Guest guest Posted September 1, 2003 Report Share Posted September 1, 2003 What In the Cell Is Going On? The Battle For Health Is Over pH Feb 25, 2003 Author:Gary Tunsky Source: Crusador Special Report As you quietly read these words, a whirl of activity is taking place in every cell of your body. Every second, unseen and unnoticed, millions of new cells are reborn in your body's ceaseless program of self-generation. Cells are the bricks and mortar from which all living tissue and organs are made. To understand degenerative and metabolic disease you must become familiar with the miniature world of the cell, and how it is able to perform baffling chemical transformations. The cell produces infinitely complex proteins, vitamins, hormones, neurotransmitters, growth factors, enzymes and metabolic energy (life-force) called adenosinetriphosphate (ATP). A healthy body is determined by the health of each of its cells. All disease originates at the cellular level and not at the organ or system level. Healthy cells create healthy tissues. Healthy tissues create healthy organs like, the heart and lungs. Healthy organs create healthy systems, like the endocrine system and the immune system, and healthy systems make up a healthy body. In the complex world of the 75 trillion plus cells that make up your body's nation, you are the President (the brain) that delegates the police force that protects and shields the cellular citizens from attack by foreign enemies (free radicals). The cellular citizen̢s work performance, transportation system, medical care, communication, food and water, and methods of toxic waste and trash removal are up to you. With your guidance and direction, the body's nation will provide all the necessities for proper functioning as a whole. Your cell citizens come in all shapes and sizes, and perform an infinite variety of job tasks. Some reside in large cities that are your organs. Others prefer to live in the outskirts in small towns away from the traffic - for instance your fingernails. But no matter where they reside, each cellular citizen has a purpose, an important duty for the good of the nation - your body. Cell Composition There are 150 different types of cells, i.e.: skin cells, blood cells, nerve cells, bone cells, brain cells, muscle cells, hair cells, kidney cells, heart cells, liver cells, spleen cells, mucous cells, eye cells, etc. They all perform unique functions that orchestrate the body̢s function capacity synergistically as a whole. They're all a piece of the body puzzle that makes up the big picture. For example, nerve cells produce neurotransmitters for nerve transmission. Skin cells produce melanin, a pigmented cell that turns brown for protection against UV sunlight. Muscle cells produce adenosinetriphosphate (ATP) for energy. Liver cells produce bile for fat metabolism. Beta cells in the pancreas produce insulin for blood sugar regulation. Glandular cells produce hormones like thyroxin, testosterone and estrogen. Each of these cells have a different half-life of survival, and they constantly die and replace themselves throughout your whole life span. Your red blood cells die and replace themselves every 90 days. Your seven skin layers of dermis and epidermis shed like a snake and replace themselves every 21 to 28 days. You generate a whole new heart every 8 months. You synthesize a whole new liver every 5 months. The surface layer of the mucosal lining in the intestines quickly replaces itself every 3 to 5 days. Because skeletal bone cells are made up of a harder matrix of calcium, boron, osteoclasts and vitamin D, it can take up to 7-10 years for bone cells to die and replace. So everyone reading this article gets a whole new body every 7-10 years. Now I said a new one - not a healthier one! The new cell generations are completely dependent on the building materials you fed the previous cells before it, whether they were toxins or nutrients. If the previous cells were bathing in poisons from toxic foods, toxic beverages, toxic air, toxic drugs, toxic emotions, etc., the next cell generation will be weaker than before. It will continue to degenerate in future cell replacements or generations unless detoxification measures are implemented. On the other hand, if the previous cells were bathing in full- spectrum nutrients and high oxygen saturation, the next cell generation will be stronger than before. It will be in a regenerative state instead of a degenerative state. Our body̢s cells are self-regulating, self-repairing and self- renewing under the right conditions. They're programmed for life, not sickness and death. What Constitutes A Healthy Cell? There are 90-plus nutrients that come from nine different categories that are necessary as a cell recipe to make the hormones, peptides, neurotransmitters and proteins for new cell