Some pretend most health problems endured in Western countries would
have one sole reason: an excess of mineral acids in the body. This
would lead to, or make worse, sicknesses and heavy pains like chronic
inflammations,
osteoporosis, depression, anxiety, sleep problems, mental fatigue,
autism, obesity, cancer, arthritis, arthrosis, angina, bronchitis,
allergies, migraine... The
cure is quite simple. I can only tell
that it worked for me and two friends who tried it out.
When you eat a meal, the stomach contains it for about two hours. The
food is bathed in hydrochloric acid and enzymes. Once the stomach has
finished its work, it opens a valve and the food flows towards the
duodenum. The duodenum is the first of the small intestines but it can
also be seen as a second stomach. The key is the duodenum needs to
reverse the acidity from the stomach. The food needs to become slightly
alkaline, at least neutral.
The food is made acidic inside the stomach to allow the pepsin enzyme
to work. The pepsin cuts
the proteins (meat, egg...) in rough pieces. The acidity also kills
dangerous bacteria and viruses.
The duodenum produces enzymes too and receives enzymes delivered by
ducts from the pancreas and the liver (gal
bladder). The food needs to become neutral again inside the duodenum,
to allow those
many enzymes to work properly. They finish to cut the protein
pieces down to amino acids, cut the starch (bread, rice...) down to
sugars and hydrolyze fats so they dissolve in water.
The rest of the
small intestines will make the amino acids, sugars and hydrolyzed fats
(and vitamins, minerals...) diffuse towards the blood vessels. The
blood stream then transports them towards the liver for biochemical
transformations and storage.
The food is made neutral inside the duodenum by alkaline salts from the
pancreas and by the bile from the gal bladder.
The Western way of life and food choices disallow the duodenum to
neutralize the acid from the stomach. So the food stays acidic
throughout the small intestines. The consequences would be:
Mineral acids (sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid...) will diffuse
in the bloodstream. Body organs will extract those acids from the blood
and store them wherever they can.
During the night, the acids will flow back towards the
bloodstream. The liver and the kidneys will try to neutralize them and
expel them in the urine. To neutralize the acids, alkaline metals are
used: magnesium, potassium, calcium... Hence the body gets depleted in
these precious metals. (Take calcium supplements in the evening and
magnesium in the morning.)
The blood gets too concentrated in uric acid. This would have a
link with type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Body cells depleted in magnesium, potassium, calcium... start to
accumulate toxic metals like mercury, aluminum, arsenic... The mercury
stuck inside the cells will
prevent the elimination of the other toxic metals and is itself very
difficult to eliminate. Mercury is also quite dangerous to eliminate,
except by herbal ways.
The small intestines extract whatever they can from the food.
They transfer the rest towards the large intestines. The purpose of the
large intestines is to let "good" bacteria digest those
remains and extract some more nutrients. The bacteria also produce some
nutrients, like vitamin B12. The "fermentation" performed inside the
large intestines is a "noble" fermentation, like the fermentations that
produce cheese or wine. If the enzymes inside the duodenum could not do
their job because of the acidity, then the proteins, starches and fats
have
not be broken down to molecules that could leave the small intestines
by the uptake in the bloodstream. Hence a large quantity of
undigested proteins, starches and fats will get inside the large
intestines. This will power the "bad" bacteria. The food will rot
inside the large intestines, producing toxins and disallowing the
production of precious nutrients. (Maybe use herbal depuratives to
expel some of these toxins.)
If the small intestines cannot extract sugars and oils from the
food, you will lack the energy given by those nutrients. So, shortly
after the meal you will feel the need for another meal, possibly
containing as much sugar and fats as possible. This overeating
dismantles the normal cycle of meals and digestions and leads to
obesity, maybe diabetes...
People may feel the benefit of strong complements of vitamins, to
compensate for the losses in the intestines. I haven't swallowed a
single pill of vitamins since I control my acidity, except to check
that I don't need them anymore.
