Solving the Great pH Riddle Permanently for Better Health

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Health Tuesday, March 11, 2008 by: Kal Sellers (see all articles by this

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| Key concepts: digestion, herbs and nature

 

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NaturalNews) We live in a world where all the developed nations have developed

a unique neurosis that I call “pH Panic and Paranoia.” Lacking understanding and

wooed by the lust for money for their “miracle products” many manufacturers,

teachers and salespeople have contributed to the problems - both of the “pH

Panic and Paranoia” and of increasing widespread blood acidity.

 

Thousands of pH regulating products and diets are on the market today and yet,

as far as I can tell as a natural healing practitioner, lecturer and trainer,

people have more problems with pH imbalance than they did ten years ago.

 

As a matter of fact, many people are taking products, eating “better” and are

actually more acidic than they were a year ago. This is truly mind-boggling.

Naturally, we will be addressing the reasons for this and how to permanently

change your pH and get the results you should expect from that change.

 

What are the results you should expect from a change in pH?

 

First of all, pH, if you do not know, is a scale that rates how acidic or

alkaline a substance is. Low pH (1-6.9) is acidic, while high pH (7.1-14) is

alkaline. The blood is slightly alkaline in living humans. If your blood

actually becomes acidic, you will die in a very short time. When we say that a

person is “acidic,” we mean that they have acids in their blood, maybe, but we

definitely mean that they are on the acidic end of the safe range of the pH

scale. That safe range exists entirely on the alkaline side of neutral (7).

 

When a person becomes “acidic,” certain things happen.

 

We know that when the blood becomes less alkaline (which is more accurate than

saying it becomes more acidic), all diseases common to humanity today appear. We

know that chronic pain is acid-dependent, as is cancer, most heart disease,

arthritis, auto-immune disease and pretty much all symptoms that a person can

have.

 

When the blood becomes more alkaline, it carries oxygen better, is less

irritated, carries away debris from the artery walls and much more. Diseases,

such as heart disease, arthritis and cancer, simply begin to disappear. Hormonal

changes are no longer extreme and out of control and miserable. Digestion

improves and the body becomes more relaxed.

 

The awareness of these benefits have, naturally, excited suffering people and

frightened people to make some shifts in diet and supplementing to try to obtain

what they see as the Utopian world of the alkaline!

 

In this process, a great terror has developed of foods that are reported to be

“acidic.” Interestingly, this label is applied without definition or any sense

of what it means or why it may or may not be important. This we shall remedy

right now.

 

Defining " acidic " and " alkaline "

 

Point 1:

 

Something tests acidic if it releases positive Hydrogen ions (free hydrogen not

attached to anything and which has lost its electron and has thus a positive

electrical charge) in solution. These hydrogen ions tend to act as solvents for

some substances, which is why strong acids will “eat” metal.

 

Something tests alkaline if it releases negative hydroxide ions (a compound of

one hydrogen and one oxygen which carries more electrons than protons, causing a

negative electrical charge) in solution. These can also dissolve some substances

and strong alkaline substances will burn your skin just like acid will.

 

These are the definitions used to define whether something is acidic or

alkaline. When litmus paper is used to test pH it is really testing the free H+

or OH- ions in that solution.

 

Believe me when I tell you that the presence of either or both of these has

nothing directly to do with your health and both of them are absolutely

necessary for life processes to function at all.

 

It is the ridiculous outcome of a bold faced lie that anyone should be afraid of

their blood or urine or saliva testing acid or less alkaline at any given time.

The important matters of health are neither addressed, nor assessed by pH

testing. What is true is that if a person remains less alkaline for long periods

of time regardless of the normal variations of life, that person has something

wrong that must be addressed in order to be healthy.

 

As we shall point out, what needs to be addressed is usually not addressed by

the common approach to pH regulation.

 

Point 2:

 

A food can be reported acidic if it actually tests acidic. This is the least

useful approach to determining an alkaline diet and I am insulted that any

well-educated person would attempt to set a standard by it. Indeed, most foods

that test acidic before eating them actually result in aggressive alkalization

of the blood and body fluids. They digest easier and contribute to proper

hydration and elimination.

 

Recently someone for some strange reason decided to say that distilled water was

bad because it tested acidic. This is clearly a suggestion either born of

ignorance or deception. It is possible that that person was selling a water

product of some kind.

 

Indeed, water should be slightly acidic if you want your body to be able to use

it. Those acids help your body use water to flush and hydrate. This is why, in

my private practice, if someone wants to use Reverse-Osmosis water (which is

devoid of the free H+ ions), I strongly encourage them to not drink it unless

they add a squeeze of lemon to it, which will restore usable H+ ions (meaning

acidity, remember).

 

Then the water is useful.

 

Further, many of the most medicinal foods that nature provides are very acidic

to start with.

 

Point 3:

 

A food can be reported acidic if after normal digestion processes there are

unused components of the food that are decidedly acidic.

 

This is a little better than the first method of determining whether something

is acid-forming. It is not the best method (which is to come next) but it at

least has some merit.

