By Joan L. McDaniel November 21, 2018
This is the second article on my articles about my experience with Inflammation pH Acid Balance, and food. While I was detoxing, and drinking tons of coffee, I suddenly developed and acid balance. My sickness of 2012 returned and I could not Breath. With help from my friend who knows a great deal about homeopathy, I became extremely aware of the pH balance of acidic and alkaline (basic). She told me to eat a lemon, which I did and suddenly I could breath again.
This is the second article on that subject. Part 1 is titled Inflammation and Acid pH Balance. I have come a long way since being so sick. Almost 6 years ago (2012) I didn’t have enough energy to get out of bed or even catch my breath.
In Just Ten Years What happened to me?
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What is Ph Balance?
One of the most important metabolic functions our body performs is maintaining the proper balance between an acidic and alkaline environment. When this balance is disrupted, illness can result. How does this happen and what can be done to prevent it?
pH Balance is the key to optimal health, weight, mental clarity, and overall vigor.
Ph is all about balance and balance or homeostasis. It is a vital measurement created to determine the acidic or alkaline of a beverage, chemical, food, and the human body.
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It consists of a scale of 0 to 14. The body operates using chemicals and a pH balance. Your body automatically regulates the pH of your blood. You can’t change it. Blood is kept between a pH of 7.35 and 7.45 any other value and you will be either dead or dying. What you eat regulates the rest of you. Each and every cell of your body has a pH balance also.
This balance It is known as homeostasis (the maintenance of equilibrium or balance). If your body receives acid foods, the cells and organs will have an acid balance. Your body doesn’t work with an acid balance. An acid balance generates inflammation and illness. The only organ in your body that likes acid is your stomach. With an acid balance your body cannot get rid of the extra CO2 and your muscles begin to hurt, you can’t catch your breath, and you begin to slow down. In other words you lose the ability to neutralize toxins and acids and experience a metabolic breakdown.
If you body receives alkaline foods, the cells and organs have an alkaline balance. Your body thrives on an alkaline balance. There is plenty of Oxygen, Hydrogen, with the results of energy, endurance, strength and health.
pH Balance and Minerals
Just as the foods you eat, the amount of minerals available for your body is the next most important item in a healthy alkaline balance. Your body uses your minerals and vitamins to fight off or buffer an acid balance. They are a protective buffering mechanism when what you eat isn’t so alkaline. In an attempt to maintain homeostasis, your body throws in the minerals calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, iron and manganese to maintain your Alkaline balance even though you have eaten nothing but acid. These minerals a stored in fat cells and used as a reserve. The more acid you eat the more there reserves are depleted. No more minerals no more alkaline balance – So you need to eat foods high in minerals also.
“The Food you eat can be the safest and most powerful form of medicine of the slowest form of poison.” Ann Wigmore Founder of Health Institute
That is why I provided this list.
There are several Acid/Alkaline (base) food lists, Since, I am an amateur with this, I have merged several list together and I strongly urge you search the net and use some of those list. There are a great deal of false or inaccurate foods one list will say the food is acid and other will say its alkaline. Remember you normally need a balance of 60% alkaline, 40% acid intake. If you are working at reducing an acid balance, you need and 80/20 intake. 80% alkaline, 20% acid. You still need a balance. Remember you body operates in a balance called homeostasis.
Homeostasis – is the physiological process by which internal systems of the body (e.g. acid-base balance, blood pressure, body temperature) are maintained at equilibrium despite variations in the external conditions.
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Modern Medicine and pH
You probably won’t find any mention of pH or further information from your Dr. because Modern medicine doesn’t get very involved with nutrition. It isn’t even mentioned in Medical School. Except for a serious blood gas pH test, the medical world isn’t very involved with the pH level of cells and organs. That is left up to you. The only pH the medical world seems to be concerned about is PhD Title.
Tame your Acid and Put it Where It Belongs
If you have several Signs and Symptoms of an Acid Balance, See Part I. A typical symptom is you’re short of breath, lack energy, and/or can’t stay awake or stay asleep. You don’t feel very well – In other words you can’t breath is one of life critical signs.
You should increase intake of Alkaline forming foods to reach a balance. Remember the 80/20%. Your body uses the alkaline balance and your stored minerals to keep the acid where it belongs, in your digestive and immune system.
You Need Your Minerals
You also need to increase your minerals intake. Minerals like Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium. You body deplete your stored minerals to combat an acid pH balance.
Here are some suggestion of a source of Minerals I have used for several years.
You need to increase your magnesium and I recommend Dr. Carolyn Dean’s product Magnesium and My Story
You also need good intake of sea salt Himalayan sea salt especially.
You should also increase intake of Sea Weed
Also the intake of Chloride is acid and very harmful to your health. I recommend filtered tap water.
