Restoring Proper pH Balance

The corollary protocol to flushing out acids is to restore proper pH balance in the blood and tissues...

Almost all forms of internal toxicity cause a state of acidosis in the body. In turn, excessive levels of acid residues in the blood and tissues suppress immune response, interfere with normal metabolism, inhibit digestion and assimilation, promote fungal and bacterial infections, and cause all sorts of other biological malfunctions and ill health. To give you an idea of how important pH blalance is throughout the human system, here are some of the ways your vital organs depend upon proper pH balance to function properly:

Heart

The human heart pumps about 130 litres of blood per hour. If the blood os saturated with acod wastes, the acids can do serious damage to heart tissue as the blood passes through it, gradually causing deterioration of the heart muscle. Moreover, normal heartbeat ryhthms are dependent on an alkaline environment and are therefore adversely affected by excess acid wastes in the bloodstream. And since acid wastes drastically reduce the blood's capacity to carry oxygen, the heart does not receive sufficient oxygen supplies from blood that' saturated with acids.

Lungs

One way that the body can self-regulate pH balance in the blood is by controlling the oxygen level through correct breathing. By maximising the exchange of gases in the lungs, proper diaphragmatic breathing saturates the bloodstream with fesh supplies of oxygen, while purging it of carbon dioxide. Oxygen supports an alkaline environment in the blood and tissues, while carbon dioxide contributes to acidosis. If you permit your blood to become overloaded with acid wastes, it cannot absorb and carry sufficient oxygen from the lungs t sustain an alkaline blood and tissue pH, resulting instead in a state of chronic hypoxia (oxygen dificiency) and its twin condition acidosis, i every tissue and cell of the body. This in turn paves the way for germs and tumours to develop.

Liver

One of the liver's main jobs is to filter toxic wastes from the bloodstream. Another task is to produce many of the alkaline enzymes upon whch immune response and other vital functions depend. If the blood s constantly polluted by excess acid residues from wrong eating habits, alcohol and drugs, stress hormones and other acid-forming factors, the liver eventually gets overloaded with acid wastes and becomes deeply congested with toxic debris. This in turn impairs its ability to filter acids from the bloodstream, so instead the body starts depositing excess acid wastes in the joints and other soli tissues, causing arthritis and tissue toxicity throughout the body.

Kidneys

The kidneys also help to filter acid wastes from the bloodstrem, processing about one litre of blood per minute. This in turn helps keep blood pH at its proper alkaline level. Excessive acid waste in the blood due to improper diet, pharmaceutical drugs and other lifestyle factors can severly corrode the delkicate tissues in which blood filters through the kidneys. It can also cause the formation of kidney stones and inflammation of the bladder and urinary tract.

There are basically two related ways to restore proper pH balance to the blood and tissues durig detox, after the acid waste residues have all been flushed out. One method is alkalization, the other is oxygenation.

Alkalization can be achieved fairly quickly by adjusting the diet to strictly limit the intake of acid-formig foods, while increasig the consumption of alkaline-forming items. The swiftest and most effective dietary alkalizers are freshly extracted raw vegitable juices, such as carrot and beetroot juice. Drinking lots of pure alkaline water throughout the day is another effective way to alkalize your blood and tissues quickly by dietary means.