Alkaline Food vs. Acidic Food

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Dr. Otto Warburg – Nobel Prize winner as far back as 1931 found that cancer cells can not breathe oxygen and will not survive in an environment where there are high levels of oxygen.

Tissues of cancer are acidic.

To the tissues of the body, blood takes oxygen, however when the environment is acidic, there is not sufficient oxygen. If the environment is alkaline then the blood takes oxygen to the tissues.

Eating alkaline foods or drinking alkaline water can help make a more alkaline environment. Water filters can be purchased which produce alkaline water and there are food charts which can be looked up on the internet or gotten from a nutritionist which show what alkaline foods are.

There is a balance in the body. Going overly acidic or overly alkaline is not beneficial. It is likely today that the majority of people in the US are too acidic. If the body goes way too acidic and gets into in a condition of a serious degenerative disease, things like pulling calcium out of bones can occur to counteract the acid.

The systems of the body can be affected at a cellular level by too acidic a body environment:

Circulation: Plaque can build up in arteries restricting flow, oxygen and nutrients. Heart attack can result. Calcium from bones can be deposited in arteries which stiffens them thus potentially raising blood pressure.

Digestion: Cells produce digestive enzymes without which nutrients will not absorb resulting in malnutrition, undigested food which then fermenting leaves toxins in the body.

Structure: Calcium starts to be pulled out of the muscles cramping muscles and then out of the bones which can lead to osteoporosis or collapse of the vertebrae and back pain or degenerative arthritis.

Nervous: Brain cells may not function properly and may not produce the standard chemicals to communicate to the other brain cells and through the spinal cord and nerves of the body which has varying effects.

Intestine: Cells of the colon do not function properly and various effects such as diarrhea, constipation, hemorrhoids and microbes (bacterium which cause disease) can then form.

There are other systems which can be affected such as the immune system where cells don’t product the proper antibodies; the respiratory system where oxygen from the lungs does not get to the tissues properly via the blood; the urinary system which eliminates wastes and can result in things like kidney stones which are very painful; and the glandular system where hormone production can be affected and can lead to things like weight gain.