Body Acidity, Disease Prevention and More About Aspartame

How well do you know yourself? How well do you know the chemistry makeup of your body? There is something that you need to know and you need to work on. It's the pH level of your body. The pH is a value, which is the potential of hydrogen. Hydrogen is an element, which is the lightest element of all the elements known to man. The value of pH is a range from 1-14, which measures the acidity or alkalinity of a substance. If a substance is 1 on the pH chart, it is as acidic as it can get. If it is 14, it is as alkaline as it can get. A pH of 7.0 is neutral and it is this level that our bodies were designed to function at.

To better understand the importance of this, let's take a look at the temperature balancing acts that our bodies do and that of other animals. Our normal body temperature should be about 98.6 degrees. If our temperature drops, we could be in trouble or if it raises we could be in trouble. As little as a 5% change can send us on a one-way trip to never never land. Our pH levels can have some similar results but over a longer time period (unless we really pickle ourselves such as alcohol poisoning). We are going to look into acidity for our discussion.

When we think of acid, we think about the corrosion it causes when it comes in contact with another material. In a sense, that is what happens in our bodies when our pH level is too acidic. It doesn't take much to throw off this delicate balance. There is a constant adjustment in the body's pH level. This is natural as the body continues replacing cells and other functions. This is not the only way our body becomes more acidic. The food we eat, the environment we are in and the products that we touch every day will affect the pH levels of our body. A lot of the products that we clean with or use on our bodies are toxic to us. We even create an acidic pH level because of our day-to-day stresses. (If you look into employment histories of certain professions, you can see the results in regards to disease rates for these professions.)