For the last 30 years, Japanese and Korean people have been enjoying the health and fitness benefits of alkaline water that we in the West had hardly heard of. Hospitals across use ionized alkaline water and its equally useful by-product, astringent acid water to heal, sanitize and cleanse, in place of expensive drug and antibiotic regimen. Restaurants use it to sanitize food, wash hands. Golf Courses and Greenhouses use it to kill fungus growth naturally. Over 25% of the people have home ionizers that make alkaline and acid water for their home use.

In the last few years we’ve seen a revolution in the way Westerners think about diet, stress and water. Since the national health press article about acid/alkaline balance, many thousands of mainstream Americans have begun to understand the importance of maintaining your body in a slightly alkaline rather than a slightly acidic condition. Today every health magazine contains articles and advertisements for ways to correct acidity.

The most amazing thing about this health revolution is that is has been people-driven rather than drug company or medical establishment driven. People are making the choice to self-manage their future health. They realize that it is essential to clear their selves of the chemical toxicities we have all accumulated in order to create an alkaline environment within that does not support illness and disease.

WHY WE NEED TO ALKALIZE

The food that we eat burns with oxygen in our cells to produce energy. After burning, the ash becomes acid wastes and the cells dump them into the bloodstream. If you could get rid of 99.9% of the garbage in your home everyday, wouldn’t that .01% accumulate into lot of garbage over the years? The same analogy is true as our body tries its best to get rid of these wastes through urine, breath and perspiration. Unfortunately, we cannot get rid of all the wastes that we produce and what is left over must be stored somewhere in our body. The body plays a clever trick to convert these acid wastes into solid wastes, which is the beginning of “Acidosis”, a state that the body becomes slightly acidic rather than alkaline. Read on to learn how this acid build up affects most adult degenerative diseases.

Acidity and Weight

The body begins to store these solid wastes in many places, around the organs and under the skin as fat. Many believe that fat production may be a result of acid waste demands for a storage medium. Fewer toxins in your body will require less space for storage, hence reducing the waist size.

Acidity and Aging

Examples of solidified acidic wastes in our body are cholesterol, fatty acid, uric acid, kidney stones, urates, sulfates and phosphates. The accumulation of these non-disposed solid wastes is the process of aging. Cholesterol and fatty acids are the result of eating too much pasta and bread and not exercising enough. Uric acid and ammonia come from all kinds of meat. Phosphoric acid comes from grains such as rice and drinks such as cola, Sulphuric acid comes from egg yolks. In Western nations, antacids are a billion dollar business because so many people think the problem is an over acidic stomach, when in fact it is an over acidic body.

Acidity and Osteoporosis

Sulfuric and phosphoric acid are both poisonous acids. They must have alkaline minerals to neutralize them in order to become benign. In the absence of enough alkaline minerals from our diet, the body has no choice but to rob calcium and phosphorous from our body minerals to convert these poisonous acids into non-poisonous acid salts; sulfate, phosphates, and urates. Most of our calcium and phosphorous stores are in our bones

Acidity and Diabetes

Depending upon where the body stores acid wastes, blood circulation around that area gets poor and eventually a vital organ is unable to receive enough blood supply and becomes dysfunctional. Many adult degenerative diseases are the result of poor circulation. Diabetes is an adult degenerative disease which is caused by acid accumulation around the pancreas.

Acidity and Cancer

Malignant cancer cells are acidic, while healthy cells are alkaline. Normal cells cannot survive near areas of waste acid accumulation. Mutation of healthy alkaline cells into acidic cells that thrive in an acidic environment is the beginning of cancerous growths. Experienced oncologists increase the alkalinity of their patients before administering treatment, often by injecting sodium bicarbonate, an alkaline buffer.

Acidity and Heart Disease

Acidic wastes accumulate outside and inside the blood vessels. Waste particles inside the blood vessels can be very dangerous, leading to clogging of capillaries servicing critical sections of the brain. Our body attempts to paste these waste particles onto artery walls to prevent them from floating around and creating terminal damage. This pasting action eventually leads to excess flow restriction and potential heart attacks..

