Deep Vein Thrombosis and PH

There is increasingly greater scientific evidence that body pH and free radical capacity is one of the greatest indicators of health ever known. It all started in 1935 when Otto Warburg was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the lack of oxygen as the cause of most diseases, particularly cancer.

Since then oxygen capacity and its related issues have been at the forefront of some of the most brilliant research to date. One of the major components of the health equation is pH. When diet, lifestyle and drinking habits combine into a net acidic gain, the pH of the tissues and the surrounding fluids will drop, along with the capacity to carry oxygen. Because the blood feeds the tissues and removes the waste and toxins, it tries to remove some of the metabolic acids from the body fluids and tissues. As a result the blood pH begins to drop which signals the body's natural buffering capabilities to kick in. The body draws alkaline minerals from the bones, organs and teeth to keep the blood as close to 7.365 as possible.
One of the most dangerous environments for the blood is flying, especially long flights at high altitudes.

Most people have an acidic lifestyle where they do not consume enough alkaline forming foods and beverages as a dietary choice. There is something about green things with leaves that repels people. As a result they are in a constant tug of war with the pH balance.

Combine the drop in pH which makes the red blood cells sticky and clump together from the air quality in planes, with the inactivity of sitting for long periods and you have a potentially lethal mix.

The air in older aircraft comes into the cabin interior by blowing over the motors and then inside. There doesn't seem to be any data available as to the content of carbon dioxide in the incoming air. Reports show that newer models of aircraft have improved air quality, but again there is no easily accessible imperical data.

CO2 is acidic and because it is transported by the blood, the blood becomes sticky and forms rolls, like stacks of coins called rouleaux. This is seen during a live-blood microscopy examination. When the red blood cells stick together in rouleaux or other clumping styles, they cannot flow through the capillaries and release oxygen to the cells. The blood cells can even get stuck in these small vessels forming blood clots. Larger blood clots can also form in larger blood vessels by this same stacking and clumping action. Aside from body terrain acidity, rouleaux blood can result from poor protein metabolism and leaky gut syndrome.

Deep vein thrombosis is a blood clot in a deeper, larger vein and is much more serious. Chronic, inappropriate dietary habits, combined with inactivity and possible increased CO2 levels provide a ripe avenue for sticky blood that has the potential to form serious blood clots.

Arterial blood is pumped by the heart and by special valves in the blood vessels to get the blood throughout the arterial system as quickly as possible. Venous blood return happens primarily by muscle action, by activity. The muscles, by moving, squeeze the blood along the veins towards the heart. As the blood is pushed along, one-way valves prevent the blood from sliding back too far. When you are very still, some of your venous blood can be more sluggish and tends to pool in the legs and feet. Many hours on an aircraft with sticky blood and very little movement is a recipe for cold extremities, fatigue, inability to concentrate and of course, blood clots or thromboses.

More acidic blood is also an opportunity for virus, bacteria, mold, fungus and yeast to thrive. Blood at its natural 7.365 is ideal for keeping your immune system alert and efficient. How many times have you contracted an illness after a flight? Chronic low level acidosis, as it is called, makes chronic body terrain acidity, the beginnings of chronic disease and ideal for blood clots to form.

Because everything in the body is either positively or negatively charged, we can see where the alteration of the electrical charge caused by an acidic state of the red blood cell membranes causes them to get sticky and clump together. The process actually creates more problems than just blood clots. It is much more difficult to transfer oxygen, carbon dioxide and metabolic acids, and to biologically transform into new cells.

We can use this information to reverse this acidic body terrain by using a specific strategy, particularly for a few days before you fly. Ideally your body terrain should be slightly alkaline through your lifestyle choices, including alkaline, ionized water with a pH of 8.0 to 9.5, depending on what your urine pH is. It should be 6.9.

If you don't "do" alkaline on a regular basis, then there is a solution, particularly before you fly. Because a thrombosis is caused by lowered antioxidant levels (the capacity of oxygen to eradicate free radicals), I suggest that you try the following recipe. If you already have phlebitis or you are prone to blood clots, you will notice it may take a couple of weeks to notice improvement in your condition.

