TERRY,
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THIS INFORMATION.
THE HEALTH FOOD STORE SOLD ME THE ALKALIVE PH STIX RANGE 4.5-9.0 THIS IS NOT .2
IS IT??
DO YOU HAVE A SOURCE OF .2 PH STRIPS??
WHEN YOU SAY PH TEST URINE AND SALIVA IN MORNING AND EVENING, IS THAT WHEN YOU
FIRST AWAKEN?
WHEN IN THE EVENING?
THANKS AGAIN FOR THE INFORMATION
MARY
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From: Richard <r...@xxicenturysilver.com>
> Terry, keep getting carried away as your information on calcium is
> fascinating. Do you not also have a wonderful source of an algae
> substance that is stuffed full of minerals that we should all be
> taking ? many thanks Richard
> On 17/07/2006, at 19:22, Terry Chamberlin wrote:
>
> > In the on-going discussion of pH and calcium, various
> > ideas have been expounded for resolving unbalanced pH.
> > The standard resolution proposed by most natural
> > health practitioners today revolves around so-called
> > "acid-ash" and "alkaline-ash" foods. The allopathic
> > medical industry pays scant attention to the subject
> > at all until extreme conditions such as acidosis -
> > occur.
> >
> > Recently the idea of excess calcium has been
> > presented, which prompts me to post information drawn
> > from my own training. The ideas I share here come from
> > the teachings of the late Dr. Carey Reams, biochemist
> > and biophysicist.
> >
> > I had been involved in seeking information about
> > nutrition and alternative health for several years
> > before finding Reams teachings, and I used to wonder
> > about the various types of calciums I saw in the
> > Health Food stores. Calcium carbonate, lactate,
> > citrate, orotate, ascorbate, phosphate, sulphate,
> > aspartate, hydroxyapatite, etc. Was one form of
> > calcium better than another? Or should I just buy the
> > cheapest one? Is it possible to take too much calcium?
> > Can calcium hurt you? Do the various kinds of calcium
> > affect the body in different ways? How can I determine
> > which kind of calcium is what I need?
> >
> > Dr. Reams was the first person I had ever seen who
> > divided calciums into groups, based on the differing
> > ways they affected the body. He spent over 50 years
> > studying and researching the affects of various
> > calciums and other minerals in the human body. He
> > found that there are essentially three categories of
> > calciums to be considered: Alkaline-pH calciums
> > (calcium hydroxide and carbonate, which includes Coral
> > calcium), Acid-pH calciums (calcium lactate being the
> > most common) and neutral-pH calciums (calcium citrate,
> > aspartate, gluconate, hydroxyapatite, etc.). "pH", as
> > used here, refers to the acidifying or alkalinizing
> > effect upon the body. I am also including only calcium
> > types in the above examples that are commonly
> > obtained.
> >
> > The body needs calciums from each of these groups in
> > order to achieve balance for good health. Frequently
> > people have an adequate amount of one kind, but a
> > deficiency of the other (although it's certainly
> > possible to be deficient in all of them). The balanced
> > presence of both acidifying and alkalinizing calciums
> > is important because the interaction between the two
> > is how both kinds are assimilated. Without enough of
> > one kind, there is poor assimilation of the other.
> >
> > Dr. Reams used to say that we dont live off the food
> > that we eat, we live off the energy from the food we
> > eat. If our bodies dont extract energy from our food,
> > we find ourselves eating more food to try to get more
> > energy. We also start to get sick.
> >
> > Imagine taking a cup of vinegar and a cup of baking
> > soda. If you dump them together in a bowl, you will
> > see a lot of energy released. But if you were to pour
> > together a cup of baking soda and only a teaspoon of
> > vinegar, there would not be much energy released,
> > because of the uneven ratio between the soda and
> > vinegar.
