Scientific Background

Acid-alkaline balance, or pH, is a widely discussed topic in the natural health and medical media today due to mineral, vitamin and oxygen deficiencies. However, there remains a great deal of misunderstanding and misinformation about both the facts and importance of pH level, including how it is best measured. The following information is intended to provide you with the technical understanding necessary to assess and evaluate the remarkable new method of testing your own pH balance.


pH 101

As you know, the Potential of Hydrogen (pH) in relation to the body means the body’s internal environment in terms of acids and alkalines. On the pH measurement scale neutral is number 7. Acids have a lower number and alkalines a higher number. Even though research about how diet affects body pH dates back as far as 1914, it’s only recently that we’ve begun to seriously consider the fact that long term health is favorably influenced by a pH of neutral or slightly alkaline.


Acid-Alkaline Balance (equilibrium)

Human life and the health of the body depend on the maintenance of its organs and internal environment. That’s why the body has internal monitoring systems in place. For example, the body’s temperature, hormones, water, electrolytes (specific minerals), and acidity and alkalinity are closely linked to each other and influenced by each other. Ideally, the monitoring system keeps the internal environment within a range that enables the body to function in a healthy way. The metabolic process constantly produces acids. For example, uric acid is a by product of protein metabolism. However, it is vital that hydrogen-ion-concentration, the acidity characterized by the pH value, does not deviate from the normal range. Even small deviances outside of the normal range, including a healthy pH range, can result in health problems.

The regulation of pH takes place in mainly three ways: through buffering, breathing, and well functioning kidneys. Most people, unfortunately, pay little attention to bodily functions and seldom consider their pH balance when making their food choices. The onset of one or more of the several chronic diseases prevalent today then is often met with surprise. Even young people are affected today, despite what parents believe is a good diet and lifestyle.

It is important to realize that chronic diseases, that is disease that develops over time, develop first and foremost when the body’s pH regulatory mechanisms are over burdened, resulting in drastic imbalance and disease.