Diseases

From the articles and studies below, a very clear assumption can be made that there is only one disease that manifest itself in different ways in different people (and animals).

The manifestation of this disease is what the medical world classify as “diseases” as we have grown accustomed to and includes the following: Aids, Arthritis, Cancer (All types), Candida, Chlamydia, Diabetes, Eczema, Emphysema, Glaucoma, Herpes, Lyme disease, Parkinson’s, Prostate, Sores, Skin Acne, STD’s (All types), Stomach Ulcers, Tuberculosis, Tumors, Psoriasis, Scarring, Allergies, Back pain, Bladder infection, Blood infection, Blurred Eye Vision, Gout, Infections (general), Inflammation, Joint pain, Kidney infection, Neuralgic pain, Yeast infection, Septic Ulcers, Skin Blemishes, Skin infections, Skin rashes, Spider Bites and Urinary Infection.

This disease is called LOW pH… YES, Low pH causes all the “diseases” stated above.

If any body’s pH level falls below 7 on the pH scale, any of the “diseases” above can and will manifest in that body over time.

Disease Definition

The origin of the word ‘disease’ is dis – ease: to not be at ease and harmony. Most medical practitioners have forgotten this, and they merely participate in what is essentially chemical warfare against the symptoms of bodies at dis-ease.

Bodily pH and Disease

At the chemical level, pH stands for potential of hydrogen. pH is a measure of hydrogen ion concentration; a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. Aqueous solutions at 25°C (77°F) with a pH less than seven are acidic, while those with a pH greater than seven are basic or alkaline. The pH scale is: zero to 6.9 being acidic and 7.1 to 14 being alkaline. The body tries to maintain a pH of 7.2, which is moderately alkaline.

A Look At pH Chemistry

An acid has many hydrogen ions, while an alkali has few hydrogen but many oxygen ions. Let’s do some easy chemistry to see where the oxygen in an alkali comes from:

1 A water molecule contains two hydrogen and one oxygen atom; remember H2O?

2 Some water molecules split up.

3 Some of these split molecules lose one of their hydrogen ions and thereby become hydroxide ions, or “OH” which are accordingly, oxygen-rich compared to water.

4 The hydrogen ions that they lose unite with other water molecules to form hydrogen ions, or H3O, which are accordingly hydrogen-rich and oxygen-deprived.

5 An alkali has lost many hydrogen ions and therefore contains a lot of oxygen-rich hydroxide (step 3 above). Mix it with your blood, and your blood will also contain a lot of oxygen-rich hydroxide.

6 An acid has gained hydrogen ions that it wants to donate (step 4 above). Mix it with your blood and your blood becomes a hydrogen-rich oxygen-deprived acid.

We’re mostly Water

Seventy percent of the human body consists of water, which makes it especially sensitive to the balance between hydrogen and hydroxide ions in your food and drinks. You can therefore bring about large shifts in your body’s acid or alkaline levels through your choices of which foods to consume.

Hyperemia -> Hypoxia ->Acidosis

Hyperemia is a condition wherein the arterial blood is low in oxygen; therefore, insufficient oxygen is distributed into the tissue cells, causing hypoxia (tissue oxygen deficiency), leading to bodily acidosis (low bodily pH) and inflammation. With the low amounts of oxygen that are seen with extreme acidosis, cells must use fermentation for energy in lieu of oxygen, and this transforms healthy cells into cancer cells. The transition into cells that live from energy that is derived from fermentation is actually part of a survival response. Whenever there is oxygen depletion, there may be an excess of cancer cells that may form into tumors. This cancer is no disease in itself, but merely a troubling symptom that the body’s immune system can no longer regulate itself because external forces have overwhelmed it. The cause may be vitamin and mineral depletion, illnesses, extreme stress, chemical carcinogens, unhealthy (chemically altered) fats and oils, or a lack of omega-3 oils, pharmaceuticals, or lack of sleep or not enough oxygen during sleep (Sleep Disordered Breathing). Diet usually plays a huge role in making a person acidic as well, and therefore oxygen depletion; especially the synthesized food products that are ironically marketed as healthy alternatives to natural fats and oils.

Acidosis and our Immune System

Acidosis is now being shown to be related to an over-taxed immune system, for it is known that in sickness, the human body is always acidic. The orthodox establishment considers acidosis to be a symptom of whatever disease happens to be present, instead of considering that acidosis could be the root cause of multiple disease states. The utter lack of success in curing cancers may be due in part to a fundamental misunderstanding of these relationships.

