RE: Cleansing: When the body produces ammonia (WAS: RE: That smell of ammonia...) [s]

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Bill Schoolcraft [bill] Thursday, April 21,

2005 6:44 AM [Raw Food] RE: That smell of ammonia...

At Thu, 21 Apr 2005 it looks like jeannie_rose_13 composed:

This afternoon, after arriving back home from my walk to the market, I sat

down in front of the computer for a breather, and noticed that I smelled

like ammonia!!! I could only smell it around my shoulders, and perhaps my

underarms, but it was there! And it only lingered for a few minutes, but I

kept smelling and sniffing and noticing that there was this strange hint of

ammonia. Isn't that crazy?!

 

To which Bill responds:

That smell of ammonia is uric_acid, it's a common smell in weight lifting

gyms when one digests too much protein.

 

Actually it came to help me when I was trying to decide how much protein I

really needed in my diet.

 

Being a practicioner of " Bikram Yoga " which is done in a heated studio I am

lucky in the fact that I get to sweat alot and detect this much easier.

 

I have gotten to the point of noticing that having just one item too many

in a day will push me over my protein limit.

 

It never fails and it's an extremely accurate system if one can actually

sweat alot and be aware of the odor coming from them.

 

I actually can smell my workout shirt and detect, after the fact, how my

diet is doing.

_____

Bill, not quite accurate, but indeed a widely held misperception. Please

read my post today on this.

 

The increased quantity of uric acid smells as it always does, like urine.

The presence of ammonia indicates that the liver is working overtime,

producing an emergency response to hyperacidity. The fluid of choice is

ammonia, same stuff as in the Windex bottle. Toxic both inside and out, but

also a survival mechanism. If your body did not produce the ammonia, you

would be in serious trouble, possibly even dead.

 

Pure ammonia has a pH in the neighborhood of 11, an acid of similar strength

would have a pH of about 3 (equidistant from 7 neutral on the pH scale).

Both values are well outside the range of anything the human body ever wants

to encounter. So when your body produces ammonia, your body is seriously

hyperacidic and probably depleting itself of alkaline mineral reserves at an

alarming rate, if this continues over time.

 

IMPORTANT DISTINCTION: The physical activity is NOT causing the body to

produce the ammonia. Rather, the preexisting toxicity in those bodies, with

the ADDITION of a perfectly normal quantity of lactic and other acid

byproducts of activity in a short period of time, creates a condition of

toxic overload and causes the body to produce ammonia as an emergency

response mechanism.

 

You are correct to connect excessive consumption of protein, from ANY source

(plant or animal), as contributing causally to this situation. Proteins are

acids (amino acids) by definition. We only need about 5% of out caloric

intake from protein, and much above that is seriously harmful, particularly

if it comes from animal sources. (I imagine this to be the case for most of

your workout companions.) For more, read T. Colin Campbell's new book, the

Framingham Study, etc. Fruits average about 5% protein, ALL other food

groups are higher.

 

The good news: we need never ask " but where do I get my protein? " ever

again!

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

 

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