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Questions & Answers on the Science of pH

The following are commonly asked questions about Dr. Young's science of pH and his answers:

Question: How important is it to maintain an alkaline pH in our blood, saliva, urine and sweat?

Dr. Young: Maintaining the alkaline pH of the saliva, urine, tears, sweat and blood is critical. Testing the body fluid pH is the most important daily measurement anyone can do to maintain health and fitness and to PREVENT ALL sickness and disease.

The beauty of the pH test is that you don't need to go to a doctor to do it. You can do it yourself. You can actually become your own doctor and manage your own health with this simple test. And if you'll remember this rule--if you maintain the saliva and the urine pH, ideally at 7.2 or above, you will never get sick. That's right, you will NEVER get sick!

The key is to manage the alkaline design of the body fluids. But, most people on the planet have a urine or saliva pH in the 6's or even the 5's. They don't manage their pH. People take better care of the pH level of their aquariums, swimming pools, or spas, than their own internal body fluids.

Managing the pH of your body fluids is simple. All you do is take some pH Hydrion paper or litmus paper, moisten it with saliva and urine and then check the color on the color-coded chart. The chart measures the pH of saliva, urine, sweat, and tears in 5.0 to 8.5 increments. Ideally, you want your saliva, urine, sweat and tears to measure at least 7.2 or better.

Managing you body fluid pH with an alkaline lifestyle and diet is the healthiest advice I could give anyone on this planet. It is inexpensive. It is simple, and it works.

Question: When these body fluids stay acidic for days, weeks, months or years, what happens to human health?

Dr. Young: What happens to human health when you stay in the acidic zone? You get sick, tired and fat. And, if you don't get fat, you die. When you are underweight, you are living on your own body tissue. Your body is making red blood cells out of body cells. Why? Because you have damaged the root system of your small intestine with acidic food, drink, harmful digestive enzymes, probiotics, antibiotics and other acidic drugs. You are constantly breaking down your own body cells in order to maintain the level of red blood cells at 5 million red blood cells per cubic millimeter.

In order to build muscle and bones you have to have healthy strong red blood cells. In order to have healthy strong red blood cells you have to have a healthy alkaline root system or intestinal villi with an alkaline lifestyle and diet. You build healthy blood with electron-rich green alkaline foods and drinks. When you are constantly bombarding your internal environment with acidic foods and drinks and damaging your intestinal villi, you set the stage for all sickness and dis-ease.

You must protect the alkaline design of the body. When you start using up your alkaline reserves and you do not replace those reserves with alkaline foods and drinks, you begin to compromise other parts of the body. This is especially so if the daily diet is loaded with acidic foods and drinks.

When the alkaline reserves are deficient, and when the diet is also deficient in food or drink that should be building up those alkaline reserves, the body starts pulling alkaline minerals from the bones, muscles, ligaments and cartilage. This causes deficiencies of the bones and muscles. That's why many older people actually shrink and become bent over. They have cannibalized their own body by stealing mineral salts from their own infrastructure to help alkalize too many acids in the body.
When your blood is compromised from a deficiency of alkaline reserves such as sodium bicarbonate or the elements to make sodium bicarbonate, the body will begin pulling calcium from the bones and/or magnesium from the muscles to maintain the alkalinity of the blood plasma. This is when you will start experiencing the deficiencies of alkalinity that are expressed in the seven stages of acidosis, going from various sensitivities all the way up to degeneration such as cancerous cells.

Question: What are some of the positive things that would occur if all of these body fluids are alkaline?

Dr. Young: When you are alkalized, you are energized. And when you are energized, you feel better and think better. You have sustainable energy when you are alkalized. When you eat and drink alkaline you are making energy deposits to your body, like a bank account. You are making alkaline deposits to your energy bank account and to your alkaline reserves or energy savings account. The positive benefits of being alkaline are incredible health, energy, fitness, mental clarity and vitality.

Question: We're going to use your term--why is the "New Biology™" so important?

Dr. Young: The New Biology™ is important because it is based on a foundational health principal, that the human body is alkaline by design, but every function of the body is acidic. So every disease is nothing more than the body trying to maintain its alkaline design. So when we're talking about bone disease, the body is taking alkalinity from the bones to maintain the alkalinity of the blood which is the most important organ of the body. Once the blood becomes acidic, you will die very soon. A drop from the normal blood pH of 7.365 to 6.9 will cause one to go into a coma. The blood pH has a very narrow range for health and vitality. The normal healthy blood pH is at 7.365. If the blood pH drops down to 7.2, you start feeling very sick and at 6.9 will die very soon.

So the body will do everything it can to maintain the alkaline integrity of the blood, at the expense of all other organs and organ systems. Once we understand the foundational theory of the New Biology™, and I'll repeat it again: the human organism is alkaline by design, although acidic by function. So breathing is acidic. Thinking is acidic. Eating is acidic. Metabolism is acidic. The process of breaking down the food you eat is acidic. Everything you eat is acidic to a greater or lesser degree. The body has to protect itself. The body protects itself with the alkaline buffering system which is currently NOT understood by medical savants. Your body is looking for energy in the form of electrons or electron-rich food and drink. Health is all about energy. The New Biology™ teaches us the foundational principles of health, fitness and energy and how to maintain that health, fitness and energy, for a lifetime, free from ALL sickness and disease.

Question: For the body's immune system to work properly is alkalinity the most important thing to monitor?

Dr. Young: Yes, immunity from ALL sickness and disease comes from alkalinity, NOT from white blood cells. We were all taught in human biology that immunity comes from white blood cells protecting us from some invading germ or virus. White blood cells provide NO immunity. White blood cells do not destroy germs. White blood cells are glorified janitors that swim around in our blood and lymphatic plasma picking up the garbage we create from an acidic lifestyle and diet. White blood cells are NOT soldiers, destroying some invading germ coming in from the outside world that would make us sick.

