What a claim to make! It might be a statement that seems confusing at first, how could one water be more hydrating than another water? As you read this article you will understand the simple reasons why ionized water is not only a higher quality, better filtered, more alkaline water than any other – but it really is more hydrating too this is scientific fact.

How Ionized Water is More Hydrating
When You Drink Ionized Water You Can Feel It!

I want to keep this really simple, but I know there are a lot of you out there that will want to know the scientific facts too. So I am going to explain this twice! The first explanation will be the simple explanation and the second will be the scientific explanation!

The Simple Explanation

Ionized, microclustered water is fundamentally different to conventional water, bottled water, distilled water, filtered water, reverse osmosis water or plain old tap water (click here for a full comparison of these water types).

The size and shape of the water molecule changes when the water is ionized – it is ‘microclustered’. This means that the water molecules are simply made smaller so that the water can better penetrate and hydrate the cells of the body and can more easily permeate the walls of the cells.

A huge secondary bonus of this, is that whatever is in the water we drink is better absorbed also – so if you’re drinking green drinks or other supplements with the ionized water – these supplements will be better absorbed and more effective!

Think of your cell walls as being a fine mesh with tiny gaps. When we drink tap water that has approximately 12 molecule clusters, the water molecules are too large to be able to get through. But when the water is ionized and ‘microclustered‘ it only has approximately 4-6 clusters and it can therefore more easily pass through the fine mesh cell walls.

A good, tangible representation of this can be seen with brewing tea. When you use microclustered, ionized water the pigment of the tea dissolves rapidly after ionized water is poured onto the bag is added and the fragrance of the tea can be smelled.

Because alkaline ionized water has smaller water clusters, the tea molecules dissipate quickly. The water molecules quickly penetrate the tea bag, the same way they would your cells, hydrating your body more efficiently.

When you first start drinking ionized water is it an incredible feeling as parts of your body that have been dehydrated for so long are now being reached and saturated in antioxidant-rich, alkaline water.

The Scientific Explanation

Starting at the start, a water molecule, expressed in the chemical symbol H20, consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

Standing alone, the hydrogen atom contains one positive proton at its core, with one negative electron revolving around it in a three dimensional shell. Oxygen, on the other hand, contains eight protons in its nucleus with eight electrons revolving around it.

The single hydrogen electron and the eight electrons of oxygen are the key to the chemistry of life, because this is where hydrogen and oxygen atoms combine to form a water molecule, or split to form ions.

Hydrogen tends to ionize by losing its single electron and form single H+ ions, which are simply isolated protons since the hydrogen atom contains no neutrons. A hydrogen bond occurs when the electron of a single hydrogen atom is shared with another electronegative atom such as oxygen that lacks an electron.

So, What is Microclustered Water?

Water molecules come in clusters rather than single molecules. Tap water has very large clusters (10 to 13 molecules per cluster), whereas ionized water uses electrolysis to reduce large tap water clusters from their original size into microclusters (5 to 6 molecules per cluster). The smaller cluster size gives the water excellent hydrating properties, high solubility and good permeability and is potentially up to six times more hydrating than normal tap water.

How Does The Electrolysis Occur?

The water enters the ionizer and passes into a chamber equipped with a platinum-coated titanium electrode. This is where the electrolysis takes place.

Cations, positive ions, gather at the negative electrodes creating cathodic or reduced water. Anions, negatively charged ions, gather at the positive electrode to make anodic or oxidized water.

By this electrolysis process the reduced water not only gains an excess amount of electrons (e-), but the H2O clusters are reduced in size from about 10 to 13 molecules per cluster to 5 to 6 molecules per cluster.

So when you ionize water, you change it’s molecular structure. The hexagonal molecular structure resulting from electrolysis is what makes water more hydrating than tap or bottled water.

These smaller “hexagons” of water molecules are half as large as the water molecule chains that come out of your regular tap (approximately 12 molecule clusters). Microclustering will help minerals and other alkalizing supplements absorb quickly and more efficiently.

So there you have it!

Ionized, microclustered water is more hydrating than tap water! Please ask below if you have any questions – I am more than happy to answer them.

