Symptoms of Over-Acidity: Depression, Constipation & Hair Loss


Symptoms of Over-Acidity

Over time excess acid can develop into exhaustion of the buffering capacity of both the blood and tissue, resulting in metabolic disturbances that may lead to a number of complaints. Initially, one may experience one or a combination of the following:

• sleep disturbances
• hair loss
• dental caries
• irritability
• periodontosis
• racing heart
• heart rhythm disturbances
• skin blemishes
• constipation
• depression
• muscle cramps,
• cellulite
• allergies,
• intervertbral disk pain
• sour burping

Advanced metabolic disturbances caused by long term acid excess may result in:
• rheumatism
• gout
• stroke
• cardiac infarct
• ulcers
• diabetes and other chronic diseases

Reversing over-acidification involves a holistic view of the body with changes to both diet and lifestyle.


Causes of Over-Acidity

• A deficiency of vitamins, minerals and trace elements will result in a low pH value.
• Lack of exercise leads to insufficient oxygen supply in the tissue resulting in lack of body cleansing. Without sufficient removal of combustion water carbon dioxide, lactic acid and other metabolic waste, pH values are lowered.
• Extreme sport activities or excessive physical demands lead to oxygen deficiency, which results in a significant rise of lactic acid, leading to low pH values in tissue. The pH level will become even more acidic if minerals lost through sweating are not replaced.
• Lack of calories, hunger and fasting can lead to ketone acidosis.
• Insufficient protein intake promotes acidity.
• Nutrient imbalance such as that caused by eating too much meat, refined white flour, sweet foods, alcohol and coffee will lead to over-acidity.
• Too much stress, which is connected with shallow breathing, the release of stress hormones and constriction of the blood vessels, causes acidity.
• Unhealthy lifestyle including smoking and alcohol intake leads to acidity.

Ongoing efforts to transition to a natural, healthy diet along with regular, moderate exercise will, in most cases, eliminate over-acidity, provided chronic organ dysfunction is not a factor.