Hey everyone!

Each fortnight we’re putting the best alkaline diet questions we receive from you to our Alkaline Diet Expert, Dr Young trained blood analyst and highly qualified nutritionist – Gareth Edwards.

Gareth is right at the very top of his field, so these answers are absolutely the best you’ll find from arguably Britain’s most qualified expert in this area!

Q&A With Gareth Edwards

Question One: Seagreens – Spirulina & Chlorella

I noticed above you mentioned greens (no spirulina!). I love my perfectly healthy greens but have also read about the great benefits of spirulina and chlorella. Do you not recommend taking spirulina and if so can you explain why? Thank you so much for your newsletters and recipes.

This is a subject on which two leading voices in dietary healing have diametrically opposed points of view.

Dr. Robert Young, author of the pH miracle diet, hydration and lifestyle program feels that spirulina and sea vegetables are acidifying and best avoided. His view is that these sea plants, when dry, do not offer the same nutritional benefits as land based vegetables. He suggests that they are “weed” more than super food!

Dr. Brian Clement, director of the Hippocrates health institute in Florida, however, uses sea vegetables as a central part of his healing regimes. I have not found any source of evidence to support Dr. Young’s point of view other than his stated observation of the fact that the blood of someone regularly consuming sea vegetables is likely to be compromised.

This is a subject worthy of further debate and investigation, although I would say that I tend to follow Dr. Young’s view at present and discourage people from consuming large amounts of sea vegetables as a therapeutic or health promoting measure. Land grown greens are however the central pillar of the therapeutic and health promoting regimes I suggest to patients.

Thank you for your question!

Question Two: Raw Foods & The Alkaline Diet

I would really like an alkaline recipe book but I understood that cooking makes all formerly alkaline vegetables acidic in the body. Your sample recipes show a lot of cooking. Your response? Thanks.

I think that in the Energise recipe book Ross has tried to make eating and drinking alkaline as straightforward and palatable to most people as possible.

Raw food will be more alkalising than cooked and particularly freshly grown and picked produce. Bio-photons create a negative charge that have an energetic healing quality and an alkalising effect. I guess that Ross feels that an all raw alkaline recipe book might have made people feel that eating and drinking this way would be like going tom food prison!

That really needn’t be the case, as I am sure you are aware. I tend to edit information from information from raw “uncooked” books to be on alkaline principals, but I am sure that an alkaline recipe book with a large selection of raw foods would interest a lot of people.

Do remember however that even some cooked alkalising foods should be more alkalising than say ….. raw (or cooked) steak!

Question Three: Barrett’s Oesophagus & The Alkaline Diet

I have Barrett’s Oesophagus & need help getting acid under control. Can you give me some advice?

Dr. Young, the author of “the pH Miracle” has developed a hypothesis of the processes that occur in the digestive process which is different from the conventional view. There seems to be more logic in his explanation of the process than the conventional view.

He proposes that the processes involved digesting foods like meat, high sugar and processed foods, and fluids like fruit juice, tea and coffee increase the production of acid in the stomach.

The inflammation that you are experiencing at the base of the oesophagus will be caused by increased acid production. I would encourage you to dramatically increase your intake fresh and ideally mainly raw vegetables and make as much of the fluid you drink, alkaline as possible.

The pHour salts product that you can buy from Energise should give you some immediate symptomatic relief, but may make your stools looser, particularly if consumed in high quantities. Adding pH drops to water will make it more alkaline. Read as much as you can about this approach to health. There are plenty of free resources on the Energise website.

Question Four: Ovarian Cancer & The Alkaline Diet

I have recently been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and I am unsure whether to proceed with surgery or adopt an alternative approach. My symptoms are mainly severe abdominal distension and discomfort (it looks like I am 6 months pregnant). I have just had a Colonic irrigation to relieve the wind and constipation. I feel nauseated and ‘full’ and very uncomfortable. I have also put on a stone in weight and feel exhausted. I don’t sleep well and feel permanently exhausted.

My diet is partly alkaline but not as alkaline as it had been previously. Please could you advise me the best way to go about easing the symptoms I am suffering? I work as a nurse and often work 60-70 hours a week. It is not easy for me to juice during the day only morning and late evenings as a general rule. I would be grateful for any advice as I am feeling very miserable at the moment.