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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Evening all!

I’ve just read a flippin’ interesting post from Dr Young which really clearly explains and gives a simple understanding of what nausea is and why we experience it.

What’s more there is a really simple way to stop nausea in it’s tracks!

The Cause & Cure for Nausea

Many of us put our trust in modern day medicine that does not even understand the basic physiology or principals of digestion. You cannot find something as simple as the ideology of nausea in ANY medical text or scientific study. In other words, modern day medical science does not know the cause of nausea. I know you would be surprised at the cause of nausea and it is not what you are thinking!

The cause of nausea is the body’s need for sodium bicarbonate to mediate excess dietary and/or metabolic acid. The main organ for producing sodium bicarbonate is the stomach. When the body needs sodium bicarbonate to mediate dietary or metabolic acid the cover cells of the stomach draws, sodium, chloride, carbon dioxide and water from the blood to produce the body’s need for increased alkalinity.

When the stomach produces sodium bicarbonate, which is then taken back up into the blood for buffering acid, it leaves a residue or an acidic waste product called hydrochloric acid. It is the increased amounts of hydrochloric acid that causes nausea. So when you start feeling sick to your stomach this is the body in need of more alkaline salts, especially sodium bicarbonate.

I love this post from Dr Y. I know how important it is to give scientific explanations and evidence and lots of detail – but I love that this post is simple and easy to understand, but still thorough and scientifically explained!

I’ve been using pHour Salts & pHlavor Salts to stop nausea, cravings, over acidity and to alkalise my system for ages now and from the feedback customers have given – they have too – with great effect (especially the effect of stopping sugar cravings!).

So I urge you to have a little look at these products. They are incredibly effective. They’ve improved my health no end and I’m sure they can do the same for you!

Have a great evening
Ross

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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Have you ever wondered what the Acid/Alkaline Diet is and how it works but struggled to find real, straightforward answers? Have you ever wondered how the acid/alkaline diet could be applied in your life but couldn’t get to grips with what it actually involves?

This article will change that and give you, in five minutes or less, an exact understanding of what the Alkaline Diet really is.

I’ve been living and breathing (and working in) the Alkaline Diet for over five years now. I’ve written a whole course on it (that is getting hundreds of people alkaline every month)! I know what I am talking about when it comes to practically applying this diet and lifestyle. There are more qualified people out there with lots more letters after their name – but I don’t know if there is anyone more experienced in making this diet real in people’s lives. I’ve done it over and over again and this explanation is the result of my five years experience, learning, writing/blogging and connecting with people.

I’ve interviewed experts such as Dr Robert Young, Jason Vale & more. I’ve lived it myself. I’ve fallen off the wagon myself and I’ve gotten right back on. But most importantly I’ve connected with tens of thousands of people who are all transitioning or successfully living alkaline. I’d have to be very, very stupid to have not worked it out by now…

And remember, you can email me anytime if any of the below info throws up any questions for you at all!

The Acid-Alkaline Diet Simplified

What is The Alkaline Diet

The alkaline diet is a very, very simply and straightforward approach to health, but is backed by extensive science, pioneered by the blood microscopist and biologist Dr Robert Young. Before I demonstrate just how simple it is, here is the explanation in scientific terms:

Our body is designed to be alkaline. The pH of most of our important cellular and other fluids such as our blood is designed to be at a pH of 7.365, which is slightly alkaline. In just the same way that our body will do whatever it takes to regulate our temperature to stay within a very tight range, it does the same for the pH of our fluids. And while our body does create acids naturally through our bodily functions, we have a small alkaline buffering system that naturally keeps us alkaline.

Your body HAS to keep the pH of your blood, cells and other fluids at just slightly alkaline (pH 7.365) and it will do ANYTHING it has to in order to maintain this pH balance. To do this, your body calls upon its store of alkaline buffers, which it draws upon to neutralize the acids we ingest or create through bodily processes. This store of buffers is very easily depleted because most of us eat and drink such strong acids.

