Acidity and Alkalinity Have a Deeper Significance in Your Body
In your quest for better health, have you ever focused on "alkalizing" your body through "alkaline-forming" foods? If you ever noticed that taking in more alkaline substances helped you, you probably noticed that as soon as you stopped ingesting alkaline substances, the benefits started to wane or disappear entirely.
While eating predominantly "alkaline-forming" foods rich in alkaline minerals and electrolytes can be very beneficial, this is not the most important factor affecting the "acid/alkaline balance" in the body. And "acid/alkaline" balance is not the most useful way of looking at it.
The pH of the tissues of your body is connected to electrical voltage, and voltage is usually a stronger influence on pH than alkaline minerals. "Acid/alkaline balance" is actually a measure your body's voltage. And according to the research of Jerry Tennant, MD, and the researchers whose shoulders he stands upon, "healing is voltage".
The Relationship Between pH and Voltage
Your body needs to maintain the pH of the blood and other tissues in a narrow range in order to remain healthy. And your body also needs a certain voltage to be healthy, or even alive.
And as it turns out, there is an intimate relationship between pH and voltage.
As you probably learned in high school biology, the body is designed to function with a blood pH between 7.35 and 7.45."pH" stands for "potential of hydrogen", the concentration of hydrogen ions (protons) in a water-based solution (e.g. blood).
A water-based solution also has electrons, and the pH of a solution (e.g. water, blood, urine, saliva, fluid inside cells, etc) is an indirect measure of how readily it "donates" electrons versus "steals" electrons. At a pH below 7, the solution steals electrons, and at a pH above 7, it donates electrons, relatively speaking.
When we are looking at the electron side of the equation instead of the proton (hydrogen) side of the equation, we're talking about voltage, measured in millivolts. When denoting voltage, negative numbers are used. The higher the negative number (e.g. -25 versus -20), the more voltage is present.
A solution (e.g. blood) with a pH of 7.35 has a voltage of -20 millivolts. A solution with a pH of 7.45 has a voltage of -25 millivolts. So the higher (more alkaline) the pH the higher the voltage, and the lower (more acidic) the pH the lower the voltage.
Healthy cells operate with a voltage between -20 and -25 millivolts.
Oxidative Stress, Voltage, and pH
When cells lose voltage (and become more acidic), they become dysfunctional. A variety of factors can reduce voltage in your cells, and one of the main ones is excess oxidation., also called "oxidative stress".
"Oxidation" is the removal or "stealing" of electrons from one substance by another. "Oxidants" are "electron stealers". Oxidants pull electrons away from other molecules.
But oxidants are not "bad". The body uses oxidants and controlled oxidation for key processes such as the generation of energy, the killing of pathogens, and more. The word "oxidant" comes from "oxygen", the most famous oxidant. The body uses oxygen to pull electrons from our food in order to capture the energy stored in the food. And the body uses oxidants like superoxide to kill pathogens.
They key is that oxidation in the body needs to be controlled and not chaotic or excessive. So we have antioxidant enzymes like glutathione and superoxide dismutase. But when oxidation gets out of control and excessive, we have "oxidative stress".
In oxidative stress, we have fewer electrons and more free hydrogen protons, which means that our voltage has dropped, and our pH is more acidic. In other words, pH is affected by oxidation in the body, not just by the minerals and proteins in your food.
Oxidative stress keeps your body more acidic / less alkaline, no matter how much celery juice you drink, unless the juice fixes the source of oxidative stress. Why is this important?
Advantages of a Bio-Electrical Paradigm
If you only look at pH and only think about acidity and alkalinity and ways to affect that, you have very few options--mainly food, minerals, and bicarbonate.
But if you think about the body as electric and health as voltage (instead of alkalinity), suddenly you have many more options for identifying root causes and selecting a complete set of effective remedies.
It is difficult or impossible to solve the problem of oxidative stress by trying to manage pH via the ingestion of alkaline substances. But if you solve the problem of oxidative stress in your body, your pH can become balanced without all of the effort of micro-managing what you eat and drink.
A bio-electrical paradigm, or better yet a bio-physical paradigm, reveals physical, electrical, and biochemical causes of health issues. And a bio-electrical / bio-physical paradigm reveals a broader range of remedies for them. In a bio-electrical / bio-physical paradigm, we discover that even unhealthy emotions, toxins, and structural misalignments can be neutralized, released, or corrected using physics (light, voltage, and sound).
In contrast, a pH paradigm focuses only on one type of biochemical remedy, exhaults plants and alkaline minerals, and condemns animal proteins because they are rich in sulfur-containing amino acids, which are acid-forming. More importantly, a pH-based paradigm cannot correctly identify root causes or solve the broad range of problems that a bio-electrical / bio-physical paradigm can solve.
Voltage and Root Causes
A bio-electrical / bio-physical paradigm reveals that voltage explains some key mechanisms by which root causes like toxins, infections, emotions, scars, etc impact health. These things reduce voltage in the body, but in different ways.
Some root causes (e.g. toxins) reduce voltage by directly stealing electrons. Others (e.g. infections) reduce voltage indirectly by causing the body to produce more oxidants to fight an infection.
Others (e.g. low thyroid function) reduce the body's production of energy, thereby reducing the supply of energy that be converted into voltage.
Still others (e.g. scars, trapped emotions, dental and other "focal" infections) block electron flow in the body's electrical circuits, causing them to drain, depolarize, and no longer store voltage.
Depolarization of Your Electrical Circuits and Batteries
What we think of as the acupuncture meridians are actually electrical circuits that function like batteries that can store voltage to be delivered to the organs.
If these batteries lose enough of their voltage, their polarity reverses, just like when a rechargeable battery gets run down all the way, reverses its polarity, and can no longer be recharged. This is called "depolarization".
Once the polarity is reversed / depolarized, the circuit / battery can no longer hold a charge and therefore cannot deliver voltage to the organs that it serves. Yet the creation of new, healthy cells that work requires delivering an extra high voltage of -50 millivolts. So depolarization of meridians / circuits prevents the creation of new, healthy cells that work.
It turns out that depolarization of circuits / meridians and loss of charge (voltage) in these circuit-batteries is one of the reasons people get stuck and struggle to improve their energy and health. It is a hidden cause of mysterious and persistent fatigue, organ dysfunction, and disease.
And while eating an alkaline diet and juicing tons of alkaline veggies can temporarily increase pH, alkalinity, and voltage, if this does not correct the polarity of a depolarized circuit and what caused it to drain and depolarize, the circuit will still not be able to store and deliver voltage to the organs and cells served by that circuit.
Why Is This So Important?
Understanding this intersection between physics (electromagnetism, light, etc) and biochemistry (pH, oxidation, etc) is vital to getting well and staying strong. Here are some reasons why understanding this is important ...
Viruses can only replicate in cells with low voltage / low pH / low oxygen.
Infections with cell-wall-deficient "stealth" bacteria (e.g. those involved in Lyme disease) only occur in cells with low voltage / low pH / low oxygen.
if your voltage is low, toxins tend to stay in your body. Your body will struggle to get rid of toxins if your voltage is low.
If your voltage is low in a circuit, the parts and systems of the body served by that circuit cannot function properly.
But if you can keep your voltage high, you can become almost "bulletproof".
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