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The pH Problem
It is thought by many that everyone has a never ending
problem with acidity in their systems and that this is the main
cause of disease. We must continually combat this problem by
eating an "alkaline ash" diet, we are told. It is also thought
by many that the urine pH is an accurate indicator of the pH of
body fluids.
Alas, the situation is a bit more complicated than that.
Those of us who do metabolic balancing are aware that many of our
sickest people have body fluids that are very alkaline, and that
respiratory rate and breath holding ability are key indicators of
the pH of body fluids. A person with an acid imbalance will
generally have a resting respiratory rate of 19 or more and if
they take a deep breath will only be able to hold it for 40
seconds or less. Why? Because carbon dioxide is used by the
body to regulate pH. If the body is acid, the brain tells the
body to breathe faster to get rid of the acidic carbon dioxide.
The same principle applies to breath hold. The brain says
"breathe!" The urine pH may be acid. But if the acidosis is
caused by excess potassium in the system, the kidneys will dump
potassium and retain hydrogen. (Ain't evolution clever. If you
believe that...) So the urine is alkaline while the body fluids
are acid.
Alkalosis is the opposite. A person with alkalosis will
generally have a respiratory rate of 13 or slower and a breath
hold of 65 seconds or more. Urine pH is generally alkaline,
except in potassium depletion alkalosis. In that case, the body
retains potassium, and dumps hydrogen (acid), often making the
urine acid while body fluids are alkaline.
Causes? Well, there is a metabolic acidosis and alkalosis,
a respiratory acidosis and alkalosis, and pH problems caused by
potassium imbalances as mentioned above.
There is also an acidosis caused by a glucogenic or fast
oxidizer imbalance. Fast oxidation produces excess carbon
dioxide and thus alkalosis. Slow oxidizers are the opposite.
Then there are the anabolic/anaerobic and
catabolic/dysaerobic imbalances. The anaerobic person generally
has alkaline urine, high urine surface tension and acid saliva
among other signs. Body fluids are alkaline and painful or
diseased areas are acid. The body tends to use insufficient
oxygen in metabolism so that instead of making carbon dioxide and
water from glucose, the cells make lactic acid. Dr. Otto Warburg
won the Nobel Prize for proving that cancer is an anaerobic
tissue.
The dysaerobic person generally has acid urine, low urine
surface tension, and alkaline saliva. Body fluids are acid, and
painful or diseased areas are alkaline. Huge amounts of free
radicals are generated by their metabolic processes.
Treatment? For an introduction to this, see the section on
Metabolic Imbalances.
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