To put this in context, the pH scale is logarithmic – so pH 6 is 10x more acidic than pH 7, meaning pH 5 is 100x times more acidic than pH 7 and pH 4 is 1000x more acidic. Cola has a pH of between 2 and 3. So you can see how a diet filled with meats, dairy, fizzy drinks, alcohol etc would quickly deplete these buffers.

And when we deplete these buffers and still ingest more acids…what happens?

The body is forced into drawing upon the alkaline minerals it has to buffer which causes havoc in the body – for instance, if the body is constantly drawing calcium to neutralise the acids we consume then the symptoms of osteoporosis emerge (hence the recent research articles linking cola consumption with osteoporosis).

However, as we have evolved and our diets and lifestyles have changed over the last century or so we have dramatically increased the amount of acidity in our lives. Diet, stress, emotions and no exercise contribute, in their own ways to the increased acidity in our body.

Focusing on diet for the time being, it will be no surprise to you to learn that the most acidic foods are sugar, trans-fats, yeasts, dairy, simple carbs, alcohol, refined foods etc. These acids manifest in our diets as colas & fizzy drinks, pizza, chips, cakes, biscuits, microwave meals, crisps, breads, caffeine, cheese, fatty meats, ice cream, smoking, beers, wines, condiments, milky drinks, cream etc. all the foods you already know are not good for you.

I’m sure you can guess that the foods that are alkaline to the body are therefore…wait for it…fresh vegetables, salads, leafy greens, omega oils, nuts, seeds, pulses, whole grains. These are fresh foods, raw foods, whole foods, foods with a high-water content and nutritional value.

It makes this diet pretty easy to understand and pretty easy to follow. I think most people, if given a list of foods could put them into the acid or alkaline group 8 times out of 10.

So what makes a food acid or alkaline? There are a few things, but the most important rules are:

1. If a food is high in alkaline minerals including magnesium, potassium, calcium or sodium it is likely to be alkaline to the body.
2. BUT – regardless of its alkaline mineral content, if it contains any of the following then it will be acidifying:
• sugar (article about sugar)
• yeast
• is fermented (like soy sauce)
• contains fungi (like mushrooms)
• is refined/microwaved/processed

So this explains the anomalies. Fruit for instance is generally, unfortunately, acidifying due to it’s high sugar content. Bananas for example are very high in potassium, but are around 25% sugar. The only exceptions are tomatoes, avocados, lemons & limes (great for dressings and flavourings), grapefruit and watermelon (to some degree) which are alkaline because they are so low in sugar.

Sugar is such an issue because the blood deviates from this pH level of 7.365 then it causes major stress to the rest of the body. The body has to maintain this pH level and it will go to extreme measures and sacrifice everything else to make sure it stays there.

It compounds the longer it goes on.

Emotions, stress and a lack of exercise all contribute to this. Dr Young has actually seen, in his analysis of live blood, that emotions can have twice as much of an effect on our blood and health as any food can, so these all play a part. Exercise is obviously essential because it pumps our blood and lymph around the body to remove wastes and helps to deliver oxygen to cells for necessary functioning.

So there you have it – that is the scientific, long version.

Here is the simple version of the Acid Alkaline Diet:

Our body is designed to stay alkaline and will do whatever it takes to do so. When we consume acidic foods and drinks, stop exercising and continually have negative emotions our body is overrun with acids and this causes major disruption.

Not surprisingly the acid foods are the ones you already know are bad for you (cola, chips, chocolate, sweets, burgers, dairy, beer etc) and the alkaline foods are the ones you already know are good for you (fresh foods, leafy green vegetables, salads, nuts, seeds etc).

To become alkaline you simply need to start focusing 70-80% of your diet on the alkaline foods and try to limit the acid foods. Back this up with 3-4 litres of good quality, clean, filtered water each day and you will be very pleasantly surprised by the way you feel.

So follow your mother’s advice and eat your greens!

About energiseforlife.com

So energiseforlife.com is mine and my brother’s website (Callum). We set it up in 2005 after attending an Anthony Robbins UPW seminar in London and having both tried to follow these health principles for a few months we realised it was really difficult. Not only was there nowhere to buy the supplements and equipment but the information out there on the web was terrible, conflicting and in most cases wrong. We knew we could do better…

So energiseforlife.com was formed and here we are, nearly 5 years later!

