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What we eat
and drink will impact where our bodies pH level falls, and our
bodies pH will control the activity of every metabolic function
happening in our body.
pH is behind the bodies electrical
system, intracellular activity, the way our bodies utilize enzymes,
and minerals, and vitamins. That is why pH is one of the first
things to be looked at if you are experiencing unbalance in your
body in any way, shape, or form. And since our bodies pH level is a
direct result of what we eat and drink, anytime we are experiencing
imbalance, we need to look at what we have historically been eating
and drinking because this impacts our pH. It's a circle. You can't
look at one without looking at the other.
What we eat and
drink is directly tied to our digestive system. From our mouth
through our small intestines and through our colon, that system
plays the most important part in our physical well being. This
system, what we feed it and how it impacts our pH, is the essential
core to whether we have perfect health or not. It is really so
simple.
Now you may be thinking that all of this makes
perfect sense. In its simplicity, why doesn't modern medicine put
two and two together and simply attempt to bring people back into
balance through the food that we eat?
Hippocrates said, "Let
food be your medicine.
Let medicine be your food."
If it were only so
simple. Modern medicine has gotten to where it is today in part
through a scientific and philosophical debate that culminated in the
19th century. On one side of the debate was French microbiologist
Antoine Bechamp. On the other side was French microbiologist Louis
Pasteur. Bechamp and Pasteur strongly disagreed in their
bacteriological theories. They argued heatedly about who was
correct. It was...
The Argument that Changed
the Course of Medicine.
Pasteur promoted a
theory of disease that described non-changeable microbes as the
primary cause of disease. This is the theory of monomorphism. This theory says that a microorganism is static and
unchangeable. It is what it is. Disease is solely caused by microbes
or bacteria that invade the body from the outside. (This is the germ
theory.)
Bechamp held the view that microorganisms can go
through different stages of development and they can evolve into
various growth forms within their life cycle. This is the theory of
pleomorphism. He discovered microbes in the blood which he
called microzymas. These microbes would change shape as individuals
became diseased, and for Bechamp, this was the cause of disease;
hence disease comes from inside the body.
Another scientist
of the day, Claude Bernard, entered into the argument and said that
it was actually the "milieu" or the environment that is all
important to the disease process. Microbes do change and evolve, but
how they do, is a result of the environment (or terrain) to
which they are exposed. Hence for Bechamp, microbes, being
pleomorphic, will change according to the environment to which they
are exposed. Therefore, disease in the body, as a biological
process, will develop and manifest dependent upon the state of the
internal biological terrain. At the core of that terrain, is
pH.
Both men acknowledged certain aspects of each others
research, but it was Pasteur who was the stronger, more flamboyant,
and vocal opponent to the quiet Bechamp. Pasteur also came from
wealth and had the right family connections. He went to great
lengths to disprove Bechamps view. Pasteur eventually managed to
convince the scientific community that it was his view alone that
was correct. Bechamp felt that this diverted science down a
deplorable road - a road that held only half the truth.
On
his deathbed, Pasteur finally acknowledged Bechamps work and said,
"Bernard was correct, the microbe is nothing, the terrain is
everything." It was a 180 degree turnaround. With his death
imminently at hand, he as much admitted that his germ theory had
flaws. But his admission fell on deaf ears. It was far too late. It
could not reverse the inertia of ideas that had already been
accepted by mainstream science at that time. Allopathic (drug based)
medicine was firmly entrenched on the road that was paved by
Pasteur.
The result of that road is what you see today
practiced as medicine. When a body is out of balance, doctors
attempt to put it back into balance first through drugs, then
through surgery. The general effect is to remove the symptoms, but
not the ultimate cause of the ailment.
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