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  Sierra : folkmaiden

The Importance of PH

Sierra said Mar 14, 2008, 8:45 PM:

 
 

The following excerpt is published on at this website http://wordonthestreet.ws/Possible_Solutions.html



THE IMPORTANCE OF pH


pH:  What does it mean?  pH is the abbreviation for Potential Hydrogen or the measurement of hydrogen-ion concentration of any solution. The higher the pH reading, the more alkaline and oxygen rich the fluid is. The lower the reading, the more acidic and oxygen deprived the fluid is. The pH scale is from 0 to 14 with 7.0 being neutral.  Anything above 7.0 is alkaline; anything below 7.0 is acid.


There are two pH readings that we are primarily concerned about; the blood and the urine.


To be considered healthy, human blood must maintain a narrow pH range of 7.365. Any slight variation means disease. If blood pH drops below 6.8 or increases above 7.8, cells stop functioning and death eventually occurs. 


The human body does a miraculous job of keeping blood pH in tolerable limits.  People who have “a major motivating situation” can have a urine pH below 5.0 for years and the person goes on living by robbing Sodium from the stomach and Calcium from the bones to neutralize the acid in the blood. This is why old people shrink because their bones are getting smaller.


On the other hand, when the urine pH is too high, the body starts grabbing acid that has been stored in the joints and muscles to neutralize the blood. That's why we see Arthritis, Fibromyalgia and other acid conditions disappear when the PH is balanced.  


Blood pH is difficult to test, but home test kits are available to test urine and saliva pH. 

pH litmus paper can be purchased in either strips or rolls. Catch the last drip of the first morning void on a piece of litmus paper and it will change color. Compare that color to the color on the corresponding chart and you will scientifically know the pH of your urine.


Do not hold the litmus paper in the urine stream because the chemicals that cause it to change color will be washed away. The reason for checking the first morning void is because the bodily fluids have time to equalize overnight, which gives you a more accurate test. Do not test the first part of the stream, because that is when most of the sediment gets washed out of the bladder.


The pH number is an exponent number of 10 (the power of 10); therefore, a small difference in pH translates to a BIG difference in the number of oxygen or OH-ions. In other words, blood with a pH value of 7.45 contains 64.9% more oxygen than blood with a pH value of 7.3. To see the bigger picture, that number represents only 10.5% of one point increase in pH.


Eastern medicine has worked closely with pH (acid and alkaline) for thousands of years. They refer to it as yin and yang. Although Western science and medicine pretends to be ignorant about the subject, they know more about pH than they are willing to admit. If modern medicine were to focus on correcting pH and nutritional imbalances in the body, there would be less job security for doctors and drug companies due to little need for their services.


As early as 1931, Dr. Otto Warburg was awarded a Nobel Prize for his research on one dis-ease. Dr. Warburg's research states that  a particular “major motivating situation” could not live in a pH of 7.0” Another way of making this same statement is, “you can't get 'the situation' if you keep your pH at 7.0 or slightly above.” Maintaining a proper pH without balanced nutrition is not a guarantee of perfect health, it just means you won't get “this situation”! You need good nutrition to produce a healthy body.   


Acid blood is thought to cause dis-ease, and one of those dis-eases we will call “a major motivating situation”. Dr. Simoncini, an oncologist in Rome Italy says that “this situation” is caused by fungus or candida. Fungus can only live in an acid environment. Get rid of the acidity in the body, and you can kill off fungus,  candida, and “the situation”.


PH is the dividing line between health and disease. Low pH means very little if any oxygen available to the cells.


In the absence of oxygen, glucose undergoes fermentation to lactic acid.  This causes the pH of the cell to drop even lower.  Urine pH of Terminal patients having “this situation” almost always runs between 4.0 and 5.5. When the “situation” begins to spread, the pH drops even lower.  Your body simply cannot fight dis-ease if your body pH is not properly balanced. 


At a pH of 8.5 cells that have been compromised will die while healthy cells will live. This has given rise to a variety of treatments based upon increasing the alkalinity of the tissues such as vegetarian diet, the drinking of fresh fruit and vegetable juices, and dietary supplementation with alkaline minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, cesium and rubidium and the use of baking soda.


The pH scale goes from 0 to 14, with 7 being neutral. Below 7 is acid and above 7 is alkaline. The blood, lymph and cerebral spinal fluid in the human body are designed to be slightly alkaline at a pH of 7.4.


People with this major motivating situation typically have a pH ranging between 4.5 and 5.5. This is a full 2-3 points below what is considered normal. Even when pH is this low it generally takes a few years for the body to develop “this situation”.


There is also danger in getting the body too alkaline, but just like the body can survive for years after being too low, people have lived for years with their pH being too high. The danger of getting the pH high enough to kill “this situation” is small in comparison with the end result of the “situation” taking over or the treatment you may have to suffer through.


What is too high? When the pH drops below 4.0 the body will start producing ammonia, which is extremely alkaline to offset the acid. Older people often have a pH of 8.0 to 8.5 as a result of the ammonia for a number of years before they finally die. The acrid smell that you experience when walking into an old folks home is the ammonia I am talking about.


Based upon these facts, it seems safe enough to get the pH as high as 8.5 long enough to kill “this situation”  and shrink the “situation”. Taking the body pH up to 8.5 is only 1 full point above normal. Keeping it at that level for a short time while the “situation” shrinks should not pose a big threat.


