Here is info that was shared with me over 12 years ago. This is what we did for Brenda, my sister, that was diagnosed with PD. You can view her photos on my profile page and read her remarkable story. To better health.

ACIDOSIS

Information drawn from various sources.





This is what Dr. Marc Cochran has to say about low pH
and acidosis.



Acidosis

An acidic body is a body full of chronic pain and
illness. The more acidic you become, the more chronic
and the more severe the illness will become. What
does long term acidosis create? The American public is
about 98% acidic because of the diet. Call it what you
want. Now, I am going to give you some long term
symptoms of acidosis. Long term symptoms of
acidosis. 1. Acne, panic attacks, lack of sex drive,
cold hands and feet, food allergies, agitation,
bloating, mild headaches, rapid panting breath, hard
to get up in the morning. Thats the beginning
symptoms of acidosis. Now were gonna go in the
middle. 2. Cold sores, depression, migraine
headaches, asthma, hives, swelling, urinary
infections, colitis, excessive falling hair,
stuttering, numbness, tingling, fungal infections.
Thats intermediate. 3. The last one. Advanced
symptoms: Crohns disease, multiple sclerosis,
leukemia, all cancers, Hodgkins disease,
schizophrenia, tuberculosis, lupus, rheumatoid
arthritis. Thats what you have to look forward to
if you are not changing the acid in your body. Now, I
also want you to understand that this information I
just gave you is not from Dr. Marc Cochran. This is
from research documentation. So, Im not just saying
it to say it. Everything that is in this handout is
backed by medical research.





An acid pH (ACIDOSIS) is the Seed-Bed of Degenerative
Diseases




The Harmful Effects of an Imbalanced pH on the Body
Systems

By Dr. William Lee Cowden



Dr. Cowden received his M.D. from the University of
Texas Medical School in Houston in 1978, followed by
an internship and residency at St. Louis University in
Missouri and critical care and cardiology fellowships
at the same hospital. He is a board-certified in
internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and clinical
nutrition. He is accomplished in applied kinesiology,
homeopathy, reflexology, acupuncture, biofeedback, and
color, sound, neural, magnetic and detoxification
therapies. Dr. Cowden conducts clinical research and
teaches alternative medicine at the Conservative
Medicine Institute in Richardson, Texas.



The Circulatory System

During conditions of excessive acidity, bacteria
and/or fungi and/or viruses can attach themselves to
the inner wall of arteries, which then attracts white
blood cells, clotting proteins, clotting cells, etc.
This can cause a plaque to form in the artery, thus
narrowing the artery and restricting the flow of
blood, oxygen and nutrients to the tissues supplied by
that artery. If the coronary artery is involved, a
heart attack can occur. If excessive acidity is
present, calcium, which was mobilized out of the bone
to buffer the acid, can deposit in the arterial
plaque, thus converting the plaque from soft to hard.
The plaque makes the arteries stiff, which can raise
blood pressure.



The Nervous System

Brain cells dysfunction when they are too acidic,
resulting in an inability to produce the appropriate
chemicals (neurotransmitters) to communicate with
adjacent brain cells. This can result in insomnia,
anxiety, depression, neuroses, psychoses and
impairment of memory. Since the brain is supposed to
communicate through the spinal cord and other nerves
to every cell in the body (heart cells, intestinal
cells, muscle cells, glandular cells, etc.), every
body system can dysfunction if the nervous system does
due to acid/alkaline imbalance.



The Structural System

The calcium stored in the bones is released when serum
and soft tissue calcium is used up, binding and
neutralizing excess acid in the tissues. This initial
calcium depletion in the muscle can cause muscle
cramps. But as calcium is pulled from the bone to
neutralize more acid, the calcium stored in the bones
becomes deleted causing osteoporosis, weakened and
collapsed vertebrae, poor back posture and back pain.
The calcium mobilized from the bone gets deposited as
calcium-acid salts in the joints, leading to
degenerative arthritis.



The Digestive System

When the pH is too acidic, the cells lining the
stomach and small intestines and the cells in the
pancreas that are responsible for producing and
releasing digestive enzymes dysfunction resulting in
indigestion, gaseousness, bloating and abdominal
cramping. Not enough nutrients get absorbed from the
food and the entire body can experience malnutrition.
Also undigested foods ferment in the intestines
causing toxicity.



The Intestinal System

Excessive acidity causes the colon cells to
dysfunction, which can result in diarrhea, irritable
bowel syndrome, constipation or diverticulitis. The
disturbed acid/alkaline balance in the colon can also
cause unfriendly microbes to grow and thrive, which
can result in colitis, inflammatory bowel disease
(including Crohns) or hemorrhoids.



The Immune System

Immune cells that are too acid do not produce
antibodies or cytokines (chemical messengers to
regulate other immune cells), and they have impaired
phagocytosis (the ability to engulf and destroy
microbes). As a result, the affected individual
becomes susceptible to viral, bacterial, fungal and
other infectious microbes as well as cancer.



The Respiratory System

The binding of oxygen to the hemoglobin protein of red
blood cells in the lungs operates only at a fairly
narrow pH range. If the pH is too acidic or too
alkaline, microbes in the airways can grow much more
easily, invade human cells, cause bronchitis,
pneumonia, sinusitis, etc., and in doing so, can
result in cough, bronchial spasms (asthma) and
increased susceptibility to allergens (hay fever).



The Urinary System

The urinary system helps eliminate toxic waste
products from the body. Women especially (because of
their short urethra connecting the urinary bladder to
the exterior of the body) have some bacteria and/or
fungi in their bladder. These microbes can grow
rapidly if the urines pH is not in the proper range
most of the time. In acid-excess conditions, calcium,
which is mobilized from the bone to buffer the acid,
can form calcium crystals and stones in the kidney
collecting system. When these stones dislodge and pass
down the urethra towards the bladder, they usually
cause excruciating pain.



The Glandular System

All of the endocrine glands produce hormones from
enzymatic action. If the pH is too acidic, the
glandular cells cannot produce and release sufficient
hormones for the bodys needs. This results in mood
swings, blood sugar imbalances, fatigue, reproductive
difficulties, etc.



Vital Nutrition

The late Roger William, Ph.D. at the University of
Texas-Austin, popularized the principle of biochemical
individuality. He found that in an average group of 20
humans, there was a seven-fold difference between the
lowest amounts of a particular vitamin or mineral
required by one of those individuals in order to
maintain health and the lowest amount of that same
vitamin or mineral required by another individual in
that group of 20 people. Diet no longer contains
sufficient micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) to
maintain health, because most foods are now grown on
mineral-depleted soil that has been over-farmed for
decades, and adequate minerals are required by the
plants to produce adequate vitamins in the plants.



Weight Loss

When the pH is too acidic, the metabolic enzymes
inside the cell do not work efficiently, which impairs
the proper breakdown of fats, etc. For iodine
absorption, the pH has to be almost perfect.