Stress and Your Body pH Level

Your emotional state affects the pH level in your body.

Picture:Man at work fatigued from stress.

In a study published online in the European Heart Journal on January 23, 2008 the results of studying 10,308 male and female civil servants aged 35–55 who worked in London, England.The study began in 1985 with interviews and testing and the participants were tracked for (14) fourteen years.

The results: People experiencing work stress were more than twice as likely to have heart disease than those without work stress.

One of the findings: stress affected the neuron-endocrine system, causing higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol in workers tending towards anxiety.

Coritsol is produced in the Adrenal Gland. Adrenal failure is one of the results of living with stress.

Your thoughts are as real as any physical object you have ever felt, touched or physically handled.

When teaching about the effects of stress, one of the examples I use, is to paint a vivid word picture of a Lion rushing into a room with only one exit .It then proceeds to tear apart the person sitting next to you. The lion never touches you, but begins to chase you out the door. After some running you escape the lion and then a fully equipped blood testing laboratory on wheels pulls up and your blood is analyzed. Now recall the lion never touched you though it did kill and partially eat the person sitting right next to you.

Upon analyzing your blood it would be found that your hormone levels are in such a state that if your body maintained that level you would soon die. How could that be, the lion never touched you to physically affect your body, yet your whole body chemistry has gone acidic, Why?

Thoughts are things in the body.

King Solomon’s wisdom: As a man thinks, so it shall be.

Shakespeare: Nothing of its own self is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

The Christian Bible: “If anything be pure, if anything be Holy, think on these things”.

It has been scientifically proved in this age, Stress kills.

So eliminating or controlling stress is just as important as eating Alkaline Forming foods and liquids. If you do everything perfect in the part of the Alkaline Lifestyle that deals with the material world it will mitigate the effects of stress, yet the more perfect way is to achieve peace of mind.

Dr Dean Ornish showed this in his work with Coronary heart disease patients. The greatest improvement of Coronary health in his patients came from those who learned to relax at will, no matter what the emotional environment around them. This would explain to a large degree, how some people who drink and smoke live to be 90 years old. I have met these types of people, and the one thing about most of them was their lack of stress. They dealt with stress by sucking on the pacifier of a cigarette and cast their cares to the intoxication of alcohol. The trade off, they suffered physical damage, yet the lack of stress yielded the greater return.

Just think how long they could of lived if they had done all things right!

One factor that is prevalent among most persons who live beyond 100 years of age is that they do not let anger reside in their heart, no pun intended.

What does pH have to do with Human Health

What does almost everything we eat grow in?


Pictures of Hydrangea Plants,red and blue.

It is the good earth, the soil. The pH of the soil determines the nutrient content of the plants that grow in it. In the case of the flowers of the Hydrangea plant it even determines their color. In acid soil, the Hydrangea flowers are blue, in Alkaline soil, the flowers of the same plant would be pink or red!

Soils that are acid have too many positively charged hydrogen ions and not enough negatively charged hydroxyl ions. The imbalance of ions has a direct affect on soil. When positive hydrogen ions increase and pH is driven way down ( soil becomes acidic ), it reduces the ability of the plant to grow and take nutrients from the soil. The optimal soil pH for most plants is a pH of 6.8.

In soils where there is aluminum present such as in clays, acidic conditions will release the aluminum and poison the plant, stopping its’ growth.

Did you know that in the Human body that pH determines the ability of the cells to absorb nutrients?

Did you know that aluminum compounds are used in water treatment plants across the country and that free aluminum ions reach your water faucet in your home?

Did you know that some scientific studies of Alzheimer’s sufferers reveal larger then normal amounts of aluminum in the brain tissue? Could it be a factor in Alzheimer’s? Are highly acidic people absorbing more aluminum from the water and food where it eventually contributes to the short circuiting of the brain?

So when some one disputes the validity of pH testing of your body, THINK! , how is it that pH affects everything to do with plant growth yet “doesn’t matter” when it comes to human health?

Quite to the contrary, it has much to do with human health.

Acidosis in the human body is an actual medical diagnosis, just ask any MD or nurse.

Test your pH daily for at least 30 days and record the results. If you do it, you might start testing everyday for the rest of your life, just as many people are starting to do everyday. The cost to you? Less than 30 seconds of time and $.17 a day.

