As we grow older, our bodies become more acid. Acidity is caused by various circumstances: acid forming food, the inability to excrete accumulating toxins, environmental toxins, general toxins (insecticides, pesticides etc.) from the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the fact that most food today is very much devoid of nutrients necessary to counteract acidity. That lack of nutrients (minerals) prevents the body to function properly and to get rid of accumulating toxins.
The body was designed to operate slightly alkaline. The blood pH has to be between 7.35 and 7.45...if it drops down to 7.0 you are dead! If your body is too acid it tends to 'drag' the blood pH down as well and the body must find alkaline minerals (such as calcium from the bones) to keep the pH at the 'designer level'...and that is why people may get osteoporosis. Not necessarily because they do not have sufficient calcium in their diet.
Free radicals are considered to be the root cause of all chronic diseases and ageing, less chronic diseases will develop and the person will age more slowly.
The Alkalizer is a mixture of bicarbonates of soda and potassium, magnesium and citric acid. Sodium and potassium are necessary for the sodium/potassium pump across cell membranes, i.e. important for the proper functioning of the cells. Sodium keeps water in our body and potassium helps to get rid of it.
It is a bit like yin and yang. Apart from that bicarbonates are 'buffers'. They prevent pH 'bounce'....or the rapid change of the pH. Everyone owning a pool will know that pH bounce is 'dangerous'. It can lead to the pool going green over night. The same, in a way, is true for our body. It is a kind of swimming pool as well.....depending on whom we read, the body consists of 70 to 80% water! And the water in that pool needs to be 'treated' just the same as the water in the pool we swim in. Bicarbonate of soda is natural to the body.
A healthy pancreas produces about 2 litres of bicarb a day. Bicarbonate of soda is an electron donor and an electron acceptor and that makes it a ‘buffer’. It prevents ‘pH bounce’ or the rapid change in pH. pH bounce may give rise to allergies and encourages ‘opportunistic invaders’ (bacteria, viruses, yeasts etc.) to get a foothold. Magnesium carbonate in the Alkalizer turns into magnesium bicarbonate which alkalises the inside of cells....and citric acid is needed in the 'citric acid cycle', or Krebs cycle for energy production.
That the mixture really alkalises the water in our body we can prove to ourselves easily. Just take a ‘narrow band’ pH paper (range between about 4 and 8) and check you urine pH. Ideally it should be between 6.5 (in the morning.... because during the night the body gets rid of acid waste) and 7.5 (during the day and in the evening). If it is lower than that, just take a teaspoon full of the mixture in `1/2 glass of water, wait for, say, 15 minutes and check you urine pH again. You will find that it has changed now….that it is more alkaline.
The Alkalizer comes without any by products (such as sweeteners, flow agents etc.) and
properly balanced to the most beneficial pH as our ‘Alkalizer’. Dosage: Take one heaped teaspoon in a glass of water in the morning and in the evening before bed. A little bit of awareness is going a long way.