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xxxxx.chapter03.09.b.acidalkalinebalance. This file has been updated in
February 2007 and is part of Chapter 3 of my manuals. Please click here
for the Microsoft Word version of this file. The Acid / Alkaline Balance It is important to have an understanding of how the
acid / alkaline balance within our bodies can affect physical health. Water ionises into
hydrogen (H+) and hydroxyl ( As we have seen earlier, water is a key component
of our physical bodies and the ability of various molecules from our food to
bond with water molecules within the body fluids is critical to the correct
operation of the cellular processes within the body. The pH levels within the
body fluids are also critical to the cellular processes. The pH level at which cells can
function correctly varies in different parts of the body. The following list
gives an indication of the acceptable pH ranges: ·
Heart 7.0
to 7.4 ·
Brain 7.1 ·
Liver 7.2 ·
Blood 7.35
to 7.45 ·
Saliva 6.0
to 7.4 ·
Muscles 6.9
to 7.2 ·
Urea 4.5 to
8.0 ·
Bile from Gallbladder 5.0 to 7.7 ·
Enzymes in the Small Intestine 7.5 to 8.3 As an overall generalisation, our
physical bodies work best if they are slightly alkaline. The pH level in our bodies is influenced most of
all by our diet. It can be influenced also by an incorrectly functioning
major organ or body system such as the kidneys and the digestive system, by
stress and by too much intensive exercise. When our food has been metabolised
(processed) in the body, it leaves a residue or ash which will be either
acid, alkaline or neutral. A good diet that would support the overall
slightly alkaline balance that the cells of the body are designed to operate
in would have around 75% of daily food intake represented by fruit and by
vegetables which are handled in such a way as to minimise
loss of minerals and vitamins in the preparation and cooking processes. As a generalisation, the majority of people eating western
style diets do not have this level of intake of fruit and vegetables but have
a significant proportion of processed foods and dairy / meat products. As a generalisation, this diet produces over-acidity within
the body fluids. Processed foods and dairy / meat products tend to leave an
acidic ash once metabolised within the body. Over-acidity means that the cellular processes are
operating outside of the acid / alkaline parameters that they were designed
to work in. This has an overall effect on physical health conditions. The
body has its own reserves of alkalinity which it can call upon and release to
correct the acid / alkaline balance. These alkalinity reserves include the
alkaline substances such as sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphate
and haemoglobin found around the body in the tissue
cells, in our bones, in our blood, etc.. These reserves, however, are
intended only for short-term quick fixes to an acid / alkaline imbalance and
are not sufficient to deal with long term acid / alkaline imbalances. Long
term imbalances caused by diet or by a major organ misfunction
will result in the depletion of the alkaline reserves and the breakdown of
normal cellular activity, and can result in physical health conditions such
as the following: ·
Arthritis. ·
Aching muscles. ·
Premature aging. ·
Stones in the kidneys and the gall
bladder. ·
Being overweight. ·
Weakness in the immune system. ·
Osteoporosis (weak and brittle bones
caused by the removal of minerals to combat over-acidity). ·
Reduction in the ability to use the
oxygen in the blood fully. ·
Cardiovascular (heart system) damage. ·
Accleration
of damage caused by free radicals and higher likelihood of developing
cancerous consitions. ·
Low energy, fatigue and depression. ·
Fungal growth. ·
Tooth decay. We looked briefly before at the role of
electrolytes in the body. If a person eats a diet that leaves a constant
acidic ash, the release of certain ionised salts
such as bicarbonate of soda, calcium, chloride, magnesium, phosphate,
potassium, and sodium into the blood to counteract the acidity will reduce
the level of these substances to be available for the usual electrolyte
activity in the body. As healers we will often be called upon to help
with physical conditions that are the result of acid producing diets. The
correct solution to prevent further recurrence of many of these physical
conditions will be change of diet. Until diet is changed, much of the energy
healing work that we do will tend to be focussed
around alleviating symptoms rather than being able to resolve the causes of
the symptoms. The following table gives an indication of the acid
or alkaline ash produced by a range of common foods after they have been metabolised. The acidity or alkalinity of food before it
is eaten is not a guide to the acidity or alkalinity of the food after it has
gone through the digestive system.
Medical research has shown that the pH levels in
our bodies are affected also by stress in our lives. Stress can influence the
working of the endocrine system glands and the resulting production of
hormones which in turn impact upon the metabolic and cellular respiration
processes, and can result in acidity. It is helpful for healers to be aware,
therefore, that where a client has a life situation which is causing them
ongoing stress, the symptoms will not just be at an emotional and mental
level but in the physical body as well as it releases its alkaline reserves
to try to maintain the correct levels of alkalinity. We start to look at
meditative practice in Chapter 6. Whilst this is introduced into this course
as a basis for developing the psychic and intuitive abilities so that we can
sense energy imbalances and blockages both within ourselves for self-healing
purposes and within others as we try to heal them, it needs to be recognised in the context of the acid alkaline balance in
the body that meditative practice is a substantive healing modality in its
own right as it helps to calm the mind and the emotions and results in
reduced stress levels. Regular and prolonged periods of
intense exercise can also contribute towards acidity in the body. Energy is
needed to facilitate the exercise and comes from the release of energy that
is stored in the ATP. This release involves the breaking off of one of the
phosphate molecules, thereby moving from the three phosphate molecules in the
ATP to the two phosphate molecules in the ADP. The breaking of the molecular
bonding releases energy for the muscles. The normal store of ATP is not in
anyway sufficient to support prolonged exercise so the body will be working
at higher than usual rates to replenish the ATP stores once exercising
starts. Hydrogen ions which are acidic in nature are a natural by product of
the release of energy from ATP. Higher than usual levels of physical activity
will result in higher than usual release of energy from the ATP and will
result in higher than usual release of the acidic hydrogen ions to beyond the
point at which the body’s usual buffer mechanisms to maintain reasonable acid
/ alkaline balance can cope. What this means is that high levels of repeated
and prolonged intense exercise either amongst sports people or amongst
overweight people who seek to reduce weight this way can be unhealthy because
there is a negative impact upon the acid alkaline balance in the body. |
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