True immunity comes to each of us by maintaining the alkaline fluids of the body. That is where true immunity is found. The first line of defense against sickness and disease is an alkaline internal environment. As soon as you put something acidic into your mind, into your mouth, or into your lungs, your alkaline buffering system is immediately engaged in trying to neutralize or buffer any acidic food, drink, or thought that might be present. That's true immunity. It is found in the alkaline reserves for your body. When you have an alkaline lifestyle and diet, you are able to defend or neutralize environmental, dietary or metabolic acids that would make you sick, tired and/or fat.

Germs DO NOT cause disease. Acids cause pain, sickness and disease. There is a simple way to understand this principal. Let's compare our bodies to an automobile. When you start your car, the car begins using energy. As the car uses energy is creates an acidic waste product called carbon monoxide. When you turn the car off you stop producing this acid. If you start the car again and stuff a few socks or a potato in the tailpipe the car will die from carbon monoxide acidosis.

If you were to stop eliminating your own acidic waste products through urination, perspiration, defecation or respiration, like the car, you would die too. The body has ways of protecting itself from excess acidity. When dietary and/or metabolic acids are not properly eliminated, they get parked on your hips, thighs, buttocks, waistline, breast and brain. The body does this to protect and preserve the organs and organ systems that sustain life. Your best immunity in order to protect your body from ALL sickness and disease DOES NOT come from vaccination or medication. True immunity comes from protecting the alkaline design of the body with an alkaline lifestyle and diet. Once again, white blood cells, including neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, and T and B-cells help to maintain cleanliness. And in reality, they are just the janitors of your body fluids like an automatic pool sweep. You can support your white blood cells with an electron-rich alkaline lifestyle and die t.

Question: What is the easiest way for someone to check and maintain their body's pH?

Dr. Young: The easiest way for someone to check and maintain the body fluid pH is to test the urine and saliva.

The best time to test the urine is in the morning, because the morning urine is an expression of what you ate and what you drank and how you lived your life the previous, 24 hours. The morning urine is not a product of the blood; it is a product of the tissues. When you measure your urine, you are measuring the pH of your tissues. If your pH is below the ideal of 7.2, and it measures in the 5's or 6's, you are in tissue acidosis. When someone over-exercises they can go into lactic tissue acidosis. Lactic acid from over-exercise is felt in the connective tissues and muscles. When the muscles are sore, that's the tissues picking up the acid to maintain the alkaline blood pH. The blood has to rid itself of metabolic acids or you would die. So it throws the acid out into the muscle tissues and you feel it as irritation or inflammation. If the lactic acid stays in the tissues, it will spoil the tissue cells and the body will go into preservation mode.

In preservation mode, the body will encapsulate the cells spoiled by lactic acid, and now you have a tumor. The tumor is the solution to stop systemic spoiling or metastasis. When the lymphatic system is healthy, it will pull the lactic acid out of the tissues, and eventually you will sweat it out or it will be recycled back into the blood and you will urinate it out. This is very, very important. So remember, when you are testing the pH of your urine, you are testing the pH of the fluids in and from the tissues.

When you are testing your saliva, you are testing your ability or potential to alkalize your food and drink. So when you're saliva pH is below 7.2, your potential for alkalizing your food, drink and emotions is less. Your reserves are low. You need to make a deposit to your alkaline bank account. And that would be the same with your urine. When your urine is acidic, you need to start alkalizing. You run the risk of staying within an acidic zone; you run the risk of going through the seven stages of acidosis. Starting with lack of energy to sensitivities to inflammation, and working up to ulceration and degeneration.

What is Structured Alkaline Ionized Water?

What is structured water? Most water coming out of our taps and the many filtration units available has little structure, known as hexagonal structuring. Even bottled water is usually without this structuring. Without this structure water cannot get inside the cell itself. The body must use its own resources to attempt to produce hexagonal structure within this water.

This requires antioxidants, and if not present, the inner cell environment will remain dehydrated even with the body swimming in water consumed. Using a structuring water catalyst has been a solution for decades with outstanding results. Unfortunately, we are seeing 'structured' waters hit the market in record numbers, and there are some reasons for concern.

Structured, or clustered water, has become an almost meaningless term as dozens of electrically or artificial, magnetically produced products are coming on the market. Many outlandish, unsubstantiated claims are being made for some of these waters. Some claims are based on the outstanding work of Dr. Mu Shik Jhon in his collection of forty years of research on structured water called 'The Water Puzzle and the Hexagonal Key.'

Unfortunately, many of these 'Energy' or 'Structured' waters have little to do with the waters used in the research referred to by Dr. Jhon. Little, if any, clinical experience or actual scientific basis for making claims is offered specific to these waters. Only naked claims.

A warning should be made that although these waters may improve hydration, little thought has gone into the potentially negative frequencies they may carry into the cellular environment. Too many may contain frequencies stimulatory, or potentially harmful to healthy cellular function. Unhealthy cellular function may be encouraged through this chaos, rather than the harmony needed in the cell environment.

Abundant protons are often present (rather than electrons) in some of these waters, according to teachings by Dr Robert O. Young. He teaches that this overabundance of protons pushes the body into a greater imbalance and stimulation. Others may simply provide little or no discernible or positive effect. It is a buyer beware market. Often good marketing overcomes good sense."

The Jupiter Melody - Water Ionizer Wetter Water:

The smaller hexagonal molecular structure is what makes Jupiter Melody water wetter than tap or bottled water. These smaller clusters of water molecules are less than half the size of those found in tap water. The smaller cluster size gives the water excellent hydrating properties, high solubility and good cellular permeability.

Restricting Salt for Good Health?