Acidosis and Inflammation

Acidosis is related to inflammation, which is a natural protective response by the body. It can be beneficial in some instances as with a cut finger – the inflammatory process helps to block harmful microorganisms and repair the wound – but lasting inflammation can be very harmful to the body. Chronic inflammation produces continual free radicals that can potentially damage DNA, speeding the aging process and contributing to disease.

Acidosis, Parasites and DNA Damage: A Self-Reinforcing Cycle

The low-oxygen, acidic terrain described above doesn’t just enable cancer cells to switch to fermentation — it also creates the exact conditions parasites, yeast, mold, fungus and other pathogens need to thrive. An acidic, oxygen-deprived body cannot mount the immune defence needed to keep these organisms in check, so they multiply largely unchecked. Once established, parasites do not stay passive: their metabolic waste and toxic byproducts further acidify the body, deepening the very terrain that let them take hold, while the oxidative stress they generate is a major contributor to the free-radical DNA damage discussed throughout this page. Acidity, parasitic infestation, and damaged DNA therefore do not act in isolation — each one deepens the other two, forming a self-reinforcing cycle that is the true root of most of what is labelled as separate “diseases.”

pH and Bodily Healing

Unless the body’s pH level is slightly alkaline, the body cannot heal itself. You cannot improve your oral or general health until pH levels are above 7. Most all drugs and medications (over the counter & prescription) are toxic and can cause the pH to be acidic as well. Acid decreases the body’s ability to repair damaged cells, decreases the ability to get rid of heavy metals and it makes the body more susceptible to fatigue and illness. Everything pivots on a balanced pH. When bodily pH drops, enzymes are deactivated, digestion is interrupted; vital nutrients are not effectively assimilated. Disease cannot survive in an alkaline state; however, in a low oxygen/low pH (acidic) state, viruses, bacteria, yeast, mold, fungus, Candida and Cancer cells all thrive.

Nobel Prize Winner – Dr. Otto Warburg

Dr. Otto Warburg, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1931, discovered that cancer cells are not fueled by oxygen as normal cells are. The high levels of oxygen that are found in healthy, alkaline bodies are toxic to cancers. He found that cancers get their energy from sugars and a process of fermentation in acidic environments. He proved empirically the relationship between cancers, acidic body pH, and cellular oxygen starvation. His findings demonstrated that cancers are merely a symptom of acidosis, and therefore it is impossible to truly cure any cancer without first curing the underlying acidosis (an excessively acid condition of the body fluids or tissues).

Another Nobel Prize Winner – Dr. Christian Bohr (pH and Carbon Dioxide)

Hypercapnia refers to excessive carbon dioxide (CO2) in the bloodstream, typically caused by inadequate respiration. An increase in CO2 is linked with pH decrease. This is because when there is an increase of CO2 in cells, there is also an increase of H+ ions, which is the reason for the pH decrease (more acidic). When the question is asked as to what happens when there is a CO2 increase or a pH decrease, they’re both asking the same thing. It means that there is CO2 buildup and hemoglobin is going to “dump” more O2 to offset that acidity. The Bohr Effect is a physiological phenomenon first described in 1904 by the Danish physiologist Christian Bohr, stating that hemoglobin’s oxygen binding affinity is inversely related both to acidity and to the concentration of carbon dioxide. Since carbon dioxide reacts with water to form carbonic acid, an increase in CO2 results in a decrease in blood pH, resulting in hemoglobin proteins releasing their load of oxygen. Conversely, a decrease in carbon dioxide provokes an increase in pH, which results in hemoglobin picking up more oxygen.

If a body is made too acidic by factors such as diet, toxins, and inadequate respiration, then things no longer work as they are supposed to. Excessive acidity impairs the immune system which is the core of life itself. When the immune system is compromised, the body loses its ability to alkalize itself, and then the body loses its ability to absorb oxygen effectively.

Advantages of an Oxygen-Rich Alkaline Body

• All living cells need oxygen to survive. We all understand this. During a stroke when the brain’s oxygen supply is cut off, brain cells die. A heart attack occurs when the heart’s blood and oxygen supply is cut off and the heart muscles die. An alkaline body, therefore, facilitates the healthy life of all its cells while an acidic body starves its cells of this life-giving element. This means that cells live longer and perform their functions better when lots of oxygen is available.
• Oxygen is required for the burning of material throughout the body that would otherwise be stored, a process that is called metabolism. This burning process also supplies your body with its energy and heat. An alkaline body, therefore, is not only clear of piles of stored fats and toxins, but is more energetic and warmer too.
• While the brain constitutes about two per cent of your body’s weight, it uses 20 per cent of its oxygen and 25 per cent of its energy that is generated by oxygen. An alkaline body can, therefore, drive a more powerful brain.

