Sunday, April 12, 2015

The indisputable connection: Your pH levels and cancer risk

(NaturalHealth365) Understanding pH in the body is very simple: the lower the reading, the more acidic; the higher the reading, the more alkaline. Although pH levels will fluctuate in your body according to meals, exercise, stress, hormones, sleep, and a variety of other factors, a healthy and balanced saliva pH should be between 7.0 and 7.5. Why is this information so important to know? Simply put, a higher pH level promotes health while a low pH level creates an environment conducive to diseases like breast cancer. Understanding acidity: The common denominator for all cancer growth Studies conducted at the University of Bari in Italy clearly demonstrated that a hallmark of all tumors, regardless of their origin or background, is their acidic environment: “This perturbation in pH dynamics rises very early in carcinogenesis and is one of the most common patho-physiological hallmarks of tumors,” the researchers say. Cancer cells, they conclude, prefer an acidic environment. In truth, there are many factors that can create acidity in the body but basically, all of them have to do with stress in some form or another. The three main ways stress happens in the body 1) Eating acidic foods – such as meats, dairy, sugar and refined grains. 2) Extreme physical exertion. 3) Mental or emotional stress. What is the ‘domino effect’ of acidity? Dr.



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