growth and proper functioning of the body systems as a whole. These 90-plus nutrients are synonymous to the 26 letters of the alphabet that make up the dictionary. If you remove just 5 letters from the alphabet, you can only make half a dictionary. Similarly, if the cells are bathing in 45 nutrients instead of the necessary 90, the cells' manufacturing potential is cut in half. This limits energy production, which then limits whole body- performance. This would be analogous to an eight- cylinder high-performance sports car's engine running on only four cylinders. So if the health of the cell is the answer, what constitutes a healthy cell? What you eat, drink, breathe and bathe in. This either nourishes the 75 trillion plus cells with oxygen, water, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytonutrients, essential fatty acids (EFA's), glucose and amino acids, or contaminates them by the slow poisoning of the bloodstream. You see, what you breathe, whether it's oxygen or environmental contaminant, ends up in the bloodstream. Whether you ingest living, organic fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, legumes and seeds, or whether it is refined, processed, foodless foods and toxic sugar-laden drinks, it ends up in the bloodstream after digestion. What you bathe in (tap water, toxic soaps, toxic shampoos, cosmetics, etc.) absorbs through the skin and also ends up in the bloodstream. The bloodstream is a flowing river of life to all the cells for nourishment and removal of acidic waste residues - if it's circulating. Picture a gushing vibrant river that branches into streams and streams that diverge into trickling brooks that nourish the environment. Now picture your gushing arteries branching into veins that branch into trickling capillaries that nourish your cells. So the question is - is your bloodstream a flowing river of life, or a stagnant swamp of death and disease? " For the Life of the flesh is in the blood " Cells Perform Many Functions Cells are multifaceted. Some resemble miniature electrical generators like a lithium battery, synthesizing energy (ATP) and micro-voltage. Cells breathe and take in oxygen just like your lungs do in order to bring in intelligent nutrients and remove toxic waste products. Cells are also manufacturing plants that synthesize hormones, neurotransmitters, proteins and life force. The whole bodily process is so much more in-depth and complicated than nutritionists and medical science have ever contemplated. Our finite minds could not possibly fathom or consciously control the extraordinary complex tasks of manufacturing, storage, repair, communication, transportation, policing, waste disposal, administration, food production, temperature control and pH balancing that go on in our body's cells every second of the day to maintain health and vitality. Language Of The Cells Just like our language is verbal through sound vibration, the cells communicate to each other through an intricate network of electrical, chemical and hormonal language. These cellular engines communicate like a wireless, fiber-optic network 24 hours a day. The DNA coils act as transmitters and receivers of cellular information through electromagnetic energy to neighboring cells, similar to a radio antenna. It's an electrical attraction - an electrical interface of communication that takes place within every cell. If it is a nerve cell, then it is a chemical language through neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine, norepinephrine). If it is a muscle cell, then it is an electrical language through adenosinetriphosphate (ATP). If it is a gland cell, then it is a hormonal language through hormones like estrogen, testosterone, DHEA and cortisone. If it is a brain cell, then it is electro-chemical. A picture metaphor of how these cells communicate would be to envision all six billion people on this planet picking up a wireless phone simultaneously and having a phone conversation. Now picture everyone clicking on three-way and having three-way conversations throughout the world. Then picture everyone in the world clicking on conference call with a total conversation capability of 1,000 different people simultaneously. The question is, do your " cell phones " have good reception to transmit and receive messages from neighboring cells, or do they have a bad connection due to built-up toxins? Your intestinal " cell phones " talk to the skin. Your spleen " cell phones " talk to the thymus. Your heart " cell phones " talk to the liver. All cells, organs and systems work in unison like a flowing river. No organ or system works alone, just as no nutrient works alone. So what is the regulatory authority that controls cell processes? The answer is pH. The Link Between Cell Health And pH The pH of your blood, tissues and bodily fluids