Achieving and maintaining a balanced Blood pH within the body is one of the easiest and gentlest ways for promoting the successful outcome of any imbalance or disease.
Our body’s blood pH simply refers to the balance of acid and alkaline within our bodies, similar to the analogy of balancing the pH of a swimming pool so that bacteria and algae don’t grow. It is the balancing and harmonizing of the body’s acidity and alkalinity that supports a healthy internal environment for our body’s to thrive.
Our blood pH is affected by a number of variables such as food, alcohol, exercise, our thoughts and emotions and the environment around us over a 24 hr period and it is our body’s ability to find homeostasis when the body deviates from its optimal Ph that determines the potential for disease and ill health.
One of the cornerstones of the Metabolic Typing theory (www.healthexcel.com) is evaluating blood pH. When the blood pH deviates too far from the optimal level of 7.46, disease conditions are more likely to manifest. This is equally true whether the blood is overly alkaline (i.e. with a pH greater than 7.46) or overly acid (with a pH less than 7.46). It is often rather simplistically stated by alternative health experts that diseases appear when we are too acidic; but, actually, they can equally appear if we are too alkaline. The more extreme the relative acidity or alkalinity of the blood, the more extreme the manifestation of the disease is likely to be.
“One Mans Food Is another Mans Poison” and for hereditary reasons, your metabolism is unique. Cutting edge research shows that no single diet works well for everyone, the very same foods that keep your best friend slim may keep you overweight and feeling unhealthy and fatigued.
Food can be both the problem and the solution and nutrition picks up the ball where traditional medicine falls short. So many health problems can be corrected, or at least greatly alleviated, simply by knowing which are the right foods and supplements for any given individual.
It is common in traditional medicine to think that all foods have a fixed pH effect in everyone who eats them. However, extensive research conducted through the metabolic typing theory shows that the net pH affects of the food once it enters the body is modified by the metabolism of the person consuming it.
Why do certain foods acidify the blood of one individual but alkalize the blood of another? George Watson Ph.D painstakingly explained in his out-of-print classic, Nutrition and Your mind, how the process of oxidation renders certain foods acid forming and others alkaline forming. This occurs through the biochemical transmutations that nutrients undergo as they are processed through the Krebs cycle inside each of our cells.
I urge anyone who is on a journey of healing themselves back to optimal health to consider the benefits of Metabolic typing and to take the time to find out what your own type is so that you have an understanding for what types of food and in what ratio to consume them for optimal results. You can visit www.healthexcel.com for further information.
Diet alone may not always be entirely sufficient to achieve total wellness across mind body and spirit. Managing ongoing emotional and mental stress, the onslaught of toxic chemicals from mercury fillings, environmental pollution, and the contamination of our food, water and the very air we breathe are all part of today’s health challenges. Overwhelming as these factors may seem, we are not helpless in cleaning up our act.
We can choose to feed ourselves and our families organically grown food, drink pure water, have toxic dental work removed, and play our part to clean up the environment. We can stay physically active, choose exercises that support our body’s to cope with its current stresses and be sure to get plenty of rest and sleep.
We can choose to play an active part in our soul’s path of awareness and choose to step from the 4th dimension into the 5th leaving behind the victim mentality and choosing to take full responsibility for what we choose to eat, drink, think, believe and create moment to moment. The fifth dimension is a choice to create from and be guided by the love in your heart not the fear in your mind. You are life its self, made from the same source frequency that you breathe in with each breathe that sustains you. Wow, what a creation you are I hope you equally enjoy all that you create…
Recipe of the Month:
Sprouted green salad with toasted sesame seeds. High alkalizing salad rich in digestive enzymes.
Serves 4
2 handfuls of lambs lettuce
2 handfuls of sunflower sprouts
1 handful of alfalfa sprouts
1 handful of snow pea sprouts
1 cup of sprouted mung beans
1 cup of blanched asparagus – sliced
1 cup of chopped avocado
¾ cup of cherry tomatoes – sliced vertically
1 cup of chopped parsley
½ cup of mixed sesame seeds, sunflower seeds and petites
2 tbsp of organic cold pressed sesame seed oil or flaxseed oil
1 tbsp of balsamic vinegar
Pinch of Celtic sea salt
Combine lettuce, sprouts, beans, asparagus, parsley and salt together.
Combine oil and balsamic together and fold into salad mix (be gentle and light in your handling)
Sprinkle with mixed seeds and serve
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