> >
> > In the same way, our bodies use both types of calciums
> > in metabolism (acidifying and alkalinizing). If you
> > are deficient in acidifying calcium (calcium lactate),
> > it will express itself as an apparent excess of
> > alkaline calcium, and you will have an alkaline pH
> > (calcium "deposits" are nearly always one type of
> > calcium accumulating somewhere in your body because of
> > a deficiency of the other). Dr. Reams taught that, on
> > a practical basis, there was no such thing as too much
> > calcium, only too much of one type or the other. The
> > purpose of pH testing is to determine which type you
> > are deficient in. The pH testing can be done with good
> > pH paper (must measure in .2 increments, not .5
> > increments more on that later).
> >
> > The alkalinity or acidity of your urine or saliva pH
> > is not primarily a reflection of the foods you eat. It
> > is an indication of your calciums ratio. The
> > implications of unbalanced pH are significant. People
> > with acid pH have overly fast digestion, and their
> > bodies cant get much energy from their food. They
> > tend to struggle with diarrhea, and frequently have a
> > low body temperature. Ultimately, excessively acid pH
> > can be a precursor to certain types of cancer,
> > diabetes, arthritis and osteoporosis. They have weak
> > insulin and high blood sugar. Conversely, people who
> > are overly alkaline have very slow digestion. They are
> > usually constipated. Their body temperature may be too
> > high. Depending on other factors, overly alkaline
> > people tend towards heart disease, hypoglycemia,
> > parasites and colon cancer. They have overly strong
> > insulin, which depresses their blood sugar. The
> > current, popular teaching that alkaline is better than
> > acid would be strongly contested by Dr. Reams. In
> > practicality, grown adults who have overly-acid pH
> > (below 6.0) are deeply demineralized and would find it
> > a challenge to become too alkaline. I am generalizing
> > on the various health issues to be seen with folks
> > with unbalanced pH because there are other qualifying
> > factors that affect them.
> >
> > The importance of balancing your pH cannot be
> > over-emphasized. If you are unbalanced, other healing
> > therapies have only limited and temporary benefit.
> > When the body has a balanced ratio of both kinds of
> > calciums, it extracts a large amount of metabolic
> > energy from both of them, which it uses to maintain
> > the bodys health. Dr. Reams taught that our bodies
> > use more calcium each day, by volume, than all other
> > nutrients put together.
> >
> > Nowadays, the most common kind of calcium you will
> > find being sold is an alkaline-pH calcium, calcium
> > carbonate (usually ground-up oyster shell). Most
> > multi-vitamin/mineral supplements use it, and wherever
> > you see those labels which announce "Calcium added!"
> > (whether in food, drink or supplement), it is nearly
> > always calcium carbonate. (Being ground up oyster
> > shell, it is the cheapest form of calcium available.)
> > Most acid-indigestion supplements are made of this
> > calcium (Tums, Rolaids, etc.). This would be okay,
> > except that oyster shell calcium carbonate is
> > extremely difficult to digest and assimilate (much
> > like eating chalk). Not all adults and very few
> > children need to take alkaline-pH calcium (and
> > especially commercial calcium carbonate). So if a
> > person's metabolic pH is already too alkaline
> > (indicating a deficiency in acidifying calcium),
> > taking alkaline-pH calcium will only aggravate the
> > health problems which can be caused by having an
> > overly-alkaline metabolic pH. Remember, the goal is to
> > achieve balanced body chemistry.
> >
> > Another source of calcium carbonate is bone meal,
> > which is decidedly preferable to oyster shell, but
> > must come from healthy, organic, free-range cows.
> >
> > I have not touched on neutral pH calciums so far
> > because they do not impact the body in as significant
> > a way as the other calciums do. They are low-energy
> > calciums that make them very easy to digest and
> > assimilate, but are used up by the body very quickly.
> > Dr. Reams said that the body could use up 1,000 mg per
> > hour of neutral pH calciums. I use them in my practice
> > as an added calcium simply to give the body more
> > easily-assimilated calcium. They are also useful to
> > give to infants, frail and sick folks and people with
> > very poor digestion who would have difficulty
> > metabolizing other, higher energy calciums.
