WHAT MOST PEOPLE DO NOT REALIZE; WE ARE BIO ELECTRIC MOTORS
To accomplish the many millions of complex functions that occur throughout the day, your body must be able to communicate with itself … down to the cellular level. And do you know how he does this? Through pulses of electricity. That’s it, electricity.
Your body works on an electromagnetic current. Believe it or not, every organ in your body emits these fields of electrical current. In fact, nerve signals are nothing more than electrical charges.
What creates this electrical energy in your body is a very fine balance that exists in your biochemistry. And of all the systems in your body that depend on this delicate biochemical balance, one of the most important is your bloodstream. This is where pH comes into play. But what is pH?
WHAT IS PH AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR ALL THE FUNCTIONS OF YOUR BODY
PH is a scale that measures how acidic or alkaline a substance is. The scale ranges from 1 to 14, with 1 being very acidic, 7 neutral and 14 very alkaline.
So what does pH have to do with you and your blood? Well, the pH of your blood is extremely important. The ideal pH level for your blood is around 7.35 and your body does its best to maintain this level.
Why? Because if the pH of your blood were to change 1 or 2 points in any direction, it would change the electrical chemistry in your body, there would be no electrical energy, and in no time you would drop dead. As you can see, it is very important to maintain the correct pH level in the blood.
With this in mind, a good way to avoid upsetting this delicate biochemical balance would be to take a look at those things that can compromise maintaining the ideal pH level in your body. And what is the main culprit in this case? The answer is the creation of acid in your body.
Before looking at what causes acid, here is a graphic example to give you an idea of what can happen to your blood when your pH drops below ideal. Red blood cells are the way oxygen is carried to all cells in your body.
As red blood cells move into tiny capillaries, the space they have to move through becomes quite small. In fact, the diameter of the capillaries becomes so small that red blood cells sometimes have to pass through these capillaries one red blood cell at a time!
Because of this, and because it is important that red blood cells can flow easily and quickly through your body, they have a mechanism that allows them to stay separate from each other. This mechanism occurs in the form of healthy red blood cells that have a negative charge on the outside. This causes them to stay apart from each other, kind of like when you try to bring the negative ends of two magnets together. They resist and stay apart.
Unfortunately, the acid interferes with this all-important mechanism in a rather terrifying way. The acid actually removes the negative charge from the red blood cells. The result is that red blood cells tend to clump together and do not flow as easily. This makes it much more difficult for them to flow easily through the bloodstream.
But it also makes it difficult for them to move freely through those tiny capillaries. This means that less oxygen reaches your cells. The acid also weakens the red blood cells and they begin to die. And guess what they release into your system when they die? More acid.
I could describe a whole list of processes that occur when your system goes acidic and stays acidic, but I think you get the idea. The point is, aside from the acid that is secreted in your stomach to aid digestion, the acid in your body is bad. Very badly.
Regarding the production of energy in the body, here is an easy question. What do you think happens to a person’s energy level if over time their system becomes increasingly acidic, their biochemical balance is disrupted, and their red blood cells cannot deliver oxygen and nutrients as efficiently to all of their cells? The answer is simple. Your energy level drops. Dramatically.
Are you starting to get an idea of the importance of pH in your body? All right. Now let’s take a quick look at the causes of heartburn in your body, and then look at the steps you can take to bring your body’s pH back to an ideal level.
WHAT CAUSES ACID IN THE BODY
The main cause of an acidic condition in your body is what you put in your mouth. In other words, what you eat and what you drink. And it’s not how “acidic” something can look like when you eat or drink it. It has to do with what is left over when you digest it.
Specifically, eating or drinking something leaves an acidic or alkaline “ash”. For example, I don’t know about you, but I love seafood. Scallops are one of my favorites. However, when your body digests scallops, it leaves behind an extremely acidic ash. In fact, scallops are one of the most acidic foods you can eat.
Unfortunately, many of the things that most people put in their mouths create acidic ashes. These include alcohol, coffee, and lots of protein from meat in your diet. Interestingly, stress also tends to create an acidic condition in the body.
STEPS YOU CAN TAKE IMMEDIATELY TO IMPROVE YOUR PH
Fortunately, it is quite easy to immediately change its pH for the better and make it more alkaline. The first step is to understand which of the foods you eat and the beverages you drink are acidic and which are alkaline. So it is simply a matter of eliminating some of the more acidic foods you are eating and adding more alkaline foods.
However, before you begin, it is important to have a baseline of what the pH is in your body so that you can see how it is improving or if you need to continue eliminating more acidic foods and adding more alkaline ones.
You can do this by testing the pH of your saliva on a regular basis. This is really easy to do. More details on how to do this are provided on some web pages that I have created to assist you. A link to these pages is provided below.
In addition to decreasing the amount of acidic foods you eat and increasing the amount of alkaline foods you eat, one of the best ways to start changing your pH right away is to drink “green drinks.” You can make them by simply adding a powder that is made up of a large amount of vegetables that are highly alkaline to a glass of water. Information on suggested green drink powders to use is included on the pages that I link to below.
RESOURCES WHERE YOU CAN LEARN MORE
Clicking on the link below will take you to some pages that I think have more information on alkaline and acidic foods, how to test your own pH, and what to look for in green drinks.
http://www.ajpip.com/resources/site_map.htm
Start following the steps outlined above and it is quite possible that your energy levels will increase over time. Mine certainly have.
– Andy Long