] Re: Alkalinity -- important or not?

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Mike

I agree with you partly. I do agree that there is too much emphasis on

pH. For instance, people are overly concerned with pH and just stick

with baking soda. It might be fine. There are lots of other alkaline

and other minerals the body needs to heal besides NaHCO3. Do people

have a lack of NaHCO3 in their body?

However, we do need to eat a mostly alkaline diet. The body does

regulate itself by balancing the pH. The body will also use up more

energy by eating an acid diet. The body will eventually become more

alkaline but that extra energy could be used to heal the body instead

of digesting and redistributing the nutrients. Efficiency counts.

Why tax it more than necessary. If one eats chemicals, the body will

also establish a sort of equilibrium.

GB

> Hello Bob,

>

> There are good foods with alkaline ash and good foods with acid ash.

> Unless a body is near terminal it balances the pH through a buffering

> system. The urine reflects this. When your body is correcting (sort

> of like a theromastat in a house) the urine may be acid, alkaline or

> in the middle, depending on what you are eating, drinking and what

> your activity level is. The typical American diet could do a lot

> better in providing alkaline ash. That would help people from having

> to scavenge their own stored minerals to correct. What bothers me is

> the almost obsessive behavior around tracking urine pH. Whether your

> urine pH is alkaline, acidic or neither is not necessarily an

> indicator of your current health state. That is why gulping cesium or

> bicarbonate in an attempt to produce an alkaline urine makes no sense.

> Eat a wide variety of the foods we know are good. Certain

> compartments of the body need to be acidic. The stomach is one. As

> we get older it is common that we produce less and less HCl. This

> leads to a whole complex of degenerative disorders, both by primary

> and secondary effect. A lot of people would benefit by temporarily

> taking HCl (an acid, oh my lord!) as a digestive aid, while

> simultaneously stimulating the oxyntic cells of the stomach to

> produce more on their own by taking herbal bitters.

>

> The internet is full of hype about pH miracles and the like. Most of

> this is based on simplistic thinking, without regard to the actual

> physiology involved.

>

> Oh, oh,....here comes the counter attack!

>

> Mike