I know you probably heard about the item last night on NBC Nightly News indicating that people should consume less than 1 tsp. of salt per day. The item on the NBC Nightly News quotes the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Doesn't sound like much of an interest in the "health" of the public, so much as their own interest in publicity. But a restriction in salt or sodium chloride is the single most contributing factor in causing ALL sickness and dis-ease or so-called disease.

I have written Brian Williams and have alerted him to his irresponsible journalism... citing our own facts and science.

Please read my article "Salt is Life" at:

http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2008/08/salt-is-life.html

What do you suppose would happen if we put the ocean life on a restricted salt diet or a salt-free diet? The obvious would happen - all life in the ocean would DIE!

Salt or sodium chloride is the major element of all of the body fluids and responsible for preserving and maintaining the alkaline design of the body. This is why our body fluids are salted with sodium chloride! Without salt you would die. In my own research I have found that every person who is sick or tired is SALT DEFICIENT! Restricting salt is like restricting oxygen. What needs to be restricted is NOT salt but acidic lifestyles and diets. GET OFF YOUR ACID! NOT YOUR SALT!

You can view the NBC News Segment at:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#30687099

This type of inaccurate reporting is why we have so much trouble in this country really addressing health issues at a time when all types of dis-eases and medical costs are increasing.

It's ironic that President Obama just this morning held a press conference on getting adequate health care to all Americans and containing costs. Several large Pharmaceutical Companies have agreed to "limit" medical cost INCREASES over the next few
years. It's the old scam..."give a little now, to take more later". And... President Obama fell for it.

Please write your Congress Men or Women today and let them know that President Obama's so-called health plan is NOT the path to better health and fitness. Limiting the cost of drugs by Pharmaceutical Companies does not equate to better health for Americans. What this country needs is Education NOT Medication. Americans need to be educated in the knowledge of the New Biology(R) and the true path to health, energy, vitality and fitness.

Personal responsibility and the understanding of the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet and the importance of eating liberal amounts of salt daily is the only way.

In the words of Gandhi, "you must be the change you want to see."

Understanding Contextual or Internal Environmental Science

The following link is your video gift series 2 of 7 covering the contextual scientific approach to sickness and dis-ease and health and fitness.

Feel free to share this lecture series with all your loved ones, friends, and neighbors.




Your comments on U-Tube are also very much appreciated.

Thanking you in advance for your support in helping us get the message out on the "New Biology."

In love and healing light,

Dr. Robert O. Young

PS Here is the link on lecture series 2:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NN2xc1n4Ak4&feature=related

Part 5 - Dropping A Ton And Having Fun - The Importance of Drinking Alkaline Water

Part 5, of Rick's interview with Dr. Young . . .

Mr. Rick Laurenzi: Are all bottled waters the same diameter and healthful?

Dr. Young: All waters are not created equally, in fact--there are over 700 bottled waters on the market and only three are fit to drink. The three bottle waters are, Essentia, Evermore and my pH Miracle Water. That's it! Out of all the waters coming from municipalities there are No waters fit to drink. New York City talks about their municipal water and how great it is--I've tested it. The water is acidic and is not fit to drink. In fact, you would be better off drinking the water from the Thames River in London than drinking the water out of a New York City water tap. There is a lot that has to be done to create the water that is healthy. Very few water's in the world are healthy. In fact, the majority of them are unhealthy or acidic.

Laurenzi: Large diameter waters-- their mechanical correlation between a high-positive milli-volt or a repeat ORP reading in water that reflects a large diameter.

Dr. Young: Large-diameter water is the high-clustered water. Have you heard the word "cluster"? H2O molecules cluster together when they lose their electrical charge or the charge is compromised by acid. Generally, tap water can be anywhere from 10 to 40 molecule clusters. The averaged bottle or municipal water is 20 molecule clusters. The reason the water clusters is because dietary and/or metabolic acids act as a molecular glue that causes the water molecules to stick together. All acidic water has a larger-diameter. When you drink it, it feels heavy. It might even bloat you because it is not permeable. Conversely, the lowest diameter water would be in a mono-molecular state where you just have one molecule of H2O. That would be ideal. Water ionization will break the acid bonds creating a water diameter that is smaller. You would then have the smaller diameter water ranging from four to six molecules. This water would be more permeable or what I refer to as,
the wetter water. A smaller diameter or low clustered water is lighter. When you can drink it, you feel it going into the tissues. The body absorbs this low clustered water to hydrate the cells of the body. I see this under the microscope at the cellular level. I know what a hydrated cell looks like and what a dehydrated cell looks like. A dehydrated blood cell is concave in the center. A hydrated cell is plump and round. It's even in size and even in color. It doesn't have what is referred to in hematology as a target or a bulls-eye in the center of the cell. So, I can tell very simply whether someone is hydrated or not hydrated regardless of whether you're drinking a lot of water or not. If you're drinking a lot of water and drinking the wrong kind of water, there's no way for that water to get into the cell to hydrate the cell. Molecularly the water is too large. It's very, very important to break those molecular clusters down. Now, when break apart the wat
er molecules you create greater surface area. And when you create a greater surface area you create a greater surface charge. When you ionize the water you not only increase the pH, but you also increase the electrical potential of the water. When you drink ionized water you are drinking water that has more surface area that can carry more electrical energy to the body. Ionized, smaller diameter water can hydrate, alkalize and energize every cell in the human body. And when your cells are hydrated, alkalized and energized you feel stronger, healthier and more vibrant.

Laurenzi: Is there a positive milli-volt, or ping reading, that water becomes electron-hungry, taking electrons from our body, causing oxidation. In other words, is there a plus 100 milli-volt, plus 200, plus 300, plus 500, where water becomes harmful to the cells of the body?

