The importance of creating an alkaline pH in your body and how to do it

Written by Andy Long


Wish you had more energy? Here's how you can get it.

WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE; WE ARE BIO ELECTRICAL ENGINES In order to accomplish allrepparttar many millions of complex functions that occur overrepparttar 114901 course ofrepparttar 114902 day, your body has to be able to communicate with itself… allrepparttar 114903 way down torepparttar 114904 cellular level. And do you know how it does this? Through pulses of electricity. That's right, electricity.

Your body operates on an electro magnetic current. Believe it or not, all ofrepparttar 114905 organs in your body emit these fields of electrical current. In fact, nerve signals are nothing more than electrical charges.

What creates this electrical power in your body is a very fine balance that exists in your bio chemistry. And of allrepparttar 114906 systems in your body that depend on this delicate, bio chemical balance, one ofrepparttar 114907 most important is your blood stream. This is where pH comes into play. But what is pH?

WHAT PH IS AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALL YOUR BODY FUNCTIONS PH is a scale that measures how acidic or alkaline a substance is. The scale ranges from 1 to 14 with 1 being very acid, 7 neutral and 14 very alkaline.

So what does pH have to do with you and your blood? Well,repparttar 114908 pH of your blood is extremely important. The ideal pH level for your blood is right around 7.35 and your body goes to enormous lengths to maintain this level.

Why? Because if your blood pH were to vary 1 or 2 points in either direction, it would changerepparttar 114909 electrical chemistry in your body, there would be no electrical power and in short order you would drop dead. As you can see, maintainingrepparttar 114910 right pH level in your blood is pretty important!!

With this in mind a good way to avoid upsetting this delicate bio chemical balance would be to take a look at those things that can compromiserepparttar 114911 maintenance ofrepparttar 114912 ideal pH level in your body. And what isrepparttar 114913 main culprit in this case? The answer isrepparttar 114914 creation of acid in your body.

Before we look at what causes acid, here's a graphic example to give you an idea of what can happen inrepparttar 114915 blood when your pH drops to less than ideal. Red blood cells are how oxygen is transported to allrepparttar 114916 cells in your body.

As red blood cells move intorepparttar 114917 tiny, little capillaries,repparttar 114918 space they have to move through gets pretty small. In fact,repparttar 114919 diameter ofrepparttar 114920 capillaries gets so small thatrepparttar 114921 red blood cells sometimes have to pass through these capillaries one red blood cell at a time!

Because of this, and because it's important forrepparttar 114922 red blood cells to be able to flow easily and quickly through your body, they have a mechanism that allows them to remain separate from each other. This mechanism comes inrepparttar 114923 form ofrepparttar 114924 outside of healthy red blood cells having a negative charge. This causes them to stay apart from each other, sort of like when you try to pushrepparttar 114925 negative ends of two magnets together. They resist each other and stay apart.

Unfortunately, acid interferes with this very important mechanism in a pretty frightening way. Acid actually strips awayrepparttar 114926 negative charge from red blood cells. The result is that your red blood cells then tend to clump together and not flow as easily. This makes it much more difficult for them to flow easily throughrepparttar 114927 bloodstream.

But it also makes it harder for them to move freely through those small capillaries. This means less oxygen gets to your cells. Acid also weakensrepparttar 114928 red blood cells and they begin to die. And guess what they release into your system when they die? More acid.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Depression Are Not The Same Thing!

Written by Claire Williams


Copyright, Claire Williams, 2004. All Rights Reserved.

You may have noticed that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome /M.E. /Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome is a very misunderstood illness...

...and this is perhaps why there are so many myths about it.

Perhapsrepparttar most common myth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is that it is effectively a mental condition, and another name for depression.

But these two conditions are very different!

And when you label a condition incorrectly it can cause no end of problems when trying to diagnose and treat it. So it's extremely important to makerepparttar 114900 distinction between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome /M.E. /Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome and depression - because they are completely different illnesses.

Depression can be a **symptom** of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but there are many Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers out there who do **not** suffer from depression at all.

I, for example, used to suffer from depression when I was first diagnosed with Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/M.E.), but now I (thankfully) don't have depression anymore.

--------SIDE NOTE-------- My recovery from depression (whilst I had PVFS) was down to having psychotherapy. And I can safely say that it's THE BEST thing I've ever done.

If you're depressed, then I urgently recommend that you try a talking therapy of some sort.

I'd personally describerepparttar 114901 whole process of going through psychotherapy as "reading a fascinating book" - whererepparttar 114902 topic is on 'yourself'.

To find out what it's like to go through psychotherapy /counselling, visit:

http://www.sleepydust.net/psychotherapy

If you're housebound, or just want to conserve your energy and don't want to travel to see a therapist, then why not try online counselling?

There are services out there that can give you counselling sessions via telephone, via email, or via 'Instant Messaging' (real-time chat sessions on your computer, where you type instead of talk).

--------SIDE NOTE--------

There are other differences between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome /Fibromyalgia and depression...

Research has shown that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers have an abnormality in their 'deep sleep' brainwave patterns. But, depression sufferers do not have this abnormality!

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