| The body is alkaline by design, but can be acidic | | | | organs and organic fluids, however, have a pH |
| by function. It functions at its best when the pH | | | | that is normally far above or below this ideal pH. |
| of its internal biochemical environment, measured | | | | The pH of urine, for example, may be 6, or even |
| as a whole, is equal to 7.39, meaning slightly | | | | as low as 5 or 4.5. This is possible because urine is |
| alkaline. The normal range of blood pH is very | | | | regularly eliminated and thus does not remain in |
| small, from a slightly more acidic reading of 7.36 | | | | the body for long. Areas of the body that are |
| to a more alkaline reading of 7.42. A reading of | | | | essentially acid include the colon (pH 6.8), the |
| anything higher or lower than these figures | | | | outer layers of the skin (pH 5.2), and the gastric |
| indicates acidity (from 7 to 7.35) or alkalosis (7.42 | | | | region (pH 2). Others, in contrast, are quite alkaline: |
| to 7.8). If these limits are exceeded, the body can | | | | the inner layers of the skin (pH 7.35), the |
| no longer function, and death results.The zone of | | | | pancreatic juices (from pH 7.5 to 8.8), and the |
| optimal blood health extends only from pH 7.36 to | | | | small intestine (pH 8).These different values are all |
| pH 7.42; illness will accompany any incidence of | | | | normal and correspond to precise needs of the |
| acidosis or alkalosis. Of these two, acidosis is by | | | | body. For example, the extremely acidic nature of |
| far the most common - more than half the | | | | the gastric region is indispensable for protein |
| population suffers from this condition.The pH of | | | | digestion, and the high acidity of the skin helps it |
| the body's organic fluids and tissues varies from | | | | destroy microbes before they can enter the |
| one part of the body to another. When we say | | | | body. So restoring the acid-alkaline balance does |
| the ideal pH of the body is 7.39, this refers | | | | not mean bringing the gastric region's pH 2 up to |
| primarily to the pH of the blood, and to a lesser | | | | pH 7 - that would cause serious digestive |
| extent that of the body's internal environment, | | | | problems - but rather restoring the pH of the |
| meaning all organic fluids such as lymph and extra | | | | basic internal biochemical terrain. The acidification |
| and intracellular serums (fluids surrounding or within | | | | of the internal terrain is in fact the source of all |
| the cells). Blood is indeed "a very particular sap" | | | | health troubles caused by acidity.Christopher |
| (Goethe) whose pH must remain extremely | | | | Vasey N.D., author of the best |
| stable to maintain the life of the physical organism. | | | | selling title "The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum |
| Even the slightest change of blood pH is rapidly | | | | Health", has practiced |
| corrected by the body, which restores it to the | | | | Naturopathy in Chamby-Montreux, Switzerland |
| ideal measurement of 7.39. When the body is | | | | for 25 years. He has authored 20 |
| unable to perform this task physical and mental | | | | books written in five languages. Dr. Vasey's |
| disorders quickly appear.The pH of the internal | | | | specialization is pH balance, |
| environment, the basic "ground" biochemical | | | | detoxification and rejuvenation. For more |
| terrain, can tolerate more significant changes than | | | | information on |
| that of the blood, but the pH of the internal | | | | acid - alkaline balance, the pH of foods, or alkaline |
| environment should never go beyond 7.36 or 7.42 | | | | supplements, visit |
| if good health is to be maintained.Many individual | | | | Phion Nutrition. |