The most important balance the body strives to maintain is the acid/alkaline balance or pH balance. pH is a logarithmic measurement of the level of acidity or alkalinity which is the measurement of Hydrogen ions in the fluid, thus short for “potential of Hydrogen”. The pH scale is from 1-14 with 7 being neutral. Ideal blood pH is 7.365-7.45. Ideal urine pH is 7.0-7.4. Each change in pH unit is a difference of 10 fold. A pH measuring 4 is 100 times more acidic than a pH of 6, and 1000 times more acidic than a pH of 7. A slight change in pH is a dramatic increase in acid in the body. The pH of blood has to be in a range from 7.365-7.45. A slight change just over 1/10th of a unit of measurement (.1) will cause death within hours. The body is in constant struggle to maintain proper blood pH, our lives depend on it.

Although the most accurate way to measure pH is through the blood, this is a costly and painful process because it requires a doctor’s visit and a needle. The second best way to assess the body’s pH is through the urine, using pH test paper. This will give you an indication of how well or how hard your body is working to survive your lifestyle. Measuring urine pH is to find out if your body has a healthy store of alkalizing minerals (bicarbonates) found in the bones and various organs. Checking your pH balance should be just as important if not more important than checking the balance of your bank account.

In order to maintain ideal blood pH, our body utilizes alkalizing minerals to buffer or neutralize high acidity. These alkalizing minerals are also called bicarbonates; they are calcium, potassium, sodium, ammonium, magnesium and iron. . These minerals are our alkaline reserve. Our state of health depends on our level of alkaline reserves in our body. When we are acidic the body resorts to survival. This survival is called” Rob Peter to Pay Paul”. To buffer the high acidity in the blood the body leaches bicarbonates from the bones and various organs.

All of the body fluids are alkaline except fluids leaving the kidneys and the colon. Every single cell must be bathed in alkaline fluid. Dr. Robert Young explains in his book, The pH Miracle, “The body will go to great lengths to maintain the appropriate, slightly basic nature of blood.” When the body loses this balance, the door is opened to both sickness and disease. “It is only when it is acidic that the body is vulnerable to germs.” Dr. Young goes on to explain, “The over acidification of the body sets in motion a destructive cycle of imbalance, over weight, and disease. Too much acid in the body robs the blood of oxygen, and without oxygen, metabolism slows. Food then is digested at a slower pace inducing weight gain, sluggishness, fermentation of food (rotting)! Fermentation creates yeast, fungus, and mold throughout the body.”

“The state of your health is reflected by the state of your acidosis.” — Carl J Reich, M.D. Death by Diet

Think of your body as a fish tank. Imagine the cells and organs as the fish bathed in water. Imagine dumping the same garbage in the fish tank as we do our bodies: Fast food, soda, cigarettes, coffee, energy drinks, etc. How toxic would the water in the fish tank be? How long could the fish bathe in this water before they get terminally ill? Now when the fish get sick, would you treat the fish for the illness, or would you simply change the water? We MUST change the acidic fluid our cells are bathed in everyday if we ever want to lose weight and reverse degenerative disease—all 150 of them!!

When the body is too acidic, early stages of over acidity are symptoms like eczema, acne, boils, headaches, muscle cramps, allergies, colds, flu, sinuses, swelling, inflammation and general aches and pains.

• Weight gain
• Kidney stones
• Cancer
• Arthritis
• Weakened organs
• Gall Stones
• Heart Disease
• High Cholesterol
• Thyroid Disease
• Liver Disease
• Osteoporosis
• or worse….Death

“The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What does matter is that they all come from the same root cause - too much tissue acid waste in the body.” — Dr Theadore A. Baroody, author of “Alkalize or Die.”

Microforms thrive in acidity: yeast, mold, virus, and bacteria love to swim in an acidic body. They also love low oxygen that comes with acidity. Worse yet, the wastes that they produce are highly acidic. However, if you balance the pH in the body, this will create an unsustainable environment for the pathogens to live.” Mosquito’s seek the stagnant water, but do not cause the water to become stagnant.” — Rudolph Virchow.

Healthy (alkaline) people rarely get sick, no colds, flu, even heart disease or cancer. Getting a cold or flu is very common among sick (acidic) people, however it is never normal. Our society mistakes common for normal. Normal is vibrant health, common is sickness. I say this with certainty; those who” catch” colds will also “catch” cancer. Cancer and all degenerative diseases is the end result of chronic over acidity weakening the Immune System. If a cancerous tumor is placed in a beaker with an alkaline media; the cancer dies in 3 hours.

