I've been reading more and more about how we should be slightly alkaline for optimum health but that many Western adults are too acidic.

This can cause lots of problems like calcium being slowly broken down in your bones.


In postmenopausal women, the oral administration of potassium bicarbonate at a dose sufficient to neutralize endogenous acid improves calcium and phosphorus balance, reduces bone resorption, and increases the rate of bone formation, (N Engl J Med 1994; 330:1776-81.)

Improved Mineral Balance and Skeletal Metabolism


Normal adult humans eating typical American diets characteristically have chronic, low-grade metabolic acidosis (l-4). That persisting perturbation of systemic acid-base equilibrium occurs because metabolism of the diet releases noncarbonic acids into the systemic circulation (eg. sulfuric acid from metabolism of protein) in amounts that exceed the amounts of base released concomitantly (eg. bicarbonate from combustion of organic acid salts of potassium in vegetable foods) (5, 6). The size of the discrepancy between acid and base production determines the net endogenous acid production rate (ie, the net acid load of the diet), which in turn determines the degree of perturbation of systemic acid-base equilibrium (1, 2, 4). Under normal physiologic circumstances, the net endogenous acid production rate and the degree of the attendant low-grade metabolic acidosis are determined primarily by the composition of the diet (2, 4).

With advancing age, the severity of diet-dependent acidosis increases independently of diet (3, 4). That occurs because kidney function ordinarily declines substantially with age, resulting in a condition similar to that of chronic renal insufficiency (7). Renal insufficiency induces metabolic acidosis by reducing conservation of filtered bicarbonate and excretion of acid."

Estimation of net endogenous noncarbonic acid production in humans


The IMVA (International Medical Veritas Association) recommends alkaline foods and sodium bicarbonate so that the pH of the blood remains high, which in turn means that the blood is capable of carrying more oxygen. This in turn keeps every cell in the body at peak efficiency and helps the cell eliminate waste products. Detoxification and chelation will proceed more easily and safely under slightly alkaline conditions. Increased urinary pH reduces oxidative injury in the kidney so it behooves us to work clinically with bicarbonate.

Stop Cancer with Baking Soda - - Maya's Mom


Is there an existing PATHS module that regulates PH?

If not, is this a possible application for PATHS?

Jessica

I see the cellular health one says it :

Increase blood alkalinity

So I guess that would be the same thing?

Jessica

Thanks PATHS. I just got your e-mail regarding the cellular health module :

We have boosted the instructions regarding alkalinity and PH balance.

Now that I think about it, I probably started focusing on this issue in the first place so much recently because I'm on that module


Jessica

I need time and a little more info but I hope to make another youtube at some point on health, and this time about alkalinity.

I know dr.s give baking soda / sodium bicarbonate to people as a prescription for certain kidney issues.

I know athletes take it after a strenuous workout as I understand it oxygenates muscles and blood as well as helps remove toxins.

I've seen testimony from people now who take a bit of it daily.

I welcome any other info / input people want to give.

Right now from my research so far plus some experimenting I've been doing on myself, I would offer that a good way to take it would be in apple juice (honey added optional).

Then a bit after, take a bit (about 4oz per teaspoon of baking soda) of distilled water.

I'm still trying to find out if that takes the sodium back out, or toxins, or both but apparently this method has done wonders for many, and I am doing quite well with it.

I could almost compete with Kevin's news from his dr., but I have to re-do my lab work.

After going through a significant amount of baking soda, my dr. said my blood and urine tests were normal except that my bad cholesterol dropped from 217 to 134 (!!!!!) and he thinks it must be a lab anomaly LOL.



Jessica

Jessica,

Wow, that cholesteral change is amazing. Do you attribute it to the baking soda or are there other things you've been doing as well? How long have you been using the baking soda.

Thanks for sharing,
Bobi

Lama,

Sounds great, any info you find is welcome


Bobi,

Yes I do attribute it much or all to the baking soda because of how I feel on it. I had been eliminating some issues through chiropractic, but as this happened the others became more noticeable.