 

The biggest problem is how this is determined. I guarantee that it is not

determined empirically. Rather it can be determined by simulating digestion in a

laboratory (an approach that has never proved very accurate) and then measuring

the pH of the resultant digested food.

 

The other method of determining acid residue was suggested by David Wolfe, who,

in “The Sunfood Diet Success System,” suggested that if you just took the

analysis of the nutritional constituents of a food you could determine whether

it was yin or yang or acid or alkaline after digestion by observing whether

there was more sodium (yang) or potassium (yin), or whether there was more

calcium (alkaline) or phosphorous (acid).

 

This might work; I have very little to say about it except that in my practice,

that seems to be true in the case of some foods. Either way, the conclusion that

a food digests acid seems to be justification enough for that food to be

frantically abandoned by fearful hearts all over the English-speaking developed

world.

 

This appears also to be unwise. Some of the most specific and useful medicines

that nature offers appear to digest acidic. Many nutrients are only found in an

acid context in nature.

 

What is true is that if you are not in very good health and your elimination and

digestion are not in great shape, such foods will probably make you feel bad for

an hour or so after eating them, maybe even for the rest of the day.

 

For healthy people, however (and by healthy, I am specifically speaking about

digestion and system-wide elimination of wastes) those foods will not make them

feel worse and, indeed, will prove to be medicinal if the food is natural and

whole.

 

Because of this factor, however, the initial elimination of even natural foods

that digest acidic may be very palliative for someone who is suffering.

 

I am all for that, and yet it should be understood that the acid-yielding foods

that nature provides will help in the long-term by improving elimination,

hydration and digestion. Thus the frantic and panicked avoidance of all such

foods is unwarranted and, indeed, may well create more acidity through worry and

stress than the food would ever have created.

 

In my practice, only when someone is in pain or when someone is in danger of

death will I structure his/her diet somewhat around only foods that digest

alkaline.

 

Point 4:

 

A food can be reported acidic if it does not digest completely or if it causes a

residue to accumulate in the body in some way.

 

Now we are getting to the good stuff.

 

Give me a healthy person who has kept up with healthy thinking, eating and

living and who has regularly maintained his or her digestion and elimination and

I will show you someone who can eat any natural, whole food without turning

acidic in the least, even if the meal digests acidic (as blueberries apparently

do).

 

Why? Because that person’s body has no reason to stay acidic and no barrier to

utilizing those naturally occurring acids as it should - for hydration,

elimination or medicine.

 

On the other hand, give me a toxic person whose elimination does not work well

and whose digestion is low due to stress or bad eating and who is full of

residue and thick, oxygen-depleted blood and I will show you someone who can eat

the most alkalizing meal in the world for a week straight and still remain

acidic and still maintain a large portion of his or her symptoms.

 

Why? Because that person’s body must continually release acids just to keep the

blood in solution and circulating. That person’s body has to stimulate heat and

blood pressure for circulation, cholesterol as protection and irritation to keep

the body from shutting down into complete rest and repair phase at night.

 

This person will not be helped significantly by supplements and foods that

promote, in a rather allopathic way, alkaline residue in the blood.

 

This person must be cleaned out. This person must be put on a diet that digests

completely. This is exactly the approach of Traci’s Transformational Health

Principles and Traci’s Transformational Kitchen Cookbook available at

(www.bestfoodist.com) . Traci’s approach is no more or less than an approach to

natural, whole and mostly raw foods that digest easily, leave no residue and

feed the body all it needs (and, as she would want me to emphasize, taste great

and are easy and quick to prepare!).

 

Now that we understand what is meant by acidity or acid food, we are prepared to

look for some answers.

 

In looking for answers, there are 5 vital points to consider in approaching the

human condition:

 

1. No matter how healthy you are, localized areas of the body which have poor

circulation, have been damaged or which are under stress and tension can be

pools of acidic blood. In order to solve this problem, great circulation,

specific herbal aids, massage and other hands-on modalities, hydrotherapy and

low-residue eating may all need to be utilized. We will address some of those

later in this article.

 

2. Some health choices improve circulation, while others simply try to

manipulate chemistry. Clearly, manipulation of chemistry has little on drugs as

an approach to healing. Only using the processes occurring naturally in the body

and in nature can lead to long-term, stable success. Improving circulation is

one such approach to long-term pH regulation.

 

3. Good elimination coupled with complete digestion is the most powerful formula

for alkaline pH. This is because circulation remains unimpeded by debris in the

blood from poor digestion or non-elimination.

 

4. Thoughts breed acidity or alkalinity faster than any other thing. I have a

friend who is a raw foodist who was told that there were diseases caused from

being too alkaline. Immediately, without making any changes in her diet or

lifestyle, she became regularly acidic and stayed that way until the time that

we spoke about her health. This is one of dozens of great examples that I

personally have encountered of pH being radically changed in a few minutes to a

few seconds just from the thoughts that the individuals tested were thinking. We

will talk more about this challenge below.

