Alot of people do not realize that soda is almost as bad for your body as cigarettes. I am not going to sit here and preach about your body being your temple. You should of realized that by now or you would not be reading my blog. Soda - Coka Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Sprite - is poison to your body. It puts the natural chemical balance of your body in disarray. You may as well pour straight acid down your mouth. The biggest problem with soda is that in order for your body to digest it, it has to neutralize all of that acid. Now soda is a very acidic “food”. In order for your body to process it, you have to add more alkalinity to it. Your body has a natural source of alkaline reserves.. in your bones. Yes, the calcium in your bones is used to neutralize the acid in soda. So if you are an avid soda drinker, you are constantly taking precious calcium from your bones. This can cause osteoporosis (mineral imbalance) in women and in some cases men.

Your body likes to keep your pH value at around 7. Soda has a pH value of 2 (0.14 being pure acid). By the way, pH stands for potential Hydrogen, in case you were wondering. That may not seem like a big difference but every number between 2 and 7 is 10 times the previous number. So a difference between 2 and 7 is 100,000 times, not just 5. A body pH value is suppose to be between the 7.34 and 7.45 range. Why is maintaining this pH balance so important? For starters, bacteria THRIVE in an acidic environment. The more acidic your system, the more prone you become to sickness and illness. You having a low pH balance can cause modern day ailments like migraines, insomnia, constipation, stomach ulers, the cold, the flu, arthritis, and in extreme cases cancer. I know you are sitting there saying “Woah, I have a lot of those symptoms” and I will say “Do you drink alot of soda or eat spicy foods?”. If you answer yes, that is your problem.

It takes 32 glasses of ALKALINE water (not just regular water but distilled) to help neutralize the alkalinity in just ONE 12oz soda? You are sitting there thinking, so what, I like soda. Well your body does not and this whole blog is about investing in YOURself. Drinking soda is like spending your daily health on credit. One day you are going to have to start paying that bill. One way to help keep your body alkaline is to first of all, stop drinking soda. Another is to take calcium supplements, I actually take coral calcium pills and it has actually help cure me of my GURD or acid reflux. Any coral calcium supplement will work as long as its natural and not over processed. Some companies will over process the calcium trying to clean it and stretch it out further into more doses. You need to stay away from those companies.

Now you may have heard the the negative reviews of coral calcium. I actually suggested coral calcium because its naturally ionized for easy absorption into the body. Actually you can supplement directly with calcium. You can drink more milk, eat yogurt, cheese, etc. Pretty much any dairy product and with yogurt, you get the benefit of “good” bacteria digestion. If you are lactose intolerant (and part of this problem is caused by an out of whack balance of your natural chemicals), obtain pre-treated milk. It has almost no lactose at all. A lot of people out there that have lactose intolerance can start drinking milk again once they get there chemical balance back on track. This will not cure everyone with lactose problems as some bodies just refuse to process it but for you heavy soda drinkers out there, this may be the answer.

If you are still looking for calcium in a pill, make sure you get the ones heavy in “elemental calcium”. Elemental Calcium is the amount of calcium in a supplement that the body will actually absorb. If the calcium supplement you have found interest in does not have this listed, you can figure this out on your own by reading the label. Every 10% of Daily Value listed is 100mg of elemental calcium. You also need to take note of the serving size. Some supplements will try and trick you by placing a high percentage of Daily Value but make you take 4 pills to achieve that dosage. Stay away from this type of marketing gimmick to try and make you buy more pills to fill the supplement companies pockets. Stay away from pills that have unrefined substances like bone meal or oyster shell. It is possible these type of calcium pills will have toxic properties and you and YOUR body does not want that.

As with all supplements, make sure the product you pick has a USP (U.S. Pharmacopia) label. If you are out of the USA reading this, try to get one that is approved in your country (some countries do not even worry with supplements).

Joseph Geyer

 

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