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WHAT
MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE; WE ARE BIO ELECTRICAL ENGINES
In order
to accomplish all the many millions of complex functions that occur over
the course of the day, your body has to be able to communicate with
itself… all the way down to the cellular level. And do you know how it
does this? Through pulses of electricity. That's right, electricity.
Your body
operates on an electro magnetic current. Believe it or not, all of the
organs in your body emit these fields of electrical current. In fact,
nerve signals are nothing more than electrical charges.
What
creates this electrical power in your body is a very fine balance that
exists in your bio chemistry. And of all the systems in your body that
depend on this delicate, bio chemical balance, one of the most important
is your blood stream. This is where pH comes into play. But what is pH?
WHAT PH
IS AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALL YOUR BODY FUNCTIONS
PH is a
scale that measures how acidic or alkaline a substance is. The scale
ranges from 1 to 14 with 1 being very acid, 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 right around
7.35 and your body goes to enormous lengths to maintain this level.
Why?
Because if your blood pH were to vary 1 or 2 points in either direction,
it would change the electrical chemistry in your body, there would be no
electrical power and in short order you would drop dead. As you can see,
maintaining the right pH level in your blood is pretty important!!
With this
in mind a good way to avoid upsetting this delicate bio chemical balance
would be to take a look at those things that can compromise the
maintenance of 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 we
look at what causes acid, here's a graphic example to give you an idea of
what can happen in the blood when your pH drops to less than ideal. Red
blood cells are how oxygen is transported to all the cells in your body.
As red
blood cells move into the tiny, little, capillaries, the space they have
to move through gets pretty small. In fact, the diameter of the
capillaries gets so small that the red blood cells sometimes have to pass
through these capillaries one red blood cell at a time!
Because
of this, and because it's important for the red blood cells to be able to
flow easily and quickly through your body, they have a mechanism that
allows them to remain separate from each other. This mechanism comes in
the form of the outside of healthy red blood cells having a negative
charge. This causes them to stay apart from each other, sort of like when
you try to push the negative ends of two magnets together. They resist
each other and stay apart.
Unfortunately, acid interferes with this very important mechanism in a
pretty frightening way. Acid actually strips away the negative charge from
red blood cells. The result is that your red blood cells then tend to
clump together and not flow as easily. This makes it much more difficult
for them to flow easily through the bloodstream.
But it
also makes it harder for them to move freely through those small
capillaries. This means less oxygen gets to your cells. 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 becomes and
remains acid but I think you get the idea. The point is that aside from
the acid that is secreted into your stomach to aid digestion, acid in your
body is bad. Really bad.
In regard
to producing energy in the body, here's an easy question for you. What do
you think happens to a person's energy level if over time their system
becomes more and more acid, their biochemical balance is disrupted and
their red blood cells can't deliver oxygen and nutrients as efficiently to
all their cells? The answer is simple. Their energy level drops.
Dramatically.
Are you
beginning to get the picture here as to the importance of pH in your body?
Good. Now let's take a quick look at what causes acidity in your body and
then look at steps you can take to get your body pH back to an ideal
level.
WHAT
CAUSES ACID IN THE BODY
The
primary cause of an acidic condition in your body is from what you put in
your mouth. In other words, what you eat and what you drink. And it isn't
how "acid" something may seem when you eat or drink it. It has to do with
what is left over when you digest it.
Specifically, does eating or drinking something leave behind an acid 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 an extremely acid ash. In fact, scallops are one of
the most acid foods you can eat.
Unfortunately, a lot of the things most people put in their mouths create
an acid ash. These include alcohol, coffee and a lot of flesh protein in
your diet. Interestingly enough, stress also tends to create an acid
condition in the body.
STEPS YOU
CAN IMMEDIATELY TAKE TO IMPROVE YOUR PH
Fortunately, it is pretty easy to immediately change your pH for the
better and make it more alkaline. The first step is to understand which of
the foods you are eating and the drinks you are drinking are acid and
which are alkaline. Then it's simply a matter of eliminating some of the
more acid foods you are eating and adding in more alkaline foods.
However,
before you start, it's important to get a baseline of what the pH is in
your body so that you can see how you are improving or if you need to
continue to eliminate more acid foods and add in more alkaline ones.
You can
do this by testing the pH of your saliva on a regular basis. This is
really simple to do. More details on how to do this are provided on some
web pages I have created for you to help you out. A link to these pages is
provided below.
In
addition to decreasing the amount of acid foods you eat and increasing the
amount of alkaline foods you eat, one of the best ways to immediately
begin changing your pH is to drink "green drinks". You can make these by
simply adding a powder that is made up of a whole host of vegetables that
are highly alkaline to a glass of water. Information on suggested green
drink powders to use is included on pages that I have a link to below.
RESOURCES
WHERE YOU CAN LEARN MORE
Clicking
on the following link will take you to some pages I created that have more
information on alkaline and acid foods, how to test your own pH and what
to look for in green drinks.
www.ajpip.com/resources/site_map.htm
Start
taking the steps described above and you may very well find your energy
levels increasing over time. Mine certainly have.
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