Here is my chemist friend's rebuttal to all the information from the list
which I have been sending him. Can anyone speak to what he says?
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So many bright
people with whom I usually agree on natural health matters are wrong on
understanding pH. They confuse citric acid with mineral citrates, and they
confuse injested citric acid with the citric acid cycle (Kreb cycle [1937])
that takes place in mitochondria. They confuse respiratory and metabolic
acidosis and alkylosis. They confuse the significance of pH as determined
by testing saliva, blood, urine, sweat and intracellularly. They confuse
the behaviors of elements in various oxidation states. Then they pass on
misunderstandings as gospel. You in your efforts to understand science
from patching together anything that you hear that seems consistent, will
constantly run into brick walls that contradict "everything that you know."
These understandings cannot be corrected by finding a consensus among
people whom you know to be good, honest, bright and want to help.
I don't want to argue with true believers
in simple statements that are found in popular reading. I am often
presented with factoids that I'll consider and maybe comment on, but will
never argue over. Life is too short to get into arguments with people I
don't really know and I have neither the skills of a teacher nor all that
much spare time.
I look to science as a tool to find "simplicity on the other side of
complexity, not on this side." I value clinical experience far more than
I do any theories that may support them or contradict them. I pay
attention to consistent success even if it is presented by 10 year old who
flunked out of school in the second grade.
Herman Aihara is a 79 year old whose formal training ended with his
becoming a metallurgical engineer at age 22 in the Japan of 1942. He went
on to learn about macrobiotics and tried to reconcile a basic knowledge of
acids and bases with his traditional understanding of yin and yang. His
misunderstanding of biochemistry is so quaint that he bases his knowledge
on the 1938 publications of George Ohsawa on Natural Medicine. Ohsawa had
four rules of potassium-sodium balance that informed his thinking. All
four depended on ratios and differences of sodium and potassium in mg
rather than milliequivalents. This is an astounding beginner's mistake.
Aihara's book is fun reading but it is loaded with such misinformation. If
Aihara's and Ohsawa's theories work in clinical practice, then I'll give
all the credit to their deeper understanding of yin and yang and none to
their understanding of biochemistry.
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