Reducing the Stress of Poor Hydration and Acidity in Your Body
Stressor #3 of the five types of stressors is poor nutrition, poor hydration, and too little oxygen getting to your cells. Last month we talked about the stress of food allergies. Of course, any allergy will add stress to your body, and the more stressed, the more acidic and the less oxygenated your body gets.
Research on the relationship between acidity and disease conditions, including cancer, began with Otto Warburg, a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1931 for some of his earlier work on cell metabolism. Dr. Baroody, PhD, author of Alkalize or Die, says “The root cause of disease is too much tissue and acid waste in the body.” Dr. Robert Young, PhD, says, “What we do, what we eat or drink, even your thoughts can make the body over acidic.”
The website Shirley's Wellness Cafe provides an excellent array of additional information related to the research on alkaline/acid conditions in the body.
To measure the levels of acid/alkaline, we use the pH sale, which runs from 0 to 14. Neutral pH is 7.0. By law, our tap water is supposed to be neutral pH. This is primarily so it won't corrode our pipes! But also so the water we drink supports body processes. Unfortunately, much of what we drink other than water is acidic. Coffee is 4.0 pH, carbonated sodas and even the athletic electrolyte drinks are about 2.5 pH - very acidic.
Highly acidic beverages can end up interfering with the production of both the HC1 (hydrochloric acid) needed to digest our food, and its by-product, sodium bicarbonate - which adds to the alkaline buffers in our body. One of the jobs of the pancreas is to ensure that the pH of the blood is maintained in the alkaline range 7.35 to 7.45. To do so, it uses the alkaline buffers - the sodium bicarbonate by-product of the HC1 production - and also potassium.
What is most interesting to me is at the higher pH levels (closer to 7.45), your blood is capable of carrying more oxygen...like 69% more. So, the more alkaline your blood, the more oxygen to your cells, and the more healthy your body.
Alkaline-producing foods include most vegetables and some fruits. Naturally green foods are alkaline. Just about everything else is acid-producing, especially junk food, sodas, grains, dairy, and animal proteins.
All of us will benefit from a more alkaline type diet that we digest properly (which requires HC1 and other enzymes), and from better hydration. The body is on average 75% water. When you feel thirsty, you are already dehydrated. Using soft drinks, juices and even electrolyte drinks (which are all highly acidic) to quench your thirst is counter to good health practices. As my father used to preach to us, “Drink a glass of water first, then have a small taste of other drinks.”
Water is in - especially alkaline, ionized, micro-clustered water. Such water is the least expensive and fastest way to dramatically improve your body's alkaline level, restore buffers, increase oxygen to the cells, flush out acidic waste, and remove stress from your body. I have been using Kangen Water™ for over a year, and I am amazed at the results for me. I was already healthy, but I found:
- I started sleeping through the night for the first time in years
- My memory came back. I had started “reaching” for words and names. Now they come in like they used to.
- My stamina improved dramatically. I couldn't believe how many more reps I could do with weights - without being tired and without lactic acid pain afterwards.
- My digestive cycle improved. Now I can tell what I ate 1 day ago instead of 2 days ago.
Kangen Water™ has been used for diabetics and burn victims for over 35 years in Japanese hospitals. Oxygen to the cells is essential to the healing process. For diabetics with compromised healing capacity - even to the point of gangrene - the water has provided dramatic results.
One of the major problems faced by diabetics is reduced blood circulation to the extremities due to arteries clogged with plaque.* When hydrated with Kangen Water™, the blood is more oxygenated and has more capability to flush out acidic wastes and support healing.
I would like to mention a couple of additional support systems for diabetics (and others with plaque build-up) which have been used successfully to improve oxygen delivery and avoid amputation and bypass surgery.
- Hyperbaric oxygen treatment - where you have a number of sessions in a recompression chamber (like for scuba divers who have the bends) and you are breathing pressurized oxygen. This adds oxygen to your blood and helps your body grow additional capillaries for improved circulation. This is also useful for stroke victims, burn victims, and many other illnesses. However, it is expensive.
- EDTA Chelation therapy (pronounced key-lay-shun) - where an IV drip of EDTA is used to help remove heavy metals from the body. This process has been shown to improve circulation dramatically for at least 80% of those who use it. They don't know exactly why the plaque starts going away, but it does. EDTA was used in the 1940s to detox Navy ship painters with lead poisoning and this is when they discovered the positive effect on circulation. With over 30 million infusions, it has proven to be safer than aspirin. Cost of EDTA IV Chelation ($3,000 to $5,000) is minimal compared to bypass surgery or amputation. See the ACAM website for more information. There is also oral chelation treatment, though they don't work as fast or as reliably as IV treatments.
For good hydration, many sources recommend ½ ounce of water for each pound of body weight/day. A good filter system for your tap water is essential for removing chlorine and other pollutants in the water - and to make it taste better. If you use distilled water or reverse osmosis water, you must make sure you add a good mineral supplement to your diet. Bottled water is becoming more controversial due to questionable quality standards, BPA problems with plastic bottles, and the landfill waste they generate. Further, much bottled water is more acidic, not alkaline.
Whatever water you drink, set your intention for health, and drink plenty of it!
To your health!
*Note: Plaque is not the result of cholesterol levels, but rather because of free radical damage and inflammation due to sugar, refined carbohydrates, fractured fats, and toxic heavy metals from smoking and pollution. The body uses cholesterol like a bandage on the damage to the arteries so the blood won't leak out - which leads to placque build-up. Stop the damage and you stop the plaque.
About Rochele Hirsch
Discovering the patterns behind "what is going on" and developing systems to improve effectiveness have been focal points throughout Rochele Hirsch’s life. In 1981, she began to draw on her background in physics, informative systems, organizational effectiveness and color analysis to investigate the patterns of personal effectiveness that make or break success. What she discovered and tested in her own living laboratory may well change the way people understand and use the power of intention. She developed her Theory of How Come, and today helps her clients identify the preconscious "survival tactics" that lead to self-sabotaging behaviors, and eventually, disease or addiction. Rochele is the author of Love the Noun vs. Love the Verb and the Celebrity Newsletter BeforetheBehavior.com
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