“What is the acid/alkaline balance and why is it so important for your health?”

Did you know that your diet consists of acid-forming and base-forming foods? If your intake of acid-forming and base-forming (alkalizing) foods is in balance your body enjoys a neutral pH-balance. It is important to maintain that neutral balance if you want to stay healthy.

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If your diet has developed in such a way that you consume far too much meat, fat and sugar and not enough vegetables and fruit, you may be in trouble. If you are eating far more acid-forming food than base-forming food, you may be suffering from health problems caused by a chronically disturbed acid/alkaline balance.

The highly concentrated (100:1) 1440mg of Fruits & Greens complex will supply you an abundance of bioflavinoids, anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals from the most nutrient dense foods to help restore balance to your body naturally.

If you are out of balance, your body will try to repair this imbalance by binding excess acid to minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc in order to excrete the acid through the kidneys. If there are insufficient minerals available from the food that you've eaten, your body will use minerals from your bones, muscle tissue and organs to bring the balance back. This will eventually drain your compensatory mechanisms and reserves and lead to mineral deficiency. In the end your body may no longer be capable of maintaining a healthy acid/alkaline balance and will become chronically acidified. This condition is called acidosis, a condition that is characterized by excessive acid in the body fluids.

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As long as your body receives sufficient alkalizing foods and minerals specific for your body type, it can get rid of the excess acid. It simply neutralizes the acid that it stores during the day in muscle and fatty tissue by binding it to minerals and eliminating it through the kidneys (in your urine), the lungs (through your breath) and your skin (by sweating).

If there are insufficient base-forming foods in your body the excess acid can no longer be excreted and it will be permanently stored in body tissue and fluids, potentially giving your body even more reason to store fat, to keep the acidity from harming your internal organs.

Greens For Life is designed to boost your alkalising reserves by focusing mainly on the powerful barley grass juice extract, which many believe to be the most powerful harmonising superfood in existence, along with other powerful grass juices such as wheatgrass.

Many physicians consider health problems such as osteoporosis, arthritis, rheumatism, gout, respiratory issues, digestive organ failure and poor immunity to be unavoidable, age-related, hereditary or just bad luck. I'm sure you know of a doctor who is happy to write prescriptions for pharmaceutical drugs that fight the symptoms and ease the pain but do not remove the cause of the problem and heal the patient. On top of that, because of their chemical composition, these drugs often have various side effects and worsen pH-balance because they are highly acid-forming. Prescribing a simple change in diet and increasing the intake of alkalizing foods would be far more effective but is usually overlooked.

A disturbed acid/alkaline balance does not happen overnight

A chronically disturbed acid/alkaline balance is not something that immediately happens after eating one big steak or Big Mac. It is a slow process that takes a number of years, but after time it will reveal itself by a steady increase in related problems. You will start feeling less and less healthy without knowing why. Each acid-forming food produces different forms of acid (uric acid, phosphoric acid, sulphuric acid, carbonic acid etc.). Each one has its own particular influence on your health and can cause different health problems.

All heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and even the amalgam fillings in your teeth are strongly acid-forming. That's why environmental pollution has such a direct effect on the acidity in your body. Stress, acute fear, fatigue and lack of sleep also cause the body to produce an excess of hydrochloric acid.

In the early stages of acidity we speak of latent acidosis. As the condition worsens and becomes chronic, we speak of acute acidosis. This can and will cause any of the following health problems:

chronic headaches
chronic fatigue
dizzy spells
difficulty concentrating
excess acidity in the stomach and oesophagus (heartburn)
eczema
muscle aches even after moderate exertion
weight gain
constipation
hair loss
yeast growth in the intestines (candida)
intestinal parasites
bacterial infections
halitosis (bad breath)
cellulitis

The human body will always try to correct a disturbed acid/alkaline balance, especially in the blood. It is of vital importance that the blood maintains a pH-value between 7.35 and 7.45, because even the slightest deviation can result in acute health problem, coma and death. The body will therefore sacrifice massive amounts of minerals to bind and eliminate the excess acid in the blood and rather cause acute osteoperosis and malfunctioning of other organs rather than endanger the pH-value of the blood.

Excess acidity disrupts the functioning of anti-oxidants

The body depends on a number of vitamins and enzymes like Catalese, L-Glutathione and the rare but very effective SOD-enzyme to hunt, attack and eliminate free radicals before they can do serious damage to the body. These anti-oxidants become increasingly ineffective as the disturbance in the acid/alkaline balance in the body progresses. As a result the body becomes more susceptible to damage by free radicals. This is a very serious health problem which can cause diseases and tumors.

Greens For Life not only helps boost production of these antioxidants but also helps maintain the environment where they are most effective.

A disturbed acid/alkaline balance can be easily and permanently corrected!

Avoid sugar at all costs. Never touch it again and avoid any food that has sugar added to it. This will be easier when you embrace the principles talked about in Aggressive Health by Mike Nash because you'll discover other principles that can maintain stable blood sugar levels. Sugar is one of the main causes for a permanent disruption of the acid/alkaline balance and is responsible for a large number of other health problems like obesity, candida and diabetes.

Engage in movement and fun aerobic exercise that you fall in love with. Ideally three times a week for at least an hour. Any form of excercise helps, even a simple walk for a half an hour. By exercising regularly you deepen your breath, which allows you to eliminate more acid from your body.

Make sure you get enough sleep. The body binds and eliminates acid while you sleep. The less you sleep, the less acid you eliminate.

Start using Greens for Life. The main ingredient of Greens for Life is a 10:1 extract of Barley Grass, which is the most alkalizing, base-forming food we know. It is the best help you can get to rid yourself of excess acid and quickly regain your health. Your body will thank you for using it in many ways.

The first two weeks of your new life take a tablespoon of Greens for Life dissolved in water or fruit juice (preferably apple juice) twice a day. After two weeks you can start using a maintenance dosis of one tablespoon per day.

Make Greens for Life a regular item at your breakfast table. It is one of the best things you can do for your body. Not only while you are restoring a neutral pH-value your body, but every day. It's the best insurance that the acid/alkaline balance in your body wil never get disturbed again.

Note: do not start drinking a lot of milk because of the calcium content. A 10 year study by Harvard University and Nurse's Magazine among 75.000 women has shown that drinking milk has the opposite effect (the more milk they drank, the more bones they broke!)

How do you measure the acid/alkaline balance in your body?

The blood

By continually adding base and eliminating acid the body keeps the acid/alkaline balance of the blood highly stable. The acidity of the blood is determined by measuring the pH-value. Blood has a steady pH-balance of between 7.35 and 7.45 (water has a neutral pH-balance of 7, which means that acid and base keep each other in exact balance). You cannot measure the pH-balance of the blood yourself. You don't need to. As we said earlier, the body will do whatever is needed to maintain the exact pH-value in your blood, even cannibalizing other parts of the body for minerals, because even a slight deviation in the pH-value can cause serious problems and endanger your life.

The urine

To know what the pH-value of your body is and to make sure that the recommended changes in your diet have the desired effect, you should monitor the pH-balance of your body. You can do so by measuring the acidity of your urine. In the morning your urine should have a pH-value of 7.1. In the afternoon it will increase to 7.4. As long as the urine has a pH-value that ranges between 7.1 and 7.4 the acid/alkaline balance of the body is in order. If the balance is under 7, your body contains too much acid. If the pH-value is under 6 we speak of acute acidosis and you will probably experience a number of health complaints.

You can buy inexpensive teststrips to measure the pH-value of your urine at any drugstore.