The pepsin enzyme inside the stomach makes a first rough cut of
the proteins. The enzymes inside the duodenum cut those rough pieces
further down to amino acids. What if the duodenum enzymes cannot
work, due to the acidity? Some rough pieces of proteins may get inside
the bloodstream. One of their toxic effects is they act on the brains
like
morphine. They are called opioids. Proteins from wheat and milk,
especially, will produce those opioids.
The mineral acids, toxic metals, toxins and opioids will poison just
every
organ and especially the brains. They are supposed to prevent a normal
brain growth in
children. They would even hamper the normal growth of the fetus in the
mother's womb if the mother is poisoned herself.
What can be done? I don't follow every of these advices, I'd rather say
I surf between them depending on the opportunities:
Check your morning urine. Herbalists and some pharmacists will
sell you a pH test for about $10. If your morning urine is neutral
(pH 7) or slightly alkaline (pH 7.5), you're OK. If it's slightly
acidic (pH 6.5) your situation is not that bad. I had a pH of 5.5 and
many health problems (angina, toothache, fatigue, distraction,
irritability, heavy sweating...) You have to perform pH tests for
weeks, up to several tests every day, while you learn to control your
pH.
Stop
eating wheat and rice and stop eating too much fat. It seems
our ancestors ate only roots, fruits and a little meat. Fat was scarce
and valuable. Lentils and soy
beans would be OK. It would seem that our digestion system has not much
evolved and adapted since the Neolithic.
Use enough salt. I can feed on rice for days in a row without any
serious acidity problem, provided I put enough salt in the water to
cook the
salt. About one big dessert spoon of salt from the Himalaya (contains
lots
of minerals) for one drink glass of dry rice (which means two glasses
of water in the pan. Once the salted water is boiling, pour the rice
and leave softly boiling for 10 minutes. Cut the fire to spare energy
and leave the pan closed for another 10 minutes.) Salt is not my
favorite source of sodium. But it works.
Regulate your consumption of sodium. If I suddenly eat more salt
or sodium bicarbonate, I will get alkaline. If I then suddenly stop
taking any source of sodium, I will become highly acidic. A roughly
constant intake of sodium, with every meal, seems to be advisable.
Diversify your meals. Don't rotate on the same meals, like
everyday popcorn for breakfast, sandwich for lunch and pizza for
supper. Or worse: pizza for every meal, every day.
Stop making yourself sick the Western way; take your
time
to eat, chew the food to a fine grind, have pleasant diners with
friends and family, sell your TV, learn to relax from stress, learn
to breath...
Chew. Dry. If I eat bread while drinking some liquid, using the
liquid to swallow the bread quickly, I'll need 4 grams of sodium
bicarbonate, two hours later, to compensate the acidity. If I eat the
bread dry, not even with butter on it, it will be almost painful to
chew at first. I'll need minutes each time, till it is mixed with
enough saliva so that I can swallow it. But I'll need only 1 gram of
sodium bicarbonate two hours later... or none at all. And I will
obviously be in better shape.
Have physical activities. One of the many advantages of sport is
it makes the pumps of the lymphatic system operate. The lymphatic
system drains toxins from the body and allows cells from the immune
system to circulate. (Do not destroy your body by having physical
activities the wrong way.)
Avoid to mix acidifying foods. Say wheat and rice. The
combination of the two is even more acidifying than a full dose of each
taken separately. Actually, even mixtures of acidifying and
non-acidifying foods can increase the acidification, like wheat and
lentils. As mixing foods is a healthy practice, I prefer to keep mixing
and I swallow more sodium bicarbonate and citric acid...
Avoid some industrially processed food. To process food is often
a good thing. For example, in bread made the traditional way, molecules
of gluten are stretched. Like a knot of rope that would be opened. This
favors a healthy digestion by allowing the pepsin to cut the gluten in
small pieces. A more exotic processing would be those Amazonian women
who chew the food for their husbands. The chewed food is left to
macerate for some time before the husband eats it. What happens during
the maceration is the amylase enzyme from the saliva breaks down the
heavy starches from the food towards sugars. The problem with lots of
industrial processing techniques is they break down key nutriments and
lead to the formation of dangerous acids and toxins. Some industrial
chemical additives directly turn in mineral acids during the digestion.