So now the baking soda seems to have pretty much taken care of the remaining issues

I started taking it maybe 3 weeks ago or so. At first just randomly but a good amount as it felt good.

After that I went to three times a day and now I am doing it two times a day.

I think I will end up doing it one time a day. I've just been doing what felt right. Once I did some of the research and heard the testimonies it started really making sense as far as my issues.

I do want to retest with the dr. soon to know the results, but I'm also thinking of waiting a little bit longer. I think it will be even more reassuring if I've been on the baking soda a month or maybe two and then get good results.

XO Jessica

I'm so glad to have found the info too

I gave new samples to my dr. yesterday. After checking out the urine he decided the first tests were valid. I guess he didn't have any reason to doubt the first blood test results after all.

I made some youtubes about Ph and will also post one by someone else on the same subject:

YouTube - Health and Ph Balance #1

YouTube - Health and Ph Balance #2

YouTube - An amazing health discovery


XO Jessica

Great Info Jessica!!!

For me it's very blatant that the baking soda + apple and then distilled water is helping

About 8 years ago I went to the dr. with stomach issues. They checked me out and said I didn't have an ulcer, but gave me prescription strength Tagament (sp?). This made my digestive system stop. I threw it out and got ginger and something else (I forget now) from Whole Foods that made me regular again.

From that time on I did not ask the dr. anymore about my stomach. I modified my lifestyle, not eating much before rushing out the door in the morning (often taking food with me) and not eating acidic foods when traveling.

Now the dr. tells me they have better prescriptions for acid reflux, and I notice a lot of people are on them.

But I also recently saw that there is now an epidemic of cancer of the esophagus due to acid reflux issues.

I am glad I never went the prescription route.

It's interesting too that some sources say fat is the body's way of protecting against acid I have definitely dropped weight since taking the baking soda, which I think many would find odd as it would seem we get enough sodium.

The other thing is I've been adding a tiny bit of baking soda and apple juice to my cat's wet food and leaving a bowl with a tiny bit of distilled water (I take away her regular water bowl for a bit if she does not drink it).

She is 11 years old and had been getting less active. But now I hear her racing around in the middle of the night like she used to do


Jessica

Kevin,

I still feel acidic, something in my digestion but I don't get a lot of heartburn.

More just a constant feeling of sensitivity and like I don't enjoy hot food.

My feeling is that I need to get my Ph right and then things will be fine. Also I feel this will take some time.

Your suggestion about carbs is probably a great one.

I don't overindulge in anything, but I do have a rebellious nature that if I try to restrict myself from something it just makes me want it more.

So I think the best path for me over the long run is to add the sodium bicarbonate, rather than try to change the food I take in.

I am adding a bit of sodium bicarbonate to my regular water now - to try to get the Ph to 7.5 as recommended by a dr. in one of the youtubes I posted.

Also I add lots of milk and honey to coffee I take.

I just received some sodium bicarbonate pills I ordered online.

I see that they are intended to be dissolved in water but I wanted to just pop them. So I tried that and am just making sure to take in lots of water with them.

Anyway they are 650 mg tablets and I find it interesting that the maximum daily allowance for adults up to 60 is . . . 24 tablets (!) (For adults over 60 it is 12 tablets and it is not recommended for children. Although for children imo it seems water with a Ph of 7.5 would be good.)


Jessica

I just thought I would report that despite taking baking soda (and now the tablets) every single day for at least a month. . .

When I woke up today I took a ph reading of my tongue and it was 5.5.

According to wikipedia (see color chart on right of page) healthy human saliva should be at 6.5-7.4.

pH - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So I'm still too acidic after all the alkalizing.

I'm not surprised or discouraged, this seems to back up my gut feeling that I have a while to go before my Ph is corrected.