• Without exaggeration, a lack of oxygen is responsible for almost all diseases. Many bacteria and fungi flourish in oxygen-starved environments; just think of the moldy food which you hopefully purge from your fridge and pantry regularly. As mentioned, Dr. Otto Heinrich Warburg won a Nobel Prize for proving that cancer was caused by a lack of oxygen in cells, which force them to meet their energy needs through fermentation. Hypertension often occurs when red blood cells are damaged due to low oxygen, which depletes them of the substance that they normally release to relax blood vessels. In fact, to destroy harmful organisms and flush them from cells, the immune system needs a significant amount of oxygen too.
• Nutrients from food cannot provide your body with any benefits until they combine

with oxygen in cells. There is, thus, absolutely no bodily function that does not benefit from copious amounts of oxygen. In other words, in an acidic body, calcium does a poor job of developing bone, protein struggles to grow muscle, omega 3 essential fatty acids cannot improve concentration and cognition, iron cannot build red blood cells, and so on.

Therefore, feeding your body with an abundance of oxygen through an alkaline lifestyle is one of the biggest contributions you can make to your health.

Causes of a Low pH:

There are several intertwining factors that singularly and collectively lower one’s pH, including:

• Extreme stress – Our emotions affects your stress – Gratitude, Appreciation, Peace and Love have a calming effect on stress, while sadness, fear, disgust, anger and guilt are great fuels for stress.
• Environmental toxins – chemical carcinogens in food, air and water
• Pharmaceuticals – most drugs and medications (over the counter & prescription) are toxic and can cause the pH to be acidic
• Lack of enough sleep
• Sleep Disordered Breathing, such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Lack of enough exercise
• Nutritional factors:

o Vitamin and mineral depletion – food isn’t what it used to be.

o Unhealthy (chemically altered) fats and oils – lots in today’s junk foods.

o Lack of omega-3 oils

o Eating too many foods that leave an acid ash; Alkaline ash is the residue left in your body when it has digested alkaline foods. Your body excretes this ash residue in your urine. Acidic foods, on the other hand, create acid ash, which can adversely affect your health. The acid-ash diet hypothesis of osteoporosis suggests that acid from the modern diet causes a demineralization of the skeleton, and mobilized bone calcium is excreted. This can leave insufficient minerals in the alkaline reserve. The body will try to raise the pH by using the minerals in the alkaline reserve, mainly sodium from the stomach and calcium from the bones, as well as potassium, magnesium and iron. This is the cause of Osteoporosis and a number of other diseases. Acids buildup in the cells, causing pain, which may be diagnosed as Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, MS, Lupus, etc. An acidic diet creates an acidic oxygen-starved body, and an acidic oxygen starved body suffers from the symptoms listed above.

o Synthesized food products that are ironically marketed as healthy alternatives to natural fats and oils.

o Slow Intestinal Transit Time from acidic foods that cause constipation that leave toxins accumulating in the colon or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients, including essential minerals, as with #4 above.

Saliva PH test

The Saliva PH test is a simple test you can do to measure your susceptibility to cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, and more than 150 other degenerative diseases.

How to Perform the Saliva pH Test

First, you must wait at least 2 hours after eating. Fill your mouth with saliva and then swallow it. Repeat this step to help ensure that your saliva is clean. Then the third time, put some of your saliva onto the pH paper. Take the reading IMMEDIATELY.

The pH paper should turn blue. This indicates that your saliva is slightly alkaline at a healthy pH of 7.5. If it is not blue, compare the colour with the chart that comes with the pH paper. If your saliva is acid (below pH of 7.0) wait two hours and repeat the test.

What the Reading means:

“When healthy, the pH of blood is about 7.4, the pH of spinal fluid is 7.4, and the pH of saliva is 7.5. Thus the pH of saliva parallels the extra cellular fluid…pH test of saliva represents the most consistent and most definitive physical sign of the ionic calcium deficiency syndrome…The pH of the non-deficient and healthy person is in the 7.5 (dark blue) alkaline range. The range from 7 (neutral) to blow 7 (blue-green) which is weakly acidic to 4.5 (light yellow) which is strongly acidic represents states from mildly deficient to strongly deficient, respectively. Most children are dark blue, a pH of 7.5. Over half of adults are green-yellow, a pH of 6.5 or lower, reflecting the calcium deficiency of aging and lifestyle defects.

Why not check urine pH?

Urine should always be acidic, if it is not, you are in trouble as your kidneys may be malfunctioning. The other problem is that the pH range of Urine varies greatly during the day. It can go from 4.5 to almost 7, marking a jump of almost 500X to 1000X, purely depending on what you had last night or 10 minutes ago. The saliva pH does not vary this much as it represents the mineral level in your entire system, unlike urine.