Even "organic" or "health" food, made with high quality ingredients,
turn out to be a nightmare for the body because of the way they were
made. Or even just the way they are supposed to be eaten...
Chemically help, your duodenum in particular and your body in
general, to cope with the mineral acids. This is the procedure towards
which I have converged (together with a friend):
During the meal or up to a few hours later, we take some sodium
citrate. Sodium citrate is made by mixing roughly equal volumes of
sodium bucarbonate and citric acid (which needs to be compacted to fill
the measuring volume). About 2 cubic centimeters of each, in a glass of
water. This is my favorite source of sodium. Potassium citrate was
beneficial too but it is not as effective against body acidity.
If I have a meal that contains things derived from wheat and/or
milk (bread, pasta, cheese, pizza...) or that contains serious
quantities of cereals (rice, corn...), I will take from the start on of
the meal a serious quantity of citric acid powder, between 2
milliliters and 4 milliliters. About two hours later I will take 1 or 2
milliliters of sodium bicarbonate to compensate the acidity
(immediately in the stomach and later on for the whole body). You need
a
big glass of water to swallow the citric acid. The sodium bicarbonate
is doable with no water but it is better with. Be prudent and start
with
little doses, like 1/2 milliliters of citric acid and a few hours later
1/4 milliliter of sodium bicarbonate.
Take some sodium bicarbonate. In a text I read, the author
takes some sodium bicarbonate two hours after his meals. About two
grams of it. This helped me tremendously in the beginning but it
sometimes posed digestion problems. Later on I found something better:
I take little quantities of sodium bicarbonate during the day, away
from the meals. Say 1 gram in a big glass of water, a few times a day,
several hours after the last meal and up to a few tens of minutes
before the next meal. This seams to "load" my body with the adequate
quantity of sodium, so it can mend the meals the most adequate way. I
will only take some sodium bicarbonate after a meal if I feel a too
strong stomach acidity. (Always check your pH if you take sodium
bicarbonate every day.)
Some remarks:
Citric acid is great to help digest difficult fat meals. If you
feel a nausea after a meal, take some. On the other hand, sodium
bicarbonate alone can make you sick and vomit. (Lemons contain a lot of
citric acid but I didn't try them seriously. I just know that a little
vinegar helps against the nausea.)
By mixing sodium bicarbonate and citric acid, you make "sodium
citrate". Some
herbalists sell
premixed "alkaline citrates" to help control your pH. They seem to
contain potassium citrate and magnesium citrate. Potassium and
magnesium would be healthier than sodium... What's for sure is that
sodium bicarbonate has a strong effect on the pH and should be kept
under control (test your pH).
One millilitre is the same as one
cubic centimetre. A teaspoon measures 5 millilitres but I'd recommend
to buy a more accurate dosing spoon of 2 millilitres. If you cannot
measure little volumes, consider 1 millilitre is 1 gram.
This is an approximation but it should fit. The lightest powder I
encountered was lactose, with a density of 0.7 (1 millilitre is 0.7
grams). This is because lactose is lowly hygroscopic. Most powders are
around 0.8 and 0.9. If you cannot measure little weights either, dilute
a serious quantity of powder in a litter of water then take cups out of
it. For example: if you poor 30 millilitre of potassium citrate powder
(which is 27 grams) in a litre water, then 30 millilitre of this
mixture contains approximately the equivalent of 1 millilitre powder.
Do not leave these products and mixtures in the reach of
children. They
are not really toxic but they can cause injuries. If a young child
needs some (under medical control and prescription), hand him over the
appropriate quantities at a time. Older children can be explained the
dangers of light acids and of huge intakes of sodium or potassium.
