Simple Ways To Alkalize Your Body

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VERY SIMPLE WAYS TO ALKALIZE YOUR BODY– AMAZING EFFECTS!

BY WORLDHEALTHCHOICE
Practice every day these natural and simple ways to alkalize your body and you will no longer have health problems. Dr. Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize winner in 1931 for cancer discovery said: “No disease, including cancer, can exist in an alkaline environment”.

Acidity in our body is linked to excess weight, pain and many health issues. Fortunately, making your organism more alkaline is very simple and easy. Making alkaline environment is in fact the opposite of acidic environment. Here are 10 simple natural ways that you can practice every day and they will alkalize your organism. At same time you will gain more everyday energy and vitality:

0. The most important thing is to start your day with smile and with a large glass of water with the juice of a freshly-squeezed lemon. Lemons actually have the opposite effect on your body even they may seem acidic. Drink first thing in the morning to flush the system. Another option is to drink one or two glasses of organic apple cider vinegar and water daily. You should only mix one to two tablespoons of vinegar in eight ounces of water.


  1. Eat large portion of green salad tossed in lemon juice and quality olive oil. Greens (vegetable or fruit) are among the best sources of alkaline minerals, like calcium. Eat alkaline foods during the day like most fruits and vegetables. They sustain the body’s pH on a daily basis and keep balance in your organism.
  2. Your snack should consist on raw, unsalted almonds. Almonds are full with minerals that are natural alkaline like magnesium and calcium, which actually help to balance out acidity and in the same time to balance blood sugar.
  3. Drink almond milk and make yourself nice berry smoothie with added green powder like spirulina, or other greens. If you have choice between almond milk and cow’s milk, almond milk is better option.
  4. Go for a nice walk or some other exercise. It’s very important to be active. Exercise actually helps move acidic products so your body can better eliminate them.
  5. Breathe deeply. Ideally, choose a spot that has fresh, oxygen-rich air and go there whenever you can. While you are there, drink lots of water (and on daily basis as well) to flush the system of waste.
  6. Do not eat meat every day. If you can skip few days without meat it will be great because eating meat every day leaves an acid residue behind. We have a lot of vegan or vegetarian recipes for you. Alkalize your body!
  7. Skip dessert loaded with sugar and skip drinking soda. Sugar is one of the worst acidic foods we consume and our enemy. If you drink just ONE can of soda, you will actually need more than thirty glasses of neutral water to neutralize the acidity in your body!
  8. Add more vegetables to your diet. Be careful, potatoes don’t count. However, sweet potatoes are good choice but don’t make them with butter, use olive oil and Himalayan salt for baking. Peppers, Asparagus, squash, Aubergines, and other vegetables are also great choices.
  9. And last but not least: Add more sprouts to your daily diet. They are extremely alkalizing and rich in nutrients and energy-boosting enzymes.

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I drink a cup of water in the mornings with 2 tablespoons of organic pure lemon juice and 1/3 teaspoon of baking soda. Helps to keep the body alkaline, and cancer thrives in an acidic environment. Of course, those with health issues that restrict sodium intake might not be able to add the soda. If I'm not mistaken, just the lemon juice daily will help somewhat with alkalinity. https://www.seniorforums.com/showth...-Thrives-in-an-Acidic-Body?highlight=alkaline
 
SeaBreeze said:
I drink a cup of water in the mornings with 2 tablespoons of organic pure lemon juice and 1/3 teaspoon of baking soda. Helps to keep the body alkaline, and cancer thrives in an acidic environment. Of course, those with health issues that restrict sodium intake might not be able to add the soda. If I'm not mistaken, just the lemon juice daily will help somewhat with alkalinity. https://www.seniorforums.com/showth...-Thrives-in-an-Acidic-Body?highlight=alkaline
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Thank you SB.
 

I drink water with lemon juice in it, too, and try to avoid sugar and sweet foods. I know that cancer cells live on sugar; and avoiding sugars and starches (which turn into sugars when digested) will halve a lot in preventing cancer because the cancer cells starve before they can multiply and grow.
I like fresh lemons, and I peel off the outer skin with a paring knife, and leave the white bioflavonoid along with the lemon. Then I put it in the blender with some water and blend it until all of the chunks are gone. I use a packet of the sf drink mix to sweeten it, but you could use any sweetener you prefer. I store it in the refrigerator in a quart jar and drink it over ice during the day.
I also add some lemon juice and the non-filtered ACV when I am making a salad, along with the olive oil and fractionated coconut oil.
 
