Energy Secret No3:If your body chemistry gets too “acidic,” you'll tire easily, have more difficulty thinking, and even become pessimistic.

Did you know that in a natural, healthy state, every major organ in your body works around the clock to buffer acids and keep your system slightly alkaline? In fact, virtually all of your cells and tissues contain significant amounts of buffering alkaline substances, such as minerals, oxygen and bicarbonate.

But over time, your body's ability to buffer acids weakens. And if your cells and tissues are even slightly more acidic than alkaline, you tire easily and are often fatigued. Over-acidity causes your muscles to be fatigued and restricts your physical energy and stamina.

When I test my patients for acid/ alkaline balance, I find many of them are too acidic—and thus, too tired. Why?

There are three main reasons: Diet, lifestyle and premature aging.

Let me explain. The standard American diet is highly acidic, with many foods such as red meat, vinegar, citrus fruits, alcohol, dairy products, refined sugar, soft drinks, and coffee containing large amounts of acidic materials such as sulfur and phosphorus.

To prove this point, the Economic Research Service of the USDA found that the average American eats nearly six times more acidic foods than alkaline foods per year.

Lifestyle can also cause your body to be too acidic. For example, if you're under physical or mental stress (how many of us aren't these days!), you use more nutrients and generate more acidic waste products than your body can process and dispose of rapidly.

Frequent airline travel (because of stale, recirculated air), vigorous exercise (which consumes oxygen and creates lactic acid), and over-the-counter medications (which are acidifying) also make your body more acidic—and more tired.

The aging process doesn't help, either

In addition, as we reach our 40s and 50s and beyond, most of us experience a decline in our ability to balance our acid/alkaline ratio.

For example, oxygen is essential to keeping your body alkaline. Yet your lungs' ability to take in oxygen declines one percent per year on average. It peaks for women at age 20, but by age 70, your oxygen intake is reduced by half.

What's more, after midlife, the ability of your pancreas to secrete alkalizing biocarbonate starts to decline.

I know it's tough to keep diet and lifestyle on balance. Because of your busy schedules, you may have to eat on the run like I sometimes do. When the kids are gone, it's harder to cook for just one or two. Coffee bars entice us with creamy caffeine-laced lattes and mochas. Stress causes cortisone levels to soar, making our hormones quickly get out of balance.

So what can you do to better balance your acid/alkaline levels, reduce your acidity, and get more energy?

The answer is easier than you can imagine. Through my research and experience with my patients, I've discovered two simple ingredients that help maintain the body's preferred alkaline state. Calcium carbonate and magnesium oxide naturally help to bring out pH levels back to where they need to be in order for us to feel and do our best. Without the right diet and sufficient intakes of these nutrients, our bodies will often rob it from where it can find it—most often our bones.

A product comes to mind called Alkalizer. It is the only natural supplement I've seen that helps…balance your body chemistry in the three key areas that produce energy— cellular, brain, and acid/alkaline levels and boosts your physical, mental and emotional energy, as well as, give you short-term and long lasting energy release energy for your body and mind.

Even better, it gives you all of these benefits safely, naturally, and easily!

I stand behind this unique formula and know it works because I take it every day myself. There's nothing better that I've ever seen that gives you all the extra energy you want and need—in a natural, balanced, non-jittery way.

Ideally, your acid to alkaline pH (which stands for “potential of hydrogen”) should be slightly alkaline, at a pH of 7.35 to 7.45. This is the level that helps you produce maximum energy. Warning: If your blood pH drops below 7.35, you’re in big danger.

Call my office to schedule a nutritional consultation so we can determine imbalances, so that tests can be performed and a comprehensive strategy of lifestyle, dietary modification and nutrient supplementation can be implemented to aid you in reversing this disorder.

Teresa Rispoli has her Ph.D. in Nutrition, is a licensed Acupuncturist and clinical researcher. She has been in practice for well over 25 years. It is through her clinical practice that she has gained insights into chronic health conditions. If you are suffering from unexplained symptoms that come and go you owe it to yourself to find out why. Find out today call for a Nutritional Consultation with Dr. Rispoli.

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The information herein is not intended as diagnosis, treatment or a cure. Should you have a medical condition please seek the advice of your medical doctor.