Dr. Young: Any water that carries a positive milli-volt or ping reading is enervating to the body. The energy of the water, or the "oxidative reduction potential" or "ORP" water is a very important measurement. Oxidation refers to the acidic effect of the liquid being tested and reduction refers to its alkaline effect. When I measure the energy or "ORP" of a liquid, it is measured in milli-volts. Those milli-volts can be positive or negatively charged. The protons or electrons or the positive or negatively charged elements of the liquid or water being measured will make either energy withdrawals if positively charged or energy contributions if negatively charged. When I break down the molecular clustering, I can increase the electrical potential or negative charge of the liquid or water. The charge of the liquid or water is measured in milli-volts. If you have a positive charge milli-volt, that liquid or water will act as a stimulant to the body and will use up th
e electrons in your body and pull energy from your body. When your body is reacting to increased levels of positive charges you wrongly interrupt this as energy. But, it you have not gained energy, you have been robbed of energy. This is how a stimulate works. It steals energy from your energy reserves. That is why you are tired after the surge of energy is used up. If you are drinking coffee or tea or eating chocolate, which have a high "ORP", or positive milli-volt, or saturation of protons or positive ions, the coffee or tea or chocolate will steal energy from your body. At first you will feel "energized." But then what happens after you feel energized? You feel tired. You then have another cup of coffee, tea or eat another piece of chocolate and feel the elusion of energy again. The energy from coffee, tea and chocolate is an illusion because they have no energy to give. They have only energy to steal. All you've done when you drink coffee or tea or eat a p
iece of chocolate is rob energy from your energy reserves and deplete your energy bank account. Your energy goes up and down, up and down throughout the day, which does not happen when we're eating or drinking electron-rich, alkaline, low diameter, low ORP, negatively charged fluids or foods.

Laurenzi: Is there a milli-volt reading of water which would be bad for us?

Dr. Young: Yes. The ideal food or liquid to ingest for providing energy for the body should be a milli-volt or ORP reading of negative 150 to 350 milli-volts. Anytime you are drinking a liquid or water that carries a negative milli-volt, whether it's negative one, two or three, it will make an energy contribution to the body. As long as the food or drink carries a negative charge you will increase your energy bank account. Negatively charged food or water does not pull energy from the body. Any food or drink that is positively charged, positive one, two, three and up, such as coffee, tea, soda pops, chocolate, animal protein, cheese, milk, sugar, just to name a few, you will decrease your energy bank account. All the so-called energy drinks have positive charged milli-volt readings that range from positive 250 to 1200. All energy drinks are stimulates and pull energy from your energy bank account leaving you wanting more. The negative charge or "ORP" of all raw food
s are generally going to run, negative 150 to 250, and will contribute energy to your energy bank account. All processed foods are positively charge and will run, positive 250 to 450, and will withdraw energy from your energy bank account. The food you eat and the liquids you drink are critical. To keep your body alkalized and energized you will have to eat and drink electron-rich, alkaline, negatively charged food and liquids. Beginning with the most important - the water you drink!

Laurenzi: What I'm doing is buzzing around the country, testing well-calibrated or the pH of municipal systems. I've tested water in Arizona at positive 100 milli-volts. And up to a positive 630 in my hometown, Colorado Springs. Is there one of those plus readings on the "ORP" scale that becomes good for the body?

Dr. Young: Any plus reading on any water will pull energy from the body. So that's why it's critical to reverse the polarity of the water from positive to negative. You can do this by breaking the clustering with ionizing. If you're drinking liquids or water that has a positive charge this will cause a huge drain on your energy system. It cannot be healthful to the body and eventually the positively charge liquid or water is going to end up causing a pH imbalance that will lead to enervation, irritation, inflammation and then ulceration and degeneration. This is why it is so important to drink negatively charge liquids and water. These kinds of liquids or water are full of electrons that will buffer dietary and/or metabolic acids and contribute electrons to your energy bank account. That is why it's important to realize that all water has to be filtered, all water has to be purified, all water has to be structured, meaning water has to be broken down into its smallest
molecular state, all water has to be alkalized, and finally all water has to be electrically charged through the process of ionization to be healthful to the body - whether animal or human.

Laurenzi: Does the diameter of water effect our bodies' hydration?

Dr. Young: Most definitely. The diameter of the liquid or water must be no greater than 6 molecules and preferably 1 molecule in order to hydrate the cells of your body.

Laurenzi: Is chlorine something we should have in our drinking water?

Dr. Young: Chlorine should not be in our water. It is not an energizing agent because it does not break down water clustering. All of the chlorine water tested shows a positive charge and would therefore pull energy from your body.

Laurenzi: For optimal health, what percentage of water should an adult's body be?

Dr. Young: When we were born, we were 90% water. When we're dead, we're approximately 50% water. And somewhere between birth and death, we become dehydrated- we've accepted as normal somewhere around 70%. So anything above 70% would be ideal, moving more towards 90%. I think that's what makes babies to supple. You know, you touch their skin and it's soft, it's pliable, it's supple. This is because the skin is hydrated. And we lose that over time from dehydration.

Laurenzi: Back on the water--with an adult, such as a person in their 40's and 50's, when their water percentage drops below that 70% content to 60% or even 50% content, what are some of the negative things that could occur to the body?

Dr. Young: When someone becomes dehydrated, besides the feeling that they're constantly thirsty, the skin becomes dry and the bowels become constipated. The skin is not supple--it becomes dry. And a lot of the skin challenges that we see is because of that. The dryness and the coarseness of the skin, is affected. Not only is the outside of the body affected but the inside is also affected from the lack of alkaline water. This is what can happen within the body. All of the cells of the body that make all tissues and organs need water for staying healthy. Water, next to salt is one of the most important buffers of dietary and metabolic acid. When you do not have sufficient water, you cannot buffer the acids from diet and/or metabolism. Also, you cannot remove the dietary and/or metabolic acids through the four channels of elimination. Realizing that all metabolism or the production of energy or the utilization of energy or the consumption of energy produces acids t
hat need to be buffered with electron-rich alkaline water. And, without electron-rich alkaline water, you cannot eliminate the biological waste products that are being created on a moment-by-moment basis. So, it is very important that exchange of electron-rich alkaline water takes place, and if it does not, this is when you will see internal pollution buildup and the beginning of latent tissue acidosis that leads to ALL sickness and dis-ease.