Btw I am not affiliated with these products in any way, but it looks like there is a nice filter faucet available to up the Ph in water while filtering out lots of bad stuff :

pH Miracle pHaucet pHilters

This Dr. also has a lot of good articles (which don't seem to work in Firefox for me, but do work in Explorer). Here's a quote from one that helps me understand why some fruits seem acidic but are actually good to eat :

Update: A Common Misconception
It is often said that 'acidic' fruits like lemons, limes and grapefruits will
acidify the blood and tissues. In fact, the citric, lactic, and other acids in
such low sugar fruits - unlike high sugar fruits - exsist primarily in their
anionic (basic or electron) form, especially as their Na+ and K+ salts (e.g.,
potassium citrate). Following absorption, these anions (bases or electrons) are metabolized to sodium bicarbonate. Thus, lemons, limes and grapefruits
alkalinize - not acidify - blood and tissues.

pH Miracle Living: Articles

XO Jessica

For many people, heartburn is actually from not enough hydrochloric acid production and not too much. If not enough, the food isn't able to break down properly and will cause virtually the same heartburn type symptoms as too much production.

There is a simple test anyone can do. You can get a bottle of hcl tablets or capsules and at the same time every day...take 1 with a meal...keep to the same meal...dinner or whatever. If there is a burning sensation from 1 tab/cap then the problem is NOT lack of acid...the 1 tab/cap caused too much and that is why there is burning.

If no burning, the next day at the same meal time, take 2 tab/caps. Keep boosting 1 cap at the same meal every time.

For example, if it takes 5 caps/tabs until there is a burning sensation, that means there is a serious lack of hcl production in the stomach.

In this case, taking an antacid/baking soda, etc... will simply neutralize the little bit of acid that is there causing even more problems.

I would recommend not just trying this based on what I mentioned above on this simple hcl test, search around online and see what you can find for different regimens on testing for hcl. Many people are surprised to find that over a long time of taking antacids...the real problem was from a lack of production.

Anyway, just a distinction that might help someone out.

Please correct me if I am wrong, Aaron.

You seem to be writing about how it is possible to be too alkaline, that your Ph may be off in the opposite direction.

I think this is much more rare, but I've also seen that it does happen.

So in this case the person is too acidic.


In this case the person is too alkaline.


I'm thinking the Ph strips would come in handy here too and would reinforce the test results you suggest.

I would guess from what the dr. has me do before I give him lab samples, that the best way to test the Ph strips with saliva would be to not eat after midnight and test the next morning before having anything to eat or drink.

Jessica

Blood testing for ph is the most accurate since the body keeps homeostasis and the blood ph follows a VERY narrow margin.

Testing urine and saliva ph can change so quickly and often throughout the day I don't think they really give the real picture.

Overall, most people do better on the non-acidic side but there are some people who function better being slightly more acidic.

Thanks Aaron,

It looks like Dr. Young has found a way, although a bit complex, to test using the Ph paper.

It's one of the articles here : pH Miracle Living: Articles

(works in Explorer if not in Firefox).

It looks like he also agrees that all cancer is over acidity and has some good references for that in his articles.

Jessica

I am continuing to learn more about pH.

Blood testing for pH may not give the overall picture since the body will pull from all areas in order to keep that blood in that narrow margin you mention.

One way I read that is an indicator of overacidity (besides obvious things like heart burn) is if the area around the tail bone is tender. I believe the reason is the calcium being stripped off bones lands there (among other places).

As far as people functioning better being slightly more acidic, I would take that to mean in a very temporary way.

For example, if my pH were very balanced and then I had coffee I would probably perform better.

However, if my pH were over-all acidic in a chronic way (that main stream medicine recognizes most adults with a western diet are), everything I am finding says this is bad for the body and gets worse and worse.

Here is a clip from an e-mail newsletter I got today regarding a new method for finding cancer :


They used MRI to see how much of the tagged sodium
bicarbonate was converted into carbon dioxide within
the tumor. In more acidic tumors, more bicarbonate
is converted into carbon dioxide.

