pH stands for power of hydrogen, which is a measurement of the hydrogen ion concentration in the body running on a scale from 0 - 14 with 7 being neutral. Our bodies are alkaline by design at 7.364 - 7.4. We are programmed to maintain this range no matter what, with even the slightest dip or rise in pH having dangerous consequences. When body fluids become too acidic, we enter a state of acidosis in which illness and disease can manifest.
What causes an imbalance in pH? A diet high in acidic foods like meat, dairy, un-soaked nuts, seeds and grains, alcohol and processed foods. Stress and environmental toxins can also cause your body to become more acidic.
Lack of hydration is a major cause of acidosis. Our body is made up of up to 90% water. Most people die being around 50% water. That’s why it’s important to be hydrated so your body can function properly.
Juicing in particular is very restorative and is an incredible foundation for taking care of your body. You're flooded with concentrated living water which is clean, balanced, STRUCTURED, and is neither too alkaline nor too acidic.
We are made of blood and our blood is only as healthy as what we’re eating, drinking and thinking. When you drink juices your haemoglobin and blood volume starts increasing and red count balances out. Raw living fruits and vegetables are blood cleansing and building foods and when you consume them in a concentrated form, via juicing, you keep the channels of elimination clear and accelerate the healing and rejuvenation process. The body can then build the foundation of embryonic cells (stem cells) to make new blood and build new organs.
When your blood is optimally pH balanced, it carries oxygen more efficiently. Oxygen contributes to a strong metabolism, gives you energy, and keeps you healthy. Blood cells tend to clump together in a more acidic environment. Healthy red blood cells are spaced apart from each other. Consequently, the blood can move freely throughout the body and get into even the smallest capillaries. As a result, you feel like your whole body is in harmony.
Once you understand that an over-acidic body leads to dis-ease you can determine how to reverse the conditions, by not taking medicine, but by empowering yourself with education and gaining back control of your health and your life.
We are electrical beings. When we eat food we absorb light for its electrical potential. Raw living foods, particularly juices, help maintain the alkaline design of the body. When you begin nourishing your cells with alkaline foods your eyes start to sparkle, your skin becomes supple, and you’re going to live a longer and higher quality life.
“The human cell is only as healthy as the water it’s bathed in, and that bath is a bath of alkalinity, and when that fluid is compromised by an over-acidic diet and lifestyle, cells begin to break down prematurely. This is what causes ageing”.
- Dr. Robert Young
When you begin juicing you’re going to begin the process of reversing ageing because you’re putting back the alkalising elements that help maintain the alkaline design of the body that helps to main integrity of the cell which makes up all your tissues and organs.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Begin incorporating juices in to your life. If you’ve never juiced before start by having them 3 times per week and build your way up to having them every day, preferably your first meal of the day. Juice raw fruits and vegetables like apples, oranges, broccoli, celery, cucumber, cabbage, spinach, carrots, beetroot, and pineapples. Leafy greens are amazing as they contain chlorophyll which is structurally similar to our own blood and alkalises the blood.
The consistent act of drinking juices provide your body with alkaline minerals and raise the electrolytes which are essential to maintaining the alkaline design of the body. This keeps you looking and feeling young, energised, vibrant and glowing from the inside out. Picture below by Jonny Juicer, information learned by Dr. Young, Olivia Budgen and other resources.
