Wow, that's impressive (not the pic, the plan). I'm pretty much ready to start mine now. I think I'm going to wait until Wednesday to start with the apple juice and phosphoric acid drops and then dive in over next weekend. I'll let you know what to expect.
Thanks,
Bill

Jessica,
I read about the Quantum K healing site in another thread on here and have been watching the video since. I also read the manual. The manual says that it is possible to change our PH to more alkaline by breathing through our left nostril for a few minutes a couple of times a day. I don't know whether it is true or not as I don't test myself, but I thought you might like to add it to your regimen to see if it helps.
Bill

Here's what he says about it:
"We can survive for weeks without food, days without water, but only minutes without air. Our molecules are made up of minerals based on hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen, supported by water. These base elements all come from the air, so how can air quality be anything other than essential to our health? Most eastern practices, like yoga, have recognised this basic truth for thousands of years.

The issue nowadays is that the air has become highly polluted with toxic chemicals. We work in climate controlled offices, drive polluting cars and keep the windows shut to keep the heat in. Even in the great outdoors the air has too much nitrogen in it for our bodies to remain in balance. The net result is an excess of positive ions in the air - the kind that make us feel uncomfortable prior to a thunderstorm when the air feels so ‘heavy’. Instead of the natural balance of 60% negative ions and 40% positive, the ratio is often reversed. This positive air creates an acidic environment in our bodies which leads to a lack of oxygen around the cells and eventually chronic ill health. The situation is aggravated by any mercury fillings as they positively ionise our saliva as it passes over.

So, we all need more negative ions, the kind that give us that lovely refreshing feeling by the seaside or after a shower. The good news is that negative ions are FREE. You don’t need an expensive ionizing machine, simply take advantage of a simple breathing technique based on the yoga practice of ‘pranayama’. The difference here is that we are not looking to balance our breathing, but to create an artificially high level of negative ions in our system. Simply block your right nostril and breathe rapidly 30-40 times in and out through your left, as fast as you wish. Do this 3 times a day, EVERY DAY. Find a routine - at red lights, in traffic jams, when you wake up, when you watch T.V. Whatever suits you, but please do it. This is very energising and will restore the natural alkalinity of your blood. Just be careful not to make yourself light-headed, practice in a safe environment first and find the pace of breathing that works for you."

After almost a year of meditation and many other techniques aimed at raising my consciousness, I feel as though watching his video at Quantum K has had more affect than anything else I've done. Of course, I've still been doing many other things, so it's hard to tell if the video is totally responsible for what I've felt. My wife watched it once and said she didn't feel anything, but she doesn't do much in the way of spiritual work. His companion PDF manual is also provided free on the site. I like people who provide potential growth material for free. They rock! And you know you're not getting burned.

I know when they talk about the ida and pingala aspects of the sushumna (sp?), the energetic column of energy that flows from the root chakra out through the crown, they refer to them as positive/negative or male/female and one of the exercises that I've read about is breathing in through one nostril, then out through the other. He kind of refers to it in the excerpt as pranayama. The idea behind this exercise is to balance the energy flow between positive and negative (ida/pingala). That's what popped into my head when I read your question. Not really sure if it's an answer or not, though. It probably wouldn't hurt to do some alternating breaths occasionally. I do it as a prelude to meditation as I find it hard to meditate fully while putting so much focus on breathing and nostril blocking, although I think I did almost doze off once.
I was also surprised how long it takes for 30-40 breaths. I lost count because I was interrupted, but continued on until I felt I must have reached 30-40. It's funny how my mind recorded his instruction as "breath through your left nostril a couple of times a day for a few minutes". He was definitely more specific than that.

Yes I have read elsewhere that breathing affects pH. Also that thoughts do and that mild exercise alkalizes, while excessive exercise creates acid results (like when you feel burning muscles).

Imo that breathing is fine but most of us probably need to do more than that to really bring our pH into the balance it should be compared to how it would tend to get given the environments most of us live in. (That was really run-on, lol.)


