“If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat–diseased tissues–rather than causing disease.”
–Rudolf Virchow

We have been led to believe that in this big bad world, it is us against disease-causing microbes that we can’t even see. We think that besides washing our hands and being immunized, we are pretty much at the mercy of Mother Nature. This simply is not true. The environment inside your body determines what creatures want to share that terrain with you. Germs in and of themselves do not cause disease. They show up in parts of the body, which are already sick – like ants following a trail of popcorn. Only instead of popcorn, the trail is made of acid waste. An acidic and nutritionally deficient terrain invites the germs, which easily multiply and destroy the already suffering and diseased cells in that environment.

When we build a fire, there is an ash left behind by the burned fuel. The same is true of our body when it burns food for fuel. The food leaves an ash. That ash will either be alkaline or acidic, depending on the food.

Acidity and alkalinity are measured on what is called the pH scale.  How acidic a food is on our plates is often the opposite of how acidic the ash residue will be.  For example, acidic fruits and vegetables tend to leave an alkaline ash, while alkaline meats and cheeses tend to be acid-forming in the body. Our bodies also produce acid as a by-product of normal metabolism. Because our bodies are designed to be alkaline, this acid must be buffered with alkaline substances. However, our bodies cannot manufacture acid buffers. Food and supplementation are the only means of replenishing alkalinity in the body.

Due to the Standard American Diet (SAD), most people suffer from an unbalanced pH that is too acidic. In other words, their bodies are full of acid waste.

As soon as there is life there is danger.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the throat of a “healthy person” various forms of strep bacteria, yeasts, and the bacteria that causes staph infections reside. In addition to that, every hour, we breathe in an average of 14,000 germs and bacteria. If germs initiate disease, how do we make it past our first week of life? The fact is that those 14,000 germs may get their “foot in the door”, but they can’t do damage in an alkaline and oxygenated terrain.

“Like everybody else, when I don’t know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.”
-George Jean Nathan
The cold-causing rhinoviruses, as well as many other viruses, infect cells by fusing with the cell in an acid pH. An acidic environment is necessary for these viruses to take hold in the body. (Read more at http://www.meridianinstitute.com/ceu/ceu21ph.html.) Interestingly, data shows that up to 80% of asthma exacerbations are associated with viruses, usually the same virus responsible for the common cold.

“Human beings, the potentially highest form of life expression on this planet have built the vast pharmaceutical industry for the central purpose of poisoning the lowest form of life on the planet–germs! One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedence of chemicals over nutrition.”
-Dr. Richard Murray
One symptom of a terrain pH imbalance is lack of oxygen.  An anaerobic (low oxygen) internal terrain encourages germs to multiply.  Scientists can watch live blood and see bacteria, yeast, fungus feeding and growing as the blood loses its nutrition and oxygen. Amazingly, these germs disorganize in the presence of oxygen.
Since the Standard American Diet consists of foods that make the terrain more acidic and less oxygenated, we are left to operate on our backup system: the immune system. This doesn’t seem to be working out very well either. Scientific evidence shows a significant decline in Th1 cells that go after viruses and cancer. Between 1981 and 1997, these cell numbers declined by 29% in the U.S. This Th1 decline implies that, as a nation, America is becoming more and more Th2 dominant. This rise in Th2 dominance will in turn cause an increase in allergies, autoimmune disease, fibromyalgia, and cancer.

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