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As more acid accumulates in our body, it gets
stored and pushed further, and ultimately it gets pushed into the cell.
When it gets pushed into the cell, the first thing it does is displace
POTASSIUM and then MAGNESIUM and then SODIUM.
Wow. Those are three critical minerals in our body. The potassium and
magnesium will leave the body, but as a preservation mechanism the sodium
will be retained. Remember, the body knows it must place an alkaline
molecule in the blood to escort out this increasing acid that is being
stored in the tissues and cells. What it will often do (when mineral
reserves are low which is often the case when eating a modern american
diet) is draw CALCIUM (the most alkaline mineral known) from the bones and
put it into the blood. This leads to something called free calcium excess.
This is something you don't want and it is what's behind osteoporosis,
arthritic pain, etc. It is brought about by the body compensating for an
ever increasing tissue acidosis somewhere in the body. What you don't want
to do in this case is take more calcium supplements. With that said, you
can now understand why calcium is one of the most over-prescribed
supplements. In these situations what the body really needs is more
potassium, and magnesium, perhaps organic sodium, and possibly zinc which
lends help to the whole proper acid breakdown process which we started five
paragraphs ago.
Let's push a little further. We have discussed four critical minerals:
- CALCIUM - MAGNESIUM - POTASSIUM - SODIUM
Well, wouldn't you know, these four minerals are the controlling minerals
for our body's sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Simply put,
the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) controls our fight or flight response
mechanism. The parasympathetic system (PSNS) controls our rest and digest
response mechanism. It works like this:
CALCIUM Stimulatory mineral for the Sympathetic Nervous System
MAGNESIUM Inhibitory mineral for the Sympathetic Nervous System
POTASSIUM Stimulatory mineral for the Parasympathetic Nervous System
SODIUM Inhibitory mineral for the Parasympathetic Nervous System
When you run an acidic condition in the body, free calcium is in excess
which stimulates the SNS, magnesium isn't around to offer a balance;
potassium is depleted so the PSNS is not getting stimulated to offset the
SNS and it is actually being further inhibited by sodium which the body is
hanging onto with respect to the loss of potassium and magnesium.
What does this give you? A person that is acidic, possibly prone to ranting
and raving, hyperactive, quick to anger, moving too fast, burning out. Just
what you'd expect from somebody running too acidic. And pushed to the
extreme? You get a person that may appear as extreme PSNS dominant, i.e.
lazy, lethargic, fatigued, but what you usually have is a person pushed
beyond SNS dominance to outright exhaustion. According to some health care
practitioners, it is rare to see a true PSNS dominant individual. Metabolic
reality, compensatory mechanisms, and today's modern diet rarely allows for
PSNS dominance.
What we've just covered is a bit of the biochemistry that gets us to where
we're going, and as you can see, it's one of the many fascinating
inter-related pieces to this puzzle we call health. Now let's go further to
build the picture.
Acid/Base -
Tissue/Blood - Biochemistry
As acids accumulate in our body,
they get stored and pushed into the tissues. Where they get pushed, on a
local level, is going to be in large measure where in your body or with
what organ you experience problems. When the body stores this excess acid,
it will compensate and place an alkaline atom/molecule in the blood, and
the blood will therefore become increasingly alkaline.
Something interesting happens with the uptake of oxygen in blood with an
overly alkaline environment. With rising alkalinity, blood can increase
it's oxygen uptake, therefore the blood cells can hold more oxygen. Pretty
good don't you think? Well, if you think so, your wrong. The reason is, a
little bit of biochemical reality known as the Bohr effect.
The Bohr effect states that with rising blood alkalinity, the red blood
cells can saturate themselves with ever more oxygen. The problem is, they
can't let go of it! If the blood cells can't let go of oxygen, then the
oxygen isn't getting down to the other cells of the body. And do you recall
what Otto Warburg discovered about cancer? It grows in an oxygen deficient
environment. Now let's go further.
We have alkaline blood due to the fact we have increasingly acidic tissue
and/or cells occuring somewhere in our body. We have an alkaline blood which
can't let go of it's oxygen to aerate an increasingly acidic environment.
So get this ---- Here we have an Acidic environment with no oxygen. How can
anything survive in this environment? Through anaerobic fermentation. What
ferments anaerobically (i.e. without oxygen)? Yeast, mold and fungus. If
that's the case, then this should bring up a most logical question; Since
cancer thrives in an anaerobic environment, what is cancer? If you answered
fermenting mold and fungus, you get a gold star. That is exactly what
cancer is. Want proof? In 1903, Enderlein and Schmitt (Munich) cultured the
fungus Mucor Racemosus Fresen from tumor cells. Other biologists (some of
those mentioned earlier) have done the same. With access to a biology lab,
you or any other scientist not beholden to political agendas can duplicate
this experiment at any time. Why is this important? Because it is part of
the story behind the aging, disease, and the rotting process which confirms
what pleomorphic scientists have known all along about MICROBES, i.e. ALL
microbes will change dependent upon their environment.
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