Balancing Your Body pH

Balancing Your Body pH

Discovery shows that our body starts to acidify at the age of 25. If you are over 30 and have 6 or more of the below symptoms, your body is likely acidic.

Is Your Body Acidic?

If you are saying ”yes” to one of the below, your body might be in the risk of acidic.

1. Unenergetic

2. Sleepless

3. Feeling tired all day

4. Unstable mood, easy to get angry

5. Attract insect bites

6. Sensitive skin

7. Easy to get fever and flu

8. Always have been headache, leg pain and sore muscle

9. Obese

10. Gem bleeding

11. Meet and greasy food lover

Acidic Blood – Source of Disease

The blood of healthy people is alkaline with pH7.35-7.45. The pH level of babies’s blood is of that range too. With unhealthy diet and lifestyle, our body gradually turns acidic. Maintaining more alkaline blood is the first step to stay away from disease.

Dietary Habits

Experts indicate that the ideal acid to alkaline ratio of our diet should be 1:3. However, people nowadays usually consume white rice, processed food and high far meat which are all acidic food. According to a study, the acid to alkaline ration dietary habits nowadays is the opposite i.e. 3:1. Consumption of acidic food for an extended period of time causes human blood to turn acidic.

pH Levels of Common Food

Below are some information on pH Levels of our common food:

a) Strongly acidic:

- animal internal organs, egg yolk, yogurt, white sugar, persimmon, etc

b) Medium acidic:

- ham, chicken, pork, beef, eel, bread, wheat, cream, etc

c) Mildly acidic:

- beer, white rice, peanut, deep fried tofu, etc

d) Mildly alkaline:

- carrot, read bean, apple, onion, tofu, etc

e) Medium alkaline:

- raisin, soybean, tomato, banana, orange, strawberry, egg white, dried plum, lemon, spinach, etc

d) Strongly alkaline:

- celery , grapes, tea leaves, grape wine, etc

We should start planning our daily food intake to consume more alkaline food in order to keep our body alkaline.

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Lack of Exercise

Exercise plays a very important role in maintaining the pH in human body. Exercise and sweat facilitate the body to expel excessive acidic substances. However, people nowadays are too busy with work and seldom have chance to exercise as a result, acidic substances are kept inside the body and cause blood to become acidic.

Midnight Snack

Midnight snack causes one to feel tired the next morning. This is because when one falls asleep, his/her metabolism slow down; as indigested food remains inside intestine, it turns acidic and fermented. As a result, toxins are produced which is harmful to body.

Features of Acidic Blood:

1. Obese with big tummy

2. Dull skin

3. Athlete’s Foot

4. Feeling tired once start exercising and fall asleep when boarding the transportation

5. Easily feel out of breath when going up and down stairs

6. Slow movement

Diseases Caused by Acidic Blood

Acidic salt deposits in human organs or joints will result in swelling or redness, making arteries to become hard. It might event cause kidney stones, gout, arthritis, etc.

The accumulated acidic debris in our blood will block vessels which will cause bad blood circulation and sequentially leads to diabetes and cancer.

Chronicle diarrhea and high uric acid will arise if our digestive zone is too acidic; furthermore we will have a high possibility in getting gastroesophageal reflux disease and pyrosis if there is too much acid in out stomach. Besides, children’s intelligence will also be affected by acidic blood.

We shall really pay attention to our body’s pH. By keeping our body alkaline, we could actually safe our life from lots of disease and enjoy a healthy life.

We shall really pay attention to our body’s pH. By keeping our body alkaline, we could actually safe our life from lots of disease and enjoy a healthy life.

Gout vs. Vitamin C

Gout vs. Vitamin C???

What is Gout?

Gout is a kind of arthritis that happens when the level of uric acid accumulated in our body is too high, and triggers the forming of crystal deposit in joints. This causes pain, swelling and inflammation at the joints.

Gout can also be hereditary. Gout more often than not affects men age above 40 however it could also happen to women after their menstrual cycle ceases, normally occurring at an age of 45 to 50.

What causes gout?

When the body generates a large amount uric acid, or does not generate enough of it, the acid will build up in tissues in the shape of needle-like crystals. This in turn will triggers much of pain to the body.

Factors that increase the risk of developing gout include:

i. Excessive intake of foods which is contains plenty of purines. Uric acid is produced as soon as purines split up. Foods, particularly high in purine content are for example mackerel, beef, goose, organ meats, sweetbreads, anchovies, mussels and yeast. Other types of meats, fish, poultry and shellfish are moderately high in purines. Besides, food like spinach, mushrooms, asparagus, beans, dried peas and lentils also enclose moderate amounts of purines.

ii. Drinking too much alcohol.

iii. High blood pressure.

iv. A family history of gout.

v. High levels of triglycerides.

vi. Infections, obesity and physical and emotional stress.

What is its symptoms?

Symptoms of gout include pain in a single joint, typically at the bottom of the big toe. It can also affect other joints such as the elbows, feet, fingers, knees, wrists or ankles.

The joints may appear in purple-red color, swollen, hot and inflexible.

Vitamin C good for Gout Prevention?

From the finding of a lately published 20-year long study suggests that Vitamin C may protect against Gout. According to the finding, the risk of developing gout can be overcome with a higher intake of vitamin C from our daily diet and supplement which is available for purchase in the market.

The result shows that the risk for a person developing gout fell almost 17% with every increase intake of 500mg vitamin C intake.

Other factors that may affect the result are the diet plan or alcohol consumption. It shows that a useful vitamin C plays an important role in reduce the level of uric acid in human body thus as a result prevent our body from developing gout.

Vitamin C may have an effect on the re-absorption of our body’s uric acid by our kidneys; it also boost up the momentum at which the normal speed that kidneys work and look after our body against swelling, for this reason it trim down our possibility in developing gout.

Where can we find our vitamin C?

Foods that are rich in vitamin C are mostly fruits especially citrus fruits such as orange, grapefruit, lemon and lime.

Studies have shown that as we age, our ability to maintain a suitable level of vitamin C in our blood and tissues decrease, and hence we need to intake the vitamin through food or supplement more regularly.

It is important to note that if vitamin C is taken as a supplement, it works better if we include intake of citrus bioflavonoid as well.