Yet Another Doctor Gets The Message.

Dr. Peter L. Kopko, D.C. has written a good article on alkaline water.

In it he says that the diet we follow today actually creates metabolic acidosis, and that the ‘tax’ on our systems is evidenced in the fact that so many of us have highly acidic urine. He says that most of his patients have a test result of around 5 to 6pH – up to 100 times more acidic than neutral.

I agree completely with Dr Kopko when he says that this is mainly caused by excess eating. On the weekend I read in our national news that we Australians have finally beaten the Americans in obesity. Yes. The tall lean suntanned aussie is no more. He’s FAT.

When we over eat proteins break down into acidic byproducts, massively increasing the load on our kidneys. We get acidic urine because our kidneys are flat out ridding us of the acids before they wreak further internal damage! Some old school medicos still say that tap water is fine for flushing the kidneys but with a pH of around neutral or less, it has no acid-neutralising power.

Further, when we are loaded up, our kidney detoxification (filtering) function is compromised. The enzymes the liver needs for detoxification are highly pH sensitive, and if you are excessively acidic, they cannot perform their function of biological transformation of toxins into water soluble form suitable for elimination.

However if you can give these Phase I and II enzymes the pH they need to work efficiently, detox will happen naturally. The same function is performed by surgeons in operating theatres all over the world every day to alleviate liver malfunction, using bicarbonate of soda. The method, called ‘ion trapping’ is designed to increase urinary elimination of weak acids in alkaline urine. So it makes simple and scientific sense to adopt a daily alkalinizing regime – simply because we already have a daily acidification regime!

Dr Kopko says that drinking alkaline water would greatly enhance these processes. Given the simple fact that we are mainly water, followed by calcium, it makes sense to adopt a regime that affects the majority part of us; water. Dr Kopko finishes his article by discussing the benefits of the microclustering that occurs with an alkaline water ionizer. This effectively reduces the size of the water molecules making the water ‘wetter’ and more effective as a hydrator. Being laden with antioxidant Hydroxyl ions, the water becomes a natural seeker of free radicals in the body, and combined with its excellent hydrative ability, it becomes an incredibly economical way to pursue an anti-ageing program.