Kevin,

I have come to look at cleansing a little different. I now don't think there are such things as "bad" buggies in us. For example, I imagine that if we have displaced calcium in us, we may attract "parasites" that would eat that calcium.

That is actually probably helpful to us (because displaced calcium becomes kidney stones, artery plaque, bone spurs, etc.) but since that buggie is associated with a bad condition, it is considered "bad." I think it's more of an indicator of a bad condition though.

It's not that pH is the only factor in health, it's imo just one that is usually overlooked by main stream medicine and one that is incredibly important.

For example, if someone had perfect pH but wasn't sanitary, or didn't get enough of a certain nutrient, they would not be healthy.

But main stream already tells us to be sanitary, get proper nutrition, etc.

They tend to miss the important issue of pH unless things go so haywire someone gets what they call Renal Tubular Acidosis. Then they treat it with sodium bicarbonate.

On the sb label, it also says it is used to treat metabolic acidosis. But most people have that, but I don't see hardly any doctors who address it. Imo it's bc the pharmaceutical companies fund the medical research and they will lose a ton if people realize how to treat themselves for the most part.

The missing attention to pH also imo explains why there always seems to be a new study out about how such and such (usually something natural) may ward off cancer or whatever the claim is. It is always something new bc many many things which are healthy alkalize. If the researchers focused on pH, I believe they would be able to be more specific with such studies.

Jessica

Okay, I ended up wimping out a little. I did the apple juice & phosphoric acid for three days. No biggie there. Saturday was supposed to be the big flush. I forgot there was a timeline and ended up eating dinner, thinking I would do the flush a couple hours later. I saw I wasn't supposed to eat after 2 pm and that certain nausea would ensue if I carried on. I decided to go lightweight until I could do the kidney/bowel flush and parasite cleanse. Sooo, Saturday night I did two tablespoons of olive oil, juice from two limes, and two egg yolks. Same again yesterday morning and this morning I changed to three tablespoons and grapefruit juice. I plan on continuing with the smaller quantity of oil, lemon, lime, or grapefruit juice, and two egg yolks for at least a week. This combo isn't too bad. Certainly not delicious as it was purported to be, but platable. This morning is the only day I had a couple of oily tasting burps. Started to see some stones come out today as well. Hoping to do the coffee enema tonight and again in a few days.

I was thinking about the length of time to do the one nostril breathing exercise yesterday and came to the conclusion that shorter breaths (I've only been doing complete breaths before) may work just as well and take less time. Sure enough, one set could be completed at a long light without hyperventilating.

I was just reading something that details the interaction of hcl and sodium bicarbonate.

There is no hydrochloric acid pouch in our body. If there were, it would burn a hole in our body. The cells in our stomach wall must produce it on an instantly-as-needed basis. The ingredients in the stomach cell that make hydrochloric acid (HCI) are carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O), and sodium chloride (NaCI) or potassium chloride (KCI).

NaCI + H2O + CO2 = HCI + NaHC03, or

As we can see, the by-product of making hydrochloric acid is sodium bicarbonate (NaHC03) or potassium bicarbonate (KHC03), which goes into blood stream. These bicarbonates are the alkaline buffers that neutralize excess acids in the blood; they dissolve solid acid wastes into liquid form. As they neutralize the solid acidic wastes, extra carbon dioxide is released, which is discharged through the lungs. As our body gets old, these alkaline buffers get low; this phenomenon is called acidosis. This is a natural occurrence as our body accumulates more acidic waste products. There is, therefore, a relationship between the aging process and the accumulation of acids.

