Quote (lims101 @ Jun 14 2011 02:04am)
No money in developing an anti-aging scheme? Are you kidding? Money aside, if this theory had the validity that you say, scientists would be all over it. Remember, alternative medicine just becomes medicine if it is properly scientifically validated.
Aging is definitely not based purely on "the alkaline design of your body." I admittedly don't know a lot about this "alkalife" thing but after a quick scan over the website it seems like some alternative medicine pseudoscience to me, although I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
Aging is an extremely complex interplay many different biological mechanisms. Nutrition does play a key role but the present literature shows it's more to do with insulin levels/intolerance and insulin-like growth factors (IGF-1). The main contributor is genetics, there is no disputing that. Specially, it is to do with telomeres degradation and the inability of the lagging strand to fully complete synthesis in DNA replication, due to not having an RNA primer. Another contributor is reactive oxygen species (ROS) causing damage to cellular energy generation processes like the electron transport chain, at least in oxygen dependent organisms.
I'm majoring in molecular genetics btw and I've written reports on the role of insulin in aging.
Edit: forgot to mention, most of the current research into cancer revolves around the molecular regulation of a gene called p53, which is a tumor repressor gene.
Well Lims I'll do my best to explain this to you, though you seem very caught up in the other side of this which is unfortunate.
As a matter of fact, scientists ARE all over it. They are fired, threatened, and discredited once they leave that "circle of drugs". These findings have been validated and brought to the attention of such organizations as the FDA, and it is automatically discredited and ignored.
Aging is very much based on the alkaline design of the human body, because the human body is alkaline by design and acidic by function, and this is why age and death is inevitable, because we cannot stop producing acid in our bodies through metabolic function. You admitted you don't know much about alkalinity and It's key role in the body, then why shoot it down? Like I've said before, do the research yourself and not listen to all these random big pharma ads on TV. Doing a quick scan over the internet is not enough to learn it, and yes this can be considered "alternative medicine", but in fact It's really just being healthy and maintaining the proper alkaline balance of the human body. "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food". Nutrition is great, obviously, but it is not enough on its own to maintain health, for example: Dairy products like milk contain high amounts of calcium so they put the idea in your head that you should or have to consume dairy milk to get enough calcium for your daily needs.
What they don't tell you is how dangerous the lactic acid is to the human body that is produced through dairy consumption. Guess which acid is surrounding every tumor found in the body? Lactic acid. Dairy milk has the potential to leech more calcium from your bones then it actually provides, and this can take months or years, it all depends on how well your body is currently functioning. The blood in our bodies must remain at a pH of 7.365, and the body will do anything in its power to maintain this slightly alkaline state which includes leeching calcium from your bones and magnesium from your muscles.
The main contributor is definitely not genetics. Remove the excess acid and genetics is no longer a problem. Could you explain the bolded part to me? I really like the part in blue that I've highlighted, you are close here. ROS, (the little creatures that thrive in an oxygen deprived state right)? These are things like yeast, fungus, mold, candida, pathogens, parasites etc which cannot survive when the body is in an alkaline/oxygen state of balance. You're absolutely right about these little guys causing all sorts of cellular damage.
This is exactly why when you "cut cancer out" it just comes back, because cancer is not a cell, it is a liquid poisoning the cell.
"Tumor repressor gene". This is a good one, like I said earlier, it is no coincidence that lactic acid is the main acid surrounding tumors in the body. Believe it or not, a tumor is actually what's saving your life should you get one. The body creates things like fat cells and tumors because it does not have the proper alkaline reserves it needs to safely eliminate the toxins in the body. This is due to a diet that is highly oxygen deprived and acidifying, which then creates little homes and gives room for things like yeast, fungus, etc to grow and causing even more damage.
Sadly much of what I've said here is just a repeat of my current posts. It does not have to be as technical as you look at it, people have already done this work, all we have to do is follow it. I thought most people would have seen the documentary Crazy, Sexy Cancer already, I guess not.
Quote (lone500 @ Jun 14 2011 10:03am)
i believe so strongly in maintaining proper PH mainly because i have such an interest in growing plants. they have to have soil ph levels in a certain range or they get nutrient lockout and will die from starvation pretty much.
that the body needs to be in a certain ph range to be healthy is simple logic.
It really is simple logic, though many people can't see it that way (myself included at 1 point) right off the bat because they are born into this world believing certain ways which begin to stick after a while. Remember when the earth used to be flat? It some how changed over time..... "Ignorance is our enemy" and "My people die from lack of knowledge" really stand out here. We need to educate, not medicate. We need health, not drugs.
This post was edited by DieTryin' on Jun 14 2011 02:50pm