Keeping a healthy balance

Most people who suffer from unbalanced pH are acidic.  What is pH and what does is mean to be too acid?  pH is the abreviation for “potential hydrogen.”  It is the measure of the acid level in your body’s fluids.  The higher the pH reading, the more alklaline and oxygen-rich the fluid is.  pH ranges from 0 to 14, with 7 being neutral.  Anything above 7 is alkaline, and anything below 7 is considered acidic.

Summary: This article continues on to explain the connection between pH imbalances and migraines. Treat and resolve your migraines naturally.

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Over-acidity is very common today. It’s a dangerous condition that weakens all body systems. It gives rise to an internal environment conducive to disease, as opposed to a pH-balanced environment which allows normal body function necessary for the body to resist disease.  A healthy body maintains adequate alkaline reserves to meet emergency demands.  When excess acids must be neutralized, our alkaline reserves are depleted leaving the body in a weakened condition. An acid/alkaline balanced diet, according to many experts, is a vital key to health maintenance.  When the pH of the body gets out of balance (too acidic), we may experience low energy, fatigue, excess weight, poor digestion, aches and pains, and even more serious disorders.

When our bodies are too acid and our alkaline reserves are depleted, this condition forces the body to borrow minerals – including calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium – from vital organs and bones to buffer (neutralize) the acid.   When your body needs alkaline minerals to help maintain it’s blood pH balance, it will literally leach calcium out of your bones, and other needed minerals (such as magnesium) are leached also from bones and organs.  Research has shown that migraines can be caused by nutritional deficiencies, specifically a deficiency in magnesium. As the body tries to neutralize its acid load, it uses up magnesium reserves, causing a magnesium deficiency.  Magnesium deficiency increases blood pressure and blood vessels in the head dilate from the increased pressure.   The USDA has performed studies that show a high correlation between migraine sufferers and low levels of magnesium that can also lead to more serious conditions such as heart attacks and strokes.

We all want to live healthier, more vibrant lives.  But, because our busy lives demand so much of us we tend to skip exercise and make poor dietary choices and our health suffers as a result.  As our pH becomes more and more unbalanced, we tend to crave more acid-forming foods.   It’s a vicious cycle that saps energy, depletes minerals and nutrients, and causes a multitude of potentially life-threatening conditions and diseases. Research has shown acidic pH levels to be chief causes of obesity, migraine headaches, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and even cancer.

The solution is simple, but not necessarily easy.  Changing the way we eat is the best way to become more alkaline.  Try for 75 – 80% alkaline-forming foods and only 20-25% acid-forming foods at each meal.  You will discover that juicing and superfoods will help as well.

The Ayurvedic diet emphasizes magnesium rich, alkaline foods such as raw foods, especially bananas and broccoli, and milk. One home remedy that has worked to treat the symptoms of headache, cold hands and feet, vertigo and many of the other conditions is to drink a banana smoothie with coconut milk, which is an easily absorbable, alkaline, magnesium rich drink.

The change won’t happen overnight, but by integrating the proper foods along with the proper supplements and superfoods you can turn things around.  The process of restoring pH balance begins with proper diet and nutrition. This includes eating alkalizing foods (vegetables, low sugar fruits, etc.), super hydration (drinking plenty of ionic, structured, alkaline water), and proper supplementation.

Another problem – your body can only properly absorb water, minerals, and nutrients when your pH levels are slightly alkaline, and it does take time to turn an acid body alkaline.  Since the body needs an alkaline pH to absorb water properly – water retension is one manifestation of being overly acid and that can also lead to migraines.

Put yourself on the fast track to an alkaline body.  In addition to making changes to the way you eat, also add the proper supplements and superfoods to your diet.

Earth Greens Powder or Capsules:  Essante Brand Organic Earth Greens are a powerful blend of organic grasses, vegetables, sprouts, leaves, and high frequency minerals which provide not only whole body nutrition, but assist in alkalizing, energizing and nourishing your cells. Organically alkaline, Essante Worldwide Earth Greens natural plant ingredients help neutralize acid and pulls the body’s pH back to its ideal more alkaline state.

Supreme pH Drops:  Essante Supreme pH Drops will raise the pH value of your water and help to release the oxygen molecules within water for easier absorption by the body.  Supreme pH Drops also contribute to the neutralizing effects of alkalizing products such as Essantee Worldwide Earth Greens.  These drops can be used alone in water or other beverages.  Partner with Essante Earth Greens (either capsules or powder).

Start with these two products, and as you can, add the Omega Oils, Vitamin D3, and the Calcium to your routine.

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Another product to consider is MigreLief – formulated to nourish your depleted reserves of key nutrients including Magnesium, which will also assist in the prevention of Migraines. 

The body can suffer severe and prolonged damage due to high acidity – a condition that may go undetected for years.  The time to start is now.  Turn your life around, balance your pH, and be on the way to a more happy, healthy, pain-free and disease-free life!

According to A. Mauskop and B.M. Altura, of the New York Headache Center, research has shown that migraines can be caused by nutritional deficiencies, specifically a deficiency in magnesium.

Magnesium

Magnesium is a mineral that can relax blood vessels and increase the body’s efficient use of serotonin.  The USDA has performed studies that show a high correlation between migraine sufferers and low levels of magnesium.

Serotonin

Magnesium steadies serotonin levels. A dip or rise in serotonin can cause blood vessels to dilate or constrict, which leads to migraines.

Consequences

Low levels of magnesium can lead to migraines.  In the June 24, 2009 issue of “Neurology,” Dr. Tobias Kurth of Harvard Medical School, stated that migraines, especially in women, are a health concern that can lead to more serious conditions such as heart attacks and strokes.

Treatment

Migraine sufferers should incorporate more magnesium into their diet through foods such as vegetables, legumes and nuts and through magnesium supplements.  A supplement specifically designed to target this deficiency in migraine sufferers is a product called MigreLief.

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Many chronic migraine sufferers resort to taking prescription medicines named triptans when a migraine gets out of control. These medicines are used “acutely”. This means you take them when you already have a migraine you want to stop. These drugs do not prevent migraines from occurring.

In fact, not only do they not prevent migraines, the general consensus amongst researchers and clinicians is that on-going regular use of triptan drugs like Imitrex or Zomig actually increase the total number of migraines that many users of the drugs have. This phenomenon is known as “Rebound Headache.”

Some readers of this article may recognize this pattern in their own lives. A migraine develops that won’t go away and one of these drugs is administered. The current migraine either goes away or decreases in intensity to the point where it is manageable but a day or two later, another migraine occurs. “The Rebound Headache”.

If users are not careful this can lead to increasing drug use and a cycle of reoccurring migraines. This rebound cycle occurs not only with triptan drugs but with caffeine containing over the counter medicines like Excedrin. Caffeine can help reduce the pain of headaches and migraines in some sufferers. But unfortunately it is caffeine that causes many headaches and contributes to the development of migraines in many, if not most sufferers. In fact, several well known neurologists who specialize in treating migraine sufferers have stated that one of the most powerful ways to reduce the number of migraines that sufferers experience is to remove caffeine from their diets. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done, because caffeine is addictive and many sufferers when attempting to ween off of it actually go through withdrawal like symptoms and experience a temporary, short increase in their headaches or migraines. Fortunately, this will last only a short time, perhaps several days and then a significant decrease in the frequency and intensity of migraines should occur.

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