affects the state of your cellular health and inner cleanliness or filth. When your pH levels are in proper balance, you will experience a high level of health and well-being. You will be able to resist states of " dis-ease " and the onset of chronic symptomatologies. Every metabolic and system function - including all regulatory mechanisms such as digestion, respiration, hormone release, neurotransmitter release and immunity - depends entirely on delicately-balanced pH. This is very similar to our built-in thermostat that battles to maintain a 98.6 degree system temperature. pH stands for power of hydrogen. A pH test measures the concentration of hydrogen ions in your body. The more positively-charged hydrogen ions present, the more acids present. The less hydrogen ions present, the less acidity. The pH scale ranges between one and fourteen. Seven is considered neutral. Anything below seven is considered acidic. Anything above seven is considered alkaline. Like a thermometer that measures body temperature, the pH scale shows increases and decreases in the acid/alkaline content of your body's fluids (blood, saliva, urine, lymph, etc.). A healthy body should operate slightly alkaline. Deviations above or below a 7.30 - 7.40 pH range in the blood can signal potentially serious and dangerous symptoms or states of " dis-ease " which warns us of a deeper rooted disease process. When your cell and tissue pH levels deviate from a healthy range (7.0 - 7.40) into an acidic state (below 7.0 pH), the acid wastes that your body is normally able to discard when it's healthy through the elimination routes start to back up like a clogged sewage system. When too many acids overwhelm the body from a poor diet or over- exposure to environmental toxins, the body's built-in defense mechanism will attempt to neutralize excess acid wastes. If the body's cell, tissue and blood pH becomes too acidic, the body will gear up to balance pH. There are nine different internal buffering systems to neutralize acids and balance pH. If these nine neutralizing mechanisms finally go bankrupt and can no longer discard the acids to balance pH, the excess acids will severely compromise cellular integrity and cellular function. They do this by shutting off oxygen and nutrient uptake, and disrupting cellular frequency for communication. This leads to a complete metabolic and system breakdown where serious health problems will then manifest. Nine Bodily Responses To Neutralize Acid Wastes Increased Oxygenation: The first and foremost acid pH-neutralizing response is increased O2 through increased respiration. This hastens CO2 release from the lungs. Because of 100,000 plus environmental contaminant dumped into our atmosphere over the last 50 years, our atmospheric oxygen levels have been reduced in some major industrial cities from 21.9% to under 10%. This situation has become a major culprit in creating a breeding ground for anaerobic microorganism invasions, because O2 levels above 14% are a necessity for killing off these disease-causing pathogens. The scary thing is, atmospheric oxygen content under 10% sets the stage for cancer. In an environment of less than 7%, life ceases to exist. Using Amino Acid Buffers: The second buffering system to neutralize acids is the intra-cellular amino acids from protein digestion. Alkalizing amino acids such as cysteine, taurine, glutathione and methionine work to bind acids for removal out the skin (through sweat). Using High pH Body Fluids: Next in line are high-pH body fluids such as lymph or saliva, which work to dilute and neutralize acid residues like solvents. Dehydration will inhibit this process, and sadly over 90% of the population today is dehydrated from an over- consumption of dehydrating products. These can include coffee, alcohol, carbonated beverages and high- sodium fast food diets. Using Electrolyte Buffers: The fourth system of neutralizing acids is the utilization of high pH electrolytes such as calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. These are derived primarily from green foods in order to bind salt acids from intra-cellular and extra-cellular fluids. These are excreted through the kidneys as urine waste. Filtering Through The Body's Elimination Routes: The next phase is the filtration and elimination of acid salts via the skin, urinary tract, colon and respiratory system. Manufacturing Bicarbonate Buffers: If these five routes are clogged, the body will manufacture high pH bicarbonate ions from CO2 and diffuse it into blood plasma to neutralize acids. Stealing Buffering Minerals From Other Areas Of The Body: It is important to understand that adequate minerals are to be taken in through diet to maintain blood reserves of calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium for heart and muscle function. If not, the