The Acid Test – How Our Body Deals With Acid

I like to collect articles that support my akaline lifestyle wherever I can find them and I have a few to share with you today.

Here’s a great overview from the OttawaCitizen posted earlier this month about acid and how our body works to combat the effects of our diets.  The author shares a good description of the effects on acid forming foods on our bones.

As we age, this effect is even more pronounced and damaging so unless you make a change in yoru diets today, you risk serious damage to your body as you age.

When we consume acidic foods (or for that matter, when our body produces excessive acid waste through the foods we eat, the stress we endure and even from basic metabolic processes), the body’s alarms go off telling it to gather as many buffers as it can to neutralize the acid.

Typical buffers are bicorbonate (the major buffer in our body), magnesium and calcium.  The largest source of buffering agents is in our bones.  The body is designed to protect itselt and so our brains have no problem instructing the body to grab buffers from our bones.  If the process of over acidity is chronic and continual, what results is osteoporosis.

You can read the article HERE.