.
The pH scale is from 0 to 14 (14 being the most alkaline, 0 the most acid, and the 7 being neutral).
To enjoy optimum health, the human body needs an environment that tends slightly to an alkalinity of 7.4.
Nevertheless each part of the body and each organ develops in different pH scales. The skin, for example, has a pH of 5 and the saliva has a pH between 6.5 and 7.0.
The digestive system, meanwhile, has a pH that varies between 1.5 and 7.0. It depends on several factors, but especially on the foods you consume.
Cancer and pH
In addition, in 1931, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Dr. Otto Warburg for demonstrating that about 90-95% of all types of cancer are triggered by environments that are too acidic. He also said that cancer can not survive or develop in an alkaline body (if the pH is about 7.36).
Therefore, scientists have tested the pH level of different foods and beverages in order to determine their impact on the human body.
Acidosis or excess acidity has been mainly related to the development of osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases.
Here's how to detect if your body is too acidic:
You can use pH paper to do a saliva test and determine if your body is too acidic. Another way is to see if you show any of the symptoms below:
Chronic Fatigue
Respiratory disability
Muscle cramps, pain after walking short distances.
If your pH drops, your body tries to create a homeostasis, it tries to maintain an optimal pH balance by accumulating acidic substances in certain organs such as the liver, kidneys and lungs. This helps your body maintain a pH balance between 7.35-7.45.
Finally, these acidic substances can attack your healthy cells, and make them toxic and damaged. These same cells can spread the disease to other parts of the body.
Here's how you can fight acidosis and improve your health:
Your diet is the main cause of chronic acidosis, especially if it includes industrial foods, sugar, alcohol and caffeine. Do not forget that GMOs, additives and pesticides are too acidic for your body.
You should not only change your diet but also drink alkaline water to fight acidosis, and help your body create a preventive homeostasis.
Alkaline Water Recipe
ingredients
- 1 glass carafe (plastic could contain impurities and acidic chemicals for your body.)
- 1 tablespoon of Himalayan sea salt.
- 2L of purified water (your water must contain no additives or chemicals)
- 1 lemon (preferably organic lemon)
Instructions :
- Pour the water into the carafe, rinse the lemon and cut it in half.
- Put the lemon in the water without removing the skin.
- Add the Himalayan salt and cover the carafe, and place it in a place at room temperature for 24 hours.
Drink 3 glasses before breakfast.
You can also drink it during the day. You will notice after a while a great difference in your body, alkaline water boosts your energy, makes you more lively and makes your skin healthier. By avoiding eating sugar and industrial foods, while drinking alkaline water, you will feel a considerable improvement in your health.