"The body tissues use sodium bicarbonate as a primary
buffer to maintain the natural alkaline design of the
tissues and to prevent degeneration of that specific
tissue," states Dr. Young.

The researchers measured pH levels using an emerging
technique called dynamic nuclear polarization that
boosts MRI sensitivity more than 10,000 times.

The method developed by GE's GE Healthcare unit
involves cooling down molecules to near absolute zero
and then warming them up quickly -- a process that
keeps them polarized and easier to detect as an
image.

"MRI can pick up on the abnormal acidic pH levels found
in cancerous tissues and it is possible that this could
be used to pinpoint where the disease is present and
when it is responding to treatment," Brindle said.

The next step is testing the technique in humans in
early stage clinical trials expected to start in 2009,
he added in a telephone interview.

According Dr. Young, "hyper-alkalization of the body
tissues with sodium bicarbonate is the safest and most
effective and natural way of reversing ANY cancerous
condition."

To learn more about hyper-alklization of the body
tissues and preventing or reversing a cancerous
condition listen to The pH Miracle for Cancer.

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(The Italian Dr. that treats cancer with sodium bicarbonate is Dr. Simoncini. You can watch him (translated) here : YouTube - 1- Sodium bicarbonate, a natural way to treat the cancer and/or do a search for him at youtube to find patient testimonials.)

I have recently tried some alkalizing pills and powder. While they may be great for the long term, I do not find them as a substitute for sodium bicarbonate. (My breathing rate started to go up again after so long off the sodium bicarbonate.)

I am now using both the alkalizing powder and the sodium bicarbonate tablets on a daily basis.


Jessica

Somewhere I remember Aaron mentioning that over the counter antacids just treat the stomach and not the over-all condition of overacidity.

The other day I looked at the ingredients of antacids at the drug store.

Only one (Alka Seltzer) contained sodium bicarbonate (!) but it also contained aspirin, which has an acidic effect overall.

I have been able to find pure sodium bicarbonate tablets online (amazon).

Also the main stream pharmacies stock it, but tell me it is by prescription only (baking soda in tablet form ). However a small, non-chain pharmacy down the street from me was happy to sell it to me, 200 tablets for $6

Jessica

Jessica,

A doctor I used to work with told me about a machine that he used to use way back. Maybe in the 70's. The patient swallowed a capsule...tied to a string or wireless and it sent out PH levels in live time wherever it was.

Hi Jessica,
My wife used to suffer from very serious acid reflux.

We modified our diet to include MUCH more green vegetables in the form of salads for dinner 3 times a week, less processed food plenty of regular and lemon water as well as Evamor (ph 9.0 i think).
I also make a "green drink" that quite frankly looks like swamp bog with our juicer that we drink as well.

Her acid reflux only reoccurs when she resumes an acidic diet and is usually rectified by a couple of wheatgrass cubes with water.

Suffice to say, I'm a ph convert!

Great minds think alike

a newly released study by Agricultural Research
Service (ARS)- . . .

The study was led by physician and nutrition specialist
Bess Dawson-Hughes at the Jean Mayer USDA Human
Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
in Boston, Mass.

The typical American diet is rich highly acidic in
protein, cereal grains and other acid-producing foods.
In general, such acidic diets generate dietary amounts
of acid each day. With aging, a mild but slowly
increasing metabolic "acidosis" develops, according
to the researchers.

Acidosis appears to trigger a muscle-wasting response.
So the researchers looked at links between measures
of lean body mass and diets relatively high in
alkaline potassium-rich, alkaline-residue producing
fruits and vegetables. Such diets could help neutralize
acidosis. Foods can be considered alkaline or acidic
based on the residues they produce in the body, rather
than whether they are alkaline or acidic themselves.
For example, acidic grapefruits, lemons and limes are
metabolized to alkaline residues because of their high
alkaline potassium bicarbonate content.

