Eating acid-producing foods makes the body acidic. I learned this the hard way when I suffered for years from burning urine. Sometimes the laboratory tests showed I had a urinary tract infection and at other times there was no urinary tract infection, but the urine was highly acidic. Acid was

basically burning my urinary tract, making me feel like going to the pee all the time. That is now in the past. I stopped eating foods that cause acid to build up in the body and the problem stopped. I will never forget the great discomfort that comes with this burning urine, the urgency to pee and the pain when passing the few drops of urine. I am glad that I found a way to get rid of the cause because dealing with the symptoms through antibiotics and alkalizers never solved my problem.

A certain young man was not so lucky. He was in and out of hospital several times. He was anemic and had several blood transfusions. On one hospital visit I asked him what the doctors were saying and he told me they said he was acidic. He was actually on an alkalizer drip when I asked him. The doctors were trying to alkalize the body through external means while ignoring the reason why he was acidic. I told him he had to help himself by completely changing his diet in order to make the body alkaline. He did not change. He died a few months after our conversation.

The body tries to normalize the acidic environment by re-balancing your acidity-alkalinity using the alkaline food that you eat. If you do not eat enough alkaline food, the body uses alkaline reserves (kept for emergencies). When the body runs out of alkaline reserves, and there is no alkaline food,

you get an alkaline deficit so the body breaks down its own protein and the calcium in your bones to use as neutralizer for the acid.

When the calcium in your bones is leached over time, you get osteoporosis, i.e. your bones become brittle and shrunk. When body protein breaks down your muscles shrink and get very flabby. As a result of acidosis, you become a sick, shrunk, brittle old person, long before you should grow old.

Once the alkaline reserves are gone and the body can no longer re-balance the alkaline-acidity levels, it will concentrate acid into the weakest parts of your body. These are your kidneys, liver and colon. At this point cancer is about to develop.

You have created a good environment for disease. An acidic body is a weak body. It is an easy host for bad bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses. When you develop a disease, acidity is usually the reason. Maybe your kid brings a cold from pre-school this week, but do you have to catch that cold? NO! Your body should fight back. Unfortunately, when you are highly acidic, you are so ready to be sick that your body cannot resist the cold. Nor will your body resist when you sit next to someone with another transmittable infection. Unless you change at the fundamental level, which is at diet level, you will catch every passing disease. A blood test will show that your body is highly acidic.

Cancer and other life-threatening diseases and chronic diseases do not just happen to us. They are created by people. We are responsible for most of our own health problems. In addition to destroying the body’s ability to absorb nutrients, acidosis also decreases energy production in the cells, it decreases the body’s ability to repair damaged cells, it makes tumor cells thrive and grow and makes the body more prone to illness and fatigue.

Below is a list of health problems that are caused or contributed to by acidosis: