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Hi Therese

That is a really tricky one – firstly, does he have to cut out all leafy greens or is it only a few?

I believe alkalising can help considerably with this situation and as a starting point I highly recommend subscribing to Dr Young’s blog:

http://www.articlesofhealth.blogspot.com

And buying his book:

http://www.amazon.com/pH-Miracle-Balance-Reclaim-Health/dp/044669049X

Let me know
Ross

Hi Nancy

Thanks for the great feedback! It’s great to hear that my site has been able to help you!

Unfortunately carbonated water is less alkaline than normal water – so it is probably best to minimise it (you don’t have to cut it out completely). Have you tried water with lemon squeezed in? It is really tasty and more enjoyable than just normal still water.

Let me know how you go!

Ross

ps. take a look at our course too – people are getting great results on it!

I love eggs and have bought egg substitute——Is this LESS acidic than regular eggs AND are they healthy if I am trying to be LESS ACIDIC——Thanks a lot

How do you measure the 80/20 balance? For example, if I have 80 oz of alkalising foods, do I balance with 20oz of acidic foods? I hope I make sense in what I am asking. What is the proper measurements used to ensure the 80/20 balance?

Hey Victoria

I would be very surprised if a diet that is high in fresh vegetables, greens, salads, nuts, seeds, healthy fats, steamed foods, juices, soups, raw foods, low sugar fruits etc would leave him without nutrition.

I’d be interested to hear your concerns about what nutrition he would be missing from this because there are a lot of myths around the food industry about certain nutrients and how much we need of them.

Of course, with any way of eating you have to do it right. If he is very thin already then I can understand your concern, however, from my own experience I found that when I started to eat in a more alkaline way I acctually gained weight.

The reason I was thin was because the crap I ate effected my body (particularly my digestive system) so much that I was not digesting foods properly and my body was not able to extract the nutrition from the foods I ate. So even though it felt like I ate a lot I was always really thin. Make sense?

There are also a couple of really basic supplements that you can advise him to try that will totally give him every nutrient he needs in abundance.

The main ones I would recommend at the moment are

1) a green drink powder (like Alkalive Green or Mega Greens)

2) Udo’s Choice – an essential fatty acid supplement.

The essential fatty acids are so important (omega 3, 6 and 9) and I would really urge anyone who wants to make a positive change to their diet to try using these oils for 6 weeks to see the difference. Practically every single one of us are massively deficient in omega 3 and it is so important to the proper functioning of our body.

If your son is working out for an hour a day then he needs to make sure he is feeding his body with the calories it needs to grow. Definitely advise him to try Udo’s Choice. Even on body building site they advise this product because it is so important!

Also try to encourage him to mix weights with plenty of aerobic (running) excercise too. Too much resistance training every day can actually be acidic too.

I can tell you one thing from my own experiences – by following the principles of alkalising your son will not become dangerously underweight. However, as with all of this, he needs to research it properly and follow it properly.

From eating live, fresh foods, drinking plenty of water and with the addition of the omega oils into his diet he will be recieving masses of all of the nutrients he needs to grow and develop a strong and vital body.

But do read around this website (see the main site at http://www.energiseforlife.com) and read Dr Young’s The pH Miracle book.

Good luck and check back in if you have any questions along the way or email me at [email protected] if you want to ask more privately.

Have a great day
Ross

btw I don’t eat the skins of my fruit and only organics if that makes a difference. I’m confused because other sites gave apples an alkaline reading along with a ton of other fruits…what was the reason behind you guys excluding them?
Thanks in advance

Hey Sandy and Amber!

I’ve got to be quick but I will try to answer your questions one by one!

Sandy – the water thing does seem confusing at first but I will try to make it simple for you! You are aiming for the purist possible. This does not mean that you shouldn’t drink tap water if nothing else is available – as ensuring you drink enough water is absolutely vital.

Tap water > nothing
Bottled water > tap water
Filtered water > bottled water
Distilled/ionised water > bottled water

You should always try to increase the alkalinity whenever possible with greens, ph booster or lemons/lime OR all three (which I am drinking as I type!).

I would not recommend adding baking soda to every drink you have. If lemons are available then go for this – they will have a lovely alkalising and cleansing effect.

Hope this helps!

Amber! Glad you found us! One word for you – SALAD! Big, big salads. When you measure 70/30 or 80/20 do it visually – what is taking up the most room on your plate? I found that if I serve a salad with EVERY meal then I am always on the right track. It helps you to keep the component of your meal that is the neutral or acidic part much smaller!

If worst comes to worst you can always have a 2 course meal and make your traditional meal much smaller and have a starter of salad and or veggies – that way you get the fresh, raw, high water content alkalising goodness (wooo!) and your normal meal and you don’t feel like you are missing out.

Seriously, by eating fresh salads and veggies two to three times per day you will feel the energy – especially if you are having a good 3-5 litres of water every day too. It is so easy and simple and it makes SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE!

Good luck and please let me know how you get on!

Be outstanding
Ross

Hi
I would like to start alkalising but the waterconfuses me totally. Can I use tap water with a pinch ofbaking soda and lemon every day or can I use Evian, in the case of evian do I have to add ph booster to it or can I just drink from bottle. I f I buy a distiller do I haveto add ph booster to it. I dont know which way to turn.
Thanks
Sandy

Hey Barrie

Sorry for the delay, sometimes things get backed up here at HQ and it takes us a few days to catch up! We’re only a little team so bear with us!

Green tea is a great way to come off the coffee. I used it a lot (less now, but still from time to time). Green tea does contain a fair amount of caffeine so try to transition away from that too once you are used to not having coffee.

I also used redbush (rooibos) too as it had that bitter taste of coffee but is totally caffeine free (and is also really nice to have brewed only for a few seconds and with a slice of lemon).

Good luck – let us know how you get on!

Ross

Hello … I am wondering what you think about alkalising during pregnancy? I am 30 weeks pregnant (nearly 7 months) and feeling I need to go this way. What about following the alkalising programme at this stage?

Thanks for your attention to this ….
Laura

Ive been doing a detox using Inner Balance Detox for four days and I am taking Pure Energy Greens twice a day. I am finding it increasingly difficult to get the greens down without feeling ill. Can these be mixed with vegetable juice or added to food to mask the taste?

Oh, and yes – you can have too much of anything.

Checked out your blog btw – great stuff!

And can’t you have TO MUCH Alkalive?!

Hi – I’ve recently moved from the west coast of Canada south to CA and am adjusting to a major climate change. I notice when the heat really goes up that my body becomes very acidic – any thoughts? My diet hasn’t changed aside from adding slightly more water.

Thanks!

>Ross said,
>August 15, 2006 @ 3:29 am

>Be prepared for scepticism from most doctors about the effects of diet and exercise on health though.

I hope that this sentence is a typo.

Hi – i get cold sores and have been told that this is from being acidic. will making my body more alkaline help? how do i do this?

Hi Nick

Many apologies for the delay – I actually just got to the last paragraph of an incredibly detailed answer and Internet Explorer inexplicably shut down.

So I will try and remember everything that I said here:

Without oversimplifying your case – I have to say that in the 8k+ customers we have had through energise, I have never heard of a reaction such as this to any supplement, let alone the pH Booster. Without knowing the full details of your diet and lifestyle it is hard to pinpoint a specific factor other than to consider than there is a possibility that it was a coincidence, or an isolated reaction.

As I said, I have never known anything like that before. However, you deserve full kudos for scaling your consumption right down to 1/10th of what you had started on.

The only other thing I can think of in my experience is that with some strong antioxidant supplements you can sometimes get feverish symptoms if you take a high dose on an empty stomach, but again, your symptoms seem quite severe.

Given the nature of the pH Booster and what it does, it would be unlikely that after only one day it would cause that much of a ‘detox-flu’. The only times I have personally experienced, or known anyone else to experience detox-flu symptoms is after 2 days of a cleanse. The fact that you were already using the greens for a while also leads me to this conclusion as you may have had these reactions from the cleansing properties of the green drink.

However, anything is possible, and again you were spot on to scale back your consumption.

Im not trying to defend or claim anything about the products – I genuinely have never heard of such a reaction before from anyone who has used this product!

With regards to why use distilled water, I have written a couple of resources on this:

http://liveenergized.com/home_water_distillers_and_purifiers.php
http://liveenergized.com/distilled-water-questions.php

…and I hope these might be able to answer any questions on this.

Ross

Hi Billy

Just sent you an email re: the message board. I found the problem and it should be fine to log in now! Thanks for your patience!

First and foremost I have to point out straight away that I am strictly not allowed to give you any advice or suggestions about any medication, prescription or treatment that you are on – my hands are entirely tied on that front. Sorry! All I can do is prompt you to check certain things with your doctor or physician.

To this end I would really recommend speaking to your doctor about the possibility of anything conflicting with anything else. If you email [email protected] he can give you ingredient breakdowns of any of the green drinks we retail. Be prepared for scepticism from most doctors about the effects of diet and exercise on health though.

All of the ingredients in our supplements are natural so I would guess that there would be no problem – unless the mineral and vitamin content is known to conflict with your medication. Again, I would check everything first with your Doctor.

With regards to body tolerances, there is not much we can do about that in my knowledge. Anything that is alien or unnatural to the body will shock it into action to begin with, but the more the body is exposed to something the more it will learn to cope. I have read that Adderall is a mild amphetamine – so I would suspect that there is definitely the possibility of your body building tolerance to it.

You could talk to your Doctor about either switching to a different kind of prescription that has the same effect but has different ingredients or you could (and this would be my own personal preference) try to really increase your health through exercise and nutrition and see if this has a positive effect.

I know that there has been a lot of research done into the effects of Essential Fatty Acids on the symptoms of ADD (a quick search found this one: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6T0P-3VXJ28J-1R-1&_cdi=4868&_user=1411831&_orig=search&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F1996&_sk=999409995&view=c&wchp=dGLbVtz-zSkWW&md5=2cef9e2290a62b99f3d98ebfb347ba80&ie=/sdarticle.pdf I would continue looking though) – and I think this is something well worth looking into. Try searching on http://www.newstarget.com too.

Anyway, welcome to the community and I look forward to speaking with you on the forum.

Please do let me know if you have any other questions about the alkaline approach to health.

Ross

Hi G

You can cleanse for as little or as long as you want – depending upon how you feel now, and what plans you have ahead of you.

If you feel that you are in an extremely acidic state you might want to aim for at least 5-7 days – but if you are well in balance then a 2-3 day cleanse can still make a big difference!

You have to be sure to listen to your body along the way and make sure that you plan thoroughly!

Failure to prepare is preparation for failure – as they say!

Cheers
Ross

Hi Flygala

I just answered almost exactly the same question to John in another thread:

The body hangs on to fat in order to protect the organs from the toxicity that is created by excess acids in the blood. The fat is actually saving us!

By consuming alkaline foods and drinks such as lemon water we are helping to flush our bodies of the excess acids and therefore we will begin to lose weight.

Making sure we are properly hydrated will also assist in weight reduction as it will stop the body from retaining unnecessary water.

For more information I would recommend reading:

http://liveenergized.com/alkaline_diet_resources.php
http://www.snyderhealth.com/fat.htm
http://liveenergized.com/item–The-PH-Miracle:-Balance-Your-Diet-Reclaim-Your-Health–BC0002.html

And please do let me know if you have any other questions!

Ross

Hi Mark

First up – congratulations on the cleanse. I am glad that you experienced the positives that you have. The increase in energy and weight loss is excellent to have felt after such a short time after alkalising.

Without knowing what your general diet and nutrition was before the cleanse it is quite difficult for me to comment, however, I would say that with a cleanse it is likely that your body would produce excess mucous and other allergy-type reactions as it is cleansing the toxins from your body. I strongly feel that if you continue to alkalise and follow the principles set out in the pH Miracle over a longer period (not cleansing necessarily, but alkalizing at an 80/20 ratio) then your allergy may start to ease off and you could see even more of the positive benefits you have already experienced.

Also, without any more detail on when, how and with what you are testing your urine it is difficult to offer any steadfast suggestions. Urine samples for pH testing can be erratic and during a cleanse this is especially true as your body is ridding most of the acid toxins out through the urine. It would be a more accurate measure to test perhaps three times per day over the course of 10-20 days to track any trends and changes. The more you alkalise the higher the pH will be on your test, however, it is natural to see an increased acidity while cleansing.

Please do let me know if you have any other questions. I posted an answer on pH testing earlier in these comments that might be helpful to you too.

Have a great day and a great week – Ross

Hi Eric

As far as I am aware, gum should not be too much of a concern for you. Gum obviously increases the production of alkaline saliva which can help protect your teeth from acids, but this will have little to no effect on your overall acid/alkaline balance.

One important thing to remember is not to chew gum for at least a couple of hours if you are going to test your pH with your saliva as it will give an overly alkaline reading.

I hope this helps – have a great Easter,
Ross

Thanks for the reply Ross, much appreciated!

Hi there,

I’ve given up one of my favorite pleasures – freshly brewed coffee. I have found a substitute product – Dandelion coffee – which is roasted dandelion which then requires grinding. It is then brewed in the same way as normal coffee – through a filter or cafetiere. While I understand that the ingredients would not be acidifying – since the only ingredient is dandelion – I’m wondering if the roasting process would mean that it should be avoided. (The product is called ‘Cotswold Roasted Dandelion Coffee’)

Thanks,
Sacha

My aunt was diagnosed with breast, bone and lung cancer and was placed on a strictly alkaline diet to aid her fight. I am scouring the net for recipes and could use any that people know. When my aunt first heard her new diet she thought all she gets to eat were “flowers and grass”. I just want to show her that she could still enjoy food even if it is green..hehehe. Well thank you for the help and time you took to read my post.

Vanessa

I am trying to get my PH level up to around 8.0 and am using your test strips to check how I am doing. To say the readings are erratic is a bit of an understatement. At one reading session first thing in the morning – prior to any food or drink my Saliva PH was 6.75 but my urine was a massive 9.0. My saliva readings are generally anything between 6.75 – 7.25 but the urine tests are anything between 6.75 and 9.0.

I use Alkalive PH booster in all of my water and take Inner light 3 times a day. I also have a sprouter, although I use these sparingly as they don’t sit particularly well with me. I eat mainly alkaline foods with loads of fruit and veg and rebound daily.

I have been doing this for about 4 months. I guess I am doing something wrong here! Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

I am also interested to know if there is a product that will check the PH balance in food and drink prior to consumption or just for testing purposes.

REgards
Sue Hales