Increase your mineral intake and your alkaline food intake.
For your Information there are a large list of inexpensive books available especially from Amazon
Amazon List of Acid/Alkaline food
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I Found Many Versions of pH Food List
Acid-Yielding Foods
Alcohol – Don’t drink
Animal proteins
Artificial Sugar or Sweeteners
Baked Goods
Barley
Beef
Bread
Buckwheat
Canned fruit
Caffeine – Including Coffee or Tea
Cereals, all
Cheese, all
Chocolate
Chloride – found in tap water Filter your tap water. Chloride is an acid and is very harmful to your health. It is also government required not only for tap water but for any public swimming pool.
Coffee – is extremely Acid you’ll have to give up on it for a little while I loved my Coffee but you can do it
Corn flakes
Corn flour, polenta, starch
Cranberries
Dairy
Eggs
Legumes
Lentils
Meat – including grass-fed beef or chicken Best to cut down on
Oatmeal
Pasta
Plums & prunes
Pork
Processed Foods
Rice
Rye bread
Soft drinks
Soy, Tofu, Tempeh
Spaghetti
Spelt
Sugar all forms except natural Honey directly from the bee hive
Tea Black
Vinegar (except ACV)
Wheat bran
White flour
Wheat germ
Wheat products
Whole milk
White rice
Very Acid-Yielding Foods
Bread (Whole wheat)
Brown rice
Cheese cottage
Cheese Gouda
Cheese Hard
Cheese Parmesan cheese
Cheese Processed (soft) cheese
Chicken
Chloride – Tap Water
Cod
Egg
Herring
Liver sausage
Lunch meat, canned
Oats Rolled
Peanuts
Salami
Trout
Walnuts
Foods that taste like acid
You cannot tell if the food is acid or basic based on its taste. Fruits like sour like the lemon or sweet like the pineapple are not acid foods. Or Food like real honey from the farmers hive taste sweet. These are normally foods you think are acid but in reality are alkaline forming foods. During the process of digestion, the acids oxidize into Carbon dioxide and water. Therefore they do not create an acid condition in the body.
Alkaline-forming Foods
Alfalfa sprouts
Alkaline Water – See recipe at the end – I do not recommend commercial alkaline Water
Almonds
All Herbs
Amaranth Grain
Apples
Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV)
Apricots
Arugula
Asparagus
Avocado
Basil Leaves Fresh – many Grocery Stores sell actual Basil plants in the Produce section
Baking Soda – See instructions below
Balsamic Vinegar
Banana – For sudden feelings of being over acid
Barley Grass
Beans – green, Lima, Soya,
Beets
Beet Greens
Blackberries
Blueberries
Borage Oil
Broccoli
Buckwheat
Brussel sprouts
Cabbage
Caffeine – Do not take
Cardamom – for belching
Carrot – for belching
Cauliflower
Cayenne pepper
Celery – for belching
Cheese – Cottage
Cheese – White / Goat Milk Cheese
Cherries
Chestnuts
Chili Pepper
Chlorella
Cinnamon
Coconut, fresh
Coffee – Do not Take it is very acid
Collard greens
Corn Fresh
Cucumber
Curry
Dandelions
Dates
Dulce Seaweed
Eggplant
Edible Flowers
Fennel Seeds
Figs, fresh & dried
Garlic
Ginger
Grains Amaranth, millet, and quinoa
Grapefruit
Grapes
Green beans
Greens beet, chard, collard, Mustard, Spinach
Green Peas
Green Pepper
Hazelnuts
Honey – Raw from the farmer helps belching mix with lemon and lime also as a tea needs to be mixed
Horseradish
Kale
Kamut grain
Kelp
Kiwifruit
Kohlrabi
Leaf Lettuce
Leeks
Lemon – Small slices of lemons or ACV should give you close to instant relief
2 tbls Lemon juice with 1/2 tsp baking soda for an instant alkaline cocktail. Allow bubbling to settle and add 8 oz. water. Drink at once. You can substitute ACV for lemon juice.
Lentils
Lettuce
Lima Beans
Limes
Linseed (flaxseed oil)
Mangoes
Maple syrup (real)
Millet grain
Minerals – Calcium, iron, magnesium, and potassium and sodium are the primary alkalizing minerals. Foods that are high in this minerals are considered alkaline-forming food. Most foods have both acid and alkaline minerals in them.
