Understanding Acidity, Alkalinity, and the Many Myths About pH

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hey dr. Berg here I’m sitting in my massage table here about ready to do a little instruct on this subject called pH I want to explain exactly what it is all the myths there’s so much misinformation on the alkaline acid levels like everyone is too acid and all diseases come from being too acid and you need to alkalize or die let’s get into the truth of what pH is in the simplicity of how to understand it okay so let’s make pH really really simple okay when you when you took chemistry you might have used all these words like the potentiation of hydrogen and all these things I don’t want to complicate it I want to make it really simple so pH is the measurement of acid and alkaline that’s all you need to know about what it is now it goes from a scale from 1 to 14 with a neutral being 7 okay now that would be like distilled water so what happens when the pH goes down it’s more acid lower number is acid from the seventh when it goes higher than 7 it becomes more alkaline and the thing to know is that when you go from a 7 to an eight it’s by a power of a hundred so it’s it’s very very it’s not just going up at one number it’s like magnified by a hundred for example the reference point that we use for pH is in the blood in other words the blood the body will do whatever akin to keep the blood at a certain constant level and the pH of the blood has a very narrow range between seven slightly alkaline seven point four seven point three four to seven point four five I mean it’s like it has to be within that range if it drops by one degree like in the six you will have a coma you’ll be in a diabetic coma or something like that so you will not be able to live so we really want to when people ask what is the pH well what fluid are you talking about you talking about the blood you talk about the bow because every different body fluid has a different pH I mean your stomach should be between like 1 and 3 like that’s almost like battery acid you can digest like something very very metallic at that level and then you have the adream the inside of the adrenal gland which is a stress clan that should be pretty acid because those are the all the different adrenaline hormones and things like that so apparently it needs that acidity then we’ve got the large bowel which is should be 15. 5 it’s a very very acid because remember it’s coming down from the neutral down to six down to five so each one it goes down is by a power of a hundred so it’s magnified urine should be acid sweat should be slightly acid and then we got we have all the different things that should be alkaline the fluid in and outside the cell should be slightly alkaline the tears should be alkaline the fluid around your brain should be about 7. 5 that’s alkaline and then of course you have the blood and then the pancreatic fluids all that fluid coming down from the pancreas and the bile which is a gall bladder that needs to be very alkaline to neutralize the stomach acid which is so acid so we have this interesting differentiation between one part of the body and another and different PHS to create motion and to create movement and to counter each other as well because if that food stays acid into the small intestine you can burn a hole through and that’s called an ulcer and so there’s you you really need to identify what tissue you talking about when you’re talking about pH so so that’s kind of like a an overview of what pH is in the different fluids and the next part let’s talk about what happens when you’re to acid or to alkaline okay so we have two categories here we have two acid to alkaline okay so if the body becomes one way and I’m talking about blood I’m using blood as a reference because what happens is that every other body part will work around the blood for example your body will alter a certain pH in your brain just to keep your blood normal we’ll pull from this fluid to keep your blood normal okay because blood is the constant it’s the equilibrium reference point that we call homeostasis which is the body’s ability to adapt to its environment but keep a constant internal environment okay to acid you’re going to be coughing coughing too much that dry cough and that’s why an interesting remedy for that would be calcium it tends to lower the coffee but you have to realize something but if your body is too alkaline you don’t you won’t be able to absorb calcium because calcium is absorbed in an acid medium but it’s interesting calcium is good for coughing it’ll stop it but just make sure you don’t take calcium carbonate that’s limestone you’d be better off chewing on the cement outside because it’s rocks coma we talked about that in the last section diabetic coma where the blood sugars go up and down you become very very acid and the pH drops in you can go into a coma that’s a very low blood sugar situation it could be also high as well so irregular heartbeats it’s a body that’s too acid so the thing that I want you to get out of is treating the symptom that’s why I don’t recommend if you’re too acid to take an alkalizer or take something for it especially long term maybe short term but not long term because there’s things called alkaline water right now where I’ve see people taking that way too long and the body’s swing over to the opposite side where they take different remedies to treat the symptom symptoms are not errors they’re not mistakes they’re the body’s reacting to some something and something wrong it’s adapting to something and we have to understand what’s going on I’ll get into the causes of this in the next section but I just want to explain the symptoms here but because because you imagine you could treat each one of these with a different drug so increase heart rate weakness in the muscles nause nausea we got sleeping but wired so you’re tired but you’re wired you can’t sleep you can’t wind down well calcium is a good remedy for that too but we want to find out why you’re too acid sighing frequently so it’s like especially at night so you can’t seem to get air so son so what happens is that an acid body will tend a heart to work harder and I have a lot of people that will just take calcium they can breathe better they can actually feel better just to balance the pH out but sighing frequently is an acidic body anxious anxiety it’s all part of that same thing and you will not be able to hold your breath so if you really want to know if you to ask to try to hold your breath you will not be able to hold it past 20 seconds okay because you don’t have it’s kind of like gum you don’t have any oxygen because you’re running on your body’s so siddik it doesn’t have any air so it’s going to run out of oxygen real fast okay so we got alkaline now let’s let’s look at this decrease potassium in other words when your body’s too alkaline you don’t absorb minerals especially potassium or calcium now what happens without potassium is you’re going to crave sweets you’re not going to store sugar so you’re going to have hypoglycemia low blood sugar issues you you’ll get cramps in your calves you’ll have problems with heart arrhythmias too and but since potassium is a physiological relaxer you’ll have a hard time relaxing and winding down and then the pulse rate also can go up from that just like right here so you could have both symptoms right here twitching on the left eyelid that’s an alkaline state as well because the calcium is now longer in the bone it’s coming out of solution in depositing on top of the bone on top of the tissues not in the muscle or the bone as bursitis tendinitis arthritis bone spurs kidney stones even gall stones tartar on the teeth cataracts that’s calcium on the eye or twitching on the left eyelid so that would be one of the symptoms hyperventilation breathing a lot very excessively arthritis allergies are an alkaline state and one thing about arthritis I forgo