Loved this post. Sounds much like Dr Carey Reams??? Edith
In a message dated 3/6/05 12:19:57 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I tried to let this one pass, but couldn't. > > Someone said, > "Very best of all: Ph Testing. If Acid - very prone to > Cancer onset. If Alkaline, no Cancer." > > MOST people over 40 years old are acid pH, but I > wouldn't say that most of them have or will acquire > cancer. Most of these acid pH folks are acid urine, > alkaline saliva. Those that are double acid (acid > urine and saliva) are probably headed for some type of > cancer (depending on age, weight and other factors). > > Sorry to pop another bubble, but some types of cancers > can start and even manifest while alkaline (prostate, > some skin cancers), but usually become acid near the > end. One woman I tested was dying of cancer, and was > very double acid. Turned out she had seen an > alternative oriented MD who, with all good intentions, > put her on 100,000 mg of Vit C per day - ascorbic acid > (injected by needle). The ascorbic acid drove her pH > to the basement. She had other issues as well, and > wouldn't really follow a program. ("Yes, I drank some > of it, but it didn't taste good. I can't take all > those pills, either.") She died. > > The more the pH (and other biochemical factors) are > out of balance, the more the minerals the body needs > and is made up of are dumped by the body because it > cannot use them (though it needs them). > > Acid saliva/alkaline urine indicates the person is > deeply demineralized, and what is left is leaving the > body head-long. Double acid indicates they're out of > minerals to the point that the body is not even > dumping any. Eventually a person reaches a point that > there is not enough resources left in the body that it > can use to repair itself, and that is the end. > > pH is so essentially important because it affects all > the rest of the body chemistry and functions. When the > pH is unbalanced, digestion becomes increasingly > inefficient, blood sugar fluctuates wildly, protein > can become an enemy, even the immune system starts > attacking what it shouldn't. > > Be aware, unbalanced pH is not quickly nor easily > resolved. Neither is it resolved by simply eating > so-called "alkaline-ash" foods. Unbalanced pH wasn't > created in a few weeks or months, and it isn't > resolved that quickly. Older people many times cannot > achieve balance again, no matter what they do, and > must take alkaline calcium the rest of their lives. > > During a discussion of pH, it is very important to > include an essential factor because of its affect on > pH: the rest of the minerals. > > I compare the body to a brick wall. The wall is > composed of bricks and the mortar that holds the > bricks together. In this case, the bricks represent > calciums, and the mortar is all the rest of the > minerals. Obviously, if the bricks in a wall are > crumbling, the wall won't be very strong. But equally > obvious is that, if the mortar is dissolving from > between the bricks, the wall won't last long, either. > > Every day our bodies use up a certain amount of > minerals just to function, yet we are not fully > replacing those minerals with the commercially-grown > foods we eat. It's a bit like a checking account I > once had, where if I wrote a check for more than the > money that was in the checking account, it would > automatically dip into the money in my savings > account. They called it Overdraft Protection. But we > have all been doing this same thing all our lives with > our Metabolic Bank Accounts. Every day that you > deposit less into your body's account than the > “checks” your body writes that day, you dip into your > savings account. When I do not give my body the > minerals it needs that day, my body steals the > minerals it needs from throughout my body. So, if my > chemistry has become unbalanced in one particular way, > my body will steal minerals from my joints, and I will > end up with arthritis, bursitis, fibromyalgia, > osteoporosis, etc. Or, if my body has a chemistry > imbalance of another kind, it will leach minerals from > the linings of my arteries, and I will contract heart > disease. > > Although pH is an indicator of our calcium reserves, > it is also an indicator of our total mineral reserves. > > Uh, oh, someone put a nickle in me! > >
