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The MD totally misses the boat on this concept.

Nobody in an any pH book has ever mentioned trying to alter the blood pH. It is all about stored acids, and mineral deprived tissues. A build up of acid drains the mineral supply from the tissues of the body, since it cannot drain it from the blood. (can't mess with the blood pH)

Anyway-- the REAL concept is all about building mineral reserves and decreasing acid loads. This is the first step to ANY successful healing regime. People in days past never had to worry about this because they lived by rivers, seas, and had mineralized soils and far less toxic stress.

I disagree with Moreless on the idea of using lime water (it isn't an ionizable form of calcium-- thus it is scarcely physiologically usable in the body).

However, if one takes an ionized mineral supplement or buffers their diets with tons of mineralized green plant foods (plants also have ionizable forms of calcium and minerals) then people can achieve remineralization.

Lime, and chalk (calcium carbonate), and other inorganic minerals are too bulky and particulate to ever reach the inside of cell, nonetheless be absorbed through the brush border cells of the intestines.

Anyway-- the pH story is not overated. It is the key pillar to any healing program. However, it is not a cure-all by itself-- it only potentiates every other cure that is out there.