Acid/Alkaline Theory of Disease Is Nonsense

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Acid/Alkaline Theory of Disease Is Nonsense

Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

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Have you seen advertisements for products such as coral calcium or

alkaline water that are supposed to neutralize acid in your

bloodstream?

Taking calcium or drinking alkaline water does not affect blood

acidity.

Anyone who tells you that certain foods or supplements make your

stomach or blood acidic does not understand nutrition.

You should not believe that it matters whether foods are acidic or

alkaline, because no foods change the acidity of anything in your

body except your urine.

Your stomach is so acidic that no food can change its acidity. Citrus

fruits, vinegar, and vitamins such as ascorbic acid or folic acid do

not change the acidity of your stomach or your bloodstream.

An entire bottle of calcium pills or antacids would not change the

acidity of your stomach for more than a few minutes.

All foods that leave your stomach are acidic.

Then they enter your intestines where secretions from your pancreas

neutralize the stomach acids.

So no matter what you eat, the food in stomach is acidic and the food

in the intestines is alkaline.

You cannot change the acidity of any part of your body except your

urine. Your bloodstream and organs control acidity in a very narrow

range. Anything that changed acidity in your body would make you very

sick and could even kill you. Promoters of these products claim that

cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline environment and that is true,

but neither can any of the other cells in your body.

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