Choose lemon or lime, whichever you prefer. You will need enough fresh lemons or limes to make 8 teaspoons of juice. Put the ingredients into a 12 ounce glass in the following order. Fill the glass half full of water (6 ounces). Add 8 teaspoons of fresh lemon OR lime juice. Add ¼ to ½ teaspoonful of baking soda and stir until the baking soda dissolves. DO NOT REMOVE THE FROTHING. Drink this mixture twice per day for a few days before your flight and a few days after your return. If you fly regularly, you can add this to your routine, while at the same time monitoring your urine pH with pH strips designed for this purpose, bought from a health food store.

This solution has the alkalinity and the Vitamin C for antioxidants that conditions your blood and makes it easier to keep it in a vital state and improving its ability to carry and dispose of oxygen, CO2 and dietary and metabolic acids. Alternatively, you can ask for club soda with a slice of lemon on the flight. Cheers and happy flying!By E. Jean Perrins

Acidic Foods - Why To Stay Away From Most Acidic Foods

In this present time the workload of people has increased and so have the stress levels. Therefore, it has become mandatory to eat the right kind of food, which provides high energy and reduces stress. It is always said that the right food always keeps a person stay fit and healthy.
The food that we eat is digested and broken down into either acid or an alkaline end-product in our tissues. This end-product is named as ash and this is what remains in the body after the food has been broken down.
Our body needs both types of food. However, alkaline forming food should be predominantly used instead of acid forming food. Acidic food items are those that contain little or no oxygen.
Acidic food items that are just naturally high-acid food include:

• sweets
• beverages like tea and coffee
• jams, jellies, and marmalades
• fruits
• butters
• most tomatoes

Other foods that are also considered high-acid food because their ingredients have vinegar or critic acid include:

• salsas
• pickles
• saurkrauts
• relishes
• chutney

An acidic pH can occur from an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload or any process which deprives the cells of oxygen. The body will try to compensate by using alkaline minerals.
A high amount of acidic food can decrease the body's ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients. It also decreases its ability to repair damaged cells, makes it more fatigued and illness prone. If a person has a blood pH of 6.9, it can be termed as acidic and can induce coma and cause death.
Therefore alkalizing the body fluid is one of the indispensable health regeneration benefits available because disease causing microforms such as fungi, bacteria, virus, cancer, etc. cannot survive in an alkaline oxygenated body. Thus, one of the best things we can do to correct an overly acidic body is to change our diet and switch to alkaline forming foods.
It has been observed that to maintain health, the diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods and 40% of acid forming foods. In case a person is suffering from illness or diseases, he must consume 80% of alkaline forming foods and 20% of acid forming foods.
Alkaline forming foods include most fruits, green veggies, peas, beans, lentils, spices, herbs and seasonings. It contains high amounts of vitamins and nutrients which helps body to fight with diseases and illness. Thus, a person should always eat right to stay healthy, protected and active.By Brad P Yantzi

