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Useful Advice About Excess Acidicty and Its Impact on Your Health

16th November, 2008 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Excess acidicty is a condition that weakens all body systems,

Excess acidity forces the body to borrow minerals – including calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium – from vital organs and bones to buffer (neutralize) the cid and safely remove it from the body. As a result, the body can suffer severe and prolonged "corrosion" due to high acidity – a condition that many go undetected for years.

It effects virtually every person in our society because of the way we eat, and the environment we live in. The result is an internal environment where disease cn easily manifest, as apposed to a pH balanced environment, which allows normal body function necessary for the body to resist disease.

It is true that if we have a healthy body we will maintain sufficient alkaline reserves to meet emergency demands. However when excess acids must be continually neutralized, our alkaline reserves are depleted, leaving the body in a weakened, disease prone condition.

Unfortunately, there are still many practitioners who believe the body can somehow miraculously and naturally balance it’s pH – as if we are still living in the woods, eating raw foods and herbs. The truth is far beyond this ideal.

In fact the truth – according to Dr. Linda Frassetto acid/alkaline researcher from the University of California, is that we have an evolutionary corner. We do not handle acid waste the way we used to.

Her research showed the sheer volume of acid waste our body has to handle hs forced it to take drastic ‘war’ style action to preserve it’s ‘strategic reserves’ – and to protect the kidney and liver, our major essential detox organs. In her study of almost 1,000 aging subjects, she found that we are now stockpiling acid in fatty deposits rather than eliminating it via kidney and liver.

In it’s infinite wisdom, the body has chosen to save the kidney and liver from degradation by excess acid. Of course there is a cost. It’s called obesity, lowered immunity, lack of energy and the whole host of acid related diseases we are subject to including cancer, diabetes, osteo-arthritis and more – much more.

The concept of acid/alkaline balance as the cause of disease isn’t a new one. One of the first people who talked about the need to alkalize the body was the great ‘Sleeping Profit’ Edger Cayce. He always referred to body detoxification with herbs, col,onics, fasting, massage, steam baths and diet modification with the aim of alkalizing the body.

Way back in 1933, Dr. William Howard Hay published a ground breaking book, "A New Health Era," in which he maintained that all disease is caused by ‘auto-toxication’ due to acid accumulation in the body.

According to Dr. Theodore Baroody, Author of "Alkalize or Die" "The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What does matter is that they all come from the same basic root cause… too much acid tissue in the body.

The Harmful Acids Effects.

Acid coagulates blood has major problems flowing around fatty acids. Capillaries clog up and die. The skin, reprised of life giving healthy blood, loses elasticity and begins to wrinkle. Even with a face lift of liposuction, the acid remains and continues it’s relentless advance.

Every part of your body works even harder to maintain health, because every system, all the organs, the lungs, even the skin – are involved in the maintenance of correct blood pH.

Read more about cancer and pH level.

Also learn how to improve immune system.