Medical Industrial Complex

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Hi Britchick,

I skimmed over this thread, but your comments started me thinking about the ph balance of our bodies. Here is your comment that made me sit up and take note: 

   The theory regarding making the body more acidic or alkalinic from medications and supplements is total nonsense. Our bodies have a complex and efficient way of maintaining its own pH. No matter what alkalines or acids you take in in your diet, the mechanisms within our body adjust it to the pH necessary.

Is it true then, that no matter what we put into our bodies, the ph system will adjust to its necessary ph.

The reason I ask is that I was always a huge fruit eater. Hated sweet desserts and junk food but loved fruit and I considered it healthy living. When I was young my uric acid was always high. Nobody told me how to lower it,..they just said..its high, try to lower it.

Years later, after dx., I researched anti cancer foods and avoided acidic foods. I follow the anti cancer diet and liver loving foods...such as lots of green veg, and limiting fruit to 2 or 3 per day, and one being a lemon. The reason for the lemon is that it is an acidic fruit and the end result will be an alkaline result whereas sweet fruits will end up acidic. Foods like meat, processed foods will all end up acidic in the body.

I told my oncologist who is very health conscious and she nodded with approval with what I was doing ( I told her about testing my saliva with ph strips to ensure I was making my body more alkaline). She said "I wish all my patients were health conscious" then she added," but don't use the ph strips to test urine because the body is constantly going through elimination processes to adjust its ph balance" Exactly what you said.

I am a bit confused now and ask that you point me to research to learn more. Here's the reason.Now that I am focussed on a more alkaline diet, my uric acid is now in the normal range and has been for the last 3 tests, which means that the lemon added in my diet must be doing something. (Every morning I drink the juice of one lemon in warm water). Plus I increased the amount of green veg into my diet and limited the fruit intake.

I would like to learn more about this subject and hope that you can point me in the right direction.

Maybe I should have posted on the Susieque thread.

Deliberately provoking?? No way..(sarcasm here)

Honestly..it amazes me how it takes just a few people to bring the integrity of BCO down..I feel sorry for the moderators that have to work their rears off deleting posts from supposedly mature women..

Actually...alot of this stuff makes me sick.

I'm out of here...its too bad..because BCO used to be a place where you could actually discuss BREAST CANCER (what a concept)...

Talk about a "cancer" on the team.