Being too alkaline for a few days or a few weeks could be a good thing and could serve to neutralize latent acids that have been stored in your body for decades.


When the pH of the blood remains high, this in turn means that the blood is capable of carrying more oxygen – keeping every cell in the body at peak efficiency and helping the cell eliminate waste products.


Detoxification and chelation will proceed more easily and safely under slightly alkaline conditions. Alkalinization is theorized to have a protective effect against the formation of free radicals that may cause nephropathy.  _Dr. Michael Metro


“Major motivation situations” seems to grow slowly in a highly acid environment (because the acids cause it to partially destroy itself) and may actually grow more quickly as your body becomes more alkaline prior to reaching the healthy pH slightly above 7.4 where the “situation” becomes dormant. The objective here appears to be getting the pH to 8.5 sufficiently long enough to kill the “situation” rather than keeping it dormant.


After the “major motivating situation” is no longer a threat, the ideal pH is 7.4. It is useful to monitor urine pH daily to ensure that the body remains sufficiently alkaline.


It is also a good idea to find the best source of drinking water possible. Do not drink water from soft plastic jugs you find on the grocery shelf. These jugs leach harmful chemicals into the water and the water source may not be pure to begin with.


If you use distilled or reverse osmosis water, it is advantageous to add Baking Soda. For distilled water, use a rounded tsp. per gallon. You should also add some Magnesium and perhaps some ionic minerals. Drink at least 1/2 ounce of water for each pound of body weight daily. This is required in addition to any juices or other liquids you may consume.

Test your urine pH first thing in the morning. Normal pH should run 7.4; however you need a Ph of 8.5 for several days or perhaps longer if you want the “situation” to die. So until your “situation” becomes dormant and starts to shrink, you may want to keep your pH between 8.0 and 8.5 in the beginning.


There are entire books devoted to the subject of pH. One such book written by Theodore Baroody is Alkalize Or Die. That is what we are talking about here. It is really that important!


Many “situations” loves acid. It needs an acid / low oxygen environment to survive and flourish. Those who have a terminal “situation” are about 1000 times more acidic than they should be.  This equates to dangerously low amounts of oxygen at the cellular level.  One point of decrease in pH equals a decrease in oxygen to the tenth power. 


Dr. Otto Warburg, two times Nobel Prize winner, stated in his book, The Metabolism of Tumors, that the primary cause of  developing a “major motivation situation” was the replacement of oxygen in the respiratory cell chemistry by the fermentation of sugar. The growth of “situation” is initiated by a fermentation process, which can be triggered only in the absence of oxygen at the cell level.


What Warburg was describing was a classic picture of acidic conditions. Just like overworked muscle cells manufacture lactic acid by-products as waste, “this situation's” cells spill lactic acid and other acidic compounds causing acid pH.


Tissues that have “this situation” have a much higher concentration of toxic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, etc. than do healthy tissues.
 
In 1973, a study conducted by the Department of Occupational Health at Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, found that when breast tissue with “this situation” was compared with tissue from elsewhere in the same woman's body that did not have “this situation”, the concentration of toxic chemicals such as DDT and PCBs was “much increased in the tissue containing “the sutuation” compared to the normal breast and adjacent adipose tissue.” This should say something to the oncologists of the world about chemical etiologies that are going undiagnosed and untreated.


Shortly after Dr. Warburg's Nobel Prize, Dr. Enderlein from Germany was commissioned by Adolph Hitler to keep the animals at the Berlin Zoo healthy. For many years, Dr. Enderlein took blood and tissue samples from healthy, sick, dead and dying animals. Thousands of tests were performed on these samples and the simple yet amazing discovery was that each group of animals had a different pH range. So we have two German scientists that conclusively linked pH with health and dis-ease and each set up a comparison to indicate what constitutes a healthy pH.


This is a fascinating story with lots of interesting details, which are obviously too exhaustive for this short report. However, Dr. Enderlein discovered a microscopic living organism that is present in every cell of the body, which he named Mucor Racemos Frescens. This organism is resistant to the highest heat and the coldest cold and to every drug, chemical and acid known to man. It is virtually indestructible.


This organism mutates and takes on different life forms depending upon the pH of the cell it is living in. When pH is a normal 7.0, this organism creates vitamins and health giving substances for the body. As the pH turns acidic, it mutates and starts killing the cell. When the body dies, this same organism is what decomposes the body and turns it back to dirt.


For a short time the work of Dr. Enderlein was found in American medical textbooks, but it has since been removed also. So pH has been taught in medicine for many decades, it just hasn't been practiced.


The same testing that Dr. Enderlein did on animals was conducted decades later on humans at the federally owned Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. Again using thousands of samples and much more sophisticated, state of the art equipment, they verified everything Dr. Enderlein had discovered.


One of the research scientists involved in this project was most puzzled and disturbed over the fact that this this project was classified “Top Secret” and was never reported to the public or in any medical journals. He and the other scientists involved were told never to breathe a word about this project.


 
  Ken : Seeker

Re: The Importance of PH

Ken said Jan 26, 4:00 PM:

 

The key to pH is urine and saliva pH. Urine and saliva pH should be both above 7.0 in order for health to take root. When pH of either urine or saliva is below 7.0, bacteria or other non-friendly organisms can multiply. A pH above 7.0 creates a non-friendly environment for those things that are non-friendly. This information comes from a natural health practitioner whom I see.