The not so Basic Roots of Over Acidity
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 by Dr. Peter L. Kopko, D.C.
Many researchers and healthcare practitioners agree that the majority of people today are suffering from systemic low-grade metabolic acidosis . It is also agreed that the main source of this metabolic acidosis is the contemporary net acid-producing diet. This diet is referred to in the scientific literature as the Western Diet. So what was our diet before modern times?
Our diet as early human beings is referred to as the Paleolithic diet . This diet was rich in plant material, i.e., vegetation. Inherent to this diet of plant foods is a potassium rich base of alkali salts. Plants are alkaline in nature. Over time "plants" have become "vegetables" but as modern humans we do not consume enough vegetable matter. In fact the pathophysiological effects of this post-agricultural diet is an inversion of the potassium to sodium and base to chloride ratios in the human diet. What this means is that we went from eating a diet that was high in potassium which is alkaline, to a diet which is high in sodium and animal protein, which is highly acidic. It really is that simple!
Animal protein ingestion yields sulfuric acid as an end-product of digestion. On the other hand, the body will metabolize organic plant source anions(-) to bicarbonate, which is alkalinizing. Our modern Western Diet is far too high in NaCl (sodium chloride). Sound familiar? We need to get back to eating more vegetable foods and reversing the metabolic acidosis of "fast food" and excessive animal protein ingestion.
Eat better and be well.
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