The researchers conducted a cross-sectional analysis on
a subset of nearly 400 male and female volunteers aged
65 or older who had completed a three-year
osteoporosis intervention trial. The volunteers'
physical activity, height and weight, and percentage
of lean body mass were measured at the start of the
study and at three years. Their urinary potassium
was measured at the start of the study, and their
dietary data was collected at 18 months.

Based on regression models, volunteers whose diets
were rich in alkaline buffers such as potassium could
expect to have 3.6 more pounds of lean tissue mass
than volunteers with half the higher potassium intake.
That almost offsets the 4.4 pounds of lean tissue that
is typically lost in a decade in healthy men and women
aged 65 and above, according to authors. The study was
published in the March issue of the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition. . .

ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief
scientific research agency.

This is good info on salt.

To summarize it is the refining of salt (shocker, lol) that causes problems, not salt itself.

It seems sea salt is the way to go (as at least one other forum member has said before).


Both sea salt and rock salt were well known
to the ancient Greeks who noted that eating
salty food affected basic body functions such
as digestion and excretion (urine and stools).
This led to salt being used medically. The healing
methods of Hippocrates (460 BC) especially made
frequent use of salt. Salt-based remedies were
thought to have expectorant powers. A mixture
of water and salt was employed as an emetic.

Drinking a mixture of two-thirds cow's milk and
one-third salt-water, in the mornings, on an empty
stomach was recommended as a cure for diseases
of the spleen. A mixture of salt and honey was
applied topically to clean bad ulcers and salt-water
was used externally against skin diseases and freckles.

Hippocrates also mentions inhalation of steam from
salt-water. We know today that the antiinflammatory
effects of inhaled salt provide relief from respiratory
symptoms (c).

Thus, 2000 years ago, Greek medicine had already
discovered topical use of salt for skin lesions, drinking
salty or mineralized waters for digestive troubles and
inhaling salt for respiratory diseases!

The doctor and alchemist Paracelsus (1493-1541 A.D.)
introduced an entirely new medical concept. He believed
that external factors create disease and conceived a
chemically oriented medical system which contrasted
with the prevalent herbal medicine. Only salted food
could be digested properly: 'The human being must
have salt, he cannot be without salt. Where there is no
salt, nothing will remain, but everything will tend to rot.'

He recommended salt water for the treatment of wounds
and for use against intestinal worms. A hip-bath in salt
water was a superb remedy for skin diseases and itching:
'This brine - he said - is better than all the health spas
arising out of nature.' He described the diuretic effect
of salt consumption and prescribed salt preparations of
different strengths that were used for instance against
constipation.

'In recent years there has been much publicity about
the need to reduce salt consumption in societies where
salt is added to many processed foods
(Denton 1984, 584-7).

It has tended to be forgotten that some salt intake is
absolutely necessary; that people need salt, sodium
chloride, to survive: The chemical requirements of the
human body demand that the salt concentration in the
blood be kept constant. If the body does not get enough
salt, a hormonal mechanism compensates by reducing
the excretion of salt in the urine and sweat. But it
cannot reduce this output to zero.

On a completely salt-free diet the body steadily loses
small amounts of salt via the kidneys and sweat glands.
It then attempts to adjust this by accelerating its
secretion of water, so that the blood's salt
concentration can be maintained at the vital level.
The result is a gradual desiccation of the body
and finally death.' Roy Moxham

An eight-year study of a New York City hypertensive
population stratified for sodium intake levels found
those on low-salt diets had more than four times as
many heart attacks as those on normal-sodium diets -
the exact opposite of what the 'salt hypothesis' would
have predicted. (1995)

Dr. Jeffrey R. Cutler documented no health outcomes
benefits of lower-sodium diets. Salt Institute

A past president of the American Heart Association,
Dr. Suzanne Oparil of the University of Alabama-
Birmingham, said her personal view is that the
government may have been too quick to
recommend that everyone cut back. 'Salt
restriction as a solitary recommendation for the
population for the prevention or the treatment
of hypertension.

