Is What You are Drinking Helping You or Harming You?

The ph scale is like the Richter scale, there is not one point difference between each number. Each number is 10 times better or worse than the one before it.

pH stands for potential Hydrogen and measures the acid/ alkaline balance in our water.  The scale is measured from 0-14 with 7 pH being neutral, and anything above 7.0 being alkaline and anything lower than 7.0 being acidic.  When water carries more hydrogen than hydroxyl ions it is said to be acidic and vice versa. 

Your body is a perfectly balanced machine and if it becomes too acidic it can wreak havoc on your health with lifestyle diseases like obesity, arthritis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type II diabetes, tooth decay, low energy, brittle bones, much more. 

Soda, coffee, fast food, and sports drinks just to name a few are the main culprits, but lack of fresh fruits and vegetables as well as lack of suitable non-acidic water all contribute to your over acidity. Think about it like this, you drink a popular soft drink like cola which has a pH of around 2.5 or sadly an expensive but poorly bottled water, your bloodstream does not lower itself to that level.  What happens is the sugars and other elements are processed by the body as acid waste. Part of which is eliminated while others are kept in various fat stores to buffer the acid. Now your body can only process so much of these kinds of acids before it is overwhelmed.  So, before you know it your body begins to acidify.

Your body is an amazing machine because what is does from this point is fascinating.  As you inundate your body with acids it cannot keep up, so to maintain the fragile pH balance, your body begins to cannibalize itself. It will start to leach alkaline minerals such as Calcium, Magnesium, and Potassium from your bones, teeth, and eyes in order to restore the balance needed to keep you alive.  After years and years of your bodies pulling minerals from different sources you will start to notice a decline in your health, and you may experience osteoporosis, bad vision,  bad teeth and other lifestyle illnessess. 

5% weight loss

When your body's pH is in the acid range of below 7.0 it will retain water to dilute the acidity and  will store cholestoral in the arteries to maintain the proper blood ph.  No matter how much you exercise your body will continue to keep a strangle hold on the fats to protect itself.  Many people notice a drop in weight once they begin drinking alkaline ionized water, because they begin to neutralize the acid that they have built up in their body, and then their body lets go of its fat stores because it doesn't need it anymore to buffer acidity. 

There are many other health benefits that come from alkalizing body and they are listed below.     

Benefits of alkaline water and an alkaline diet:

Strength and stamina 
Speedy recovery and renewed health 
Sustained daily energy levels 
Glowing, youthful skin Better digestion
Greater flexibility and mobility 
Increased memory and alertness

Keep in mind every time that you reach for a soda it takes 32 parts of alkaline ionized water to undo the damage of two sips of acidic soda! But if you drop the acidic lifestyle and alkalize with alkaline water or alkaline diet, amazing things start to happen and your body will love you and you will love your body.