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[hobie1dog]

And this one too?
"When healthy, the pH of blood is 7.4, the pH of spinal fluid is 7.4, and the pH of saliva is 7.4. Thus the pH of saliva parallels the extra cellular fluid...pH test of saliva represents the most consistent and most definitive physical sign of the ionic calcium deficiency syndrome...The pH of the non-deficient and healthy person is in the 7.5 (dark blue) to 7.1 (blue) slightly alkaline range. The range from 6.5 (blue-green) which is weakly acidic to 4.5 (light yellow) which is strongly acidic represents states from mildly deficient to strongly deficient, respectively. Most children are dark blue, a pH of 7.5. Over half of adults are green-yellow, a pH of 6.5 or lower, reflecting the calcium deficiency of aging and lifestyle defects. Cancer patients are usually a bright yellow, a pH of 4.5, especially when terminal." The Calcium Factor: The Scientific Secret of Health and Youth, by Robert R. Barefoot and Carl J. Reich, M.D., Gilliland Printing Inc., Arkansas City, Kansas, 1996.

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If you have cancer, what is your saliva pH? [1718 votes total]

4.5 (815) 47%

5.0 (133) 8%

5.5 (155) 9%

6.0 (171) 10%

6.5 (182) 11%

7.0 (115) 7%

7.5 (147) 9%

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[baronsamedi]

I'm not sure if trying to keep your alkaline level up is actually preventative or that the fluctuations in levels are merely caused by the body's reaction to the persistance of disease, rather than being a causative factor. Bacteria and viruses tend to be highly adaptive and gravitate towards the areas of the bodies that are not prohibitive to their growth. They are quite a bit more resistant to changes in pH than we are as a whole.
Another thing to consider is that we are fat, slow, drinking too much soda etc., but we are living nearly 15 years longer on average now than in 1965, when everything we ate and drank was supposedly so much better for us. Largely, I believe that what the medical industry cranks out, in cooperation with the government is essentially junk science intended on controlling our consumer spending and our behavior.
Your life expectancy and how you are probably going to die is mostly genetic, barring things like war, famine or being eaten by a shark. I will agree that keeping yourself in the best possible condition and taking actions to mitigate the risk factors will buy you a little time, though. My wife's family is cancer-prone and she grew up next to Monsanto and Mallinckrodt when they were cranking out Agent Orange and other nasty chemicals for the military in the 60s and 70s. Most of the women live into their 60s and probably would even if they ran 5 miles a day, ate nothing but oat bran and snorted Ginseng. Almost no one in my family ever gets cancer and the women typically live into their late 90s even while spending their entire lives eating bacon with eggs fried in bacon grease and biscuits with more bacon grease spread on them and topped with sausage gravy.
Just something from a guy who hangs around dead people more than most.

 

[lankfordjl]

@ hobie1dog

All I can say is, get a good general physiology textbook. The information you have stated above is a mixture of truth and false premises which sound logical but make incorrect conclusions. If someone's body (who is eating a normal diet) is not restoring blood pH to normal - there's major gland failure or organ failure going on - the problem would be serious and life threatening. A doctor would need to find the underlying cause of the problem immediately. Again if someone's blood pH is reaching above 7.45 or below 7.35, healthcare providers will work frantically to restore the patient's pH or the patient's a goner. If you really want to study this, look up "Fluid, Electrolyte, Acid-Base Balance" or just "Acid-Base balance" on Youtube; look for nursing instructor's lecture(s) on the topic. Most likely, Dr. Gunther Enderlein (1872 – 1968) just didn't have the knowledge we have today; Wikipedia says, "His hypotheses about pleomorphism and cancer have now been disproved by science and have only some historical importance today." And author basing their medical advice on out-dated medical knowledge should certainly be dismissed.

 

[hobie1dog]

Darn, you can't believe anything you read anymore. :crying:

 

[baronsamedi]

I don't believe anything. Especially when it's true.

 

[hobie1dog]

Since Photoshop is around, you can't believe anything you see anymore.