By looking at the pH value of the stomach alone, it seems that alkaline water never reaches the body. But when you look at the whole body, there is a net gain of alkalinity as we drink alkaline water. Our body cells are slightly alkaline. In order for them to produce acid, they must also produce alkaline, and vice versa; just as a water ioniser cannot produce alkaline water without producing acid water, since tap water is almost neutral. When the stomach pH value gets higher than 4, the stomach knows what to do to lower it. However, if the pH value goes below 4, for any reason, the stomach doesn't know what to do. That's why we take Alka-Seltzer, which is alkaline, to relieve acidic stomach gas pain. In this case, hydrochloric acid is not produced by the stomach wall; therefore, no alkaline buffer is being added to the blood stream.

Glowing-Health.com - Reverse Aging, Alkaline Water and AlkaLife®

Hey, Kevin,
I was wondering if you had any guidelines for the parasite cleanse. On the sites I've visited, I don't see any information about the dosage or the length of time. Fortunately, the bottles of black walnut and wormwood extract have dosage info, but nothing for the cloves or how many days to take the stuff for. Any clue?
Thanks,
Bill

(I'm not Kevin but since you guys hijacked my thread, I will chime in lol. . . .)

Continuously unless you correct the pH balance in your body.

Please don't fool yourself by thinking you can fully and permanently cleanse yourself otherwise. If your body maintains certain internal conditions, parasites will thrive even if you attack them continuously. And as they are there bc of imbalances, I'm not sure that (continuously attacking them) alone would be the best for your health.

I see the exact same (noticeable) results from my alkalizing and treating sore spots with alternating heat and cold (not to be graphic but I'm talking about what comes out) as I did when I used Clarkia in cleansing doses.

I still find Clarkia valuable, perhaps invaluable in a few ways:

Keeps outdoor pet water clean, 5 drops or so per gallon

A dropper or so added to a bottle of liquid soap (like dr bronners) solved any skin itching issues I ever had from time to time.

A cleansing treatment for skin abrasions when something stronger like tea tree is not desired (good for sensitive spots like inner nose and ear).

I'm sure there's more. . .

Jessica

Hi Bill,

Here is a link to the program I am following...I am on the 8th day. It shows the frequency.

Dr. Hulda Clark Cleanse Guide page1

The following link shows the product and contents of each supplement.

Cleanses, Dr. Clark Store


Hi Jessica, sorry for the hijack. I agree with you on keeping the PH right or else it will just be a tug-a-war.

No worries Kev, it happens all the time. Plus I've enjoyed the discussion

Thanks to both of you for the valuable info. I've slowly been moving my diet away from the crap I've been used to eating all my life with an eye towards a more alkaline than acidic intake. I've pretty much made up my mind now to do the lemonade diet/master cleanse for 10-14 days but wanted to do a parasite cleanse first just in case. Once I've got every thing cleaned out and in good working order, I'll definitely be working hard on doing a better job with the intake of food.

Thanks again!

Good luck!! Here's hoping everything comes out okay...

Finished up last night.

Got somewhere between 400-500 stones expelled.

I am feeling much lighter and cleaner. A bit more energy too.

Now that I have done all the prep work, they say I can do just the flush as often as every 2 weeks.

Since the average person as around 2000 stones, and since I have always been heavy on dairy products (which are a large cause of stones), I am planning on doing another flush in August!

Kevin,

I'll try to remember to take a reading in the morning. However reading pH can be tricky.

I tended to trust my saliva readings when I just woke up but I later read if you are over 40 that won't be accurate.

I think the best way to think about it is that there is acid rain therefor it's logical to conclude that you are most likely too acidic. Our environment does that to rain, our oceans and to us. There are lakes now which look really peaceful but are actually totally acidic and therefor basically dead. Look into acid rain for more about that.

The exception would be if you encountered an alkaline toxin, like you drank lye or bleach.

Generally we want a neutral pH, 7.2. Too alkaline is bad but that is seldom the case. Too acid is bad and that is very very common.

I would probably go more by symptoms than readings. For example, do you have any joints that are ever stiff or sore? That is bc of bone spurs that come bc being too acidic erodes calcium which lands as spurs, stones, and artery plaque. The spurs can be anywhere but when they are in your joints it leads to arthritis.

