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Alkalize Your Body
pH of Saliva and Urine
When your doctor orders blood tests, sometimes they will ask for an electrolyte panel. Contained in this panel is a test for pH of the blood. Optimal pH of the blood is 7.2. Inherently the body will do everything it can to maintain that pH. This is necessary to run the entire body's biochemical pathways for detoxification, building, and general maintenance. The body has several control mechanisms to keep it at this pH and they include getting rid of excess acid or base by-products through the lungs, saliva and urine.
When your body is sick in any way this pH is disrupted. Most times your body is trying to keep up with the extra acid produced. Acids are produced from lack of oxygen, eating an imbalance of protein and carbohydrates and other acid producing foods, and by cellular breakdown and production of metabolic waste. I've also read in Dr. Bernard Jensen's books that thinking negative thoughts can create and acid body.
There is lots of information out there on using pH paper to measure your urine and saliva in the morning but I've found that the paper is sometimes (often I'd have to say) not that accurate so I no longer recommend doing it. I've also noticed that people who don't know how to use the paper will take their pH too soon after they've eaten or during the day when the body is actually producing a post prandial alkaline tide (which means the body is releasing a bunch of bicarbonate to help neutralize the stomach acids so that it won't eat up the small intestine.) When this happens the pH is falsely elevated.
So you may want to check on your acid/alkaline status by filling in a monthly report of your symptoms. My favorite method is to grade the symptoms on a scale of 0-4 with zero meaning you have not had the symptom in the last month and 4 meaning you experience it every day and it's quite bothersome. Here's the list:
Here is a list of symptoms associated with an acid body:
Date the page and keep it for future reference. See how many things have improved after alkalizing for 2-3 months.
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an Appointment with Dr. Moffat Here is a list of acid producing foods that need to be balanced and decreased from your diet to increase your alkaline reserve. How many of these do you eat regularly? If you "must" have them, cut back on the volume initially. I also advocate eating for your blood type to avoid those foods that cause dis-ease in your body. These foods are in alphabetical order and not in order of acidity or alkalinity.
Replace the acid producing foods with foods from the list below. The more alkaline the food is the faster the replacement and replenishment of the alkaline reserve. This is good unless it throws you into what is called a "healing crisis", in which case, eat more foods from the bottom of the list or from the Neutral column.
Note: There are supplements that can assist in this alkalizing process. The best way to determine what to take is to let your naturopath muscle test the products for you. You are the best person to determine what you need if you learn to listen to your body. As naturopaths, that is what we aim to teach you.
If you take supplements/drugs/foods that are not making your body strong and healthy the body has to expend extra energy to get rid of the substance putting extra stress on your body and depleting it of the energy it could use towards the healing process. This is very important for the effective treatment of chronic diseases such as cancer.
Alkaline Foods (from most alkaline to least):
Neutral foods include: (Listed from most neutral to least)
So, to be chronically ill and have diseases such as cancer, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, arthritis, etc., the body is in a very acid state. The answer is to Alkalize, alkalize, alkalize.
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