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| Best Home Remedies To Balance pH levels! Part 7 | |
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Balance pH Levels Best Home Remedies To Balance pH levels! Part 7 http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/pH.html READER QUESTION 11/20/2006: Teri writes, ""Hello Ted, I tried citric acid and baking soda for about a week before I stopped because I felt weaker and exhausted. But I am not sure if they are related or just a coincidence. I am forty years old and feeling mostly tired for about 15 years. I did master cleanse ( maple & lemonade fast) for 10 days in 2001. After the fast my health deteriorated and I never recovered. I started to have leg pains at night since. I am taking multi-vit/mineral ( NSI Synergy Basic Multi-Vitamin), it is helping a little. But if I don't take them for about a week, I feel so much worse, feeling drained during the day, unable to sleep at night. Recently I started to have problems with my arms too. Two three hours after I sleep, I wake up because of heavy dull feeling /pain in my legs and arms, sometmes feel as if my blood gets thicker and expands and hardly move thru the veins. I ve seen several doctors with no help. Two years ago I used ACV and felt worse after a week and stopped it. This time after reading the ph balance issue on Earth Clinic website, I tried baking soda and citric acid hoping it would help, it helped first, I slept better for about a week and started to think it was working, but did not last long. My blood pressure is normal (low side). I don't know what is causing all these, is it poor circulation or acidity or electrolyte imbalance? I tried so many things to improve my health and nothing worked. I must be doing it wrong. I appreciate your suggestions. Thanks. Teri" Ted replies, "Dear Teri: You did the right thing, only you did it too long. The body needs a rest period. For some people they do report ups and downs using baking soda or even baking soda plus citric acid. The body needs time to adjust itself. Therefore, try this: Take the citric acid + baking soda for only two days and stop for two days and do it again for two days. The other issue is you need to measure your urinary pH and stop guessing at your condition. Check an prove to yourself that your urine is either too alkaline or too acid. Just measure the urinary pH. It should be about 6.5 - 7.3. If your urinary pH is below 6, then continue to do so. To get your blood moving try another formula which should work better as it has higher antioxidant level. Get one whole lime (lime has better antioxidants then lemon) and keep adding the baking soda until the fizz stops. Measure your urinary pH after 1 hour of consumption. If you are acid, the pH should rise after 1 hour. If it is still not normal keep taking it more. Since the body has so much ups and downs, then just take it for only two day and stop for two days. The body needs some time to readjust itself. If two days is too much for you then try to take it one day and two days of not taking it. Whatever you do, you need to prove yourself of both urinary pH and salivary pH, where the former is pH 6.5 - 7.3 and the latter is about pH 6.8 to 7.5. If they are both acid, you will know what to do. If they are alkaline then just take apple cider vinegar alone. The fact the blood rarely moves means the blood platelets are glued to each other. This can be lessened by drinking plenty of water and take some magnesium supplements and especially vitamin E 400 IU. The vitamin E is anti platelet sticking and should help with blood flow. A simple aspirin is also helpful too. Ted" READER QUESTION: WHERE TO BUY SODIUM BICARBONATE IN CA 11/9/2006: David from San Jose, CA writes, "Hi Ted, Thanks for the great answers to my questions. I was wondering if you happend to know of any chemical supply houses in theUS (hopefully in CA) that sell Potassium Bicarbonate to individuals? Thanks again for your time!" Ted replies, "Dear David: Most drug stores will have some potassium, but they are often mixed in Oral Rehydration packs, in the form of potassium chloride, potassium citrate, and sometimes potassium bicarbonate. Citrates and bicarbonates are quite closely related and can be used with each other. I must warn you, that when using potassium make sure it is 9 parts sodium and 1 parts potasssium. That means 9 parts sodium bicarbonates and 1 part potassium bicarbonate (or potassium citrate). You can go to a drug store and ask them the following brand: K+Care ET, K-Effervescent, K-Vescent. Large drug stores should carry them. In the even you get nauseated from accidental dosage of taking too much potassium, the cure is extremely simple: take 1/2 teaspoon - 1 teaspoon of sea salt or salt, should that happen. The nauseation will be gone in a matter of minutes. Ted" READER QUESTION: Sodium Bicarbonate Issues 11/8/2006: Vince from Tempe, AZ writes, "Great program! But, I do get a lot of nausea after taking potassiumbicarbonate - even mixed with baking soda first - that lasts about twohours. Any substitutes, or other things to try?" Ted replies, "Dear Vince: Very true. Some people can have problems about potassium in general. Usually in a human body fluids, it works something like, 90% Sodium, 10% potassium. The best way to deal with this is to try two options: One way is use potassium chloride instead, such as 9 parts sodium bicarbonate, and 1 part potassium chloride (or potassium citrate). The second way is to try 9 parts sodium bicarbonate and 1 part potassium bicarbonate. If potassium is not working out at all under this two options you might as well not use it at all. Perhaps your body has gotten accustomed to taking sodium and this does happen more than most people realized. This is a very important point, because I have seen people