bodily response will be to rob these minerals from the bones, teeth, joints and muscles in order to buffer and neutralize acids. This will lead to a severe mineral deficiency. Pushing Excess Acids To Outer Extremities: If all seven of these buffering systems are overwhelmed and the body can no longer neutralize the acids, then - in a last ditch effort - the blood will push excess acids and toxins into outer extremities as a storage bin away from vital organs. These low-priority areas for storage happen to be areas of the body where disease symptoms are prevalent. For example: acid residues are stored in the wrists (leading to carpel tunnel syndrome), in the knees (osteoarthritis), in the feet and toes (gout), in the skin (dermatitis and eczema), in the joints and fingers (rheumatoid arthritis) and in the tissues (Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and degenerative disease, etc.). " Dumping Acids Into The Blood And Vital Organs: Once these non-vital storage deposits are filled, then the vital organs are next in line as storage areas. When this occurs, the body will manifest serious chronic disease conditions such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and debilitating arthritis. That is why blood circulation through exercise and massage is of the utmost importance to remove stagnant acid wastes or deposits in and around the cells before it is too late. When all nine protection phases are overwhelmed, the end result is an accumulated toxic load. It overloads the filtration systems, elimination routes, cells and immune system leading to premature death and disease. These nine intelligent systems are what keep you alive. The path of least resistance is going to be your target organ (s) for storage of toxins transferred from the bloodstream. If the acid storage is the pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin, the fancy disease label is diabetes mellitus. If acid toxins accumulate in the colon, you will exhibit diverticulitis, Crohn̢s Disease, leaky gut, constipation or colon cancer. Take your pick. If acid toxins accumulate around the myelin sheaths, it's called Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The list goes on and on. When the cellular matrix that makes up the organs is suffocated, the cells cannot breathe properly and do not receive the nutrient building blocks they need to do their manufacturing tasks. Once the cell membranes are coated and solidified in acid poisons, the cells begin to spill out acid wastes of CO2 and lactic acid, adding to the already acid condition and severely dropping pH levels. Acidic pH, coupled with a lack of circulation from a sedentary lifestyle, causes stagnant extra-cellular waste, triggering premature death to the cell. As the cells become deprived of the necessary nutrient components for optimum health and reproduction, the entire body begins to rot and decay from the inside out. An overly acidic body starts to eat away at tissue like battery acid eating into skin - slowly corroding your entire body. If left unchecked, these acid wastes will interrupt all cellular activities and functions. This can interrupt everything from the beating of your heart to the neuro-firing of your brain to cognitive thinking and memory interruptions. Over-acidification interferes with life itself, leading to all sickness and " dis-ease. " Fundamentally, all regulatory mechanisms (which can include breathing, digestion, circulation, hormone production, neurotransmitter release, etc.) serve the purpose of balancing pH by removing the normally metabolized acids from body tissues and cells. As the cells, tissues and organs begin to die, morbid microforms such as parasites begin to feed on the diseased areas. This produces potent acidic by-products called mycotoxins, which further compromise pH and create disruption in the body's bio-systems. This process can involve further morbidity through bacteria, yeast, fungi and mold formation, with subsequent serious life-threatening symptomatologies. This is what the medical community refers to as " degenerative disease. " I would say that disease comes from the inside out and that the terrain or environment of the body is the catalyst for the development and progression of all disease. This does not preclude the contributing factors from external circumstances such as trauma, airborne microforms, air pollution, radiation, chemicals and drugs. These all provide negative acidic impressions, but " dis-ease " arises within the cell in response to these impressions. Sink Or Swim Dr. Robert Young, one of the world's foremost experts on the subject of pH and cellular health and author of the book Sick And Tired: Reclaim Your Inner Terrain, gave an excellent analogy on how we are poisoning our bodies daily and disrupting the critical acid/alkaline balance