- Tonight we're going to be talking about the acid alkaline balance in the body. That's gonna be our first lecture. In our second lecture, we're gonna be talking about exercise. And I've got some exciting news. There's a type of exercise
that is more powerful than any other exercise and it can take 12 minutes a day. Does that sound exciting? That's exciting news for
us because we're all busy, is that right? But first of all, I'm gonna be looking at the acid alkaline balance in the body. If you've ever had a swimming pool, you test the acid alkaline balance in the water every morning because if the water goes too acid, then the pipes corrode. And if the water goes too alkaline, algae grows on the pipes. Well, just as you need to be checking your acid alkaline balance in the water, so too in your body, your body fluids because we are a lot of fluid. The fluid in our body is
mostly blood or lymphatic fluid and it has a reading on
the acid alkaline scale. So let's have a look at
the acid alkaline scale. The acid alkaline scale
is called a pH scale. It's called pH because pH means potential hydrogen. When you dissolve acid in a solution, it gives off hydrogen ions. When you dissolve alkaline in solution, it gives off hydroxy ions. So pH means potential hydroxy
or potential hydrogen. At one end, we've got
acid and that's north. The reading there is north. On the alkaline end, the reading is 14. And in the middle, we've got neutral and neutral is seven. So it's neither acid nor alkaline. Water should be neutral. Unfortunately if it has
chlorine or fluoride in it, it is not neutral. It is simply acid. Blood has a reading on the pH scale. So blood's reading on the pH scale is between 7.35 and 7.4. All blood will be within that ratio because if blood pH goes up to eight, that person will go into a coma and die of alkalosis. And if blood pH drops down to 7.22, that person will go into a coma and die of acidosis. So if it goes to eight, alkalosis die. If it goes to 7.22, then the
person can die of acidosis. There can't be much variation there and you and I don't have to
worry about the pH of our blood 'cause there are two
organs that are constantly keeping it within that range. One is your lungs and this explains when you start exercising, you
start breathing very deeply. And the reason you breathe very deeply is your muscles are burning more fuel. Your muscles are burning more oxygen and they're giving off a waste. And as that waste builds up in the blood, the blood can get a little acid. And so the brain says to the lungs, Breathe deeply. Because when we breathe deeply,
we're getting more oxygen, which alkalizes, and you're breathing out more carbon dioxide, and that's the waste from burning oxygen and
glucose at the cellular level. So it is in that way that your lungs help to keep the pH of your
balance as it should be. Because when we're exercising
and we breathe deeply, we don't choose to breathe deeply, do we? We just automatically do. The other organ is your kidneys. Now your kidneys are constantly balancing the pH of your blood and they do it in quite a fascinating way. Let me show you. Here's the little filtering
unit inside the kidneys and we have one million
of these filtering units in one kidney. So we've got approximately
two million filtering units in your kidneys. There's the bladder. And what happens is the blood goes into the little filtering units, weaves through the filtering units where it is filtered and then it comes out and then it weaves around the tubules. So where in the kidney are these tubules? So here is the kidney and
these little filtering units are all on the edge and the tubules basically
weave down like this and then there's the ureter. There's the ureter for the other kidney. There's the bladder. So that's how it happens. So how do the kidneys work in balancing the pH of your blood? Now let's say as the blood weaves through the filtering units, it is being monitored. So let's say the pH of the
blood is getting too acid. It is right there that extra acid is dropped into the
tubules to be urinated out. But if the pH of the blood
is getting too alkaline, then it is here that extra acid
is pulled out of the tubules back into the blood. So it is in that way that your kidneys are constantly monitoring
and if necessary, balancing the pH of your blood. In a 24 hour period, our kidneys, those little filtering units, they filter 1800 liters of blood. Now we don't have that much blood but every two minutes, 1.2
liters is being filtered. What an amazing body we live in. Now out of that 1800 liters of blood, 180 liters of filtrate
is being filtered out, but we don't urinate out 180 liters of filtrate a day, do we? Otherwise we'd all be leaving
this room every five minutes. We urinate out approximately 1.5 liters. So what happens to the 160 liters left? It's reabsorbed here. So it's in that reabsorption area that the pH of your blood is
constantly being monitored. Quite a fascinating way. You're never look at your
kidneys the same again, will you? Not only do your kidneys
filter your blood, your kidneys play a
major role in balancing the pH of your blood. So we don't have to worry
about the pH of our blood because our kidneys are
constantly monitoring it and keeping it within the
range that it should be. So the pH of the blood cannot change but the pH of the cell can change. The pH of the cell should
be approximately 6.5. Now that's very slightly acid
and there's a reason for that. The most acidic substance is sulfuric acid and sulfuric acid travels
at the speed of light. The most alkaline mineral is calcium and on the scale of speed,
calcium doesn't even move. And so slightly acid means the speed of uptake or the speed of all your
little chemical reactions happening all through your body. You see, the gardener,
he aims for a soil pH of approximately 6.4. The Bible says in Genesis 3:19, we come from dust, we go