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An abundance of the ingredients in unrefined real salt
are as synonymous with life today as they were a billion
years ago before single cells appeared here. Lack of
them is synonymous with birth defects, organ failure,
decay, diseases, premature aging and death at a
young age.

The problem with salt is not the salt itself but the
condition of the salt we eat - refined! Major producing
companies dry their salt in huge kilns with temperatures
reaching 1200 degrees F, changing he salt's chemical
structure, which in turn adversely affects the human
body.

The facts are that in the heating process of salt,
the element sodium chloride goes off into the air
as a gas. What remains is sodium hydroxate which
is irritating to the system and does not satisfy the
body's hunger and need for sodium chloride. Sodium
and chloride are two of the 12 daily essential
minerals.

In countries which do not alter their salt supply,
heart disease and arthritis are so rare that many
doctors have never seen a case. Their salt is dried
from the ocean by the sun. Many people believe
that salt is harmful to the human body.

The truth is we cannot live without sodium or chloride-
salt. From salt the body makes sodium bicarbaonate which
is one of the essential compounds for alkalizing the
food we eat. Also, from salt the body makes iron for
producing the hemoglobin of the red blood cell.

Cl + O <=> Mn + H <=> Fe or

chloride + Oxygen = Manganese + Hydrogen = Iron.

There is not enough natural salt in our foods, so we
must supplement our diet. When salt is withheld,
weakness and sickness follow.

Try this experiment: Mix a spoonful of salt in a
glass of water and let it stand overnight. If the salt
collects on the bottom of the glass, it has been
processed.

NATURAL SALT DISSOLVES! Salt that will not dissolve
in water cannot dissolve in your body. Any foreign
substance that collects in the body organs and tissues
will eventually result in malfunctioning of essential
body processes: heart disease, arthritis, hardening
of the body tissues and arteries, calcium deposits
in the joints, etc. Natural organic salt (saline) will
not cause calcification in your body. Real sea salt can
dissolve damaging calcium deposits in the body.

Science and medicine have tried to define the precise
roles of salt in the healthy and diseased human organism.
Blood, sweat, and tears all contain salt, and both the
skin and the eyes are protected from metabolic acids
from the effects of salt. When salt is added to a liquid,
particles with opposite charges are formed: a positively
charged sodium ion and a negatively charged chloride ion.

This is the basis of osmosis which regulates fluid
pressure within living cells and protects the body
against excessive water loss (as in diarrhea or on
heavy sweating).

Sodium and chloride ions, as well as potassium ions,
create a measurable difference in potential across cell
membranes. This ensures that the fluid inside living cells
remains separate from that outside. Thus, although the
human body consists mainly of water, our 'inner ocean'
does not flow away or evaporate. Sodium ions create a
high pressure of liquid in the kidneys and thus regulate
their metabolic function.

Water is extracted through the renal drainage system.
The body thus loses a minimal amount of essential
alkaline water. Out of 1500 liters of blood which pass
daily through the kidneys, only about 1.5 liters of liquid
leave the body as urine.

Salt is 'fuel' for nerves. Streams of positively and
negatively charged ions send impulses to nerve fibers.
A muscle cell will only contract if an impulse reaches it.
Nerve impulses are partly propelled by co-ordinated
changes in charged particles.

Fish from the ocean will die quickly if placed in a
solution of refined salt and water. The sodium
chloride, in its form as it comes from the refinery,
is actually poisonous to them. Bottom line, is that
yes it can be harmful to consume too much refined
salt, but you cannot consume too much natural
unrefined liquid real salt.

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high blood pressure?" The answer is absolutely
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eliminated through urination, defecation,
perspiration and respiration. The truth is, you
do not get high blood pressure you do high
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choices. Sodium chloride is the key to reducing
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healthy pulse rate below 70 beats a minute.