Laurenzi: Tell us about the advantages of an in-home alkalizer, like a Jupiter Orion machine. How can this machine change the structure of water for us?

Dr. Young: Ionization of water was invented by the Russians many years ago where they discovered how to separate positive and negative ions through magnetism. Passing water over several titanium/platinum plates they were able to pull acid elements to one side that were positively charged and to the other side alkaline elements that were negatively charged, creating two streams of water. The first water was electron-rich and alkaline with a small diameter and the second water was proton-rich and acidic with a large diameter. Over the years, we have become more sophisticated in the design of our ionization plates--using titanium/platinum beveled plates in order to create more surface area, to attract more electrons on one side, and more protons to the other side. By in doing this, I was able to create two functionally very good types of water. One, which was proton-rich and acidic, and could be used for disinfecting purposes, and one that was electron-rich and alkaline,
that could be used for ingestion with a smaller molecular structure or diameter, that was wetter, that could contribute greater electrical energy to the body, and could actually energize and alkalize the body at the same time.

Laurenzi: So, would be fair to say that your countertop ionization machines change the water, by creating the smaller diameter water that is electron-rich and alkaline water?

Dr. Young: Absolutely! My ionization machines are fourth generation and the best machines on the market for filtering the water, reducing the diameter of water, alkalizing the water and decreasing the oxidative reduction potential (ORP) of the water, creating the best water for human and animal consumption. The Young Life Ionizers produced pure ionized water through multiple filtrations and electrical ionization. The micromesh filters range from .01 to .001 microns to take chemicals, drugs and heavy metals out of the water. After the water goes through the micromesh pre-filter the water travels through several carbon filters, then through a tourmaline filter, and finally a coral calcium mineral filter to help with the re-ionization process. The water then travels to the ionization chamber, where the water runs across seven titanium/platinum ionization plates. This is where the water is divided into two types of water creating the proton-rich acid water and the electro
n-rich alkaline water. The Young Life Ionizer can take acidic municipal water and clear if from chemicals like chlorine and pollutants like bacteria, yeast, mold, parasites, and mercury, just to name a few and create a water that's actually going to be good for the body--that's going to be alkalizing and energizing for the body. A water that can hydrate the cells and buffer dietary and metabolic acids.

Laurenzi: Of the public waters that you've tested is there any that you've tested that is not electron-hungry and is good for the public to drink?

Dr. Young: I have tested several hundred municipal waters and I have yet to test one that is good or healthful to drink. They are all electron-hungry and will acidify the blood and tissues. I do not recommend drinking municipal water or bottled water, except for those bottled waters that are ionized and bottled in glass. That would leave only one bottled water fit to drink - pH Miracle Water.

Laurenze: Will electron-rich alkaline water disrupt digestion by diluting the hydrochloric stomach acid.

Dr. Young: The stomach is not an organ of digestion but an organ of contribution. The main contribution from the stomach is the secretion of sodium bicarbonate to alkalize the food and liquids ingested. The hydrochloric acid in the stomach is a waste product of sodium bicarbonate production and falls into the gastric pits of the stomach away from the food and drink ingested. Hydrochloric acid destroys the energy potential of the food or drink making it unfit for transformation into stem cells. When you drink electron-rich alkaline water you help alkalize the food and drink ingested and you buffer the hydrochloric acid in the stomach. This then aids the stomach in alkalizing the food and drink and preparing it for biological transformation into stems cells. This transformation into stem cells can only take place in an electron-rich alkaline environment. Therefore, drinking electron-rich alkaline water aids in the reduction of acid, including hydrochloric acid, and aids
in the preparation of the food in the stomach and then in the small intestine for transformation into stem cells and then red blood cells.

Alkaline Foods And Water Tips

7 Cool Shortcuts To Getting Alkaline
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At Last! Scientists Discover New Way To Feel Younger - In Just 7 Days!

The science managed to surprise us again. A recent research led to the discovery of an innovative alkaline diet that not only makes you look younger, but also makes you feel younger. It helps your body fight diseases on its own, and keeps your health in optimal condition.

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The pH Problem

It is thought by many that everyone has a never ending problem with acid wastes and that this is the main cause of disease. We must continually combat this problem by eating an "alkaline ash" diet, we are told. And we are told to avoid meat because it is too acid forming. It is also thought by many that the urine pH or saliva pH are good indicators of the pH of body fluids.

Alas, the situation is a bit more complicated than that. Those who do Nutri-Spec metabolic balancing are aware that many of our sickest people have alkaline blood or urine or saliva.

Respiratory rate and breath holding ability are key indicators of the pH of blood. Why? The body uses carbon dioxide levels as a primary way to regulate regulate bllod pH. When you dissolve carbon dioxide in the blood, you get carbonic acid. If there is too much carbonic acid, the respiratory center in the brain will send signals to the respiratory muscles that they must breathe to get rid of excess carbon dioxide. Respiratory rate will be rapid - often more than 18. The breath hold time will be short. This is an acidosis situation. Continue Reading >>

Vitamin C - Helpful or Harmful?

I have been know to call vitamin C the urine acid of citrus fruits. Vitamin C is an acid known as ascorbic acid that when mixed into foods and supplements must be chemically transformed into esters to be consumable. Vitamin C is destroyed by exposure to oxygen, metals, light and heat...therefore one can surely imagine what happens to it when it is processed.

