Oasis Magazine - Cairns & Tropical North Queensland Issue 21 - Dec|Jan 2018 | Page 56

Reach your Potential OF HYDROGEN INNER HEALTH Christiane Wagner Registered Nurse, Massage & Lymphatic Therapist pH, or potential of Hydrogen, is a measurement to scale alkalinity and acidity. In very simple terms, a measurement of 7 is neutral. Below that indicates acidity, while above it is alkaline. To get an idea about your body, if you’re too acidic, you have to do a specific measurement. Only your pH profile will show if you’re acidic or not. And it is important to measure your pH regularly, as one measurement alone doesn’t tell you anything about the pH circumstances in your body, neither measuring your blood pH. The human tolerated range of pH of blood and cell fluid is limited. It gets adjusted by a complex buffer system. Normal is a pH of 7.35-7.45 in arterial blood. The pH has a crucial importance and each organ has to be in its specific pH range. The stomach juice, with a pH of 1.2 - 3 has the most acidity in humans bodies. It’s necessary to digest protein and it protects against bacteria. Furthermore eating, drinking, stress and sleeping has an impact on our pH as well. Processed food, sugar, the value of demineralised food and bad digestion provides us with A healthy heart has a pH too much acidity. What our of 6.9 and if it would drop PERSONALISE YOUR buffer system can’t cope down to 6.2, the heart CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR THAT SOMEONE with. If there’s too much would stop beating. SPECIAL WITH A acidity stored, the body Digestion and ordinary CUSTOMISED GIFT isn’t able to function. muscle contraction VOUCHER. ENQUIRE NOW! leave acidity, which At Body & Skincare must to be released. Northern Beaches, we combine all treatments Our body has to protect whilst looking at your pH and your important organs, like the heart for getting too acidic or we would die gut function. We know that if your pH straight away. That’s why the blood must and gut are balanced, your skin, gut have a pH around 7.35- 7.45 always, or and muscular issues will improve. If we’re in serious trouble. To do so the you like to hear more about it please body will balance the blood as priority. feel free to call 0447277793. Our saliva pH is around 7, and chronically acidic saliva can destroy the teeth. BODYAND SKINCARECAIRNSB EAC HE S.COM 0447 277 793 56 | w w w. o a s i s m a g a z i n e . c o m . a u When kidneys and liver can’t get the acidity out fast enough, it will store acidity on cartilage, ligaments and tissues.