What does “Acid” and “Alkaline” mean (technically)?

Water (H2O) ionizes into hydrogen (H+) and hydroxyl (OH-) ions. When these ions are in equal proportions, the pH is a neutral 7. When there are more H+ ions than OH- ions then the water is said to be “acid”. If OH- ions outnumber the H+ ions then the water is said to be “alkaline”. The pH scale goes from 0 to 14 and is logarithmic, which means that each step is ten times the previous. In other words, a pH of 4.5 is 10 times more acid than 5.5, 100 times more acid than 6.5 and 1,000 times more acid than 7.5.

Nutritional Suggestions

• At least 80 per cent of your food should be alkaline or neutral. Alkaline and neutral food include all green and leafy vegetables, all yellow/orange vegetables including asparagus, cabbage, peas, spinach, turnips, carrots, garlic, kale, celery, and potatoes, as well as almost all fruit, most nuts, and almost all seeds. Some alkaline fruits are lemons, limes, avocados, tomatoes and grapefruit. Almonds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, flax, spelt and lentils are examples of alkaline grains, nuts and seeds. Alkaline oils include flax, avocado and olive. Consuming pure water and herbal teas contributes to an alkaline environment.
• Pulses (edible seeds of plants in the legume family) are acceptable because they are only slightly acidic. Most whole grains are a bit more acidic than pulses, so should be eaten in moderation. Limit your intake of red meat, fish, chicken, eggs, dairy, and avoid all breads and cakes that contain refined carbohydrates and sugar.
• Eat nuts or lightly pan fried kale leaves to replace crisps. Use pure cacao instead of chocolate. Bake your own bread with baking soda, baking powder and whole grains, rather than the yeast and refined flour-based breads you used to buy. Replace rolls with vegetable leaf wraps. Replace white pasta and rice with whole grain pasta and brown rice or quinoa. Use stevia or dried fruit instead of sugar. Use herbs or lemon juice instead of acidic condiments like tomato sauce and vinegar. Nut butters and pressed olive oil are healthier than margarine, with all its hydrogenated oil.
• Most of your beverages should be alkaline or neutral. Buy an alkalizer/ionizer to filter the acids from your tap water. Pure unsweetened orange, watermelon, apple, mango, peach, pear, and grape juices are good alkalis. So are green vegetable juices or smoothies. Avoid acids like milk, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, sodas, and alcoholic drinks.
• Replace cow milk with almond milk. Replace tea with green tea or other herbal teas.

Use water or juice in your smoothies instead of milk.

• Consider a mineral supplement that contains the alkaline minerals calcium, potassium, and magnesium. Alternatively, opt for a green powder, which is also strongly alkaline. The least effective but cheapest option is to add a pinch of baking soda to each glass of water you drink.
• Drink around eight glasses of water per day so you can remain hydrated, sweat out waste material, and give your kidneys enough water to filter waste material out of your body.
• Buy an alkaline test kit and test your pH level once or twice a week to ensure you remain on track. If the pH in your urine is below 6.5 and in your saliva below 7.0, it means your body is struggling too much to keep up its required 7.2 pH.
• Quality nutritional supplementation, such as Nu pH’Alance Essential Oils Mix, the only product on the market that will alkalize your body without the need to change your diet. It is however greatly recommended that a dietary change be done in order to for alkaline dietary habits are formed.
• Start slowly and set realistic goals that are achievable. If you change your diet too suddenly, you may decide to abandon it before you develop a liking for the new food.

Sleep Disordered Breathing

Dr. Warburg’s discovery of how disease cannot exist in alkaline bodies makes it all important to make sure that there are no impediments to having a good night’s sleep. Sleep is our body’s chance to rejuvenate itself, and if impaired will cause a lowered pH. Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) is becoming more and more common – it is now estimated that 26 percent of adults between the ages of 30 and 70 years have Obstructive Sleep Apnea. One reason for this upsurge in Obstructive Sleep Apnea is weight gain that is part of the trap that many people fall into from convenience foods and lack of exercise. This increases the size of fat reservoirs that surround the airway, causing it to become obstructed.

Becoming Your Own Doctor

With today’s automation and hectic pace of life leading to inadequate exercise, fast food and depleted food nutrient value, along with a health system more devoted to treating symptoms rather than their causes, it’s no wonder that gaining and maintaining health must involve individual responsibility. The purpose of this article is to offer an understanding of pH and how we can help ourselves, our families and loved ones by controlling it. It would take a book to deal with all the above causes of low pH, and a detailed plan to optimize it; but hopefully it will give its readers an understanding of how pH is related to all bodily systems, along with some suggestions as to how to influence it positively that are within our immediate reach.