When the body is acidic there is a significant decrease in oxygen in the body. The body will lose up to 60% of the oxygen levels when acidic. This condition is called hypoxia. Oxygen deprivation (hypoxia) is the leading cause of most diseases.

In 1931, Dr. Otto Warburg, two time winner of the Nobel prize in medicine, discovered that cancer cells cannot survive in an alkaline rich, high oxygen (aerobic) environment. Warburg wrote a paper entitled, “The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer.” He states, “There is no disease whose prime cause is better known.” Over acidity.” Warburg states” The cause of cancer is no longer a mystery, we know it occurs whenever any cell is denied 60% its oxygen requirements.

Ever wonder why we never hear of Heart Cancer? The most oxygen rich organ in the body is the Heart. Oxygen travels through the body in the blood stream attached to red blood cells. The heart receives the most oxygen rich blood; this means there is too much oxygen for cancer to survive. We must understand that cancer cells are acidic while healthy cells are alkaline. According to Dr. Keiichi Morishita in his book Hidden Truth of Cancer.” “Instead of dying’ as normal cells do in an acid environment’ some cells survive by becoming abnormal cells. These cells are called malignant cells. Malignant cells do not correspond with brain function or with their own DNA memory code. Therefore, malignant cells grow indefinitely and without order. This is cancer.”

Despite what your doctor and media is telling you, the sun does not cause skin cancer. In fact the sun protects us from skin cancer by producing highly needed Vitamin D. It is a fact that 85% of our population is deficient in vitamin D because we are afraid of the sun. The skin is the largest organ in the body, we don’t think of it as an organ because it is on the outside of our body. Skin conditions such as acne, dermatitis, rosacea, exczema, psoriasis, skin cancers, are simply conditions of an overacidic, poisoned, toxic internal chemistry, manifesting through the skin. The main cause of skin cancer is over consumption of processed vegetable oils called Trans fatty acids reacting to the sun.

Cholesterol is a form of fat made by the liver. In fact, 80% of cholesterol is made by the liver. Acid attacks the thin muscular layer of the arterial wall causing inflammation, the #1 cause of heart disease. Cholesterol is produced as a sealant to fill the cracks caused by the acid continually burning and inflaming the arterial wall. Cholesterol is actually protecting the muscular wall of the artery from acid burning a hole through it. Cholesterol is the good guy. Cholesterol is merely showing up at the site of acid induced inflammation...

To blame cholesterol for heart disease is like blaming a police officer for showing up at the scene of the crime. Both cholesterol and police are there to protect. Cholesterol plaque can only be found in veins because unlike in arteries, veins do not have a muscular wall. The veins are naturally well protected from acid. It is interesting to note that the blood flowing through the veins is low in oxygen. The veins are carrying blood to the lungs to be re-oxygenated, and sent to the arteries for circulation throughout the body to deliver oxygen rich, nutrient rich, blood to every organ, tissue, and cell in the body. So naturally the veins are more prepared for acid due to the low oxygen content. Arteries are not well equipped to handle a low oxygen acidic blood caused from poor dietary habits. This is why the liver is producing more cholesterol. Therefore if one is taking cholesterol medication such as, Lipitor, Zocor or any other toxic chemical designed to lower cholesterol levels, in reality you are disrupting the body’s innate response for survival from over-acidity! In doing so you are creating a chronic inflammatory acidic state in the arteries; depleting the precious antioxidant CoQ10, and weakening the arteries, the heart muscle, and taking you one step closer to heart disease!

A question you should ask your Medical Doctor is, if the cholesterol in my blood is so bad for me, then why don’t I develop plaque in my veins?

When cholesterol medicine fails, the next step is a bypass surgery. They take a scalpel to the occluded artery; replace it with a section of new artery from another part of the body. Unfortunately this only buys about 2 years of life. Bypass re-occlusion rate is 57% after 2 years. This means the artery gets blocked again within 2 years. Medicine and bypass surgery is only addressing the symptom. The root cause is over acidity dissolving the arterial muscle.

Please remember Medicine is the #3 killer in America, it is highly acidic and takes the body further and further away from alkaline balance, longevity, and optimal health!