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that the pH of our water is too acidic for our good health :

Acidic Drinking Water and Risk of Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

RESULTS—[ ]Tap water pH 6.2–6.9 was associated with a fourfold higher risk of type 1 diabetes compared with pH >=7.7 [ ](OR 3.73, 95% CI 1.52–9.15). This result was similar after exclusion of individuals with the highly protective HLA-DQB1*0602 allele, but adjustment for maternal education, urban/rural residence, sex, and age tended to strengthen the estimated association. Higher tap water concentration of zinc was associated with lower risk of type 1 diabetes after adjustment for pH and other possible confounders, but the overall association was strictly not significant.

You think they'd a done something about this back in 2002 when the study was published. My unfiltered tap water reads 6.5. I filter it and then add a few sprinkles of baking soda to bring it up to 7.5.

Full article here : Acidic Drinking Water and Risk of Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes -- Stene et al. 25 (9): 1534 -- Diabetes Care


Jessica

Another problem (in addition to kidney stones and artery plaque) resulting from being over-acidic and calcium being stripped from bones and deposited elsewhere is bone spurs or osteophytes.

Osteophyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On that page they don't seem to recognize the body's pH factor as a direct link to calcium absorption but instead say, "Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body but may also be the most deficient. The amount of calcium that we absorb from our food varies widely. Our age is one factor. An adolescent may absorb up to 75% of the calcium obtained from foods, while in adults the maximum absorption rate ranges from 20% to 30%."

It's pretty obvious to me at this point that pH is the #1 factor in calcium absorption, even some of the main stream treatments support that:

"Alkaline medications such as potassium citrate and sodium bicarbonate correct the acidic condition of the body. Sodium bicarbonate may correct the loss of potassium and calcium."

Distal renal tubular acidosis

Then bone spurs can lead to arthritis.

So I wanted to post this time to say if you are already alkalizing and have any sore joints or places on your body, I recommend getting a couple of those gel filled hot/cold packs (CVS is one brand). Keep one in the freezer and use the other in the microwave.

Alternate using the hot and the cold pack on the sore spot(s) just like a dr. would tell you to do for injuries.

This speeds up the healing of bone spurs and arthritis when used in combination with alkalizing methods.


XO Jessica

Also that wikipedia page says:

" . . They found that providing their body with "good" calcium along with other vital minerals stopped the "leaching process" (calcium deficiency) thus allowing the bone spur to shrink down and eventually disappear."

To me the "along with other vital minerals" is key.

I am still taking sodium bicarbonate and the alkalizing powder every day. Other people I know who have tried the powder since I started using it have had very good effects from it. When I miss it I can feel it.

It needs to be blended in a regular blender or with a hand one but it tastes good, especially in apple juice and/or vanilla soy milk. The one I use is by Swanson Vitamins.

It meets the guidelines discussed in 'The Acidic Danger' by W. Auer. That's a great, inexpensive, understandable and concise book (iirc about 120 pages) on the topic. Here is a summary of the guidelines for a good alkalizing powder:

"Dr. Auer also recommends a daily dosage of an alkaline powder that consists of 660 mg of tricalcium phosphate; 190 mg of magnesium phosphate; 90 mg of magnesium citrate; 280 mg of potassium hydrogencarbonate (bicarbonate); 190 mg of potassium citrate; and 80 mg of calcium citrate."

Bone loss & acidity | Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Find Articles at BNET

Kev,

Ya' know it's interesting you brought that up.

I've done a few cleansings in the past and I think they are good.

But now I see them more as treating a symptom rather than a cause. I mean not that that type of build-up can't cause further problems but. .

If our pH is balanced we won't have to worry about parasites and such. So the way I see it, the parasites are a symptom of unbalanced pH.

Without getting graphic I will just say that since I've been concentrating on alkalizing, I actually see the same effects as when I was doing cleansings. And even more so, for example, right after I use the hot and cold packs on stiff joints

Any news yet? I'm planning on starting mine soon, but was thinking about using a less stringent method. Thanks! Oh, yeah, no need for any graphic images...