pH Balance Health: John's Story

It really started as a teenager as a result of a lot of parental pressure to quick my education when I was only 14. My own pressure to be educated and succeed as well as satisfy my parents eventually led to a caffeine addiction and becoming a workaholic. Eventually this pressure caught-up and I end up suffering severe depression after a few economic circumstances went against me after I let my body become run down. Prescription and across-the-counter drugs, as well as alcohol and sleeping pills made matters worse.

My long-term problems of insomnia and depression progressively deteriorated, as did my high blood pressure. I rationalized that, apart from the emotional and spiritual reasons, the physical cause had to come from toxins from farm chemicals, drug exposure and lifestyle. However, every time I went on a fast and strict health regime, my problem improved. But it was not a permanent fix. Any work stress exacerbated the problem and I would find myself getting back into a rut again.

Over a number of years, I had tried various detoxification methods:

• 1986 - I went on the Pritikin Diet and started an aerobic exercise program.

• 1991 - I started with a 10-day water fast and experimented with bowel cleansing using enemas and colonics after reading a book by Daniel Reid. I started eating more raw food.

• 1997 - After getting on the internet I enrolled in an on-line supervised 75-day juice fast, with twice-daily enemas. Did that experience energize me? Absolutely. I even took up veteran athletics for a short while at the age of 46

• 2000 - I started attending health retreats which included fasts, colonics and raw food diets (nearly 30 health retreat experiences for 1-4 weeks over 6 years)

• 2006 - started to take liquid zeolite to detox heavy metals and other pollutants

• 2007 - started to take powdered zeolite, sometimes in combination with liquid zeolite and sometimes in combination with greens (like barley green, wheat grass, etc). Occasionally I also eat regular volumes of fresh coriander, which is also know as a good detoxifier for heavy metals. I also had my dental amalgams and a root canal removed.

Of the detox methods, the zeolite (liquid and powder) seemed to make the greatest consistent and most immediate difference, although the previous exercises with fasting and bowel cleansing would obviously have helped. The change to my body chemistry from the zeolite was almost immediate. The zeolite tends to immediately balance my pH and improve my immunity. Zeolite has been claimed to have the highest antioxidant activity known in the world (according to the International Society for Free Radical Research). This regime was started about 6 weeks prior to buying a water alkalizer/ionizer and starting an alkalized water regime.

In addition to the above, I also started drinking a bicarbonate product (mixture of sodium, potassium and magnesium) in lemon juice and zeolite powder - with alkalized water. This combination keeps my pH around 7.0 or above. It is also a great boost to liver function.

In the last 12 months, I have cured a chronic insomnia and depression problem by doing the following:

1. Alkalizing - my urine pH was always about 5.5. It needs to be above 6.5, otherwise disease can set in. Minerals and vitamins are not readily absorbed in an acidic body. It has also been stated that heavy metals are not easily detoxed in an acid environment. I drank alkalized water, took alkalizing supplements, and only ate alkalized food (mostly raw vegetables).

2. Hydrating - with good ionized/alkalized water. The same night I installed a water alkalizer I slept all night without drugs. Normally I would need to take drugs to get 4-6 hours sleep. Ionized water is also restructured so that it has greater hydrating capacity, and it also has a strong negative "oxygen reduction potential" (ORP). This is a measure of the water's antioxidant potential.

3. Detoxifying - I started taking a product called Zeolite about 6 weeks prior to starting the alkalized water. It also had the effect of improving my pH. Zeolite has a fantastic history for improving health, even though it is not registered as an approved product (because it can't be patented). Coriander (an herb) is also a great detoxifier.

Just by doing the above the following happened, either immediately or over a 3-month period:

• sleep became so nice

• depression went away

• Candida disappeared (a constant cough)

• a 20-year large wart disappeared

• toe nail fungus grew out

• arthritis in knees improved substantially

Want to learn more about pH balance and how it can improve your health? Read What's the Skinny on Baking Soda

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