Osteoporosis is one of the leading causes of disability in seniors. Osteopenia is considered early stage osteoporosis and is occurring in women as young as 30 years of age. These conditions are caused by a chronic over-acidic body. Osteoporosis is not caused by a deficiency of milk like the dairy industry wants you to believe, nor is it a deficiency of Fosamax or Actonel like your medicine doctor wants you to believe. As a last ditch survival mechanism the body leaches calcium from the bones and teeth to buffer the highly acidic blood. Constant leaching of calcium from the bones causes osteoporosis; pain, fractures, physical debility, and eventually agony. This is called “Rob Peter to Pay Paul”. The more acid we have in our body, the less calcium we have in our bones. The body is literally digesting the skeletal system for survival from chronic over-acidity! Calcium is one of the best minerals for acid buffering. In America we are consuming 3 to 5 times more calcium than any other country in the world; however we have the most osteoporosis. Unfortunately the most calcium supplements are very poor quality, and offer no benefit to the alkaline buffering system, because it is never absorbed by the body. It doesn’t matter how much calcium we take, its how much calcium we absorb and keep that counts. "The Answer" will teach you the correct program proven to reverse and prevent this degenerative disease.

Arthritis is a condition of overacidity causing chronic inflammation. Think of inflammation as a fire burning in the body. Arthritis is fire in the joints. Diverticulitis is fire in the colon. Nephritis is fire in the kidneys. A disease with “itis” is a suffix for inflammation. Think of acidic foods as gasoline to a fire. The more acid we ingest the more inflammation we have. Eating alkaline foods is like pouring water on the fire. If you are living with chronic arthritic pain you are more than likely highly acidic and in an inflammatory state.

Instead of taking toxic chemicals to mask your pain like: NSAIDS, Aspirin, Bextra, Naproxen, Vioxx, or any other highly toxic chemical that causes gastrointestinal bleeding, heart disease, kidney disease, or liver failure; address the root cause and alkalize your body.

The result of calcium constantly being leached from the bones to buffer the blood causes the skeletal system to be severely weakened. In defense, bone spurs which are primarily calcium, develops in the joints to protect this now weakened skeletal structure. Bone spurs can cause both pain and restriction in movement. This is why most people experience pain and stiffness in the morning when they wake up. This is a warning sign of severe over acidity. This process usually develops along the weight bearing joints like the spine, hips and knees. The bone spurs are not from too much calcium, which we are told; but scientific research has proven it is from a deficiency of calcium and other bicarbonates.

Chronic over acidity also encourages stone formation in the liver, gall blabber and kidneys. Stone formation is very costly and painful. Stones that block these internal organs from doing their job properly results in gall bladder removal, liver disease and medical intervention to remove kidney stones. The kidney stones usually return because the root cause has not been addressed, chronic overacidity.

“Increasing evidence suggests that persisting, low grade acidosis results in numerous injurious effects on the body; including dissolution of bone, muscle wasting and kidney damages.” — American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002, vol.76

The human body contains 75 Trillion cells. Our cells never stay the same; they are either regenerating or degenerating depending on our level of alkalinity. If the body is pH balanced at 7.4, this supports cell regeneration. However if the body is acidic this supports cell degeneration. If the cells are constantly regenerating we will age at a very slow pace. Americans are in constant quest for the magic bullet for anti aging. Millions of dollars are spent on cosmetic surgery for the appearance of a youthful look.

This outside approach is only addressing the symptom of chronic over acidity. Your answer to anti-aging is maintaining a proper pH balance. The body is in a constant state of survival trying to protect itself from over acidity. Bicarbonates (HCO3) are the alkaline buffers that neutralize acid in our blood to maintain a balanced blood pH. The bicarbonates are calcium, potassium, sodium, ammonium, magnesium and iron. In the book, "A New Scientific Theory of Aging and Reverse Aging", Sang Whang states, “A noticeable decline of bicarbonates begins at age 45. In order to survive, the body will cleverly convert liquid acids into solids such as cholesterol, fatty acids, uric acids, phosphates, sulfates, kidney stones, gall stones, etc.” Dr. Whang explains in his book, "Reversed Aging", the two major categories of disease are contagious disease and acid-induced adult degenerative diseases. Medicine has succeeded at contagious disease and has failed miserably at preventing degenerative disease. He states, ”It is our lifestyle: diets, stressful daily routine, polluted environment, “push to the limit” personality, etc. that creates more acid in the blood."

“I discovered that the diminishing of bicarbonates in the blood is not the result of aging, but the very cause of aging. If we can find ways to replenish bicarbonates, like recharging a battery, we don’t have to get old.” –Sang Whang

“None of the diet programs –vegetarian diets, vegan diets, raw food, macrobiotic diets, low carb diets, adds bicarbonates to the blood.” –Sang Whang

The blood condition called, Anemia most commonly associated with an iron deficiency, is only partially correct. The root cause of Anemia is a poorly functioning digestive system, as well as an overacidic body. When the body is overacidic it has to resort to the Bicarbonate Buffering system to alkalize the blood stream. When the bicarbonate reserves start to decline Anemia is born. To simply take iron pills is not solving the cause of the problem which is overacidity.