What is detoxification and why is it needed?
The human body is home to both good and bad bacteria. Good bacteria thrive in an oxygen-rich environment. Bad bacteria, cancer cells, infections, viruses, and parasites, on the other hand, prefer an anaerobic environment, meaning one with low oxygen; they find it very difficult to survive in an oxygen-saturated environment.
Therefore, it is crucial to replenish our bodies with this vital element – oxygen. It is also very important to restore enzyme deficiency, which arises from consuming acidic foods – frying, overcooking, roasting, flour products, dairy products, and a diet rich in animal-based products.
The intestines eliminate not only food waste but also dead cells and tissues from our body as a result of physical activity and normal function. If these are not removed, it leads to protein breakdown, which increases toxemia – blood poisoning – or acidosis – increased acidity. The accumulation of such waste in the body is much more detrimental to our health than commonly believed, so its removal is one of the most important measures to achieve positive results.
All of this can lead to intestinal ailments and skin problems.
The most important pH in the body is that of the blood, which ranges from 7.35 to 7.45. As you can see, the blood pH fluctuation is very small, yet even a very minor deviation from this norm changes the body's electrochemical processes.
If a person eats healthily – consuming natural foods and practicing a healthy lifestyle – the body easily maintains an optimal pH balance. Unfortunately, today, many people's diets are dominated by refined products: sugar, white bread and white flour products, white rice, and unhealthy hydrogenated fats.
All these products make the body very acidic, and over time lead to health disorders and chronic diseases.
What does our body do when it can no longer eliminate these substances because the excretory capacities of the kidneys, skin, lungs, or intestines are insufficient? It creates temporary storage facilities, terrible dumps for pollutants, where it temporarily accumulates waste so that it can be removed from the body later when the right opportunity arises. Most toxic substances are in an acidic environment or produce acids themselves until they are destroyed. But where are they stored until they are removed from the body?
In vital organs (heart, brain, lungs), toxic substances cannot be accumulated for self-preservation. However, there are many other places in the body that can handle a greater load when needed. Fat-soluble toxic substances are simply transported to adipose tissues and stored there.
When acid storage facilities are overflowing, they then move to the joints and manifest as gout attacks – swelling and pain in the finger joints. It is in these areas that uric acid crystals settle when the biologically intended storage facilities are overflowing.
When there is constantly too much acid in the body, it eventually begins to accumulate in the muscles. First in the connective tissue, then in the joints and tendons, and then in the muscles or muscle groups that we use least often. These acid-affected muscles become immobile and prone to cramps. The process continues. From the muscles, acids enter the ligaments, which maintain joint mobility. This is how rheumatism begins.
Additionally, an acidic environment harms red blood cells.
The body balances pH and tries its best to maintain optimal body pH, but we pay a high price for it: to neutralize accumulated acid, the body extracts alkaline minerals from bones and other vital organs: calcium, magnesium, potassium, etc. It is also believed that the body produces cholesterol partly to protect against excessive acid circulating in the body.
This is also one of the reasons why blood vessels narrow. Excess acid in the form of fat is deposited in various organs.
It is believed that low pH promotes the production of triglycerides (a form of fat in the blood), which then end up on your waist, thighs, blood vessel walls, and other body organs. Fat accumulation also helps neutralize pH to some extent, which is why so many people are overweight today. And that's why it's so hard to get rid of that fat. To lose weight, one of the first things to do is normalize pH.
There are many cases where people, by balancing their pH, have managed to easily and quickly shed excess pounds.
Another place where excess acid accumulates is the joints, hence their diseases – arthritis, gout (which is a form of arthritis where acid crystals, which should normally be eliminated through the kidneys, collect in the joints, causing them to swell and become painful) and others.
Despite the body's efforts, if a person does nothing over time, the body depletes its alkaline reserves, and as a result, the interstitial fluid and even the blood become increasingly acidic.
This greatly affects cell function – energy production – and as a result, people feel tired (just look around, how many people today constantly complain of fatigue).
Excess acid reduces cell resistance and proper renewal function, and decreases oxygen delivery to cells. Low oxygen levels in cells allow viruses and bacteria to breed (with reduced oxygen in the body, the immune system is suppressed, thus unable to defend against infections). An acidic and low-oxygen environment in the body is very favorable for cancer cells – the pH of all cancer patients is very low, and the body is very "acidic."
Stress acidifies and ages the body.
Stay healthy :)
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