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Health is Wealth: The Alkaline Paleo Diet for Prosperity
The blood of a healthy person has a pH of 7.4, a slightly alkaline balance like seawater, from which we evolved. Seawater actually has a pH around 8.3 due to the carbon dioxide and salt dissolved in it.
Many illnesses occur when the body becomes acidic. Proponents of the acid-alkaline terrain theory say illness begins when the body condition turns acidic, not when symptoms appear, when bacteria and viruses are detected, or tumours form.
When the blood becomes too acidic, with a pH value of less than 6.9, the person enters a coma and finally dies.
Illness can also occur when a person becomes too alkaline. In extreme cases, the person may develop fits and seizures. Illnesses due to an overly alkaline balance are rare, however, because the modern diet consist of mostly acid-forming foods.
Eating alkaline-forming foods is not the only factor that can influence a person’s acid-alkaline balance.
According to macrobiotic theory:
One way to make the body more alkaline is to take cold baths or showers. To avoid chills, start with hot water first, then switch to cold. Bathe the legs first, and slowly move up the body.
Another way to alkalinize the body is simply to talk. Or sing, sigh or simply breathe out. Macrobiotic teacher Herman Aihara demonstrated this by testing his saliva with a piece of litmus (pHydrion) paper.
At the start of his lecture, the paper turned light green, indicating a pH of about 7.0. His condition was neutral, or slightly alkaline. After two hours of talking, he tested again. This time, the litmus paper turned dark blue. His pH had risen to about 7.5; his condition had become more alkaline.
The body has five main types of acids, Herman explains. Of these, the most abundant is carbonic acid. When we talk, sing and express ourselves, this carbonic acid is converted into carbon dioxide, which we breathe out with water.
When we do not express ourselves, when we withhold our emotions, we do not exhale very much. We keep the carbonic acid. The body remains acidic and we are more prone to sickness.
