Alkalinity

At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists discovered that if your blood cannot absorb enough oxygen you don’t feel well–you feel tired, gain weight, have poor digestion and get aches and pains.

How much oxygen your blood can absorb is measured on a pH scale that ranges from 0 to 14. A pH of 0 is most acidic while a pH of 14 is most alkaline. Your blood is in balance when you are slightly alkaline: with a pH of 7.365.

The typical Australian diet, consisting primarily of acid-forming foods like processed sugars, artificial sweeteners, refined grains, conventionally produced meats and dairy, and hidden genetically modified organisms does not foster a pH balance of 7.365.

To create a pH balance you can integrate alkaline based foods in your diet. Alkaline

Vegetables – especially raw green leafy vegetables. foods are foods that increase the amount of oxygen that your blood takes in. The most alkalizing foods are raw green leafy vegetables, non-sweet fruits and wheat grasses. A more complete list of alkaline foods includes:

• Fresh Herbs & Spice – parsley, basil, cilantro, cayenne, ginger.
• Fruits – watermelon, avocado, cucumber, young coconuts
• Wheat grass
• Sprouts: i.e. alfalfa, mung bean, broccoli etc.

The opposite of alkaline foods are acid foods. Acidic foods include:

• Sugar
• All animal food (meat, eggs, chicken, fish, lobster, oysters)
• Grains: (white) wheat, rice, pasta, flour, bread etc.
• Some Fruits
• Dairy products (milk, cheese, butter)
• Bad fats
• Peanuts, cashews.

A good rule of thumb is that 60-80% of our diet should be from more alkaline foods, and 20-40% more acidic foods. however, the majority of people feed their palate not their body and eat mor acidifying foods than alkalising products.

The process can, however, be accelerated through supplements.

1931 Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Warburg made it clear that the root cause of disease is oxygen deficiency, which creates an acidic state in the human body. Dr Warburg also discovered that cancer cells are anaerobic (do not breathe oxygen) and cannot survive in the presence of high levels of oxygen, as found in an alkaline body state.

At The Wellness Shop, we promote the SevenPoint2 range of products that helps you detoxify your body, rebalance your pH and restore your body to health.

There are currently five products in the SevenPoint2 range:

• 7.2 Shake - vegan, organic, raw protein with no sugar, no whey, no soy or no gluten
• 7.2 Greens - powdered greens (raw organic greens approx. 2kg per serve)
• 7.2 Greens Caps – concentrated greens capsules for people that don’t like to take powders
• 7.2 Alkaline Boosters – minerals including calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium
• 7.2 Recovery with HydroFX – the first patented ingestible molecular hydrogen producing tablet 

 If you are interested in learning more about the SevenPoint2 products, go to our SevenPoint2 Website.