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Alkalize Your Body

Written By: Denice Moffat, Dr.
7-19-2007
Categorized in: pH Levels

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 cell breakdown and production of metabolic waste.

Here is a list of symptoms associated with an acid body:

Appendicitis	Hot flashes
Back/Disc disease	Joint pain
Blurred vision	Nasal drip
Chest pains	Numbness in legs
Continuous mucous	Osteoporosis
Corneal Ulcers	Rectal itching
Crying spells	Rheumatic pains
Deafness	Ringing in the ears-tinnitus
Elbow pains	Sensitive skin
Estrogen imbalances	Sensitive stomach
Extreme acidity	Skin breaking out
Fasting often	Stiff joints
Finger pains	Swollen ankles
Gallbladder problems	Tense shoulders
Hardening of the arteries	Tired legs
Hemorrhoids	Ulcers
Herpes	Weak spells
Hip pains

Put a checkmark in each box for the symptoms you are now experiencing. Date the page and keep it for future reference. See how many things have improved after alkalizing for 2-3 months.

Measure the pH of your saliva and urine the first thing when you get up. Ingestion of food, liquid, tobacco, or toothpaste can give you a false reading. Litmus or pH paper can be obtained from your naturopath or sometimes a health food store, or email me at drmoffat@NaturalHealthTechniques.com or call Morter Health Systems at 1-800-874-1478. Cost can vary from .10 per strip to about $14 per roll.

pH paper will only give you a rough estimate. The presence of physical signs is a better indication of your alkalinity/acidity.

pH paper colors vary by brand. It's important to match the color of the paper you have just touched to your saliva or urine to the picture on the box or color panel of the pH paper. Keep the pH paper in a cool, dark place so the colors on the picture do not fade over time.

For the Urine (First elimination only and after eating the foods you would normally eat.) Urine pH tells you how your body handled the food you ate the day before. Ideally you want to check your urine after a minimum of 5 hours of sleep. If your sleep is interrupted, take the reading after the longest sleep and record how long you slept. As you alkalize and your health improves, your sleep will be sounder. You only need one base-line reading for the urine.

Here's what the numbers mean. A three-day monitoring period is suggested in Your Health, Your Choice, but for now, we will just do baseline with one reading.

Note: The goal is to produce a urinary pH of 6.2 the first void of the day.

The 5.5 to 5.8 pH category is the best one to be in.

If your urine pH is between 5.5 to 5.8 you have adequate reserves.

This sounds very complicated, but that's the way it is.

If your urine is 6.0 - 6.6, you are at risk for disease.

If the urine is 6.8 to 8.0, there is possible disaster pending.

Now for the Saliva reading:

If the pH is more acid after a meal than before, the pH response was distorted by emotions that affect physiology. Negative emotions give us an acid body. This situation puts extreme strain on the body. Excessive strenuous exercise only increases the acid level. So, do you understand why overweight and sick people don't want to exercise?

If the pH stays the same before and after a meal and is in the range of 5.5 - 5.8 then the body is extremely acid and has inadequate reserves.
Saliva pH readings should increase after eating a meal.
If the reading was 6.8 before eating and 8.0 or higher after the meal this is ideal.
If the reading was 6.2 before eating and higher after the meal, this is good and there are mineral reserves available.
If the reading was 5.5 before eating and higher after the meal, this is acceptable and there are some reserves available.

Notes: If your saliva reading is high after eating a protein and refined carbohydrate meal and low when you eat raw fruits and vegetables, this shows that your alkaline reserve is very low. When you have enough organic sodium (salt from the shaker is inorganic and dead and not useful to your cells), the urine pH registers as an acid after you have eaten acid ash foods. If your sodium reserve is low, your urine pH will register greater than 7.0 after you eat predominantly acid foods.

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.

Barley	Lentils
Beans, Lima	Lobster
Beans, white	Macaroni
Beef	Maize
Bread	Millet
Buttermilk	Mutton
Cereals	Nuts
Chestnuts	Oatmeal
Chicken	Oyster
Clams	Peanut Butter
Corn	Peanuts
Cornmeal	Peas
Cornstarch	Pork
Cottage Cheese	Rabbit
Crab	Rice, brown
Crackers	Rice, polished
Duck	Rye
Eggs	Rye flour
Fish	Sauerkraut
Gluten flour	Sugar, Raw
Goose	Turkey
Honey	Veal
Lamb

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):

Figs, dried	Continued from bottom:
Lima beans, dried	Orange
Apricots, dried	Lettuce, Cos or loose leaf
Raisins	Prickly pear
Swiss chard	Sweet potato
Prunes, dried	Apricot, fresh
Dandelion greens	Turnip
Soybean sprouts	Grapefruit
Spinach	Nectarine
Taro root	Cabbage
Cucumber	Banana
Lima beans, fresh	Kohlrabi
Almonds	Pineapple
Peaches, dried	Raspberry
Beets	Tangerine
Avocado	Gooseberry
Kale	Mango
Chives	Quince
Carrots	Mushroom
Rhubarb	Snap bean
Endive (Escarole)	Radish
Dates	Orange juice-fresh squeezed
Chestnuts	Eggplant
Parsnips	Okra
Lemon (with peel)	Brussels sprouts
Coconut meat, dried	Broccoli
Onion	Cherry, sour red
Tomato, ripe	Lemon Juice
Peaches, fresh	Cabbage, red
Plums	Pomegranate
Celery	Pear, fresh
Watercress	Cauliflower
Blackberry	Chicory
Guava	Pumpkin
Lemon	Squash, winter
Bamboo Shoots	Grapes
Iceberg lettuce	Cabbage, Savoy
Cantaloupe	Strawberry
Coconut milk	Apple
Loganberry	Watermelon
Peas, dried	Corn, sweet
Sweet cherry	Pea, fresh green
Leek	Olive oil
Potato

Neutral foods include: (Listed from most neutral to least)

Nuts	Continued:
Grains	Water chestnuts
Asparagus	Blueberries
Artichoke, globe or Jerusalem	Olives, green

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.

References:
Your Health, Your Choice by Dr. Ted Morter of Morter Health Systems 1-800-874-1478
Iridology: The Science and Practice In The Healing Arts, Volume II, by Bernard Jensen, D.C. ND

© 2006 by Dr. Denice M. Moffat

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