Are You Too Acidic?
Are you one of those people who gets stressed-out over Christmas? Rushing around buying presents, organising the family, worrying if others will be happy, snacking or eating convenience food because you are too busy and then over-eating over the Christmas period? Perhaps you’re always ill over the Christmas holidays, only to recover just in time to go back to work? Maybe you don’t bother to exercise and keep fit, thinking that you’ll get right to it in January but for now you’re going to have a rest or are too busy?
Well, if you do any of the above, or are contemplating it, then I urge you to think again as you may be making yourself over-acidic. And that means you could be prone to a whole list of things including: illness, fatigue, disease, stress, headaches, water and fat retention, and general reoccurring ill health. So yes, chances are you will be ill over Christmas with whatever cold or virus is spreading around at the time because your immune system will not be as strong as it could be to protect you.
What Is Over-Acidic?
What you eat, drink, put on your skin, the quality of the air you breathe, the exercise you do and even the thoughts you think can all contribute to make your body acidic. Most people are too acidic, and that drains their energy and causes illness and disease without them realising that’s the cause.
Our bodies should be slightly more alkaline than acidic – at a pH of 7.3 to 7.45. To avoid forming excess acid, to fight illness and disease, and maintain a healthy balance we can eat and drink alkalising foods, challenge our negative thoughts and beliefs, manage stress, take time to relax, get out into fresh clean air as much as possible and do aerobic exercise.
What Makes Us Acidic?
- Eating and drinking acidic foods, such as processed food, microwave ready meals, junk food, takeaways, fast food, animal proteins, refined foods, alcoholic and carbonated drinks
- Eating the wrong fats, such as hydrogenated and saturated fats and too little essential fatty acids
- Excess physical training producing lactic acid
- The liver not functioning properly due to illness or injury through alcohol and toxicity
- Shallow breathing that doesn’t eliminate excess carbon dioxide
- Drug use
- Unmanaged stress
- Dehydration and the kidneys not performing their role in cleansing the body
- Our thoughts, worries, anxieties and limiting beliefs
- The environment we spend a lot of time in, for example with smoke, computers, mobile phones, air conditioning, lights and so forth.
What Can You Do?
- Reduce the amount of acid-forming drinks and foods you ingest by eating more alkalising foods such as greens and salads, fish rather than meats, reducing or avoiding dairy and increasing essential fatty acids. Avoid large quantities of animal protein
- Cleanse the body with a monitored supervised detox
- Consider colonic hydrotherapy when cleansing to help rid excess toxins which will be moved to the bowel
- Supplement any nutrients and vitamins you may be lacking
- Hydrate and drink more water – an average of two litres per day
- Use green products to alkalise and rebalance the body
- Use lemon in hot or cold water to help cleanse the body
- Body-brush and correct abdominal breathing to stimulate the lymphatic system
- Exercise aerobically rather than anaerobically
- Plan relaxation time, meditation or yoga into your week to de-stress.