What Is Live Blood Analysis

Live Blood Analysis allows you to see the state of health of your own live blood cells, directly on a computer monitor. The blood cells are in direct contact with most of the body and reflect the general health of all of the body tissues. Unlike standard blood tests, Live Blood Analysis results are available immediately and may reflect changes in health long before other tests will detect them.

Your practitioner can give you immediate feedback on nutritional status including Iron, B12 and folic acid, antioxidants, essential fatty acids and lipotropic nutrients. Additionally, the function of white blood cells can be assessed and the presence of parasites, yeast and bacterial infections can be observed. The test also provides information on the effectiveness of your immune system, liver function and digestion.

You will need to provide a drop of blood for the test, which is normally taken from a finger prick with a disposable micro-lancet. This will then be analysed with a specially designed live blood microscope and displayed on a computer screen for you to see.

Your practitioner will then interpret your results and explain them to you in detail, and will discuss your health goals with you and design a specific health plan to start working on the areas that are out of balance. Generally this will include dietary and lifestyle advice, plus nutritional and herbal supplements if required.

Cancer is increasingly understood not as a disease that arises spontaneously in healthy cells, but as a parasitic infestation that takes hold once the body’s terrain has been compromised. The same low-oxygen, acidic environment described elsewhere on this page (see pH) is the ideal breeding ground for parasites — and once present, many parasites are able to disguise themselves as, or closely mimic the appearance of, ordinary human cells under microscopic or diagnostic examination. This is a major reason cancer and many chronic “diseases” are so frequently misdiagnosed: what is being observed and treated as a tumor or malignancy is, in many cases, a colony of parasites that has been mistaken for human tissue.

This is not a one-way relationship. Parasites contribute directly back to the body’s acidity through their own metabolic waste, and the toxins and oxidative stress they generate are a significant driver of the DNA damage covered in the Damaged DNA section of this page. Eliminating parasites, restoring a healthy alkaline pH, and repairing DNA must therefore be approached together, not as three unrelated problems — addressing only one while ignoring the others allows the cycle to continue.

Disease will never overwhelm you if your determination to be healthy is strong enough.

Here are the 4 best ways to get rid of parasites, especially micro parasites.

• Lifestyle change
• Pharmaceutical products
• Natural supplements
• Alternative therapies

Some of these approaches only kill the parasites, while others kill the eggs as well.

Killing parasites can be a daunting task. First of all, when a parasite dies, it becomes extremely toxic to the body and needs to be expelled from the body immediately. When too many parasites die off at the same time, you can experience a Herxheimer reaction where your body reacts drastically to expel the toxins from your body. In layman’s terms, you can get sick, really sick — flu-like symptoms, fever, chills, rigors, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, headache, tachycardia, hypotension, hyperventilation, flushing, myalgia, and exacerbation of skin lesions, to name a few.

Parasites can build up immunity against some of these treatments. That is why it is extremely important to follow the chosen protocol exactly as it is explained and suggested. You can combine these protocols to achieve a better kill rate, but please bear in mind; this will not speed up the elimination process of the parasites. It will take between 3 to 6 months to eliminate most of the parasites and eggs in your body. You will never be able to be completely parasite free. After 6 months you should be able to maintain low levels of parasites in your body. At that time you should be able to expel them as they come into your body and they will be unable to infest your body again.

Irrespective of the protocol you choose to follow to exterminate the parasites from your body, it is extremely important to drink about 2 litres of water throughout the day to flush out the toxins that will accumulate in your body. Preferably 100 millilitres every hour.

Every protocol here has its own pros and cons, and it is up to you to decide which protocol will suit you best. You can however use any and all of them together.

The best parasite killing protocols and their effectiveness:

1. Lifestyle Change
   • Protocol: SMART Lifestyle Protocol
   • Duration: For Life
   • Maintenance: Lifestyle
   • Cost: Free
   • Difficulty: Difficult at first
   • Effectiveness: Very Effective
2. Natural Supplements
   • Protocol: Nu pH’alance Essential Oil Supplement
   • Duration: 3 – 6 months
   • Maintenance: Reduced daily intake
   • Cost: Expensive
   • Difficulty: Easy
   • Effectiveness: Extremely Effective
3. Medical Cannabis
   • Protocol: Medical Cannabis
   • Duration: 3 - 6 months
   • Maintenance: Once a month
   • Cost: Moderate
   • Difficulty: Easy
   • Effectiveness: Effective
4. Pharmaceuticals
   • Protocol: Ivermectin, Fenbendazole, Hydroxychloroquine
   • Duration: 6 months
   • Maintenance: Once a month
   • Cost: Moderate
   • Difficulty: Easy
   • Effectiveness: Effective
6. Alternative Therapy
   • Protocol: Rife Resonator
   • Duration: 3 – 4 months
   • Maintenance: Once a month
   • Cost: Moderate
   • Difficulty: Easy
   • Effectiveness: Extremely Effective

Enhance the effectiveness of all of these protocols with Chlorine Dioxide Solution (CDS) — see Health > Treatments > CDS.