back to dust, we're dust. Interesting to note that
the dust of the earth, the soil pH and the
cell pH is very similar. Disease thrives in a cell pH of 5.5. This is where disease thrives. This is where cancer thrives. This is where fungus thrives. But even though there's
only the drop of one point, because it's a logarithmic scale, the drop of one point has a
dramatic effect on the body. The drop of one point means
60% less oxygen available at the cellular level. No wonder disease thrives in that area. And remember what I said
earlier in the week. Cancer cannot live in
the presence of oxygen. And so insuring that your
cellular pH isn't dropping down really acid also insures that
you've got adequate oxygen at the cellular level. And I'm going to show
you how you can do that. But before we go there, Coca-Cola, it sits down here at about 2.6. It's a killer and you'll
be shocked to know this but some people are
drinking it, it's true. (audience laughing) They cannot know. Many are sick through ignorance. So what affects this? What affects this? Probably what we eat affects
it more than anything. But before I define the foods, let me show you a few things. There are eight basic laws
that govern the functioning of the human body and the
first law is pure air. When we're breathing in bad air, when we're breathing in moldy air, when we're breathing in stale air, when we're breathing in chemicals, it can have an acid effect on the body because pure, fresh
air is higher in oxygen and oxygen is alkalizing. The second law is sunshine. Sunshine purifies the air and sunshine penetrates
deep inside the body and sunshine helps to cleanse the body and it also helps the body to move the blood through. When the sun touches the skin, it actually moves the blood through. The sun is the healer in the sky. It's not the enemy in the sky. You can't over-visit the sun and if you do over-visit the sun, your skin is going to get burnt. But sun penetrates very
very deep into the body. Sunshine alkalizes. Number three, the third law is temperance. Temperance means not taking
anything into the body that will harm it and taking in moderation the good things. When I show you what
causes an acid environment and an alkaline environment, we're gonna be looking at the things that cause an acid environment. Number four, the fourth law is rest. Sleeping between the hours of 9 p.m., except for this week, and 2 a.m are where the, they call the hours of power because they're the hours
that your body goes through rest and rejuvenation and it's in those hours that the body tends to alkalinity. Number five, the fifth law is exercise. You can overdo exercise but
not many people do that. Most people underdo exercise. And not exercising
allows an acid condition to rise in the body. The sixth law is proper diet and we're going to define
the proper diet in a minute. There are foods that
have a alkalizing effect and there are foods that
have an acid effect, so we're going to list those in a minute. Seventh law is use of water. Water alkalizes. I haven't met anyone that
drinks too much water yet. Haven't met that person. Dr. Christopher in America, he said that there is a sign
to test if you're drinking too much water. You put your head on the side and if the water comes out your ears, you're drinking too much water. In other words, it's almost impossible to drink too much water. The eighth law is trust in divine power. So this law takes into consideration all the physical, not just physical but all the mental and all the emotional and all the spiritual aspects of disease and there are many writers today. I don't know if you've
heard of Horst Mueller, Dr. Horst Mueller. He's a German doctor and he's got some
fantastic stuff on YouTube. And he shows how emotional and spiritual and mental problems can be manifested in our physical illnesses. So keeping all of those laws ensures an alkaline
environment in the body. Now some of my family and friends
break every law every day. (laughs) And when every
law is broken every day, lungs and kidneys are struggling. They're just managing to
keep the pH of the blood where it should be and then oh dear, they
have a cup of coffee or a can of Coke. Lungs and kidneys can hardly keep it up, so quickly, blood pH starts to drop. 7.35, 34, 33. Alarm bells go off and the last resort buffer system is called on. The most alkaline mineral, calcium, is called out of its
biggest storage house. Where's that? Bones. It's pulled out of the
storage house into the blood in a form of calcium phosphate and these crystals, when
they get into the blood, they neutralize the growing
acidity in the blood. 7.33, 34, 35, phew. We're safe, but at a cost. Now we've got these free calcium crystals floating through the blood. What's the body gonna do with that? Ah, it'll dump it in the
kidneys as kidney stones. Gall bladder as gallstones. In the joints as arthritis, gout. On the bones as bone spurs. You've heard of a bone spur? It's a calcium deposit and
this is one of the main reasons why that happens. But you can get rid of a bone spur and there's a very simple that you can and it's castor oil compresses. I've got some good news. Castor oil will break down a bone spur but it won't break down your bone. In fact, medicine calls it synergism. And in Psalm 104:14, the Bible says God gave herbs for the service of man. I love that verse. The castor oil comes into your body and says, Where would you like me? And it'll just go to the
unnatural formations. When I say, goes into your body, not through the mouth. That don't work. (laughs) But compresses onto. So if you've got a bone spur,
it'll break up the bone spur but it will not break up your bone. It knows what to do. So you can do much in ensuring that your
acid alkaline is kept where it should be by adhering to those eight laws of health. But what I'd like to