ALKALINE NEUTRALIZES ACID

The scientific truth that alkaline neutralizes acid is a basic natural phenomenon that requires no ‘double blind testing’. Alkaline water has no nutritional or medicinal value to cure disease; all it does is neutralize the acidic wastes in the human body and liquefy them for elimination by the kidneys. It is recommended to drink 8 glasses of alkaline water daily to detoxify and maintain good health.

When we over exert ourselves, pain can develop in various areas. This is because there is a concentration of acidic wastes in that area. We can relieve the pain by distributing the wastes. Massage, hot baths, foot patches, far-infrared pads are all good methods of waste redistribution. Heat and exercise also help eliminate these acids through perspiration; however the quickest way to get them out of the body is through urine,

Depending on the individual, we all store acidic wastes differently. Disease symptoms manifest depending upon where the wastes accumulate. For this reason, drinking alkaline water gives different results for different people. Some people lose weight, some are relieved of gout, some lower blood pressure, and some reverse other long-term conditions. When we understand the fact that all adult degenerative diseases are caused by the accumulation of acidic wastes, it is no mystery that drinking alkaline water improves our health.

HOW TO MAINTAIN HEALTH AND LONGEVITY

Eat you way to health and longevity

Changing your diet from acid to alkaline can be done. It’s just that very few people do it, because our dietary preferences are more deep-seated than most of us will admit. Alkaline diets have long been associated with raw food diets, and exponents have been known to consume over two kilos of green vegetables per day in order to gain enough alkaline minerals and the live enzymes only available in fresh fruit and vegetables.

Supplement your way to health and longevity

There is no shortage of supplements, available that will help you gain the required amounts of green alkaline food, in either dried or freeze dried powder form.

Unfortunately because of the huge amount of raw vegetables these supplements require to be made from, they are always very expensive. A typical daily supply of “Green Food” can cost as much as $6 a day.

Relax your way to health and longevity

Stress if the greatest acidifier of all, more than food, more than carbonated soft, drinks, and more than pollution.. Consequently meditating, stretching and relaxing are

strong alkalizing techniques. Unfortunately, highly acidic people have a problem relaxing. Their adrenals are worn out from constant acid overload that they tend to be

subject to cyclic mood swings, depression and/or over-excitement.

Drink your way to health and longevity

Drinking alkaline water is by far the easiest way to alkalize. Our blood is over 90% water and our bodies are over 70% water, it is the single most abundant component of our bodies, closely followed by alkaline calcium. Water provides the fluid in which our organs are bathed, the fluid that separates each of our trillions of cells, the fluid that carries nutrients to our cells for conversion into energy, and the fluid that carries waste away Water is the solvent that washes our cells, that cleanses us of our waste, and that hydrates our skin. It is the electrical circuit that carries instantaneous messages to every part of the body with speed and multiprocessing as yet unequalled by our super computers. Water has a distinct advantage over food. If taken in excess, it can be easily eliminated.

THE EXPERTS: WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT ALKALIZING

Most diseases ravaging our communities have one common cause. More and more doctors herbalists and nutritionists believe that the cause – and the solution – come down to three words: ACID ALKALINE IMBALANCE. More and more doctors and therapists are seeing the light and recommending alkaline water.

“ALKALIZE THE BODY”

The concept of acid/alkaline imbalance as the cause of disease isn’t a new one. One of the first persons who talked about the need to alkalize the body was the great “Sleeping Prophet”, himself, Edgar Cayce. Mr. Cayce would always refer to body detoxification with herbs, colonics, fasting, massage, steam baths and diet modification with the aim of alkalizing the body.

“ALL DISEASE IS THE SAME”

In 1933 Dr. William Howard Hay published a groundbreaking book, A New Health Era in which he maintained that all disease is caused by autotoxication (or “self-poisoning”) due to acid accumulation in the body. Here is what he said:” Now we depart from health in just the proportion to which we have allowed our alkalis to be dissipated by introduction of acid-forming food in too great amount.

