You Can Change Your Water For Better Health By James Jackson This article is provided to those who realize that water is a crucial factor in maintaining better health. As our bodies mature with time we begin to hear repeated by our health care providers, �Drink more Water�. According to my wife, a RN in the direct health home health care service through the Medicare and Medicaid programs, most clients she see through out the year are visably dehydrated. They find that following her instructions for proper hydration many times reduces the stiff, achey feelings in their hands, hips, knees and back. Why? The reason is found in the term Acidosis.
Correct body acid alkaline balance - the pH body secret to good health. One of the major advances in complementary medicine in recent years has been the realization of the vital importance of correct body acid alkaline balance and how optimizing your body pH can lead to significantly better health, increased energy, improved immunity and a slowing down of the aging process. This page gives you an overview of how you can determine your own acid alkaline balance and what you can do to correct imbalances to help you overcome health problems and live a healthy energized life.
Why is body acid alkaline balance so important? Our body is alkaline by design but acid generating by function. There are several buffer systems to help keep the pH levels of our bodies at the correct level. Modern living has unfortunately meant that these buffer systems struggle to cope with the acidic load leading to imbalances with very detrimental effects on our health. This is reflected in high levels of heart disease, cancers, diabetes, osteoporosis and other degenerative conditions. When we refer to body pH we are referring to the pH of the blood and the intracellular and extra cellular fluids i.e. the fluids inside your cells and the fluids surrounding your cells.
The body pH level of our internal fluids affect every single cell in our bodies. The pH level of our blood should be in the range of 7.34 to 7.38 with an ideal of 7.365- that is slightly alkaline. Deviations outside this normal level can have major negative impacts on our health. The commonest tendency is towards acidity (acidosis) and if left unchecked can affect all cellular functions with negative effects on all our body systems. Excessive tissue acidity is corrosive and is believed by many researchers to be the root cause of all sicknesses and diseases.
What causes imbalances of body acid alkaline balance? There are several main factors that affect the acid alkaline balance of our body tissues and in particular lead to acidifying effects. It is important to recognize the root cause of our imbalances so that we can take practical steps to restore the proper acid alkaline balance and our body to health. We live in an age where the toxic load in our environment is significantly greater than ever before experienced. Changes in eating habits, high levels of stress, electro- magnetic stress and other environmental pollution pose a continuous daily burden on our bodies which we must take action to counterbalance if we want to enjoy good health. In particular the following are the principal things that contribute to the acid burden on our bodies: Diet. Ideally 80% of our diet should come from foods that leave an alkaline residue in our bodies with only 20% from acid
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