10 REASONS ACID-BASE IMBALANCE COULD HARM YOUR BODY

There are two classes of foods available in the markets to feed our bodies. They are acidifying and alkalizing foods. Your body was created and endowed with the capacity to use what you eat to defend you against diseases. However, what you eat must not hinder your body from functioning optimally. In other words, our bodies are always fighting to maintain some internal balance within our systems, provided we help it by eating foods that ensure that this balance is maintained. For instance, the acid-alkaline balance, known as ‘homeostasis’ in the medical world, and defined as “a state of balance among all the body systems needed for the body to survive and function correctly” is an important factor that determines whether we are well or not.

Our bodies naturally strive to maintain an appreciable balance between acidity and alkalinity, which is known as pH balance. However, our environment promotes a more acidic conditions in our bodies (low pH), because of the many sources of pollution which we encounter daily. Therefore, you must deliberately choose what you eat in order to prevent the consequences of low body pH, also known as acid-base imbalance.

For you to maintain good health, you should deliberately eat more foods that alkalize your body. According to one research investigation, one should ensure that he or she eats 60% of foods that alkalize the body and 40% of foods that acidify the body. Your body needs both acid and alkaline substances. However, when the body has become overwhelmed with over acidity, a deliberate attempt should be made to start eating 80% alkalizing foods and 20% acidifying foods. This is the time some people are advised to implement diet lifestyle change.

Apart from stress, many modern day professionals, business people and others engaged in the rat-race called life, hardly maintain good diet lifestyle. A typical professional who works a 9 to 5 job probably gets up in the morning and has no time to prepare a healthy meal. He or she wakes up to just get ready for work, and could opt to visit a tea shop nearby and grab some fast food that they gobble down and drown with a cup of tea or coffee. Almost every fast or quick-fix foods acidify the body, and when the body is overwhelmed with greater acidity than alkalinity, trouble ensues.

We discourage the fast food culture. However, if you find this unavoidable, then ensure that you detox your system with proven natural edible herbal products, now available almost everywhere in our environment. Alternatively, use your weekends to do vegetables and fruits fasting (eating only vegetables and fruits or their juices/smoothies, without consuming any cooked meal). Plus drink a lot of water – (3 liters for females and 4 liters for males).

Here are 10 research-backed medical reasons you should eat more foods that alkalize your body, to help your body maintain proper acid-alkaline balance. Generally, we are prone to be more acidic than alkaline.

1.   Acid-base imbalance and consumption of more acidifying foods can suppress or lower your immune system, thus exposing your body to the invasion of pathogens.

2.   Low body pH or acid-base imbalance and over acidity of the body causes minerals absorption by your system to be hindered.

3.   Over acidity of the body or low body pH (acid-base imbalance) results in low energy production by the cells of the body. This manifests when you come home from work or business at the end of the day to complain of tiredness.

4.   Cells lose the ability to repair themselves when the body is over acidic, due to an individual consuming more acidifying foods than alkalizing ones.

5.   Acid-base imbalance or over acidity of the body is known to trigger emotional stress and irritability. This can give rise to high blood pressure, whose source would be difficult to detect.

6.   It is a scientifically proven fact that fast foods and drinks, which greatly acidify the body and brings about acid-base imbalance, causes overweight and obesity, which are precursors of heart diseases, diabetes and cancer.

7.   Over acidity of the body (low body pH or acid-base imbalance) erodes or damages our body tissues.

8.   Your body usually detoxifies itself, but loses that ability when it is overwhelmed by too much acidifying diets, thus bringing about acid-base imbalance.

9.   Fatigue is a consequence of over acidity of the body or acid-alkaline/acid-base imbalance.

10. When the body has more acid than it requires, it can induce lower blood pH (acid-base imbalance), which could induce a stroke, cause a person to go into a coma or even cause the death of an individual.

Being conscious of what goes into your mouth or deliberating choosing more alkalizing foods, is the only way you can avoid the prevailing health challenges people are plagued with these days. On the other hand, avoiding foods and drinks that load your body with harmful acids should become your lifestyle.

To your better health.