“THE COUNTLESS NAMES…DO NOT MATTER”

More recently, in his remarkable book Alkalize or Die; Dr. Theodore A. Baroody says essentially the same thing: “The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What does matter is that they all come from the same root cause…too much tissue acid waste in the body!”

“POTENTIALLY HARMFUL INVADERS…WILL HAVE NOWHERE TO GROW”

Dr. Robert O. Young, PhD, in his book, The pH Miracle says it this way:

“Those willing to look again, and with clear eyes, will be rewarded with the secrets to permanent health. We can heal ourselves by changing the environment inside our bodies. Potentially harmful invaders, then, will have nowhere to grow and will become harmless.”

“DRINKING FOUR TO SIX GLASSES OF ALKALINE WATER A DAY WILL HELP TO NEUTRALIZE OVERACIDITY”

Dr. Susan Lark, University lecturer and author of The Chemistry Of Success, says: “Drinking four to six glasses of alkaline water a day will help to neutralize over acidity and over time will help to restore your buffering ability. Alkaline water should be used when conditions of over acidity develop, such as cold, flu or bronchitis. Like vitamins C, E and Beta Carotene, alkaline water acts as an antioxidant because of its excess supply of free electrons. This can help the body against the development of heart disease, strokes, immune dysfunctions, and other common ailments.”

“(THE WORLD) SHOULD READILY AGREE TO THE USE OF IONIZED ALKALINE WATER AS AN ANTIAGING AGENT.”

Arthur M. Ecano, MD says that..”if the world has accepted antioxidants to slow down the aging process, it should readily agree to the uses of ionized alkaline water as an anti aging agent. Their roles are closely linked and intertwined such that a lasting anti aging program is incomplete without addressing both free radicals and organic acid wastes.”

“ALKALINE WATER HAS PROFOUND LONG TERM EFFECTS BECAUSE IT ALKALIZES YOUR BODY AND PROVIDES AN EFFECTIVE ANTIOXIDANT”.

David Niven Miller, anti-aging expert and author of Grow Youthful, “Increasing your consumption of good quality purified or filtered alkaline water can transform your health and play a central role in the healing of virtually all degenerative diseases. Alkaline water has profound long-term effects because it provides and effective antioxidant.

“ALKALINE WATER RIDS THE BODY OF ACIDIC WASTES.”

Felicia Drury Kliment author of the acid alkaline balance diet affirms the need to rid ourselves of acid wastes: “After carefully evaluating the results of my advice to hundreds of individuals, I’m convinced that toxicity in the form of acidic waste is the primary cause of degenerative disease. Unfortunately the national obsession with nutritional supplements obscures the vital role played by the excretion of acidic toxins in normalizing organ function…

“ALKALINE WATER IS A GREAT WAY TO NEUTRALIZE AND FLUSH OUT ALL THE TOXINS AND ACIDS.”

Daniel Reid, Author of “The Tao of Detox “ says: “drinking alkaline water is a great way to neutralize and flush out all of the toxins and acids that drain from the tissues and bodily fluids, and to quickly rehydrate the body and keep the blood alkaline.”

“THE AGING PROCESS CAN BE REVERSED.”

Harald Tietze, author of “Youthing” says “by drinking alkaline water, the aging process can be reversed and the wastes can be reduced in the long-term to a level of a much younger person. The functions of the organs can be revived.”

”OUR PETS NEED DETOXIFICATION”

Randy Kidd, DVM, PHD, author of Gut Feelings in The Whole Dog Journal

“Our world has become laden with toxins, many of which are carcinogens. Our dogs are exposed to an even higher toxic load than we are; their noses are constantly sniffing the ground, where toxins accumulate. We throw even more toxins into the mix every time we use pesticides or medications to kill internal parasites, and when we feed them foods heavy with artificial preservatives, colors, and flavors. By the time they are a few years old, our pets have been so exposed to the plethora of toxins that exist in their (and our) world, I think every holistic, long-term health maintenance protocol needs to include an entry period of detoxification” .