Vitamin C is believed to be an antioxidant because oxidants (acids) that are in the body will oxidize (take electrons from) ascorbate first before affecting the body's proteins and lipids. This leaves oxidized forms of ascorbate. Oxidized ascorbate is believed to be relatively stable and unreactive and is believed not to cause cellular damage. I have disagreed for years and believe that over time a cumulative affect of taking in vitamin C, especially in unnatural and processed forms, is harmful just like taking too many enzymes (acids) too often and thereby tenderizing yourself.

The name "ascorbic" comes from its supposed property of preventing and curing scurvy. The scientific name of vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is derived from the Latin name of scurvy, scorbutus. Scurvy leads to the formation of liver spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from all mucous membranes. The spots are most abundant on the thighs and legs, and a person with the ailment looks pale, feels depressed, and is partially immobilized.

Yet, these are all symptoms of overacidity. In advanced scurvy, there are open, suppurating wounds and loss of teeth. Scurvy was at one time common among sailors, pirates, and others who were on ships that were out to sea longer than perishable fruits and vegetables could be stored and by soldiers who were similarly separated from these foods for extended periods.

Medical Science believes that Scurvy results from lack of Vitamin C, but I have gone on record to disagree. I say that that scurvy is caused by dehydration and a diet of dead and animal-based foods causing over-acidification of the blood and tissues leading to cellular breakdown i nto bacteria, yeast, and mold and the destruction of microvilli in the small intestine much like a rotting banana or piece of fruit getting mushy with dark spots.

The Dutch writer, Johann Bachstrom, in 1734, gave the firm opinion that "scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens which is alone the primary cause of the disease."

While the earliest documented case of scurvy was described by Hippocrates around the year 400 BC, the first attempt to give scientific basis for the cause of this disease was by a ship's surgeon in the British Royal Navy, James Lind. Again, it was well known that Scurvy was common among those with little access to fresh fruit and vegetables such as remote and isolated sailors and soldiers.

While at sea in May 1747, Lind provided some crew members with two oranges and one lemon per day, in addition to normal rations, while others continued on cider, vinegar, sulfuric acid or seawater, along with their normal rations. In the history of science this is considered to be the first occurrence of a controlled experiment comparing results on two populations of a factor applied to one group only with all other factors the same.

Lind published his work in 1753 in his Treatise on Scurvy which conclusively showed that citrus fruits prevented the disease. NOTE: These were whole natural and unprocessed fruits and lemons that are alkalizing and mineral rich as are limes which we will come to in a minute. It wasn't the vitamin C but rather the alkalinity, minerals, and combination of natural electrons which were operating. Citrus fruits were one of the first sources of vitamin C available to ship's surgeons. Lind's work was slow to be noticed, partly because he gave conflicting evidence within the book, and partly because the British admiralty saw care for the well-being of crews as a sign of weakness. Further, fresh fruit was very expensive to keep on board, whereas boiling it down to juice allowed easy storage yet destroyed the vitamins and the electrons (especially if boiled in copper kettles). Ship captains assumed wrongly that Lind's suggestions didn't work because those juices failed to cure scurvy while not realizing that they were cooked and processed down and not in their natural energetic electron rich form!

The source of sickness and disease is the build up of acidity and blockages, starting in the small intestine, which is kind of lack clogging the drain to the point of overflow (cold, flu, etc).

Vitamin C produces positive results because it breaks down undigested matter (like chicken and pork) in the digestive tract which improves digestion and promotes elimination.

Human beings are poisoning themselves with Vitamin C by taking it in excess for everything.

It is totally unnecessary.

Again, it is like taking an excess of enzymes (acids) and tenderizing onesself. In my many years of viewing people's blood and understanding their nutritional histories, I have never recommended that a person needs to take Vitamin C. The only time I would recommend it is for supporting the bowel in severe congestive situations.

If you are using Liquid Vitamin C, you are ingesting plenty and in a form that your body can use without harm. Plus, you get everything you need in terms of vitamin C by eating the pH Miracle diet of mostly vegetables, fats and low sugar fruits wherein Vitamin C naturally occurs.

New! pH Miracle Water

Your body is 70 percent water.

Water composes 70 percent of muscle, 25 percent of fats, 75 percent of your brain, and over 80 percent of your blood.

Alkaline water water regulates your body's temperature, cushions and protects vital organs, aids in digestion, transports nutrients within each cell, and dispels acidic wastes. Alkaline water can also help prevent kidney stones caused by the body chelating excess acid with calcium.

One study showed that women who drank more than five glasses of water a day had a 45 percent less risk of colon cancer, also a result of excess acidity in the lower bowel. Yet, another study showed a decreased chance of bladder cancer when more than 2.5 quarts of fluid were consumed daily.

Maintaining your level of hydration is very important to the overall health of your pancreas and your body as a whole. You should be drinking at least four liters of alkalized and energized water, or about one gallon per day, based on 70 kilos or 154 pounds.

pH Miracle Activated Micro-ionized Water

So, what is pH Miracle Activated alkalized and energized water? To answer this question we must first look at a brief history.

In the 1930s two men made major discoveries that we are only now beginning to understand and act upon.

Victor Schauberger, a forester in the Australian mountains, discovered that water is a living entity that has truly remarkable powers as it emerges from high mountain Springs. If it were allowed to run between cool shady banks of the original forest, it would remain energized and be able to enrich the whole of the watershed in which it flowed. In deed, the whole in ecology of the land and animals, including man, depends on this energize water.

Schauberger showed that if the forest cover that shaded the banks of the water courses was logged and the water therefore became heated by the sun, the life-giving properties of primary water were gradually dissipated. The whole water cycle became disrupted; the fertility of the soil was depleted, and so was the health of all who drank the water.

Meanwhile, in France , Claude Vincent was commissioned by the French government to find out why certain areas of France have higher levels of cancer than others. Professor Vincent was a hydrologist. He therefore tested the water in these areas and confirmed independently, what Schauberger had found. The areas that had a high level of health and a low incidence of cancer had water that came from deep artesian springs and was highly energized.