Yesterday, I saw some Mayer lemons at the grocery store, and I bought a bag of them to try. They actually look like small oranges that are not quite ripe, but still a lot more orange than a lemon is. The flavor is sweeter than a lemon, but not as sweet as an orange would be, and once you cut them open, the inside is the regular lemon color.
I tried one in my green smoothie yesterday, and I only peeled part of the skin off before blending it. It tasted so good that today, I just quartered the whole lemon, and blended it, peel and all.

I agree with Ruthanne’s opening post, and I have also read that statement from Dr. Otto Warburg.
I think that if we take proper care of our health, and keep our body alkaline and the immune system functioning at top proficiency, then we are much less apt to get cancer, or a lot of other modern illnesses that come from poor eating habits.
I had gotten out of the habit of drinking green smoothies every day, it has just been so cold here that I have only been drinking hot drinks.
Yesterday, I read through my “Green for Life” book (by Victoria Boutenko) again, and then I went to the store, bought some fresh greens, and am starting back on drinking the green smoothies every day.
Already, I have more energy and my head is clearer, and it is only one day back on the smoothies.
 
I'm puzzled. Why should you try to 'Alkalize' your body by drinking citric acid contained in lemons? I can understand using Bi-carb to soothe acid indigestion, but mixing it with lemon juice will surely just fizz and cancel out the effect.
 
Capt Lightning said:
I'm puzzled. Why should you try to 'Alkalize' your body by drinking citric acid contained in lemons? I can understand using Bi-carb to soothe acid indigestion, but mixing it with lemon juice will surely just fizz and cancel out the effect.
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I drink it in the mornings, both will help make your pH more alkaline and the combo seems to be very effective. Better explanation HERE.

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Dr. Loyd Jenkins of the Budwig Center says, “If there is one thing you could do every day that would dramatically fight disease and increase your energy, consuming lemon juice combined with baking soda would be on the top of the list.

Lemon in addition to being an effective internal cleanser and especially when combined with baking soda has also shown to contain anti-carcinogenic properties as it contains limonoides, which are phytochemicals found in a number of citrus fruits. Apparently the limonoides help strip off the protective layer coating the cancer cells. Lemon also has been shown to have strong anti-microbial effects, which has been tested in research exploring the idea that cancer is very much like a fungus within the body. When treating cancer as a fungus, various methods can be used and some have found that lemon and bicarbonate can help fight the fungus causing various types of cancer.”


Dr. Johanna Budwig was in favor of using as many natural substances as possible. Introducing more lemon into your diet is one of the easiest and natural ways to introduce high alkaline substances into the system.

When you use the lemon and baking soda together, it helps to fight cancerous cells or other diseases in the body. Together they help increase the body’s ability to clean itself up of what may be causing the diseases in the first place, which is mostly high acidity and low oxygen conditions.
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Another page with info HERE.

The combination of baking soda and lemon juice has a number of health benefits, including the ability to detoxify the body, balance pH levels, improve digestion, boost the immune system, aid heart health, protect the skin, heal the liver and prevent chronic disease.


There are countless health remedies that have gained popularity in recent years, but the use of baking soda and lemon dates back decades in natural health circles. On their own, these two substances have plenty of healthy effects, but when combined, they can have an even more impressive impact on your overall health.

To begin with, the juice of a freshly squeezed lemon, coming from the Citrus limon fruit, is high in vitamin C and other antioxidants, and is closely linked to immune system health and diuretic effects on the body. Lemons contain high concentrations of minerals and vitamins, making this juice, despite the tart taste, extremely popular in cooking and alternative health remedies.


Baking soda, on the other hand, is the common name for sodium bicarbonate, which is technically considered a medicine, despite its many culinary applications. The alkalizing effect of baking soda is well known, which is why so many people use it for digestive and heartburn issues, as it can reduce your risk of acidosis, and the many side effects that can accompany an imbalanced pH level in the body.
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One excellent and well-known book about alkaline foods is called “The pH Miracle” and it was written by Robert Young and his wife, Shelley Redford Young. I have had it in my book library for a couple of years and I am just now re-reading it again, because there are always things that I forget about and need a refresher course.
Amazon also has a lot of good ebooks about alkaline foods and living, and many of those are free, if you just do a search on the Kindle Store for free alkaline books.
I have finished re-reading Green For Life, and have been having green smoothies every day now, and I am going to do the green smoothie 10-day cleanse again . There is a book by JJ Smith about how to do the 10 day cleanse, and she also has a facebook support group.
 
Strict vegan here, the past 24 years. Vegetarian for sixteen years, before that. No soda, light sweets, one alcoholic drink every two weeks, maybe. I still climb trees for a living, still work right through a job while my crews, one third my age, break for lunch. Weigh exactly what I did in high school. Still wearing dress shirts from forty years ago, although I have lots of new stuff, too. Acidic body chemistry has been my enemy since I was a child: My sweat literally ate through watch bands my folks gave me, and they always accused me of breaking them, until they gave it a close look. Even metal bands would disintegrate! Now, I take 1/8th tsp. of baking soda when I feel the need. It absolutely works. Those of you who take lemon juice to control acidity must know it's highly acidic, although I know there's probably a lot of pop "scientific wisdom" to justify it's use. For me, it would set off a massive acidic bias move in my internal chemistry.
 