I did not try out two thing:
There would be a cure to force the toxic acids our of the
body: drink lemon juice during twenty days. The first day one lemon,
the next day two lemons, then three lemons... and so on up to ten
lemons the tenth day. Then decrease back to one lemon the last day. The
quantity of ten lemons seems a bit dangerous to me...
Check the role of drinking a lot of water. Everybody needs to
drink a fair quantity of water each day but drinking too much, like
advised by water bottle manufacturers, is proven to increase body
weight and cause several other problems. It seems to me, but I did nont
check this out, that it also increases the acidity.
I saw the documentary "Super Size Me"
I would tend to believe that by adding
the appropriate doses of the abovementioned powders, the actor would
have endured less damage. On the other hand, by preventing the
formation of opioids during the digestion, the fast food would become
less addictive... The movie also made me understand that the cheap
food fed to the children in US schools probably is one key to the many
social problems in the USA. I bet the children instinctively refuse
vegetables simply
because they lower the production of opioids. The USA spend billions in
battling opium and heroin
producers abroad but they transform every child's body in a biological
opioid production unit. This strongly lowers the intellectual and
physical capabilities of the children while making them addicts for
life. This all increases the power of the state over the individuals
and the flux of money towards the administrations and the very rich
people. The USA are sick from obesity and school violence but I believe
they are, more fundamentally, politically sick. The foundations of the
nation have been soaked by economic lobbies who interpret the
Constitution no better than the Q'ran is mishandled in backward African
countries.
An important warning: if you get sick by following the advices in this
text, it may be the sign that the cure operates correctly and that you
were in need of it. A dialog with an open-minded physician should allow
to determine whether you should halt (or change) the cure or whether
indeed you just have to go on. Basically, the problem is your body is
stuffed with deposits of toxins, toxic metals, bacteria and viruses.
Your immune system is knock-out by those poisonings and does not manage
to clean away the deposits. (Even worse: it attacks healthy organs by
mad and useless inflammations.) The bacteria and the viruses are
knock-out too by the poisonings, so they stay down and just survive in
your body. Once you start removing the deposits by taking depuratives
and mending your body acidity, several things happen: toxins begin to
flow in your body and reach other organs, bacteria and viruses awake
and start offensives... You will get acne, aches, headaches, angina,
the flu, allergies, digestion problems... The main characteristic of
those problems is they are short and they don't follow the usual course
of events. For example you suddenly get an angina but at a stadium near
its end and it lasts only a few hours or less than a day. Be patient,
it's far worth the game...
When I stopped taking sources of opioids
(wheat and milk), I endured horrible withdrawal symptoms during two
weeks: acute anguishes, sweating, shiverings... It perfectly matched
the descriptions of withdrawal symptoms from heroin or morphine. I
ended up with a
depression that was quite difficult to heal (it got better when I
started using ginseng and Sint John's-worts). In such cases you need
(intelligent) medical assistance. Now that I use sodium bicarbonate and
citric acid, I started eating bread and cheese again. The key is to add
citric acid. If the stomach gets fairly acidic from the start on of the
digestion, I will get no opiodic duzzling at all. This is not perfectly
compatible with the theory explained at the beginning of this text but
is very effective for sure. Maybe the acidity makes the proteins
coagulate, which prevents their early absorption in the blood.
The absolute worst I found are Mars candy bars. I don't know if this
implies they are especially dangerous for my health, nevertheless the
acidity resulting from the absorption of one single candy bar is
frightening.
The problem of body acidity is known since at least about a century.
Why don't physicians, teachers or the media talk about it? One
possible explanation is that this whole text is crap. Or maybe this
problem of acidity strikes very few people... Other
explanations are less pleasing.
I know a pharmacist who tried to control
his acidity and was immediately convinced. He is very grateful I talked
him about it. I thought he would start selling this to his customers. I
volunteered to write the leaflets. But he explained to me that he
will keep this for his close family and friends. He has no intent to
provide this to his customers, for several reasons:
The benefits would be too low. He earns much more money by
selling
anti-inflammatory pills, sleeping pills, pain killers, stimulants,
antibiotics and
other such expensive medications.