My sympathies are with you Jacqueline. I think that in your position I would make green juices or green smoothies morning and evening. Then hydrate during the day with water mixed with green powder and pH drops. You could take a salad to work if you feel hungry and keep it in the fridge.

You could also start measuring your urinary and salivary pH and seeing if you can raise them to 7 or ideally higher (up to 9). pHour salts could help with this.

This really is a time to make yourself as healthy as possible. Plant based diets have been widely proven to promote health so I would really encourage you to help your body heal itself with as much fresh living food as possible. Sprouted beans and seeds having healing energetic qualities. Drinking wheatgrass regularly should help too.

Colonics or enemas can help the process of detoxification. Regularly using the pHour salts powder mixed with water can help cleansing and alkalising too.

Try to fit in some fresh air and sun exposure during your daily work routine. Schedule time for gentle enjoyable exercise, daily. While it is wonderful that you do a job caring for others, do try to put time aside also to dedicate to your healing and regeneration. You might want to read Brandon Bays Journey book and surround yourself with people who offer constructive help and support.

Disclaimer: These answers are not intended to diagnose and do not replace the advice of a qualified physician.

If you have a question for Gareth leave it in the comments below!

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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Article by Gareth Edwards

This week Gareth Edwards, one of the UK’s best qualified nutritionists and alkaline diet experts, discusses whether or not all types of water are equal. You might think that simply drinking plenty amounts of any type of water is healthy for you, but you will be surprised to learn in Gareth’s article that there are great quality differences.

Are All Types of Water Equal?

Back in the day when music was the “food” that fuelled my body, rather than sprouts and an occasional shot of wheatgrass (when I’m being “good”), I used to be particularly keen (musically!) on a guy called Gary Clail. “Everybody needs food, clothes and shelter, proper health care and clean running water” he used to bark, over particularly infectious dance beats.

I’m sure that the people of Japan would agree with Mr. Clail’s basic and accurate observations. It is however equally pertinent to us lucky “optimal health” livers on the other side of the planet. (If you’re reading this in Japan, our thoughts are with you.)

When thinking about water and hydration for our bodies it’s important to remember that it becomes the fluid of our blood, even if we urinate shortly after drinking it. (It’s not the same water you’ve just drunk coming out!).

When I’m doing blood analysis for people, I explain that the reason we look at the blood in aiming to improve health and wellbeing, is because blood is “the river of life” that runs through us. It brings nutrients and oxygen to our cells and it’s the “garbage truck” that picks up the “exhaust products” of cellular metabolism to transport them to our body’s filter organs.

Water is also the primary “conductor” of the electrical currents that energise and facilitate bodily function. Having good quality water, regularly, is therefore imperative for health.

What Makes Water Pure or Healthy?

Can you just drink any old water though? Surely water is water and as long it’s ….. wet, that should surely do the job, shouldn’t it? The first question mark over this is raised by the findings of recent research by the Environment Protection Agency in the USA. They recently found that 2,100 chemicals, known to be associated with toxicity and therefore health disruption have been found in municipal tap water there. While these may be present at trace (low) levels the concoction of these elements is unlikely to be beneficial to health.

Conscious of potential toxicity, water companies add chlorine to municipal tap water. The challenge, as I understand, with chlorine is the toxicity of the chemicals that it can produce when it reacts with carbon based compounds. Additionally chemicals are added to tap water to remove lead toxicity. Controversial fluoride is added to most tap water too.

With this in mind some kind of home filtration is advisable. A seemingly logical solution is to filter out everything to get back to pure H2O. Reverse osmosis or distilled water will provide this for you. The challenge is that, the products of these filtration systems are often acidic and do not support life. If you put a fish in distilled water or water plants with it, apparently, they do not last long. It is the minerals that are dissolved in the water that gives it its life force. You can add minerals back to the water produced by these machines, but there are question marks about creating water with life force or detoxifying qualities this way.