How Body pH Can Affect Your Energy Levels

WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE; WE ARE BIO ELECTRICAL ENGINES
In order to accomplish all the many millions of complex functions that occur over the course of the day, your body has to be able to communicate with itself... all the way down to the cellular level. And do you know how it does this? Through pulses of electricity. That's right, electricity.
Your body operates on an electro magnetic current. Believe it or not, all of the organs in your body emit these fields of electrical current. In fact, nerve signals are nothing more than electrical charges.
What creates this electrical power in your body is a very fine balance that exists in your bio chemistry. And of all the systems in your body that depend on this delicate, bio chemical balance, one of the most important is your blood stream. This is where pH comes into play. But what is pH?
WHAT PH IS AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALL YOUR BODY FUNCTIONS
PH is a scale that measures how acidic or alkaline a substance is. The scale ranges from 1 to 14 with 1 being very acid, 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's 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 acid 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. Really bad.
In regard to producing energy in the body, here's an easy question for you. What do you think happens to a person's energy level if over time their system becomes more and more acid, their biochemical balance is disrupted and their red blood cells can't deliver oxygen and nutrients as efficiently to all their 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's 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 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 isn't 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 don't know about you but I love seafood. 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.
STEPS YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY TAKE TO IMPROVE YOUR PH
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 acid and which are alkaline. Then it's simply a matter of eliminating some of the more acid foods you are eating and adding in more alkaline foods.
However, before you start, it's important to get a baseline of what the pH is in your body so that you can see how you are improving or if you need to continue to eliminate more acid foods and add in more alkaline ones.
You can do this by testing the pH of your saliva on a regular basis. This is really simple to do. More details on how to do this are provided on some web pages I have created for you to help you out. A link to these pages is provided below.
In addition to decreasing the amount of acid foods you eat and increasing the amount of alkaline foods you eat, one of the best ways to immediately begin changing your pH is to drink "green drinks". You can make these by simply adding a powder that is made up of a whole host of vegetables that are highly alkaline to a glass of water. Information on suggested green drink powders to use is included on pages that I have a link to below.
RESOURCES WHERE YOU CAN LEARN MORE
Clicking on the following link will take you to some pages I created that have more information on alkaline and acid foods, how to test your own pH and what to look for in green drinks.
ajpip.resources Start taking the steps described above and you may very well find your energy levels increasing over time. Mine certainly have.
- Andy Long

After years of extreme fatigue, severe digestion problems and frequent sickness, Andy Long now enjoys energy levels that allow him to windsurf in 30 mph winds for 3-4 hours at a time.
He now shares with others what he did to completely regain his health through his health related web sites and newsletter. 
By Andy Long

The two times must drink water

Water is the source of life, is indeed the most pertinent to the evaluation of. For the body, participate in life movement, removal of harmful toxins, help the metabolism, maintenance of aerobic respiration and so on, it is precious the one and only universal solvent.

Water's physiological function in the human body Help digestion We eat the food in her mouth, after the teeth chewing and saliva wetting, from the esophagus to the stomach, to complete the digestion and is absorbed by the digestive process, these links are need water to participate in, accelerate the fluid on the nutrient composition of dissolved. The excretion of waste The nutrition of food digestion and absorption of residue remaining waste, through sweating, respiration and excretion of discharge in vitro, these different ways of excretion of water help to achieve. Lubrication of joints Human body joint need water for lubrication to avoid damaging the friction between the bones, while water is the main source of joint lubricant. Equilibrium temperature When the environment temperature below than body temperature, in orders to maintain the body temperature to ensure the normal physiological activity, the body of water due to narrowing of the pores and reduce evaporation and retained in the body. The environment temperature is higher than the body temperature, moisture will pass through the dilated capillaries in the breathing hole to excreted, reducing temperature. Maintenance of cell Water can promote the cell metabolism, maintaining normal cell morphology; keep the skin moist and elastic. To balance the blood Water can improve the blood, tissue fluid circulation, and helps balance blood viscosity and pH. Two special replenishment times Fall ill Constipation should pay special attention to absorb enough moisture, drink plenty of water can stimulate the intestinal peristalsis and softening the stool. When cold or fever, drink plenty of water can promote the body heat. Cystitis patients drink more water than usual, so that the urine volume increase, increased flushing circulation, relieves inflammation. During exercise Long time training will make the body sweat, the plasma volume fall in 16%, timely replenishment can increase in plasma volume, reduce the flow resistance, improves cardiac efficiency and duration of the exercise. During training, the body out of the water should be added timely. Before training about 30 minutes should appropriate replenishment. If the training of thirst can be drinking a small amount of water when rest. For intensive training, in addition to replenish water before training, after training should also be added moisture. As the training intensity, energy consumption much, is to add sugar under 3% the raw juice beverage; hot weather exercise sweat too much, inorganic salt erosion, water should be mainly warm dilute brine; in general the main drink is warm boiling water or mineral water.

by LAO ZHU