The first I heard about alkalizing the body was from Dr. Susan Lark, who was advising women to drink baking soda in water every day to prevent UTIs and some other problems that plague postmenopausal women.

Since then I've read that another aid in alkalizing, potassium citrate, increases bone density in postmenopausal women and decreases the amount of calcium being leached out of our bodies. If I can do something as simple and inexpensive as ingesting baking soda or potassium citrate to prevent osteoporosis and other chronic problems for women my age, why would I hesitate to do it?
 
Happyflowerlady said:
If keeping your body alkaline to the proper pH can help prevent body pain from arthritis, help prevent cancer and other illnesses....... and if eating acid-forming food causes inflammation and illness in our bodies; please explain why you are against having an alkaline pH , Nvtribefan ?
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The body works to keep its pH level constant. I can change the pH of my urine with diet, but so what?
That said, the foods recommended for the alkaline diet are healthy, so it's not going to hurt you to follow it.
 
I have read here & elsewhere that lemon juice in the morning is a good help. Hard to understand, considering how acidic lemon is ??
 
The pH level of the blood is much more important than the pH level of your urine, Nvtribefan, and that is where it is helpful in protecting our body from inflammation, pain, and illnesses.
However, taking care of our body is something that each person must work out for themself, and if you feel like your body is keeping itself at the right pH level without being concerned about eating alkaline foods, then that is what works for you.

I have had some health issues in the past, and for me, it is important to learn what will improve my chances of staying healthy; so, like Ruthanne, I have been reading about keeping the body alkaline.
Today, I was reading more about almonds, and just making myself some more fresh almond milk.
Almonds are one of the best foods for mineralizing the body and helping to keep us alkaline. I use my blender and make my own almond milk fresh by first soaking the almonds overnight, and then blending them until they are completely emulsified and drinkable.

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/benefits-eating-almonds-daily-5007.html
 
rgp said:
I have read here & elsewhere that lemon juice in the morning is a good help. Hard to understand, considering how acidic lemon is ??
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The lemon is very acidic, but it creates an alkaline effect when digested, this article explains it a bit more. It seems the pH of the blood can't be regulated, but ingesting foods that are alkalizing are beneficial to the body...I know, it is hard to understand and confusing, but it makes some sense. ARTICLE

When people encourage you to "alkalize your blood," most of them mean that you should eat plenty of foods that have an alkaline-forming effect on your system. The reason for making this suggestion is that the vast majority of highly processed foods - like white flour products and white sugar - have an acid-forming effect on your system, and if you spend years eating a poor diet that is mainly acid-forming, you will overwork some of the buffering systems mentioned above to a point where you could create undesirable changes in your health.

For example, your phosphate buffer system uses different phosphate ions in your body to neutralize strong acids and bases. About 85% of the phosphate ions that are used in your phosphate buffer system comes from calcium phosphate salts, which are structural components of your bones and teeth. If your body fluids are regularly exposed to large quantities of acid-forming foods and liquids, your body will draw upon its calcium phosphate reserves to supply your phosphate buffer system to neutralize the acid-forming effects of your diet. Over time, this may lead to structural weakness in your bones and teeth.

Drawing on your calcium phosphate reserves at a high rate can also increase the amount of calcium that is eliminated via your genito-urinary system, which is why a predominantly acid-forming diet can increase your risk of developing calcium-rich kidney stones.

This is just one example of how your buffering systems can be overtaxed to a point where you experience negative health consequences. Since your buffering systems have to work all the time anyway to neutralize the acids that are formed from everyday metabolic activities, it's in your best interest to follow a diet that doesn't create unnecessary work for your buffering systems.

Acid and Alkaline-Forming Effects of Common Foods

Generally speaking, most vegetables and fruits have an alkaline-forming effect on your body fluids.
Most grains, animal foods, and highly processed foods have an acid-forming effect on your body fluids.

Your health is best served by a good mix of nutrient-dense, alkaline and acid-forming foods; ideally, you want to eat more alkaline-forming foods than acid-forming foods to have the net acid and alkaline-forming effects of your diet match the slightly alkaline pH of your blood.

The following lists indicate which common foods have an alkaline-forming effect on your body fluids, and which ones result in acid ash formation when they are digested and assimilated into your system.