Bottled water may suddenly seem appealing when you read this. Part of the trouble with that is that the inordinate amount of oil used every year to produce plastic bottles (estimated at over 17 million barrels per annum). It’s also worth considering the truck miles involved in its transport and potential oestrogen like toxicity from the plastics leeching into the water, particularly in warm weather.

So What’s The Answer:

I’m looking forward to hearing Ronnie Ruiz telling us about his solutions (what a pun!) next week. It does seem that filtration of tap water either through the chlorine removing, alkalising filter jug sold by Energise or the filter in a water ioniser is important. Additionally you want your water to contain negatively charged or alkalising minerals. These should help quench potentially harmful free oxidising radicals and provide conductivity for electrical currents, required for energy in the body. They can also help reduce the presence of yeasts and moulds. puripHy and pH booster drops are examples of products that should provide this. Inner Lights prime pH, Activator and Alkavision’s water drops are other examples.

While researching to write this week’s article I stumbled across some information about black Mica. This naturally occurring substance has interesting qualities for purifying water. I’ll let you know more when I do. This is an evolving area of health promotion.

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Note: This blog is only my opinion. It is not medical advice or diagnosis. Only opinions based upon our own personal experiences or information detailed in medical/academic journals or other publications is cited. WE DO NOT OFFER MEDICAL ADVICE or prescribe any treatments. Please consult with a medical professional before making any diet or nutrition changes.

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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Hey everyone!

Each fortnight we’re putting the best alkaline diet questions we receive from you to our Alkaline Diet Expert, Dr Young trained blood analyst and highly qualified nutritionist – Gareth Edwards.

Gareth is right at the very top of his field, so these answers are absolutely the best you’ll find from arguably Britain’s most qualified expert in this area!

Q&A With Gareth Edwards

Question One: Alkalinity/Acidity of Vegetables

Dr Young writes that tomatoes when cooked change from alkaline to slightly acidic, does this happen to other veg? onions, garlic and all the rest?

Raw food generally will be more alkalising to body fluids and tissue. The main reason for this is that the bio-photon energy contained by living plants that makes them more alkalising is diminished by cooking. The glaecemic index (how quickly sugar enters the blood) will increase too and levels of some health promoting nutrients (like vitamin C) will also be reduced by cooking.

Cooking vegetables and roots, does not however mean that they become as acidifying as some of the major “acidifiers” such as vinegar, mayonnaise, mushrooms, fizzy drinks and animal protein.

Question Two: pH Levels & Liquid Intake

I had a quick question about the liquids that we intake and the pH before entering the body vs after. If I use a pH strip and test the water I’m drinking with alkalizing drops, green drink and regular tap water – should there be a noticeable difference in the pH of these liquids before they enter my system? I have tested all three and I have noticed very little difference between them. Before I disclose which greens drink I am using and which water drops I just wanted to know if the pH difference occurs in the system once the body processes these liquids or if it is actually supposed to be recognizable before entering my system?

What a great question and great that you are taking your health this seriously. There should be a difference in the pH of the water that you drink with and without the pH drops. They should raise the pH by a whole number, at least. Adding the greens alone (without the pH drops) is unlikely to raise the pH measurably. Because they are dried (with, in some cases, a micro-electronic charge re-attached to them) they are likely to be pH neutral.

There are some potential challenges around measuring changes in pH. While the pH strips or pH paper can act as a useful guide to urinary and saliva pH, I wouldn’t guarantee their accuracy 100%. Particularly if you are using the narrow band pH strips, the changes can actually take the reading outside the range. If you really want to be sure that your readings for any measurement are completely correct then it would be worth investing in a pH meter. You can order one here: Click here!

I have readings from a client who tested the pH of tap water using one of these meters. She tested the effects of Reverse Osmosis, an alkalising jug and Young pHorever puripHy drops. The jug and the puripHy clearly raised pH while RO did not and in one of the tests, significantly lowered it.

Question Three: Restricted Potassium/Salt Diet & Alkaline Supplements

I want to alkalise my water with ph drops but am on a restricted salt and potassium diet for Meniere’s (disease) – can you advise as to which product is the best for me please?