The converse was also true.

The areas that displayed the highest cancer incidence and overall mortality were shown to have low energy-water that came from more superficial sources; by flowing through open country it had lost its ability to sustain health in the ecosystem.

Vincent , initially tested three parameters:

1) pH or acid alkaline balance: Healthy water was more alkaline; degraded water became more acidic. This was found long before the acid rain from industrial gases started to kill our lakes and rivers. Vincent also tested the pH of blood saliva and urine and found that in poor health the internal water was more acidic, especially in the tissues. The more acidic the tissues became, the higher the risk of the ill health cancer and of course diabetes.

2) rH2 was the second quality that Vincent measured. This is a measure of energy and reflects the number of electrons in the water. Unfortunately, energized water is called "reduced" water, and the energizing process called reduction, because the early scientist believed that electrical current flowed from the positive pole to the negative pole. We now know that it flows in the opposite direction, and it is the flow of electrons that does the work, whether in an electrical appliance or in the human body.

rH2 is also linked to the reduction oxidation potential (ORP), called "redox" for short. Again, oxidation means a loss of energy or electrons and a gain of protons or acids, and reduction means a gain in energy or electrons and a loss of protons or acids. rH2 or ORP measures the electron activity or potential of the fluid being measured.

Vincent found that water became degraded by flowing through areas unprotected by trees or through distribution pipes. It became more oxidized and lost its electrons. This was associated with a higher death rate in the community served by this oxidized or energy depleted water. It was difficult to ignore that the quality of water being drunk on a daily basis was reflected in the diminished quality of health of those drinking it.

Research on the Hunza people of northern Pakistan has indicated that the major difference between these long-lived healthy people and their less healthy brethren is in the water they drink. Living in the mountains, they have access to glacier melt from rushing mountain streams. This water is very high in electrons, energy and minerals. It is also in "micro" form, which means that it has increased power to dissolve minerals and salts.

3) Resistance, or R, was the third parameter measured by Vincent. This refers to the amount of dissolved minerals in solution in the water. The higher the R factor, the more pure the water; the lower the R, the more electrolytes in the water.

Schauberger showed rainwater was immature water and needed to go through a "cycle" in the soil, where it would pick up nutrients and become mature. On the other hand, glacial melt contains many minerals in solution and appears to be one of the main reasons that the Hunza people live so long in such good health.

As Vincent started to measure the water compartments in the body, the correlation between the drinking water, the quality of water in the body, and the quality of health became undeniable. He developed the B.T.A. or Biological Terrain Assessment to determine the alkalinity and energy of the body fluids including the blood, urine and saliva.

This test can evaluate the acid/alkaline balance and oxidative stress in the body and can be used to predict future health. Professor Vincent's solution was to move to an area of health-giving water, and he purposely withheld the location of the highest quality water that he found, for fear that everyone would want to move their and destroy the precious source of this water.

There is, therefore, a need to be able to duplicate this water in our homes, if we wish to be healthy, and free of diabetes, as clearly, we all cannot all live on a mountain or near an energized spring.

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Water, though necessary for life, can also be detrimental. Contaminated water can cause serious health problems. Even water that has been deemed "safe" can still cause problems through continued exposure to many of the substances present in it.

In a recent preliminary investigation in Norway suggests a possible link between acidic drinking water and Type I diabetes. Children who consumed water with a pH between 6.2 and 6.9 were 3.7 times more likely to be diagnosed with Type I diabetes, compared to children drinking less acidic water, lead author Dr. Lars C. Stene and colleagues report in the September issue of the journal, "Diabetes Care".

Dr. Stene, who is with Aker and Ulleval University in Oslo , and his team evaluated tap water samples from the homes of 64 children with Type I diabetes and 250 healthy children drinking water with a pH of 7 or above.

Better, is water that has been purified through proper filtration like reverse osmosis or distillation and then alkalized and energized through a process of electro-magnetic micro-ionization.

The pH Miracle Activated Electro-Magnetic Micro-ionization Water Machine and pH Miracle Water!

The pH Miracle Activated Micro-ionized water machine was developed by Dr. Robert O. Young to satisfy the need for increased electrons in the water to neutralize excess gastrointestinal, respiratory and metabolic acids associated with clients challenged with over-weight, under-weight, hypo or hyperglycemia, diabetes, cancer and AIDS.

The most critical need is to correct the loss of electrons in blood, urine and saliva, which has been highlighted by my experience working with obesity, hypo or hyperglycemics, Type I and Type II diabetics, cancer and AIDS.

The vital importance of the rH2 or ORP measurement to overall health is impossible to ignore. If the blood is found to be oxidized by more than two units on the rH2 scale (the scale goes from 0 to 44, 22 being a healthy non-diabetic), this indicates that it has 100 times less electrons then a healthy level, and a person with hypoglycemia or diabetes will usually complain of some degree of low energy.

Over 25 (indicating 1000 times less energy or electrons in the blood) then the client is usually suffering from a hypoglycemia or chronic fatigue and diabetes, with its debilitating low energy. These high levels of oxidation are often associated with high levels of tissue acidity, indicating a generalized increase in aging of the tissues in these conditions.

A 40-year-old with hypoglycemia would often say, "I feel like I'm 70 years old," and their BTA test would give them a biological age of 72 years! Also, there urine rH2 would show an 18 to 20 where there blood rH2 would be at 25 or greater, indicating a high level of electrons being lost due to excess acidity in the blood and tissues.

As these clients reclaimed their health by alkalizing and energizing the blood and tissues, their biological age and oxidative stress would fall and their acid/alkaline balance would normalize. Initially, I would suggest drinking alkaline water, but after testing their drinking water, I realized that common sources of water were highly oxidized. I mean highly oxidized, with rH2 values approaching 30 or 10 to the negative 8. That is, 100 million less electrons or energy than should be in the blood.

