What is pH and why does yours matter?

What is pH?

pH simply means potential hydrogen. Every one-point decrease on the pH scale is 10 times more acidic. For example, a drop from 7.0 to 2.0 is 100,000 times more acidic for your body! In its natural state, the body is slightly alkaline. It must maintain this slightly alkaline state for your very survival, and has developed complex mechanisms to ensure that this balance is maintained. Most of us are natural alkaline producers in our early years. This is why many children can get away with eating an imbalanced diet and still be healthy and slender right up until they are in their twenties. But as we reach our thirties and forties, the majority of us have become overly acidic. That's because nearly everything we are exposed to - foods, environmental toxins, even stress - contribute to an acidic condition in our bodies, and our natural buffer systems become less efficient over time at neutralizing that acid. We go from being in a more or less continuous alkaline state to having chronic excess acidity.

After sixty years of laboratory research, Dr. Gunther Ederlein, noted German scientist and microbiologist, who died in 1968 at the age of 95, is known for his profound discovery connecting pH and chronic illness. According to Dr. Ederlein's research, total healing of a chronic illness only takes place when and if the blood is restored to a normal, slightly alkaline pH.

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Total healing of chronic illness only takes place when and if the blood is restored to a normal, slightly alkaline pH.

The alkaline level is very important because Dr. Ederlein's research also proved that disease cannot survive in an alkaline state, and yet it thrives in an acidic environment. If you have a health problem, you're most likely to be acidic. No matter what type of modality you choose to use to take care of your health problem, it will not be effective until the pH level is up where it should be. Our bodies simply cannot fight disease the way it should if our body pH is not properly balanced. The body will try to compensate for acidic pH by using available alkaline minerals, even resorting to taking calcium from the bones. If the diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of acids in the cells naturally occurs. Your body pH affects everything. An acidic balance will decrease the body's ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients, decrease the energy production in the cells, decrease it's ability to repair damaged cells and to detoxify heavy metals, make tumor cells thrive, and the body more susceptible to fatigue and illness.

NOTE: It takes 32 glasses of alkaline water to neutralize the acid from one 12 oz. soda. Each time you drink acidic soda, coffee, tea, and energy drinks your body uses its own buffers (from bone and DNA) to raise the body's alkalinity to maintain your healthy blood pH level of 7.35-7.45.

An imbalanced pH affects all cellular activity in the body. Having a balanced pH has the following benefits: