Re: alkalizing the body

 I have seen many in the mainstream support the theory that it is related to breathing. But then I have also followed the money trail to see who is buying their science. ;-)

Which in the end is the real misinformation.

Thank you for proving my point. Again you make a claim it is false when this has been proven over and over with real science. But you have absolutely NO evidence to back this up. So you read this somewhere and took it as the gospel with no real evidence to back it up.

What gases are exchanged when we breathe? Primarily oxygen and carbon dioxide.  Now what do we get when carbon dioxide is dissolved in water? Its called carbonic ACID. If we do not get sufficient respiration carbon dioxide builds up and the blood can start becoming acidic. So respiration speeds up to "blow off" the excess carbon dioxide reducing the acidity. If the blood becomes too alkaline then the respiration slows down building up carbon dioxide and increasing the acidity. If we hyperventilate we pass out because we blow off so much carbon dioxide that the body becomes too alkaline. This causes the blood vessels to constrict around the brain forcing the blood away from the brain. The lack of blood flow to the brain causes us to pass out.  The person will actually stop breathing for a short period of time to allow the carbon dioxide and thus carbonic acid to build up and we recover in most cases. How do we know this? Because it was verified with real science. Blood pH levels were monitored during hypoventilation and hyperventilation to see where the real pH went in each case. They did not do bogus urinary and saliva pH testing that DOES NOT reflect blood pH at all.

To say it matters not what you eat can simply be proven by some good ole home spun science. Breath being the same, food differing, check both saliva ph, blood ph and urine ph at intervals after ingesting either acidic foods or alkaline foods. I guarantee breathing has nothing to do with the wide varying results.

That is because urine or salivary pH DOES NOT reflect blood pH. It only takes a little simple research to verify this fact. But people tend to be too lazy to do real research so they rely on repeated misinformation that they themselves repeat over and over. But to help these people out I will give them a small piece of the answer. The pH of the mouth depends a lot on the amount of bacteria present in the mouth as well as how moist or dry the mouth is. The reason chewing gum helps to prevent cavities is because it stimulates the release of saliva, which alkalinizes the acids produced by the bacteria. So increasing saliva release change the pH in the mouth instantly WITHOUT altering the pH of the blood at all. Another fact that has been verified with REAL research is that the pH of the saliva itself changes simply by type of food being anticipated and even mood. This is why real research is needed rather than making assumptions then passing them off as so called "facts"!!!

How can you be sure the science you base your theories on is not tainted?

I am glad you at least got it right that they are theories. Theories, which are hypotheses backed by real evidence, definitely trump the hypotheses being presented here such as salivary pH reflects blood pH.

But I am not going to do your homework for you. It is easy to see from your postings that you accept unproven and poor scientific method as fact. For example believing that you can test pH differences from breathing by checking salivary pH, which is not even close to being true. I have dealt with people like you many times. They hold on to their false beliefs like a religious zealot.  No matter how much PROOF you provide to them they will just try to find some bogus way to justify their beliefs such as claiming that salivary pH reflects blood pH. If they really wanted to know the truth they would not ask someone else to provide the proof to them just so they can ignore it, they would actually set aside the time to do the research and see it for themselves. Asking me to provide the information to you is like an alcoholic asking me to make them quit drinking. I cannot make them quit, they have to want to quit. And if they want to quit they will put forth the effort instead of having things handed to them. If they are not willing to put forth the effort, like your unwillingness to do your own homework, then this just proves to me that they have no desire to listen.

But I have given you some proof of where your claims are wrong, so let's see if you can do the same.