Product Description
This is not meant to replace good sound medical advice; It’s rather a means of supplementing your overall good health maintenance. An excellent visual tool which may be helpful in learning which foods balance and allow the body to function at peak performance and which foods aren’t as helpful, because pH balance is the secret of life itself.
How do people feel when they are too acid?
Tired. Depleted. Nervous. They complain of muscle ache and pains. Indigestion and acid stomach are common complaints. Constipation and bloating are frequent. Urine may be burning. More cavities may develop. People even complain of their gold jewelry turning green against their skin. What people can’t feel is their bones getting brittle from calcium depletion. They can’t feel their cells starving for oxygen in an acid medium, nor the stress it puts on the liver and-pancreas which needs an alkaline medium in order to function best.
Includes: Book, a 15-inch roll of pH test papers (120 pH tests) and dispenser, daily pH and foods record-keeping forms, bookmark, and tear-out pocket card. PH stands for Potential Hydrogen, which is the measure of the acid or alkaline levels of a liquid. A good way to understand it is to think of it as the measure of alkalinity; the as the higher the reading the more alkaline the levels are and conversely, the lower the reading, the more acidic the levels are. All organic matter on this planet has a pH level, including humans. Seven point zero being considered neutral and anything above is alkaline. Pure water in its perfect state should be at a 7.2, slightly alkaline. However, unless it is closely monitored bacteria will grow quickly and the water will become unsafe to drink. Therefore, most bottled and tap water will be slightly acid, around 5.2. You have probably heard of acid rain killing the forests it touches – acid is not good for our inner environments either. The healthy point for humans measured by the urine is believed by many health care professionals to be in the 6.8 to 7.2 range.
The body must maintain the bloodstream at 7.365, which is slightly alkaline, (7.0 being neutral). In the face of excess acid your body will leach the calcium right out of its bones to buffer the acid. Why? In order, to keep the bloodstream within its narrow and crucial margins, your body with take what it needs from wherever it can be found – not only for health, but for life itself. Your body will deplete its potassium reserves to neutralize excess acid. Once you lose these precious minerals and the body environment becomes acid, nutrients from your foods cannot be absorbed, nor can the supplements you take be utilized. Eventually, the cells for you body become saturated with acid and the stage is set for disease.