The conventional way to “treat” Meniere’s disease (ringing in the ears, partial deafness and vertigo) is to try to reduce the amount of fluid retention in the head or aural canal by reducing sodium intake and in some cases, by giving diuretics. In the literature that I have read, I have not found any reference to reducing potassium intake.

The reality is that all pH “boosting” drops (that I am aware of) do use sodium or potassium salts in order to achieve increases in pH. You could try using the formulas that have higher levels of potassium than sodium such as Perfectly Healthy’s “pH plus” or Young pHorever’s puripHy, but these both still contain potassium.

I think that my general advice to you, would be to look in a wholistic way at why the fluids in your aural canals may not be draining or may be thickened, rather than trying to “force” the fluid out.

An alkalising diet, fresh air and sunlight are the foundational steps that I would recommend to anyone looking to improve their health. That may need to be followed with detoxification, at a deeper level to promote the free flowing and draining of fluids from the aural canals.

I add the following quote from the dizziness-and-balance.com website, written by Timothy C. Hain, MD:

“Note that it is not the overall level of sodium that is important, but whether or not it fluctuates. It is not necessary or wise to lower your salt intake to amounts barely able to sustain life. We do not encourage use of 1 gram sodium diets. Rather the goal is to keep sodium levels from fluctuation. A 2 gram diet is usually possible.”

Acupuncture can be used to help ear draining and general health too.

Question Four: pHour Salts & Alkalosis

On taking the pHour salts our urine readings went to over 8/9 and stayed there overnight and half the next day? I am a bit nervous about taking it again as I don’t want to become too alkaline?

Thanks for this question. While some practitioners believe that maintaining a urinary pH around seven is healthy, I am in agreement with Dr. Young’s view that a healthy urinary pH is consistently maintained in the 8/9 readings that you achieved.

The fundamental underlying principal of human (and all animal physiology) is that every active, waking minute of every day our body is producing acid through metabolic reactions. These acids are buffered (neutralised) in our bodies and large amount of that buffering takes place in our kidneys. This is where urine is (made). So if you are producing alkaline urine after ingesting pHour salts, that means that this important organ of detoxification and elimination is maintaining it’s alkaline “design” and therefore staying healthy.

If you are eating a highly alkaline diet, free from animal protein and high in green plant foods, their juices and sprouted seeds and beans, with healthy fats and un-processed salts, you may not need to add pHour salts to your regime. Do however remember, that you should be able to support a urinary pH of 8 or 9 quite comfortably and Dr. Young actually recommends that that is where we should all be, in order to facilitate the elimination of metabolic (produced in the body) and ingested (eaten or drunk) acids.

If, in the highly unlikely event that, you did start to experience any kind of urinary discomfort, you should reduce the dose.

Disclaimer: These answers are not intended to diagnose and do not replace the advice of a qualified physician.

If you have a question for Gareth leave it in the comments below!

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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Article by Gareth Edwards

This week Gareth Edwards, one of the UK’s best qualified nutritionists and alkaline diet experts, explains why green drinks are so healthy for us and how they help alkalising and energising our bodies.

He also gives us his top tips how we can incorporate the use of green drinks into our daily routines and therefore get the full benefits of these green goodies!

Why Are Green Drinks So Healthy For Us?

“I’d like to do that alkalising diet, but I’d just be hungry all the time….There wouldn’t be enough variety or flavour.”

It doesn’t matter how much the more experienced alkaliser tries to re-assure someone who is new on the block that this can be the most tasty, varied way of eating that they are ever likely to come across, the fear of feeling empty can often be a chasm that looks un-crossable to some explorers.

So, faced with that seemingly un-crossable ravine between you and your happy smiling friends (!) over in alkaline land, what can be done to bridge the famine gorge? Eating plenty of avocados and sprouted beans and seeds can help get the foundation stones in place. Finding an alternative to the energy bar or sandwich when you are feeling really hungry and in a hurry can, however seem more difficult.

I’d have to say that I used to be something of a compulsive eater. I kind of got away with it, because I didn’t tend to put on weight. It was however expensive and time consuming spending so much time in the kitchen. I have to say that it is a mild source of amazement to me that I now usually only have two (or even sometimes one) meals a day.