Every cell in your body relies on DNA to function and reproduce correctly. When DNA is damaged, cells stop working properly — they can become weak, mutate, or grow uncontrollably. Over time, accumulated DNA damage is a root cause behind many of the conditions we label as separate “diseases”.

DNA damage doesn’t happen in isolation — it builds up from the same factors as a low pH: chronic stress, toxin exposure, poor sleep, lack of exercise, and especially nutritional deficiencies in the food we eat. Free radicals produced by chronic inflammation and acidosis are a major driver of DNA damage at the cellular level. Parasitic infestation (see Cancer: A Parasitic Infestation, above) adds a further, often overlooked source of this damage — the toxins and metabolic waste parasites release generate additional oxidative stress directly at the cellular level.

Just as acidity and parasites contribute to DNA damage, the reverse is also true: once DNA is damaged, the body’s ability to repair itself, mount an effective immune response, and clear parasites is weakened, while its capacity to buffer and correct its own pH is reduced. This makes damaged DNA not just a result of acidity and parasitic infestation, but an active participant in perpetuating both — closing a three-way cycle between acidity, parasites, and DNA damage that lies at the root of most disease.

The encouraging part: because diet and lifestyle are the biggest contributors to DNA damage, they are also the biggest levers for protecting and repairing it. An alkaline, nutrient-dense diet, adequate sleep, regular movement, and reducing exposure to environmental toxins all support your body’s natural ability to repair damaged DNA over time.

The environment we live in — the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat — has a direct and constant impact on our health. Environmental toxins, including chemical carcinogens in food, air, and water, accumulate in the body over time and contribute to the same acidic, oxygen-starved state that allows disease to take hold.

Within this environment, micro organisms — bacteria, viruses, yeast, mold, fungus, and Candida — play a constant role. In a healthy, oxygen-rich, alkaline body, these organisms are kept in check by the immune system. But in a low-oxygen, acidic (low pH) body, they thrive and multiply, often overwhelming the immune system’s ability to regulate them.

Reducing your exposure to environmental toxins — choosing cleaner food, water, and air where possible, and supporting your body’s natural detoxification pathways — helps keep both toxin load and unwanted micro organisms under control, and is a key part of restoring and maintaining a healthy, alkaline body.

What are processed foods?

Processed food is any food that has been altered in some way during production or preparation. Common examples include breakfast cereals, cheese, canned and frozen vegetables, bread, noodles and pasta, savoury snacks such as crisps and biscuits, microwave or ready-to-eat meals, oils, processed meats such as luncheon meat and jerky, and drinks such as milk, juice, and coffee.

Even many foods labeled as “whole foods” in supermarkets can be considered processed, as they may be genetically modified or raised using antibiotic-enriched processed feeds.

Why avoid processed foods?

Processed foods are one of the main contributors to the body becoming more acidic. The body is designed to process whole, natural foods — when it encounters heavily processed foods instead, it produces acid as it tries to deal with these unfamiliar substances.

Choosing whole, minimally processed foods supports a healthier pH balance and overall wellbeing.

The Role of Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical products — medicines and drugs — are a cornerstone of modern medicine, essential for preventing and treating disease and protecting public health.

However, the use of ineffective, poor-quality, or harmful medicines can lead to treatment failure, worsening of disease, drug resistance, and in some cases death. This can also undermine trust in health systems, health professionals, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

A Different Perspective

Some integrative practitioners argue that disease is usually the result of more than one cause, with the underlying disturbance often rooted in the most fundamental elements of life — nutrition, lifestyle, and environment. From this viewpoint, when a basic element the body needs becomes deficient, only addressing that deficiency directly will fully resolve the issue, and pharmaceuticals that simply suppress symptoms may, in some cases, leave the underlying cause unaddressed.

As Dr. Mark Sircus puts it: “Disease is usually the result of more than one cause with the principle disturbances being in the most prime elements of life. To ignore the fundamentals is to ignore life and the most basic causes of disease. When an element basic to life goes lacking (becomes deficient) only supplement and treatment with that basic element will suffice. Pharmaceuticals usually have the effect of further depressing basic elements making the patient worse instead of better.”