We are the worlds longest running and largest acid-alkaline diet specialist website. The site is split into two main areas: 1) information, resources, guides, recipes etc. (all free) 2) the alkaline diet and wellness store.

Our aim is to give people every resource they need to have the health, body, energy and vitality of their dreams, so this, naturally, is a mixture of information and products.

The type of products we sell to help people include:

• Green Drinks: our cornerstone range. ‘Green Drinks’ are a mixture of powdered grasses (such as wheatgrass, barley grass), vegetables (such as kale, broccoli, spinach), sprouts (such as alfalfa, watercress, broccoli) and low sugar fruits (such as avocado, grapefruit, lemon, lime, tomato). They are a combination of nutrient dense green foods that you mix with a litre of water and drink 3-4 times per day. Our favourite is the Doc Broc Greens from Dr Young.
• pH Drops: the quality of the water we drink is essential. Especially if we’re drinking 3-4 litres of it per day! The water we drink should be clean of bacteria and fungus and have a pH of above 7. These drops do both of those things. Here is a video I did on this subject! PuripHy is by far the best pH drops product on the market.
• Alkaline Minerals: as mentioned, the alkaline buffer we have in our body is very small, these minerals help to neutralise the acids we consume and contribute to our overall wellbeing. Largely magnesium, potassium, calcium and sodium. Our favourite is pH Ion Blue!
• Omega Oils: these essential fatty acids are hard to consume through diet alone. Udo’s Choice is world-renowned for being the best oil supplement by miles.
• Equipment: juicers, blenders, exercise kit, soy milk makers etc

Last Christmas I also created the world’s first Alkaline Diet Home Study Course. I found that most people struggle to adopt this new lifestyle, not only because of a lack of knowledge, but more because of a lack of organisation and preparation. Watch this short video to find out exactly what you get on the course:

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The course is getting phenomenal results!

People are losing masses of weight (one woman lost 6 stone), getting masses more energy, one lady with Fibromyalgia is able to go back to work and start exercising again after being house bound for 3 years, another lady no longer has eczema or arthritis, a guy has lost 12% body fat, people with ‘IBS’ are seeing the problem completely disappear within 2 weeks etc.

It blows me away, but it is definitely real. Personally I have not had a cough or cold for 4 years and my acne has completely gone away (except for in blow out weeks like the wedding!), I have heaps of energy and I have achieved a LOT!

…..So that’s the alkaline diet and that’s energiseforlife.com!

I would love to hear your thoughts! If you have any questions or ideas then definitely let me know!

Ross (http://www.energiseforlife.com)

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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Everyone gets cravings and they can sometimes feel like the most powerful urges on Earth.

When your body wants something it wants something. And when your body knows you’re not supposed to have it, it feels like the craving is ten times stronger.

I know what this is like. The craving for something sweet after lunch or dinner is the one that always used to get me. Or the lust for any food after I’d had a few beers (back in the day) used to get the better of me every time (and man, I ate some weird s**t!). For others it is that craving for chocolate that hits randomly, or the desire to hit the biscuit barrel just after 11am.

Well, this product could be about to change all of that. I don’t ever blog about a specific product, but this one deserves it. pHlavor (or pHlavour if you’re in the UK) by Dr Robert Young is an amazing product. It is a combination of all of the highly alkaline mineral salts, harvested from the Great Salt Lakes in Utah.

It is cheap, easy to use (you just spray it in your mouth) and it not only gives you an instant, alkalising boost – but it also stops cravings right in their tracks.

It really works. I’ve tried it, my friends have tried it, my girlfriend has tried it and now hundreds of customers have tried it and they have all come back with the same response – WOW.