I would say your experience supports that you are too acidic. The stones were that calcium that could not bond to your bones bc of the acidic environment.

High bad cholesterol is another indicator. That is the artery plaque.

Next post on ways to alkalize. . .

Jessica

It's probably a matter of personal preference how you want to alkalize.

There are diets and supplements.

If you are someone who can get into diet methods, I suggest looking at the info from Dr. Young pH Miracle Living

He has hard core diets for people with cancer and serious illnesses.

He has books and blogs.

If you look up alkalizing supplements you will find a ton. I think you can check out what looks good to you.

This is what I do:

I take Swanson Vitamins Alkalizing Formula Swanson pH Balance Alkalizing Formula 1 lb 5 oz (595 grams) Pwdr - Swanson Health Products . It does require a blender (I have the stick kind now that goes right in the glass). I always mix it in apple juice bc, as Aaron taught me, it has malic acid which breaks down that artery plaque. I like to add a little vanilla soy milk as well just to make it creamy.

And I get spirulina or afa blue green algae in powder now so I just throw that right in. The finished shake pretty much tastes like apple juice.

I also buy sodium bicarbonate tablets and pop them quite frequently throughout the day. The daily max on them in 24 tablets(!) Even though they are so benign, main stream pharmacies tend to want a prescription tp sell them (lol this is baking soda we are talking about).

You can buy them on amazon.com or I found a non-chain pharmacy that sells them to me 200 for $6. Use these instead of any other ant-acid you might take and take them if you feel heartburn or if they just feel good to your body.

I used to add water drops called Alka-Trace (trace minerals) to my filtered water to bring up the pH. Lately I've been buying Fiji water. It is the only bottled water I am aware of that lists its pH (7.5). I happened to get some while traveling recently and it felt so great on my body that I keep getting it now.

(Oh yeah you can also buy alkaline water that is higher than 7.5 as a way to increase alkalinity. I don't know what brands are best. I think Dr. Young has one.)

If you want a short read (about 120 pages) on more detail about how acidity affects the body I recommend The Acidic Danger by Wolfgang Auer.

Other things to keep in mind are that mild exercise is said to alkalize while strenuous exercise causes an acidic reaction (thus the burn). And even pleasant thoughts are said to alkalize while stressful ones are said to do the opposite.

There is a bit of conflicting info on the net about which foods alkalize. I think avocados and cucumbers were always said to alkalize on every list I found. In general I think the long told recommendations are best for diet: try to eat whole foods, fruits, veggies, whole grains and not too much junk.

I believe the macrobiotic diet alkalizes.

XO Jessica

I also want to make it clear that I feel better than the day before every day and attribute that completely to alkalizing.

I could be more aggressive about my diet in ways Dr. Young suggests but I am more a slow steady person when it comes to things like that so my plan is very long term.

It is probably going to be a life long issue for all of us unless our environment changes.

The other thing I am focused on right now is applying that alternating heat and cold to any joints or places that feel soar. That has been doing wonders for me as far as getting overall energy back and healing specific places. I believe it is supporting my body in healing those bone spurs in addition to the internal support I am doing with the shake, etc.

I really feel like I am going to live a great, healthy life for an extremely long time now

Btw here is what the EPA's site says on the efforts to reduce acid rain:

When fully implemented by the year 2010, the public health benefits of the Acid Rain Program are estimated to be valued at $50 billion annually, due to decreased mortality, hospital admissions, and emergency room visits.

Effects of Acid Rain - Human Health | Acid Rain | Clean Air Markets | US EPA

I think that makes it crystal clear that it is wise for us to combat acidity on an individual basis.

I would definitely recommend PATHS instructions if you want for this as well. I think it was the cellular health mod that helped me understand all this since it has instructions to alkalize blood and that is hard to do without the right things going into the body.

It looks like there is a new mod in the works as well for Understanding pH.