This perspective doesn’t dismiss the value of pharmaceuticals where they are genuinely needed — but it encourages looking at root causes (nutrition, toxin exposure, lifestyle) alongside, or before, reaching for medication, and always in consultation with a qualified healthcare provider.

Alcohol and pH Balance

If you want to maintain a healthy pH balance, it helps to cut back on alcohol. Drinking negatively affects the body’s pH levels by placing extra strain on kidney function and can potentially contribute to the formation of kidney stones.

When you have a few drinks, you’re not just taking in alcohol — you’re also taking in the juice, water, mixers, and other ingredients in your drinks, all of which affect your blood pH.

Normally, your kidneys filter out water and waste products efficiently. But alcohol makes it harder for your kidneys to process all the fluid you’re consuming, which can lead to fluid overload, changes in phosphate levels, and increased blood acidity. Even a single drink can affect kidney function to some degree.

Practical Guidance

You don’t have to give up alcohol entirely — but limiting it to a few drinks occasionally, rather than regularly, can make a meaningful difference to your body’s pH balance and overall health. As always, moderation is key.

Effects of Electronics on Human Health

Electronic devices — from phones and laptops to televisions, kitchen appliances, and gaming consoles — all generate electromagnetic fields as electric current flows through their internal components (resistors, transistors, circuits, batteries, and more). With so many of these devices in daily use, exposure to electromagnetic fields from electronics has become a routine part of modern life.

Potential Effects of Overuse

Excessive screen brightness and prolonged device use have been associated with:

• Dizziness, light-headedness, and tiredness
• Headaches and sleep deprivation or insomnia
• Eye strain and vertigo

Poor posture while using devices for long periods is also linked to back, neck, and shoulder pain, as well as nerve-related discomfort. Long-term use of headphones or earbuds at high volume can contribute to hearing loss, and distracted device use (for example, while crossing roads) carries obvious safety risks.

Lifestyle Factors That Compound the Effects

Lack of physical activity, poor nutrition, sleep deprivation, chronic stress, and screen-time “addiction” (such as compulsive social media or gaming use) can all amplify the negative health effects of heavy electronics use.

Practical Recommendations

Limiting recreational screen time to roughly 30–60 minutes within a 24-hour period, where practical, and balancing it with physical activity, breathing exercises, yoga or meditation, time outdoors, and quality time with family and community can help offset these effects and support overall wellbeing across the physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of health.

The Health Impact of Smoking

More than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking. For every person who dies as a result of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness.

Smoking is a major contributor to cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. It also increases the risk of tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and immune system problems, including rheumatoid arthritis.

Secondhand Smoke

Secondhand smoke exposure contributes to an estimated 41,000 deaths among nonsmoking adults and around 400 deaths among infants each year. In adults, secondhand smoke is linked to stroke, lung cancer, and coronary heart disease. Children exposed to secondhand smoke face an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), acute respiratory infections, middle ear disease, more severe asthma, respiratory symptoms, and slowed lung growth.

Reducing or quitting smoking — and minimizing exposure to secondhand smoke, especially around children — remains one of the most impactful steps for long-term health.

COVID-19 and Personal Health Choices

The COVID-19 pandemic placed many people in a position of having to weigh public health guidance from organizations such as the World Health Organization against their own personal beliefs and circumstances — particularly where vaccination became a condition for work, school, travel, or accessing certain services.

Whatever choice is made, it’s important that it be an informed one, made in consultation with a trusted healthcare provider, taking into account individual health history and circumstances.

Live Blood Analysis

Live Blood Analysis is a technique some integrative practitioners use to view a live sample of a person’s blood cells under a microscope, displayed on a monitor. Proponents suggest that because blood comes into contact with most of the body’s tissues, it may reflect aspects of general health — including nutritional status (such as iron, B12, and folic acid levels), antioxidant status, immune cell activity, and the presence of parasites, yeast, or bacterial markers — sometimes before changes show up on standard lab tests.

The test involves a small finger-prick blood sample, viewed under a specialized microscope. A practitioner then discusses the results with you and may suggest dietary, lifestyle, nutritional, or herbal recommendations based on what is observed.

Live Blood Analysis is considered an alternative assessment tool and is not a substitute for standard diagnostic blood testing or medical advice from a qualified healthcare provider.

A Note of Caution

Some sources online present dramatic before/after live blood analysis images and claims linking specific supplements to recovery from vaccine-related symptoms. These types of claims are anecdotal, have not been validated through controlled clinical research, and should be treated with significant skepticism. If you have concerns about symptoms following any vaccination, please consult a qualified medical doctor promptly.

