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Supplements to help regulate pH balance?Last modified on November 18, 2008Question from Karen: How important is the pH balance in your body, and what if any supplements can help regulate this? Answers — Beth DuPree, M.D., F.A.C.S.: It is important for the enzymes in your body to function that your body be in balance. There are certain practitioners that believe that by altering the pH of your body, you can help…

July 2000: Food for Cancer RecoveryLast modified on November 18, 2008things. I did an extensive review of the literature on aspartame, and could see no harm in using it when it's part of a balanced and varied diet. If you are using it to lose weight, it has not been shown to make a difference. When you are baking, you can use fruit juices in place of sugar, like apple juice or prune extract, instead of a sugar…

July 2007: Vitamins and Herbal SupplementsLast modified on November 18, 2008on breast cancers does not depend on the gender of the patient. Back to top Question from Karen: How important is the pH balance in your body, and what if any supplements can help regulate this? Answers — Beth DuPree, M.D., F.A.C.S.: It is important for the enzymes in your body to function that your body be in balance. There are certain…

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Question from Karen: How important is the pH balance in your body, and what if any supplements can help regulate this? Answers —Beth DuPree, M.D., F.A.C.S.: It is important for the enzymes in your body to function that your body be in balance. There are certain practitioners that believe that by altering the pH of your body, you can help prevent certain disease processes from occurring. But to my knowledge, there are no clinical trials to support changing the pH of your body in order to specifically treat a cancer.

Gary Deng, M.D., Ph.D.: I believe the theory that acidity in the body causes cancer is a faulty one. For example, the most acidic organ in our body is the stomach, which is soaked in acid almost all the time. But stomach cancer is very rare. If acidity causes cancer, we would have seen many more stomach cancer cases. Therefore, I do not think cancer is caused by acidity. Cancer is caused by changes in the DNA of the cells and also the environment around the cells, not simply by acidity.