A huge part of that transition started, when instead of snacking on bread, biscuits or even oatcakes or rice cakes, I started mixing myself a bottle of filtered (or ionised) water with powdered green plant food. When you’re wedded to a calorie based model of nutrition, the thought that some powdered beetroot tops, dandelion and alfalfa leaf could take away your hunger just as effectively as a cereal bar, seems …. mad! In reality, the blood building, green plant foods, effectively energise you, almost immediately.

I wouldn’t recommend living on green powder alone. It’s good to get some of the real fresh stuff in your diet as well. If, however, you either find the thought of juicing or eating greens too much or you want to supplement the fresh greens in your diet with highly nutritious fast food, a high quality green powder (such as perfectlyhealthy Mega Greens) is pretty much as good as it gets.

In The Mix:

Adding pH drops to your green powder drink will help to keep you mineralised and that’s important, particularly when you increase your fluid intake. The ingredients of your green drink are important too. Land based green vegetables, leaves from edible plants and particularly grasses, have powerful beneficial therapeutic effects. I don’t see any apparent benefits of adding spirulina, pro-biotics and digestive enzymes.

Top Tips:

Use green drinks for re-hydrating and recovery after sport or exercise.

Buy or locate a small plastic pot or tub to take your green powder everywhere with you. Most pH drops bottles can be taken as hand baggage on flights (2 fl. oz. is within the allowed limit).

If you feel like a snack between meals or if you are having trouble concentrating while working, mix a bottle of green powder, pH drops and water and drink that before reaching for the … sweets, bread …. or coffee!

Do remember that an effective green drink may initiate some de-toxification. If you experience rashes, head aches or other symptoms, reducing the concentration, during out breaks may help.

After-thought:

Our thoughts and good wishes must go to the Japanese people at this time.

Note: This blog is only my opinion. It is not medical advice or diagnosis. Only opinions based upon our own personal experiences or information detailed in medical/academic journals or other publications is cited. WE DO NOT OFFER MEDICAL ADVICE or prescribe any treatments. Please consult with a medical professional before making any diet or nutrition changes.

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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Hey everyone!

Each fortnight we’re putting the best alkaline diet questions we receive from you to our Alkaline Diet Expert, Dr Young trained blood analyst and highly qualified nutritionist – Gareth Edwards.

Gareth is right at the very top of his field, so these answers are absolutely the best you’ll find from arguably Britain’s most qualified expert in this area!

Q&A With Gareth Edwards

Question One: Alkaline Diet Cleanse – Duration & Frequency

Cleanse – how many times per annum do you recommend cleansing and for how long and when (what months)?

Hmm. Good question. I think the real answer would be related to your need and … motivation. If someone has an extreme health challenge (or wants to be on the top of the podium in London next year) then there’s a fairly good case for pretty much continuously following a COWS (Chlorophyll, Oils, Water and Salt) based eating and hydration plan. That can be with smoothys, juices, alkaline meals and green powders.

Getting enough calories might require some thought and planning if you are to do this and having some kind of professional advice may be advisable too. Avocados, sprouted beans and seeds and healthy oil (such as Dr Young’s Omega 3-6-9 Oil Blend) can all form part of a sustained plant based eating plan.

A two to five day cleanse can be an effective way to initiate a change in your body chemistry. Start with two days and then try 3, 4 or 5 days if desired (and bearable!). It’s important to plan a little bit how you are going to eat and drink afterwards. The changes that you experience when you are cleansing may make you automatically desire more alkalising, health promoting food and hydration choices.

I really think that you can do a cleanse at any time of the year. When we ate more seasonally, winter might have been a time when more nuts and oils (or even animal protein, including cheeses) might have been consumed. As fresh plant foods became more locally readily available in spring, cleansing some of the build ups from our winter diet and shedding some of the warming winter weight would have been sensible and healthy. Year round “cleansing food” availability and central heating mean that we do not tend to eat this way so much now.

Spring and New Year “cleans” can however be effective and health promoting, but looking after your body really needs to be a year round project!

