What Makes the Body Acidic?
Most scientific models conceive the ideal pH of the human body as 7.4, slightly alkaline, although hair, skin, and saliva are all normally acidic. Internal biochemical factors can combine to alter pH, but in most cases it is dietary factors that imbalance the pH of the human body. Every food has a specific impact on the pH of the body, due the pH of that food’s “ash.” Acid Ash and Alkali Ash If you’re thinking that acidic foods like coffee, oranges, vinegar and lemons make the body acidic, you’re right in part, although it’s not quite so simple. Almost every food we consume enters the body as an acidic substance. Yet many foods have the ability to increase alkalinity by absorbing or neutralizing acidity. Lemons, in particular, are remarkably able to balance the pH of the body. They enter the body as an acid, but through the digestive process, they are transformed into an alkali-ash food, so named because the process of digestion is similar to combustion. When lemon juice is “burned” or