It is important to note that all acids are saturated in protons and are enervating to the body. It is the electron that binds to the endogenous acids we create through our inverted ways of living, eating and thinking that makes drinking alkalized and energized water so critical in reversing obesity or any other serious illness or disease.

Because most folks are drinking oxidized or acidic proton rich water, the body has to add huge amounts of electrons to bring this oxidized acidic water up to the energy level of the blood, and yet promptly loses this energy again when it is passed out as urine. The figures for a person with obesity are often quite staggering.

Most municipalities have, on the average, an rH2 of 30 or greater; this means it has 10 to the 8th power less electrons (100 million less electrons) than the blood needs to be fully healthy at an rH2 of 22.

To make matters worse, the urine in diabetics is often loaded with electrons and can be reduced as much as rH2 19; that is, 1000 times more electrons than healthy blood. The reason for the increase urine rH2 is the body is constantly moving out the protons or acids created from the fermentation of sugars in the blood and tissues. The total deficit being close to 10 billion electrons per liter of water drunk and urine passed. Clearly, the degraded water we drink and the fermentation of excess blood sugars in the diabetic is acting as a huge drain on energy reserves causing pancreatic and adrenal stress.

After reaching these conclusions, I began testing micro-water machines from Japan and Korea. These machines would filter and alkalize the water and seemed to be the answer. However, there was just one problem: they did not reliably energize the water and often produced rH2 levels of 26 or higher, still 1000 times less energy than healthy blood of an overweight person.

I realized that most all other water machines had a basic flaw: they were all "flow-through" machines. They were very convenient because they fitted directly to the cold water tap and the micro-water came out immediately when the machine was turned on. But the reason that they did not and could not recharge the water to adequate energy levels, is that electrons move too fast in many of the flow-through set-ups, unless high amounts of electricity are used at high voltage.

Electrons move at approximately 4 feet per second, far too fast to adequately charge up the water flowing past the electrodes of all other water machines.

To solve this problem which is charteristic of all other "flow-through" water ionizing machines, we developed the pH Miracle Water Machine. The pH Miracle Water Ionizers, called the Orion, Aquarius and Jupiter have a way where the water can be exposed to the direct current for several seconds until it has adequately collected sufficient electrons creating a highly reduced water with an rH2 of 10 or 12, containing billions of electrons. This technology for making electron rich alkaline water is now available through our pH Miracle Water machines.

Drinking this electron rich water, I call pH Miracle Water, can help neutralize excess acids and restore the blood, tissues and organs back to a healthy electron-rich alkaline balance.

I have found the best results for increasing energy and health, is when a person drinks at least 1 liter of highly charged, electron-rich, alkaline pH Miracle Water alone or with the green powder at least 3 to 4 times a day.

The Truth About Energy Drinks

The energy drink business is now a billion dollar industry. Currently, there are at least 200 energy drinks on the market and they are all acidic to the blood and tissues.

"There was a time when we would get our caffeine intake from coffee and cola, but now there are a number of caffeine containing beverages and we need to be careful because over a period of 24 hours that caffeine intake is cumulative," says Dee Rollins, R.D., PhD, dietitian with Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine.

In fact, energy drink consumers should keep careful track of the amount of caffeine they get in a day.

"If you know that 400 milligrams a day is the upper limit you can check the back of the labels and make sure that you don't get more than that," explains Dr. Rollins.

It may sound like a lot, but 400 milligrams is roughly the equivalent of just one energy drink and two cups of coffee. Getting more than that can lead to jitteriness, nausea, heart palpations -- and in extreme cases more severe acidic symptoms.

"It can be so bad that if you take too much caffeine you can end up in the hospital thinking you have flu-like symptoms and really it's caffeine overdose."

"So remember as you're sipping -- you are literally drinking an acid drink not an energy drink that is stealing the life right out of you. ALL of these so called energy drinks have a pH of around 2.5 to 3.5 with a proton saturation that runs in the positive 350mV to 450mV. This means with every sip you are causing the body to use its stored energy to ionize the acidic energy drink which results in an energy loss not an energy gain,"
states Dr. Robert O. Young, of the pH Miracle Living Research Center.

For most people are getting more than around 400 milligrams of caffeine a day making these energy drinks unsafe for human ingestion.

The following are some important things to remember if you decide to drink an acidic energy drink:

1) Don't drink any acidic energy beverages while exercising. It can lead to severe fatigue, lethargy and dehydration.

2) Don't ever mix these acidic energy drinks with alcohol -- it's popular -- but doing so can not only mask on how intoxicated you really are, it again can be extremely fatiguing and dehydrating.

3) Don't drink acidic energy drinks for energy because they only stimulate the body to buffer the acidic ingredients giving you the illusion of more energy when in reality you are losing energy. This can lead to extreme fatigue, lethargy and dehydration.

4) If the energy drink does not contain the acid caffeine it will surely contain some form of acidic sugar. Sugar in any form is a strong acid that robs the body of energy and should never be ingested. This would include all sugars that end in "ose" such as sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose, or dextrose or that end in "ol" such as sorbitol or xylitol.
Sugar in all forms is an acidic contributor to all sickness, dis-ease and disease.

5) There are currently no energy drinks on the market that will give you any sustainable energy. What they give you is a quick release of electrical energy designed for releasing alkaline buffers to neutralize the poisonous acids in the so-called energy drink. When you drink a so-called energy drink, all you prove is you can ingest a certain amount of poison and still manage to get through the day functioning.

In addition to caffeine and sugar, most of these energy drinks contain high amounts of carbonic acid which can be dangerous for diabeteics or those with high blood pressure.

"The best advise is to drink alkaline water with a pH/ORP of 9.5/-250mV and to avoid all acidic sport and energy drinks," states Dr. Young.