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June 13, 2004 |
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Fatigue & Low Energy Acid Overload In a natural, healthy state, every major organ in your body works around the clock to buffer acids and keep your system slightly alkaline. Body cells and tissues contain significant amounts of buffering, alkaline substances, such as minerals, oxygen, and bicarbonate; but over time, your body’s ability to buffer acids weakens. If your cells and tissues become even slightly more acidic than alkaline, you will tire easily and often. When I do a fatigue work-up for my patients, one of the first things I test is their acid/alkaline balance. In many of them I find over-acidity is the cause of their fatigue, often caused by diet, lifestyle, or premature aging. Diet. The Standard American Diet is highly acidic. Many foodsred meat, vinegar, citrus fruits, alcohol, dairy products, refined sugar, chocolate, soft drinks, and coffeecontain large amounts of acidic materials such as sulfur and phosphorus. Lifestyle. When you’re experiencing physical or mental stress, you use more nutrients and generate more acidic waste products that your body can process and dispose of rapidly. Premature Aging. As we reach our 40s and 50s, most of us experience a decline in our natural ability to balance our acid/alkaline ratio. For example, oxygen is essential to keeping our bodies alkaline, yet our lungs’ ability to take in oxygen declines one percent per year on average. It peaks for women at age 20; by age 70 oxygen intake is reduced by half. What’s more, after midlife the ability of our pancreas to secrete alkalizing bicarbonate starts to decline.
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