Isn’t it worth it to check your pH level every day to monitor how your eating and thinking are affecting your health?

I think it is.

New Resources for pH Testing

For further study of pH, the following websites are recommended:

http://www.omega.com/techref/ph.html Complex Scientific discussion of pH

http://www.jp.horiba.com/story_e/ph/index.htm Great discussion of pH and its' meaning through out modern life.

Soy and Men’s Sperm Count

Post Date: October 16, 2007

A small medical study, currently being discussed in the Health news, found that men who consume Soya products in their diet have lower sperm counts.

Picture:Woman's Reproductive Organs

Let us clarify the study’s findings.

1. Many of the men in the study were overweight.
2. The study was done with couples seeking treatment for INFERTILITY!
3. This study did not divide up the men participants and feed half a set amount of Soya while the others did not consume any Soya
4. The most glaring defect in the study results is based on asking the men participants whether they ate Soya and compared their sperm counts to whether they ate Soya!

Possibly the most overweight, unfit and docile men were the ones that were eating the Soya, in order to have a “healthy” diet and lose weight???? The study doesn’t clarify this as I understand it.

Note: Sperm count can be affected by stress, diet and alcohol and drug consummation.

The largest factor for low sperm count in overweight men can be estrogen production by the excessive body fat.

The pH level of the men’s urine was not even mentioned or possibly considered in the study.

It is a known science maxim that conception is pH dependent.

If the sperm and the egg are not at the right pH level, there is no conception.

The body’s pH level is determined by many things, all which must be in unison for the body to be at the right pH level.

A healthy, trim, active man with a proper total body pH level should not be concerned with consuming small quantities of soy in their diet. Tofu in the diet for such a man, is not going to affect fertility.

The watch word here is Balance.

One of the three Keys of the Alkaline Lifestyle is:

Balance.

Excessive body weight in the form of stored Acid, with its’ resulting estrogen production, is the most likely cause of the low sperm count found in the study, not the consummation of soy.

Body Mass Index and pH Testing: A Healthy Pair

The following article illustrates why your pH level, as measured in your early morning urine, is a more reliable indicator of Health than the weight scale or BMI measurement. A skinny person who has Stored acid (internal “fat” around organs) will have it picked up by the pH Test; while relying on the weight scale and a good BMI alone will deceive them into thinking they are healthy, while as the report in the article shows, that may not be the case.

pH testing shows who is healthy.

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I hear it constantly from people, that they "feel" healthy, while their pH Test first thing in the morning shows they are acidic.

They are on a collision course with reality.

You can not go by how you feel alone, when determining what course to take concerning your health. If how you "feel" was the best determining factor in decision making then drunks and drug addicts would be the healthiest people! Ask some one who is an addict, drug or otherwise; they will tell you how they "feel" good by what they do, while to even the lowest level of intellect it is obvious the addict’s health is deteriorating, yet they "feel" good.
Time is one of two factors in this equation of deception and denial, time being the main concept and constant. Ones behavior is the other factor.

Going by how one feels ALONE, is the most dangerous form of guidance in making health decisions!

Once you are pH Balanced you will feel great, so for the emotionally challenged who have been in mental anguish while reading this so far, rejoice, you can feel good while doing what brings health, you just have to deal with delayed gratification. Most Health Coaches dance around telling people plainly that they can not go by how they feel when making health decisions. While it is wisdom, that it is not what you say but how you say it in most cases, when people are on a course towards premature DEATH, it does not apply, IF you are honest!


Something to Think about
Here is a surprising conclusion I and many others have come to:

1. Education has a small part to play in the LONG run for those who attain and keep health.
   


2. Determination and the power of belief and will are the determining factors in the Journey Back to Health.

Factor # 2 above you might say,trumps #1 every time,because what good is knowledge if you don't do,or in other words,apply what you know?

If I know one thing, it is this; those who understand this concept of belief and will, will be blessed in their life and health, generally those who don't, won't.

The article quoted and included below mentions BMI, Body Mass Index.
The BMI is still a good guide for measuring health in my opinion.

