The Importance of Having an Alkaline pH in Your Body and How To Achieve It.

-- End Ad Box --->the red blood cells and they begin to die. And
WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON’T REALIZE;guess what they release into your system when
WE ARE BIO ELECTRICAL ENGINESthey die? More acid.
In order to accomplish all the many millions ofI could describe a whole list of processes that
complex functions that occur over the course ofoccur when your system becomes and remains
the day, your body has to be able toacid but I think you get the idea. The point is that
communicate with itself… all the way down toaside from the acid that is secreted into your
the cellular level. And do you know how it doesstomach to aid digestion, acid in your body is bad.
this? Through pulses of electricity. That’sReally bad.
right, electricity.In regard to producing energy in the body,
Your body operates on an electro magnetichere’s an easy question for you. What do
current. Believe it or not, all of the organs in youryou think happens to a person’s energy
body emit these fields of electrical current. Inlevel if over time their system becomes more
fact, nerve signals are nothing more than electricaland more acid, their biochemical balance is
charges.disrupted and their red blood cells can’t
What creates this electrical power in your body isdeliver oxygen and nutrients as efficiently to all
a very fine balance that exists in your biotheir cells? The answer is simple. Their energy
chemistry. And of all the systems in your bodylevel drops. Dramatically. Are you beginning to get
that depend on this delicate, bio chemical balance,the picture here as to the importance of pH in
one of the most important is your blood stream.your body? Good. Now let’s take a quick
This is where pH comes into play. But what is pH?look at what causes acidity in your body and then
WHAT PH IS AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TOlook at steps you can take to get your body pH
ALL YOUR BODY FUNCTIONSback to an ideal level.
PH is a scale that measures how acidic or alkalineWHAT CAUSES ACID IN THE BODY
a substance is. The scale ranges from 1 to 14The primary cause of an acidic condition in your
with 1 being very acid, 7 neutral and 14 verybody is from what you put in your mouth. In
alkaline.other words, what you eat and what you drink.
So what does pH have to do with you and yourAnd it isn’t how “acid” something
blood? Well, the pH of your blood is extremelymay seem when you eat or drink it. It has to do
important. The ideal pH level for your blood is rightwith what is left over when you digest it.
around 7.35 and your body goes to enormousSpecifically, does eating or drinking something
lengths to maintain this level.leave behind an acid or alkaline “ash”. For
Why? Because if your blood pH were to vary 1example, I don’t know about you but I
or 2 points in either direction, it would change thelove seafood. Scallops are one of my favorites.
electrical chemistry in your body, there would beHowever, when your body digests scallops, it
no electrical power and in short order you wouldleaves an extremely acid ash. In fact, scallops are
drop dead. As you can see, maintaining the rightone of the most acid foods you can eat.
pH level in your blood is pretty important!!Unfortunately, a lot of the things most people put
With this in mind a good way to avoid upsettingin their mouths create an acid ash. These include
this delicate bio chemical balance would be to takealcohol, coffee and a lot of flesh protein in your
a look at those things that can compromise thediet. Interestingly enough, stress also tends to
maintenance of the ideal pH level in your body.create an acid condition in the body.
And what is the main culprit in this case? TheSTEPS YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY TAKE TO
answer is the creation of acid in your body.IMPROVE YOUR PH
Before we look at what causes acid,Fortunately, it is pretty easy to immediately
here’s a graphic example to give you anchange your pH for the better and make it more
idea of what can happen in the blood when youralkaline. The first step is to understand which of
pH drops to less than ideal. Red blood cells arethe foods you are eating and the drinks you are
how oxygen is transported to all the cells in yourdrinking are acid and which are alkaline. Then
body.it’s simply a matter of eliminating some of
As red blood cells move into the tiny, littlethe more acid foods you are eating and adding in
capillaries, the space they have to move throughmore alkaline foods.
gets pretty small. In fact, the diameter of theHowever, before you start, it’s important
capillaries gets so small that the red blood cellsto get a baseline of what the pH is in your body
sometimes have to pass through these capillariesso that you can see how you are improving or if
one red blood cell at a time!you need to continue to eliminate more acid
Because of this, and because it’s importantfoods and add in more alkaline ones.
for the red blood cells to be able to flow easilyYou can do this by testing the pH of your saliva
and quickly through your body, they have aon a regular basis. This is really simple to do. More
mechanism that allows them to remain separatedetails on how to do this are provided on some
from each other. This mechanism comes in theweb pages I have created for you to help you
form of the outside of healthy red blood cellsout. A link to these pages is provided below.
having a negative charge. This causes them toIn addition to decreasing the amount of acid
stay apart from each other, sort of like whenfoods you eat and increasing the amount of
you try to push the negative ends of twoalkaline foods you eat, one of the best ways to
magnets together. They resist each other andimmediately begin changing your pH is to drink
stay apart.“green drinks”. You can make these by
Unfortunately, acid interferes with this verysimply adding a powder that is made up of a
important mechanism in a pretty frightening way.whole host of vegetables that are highly alkaline
Acid actually strips away the negative chargeto a glass of water. Information on suggested
from red blood cells. The result is that your redgreen drink powders to use is included on pages
blood cells then tend to clump together and notthat I have a link to below.
flow as easily. This makes it much more difficultRESOURCES WHERE YOU CAN LEARN MORE
for them to flow easily through the bloodstream.Clicking on the following link will take you to some
But it also makes it harder for them to movepages I created that have more information on
freely through those small capillaries. This meansalkaline and acid foods, how to test your own pH
less oxygen gets to your cells. Acid also weakensand what to look for in green drinks.