I actually spoke with Dr Young about this last week and he gave me a little audio interview about pHlavor, so rather than me go on and on about it, here is the audio from that phone call and the transcription below:

Click here to listen to Dr Young talking about the pHlavor Salt Spray

Click here to buy pHlavor Salts now

Transcript of Dr Young on pHlavor

The pHlavor Salts is an all-natural mineral salt that comes from the north shore of the Great Salt Lakes. During the winters if you’re familiar with the Rocky Mountains in the United States, the run-off where the snow melts flows down the streams and into rivers and these rivers empty into this north shore.

So it is a great satiation programme for getting off tobacco or getting off any form of sugar! And I recommend it highly, it is one of the products that I think is critical in the foundation and I would say that pHlavor Salts is one of the essentials that you could take for the rest of your life.

Click here to buy pHlavor Salts now

IMPORTANT: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD & BAD (TABLE) SALT

It is really important to note the difference between good and bad salt. By ‘good’ salt I mean pure, alkaline mineral salts and by ‘bad’ salt I mean table salt, mass produced salt and the salt used in refined foods and fast foods. Dr Young explains it best:

Most common table salt is made up of chemicals that pollute your body and wreak havoc on your health. Your table salt is actually 97.5% sodium chloride and 2.5% chemicals such as moisture absorbents, and iodine. Dried at over 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit, the excessive heat alters the natural chemical structure of the salt causing the potential for a myriad of health challenges in your body. Source: Dr Young Blog Post on Mineral Salts

In short, table salt (normal, everyday salt) not only contains harmful chemicals, but it has been treated and heated in such a way that makes it harmful to the body. Very harmful. In the same way that mass produced margarines, sunflower and vegetable oils (etc) become toxic to the body once they are exposed to light, air and heat, the same happens with salt. All of the life is stripped out of it and it becomes toxic. This is why we have been told for so many years to avoid all salts.

Nowadays there are healthy salts available to us, such as Himalayan Salt, and Dr Young’s pHlavor Salts that have healthy, life giving effects on the body. And what is more, the body actually needs alkaline mineral salts to function properly, so it is beneficial to us to help our body along by giving it some!

pHlavor: The Best Bits

Now, in my personal opinion there are many benefits to using pHlavor Salts, with the stopping of cravings being the main one! BUT there are obviously other benefits. As Dr Young explained, salts is vital to the proper functioning of the human body in the same way that essential fatty acids are. Here is a little synopsis of the best salt facts and benefits of using pHlavor:

• it is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the body, particularly the brain cells.
• it is vital for balancing the acidic sugar levels in the blood; a needed element in diabetics
• it is vital for the clearance of the lungs of mucous plugs and sticky phlegm, particularly in asthma and cystic fibrosis.
• it is vital for clearing up catarrh and congestion of the sinuses
• it is a strong natural antihistamine.
• it is essential for the prevention of muscle cramps
• it is absolutely vital to making the structure of bones firm. Osteoporosis, in a major way, is a result of salt and water shortage in the body. Twenty-seven percent of the body’s salt is in the bones. Osteoporosis results when the body needs more salt and takes it from the body. Bones are twenty-two percent water. Is it not obvious what happens to the bones when we’re deficient in salt or water or both.

So in summary, it rapidly alkalises your body, it removed cravings for sugars, sweets and cigarettes and it gives you an instant energy boost! And it is really cheap!

Click here to buy pHlavor Salts now

Further Resources:

30 Reasons to use pHlavor @ pH Miracle
Salt That Heals, Salt That Kills
Salt is Life! @ pH Miracle
Prevent Disease with Salts @ pH Miracle

Final Note: while this is covered in depth in our disclaimer information, I always feel like it is best to highlight that if you have any medically diagnosed condition you should consult with your health practitioner before making any changes to your diet. Especially if you are currently taking any kind of medication. While we’re obviously here to help you as much as possible it is your own responsibility to check the compatibility of your medication with your lifestyle choices including diet, exercise and supplementation.

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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Sometimes nature does the most obvious things to help us out.

You know how there are certain things in life that just seem so obvious you think that can’t be true! Certain consequences, like removing red wine stains by tipping white wine onto them (I still can’t believe that works!), are in fact, everywhere. And chlorophyll gives us another one of them.