Combined with checking your pH everyday, the BMI will help guide you to your Optimal Health Lifestyle goals

Here is the Link to the Center for Disease Control website BMI Calculator,
where you just enter the numbers and it does the figuring for you:

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/adult_BMI/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.htm

The BMI is calculated by using the following equation:

Formula: weight (lb) / [ height (in) ]2 x 703
Calculate BMI by:
dividing weight in pounds (lbs) by height in inches (in) squared

and then multiplying by a conversion factor of 703.

Example: Your Weight = 150 lbs, Your Height = 5’5” (65")

Calculation: [150 ÷ (65)2] x 703 = 24.96 BMI

The BMI guidelines are:


Below 18.5
Underweight

18.5 – 24.9
Normal

25.0 – 29.9
Overweight

30.0 and Above
Obese

Start of Article.
Thin people can be fat on the inside
Internal fat around organs can increase diabetes and heart risks
Credit:API News
Updated: 5:22 p.m. ET May 10, 2007

LONDON - If it really is what’s on the inside that counts, then a lot of thin people might be in trouble.
Some doctors now think that the internal fat surrounding vital organs like the heart, liver or pancreas — invisible to the naked eye — could be as dangerous as the more obvious external fat that bulges underneath the skin.
“Being thin doesn’t automatically mean you’re not fat,” said Dr. Jimmy Bell, a professor of molecular imaging at Imperial College, London. Since 1994, Bell and his team have scanned nearly 800 people with MRI machines to create “fat maps” showing where people store fat.
According to the data, people who maintain their weight through diet rather than exercise are likely to have major deposits of internal fat, even if they are otherwise slim. “The whole concept of being fat needs to be redefined,” said Bell, whose research is funded by Britain’s Medical Research Council.

Without a clear warning signal — like a rounder middle — doctors worry that thin people may be lulled into falsely assuming that because they’re not overweight, they’re healthy.

“Just because someone is lean doesn’t make them immune to diabetes or other risk factors for heart disease,” said Dr. Louis Teichholz, chief of cardiology at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, who was not involved in Bell’s research.

Even people with normal Body Mass Index scores — a standard obesity measure that divides your weight by the square of your height — can have surprising levels of fat deposits inside.

Of the women scanned by Bell and his colleagues, as many as 45 percent of those with normal BMI scores (20 to 25) actually had excessive levels of internal fat. Among men, the percentage was nearly 60 percent.

Relating the news to what Bell calls “TOFIs” — people who are “thin outside, fat inside” — is rarely uneventful. “The thinner people are, the bigger the surprise,” he said, adding the researchers even found TOFIs among people who are professional models.

According to Bell, people who are fat on the inside are essentially on the threshold of being obese. They eat too many fatty, sugary foods — and exercise too little to work it off — but they are not eating enough to actually be fat. Scientists believe we naturally accumulate fat around the belly first, but at some point, the body may start storing it elsewhere.
Still, most experts believe that being of normal weight is an indicator of good health, and that BMI is a reliable measurement.
“BMI won’t give you the exact indication of where fat is, but it’s a useful clinical tool,” said Dr. Toni Steer, a nutritionist at Britain’s Medical Research Council.

Unhealthy skinny peopleDoctors are unsure about the exact dangers of internal fat, but some suspect it contributes to the risk of heart disease and diabetes. They theorize that internal fat disrupts the body’s communication systems. The fat enveloping internal organs might be sending the body mistaken chemical signals to store fat inside organs like the liver or pancreas. This could ultimately lead to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, or heart disease

Experts have long known that fat, active people can be healthier than their skinny, inactive counterparts. “Normal-weight persons who are sedentary and unfit are at much higher risk for mortality than obese persons who are active and fit,” said Dr. Steven Blair, an obesity expert at the University of South Carolina.

For example, despite their ripples of fat, super-sized Sumo wrestlers probably have a better metabolic profile than some of their slim, sedentary spectators, Bell said. That’s because the wrestlers’ fat is primarily stored under the skin, not streaking throughout their vital organs and muscles.

The good news is that internal fat can be easily burned off through exercise or even by improving your diet. Web Link:(Alkaline Lifestyle!)

