ph balance: Fact and Fiction

Saturday one of my regular customers came in for his monthly supplies. We talked at lenght about his cancer that is currently in remission. Over the course of our conversation, he raised the subject of the acid and alkaline balance in his body. He asked me if having an acidic body can cause cancer. I said that having an acid ph level is a symptom of a deeper problem that over time may lead to the damaging of certain genes that then would manifest itself as cancer.

The level of acidity or alkalinity is a reflection of what you are eating more than it is a reflection of the state of your over all health. Your ph can change throughout the day depending on what you had for any meal that day. I like to think of the ph balance as an early warning system. ph can be used the same way you can use finger nails, hair growth, gums, and skin palor to tell us that something is not working correctly. Many times outward signs like lines in the finger nails or pale gums appear days or months before any clinical signs of disease may present itself. ph is the same way. So what does any of this have to do with cancer? I am glad you asked.

Cancer is a disease that takes time. It takes time to start. It takes alot of time to develop. In fact the tumor that represents cancer is the end of the disease process not the beginning. Cancer cannot start if the immune system is working properly. To work properly, we must feed our body all the neccessary foods that contain all the vitmains and minerals it needs to maintain itself. The problems start to occur when we eat junk foods in place of real foods. Most of the junk foods we like are high in refined carbs like high fructose corn syrup. Small amounts of even these foods may not cause many problems if they are limited in the diet. If junk food becomes the diet, that is when the ph starts to become more acidic. The more refined carbs you eat the more acidic the body becomes. The more refined carbs you eat the less real food you eat robbing the body of the nutrients it needs. The less nutrients the body has to use, the more DNA damage may occur. The more DNA damage that occurs, the more likely it is for cancer to form in the body. Do you see where this is going? The acid/alkaline balance is another tool that you can use to monitor the status of your body.

Thanks for spending part of your day here with me,

James