He *did* try to sell it to some customers but he got tired trying
to explain them how it works. All those people had Biology lessons at
school but they understood nothing.
If he starts selling pills containing citric acid and sodium
bicarbonate, he has to write the receipt on
the package. The receipt being too simple, his colleagues will copy it
immediately if it has some commercial success. He might very well end
broken.
Citric acid is very hygroscopic. This makes he cannot make
low-cost pills out of it by himself. And most customers simply are not
capable to use powders (despite they had Biology laboratories at
school).
I didn't try to talk about it with a physician. I never managed to have
a decent scientific talk with a physician in my country, apart with a
Cameroonian I met when he was a student. Himself considers that the
only capable physician he consulted in Belgium is a Vietnamese woman.
Let aside to try to talk about it with politicians...
A moslim friend told me about an old physician who once did a
scientific search to help him and who once apologized because he had
made an error. He gave me his address on a little paper, like one would
hand over a secret bank account number. I will try to get his opinion
on this text. To put it roughly, I would compare most other physicians
to those cigarette sell automates in Japan that are equipped with a
camera and an artificial intelligence software. They check if the
customer is clearly aged more than 20. Some of these automates can be
fooled by showing them the picture of an aged man or woman on the cover
of a magazine. Common physicians perform more intelligent operations
before they hand over prescriptions for medicines. But not that much.
Lots of them consider the health care system pays for their home and
car and the pharmaceutical industry pays for their holidays and fun.
They have less understanding in science and Biology than a gifted
teenager. I read an American physician writing that in the USA medical
errors are the third cause of death, after cancer and circulatory
problems. An
American wrote me that he had consulted many physicians for his health
problem and that by questioning anybody in the street he would have
gotten better advice. I've always had far better advices from
herbalists than from physicians. When you talk to an herbalist, he gets
in a sort of trance with a carving need to find a way to help you.
Physicians only care for their pride and social authority. About ten
years ago, people were killed in Belgium and many were disabled by a
new herb provided by the Chinese pharmaceutical industry. The Belgian
health industry made use of this to lobby and get herbalists prohibited
from selling many herbs. Those herbs were effective and most of them
had never
harmed
anybody. 99% of the media are partly owned by that "health" industry...
This whole industry of dishealth only succeeds because of the lack of
education of the people. The people live in ignorance, superstitions,
fear and need for authority. All the industry has to do is to find
presentable ways to milk them. If people complain, the industry
suggests the menace to withdraw the few useful medicines and cures.
This is nothing more than brute feudality.
References? The theory seems to originate from Edgard Cayce. You can
put his name in a search engine, maybe together with words like
"diet", "alkaline"... I will not push forward one link in particular
because I haven't seen a page yet whose content matches my own
experience. A lot of pages contain obvious scientific nonsense. A
reference seems to be the book "Alkalize or die" from
Theodore A. Baroody but I haven't read it. The Web page that allowed me
to understand the stuff is http://jeanzin.fr/ecorevo/sciences/nutritio.htm
. Do not trust its content either.
I took a look inside this book: Le
syndrome X . Its content has some interesting compatibilities with
this page. This next page is related too and shares my opinion about
physicians: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/4/22/112114/202
. It talks about the "metabolic syndrome" which seems to be related
with the "X syndrome".
Thanks to Françoise Westerloppe, Research Engineer at the
CEA, who sent me the numerous texts that lead me to understand the
subject. My current modelisation of the whole is not perfectly
scientific but the progress for my health is astounding.
Thanks to my friend Dimitri Gathy for his experiments and advice.
I'm quite puzzled but after almost two years experimenting it seems
that salt is one solution to avoid body acidity. It's a
source of sodium, just like sodium bicarbonate... I don't have to use
tremeduous doses of salt for this, roughly the common dose of salt will
do fine. So, it would seem that my acidity problem stems from the fact
that I build the discipline to use no more salt... because I followed
some health advice in the media.