Mineral water
Mushrooms
Mustard
Mustard greens
Nectarines
Okra not cooked
Oranges
Oatmeal
Olive Oil
Evening Primrose Oil
Onions – White Sweet Onion is best
Papaya
Parsley
Parsnips
Peaches
Pears
Peas
Peppermint all forms including fresh or dried leaves
Peppers
Pineapple – helps belching and bloating
Pine nuts
Pumpkin seeds
Quinoa grain
Umeboshi Plums
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Radishes
Raisins
Raspberries
Reduce stress
Rutabaga
Sauerkraut
Sea Salt
Seeds – Caraway, Celery, Cumin, Fennel, Sesame
Sleep – Wait three hours after eating
Smoking – Don’t
Spinach
Spirulina
Sprouts – Alfalfa seeds is the best, Chia seed, and Radish seed
Squash
Strawberries
Sunflower seeds
Sweet Potatoes
Swiss Chard
Tartar Cream of – In cases of extreme emergency when you need to get alkaline fast, mix 1/2 tsp cream of tartar in 8 oz. water and drink immediately
Tempeh
Tofu
Tomatoes
Turnip
Turnip greens
Turmeric
Turmeric and Honey
Eat your veggies
Many fruits and vegetables have an alkalizing effect on your body, so make sure you’re getting an ample amount of them. These include dark green, leafy vegetables like kale, arugula, spinach, Swiss chard and collard greens, along with lemons, carrots, beets, turnips, cayenne peppers and garlic.
Sea Veggies
Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) 2 tbls with 8 oz. water. Start with 1/2 tsp and slowly work up to 2 – 3 Tablespoons
Alkaline Water – is simply lemons in water
Warm Salt Water
Watermelon – use for belching
Watercress
Wheat Grass and Wheat Grass Sprouts
Wild Rice
Vinegar – Balsamic
Vitamins – C, Calcium and potassium
Yams
Zucchini
Very Alkaline-Yielding Foods
Use in an emergency
Dates
Lemon or citric Acid Number one
Cayenne Peppers (capsicum) – cayenne is among the most alkalizing foods. The Lemon is best. Cayenne Pepper is also known for as a bacterial and a free radical fighter. (to help with the sting take something that has fat in it like coconut oil it takes the sting out)
Pineapple
raisins
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) – Temporary 2 Week Use only Read instructions
Watermelon
For GERD Symptoms
Home remedies for acidity
— Mix 1/2 tsp. baking soda in 16 oz. water and drink to relieve heartburn, acid reflux and GERD symptoms.
— Mix 1/4 – 1/2 tsp. baking soda with 2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice or organic apple cider vinegar to relieve acid reflux and create an alkaline-forming environment in your body. It will foam and fizz, so use a tall glass and wait for all bubbling to stop. Then add 8 oz. water and drink all at once. This mixture neutralizes the pH, buffers stomach acid and reduces acidosis.
Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) Instructions
Method 1: Dilute Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate)
•Use 1/2 teaspoon baking soda mixed with 1 cup warm water about 300 ml
•Drink after eating one hour.
•Repeatedly drinking about 2 times will immediately reduce the pain of fast stomach pain.
•This method not only reduces pain, but also actively reduces belching, abdominal pain, dyspepsia.
Alkaline Water
I do not recommend commercial Alkaline water
Detoxifying Lemon Water Recipe
ingredients:
1 lemon
1/2 cucumber (in season)
1/4 ginger root
1/2 cup mint leaves
Direction
– Peel a small amount of ginger before you cut it.
– Slice up all the ingredients and add it to water.
– If you want to get the most out of the ingredients, do not throw them out after one use.
– Generally, they will last around three days if you keep adding new water.
– Drink first thing in the morning for optimum results.
Serves: 1 tall glass
•1 lemon, juiced
•1 tsp of aloe vera
•1 tsp of apple cider vinegar
•1-2 cups of water (room temperature or hot, based on what you want)
•1 tsp real honey
•A few mint and fresh basil leaves.
To get Started on approaching an alkaline diet, make a pitcher of this, and drink it every morning on an empty stomach to get all the benefits, or before going to bed are best. Drink this for 5 days and you should notice you’re waking up more rested and with more energy. You should have fewer digestive problems. That is if you also stop eating processed foods, including sugar and soft drinks and coffee.
Till Next Time
List of Books Available and Sources
For your Information there are a large list of inexpensive books available especially from Amazon
Amazon List of Acid/Alkaline food
The Acid-Alkaline Food Guide – Second Edition: A Quick Reference to Foods & Their effect on pH Levels
By Susan E. Brown, and Larry Jr. Trivieri
2013
For your Information there are a large list of inexpensive books available especially from Amazon
Amazon List of Acid/Alkaline food
The pH Miracle
Dr. Robert O Young, PhD, and Shelley Redford Young
2010
pH = Power of Health
James Yoseph
Hannah Yoseph, MD
2013
Alkalize or Die
By Theodore A. Baroody
1991 Out of Print It has been Reprinted by popular demand