“Even if you don’t see it on your bathroom scale, caloric restriction and physical exercise have an aggressive effect on visceral fat,” said Dr. Bob Ross, an obesity expert at Queen’s University in Canada.
Because many factors contribute to heart disease, Teichholz says it’s difficult to determine the precise danger of internal fat — though it certainly doesn’t help.
“Obesity is a risk factor, but it’s lower down on the totem pole of risk factors,” he said, explaining that whether or not people smoke, their family histories and blood pressure and cholesterol rates are more important determinants than both external and internal fat.
When it comes to being fit, experts say there is no short-cut. “If you just want to look thin, then maybe dieting is enough,” Bell said. “But if you want to actually be healthy, then exercise has to be an important component of your lifestyle.” End of Article.

Free Weights are a Low Cost, Easy and Convenient way to get exercise everyday.
Health Tip: Grab weights, standup while watching TV, go through simple routine for 15 minutes and Lose weight.
When every one comments on How Great You Look,

Tell them you got that way while watching TV!

Let me Count the Ways

Is pH important to your Health?
Does it really matter what you eat?

The following is a list of processes that depend on pH being exactly at the right level :

1. Swimming Pools
2. All Agriculture
3. Water Treatment
4. Almost EVERY Chemical Manufacturing Processes
5. Medical testing
6. All life on Earth

The list could be quite long if it was broken down to every single instance where pH determines the result.

As to Number #6. All life on Earth:
Almost all known life on earth lives within the 6.0 to 8.0 pH range.
Within that range different life forms exist at distinct pH levels. Most of what is called Cancer in humans exists at a more acidic level then the general pH level of a healthy human body.There are cancers that exist at a more alkaline level then the human body ,but they are fewer then the known ones that are acidic.
*What happens when acidic cancer in humans is subject to more alkalinity? Based on most research in the field of Cancer, as it relates to the human pH level, the cancer goes into remission.
I personally have experienced it. When I was in an acidic level as measured by my urine pH every morning, my health was impaired, when I achieved an optimal pH level, as measured by urine pH,I was healthy.*

The seemingly constant theme heard around the world in the general media sources, is that there is no cure for cancer.
There have been hundreds of BILLIONS of US dollars spent in the “War on Cancer” to find a “Cure”, yet it is still generally reported there is no cure for Cancer.
Go back and reread the paragraph bracketed with the *Asterisks*.

If you can grasp the simple truth of what the paragraph stated and apply it to your life you can live cancer free all the days of your life.
The preceding statement is true, but excludes having being subjected to:

• chemical toxins in large dosages and
• nuclear radiation

Did you know that there are 10’s of thousands of people that have overcome cancer that went on to live healthy productive lives, all with out Chemotherapy, Radiation and surgery?
In a study of Cancer survivors, that went through Chemotherapy, Radiation and surgery, that lived more than 10 years after their conventional treatment, the one thing that was common to them all, was that they changed their lifestyle habits.

From the same study, it was found that the people who died within a few years after their treatment, HAD NOT made any appreciable changes to their lifestyle habits.

What Lifestyle habit changes did the 10 year survivors, who had used conventional medical procedures, make?

• They cut back dramatically their consummation of red meats and of meats in general.
• They began to exercise regularly
• They began to pray and meditate(they reduced STRESS)
• They drank large quantities of water daily
• They ate more FRESH vegetables and fruits
• They used supplements to increase their nutritional uptake.

The questions are:

• What would have been the outcome, if early in their lives; ALL the persons involved in the study had lived ALL the lifestyle habits that the 10 year survivors had adopted, after being diagnosed with cancer?
• IF this Lifestyle is a “cure” for cancer, why isn’t the knowledge of it made mandatory study in all schools across America and the world?
  

Basically with out knowing it, most of the people who don’t experience cancer live an Alkaline Lifestyle.

Being simple minded and or ignorant is the leading cause of Cancer.
Do you see?
We are slaves to our habits, so make sure you have good habits!

I am your constant companion.

I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.

Half of the things you do you might as well turn over to me and I will do them - quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed - you must be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons, I will do it automatically.

I am the servant of great people,
and alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine though
I work with the precision of a machine
plus the intelligence of a person.

You may run me for profit or run me for ruin -
it makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me, and
I will place the world at your feet.

Be easy with me and I will destroy you.

Who am I? I am Habit.

“Reprove a wise man and he will love you, reprove a fool and he will never let you forget it.”