Question Two: The Right Combination of Cleansing Supplements

Supplements – normally I take Msm, probiotics & Savant’s Udo’s choice / flax seed oils. What additional supplements do you recommend taking whilst cleansing – do you recommend a fibre supplement & is there a danger of any side effects e.g. encouraging a lazy colon?

The main focus when you are cleansing needs to be on foods and fluids, as I am sure you are aware. I would recommend a green powder supplement and pH drops, that you mix with water. Eliminating acids through urination is equally important to elimination through defecation.

I don’t personally recommend pro-biotics. I believe they are acidifying. Using a vegetable oil that contains the essential fatty acids that your body cannot make is advisable. Hemp oil, Udo’s Choice or flax oil that is kept refrigerated are all good sources of these “healthy” fats that can help buffer (neutralise) acids as they are released from body tissue.

You can use fibre supplements to ensure / facilitate bowel movement. They can be slightly “abrasive” to the delicate tissue of the intestinal lumen (“wall”). Using a bicarbonate salt supplement such as pHour salts or Biocare’s “Bio-carbonate” can help mineralise the body and facilitate faecal elimination. These should help promote intestinal health without creating dependence or undermining your bodies own elimination capability. Remember that you can experience some discomfort when acids start to be released from body tissue.

Adding Montmorillionite clay (terra pHirma) to your greens or mixing it and eating it like yoghurt(!) can also help draw acids out and re-mineralise your body. Do keep reasonably well hydrated and consume fresh vegetables and un-refined salt.

Question Three: Tomatoes & Arthritis

Tomato / tomato juice – I was lead to believe tomato should be avoided as too much in the diet can cause / aggravate arthritis. Is this true?

Tomato’s are considered to be part of the nightshade family of plants and vegetables which also includes potatoes and aubergines and peppers. There is anecdotal (individual reported case history) evidence of diets where these foods are removed leading to improvements in arthritis symptomologies.

No trials (to me knowledge) have conclusively supported this and were they to do so, the question would then need to be asked as to whether any one of the individual “members” of the family was the “culprit” or whether this grouping actually caused arthritis.

People have experienced dramatic reductions in joint pain (over time) by following an alkalising plan as recommended by Dr. Young, Energise and myself. This would include low sugar fruits, such as tomatoes, lemons, limes, cucumbers and avocados. Tinned tomatoes, tinned or bottled tomato juice (rather than fresh), tomato ketchup or a pre-prepared tomato soup with sugar and / or vinegar added could contribute to the aggravation of arthritic symptoms.

Question Four: Exercise Juice & Breathing

Exercise – my preference is to power walk instead of run. Is this ok (if the target heart rate is reached)? When possible is it best to exercise before consuming breakfast juice and after exercise to complete breathing exercises (this is suggested in Alkaline Recipe 4: The Ultimate Liver Cleanse Recipe).

I think the most important thing with exercise is that you enjoy it enough to make you want to do it! If you don’t like running and you enjoy walking or power walking then ….
Running or more vigorous exercise can make you sweat more and breath more deeply. That is important to facilitate the elimination of acid. I do however accept that power walking may accomplish both of these. More vigorous exercise can however also make you more acidic if you promote sugar burning metabolism (rather than fat burning) or exceed your body’s oxygen delivery capability (anaerobic exercise).

I would recommend having a glass of pHour salts and water or water and lemon juice on an empty stomach / on rising. Ideally, you would then do your power walking (or other exercise) and then have a juice or alkaline smoothy. The ingredients in the liver cleanse and other juices will need some digestive “work” so might slosh around while exercising if consumed directly prior to commencing. You can do your breathing exercises before or after physical exercise, if you wish. Experiment with sequences to see what works best for you.

Disclaimer: These answers are not intended to diagnose and do not replace the advice of a qualified physician.

If you have a question for Gareth leave it in the comments below!

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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After my recent Alkaline Water Q&A Session there was ONE KEY QUESTION that kept coming up over and over again: what are the easiest and cheapest ways to make alkaline water?

In this short video I run through all of the techniques:

> what they are
> how they work
> the costs
> the pro’s and con’s

Included are ‘lemon water’, adding sodium bicarb, alkaline jugs, alkaline sticks, pH drops and more!

Enjoy
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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