 

5. If you think you need a special miracle tool to alkalize your blood in an

aggressive manner, before you buy someone’s chemical product for that purpose,

try out the natural method of chemically alkalizing your blood rapidly by

breathing. Deep breathing will alkalize the blood faster than anything you could

ever take in by mouth. It is good to breathe in deep, hold muscle tension and

keep it while you hold your breath for a few counts, breathe out all the way and

then hold it out for a few counts. Then, release the muscle tension and repeat.

This works great for alkalizing localized areas with poor circulation if you

hold tension over that area during the breathing cycle.

 

Now that we understand the approach to the human body that we should take, let’s

look at some answers that address this approach in full.

 

1. Make dietary choices based on digestion and elimination. The best source I

know of for this kind of information is found in Traci’s Transformational Health

Principles, which you can get from (www.bestfoodist.com) .

 

2. Perfect elimination first, before you try to do anything to regulate your

blood pH. This means cleansing your colon, then your liver, then your skin and

blood and kidneys and lymph. I really like the products offered through the

American Botanical Pharmacy, which you can find on-line. I have also created a

comprehensive course on cleansing that is available from my website.

 

3. Refine diet and elimination needs for yourself. Some people might always have

to nourish and support some elimination channel if they were born with serious

weakness in an area or if they have a mental and emotional pattern that makes it

hard to have proper function in that area. Deal with that when you can, but

meanwhile do not be afraid to take herbs that heal and strengthen the bowel or

liver, brain or bones for the rest of your life. That might be part of your

package to deal with.

 

Generally, however, you will find that you are not dependent on herbs for

healing because they actually heal, not just manipulate. While working with

whatever elimination channels need support, it is also good to determine if you

have some foods that are particularly problematic for you. This especially means

food allergies and reactions. You can get a free report on this subject, called

“Understanding Food Reactions,” from (www.kalsschool.com) .

 

4. Use herbs that are area specific. This article does not have room for any

kind of discussion of specific herbs. However, it is useful to know that herbs

have affinities for certain parts of the body. When such herbs are used wisely,

areas of the body with special needs can be healed faster and with greater

certainty by using those herbs. In my next news article this subject will be

addressed in detail.

 

5. Use herbs that perfect pH naturally. This is much easier to discuss. First,

some foods really help with this, particularly if they are high in organic

sodium, such as celery. Some herbs work to help this as follows: Burdock and

beet root neutralize acids throughout the body while simultaneously improving

circulation and the oxygen-carrying ability of the blood; Kelp supplies

buffering minerals and removes radioactive wastes throughout the body while

activating the thyroid and improving metabolism; Barberry stimulates liver flow,

which aids elimination; Parsley improves removal of uric acid wastes and also

activates the lymphatic system and causes it to drain better, resulting in less

debris in the body; Plantain works very well with parsley and in a similar way;

Marshmallow root, slippery elm bark, charcoal, apple pectin and psyllium husks

all absorb wastes, including acidic debris throughout the body that cause both

long-term and immediate acidity.

 

6. Finally, work hard and intensively on controlling your fear. I was reminded

recently of a scripture from the Bible where, in Luke 21:26, there is a prophecy

about our day that reads as follows: “Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and

for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of

heaven shall be shaken.” My writings might help you control fear, but I have a

formula for controlling fear.

 

Formula for Peace

 

Peace = Spiritual Congruence X Refined and Disciplined [Positive] Thinking X

Emotions Culture X Physical Wisdom

 

In this Formula:

 

Peace is the antithesis of fear;

 

Spiritual Congruence is living by the standards you believe you should live by;

 

Refined and Disciplined [positive] Thinking is self explanatory;

 

Emotions Culture is the development of the skill of looking at what you should

want, focusing on that and learning to train your emotions to love that which it

is best for you to love;

 

Physical Wisdom is understanding what nature intended for your body and

following that without getting led too easily away from that by anyone selling a

“miracle cure” that you can have once you buy their book or product. Each of

these multiplies the potency of the others. The result is peace.

 

In conclusion, it is important to understand the great pH riddle if you are

going to get out of it alive and undeceived. In this article, we have explored

in remarkable completeness and with remarkable detail the pH riddle and we have

exposed it for all to see. Now it remains for you to accept it, believe it and

live by it.

 

 

About the authorKal Sellers, MH is a lifelong student and practitioner of the

natural healing arts.

Kal is a Master Herbalist, a Massage Therapist, Technician of the Rolf Method of

Structural Integration, Iridologist, Mind-Body Medicine Practitioner, Mental

Re-programmer, Life Coach, Natural Nutritionist, Reflexologist and more.

Kal is currently attending Life University in preparation for chiropractic

school.

Kal currently operates and maintains www.KalsSchool.com an on-line school for

natural healing and herbal medicine.

Kal also maintains www.BestFoodist.com as the website for the distribution of

his and his wife's books on natural nutrition and companion recipe book (Traci's

Transformational Kitchen Cookbook and Traci's Transformational Health

Principles).

Kal and Traci have five children, the last three of which were delivered at

home, the last by Kal. They live now in Powder Springs, GA where they maintain

live classes on food and medicine for anyone choosing to master medical

independence and life-long optimal health!

 

 

 

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