necessary for health. " Think of your body as a fish tank. Think of the importance of maintaining the integrity of the internal fluids of the body that we 'swim' in daily. Imagine the fish in this tank are your cells and organ systems bathed in the fluids, which transport food and remove waste. Now, imagine I back up my car and put the tailpipe up against the air intake filter supplying oxygen to the water in the tank. The water becomes filled with carbon monoxide, lowering the pH, creating an acidic environment, and threatening the health of the fish, your cells and organs. What if I throw in too much food or the wrong kind of food and the fish are unable to consume or digest it all, and it starts to decompose and putrefy? Toxic waste chemicals build up as the food breaks down, creating more acidic by-products, altering the optimum pH. Well, basically, this is a small example of what we are doing to our internal fluids every day, some of us more than others. We are fouling our internal fluids with pollution (smoking?), drugs, excessive intake of food, over-consumption of acid forming foods, and any number of other transgressions which compromise the delicate balance of pH that maintains homeostasis. Some of us have fish tanks (bodies) that are barely able to support life, yet we somehow manage to struggle from day to day building more severe imbalances until there is the inevitable crash and debilitating chronic, disturbing, and disorganized symptomatology to deal with. " Pharmaceutical Drugs Perpetuate An Acid Condition What pharmaceutical drug neutralizes acids and increases pH? NONE!!! What pharmaceutical drug addresses nutritional deficiencies, especially alkaline minerals? NONE!!! What pharmaceutical drug boosts or enhances the immune system? NONE!!! And how could they? They're poisonous and destructive, not nutritive and constructive. Pharmaceuticals are acid by their very nature, particularly antibiotics. How can you treat an acid condition with another acid (drugs)? That is like trying to cure someone who accidentally drank poison with another poison. The fact of the matter is that all doctors are drugging the symptoms of acidity (symptoms of an acid pH due to toxicities) and drugging the symptoms of nutritional deficiencies. Headaches, nausea, fever, skin rashes, brain fog, severe exhaustion, gastric bloating, angina pain and dizziness are the body's intelligent warning signals of a cellular engine problem. These are due to an acidic pH, toxic overload and nutritional deficiencies in an organ or system. Symptom suppression with " anti " medication is analogous to snipping the wire to a blinking oil light on your car's dashboard and thinking that you fixed your engine instead of lifting up the hood and putting oil in your engine. A mainstream physician would look at the blinking warning light, not the engine, as the problem. Disease and symptoms are separate entities. Medical science teaches they are one and the same, and that by killing the symptom you somehow kill the disease. This absurd, twisted, pseudo-science originated and continues from the Germ Theory Of Disease that was perpetrated by Louis Pasteur in the late 1800s. This has continued to this day in all medical school training with little or no opposition. What makes Pasteur's Germ Theory so believable is that it seems to be common sense. The killing of bacterial infections such as staphylococcal, streptococci, bacilli and pneumonia seemed to be the cure-all or panacea in the 1950s But all it did was set up shop for stronger enemy-resistant strains to battle in the future. Bacteria and viruses are secondary, not primary, causes of disease. In their ignorance, the medical establishment is creating their own business by shoving the disease deeper into a chronic state with their drugs that suppress symptoms. This will eventually require more radical procedures of butchery and mutilating surgery in the future because they never addressed the acid state of the patient or the direct cause to the disease. The sadistic system is set up to never get to the root cause of disease. You are trapped in a revolving door of more office visits, more prescriptions, more MRIs, more CAT Scans, more chemo, more radiation and more surgery. We were not made with surplus body parts. Every organ and tissue, including tonsils and adenoids, are needed. This brain-dead mentality of looking at symptoms as the disease has been going on since the indoctrination of pharmaceutical medicine almost a century ago. http://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/archives/article_2003_02_25_3125 ..shtml JoAnn Guest mrsjoguest DietaryTipsForHBP http://www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/EFAs.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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