Melody
05-27-2005, 01:55 PM
I've read several articles concerning the importance of the human body's PH balance; the bodies tendency of being either alkaline or acidic. Our blood PH should be more alkaline, which protects us from diseases, whereas an acidic PH helps disease to thrive and continue to grow stronger - even deadly. Cancer and other diseases can not survive in an alkaline healthy body. It's no wonder why so many herbs are helpful as they are an alkaline food. Even though other factors can deprive our cells of oxygen (such as toxic overload), which in turn increases the acid in our systems, it seems the biggest culprit is the food we eat.
It makes sense that if an acid PH decreases the body's ability to absorb nutrients and minerals, the energy production in our cells decreases and in turn it's ability to repair damaged cells. This deprives our cells of oxygen, and as I understand, scientist (to study cancer cells in their labs) grow cancer samples by depriving the cancer cells of oxygen.
I was a bit upset when my oncolgist told me that to this day they still do know what causes cancer. What?
What was he telling me? Smoking causes cancer, but they don't know what it is in a cigg that triggers the cancer? How it mutates the cells?
Am I being too simplistic to think that, "Well. Ciggs are acidic (they are you know and so is coffee/tea...), and they deprive the cells of oxygen.
When I think back prior to my HER2, my diet consisted of hardly any water. I drank coffee in the morning, iced-tea or soda in the afternoon and evening. I always ate all my meat/poultry/fish, but did not always finish all my veggies, and what fruit I bought usually went bad before I even ate it.
A for instance - dinner meal: Lobster, brown & white rice, corn on the cob, maybe a glass of wine, always iced-tea. Guess what? All the above are acidic foods. Even the corn! Lunch was a turkey sandwhich! Breakfast was oatmeal! It's all good food, but none of it's alkaline.
Anyway. I wanted to write this for those who are wanting to improve their diets as one way to fight cancer - or any disease. If you eat more alkaline foods than acidic foods, it will work to balance out your blood's PH. And it should not surprise you that a lot of the alkaline foods are also the 'cancer wonder' fighting foods. From what I've studied, our diet should be 75% alkaline foods, and 25% acidic foods.
Hope this helps someone. God Bless, Melody
It makes sense that if an acid PH decreases the body's ability to absorb nutrients and minerals, the energy production in our cells decreases and in turn it's ability to repair damaged cells. This deprives our cells of oxygen, and as I understand, scientist (to study cancer cells in their labs) grow cancer samples by depriving the cancer cells of oxygen.
I was a bit upset when my oncolgist told me that to this day they still do know what causes cancer. What?
What was he telling me? Smoking causes cancer, but they don't know what it is in a cigg that triggers the cancer? How it mutates the cells?
Am I being too simplistic to think that, "Well. Ciggs are acidic (they are you know and so is coffee/tea...), and they deprive the cells of oxygen.
When I think back prior to my HER2, my diet consisted of hardly any water. I drank coffee in the morning, iced-tea or soda in the afternoon and evening. I always ate all my meat/poultry/fish, but did not always finish all my veggies, and what fruit I bought usually went bad before I even ate it.
A for instance - dinner meal: Lobster, brown & white rice, corn on the cob, maybe a glass of wine, always iced-tea. Guess what? All the above are acidic foods. Even the corn! Lunch was a turkey sandwhich! Breakfast was oatmeal! It's all good food, but none of it's alkaline.
Anyway. I wanted to write this for those who are wanting to improve their diets as one way to fight cancer - or any disease. If you eat more alkaline foods than acidic foods, it will work to balance out your blood's PH. And it should not surprise you that a lot of the alkaline foods are also the 'cancer wonder' fighting foods. From what I've studied, our diet should be 75% alkaline foods, and 25% acidic foods.
Hope this helps someone. God Bless, Melody