How Chemicals Damage DNA

Chemical exposure is one of the most well-documented external causes of DNA damage, and the connection runs directly into the Damaged DNA pillar of this page’s disease framework (see Damaged DNA, above). Decades of peer-reviewed toxicology and regulatory research (IARC, EPA) describe several distinct mechanisms by which chemicals injure DNA at the cellular level:

• Direct DNA adduct formation — some chemicals (or the reactive metabolites the liver produces while trying to break them down) bind directly to DNA bases, physically distorting the double helix. If this distortion isn’t corrected before the cell divides, it is copied forward as a permanent mutation.
• Oxidative stress and free radical generation — many industrial chemicals, heavy metals, and combustion particles trigger the overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cells. These free radicals attack DNA directly, the same free-radical mechanism already described in the pH and Damaged DNA sections of this page as a driver of disease.
• Endocrine disruption — certain chemicals (xenoestrogens from plastics, pesticides and personal-care products) mimic or block the body’s own hormones, interfering with the cellular signalling that governs healthy cell growth and division.
• Epigenetic alteration — some chemicals don’t mutate the DNA sequence itself but change how genes are switched on or off, silencing genes the body needs for hormonal balance, immune defence, or DNA repair.
• Impaired DNA repair — chronic chemical exposure can overload or interfere with the body’s own DNA repair enzymes, meaning damage that would normally be fixed is instead left to accumulate.

Each of these mechanisms feeds the same cycle described throughout this page: damaged DNA produces damaged cells, weakens the immune system’s ability to clear toxins and parasites, and makes it harder for the body to maintain a healthy pH — deepening the acidic, low-oxygen terrain that allows disease to take hold.

Major Categories of Concern

Regulatory bodies and independent toxicologists have identified several broad categories of chemical exposure with credible evidence behind a DNA-damage link:

• Known carcinogens (IARC Group 1) — substances such as tobacco smoke, benzene, formaldehyde, and certain industrial solvents have sufficient human evidence to be classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as definite human carcinogens.
• Pesticides and herbicides — some agricultural chemicals, including glyphosate (the active ingredient in widely used weed killers), are genuinely contested: IARC classified it as “probably carcinogenic” (Group 2A) based on evidence of DNA damage and oxidative stress in published studies, while the EPA has reached the opposite conclusion based largely on unpublished industry data. This is an active scientific and regulatory disagreement, not a settled fact in either direction — but it is a reasonable basis for minimising exposure where practical.
• Heavy metals — lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury (including from dental amalgam and some seafood) generate reactive oxygen species and disrupt the body’s antioxidant defences, with well-established links to DNA damage and cancer risk.
• PFAS (“forever chemicals”) — found in non-stick cookware, waterproof fabrics, and food packaging, these persistent chemicals don’t break down in the body or the environment. They are linked in epidemiological studies to higher rates of kidney and testicular cancer, with proposed mechanisms including oxidative stress and disrupted hormone signalling — an area of active, evolving research rather than a fully settled mechanism.
• Plastics and BPA — bisphenol-A, found in some plastics and can linings, is a well-studied endocrine disruptor that interferes with hormone receptors and has been shown in laboratory studies to alter DNA repair proteins and gene expression patterns.
• Household and cosmetic chemicals — certain synthetic fabrics, laundry chemicals, and personal-care product ingredients have been associated with hormone disruption and added chemical burden, particularly when absorbed repeatedly through the skin over years.
• Air pollution particulates (PM2.5) — fine particulate matter from vehicle exhaust and industrial sources carries heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) deep into the lungs, where peer-reviewed research shows it causes oxidative DNA strand breaks and is an established contributor to lung cancer risk.

A Note on “Detox” Claims

It is reasonable and evidence-supported to want to reduce ongoing chemical exposure — choosing cleaner food, water, air, and personal-care products where practical is a sound, low-risk strategy. However, many commercial “detox” products and protocols (juice cleanses marketed as removing specific toxins, footbaths claimed to draw out chemicals through the skin, and similar claims) go well beyond what controlled clinical research currently supports. The body already has a highly capable, evidence-based detoxification system — the liver, kidneys, lungs, and skin — and supporting those organs through adequate hydration, sleep, nutrition, and reduced ongoing exposure is a more defensible approach than relying on products promising rapid chemical elimination.

Practical Guidance

You cannot eliminate chemical exposure entirely in a modern environment, but exposure can be meaningfully reduced: choosing organic produce where practical and affordable, filtering drinking water, ventilating indoor spaces, reducing use of plastic food containers (especially when heated), choosing natural-fibre clothing and fragrance-free personal-care products, and supporting the body’s own detoxification organs through diet and lifestyle — all directly support the DNA-repair capacity described in the Damaged DNA section of this page.