actually get very sick on a Hallelujah diet. The cure I very very simple. Add sea salt to the food. This diet in my opinion is way too high on potassium as it is, and most people in general, including livestock pigs do get used to high sodium diet. In my personal opinion a diet should resemble closely to the Ringer's solution or mammalian solution (to keep tissue alive in a petri dish) where the sodium to potassium ratio is about 9: 1. This is entirely my opinion based on direct observations of human who tried to consume more potassium, or livestock pigs and even in human tissue culture solution. It is also true that ancient people did take a very high potassium diet such as where potassium is as high as 10 times of sodium. This does not necessarily mean they are healthy either! Suppose I send you to go back in a time machine where potassium diets were high and you have this side effect. Then it is quite possible that salt was a very valuable commodity indeed because of that! Therefore it DOES NOT mean, ancient people at optimum diet or does it mean we eat optimum diet. It does mean that we need to take whatever ratios that have the least issues of health and a higher sodium to potassium ratio is in practice generally safer. The issue of sodium retention have more to do with dietary problems, adrenal issues, heavy metals suppressing glandular functions, or possibly no potassium at all, but it does not necessarily mean an excessive dietary sodium is the problem. If I take only just 2-3 mg. of lithium supplements a day, the sodium retention will be reduced. Most of the sodium retention issue I do witness have very much to do with the EXCESSIVE use of sugar. By reducing sugar in the diets, especially NEVER mix sugar and salt together, the issue of sodium retention should generally be a thing of the past. Ted" READER QUESTION 11/8/2006: David from San Jose, CA writes, "Firstly, I would like to say a big "Thank You" to Ted for the wonderful work he offers the world of health. I have tried 'pH' adjusting in the past, and it did not work. Ted's approach is so much more complete, and opened my eyes to what is really going on in the human body. I would like to know if Ted has any mail-order sources he can share for bicarbonates in the U.S.? Also, is it better to take the bicarbonates with, or between high-protein meals? My concern is that meats need a bit of acid to digest, and large amounts of bicarbonates could buffer those acids. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, David " Ted replies, "Dear David: Happy to hear of a positive feedback. Also, is it better to take the bicarbonates with, or between high-protein meals? With high protein meals, I seen people needing larger than normal dose of bicarbonates with high protein meals as they are acid forming. I am not saying high protein is bad for you. High protein don't really kill you it is excess fats that clogs it. And then there is good fats and bad fats, as much as good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. Good protein without the bad fats are obviously fish. In my opinion you need twice more dose for bicarbonates on high protein meals than low protein meal. When you take it, how you take it helps too. If the bicarbonates is taken between meals, the food you take along with bicarbonates should be small enough that it doesn't upset your digestive system. So try 1/4 teaspoon of bicarbonates on one liter of water being the drinks you take while you eat. How much water you take while you eat depends very much on your urinary color control that I have mentioned in some of the other postings I made regarding controlling how much water you should drink. With this measurement, you can take as much as you like without too much bicarbonate, but just enough to harmonized the pH of the food you eat with the bicarbonates that neutralizes the acid/base shocks from the food you eat. My concern is that meats need a bit of acid to digest, and large amounts of bicarbonates could buffer those acids. Most buffers will not bother with your stomach, the stomach will squeeze (drain) out most of the liquids beore it begins to acid digest it and the bicarbonates are go directly to buffer in the intestines where it is needed to neutralized the acid created by the stomach. The problem about the stomach is the body does not have enough water needed to harmonized the food so that the acid can reach everywhere with the food and bicarbonates does hurt that much. The key to proper digestion is two fold: you need to chew the food enough and you need the water to cover all surface area of the dried food. This is where water will help speed up the process of thorough digestion. You need far more acid to digest the food of 300 grams then you do trying to neutralize a mere 1/8 teaspoon of bicarbonates, assuming you are drinking one whole liter of water! Even with that amount at least 90% will be drained away by the stomach anyway to be kept in storage space of the 20 plus foot intestines that do need to neutralized the stomach acid whenever the stomach has finished its work. It is not just the stomach that you need to consider, why is the intestines so large? If by the length, or volume, the intestines is seemingly more important part of your body we tend to ignore. Too much emphasis is placed on a the stomach when you need to get a balanced consideration between the alkaline intestines of 20+ feet and a stomach only a mere 6 (approx) inches, unstretched. Ted" READER QUESTION 11/6/2006: Don from Perth, Western Australia writes, "Hi Ted, thanks for your many interesting and informative comments. I've been teaching myself slowly about the difficult subject of antioxidant and hydrogen-rich water, and your ideas on that have helped me a lot. I'm trying to avoid the need for electrolysis, you see. The hydrogen bubbling