Body PH Can Affect
Your Energy, Digestion, & Health
The consumption of too little water is a common source of
weakness and fatigue. Drinking water will perk you up just as a wilted flower
perks up in water.
To understand how water can help give you a midday boost ...
all you have to do is understand how your body's pH level works.
What
is pH?
PH is a scale that measures how acidic or alkaline a
substance is. The scale ranges from 1 to 14 with 1 being very acidic, 7 neutral
and 14 very alkaline.
So what does pH have to do with you and your blood? Well,
the pH of your blood is extremely important.
The ideal pH level for your blood is right around 7.35
and your body goes to enormous lengths to maintain this level.
Why? Because if your blood pH were to vary 1 or 2 points
in either direction, it would change the electrical chemistry in your body,
there would be no electrical power and in short order you would drop dead.
As you can see, maintaining the right pH level in your
blood is pretty important!!
With this in mind a good way to avoid upsetting this
delicate bio chemical balance would be to take a look at those things that can
compromise the maintenance of the ideal pH level in your body.
And what is the main culprit in this case? The answer is
the creation of acid in your body.
Before we look at what causes acid, here's a graphic
example to give you an idea of what can happen in the blood when your pH drops
to less than ideal.
Red blood cells are how oxygen is transported to all the
cells in your body. As red blood cells move into the tiny, little capillaries,
the space they have to move through gets pretty small.
In fact, the diameter of the capillaries gets so small
that the red blood cells sometimes have to pass through these capillaries one
red blood cell at a time!
Because of this, and because it is important for the red
blood cells to be able to flow easily and quickly through your body, they have
a mechanism that allows them to remain separate from each other.
This mechanism comes in the form of the outside of
healthy red blood cells having a negative charge. This causes them to stay
apart from each other, sort of like when you try to push the negative ends of
two magnets together. They resist each other and stay apart.
Unfortunately, acid interferes with this very important
mechanism in a pretty frightening way.
Acid actually strips away the negative charge from red
blood cells. The result is that your red blood cells then tend to clump
together and not flow as easily. This makes it much more difficult for them to
flow easily through the bloodstream.
But it also makes it harder for them to move freely
through those small capillaries. This means less oxygen gets to your cells.
Acid also weakens the red blood cells and they begin to
die.
And guess what they release into your system when they
die? More acid.
I could describe a whole list of processes that occur
when your system becomes and remains acidic but I think you get the idea.
The point
is that aside from the acid that is secreted into your stomach to aid
digestion, acid in your body is bad.
In regard
to producing energy in the body, here is an easy question for you. What do you
think happens to a person's energy level if over time his system becomes more
and more acidic, his biochemical balance is disrupted and his red blood cells cannot
deliver oxygen and nutrients as efficiently to all the cells?
The answer
is simple. Their energy level drops dramatically.
Are you
beginning to get the picture here as to the importance of pH in your body?
Good.
Now let us
take a quick look at what causes acidity in your body and then look at steps
you can take to get your body pH back to an ideal level.
What exactly causes
acid in the body?
The
primary cause of an acidic condition in your body is from what you put in your
mouth.
In other
words, what you eat and what you drink. And it is not how "acid"
something may seem when you eat or drink it. It has to do with what is left
over when you digest it.
Specifically,
does eating or drinking something leave behind an acid or alkaline
"ash"?
For
example, I do not know about you, but I love seafoods. Scallops are one of my
favorites.
However,
when your body digests scallops, it leaves an extremely acid ash. In fact,
scallops are one of the most acid foods you can eat.
Unfortunately,
a lot of the things most people put in their mouths create an acid ash. These
include alcohol, coffee and a lot of flesh protein in your diet.
Interestingly
enough, stress also tends to create an acid condition in the body.
So how do we improve
our pH levels?
Fortunately,
it is pretty easy to immediately change your pH for the better and make it more
alkaline.
The first
step is to understand which of the foods you are eating and the drinks you are
drinking are acidic and which are alkaline.
Then it is
simply a matter of eliminating some of the more acidic foods you are eating and
adding in more alkaline foods.
Fortunately,
there are a number of other simple causes of fatigue.
In addition
to drinking more water, if we eliminate these, fatigue will usually disappear.
A rarely understood cause of fatigue is
overeating.
It would
seem that a snack, or between meal eating would be the very thing to help cure
fatigue, but the reverse is actually the case.
Do not
overeat. While a heavy supper may enable some to sleep the sleep of the
drugged, it does not cause refreshment. Next morning the person awakens in a
partial stupor.
Chronic
dehydration is often caused by diuretics such as coffee, tea, colas, and
chocolate.
Eating
concentrated, rich, or heavy foods promotes chronic dehydration. Protein food
supplements can also cause chronic dehydration.
Too little
exercise is another common cause of fatigue. Again it would appear that
exercise would cause fatigue in itself. Not so! As the out-of-condition person
begins to exercise, chronic fatigue may disappear like magic.
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