> >
> > When I have my clients perform pH testing to determine
> > their pH and calcium needs, I have them test urine and
> > saliva, morning and evening for six days. The reason
> > to test for six days is that certain metabolic
> > conditions (i.e., the degree of system
> > demineralization) causes the pH to fluctuate,
> > sometimes wildly. Many times I have seen someone with
> > steady acid pH who have what we call a spike, where
> > the pH jumps up into the high alkaline zone one
> > morning or evening, only to resume its regular acid pH
> > later. Other people are so demineralized that their pH
> > readings follow no pattern, and jump all over the
> > place without rhyme or reason.
> >
> > Another divergence from standard natural health
> > philosophy: The pH scale goes from 0-14, so in the
> > laboratory, balanced pH would be 7.0. Dr. Reams taught
> > that this was true for chemicals, but in the human
> > body, balanced pH was 6.4. While most natural
> > practitioners would be happy to see someone with a pH
> > of 7.0, I would see them heading towards a number of
> > significant health problems. This is also why pH paper
> > should measure in .2 increments. With standard .5
> > increment litmus paper, you would not be able to
> > determine 6.4, and indeed a 6.5 reading on litmus
> > paper could actually be as high as 6.9.
> >
> > Why urine AND saliva? According to Reams, the saliva
> > pH indicates the state of the minerals in the body
> > (also the quantity and even which minerals). An overly
> > alkaline saliva pH indicates the bodys minerals are
> > floating around and are not being utilized. It also
> > indicates what is left in the bodys mineral reserve
> > (what a person was born with to draw from). The urine
> > pH indicates the amount and kind of minerals leaving
> > the body. When both urine and saliva are 6.4, it means
> > there are adequate minerals to meet the bodys needs,
> > and the correct amount of mineral debris is leaving
> > the body.
> >
> > You may notice I discuss calciums and the rest of the
> > minerals almost interchangeably. This is because pH
> > measures both of them.
> >
> > A last point of importance: During our lives, pH
> > follows a predictable course. A healthy new-born baby
> > will have double 6.4 pHs (urine and saliva). As this
> > child grows up and his health suffers from the
> > standard North American diet (mineral-poor foods that
> > cause a demineralized condition in his body), his pH
> > will become double-alkaline. Later it will become acid
> > urine/alkaline saliva, then acid saliva/alkaline
> > urine, then double acid, then death. I must hasten to
> > point out that a person can inhabit this double-acid
> > condition for many years before death occurs. This pH
> > progression (or regression) is one the reasons why
> > both urine and saliva should be tested.
> >
> > I recently had a client submit their 6-day testing to
> > me. This woman was a steady sub-5.5 urine pH (5.5
> > being as low as the pH paper measures), and a steady
> > 6.0 saliva pH. Because of her age (69) I saw cancer in
> > her metabolism. She informed me she had already had
> > cancer. I told her she was always tired. She said,
> > Tell me about it! (In this case, from high blood
> > sugars, not low.) When I mentioned her high blood
> > sugars, she informed me she did, indeed, have
> > diabetes.
> >
> > In her case, along with other specific substances, she
> > is taking two Coral calcium caps plus 2,000 I.U. of
> > Vit D per meal. (Vit D also has an alkalinizing affect
> > on pH.) It is likely she will need to increase the
> > levels of these nutrients if her pH does not respond
> > within the next few weeks.
> >
> > There are other approaches I will consider for her to
> > aid her body, but pH is the first and most immediate
> > one.
> >
> > One more last point: If acid/alkaline-ash foods were
> > what pH was all about, all you would need to do to
> > resolve acid pH would be to stir one or two tbsns of
> > baking soda into some water every day and drink that.
> > In a short time, your pH would be alkaline. Would it
> > mean the pH issue was resolved? Not at all.
> >
> > I think I may have gotten carried away with this post.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Terry Chamberlin, B.Sc., C.N.C., Bioanalyst
> > Metabolic Solutions Institute
> > Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia B0S 1M0 Canada
> > 902-584-3810
> > msi...@yahoo.com
> >
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