Knowing how important the health of our red blood cells are to our wellbeing, if we’re looking for something to ensure our red blood cells are clean, healthy and plentiful, wouldn’t we look for something that gives our body exactly the tools it needs to do this? Of course we would.

And what is the most essential substance that our body uses to build and transport red blood cells? Hemoglobin.

So it makes sense that we should, somehow, give our body hemoglobin! “But how?” I hear you ask.

“Chlorophyll”, I answer.

The Benefits and Wonders of Chlorophyll – why I love it!

Chlorophyll is miraculous. It has SO MANY health benefits it makes it a true wonder-food. However, the most marvellous and amazing benefit it gives comes from the fact that its molecular structure is absolutely identical to hemoglobin except for the center atom. In hemoglobin this is iron, whereas in chlorophyll it is magnesium. This means that when ingested, chlorophyll actually helps to do the job of hemoglobin (hemoglobin is so vital to the health of our blood – in fact, blood is approx 75% hemoglobin). It helps to rebuild and replenish our red blood cells, boosting our energy and increasing our wellbeing almost instantly.

I know this sounds a bit like the old ancient Japanese legend that eating brains makes you smarter – BUT – eating/drinking chlorophyll does increase the quality AND quantity of your red blood cells.

Chlorophyll has the power to regenerate our bodies at the molecular and cellular level and is known to help cleanse the body, fight infection, help heal wounds, and promote the health of the circulatory, digestive, immune, and detoxification systems. Chlorophyll consumption increases the number of red blood cells and, therefore, increase oxygen utilization by the body. Chlorophyll also reduces the binding of carcinogens to DNA in the liver and other organs. It also breaks down calcium oxalate stones for elimination, which are created by the body for the purpose of neutralizing and disposing of excess acid.

Other Chlorophyll Benefits

So in addition to helping to rebuild and replenish our red blood cells, chlorophyll, being highly alkaline, also gives the body the following benefits:

• Anti Carcinogenic: Chlorophyll protects against a whole host of carcinogens found in fungus-laden foods such as nuts and grains, the toxins from cooked meats, and air-borne carcinogens (from pollution). It blocks the metabolism in the body of harmful chemicals known as procarcinogens that damage DNA. Studies published in the journals Carcinogenesis and Food and Chemical Toxicology clearly display that chlorophyll inhibits carcinogenesis.
• Antioxidant & Anti-inflammatory: containing high levels of the vitamins A, C and E, chlorophyll has strong antioxidant capacity and has also been found to help reduce inflammation.
• Chelation of Heavy Metals: chlorophyll is one of the most important chelates in nature. It’s ability to bind to and remove toxic heavy metals such as mercury makes it an extremely powerful healer. I’m about to have four mercury fillings removed, and you can bet that I will be getting PLENTY of chlorophyll into my body after the procedure!
• Antiseptic: while chlorophyll doesn’t actually have antiseptic properties of its own, it, quite remarkably, DOES have the ability to aid our body’s tissue in destroying germs. By strengthening tissue, it increases the disease resistance of cells and, at the same time, prevents the growth of bacteria!
• Treats Bad Breath: This one is a real bonus and really works! Chlorophyll has a double-action remedy for bad breath. Firstly, as a deodoriser, it will eliminate odours in the mouth and throat, but secondly (and more importantly) it promotes a healthy digestive tract – which is the primary reason for bad breath. And if you need more – here is another blog post on foods for bad breath!
• Rapid Delivery of Magnesium: this has a highly alkalising effect on the body and helps to deliver much needed oxygen to cells and tissues.
• Contains vitamin K, C, folic acid, iron, calcium, protein: which are all also essential in building and repairing red blood cells and boosting our immune system.

How to Get the Benefits of Chlorophyll

All of the health benefits of chlorophyll are easy to get on a daily basis. The simple way? Eat your greens and drink your greens. I know we are always going on about the importance of greens in your diet, but this is one of the main reasons why – it ensures you’re getting plenty of chlorophyll!

