Age and Acid

So far we’ve discussed these key points:

• Our modern lifestyle is about as far from ‘natural’ as we as a species have ever been.

• Diabetes, cancer and heart disease have become the great levellers of our lifestyle

excesses and ignorant attitudes.

• What we ingest is the single most important factor in longevity.

• Fad diets don’t work; balance is the key.

• Balance, in acid/alkaline terms, is the ratio of acid minerals and alkaline minerals in ourbody.

• Commercially prepared foods are usually acid forming. Natural foods are usually alkaline.

• It’s not the acid/alkaline nature of the food we consume; it’s the result of metabolising

that food – the acid or alkaline balance left in our bodies that forms our disease resistance ‘bank account’.

We outlined ‘Acid/Alkaline Balance for Dummies’ with its five major points. You remember them, of course!

We reviewed Alkaline Pioneer, Dr Theodore Baroody’s book, Alkalize or Die. We also reviewed the effects on the major organs of excessive acidosis. We discussed why acid/alkaline balance is the most important health strategy you’ll ever make.

We looked at the ‘inner sea’ in which our cells float, reproduce, energize and feed. We learned the importance of this inner sea’s correct composition; alkaline, mineralised and

saline. Finally we examined (briefly) the necessity for ph testing, and discussed the radical theory that protein limitation may be the key to correct balancing of pH.

I also promised that we’d look at ground-breaking research that agreed with my own ‘pet theories’, so let’s do that now.

You would remember we spoke of Sang Whang. I met Sang when he and his wife, Josephine, came to visit ALKAWAY here in Byron Bay eight years ago. At that time

he gave a superb public lecture on acid/alkaline balance, which we managed to record on video. It’s a great watch. It was Sang who alerted me to Dr Lynda Frassetto’s work on ageing and acidity. In a nutshell, what she found was that as we age, (starting around age 45), we lose the alkaline buffer – bicarbonates – in our blood. By the age of 90, we’ve lost almost 20% of bicarbonates in our blood. From our previous lessons, you would understand the effect this has on our ability to draw on these alkaline salts to counter

excess acidity attacks.

Insufficient amount of bicarbonates in our blood reduces our capabilities to manage (neutralize and dump) the acid our body produces. And since we cannot manage the

acid, we accumulate acidic wastes in our body. These wastes show up as cholesterol, fatty acid, uric acid, urate, sulphate, phosphate, kidney stones, etc.

Till next time, happy alkalising …

Graham