method looks really promising, but Vinny Pinto on his website says that such hydrogen bubbled water, while it does have a high negative ORP, does not have any antioxidant activity. Could you comment on this, please? I've looked into ways of testing antioxidant activity of water but it seems to be complex and beyond kitchen chemistry. Thanks for your work and time, regards, Don" Ted replies, "Don Smith: Hydrogen rich does have antioxidant power. Many people assume hydrogen is H2 which has no charge. But in practice H2 in electrolysis actually have unbound charged negative electricity. This is shown when you have an ORP meter. In fact in agriculture we manipulate ORP values by adding hydrogen or oxygen to optimized plant growth by manipulating the water properties needed to kill aerobic bacteria. This real fact is lost. In a science high school projects students were asked to measure antioxidant power of an aromatherapy oil. The project is simple, they just added them to a food and see how it would spoil. The spoiling occurs because the food takes up oxygen (an hence oxidation) and this can be measured too. So in hydrogen rich water, the hydrogen will react with an unbound oxygen to form a hydroxyl compound, thus reducing the amount of oxygen, or dissolve oxygen. If a dead animal is placed in a hydrogen rich water, it will spoil much slower than a dead animal placed in normal water, due to the lack of oxygen. We are just measuring aerobic bacteria here, so therefore the less the free radical or dissolved oxygen the better the antioxidation. A more complicated means of stopping oxidation, is to use hydrogen rich compounds in hot water heater, which we refer to hydrazine hydrate. This too is an antioxidant and will protect the hot water boiler heater against rust, and hence prevent such explosion. While hydrazine hydrate are more like a super active form of ammonia, while it is a hydrogen rich compound is also toxic, because of the ammonium components. Some antioxidants are relatively safe such as hydrogen gas dissolved in water, but people don't like to believe in this because of its simplicity and it hurts the sales of the more expensive devices. Therefore a lot of misinformation is abound, whatever you say, it is a well known fact that wound healing is greatly accelerated in presence of hydrogen gas or hydrogen rich water. Ted" READER QUESTION 10/8/2006: Johanna from Sudbury, Ontario Canada writes, "I am not a chemist, and I have a problem that my hot tub dealer cannot help me with. It seems that the alkalinity and PH of the water is not correct in the hot tub - we use Peroxide to sterilize it. I just love the peroxide, because I feel much much better (skin) than with Bromene and Chlorine. I am really excited about the possible benefits of hot tubing with H2O2. I cannot find any info on the internet about it though. The problems manifests by having "unclean" water - greasy bubbles and scum on the surface of the water - even though the test strip indicates safe water. Can you advise as to whether we can add boosters of alklyde or Ph to correct the water balance? and will the water be safe? Can you recommend a contact for such info? Thank you - if you reply Johanna" Ted writes, "Dear Johanna: It seems that the alkalinity and PH of the water is not correct in the hot tub - we use Peroxide to sterilize it. You need to prepare your hot tub like it was sea water, being the most ideal environment. Almost a century ago, a biologist by the name of Rene Quinton, found that our blood and seawater are about the same. The macro minerals of the oceans are quite constant and hardly a variations. As a result he prepared a seawater to inject in thousands of patients of various conditions, curing them in the process. http://oceanplasma.org/documents/cases.html Basically, prepare your hot tub with added seawater to a concentration of isotonic solution. The formula calls for approximately 9 grams of sea salt per 991 ml of pure water. The pH of seawater can be about 7.35. You can vary your pH by making more acid or more alkaline, depending on the measurements of your pool. If too alkaline prepare to make it more acid, using acid chemicals. Most pool suppliers will have this to correct the acid and alkaline. Common acids include Hydrochloric acid, or weak acid, if you wish such as citric acid. If the water is too acid, then you may need to alkalize such as baking soda, or a more stronger one Sodium Hydroxide, in very very small amounts. Again your pool suppliers could help you with this also. Most sea salts do have a good ratios of everything anyway, so all you do is correct the pH. All the microminerals will be handled for you. There are many ways you can sterilized your water, ozone, hydrogen peroxide, ultrasounds (they heat up water and kill by the heat generated from ultrasounds), silver - copper rods, zinc - copper rods, all of them quite safe without the use of dangerous halogens. Can you advise as to whether we can add boosters of alklyde or Ph to correct the water balance? and will the water be safe? THe correcting of pH and buffers is mentioned in your first question. It is safe, if it falls within the acceptable range of a good seawater. Usually between pH 7 - 7.5. Can you recommend a contact for such info? Most swimming pool suppliers have all the raw materials to manipulate the pH. You just need maybe the sodium thiosulfate to reduce the chlorine. Get your own heavy metals test since Canada is known to have a lot of heavy metals in the drinking water, especially from food source. One best way to detect them is not from your swimming pool, it is from your own urine. If it is heavy metals are present, you need to find the source, is it from your drinking water, the hot tub, or is it from your food? Ted" |
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