Here are a few sources:

• Green Drinks: juiced yourself (here is a recipe for you!) or made from powdered greens (such as Dr Young’s pHruits & pHoliage or pH Ion’s Green) – green drinks are a dense source of alkalising, chlorophyll rich greens that are easily assimilated by the body.
• Natures Sunshine Chlorophyll: this is one of my top, top supplements – a concentrated, dense, tasteless (almost) source of liquid chlorophyll that you can add to any drink (water, juice, smoothie) to give your body a constant source of chlorophyll. It is amazing the difference it makes to your energy. Brilliant. And unlike most liquid chlorophyll supplements it isn’t refined and highly processed (killing the goodness) or packed full of sweeteners.
• Green Food in General: eat loads of greens! Think of great big salads and veggies – spinach, lettuce, broccoli, Asian greens, green capsicum, asparagus, peas, beans, kale etc. Any food that is green is that way because it contains chlorophyll – so eat up!

So the simple message is this: go green. Eat, drink, ingest however you can.

My personal experience suggests that going green, going alkaline and getting a mass of chlorophyll daily does absolute WONDERS for your health and energy. You really notice the difference! So if you want more energy, go get yourself some. It’s really that easy!

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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Post Updated: 6th January 2010

Since I posted this blog back in March 2006 its received a fair amount of attention and there have been quite a lot of comments left (230+ to date). These comments are a mix of questions, agreement and a whole lot of flaming (some personal) against me. So I thought it would be a fine time to update the post, give you more information and clear up a heap of the questions that keep being asked!

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Since we started blogging about the health benefits of lemon water I have received lots of questions from people wondering if it is ok to put a spoonful of honey into their lemon water to sweeten it up (as recommended on other websites and a few books).

The short answer is no.

Honey is obviously sugar, and although ‘natural’ – the effect on the body is the detrimental whether sugar is natural or not.

Now, this is not to say that you can never have honey ever again, but use it very sparingly. I understand, of course, that there are different types of sugar, and I understand that these metabolise differently, but from the perspective of their effect on the blood and our acid/alkaline balance – all sugar is detrimental.

Sugar is such an issue because it causes the blood to deviate from it’s ideal pH level of 7.365 and when this occurs it causes major stress to the rest of the body. The body has to maintain this pH level and it will go to extreme measures and sacrifice everything else to make sure it stays there.

Why Does The Body Have to Stay At pH 7.365?

Because in an acidic state, red blood cells cannot possibly function as they are supposed to and begin a biological transformation into bacteria and yeast (called pleomorphism) and pollute your internal environment. In addition, the acids that are created and consumed in our modern lifestyle also ferment the blood, and create harmful by-products, toxins and alcohols, which then further destroy our internal environment.

With more acid, more toxins are created, the pH is lowered, the bacteria and yeast grows, becomes mold, and a vicious cycle begins

The unfriendly toxins, yeasts, bacteria and mold created by this acidic environment not only cause your system to become polluted and stressed, but they also feed off your good nutrients (meaning you feel less of the benefit of the good things you do eat) and excrete toxic acid waste, making the blood even more acidic and polluted. This toxic waste is…acid. It also acts as a food to the yeasts and bacteria already there, further fueling the problem.

So:

Acids consumed -> turn healthy red blood cells into bacteria and yeast -> creates mold -> mold eats your good nutrients -> excrete acid wastes -> quickly turns healthy red blood cells into bacteria and yeast -> creates mold etc.

Or in picture format:

Sugar, in all its states and forms is the #1 contributor to the over-acidification of the body

I understand there are other benefits of putting honey in lemon water, but these are instantly and massively outweighed by the negative effect of the sugar.

Even though the natural sugar of honey metabolises slower than white sugar, the effect on the acid/alkaline balance is almost instant and is very strong.

Sorry guys! But hey, lemon water doesnt taste that bad anyway does it?

More Reading

• Video Explanation: Lemons ARE alkaline NOT acid to the body
• Original Lemon Water Blog Post – explaining the benefits of lemon water
• Blog Post: The Acid Alkaline Diet Simplified – If you need a background to the acid alkaline diet then this is a great read
• Blog Post: The Top 10 Acid Alkaline Diet Questions Answered

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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