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The Body's pH

This, of all my chapters around health and wellness, is the one that is most important to read.

It wasn't until I was sixty years old that I learned the most amazing thing about my body and how it works.

No one could have told me my body would undergo a total transformation, not just my outer physical self, including my skin, but my body's inner workings as well. On my website, I expose myself in the physical form to prove that point. I look and feel healthier, younger, more energized now, at 61, than I have over a span of 40 years. Not since I was in my twenties has my body been this size, the size that is my natural, meant to be height/weight proportion, and in this past year my body weight has not fluctuated more than two pounds up or down!

For me, this is a miracle!

I am a woman, exactly like other women. We share a constant struggle maintaining our body's preferred weight. The weight our vessel likes to keep constant, in order to best function on all levels. Having babies, hormonal changes, menopause, stress, emotional ups and downs, all play a part. As my 'before' pictures reflect, for the most part of the last forty years, I held onto 20 to 40 extra pounds.

About two years ago, I learned about the body's pH balance, the importance of keeping my body in alkaline/acidic balance. I made immediate changes to my diet and necessary hydration, the drinking of water, alkaline water. Within a week I saw/felt amazing things happen.

I speak on this subject first because of many reasons.

• There is a health epidemic in this country.
• Obesity is at an all time high, affecting 2/3 of the population.
• Disease and illness is rampant.
• People are sick and tired of being sick and tired.
• And most importantly, we must change these statistics for our children and grand children's future.

This information is not a secret. It has long ago been an established medical and scientific fact. It is now time for the truth to come out around health and wellness What has happened to me qualifies me to act as a live, personal testimonial around this information, as it has changed my life forever.

Yes, it is best to go within first, but I have found when my body is looking and feeling good then I have all the more reason to explore and nurture other parts of myself, my inner work. Because so many of us are looking for a simple, easy to understand, affordable answer to excess weight and wellness in general, I have chosen to get this information, around he body's pH, out first.

I will refer you to many links, mentors, experts in this field. Western medicine, Eastern medicine, scientists, engineers, people whose books and articles have proven to be invaluable.

Hydration is huge, as the body is mostly composed of water. Most of us are in a constant state of dehydration and don't even know it. Our cells cannot function properly without water, alkaline water is best. I have learned our cells have no idea how 'old' they are. Our bodies contain some 73 trillion cells! Some do not die, but survive by becoming abnormal or malignant to survive in the acidic, toxic environment we cause via the food and beverages we eat/drink. If we keep our cells properly hydrated, and in an alkaline state, they think and act as though they are brand new. This leads to reverse aging, more on that later.

The food we eat, the beverages we drink, determine our health.

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food"
~Hippocrates, 460-377 B.C., Father of Western Medicine

Yes, lack of exercise, stress, sedentary-ness and many other things enter in, but none are as far reaching as what we 'feed' our bodies. Unfortunately our present food chain is hindering, rather than helping us become healthy. Processed, altered, highly acidic food and beverages are the norm. When I was growing up, in the 40's, 50's and 60's, food was still relatively 'real' and wholesome, supplying me with basic needed nutrients. Today's processed food, including soda pop, is chocked full of acidic acids that the body cannot rid itself of. The major cause of illness, disease, and aging, is the accumulation of acidic waste stored in the body.

The older we are, the more 'acid' we tend to become.

The goal of the game of wellness is to help our body dispose of more acidic waste products. The more the better. Since waste products are carried out by the blood and disposed of in liquid form, drinking the right kind of water can score more points. The best kind of water for this function is acid-free alkaline water, the water that neutralizes harmful acids and disposes of them safely while not leaching valuable minerals such as potassium, magnesium, sodium and calcium.

I have changed what I eat and drink. I bought a water ionizer machine that hooks to my kitchen faucet and renders my drinking water alkaline. I drink a minimum of half my body weight, 60 ounces a day, and on most days I drink a gallon of this water. My body has never been happier and it shows.

I also 'drink' a highly alkaline food in powder form. This food came to me four months before the alkaline water came, and because of the immediate changes I saw and felt, was the impetus behind educating myself to the body's pH balance.

I will share all my resources and links with you. This information will change your life. Not only will your body look and feel better, it will begin to work in the manner it was intended to work because it is not dealing with disease causing acid waste. I am a walking, talking testament to the validity of this information.

There will be choices to make, acidic foods to give up, but in the end, the rewards of the body's return to it's natural self, and unmistakable wellness on all levels is the ultimate truth.

My mission is to get this ionized, alkaline water to as many people as possible, to start a health revolution of sorts.

When you a go to my Reverse Aging page, you will be introduced to a man who is mostly responsible for educating me to this life changing information.

Read my next Health & Wellness article about
how alkaline food can help balance your body's PH.