Foods that have a Moderate to Strong Alkaline-Forming Effect
Watermelon
Lemons
Cantaloupe
Celery
Limes
Mango
Honeydew
Papaya
Parsley
Seaweed
Sweet, seedless grapes
Watercress
Asparagus
Kiwi
Pears
Pineapple
Raisins
Vegetable juices
Apples
Apricots
Alfalfa sprouts
Avocados
Bananas
Garlic
Ginger
Peaches
Nectarines
Grapefruit
Oranges
Most herbs
Peas
Lettuce
Broccoli
Cauliflower


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Foods that have a Moderate to Strong Acid-Forming Effect
Alcohol
Soft drinks (pop)
Tobacco
Coffee
White sugar
Refined Salt
Artificial sweeteners
Antibiotics (and most drugs)
White flour products (including pasta)
Seafood
White vinegar
Barley
Most boxed cereals
Cheese
Most beans
Flesh meats
Most types of bread


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Please note that these lists of acid and alkaline-forming foods are not comprehensive, nor are they meant to be.
If you're eating mainly grains, flour products, animal foods, and washing these foods down with coffee, soda, and milk, you will almost certainly improve your health by replacing some of your food and beverage choices with fresh vegetables and fruits.

The primary purpose of this article is to offer information that explains why I believe that you don't need to take one or more nutritional supplements or "alkalized water" for the sole purpose of alkalizing your body. Your body is already designed to keep the pH of your body fluids in a tight, slightly alkaline range.

The ideal scenario is to make fresh vegetables and fruits the centerpieces of your diet, and to eat small amounts of any other nutrient-dense foods that your appetite calls for and that experience shows your body can tolerate.

I hope these thoughts bring some clarity to this often misunderstood health topic.
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Camper6 said:
I don't get it. You need stomach acid to digest and assimilate the foods you eat.

Why would I try to neutralize that?

Its like artificial colon cleansing. More harmful than helpful.
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I read the article posted by SeaBreeze, and have read [similar] in the past. I have also read articles on colon cleansing . I think I have a reasonable understanding of it ? IMO the bottom line always seems to revert back to moderation in food / drink intake. And maintain regularity in bowel movements.

Nothing new & earth-shaking about any of it. {Alcohol} for example, if a person is going to pound down a bunch of it , say in an evening?...he /she is going to pay for it the next day. If they are going to do that day after day, for a long period of time?....they are likely to create real problems down the road...far,far worse than a simple hangover. But!....there are those that can, [for what ever reason] tolerate better, and those that suffer earlier.

Most items in the list that are acidic TASTE GOOD ...so...take it easy. The others that are alkaline , [and perhaps not so tasty] suck it up & eat some anyway...:)

Try to maintain a regular bowel movement , maybe take a laxative on occasion ?

Again the extremes toward either the 'good' or the 'bad'.....are probably not a good idea.....jmo
 
rgp said:
I read the article posted by SeaBreeze, and have read [similar] in the past. I have also read articles on colon cleansing . I think I have a reasonable understanding of it ? IMO the bottom line always seems to revert back to moderation in food / drink intake. And maintain regularity in bowel movements.

Nothing new & earth-shaking about any of it. {Alcohol} for example, if a person is going to pound down a bunch of it , say in an evening?...he /she is going to pay for it the next day. If they are going to do that day after day, for a long period of time?....they are likely to create real problems down the road...far,far worse than a simple hangover. But!....there are those that can, [for what ever reason] tolerate better, and those that suffer earlier.

Most items in the list that are acidic TASTE GOOD ...so...take it easy. The others that are alkaline , [and perhaps not so tasty] suck it up & eat some anyway...:)

Try to maintain a regular bowel movement , maybe take a laxative on occasion ?

Again the extremes toward either the 'good' or the 'bad'.....are probably not a good idea.....jmo
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I don't think self doctoring is a good idea. Picking up on a fad is a bad idea.
 
Camper6 said:
I don't think self doctoring is a good idea. Picking up on a fad is a bad idea.
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Maybe , maybe not ?

Just leaving it all up to the doc is not good either. I believe we should take an active roll in our care. Information is more readily available than ever before....use it , pay attention, is my advise ?

If a doc does not order a test, because he sees no reason? [which can sometimes be due to his HMO care guidelines] ? Does not mean [in reality] that the test should not be done. It may only mean that [he] is performing within those HMO restrictions.



So if a patient desires a test, can afford the test, why not have it performed? If the results are all positive ...peace of mind . If there is some question in the results ?...that is reason to ask the doc to look more closely for / at, a particular issue.

And I have known / know, two people that have simply walked away from [accepted] western medical care..[their docs] and report feeling better than they have in years ? I don't have the nerve yet :) But it is something I am considering ?

BTW...as for fads?...I agree
 

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