How Body Ph Can Increase (and Decrease) Your Energy Levels

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Article Title: How Body Ph Can Increase (and Decrease) Your

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Author: Andy Long

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WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE; WE ARE BIO ELECTRICAL ENGINES

In order to accomplish all the many millions of complex

functions that occur over the course of the day, your body has

to be able to communicate with itself & #8230; all the way down

to the cellular level. And do you know how it does this?

Through pulses of electricity. That's right, electricity.

Your body operates on an electro magnetic current. Believe it

or not, all of the organs in your body emit these fields of

electrical current. In fact, nerve signals are nothing more

than electrical charges.

What creates this electrical power in your body is a very fine

balance that exists in your bio chemistry. And of all the

systems in your body that depend on this delicate, bio chemical

balance, one of the most important is your blood stream. This

is where pH comes into play. But what is pH?

WHAT PH IS AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALL YOUR BODY FUNCTIONS

PH is a scale that measures how acidic or alkaline a substance

is. The scale ranges from 1 to 14 with 1 being very acid, 7

neutral and 14 very alkaline.

So what does pH have to do with you and your blood? Well, the

pH of your blood is extremely important. The ideal pH level for

your blood is right around 7.35 and your body goes to enormous

lengths to maintain this level.

Why? Because if your blood pH were to vary 1 or 2 points in

either direction, it would change the electrical chemistry in

your body, there would be no electrical power and in short

order you would drop dead. As you can see, maintaining the

right pH level in your blood is pretty important!!

With this in mind a good way to avoid upsetting this delicate

bio chemical balance would be to take a look at those things

that can compromise the maintenance of the ideal pH level in

your body. And what is the main culprit in this case? The

answer is the creation of acid in your body.

Before we look at what causes acid, here's a graphic example to

give you an idea of what can happen in the blood when your pH

drops to less than ideal. Red blood cells are how oxygen is

transported to all the cells in your body.

As red blood cells move into the tiny, little, capillaries, the

space they have to move through gets pretty small. In fact, the

diameter of the capillaries gets so small that the red blood

cells sometimes have to pass through these capillaries one red

blood cell at a time!

Because of this, and because it's important for the red blood

cells to be able to flow easily and quickly through your body,

they have a mechanism that allows them to remain separate from

each other. This mechanism comes in the form of the outside of

healthy red blood cells having a negative charge. This causes

them to stay apart from each other, sort of like when you try

to push the negative ends of two magnets together. They resist

each other and stay apart.

Unfortunately, acid interferes with this very important

mechanism in a pretty frightening way. Acid actually strips

away the negative charge from red blood cells. The result is

that your red blood cells then tend to clump together and not

flow as easily. This makes it much more difficult for them to

flow easily through the bloodstream.

But it also makes it harder for them to move freely through

those small capillaries. This means less oxygen gets to your

cells. Acid also weakens the red blood cells and they begin to

die. And guess what they release into your system when they

die? More acid.

I could describe a whole list of processes that occur when your

system becomes and remains acid but I think you get the idea.

The point is that aside from the acid that is secreted into

your stomach to aid digestion, acid in your body is bad.

Really bad.

In regard to producing energy in the body, here's an easy

question for you. What do you think happens to a person's

energy level if over time their system becomes more and more

acid, their biochemical balance is disrupted and their red

blood cells can't deliver oxygen and nutrients as efficiently

to all their cells? The answer is simple. Their energy level

drops. Dramatically.

Are you beginning to get the picture here as to the importance

of pH in your body? Good. Now let's take a quick look at what

causes acidity in your body and then look at steps you can take

to get your body pH back to an ideal level.

WHAT CAUSES ACID IN THE BODY

The primary cause of an acidic condition in your body is from

what you put in your mouth. In other words, what you eat and

what you drink. And it isn't how " acid " something may seem

when you eat or drink it. It has to do with what is left over

when you digest it.

Specifically, does eating or drinking something leave behind an

acid or alkaline " ash " . For example, I don't know about you but

I love seafood. Scallops are one of my favorites. However,

when your body digests scallops, it leaves an extremely acid

ash. In fact, scallops are one of the most acid foods you can

eat.

Unfortunately, a lot of the things most people put in their

mouths create an acid ash. These include alcohol, coffee and a

lot of flesh protein in your diet. Interestingly enough, stress

also tends to create an acid condition in the body.

STEPS YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY TAKE TO IMPROVE YOUR PH

Fortunately, it is pretty easy to immediately change your pH

for the better and make it more alkaline. The first step is to

understand which of the foods you are eating and the drinks you

are drinking are acid and which are alkaline. Then it's simply

a matter of eliminating some of the more acid foods you are

eating and adding in more alkaline foods.

However, before you start, it's important to get a baseline of

what the pH is in your body so that you can see how you are

improving or if you need to continue to eliminate more acid

foods and add in more alkaline ones.

You can do this by testing the pH of your saliva on a regular

basis. This is really simple to do. More details on how to do

this are provided on some web pages I have created for you to

help you out. A link to these pages is provided below.

In addition to decreasing the amount of acid foods you eat and

increasing the amount of alkaline foods you eat, one of the

best ways to immediately begin changing your pH is to drink

" green drinks " . You can make these by simply adding a powder

that is made up of a whole host of vegetables that are highly

alkaline to a glass of water. Information on suggested green

drink powders to use is included on pages that I have a link to

below.

RESOURCES WHERE YOU CAN LEARN MORE

Clicking on the following link will take you to some pages I

created that have more information on alkaline and acid foods,

how to test your own pH and what to look for in green drinks.

http://www.ajpip.com/resources/site_map.htm

Start taking the steps described above and you may very well

find your energy levels increasing over time. Mine certainly

have.

- Andy Long

About The Author: After years of extreme fatigue, severe

digestion problems and frequent sickness, Andy Long now enjoys

energy levels that allow him to windsurf in 30 mph winds for

3-4 hours at a time. He now shares with others what he did to

completely regain his health through his health related web

sites and newsletter. Note: Learn about a device that will

tell you the antioxidant levels in your body just by scanning

your hand. http://www.splinfo.com

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