look at now is the food. So we're gonna make a list of foods that have an alkaline effect on the body. And we're gonna make a list of foods that have an acid effect on the body. And the most alkaline food you can put into your body is the lemon. And you might say, No no no, it is acid. That's right. And it's acid where it should be. Okay, students, where is
the only part of your body that should be acid? - [Audience] Stomach. - Stomach, stomach, you've
been listening, stomach. In fact, if you want to boost digestion, take a squeeze of lemon
in a little very hot water just before the meal or put lemon. How nice to put lemon all over your salad, even on your fruit salad. But when lemon gets split up
in the gastrointestinal tract and the minerals are separated, the minerals merge into the body and have an alkaline effect. You see, the minerals in lemon are the alkaline minerals. So that's sodium and potassium and magnesium and calcium and iron. So these are the most
alkaline-forming minerals. So lemon's acid where it should be and alkaline where it should be. Second most alkaline are
dark green leafy vegetables. We should be eating some dark green leafy vegetables every day. And if you cook your dark
green leafy vegetables, you do not lose your minerals. You do not lose your
minerals when you cook them. You only lose your minerals
if you throw away the water that you cook 'em in or that came out. Keep that water. That explains why green barley's popular, spirulina, wheatgrass, green smoothies because those dark green leafy vegetables are very high in alkalizing minerals. Vegetables. Vegetables are high in
the alkaline minerals. So let me go show you a group of vegetables that for some people have an acid effect and some people they
have an alkaline effect. That's the nightshade group of vegetables. So this is the tomato and the capsicum and eggplant. So all these foods come
from the nightshade family and potato, and this is not sweet potato. This is Irish potato
or the English potato. Fijians call it the white man's potato. These are the nightshade
group of vegetables and for some people,
they have an acid effect and for some people they
have an alkaline effect. How do you know? Who will tell you? Your body will tell you. There's a book called The Childers Diet by Dr. Norman Childers and the whole book is on the nightshade and how it can trigger arthritis. So if someone has arthritis
and they eat these foods, it can increase the inflammation. So if someone has arthritis, my suggestion is, stop the nightshade. One lady said, But I
love those nightshades. I said, Well, how much do
you love your arthritis? It's not forever. It's just until you conquered it. Now some people say to me, Well, I can have the yellow tomato but not the red. Some people say, I can eat
the cooked and not the raw. Some people say, I can eat the cooked and not the raw capsicum or I can read the red and not the green or the green and not the, I love those stories. What are they stories of? They're stories of
people who are listening to their body. If your body says no, don't do it. If it says yes, then do it, because there's no two bodies the same. We don't serve capsicum at
all in our health retreat because I find probably
about a quarter of our guests cannot handle it. Now if you love capsicum,
you don't have arthritis, it doesn't repeat on you, eat it. (laughs) It can be a very good food. That's where you're the doctor,
you're the doctor there. You, if you have arthritis, stop it. When the arthritis
goes, did you hear that? I've even seen 70 year
olds with swollen joints go back to normal. Isn't that good news? Working as a nurse, I never thought it was
possible, but it is. We live in an amazing body. Psalm 139:14, the psalmist says, I will praise You for I'm
fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Thy works and that my soul knoweth right well. Amazing body. It never ceases to amaze me because the further you go in, the more astounding it is. If tomato is cooked with olive oil. It can be cooked with any oil, but I think olive oil's the nicest. If it's cooked with oil, it releases lycopene and lycopene is a potent antioxidant used, well, it can have an effect to reduce the inflammation
of the prostate gland. So every man over the age of 40 should be having a cooked
tomato and olive oil dish at least three times a week. The Italians, the Lebanese, they knew what they were doing. You've heard of the slow cooking movement? Those tomato sauces need
to be cooked nice and slow. Then it won't hurt the oil and it'll help to release that lycopene. Another reason why fat is important because you can't access
your fat-soluble vitamins unless they're cooked with a little oil. I don't suggest putting oil in a pan and putting it on a high heat. All the smoke is all your
fatty acids going up in smoke. What I do is I cook
onion in its own juice, then put the tomatoes in when all the liquid starts to come out. Then you can put the oil in, turn the heat very low and let it have a long, slow cook and then you won't hurt your oil. Also millet is an alkaline grain and quinoa is an alkaline grain and buckwheat is an alkaline grain. Also amaranth. Amaranth is a grain that a lot of people are not that familiar with, but it's becoming popular because it's an alkaline grain and it's a gluten-free grain. All of these grains are also gluten-free. Spelt is an alkaline grain, as is kamut. Now let me take a moment
to give you the wheat story which is where spelt and kamut come from. The wheat that God made is called einkhorn and einkhorn had a very fragile
protein or gluten structure. Fragile means easily broken up. Easily broken up when it's ground, when it's cooked, when you chew it and
the enzymes in your gut. So it's easy to digest. It is not sure when but it estimated a couple of thousand years ago, einkhorn did a wild
hybrid with a field grass and came up with the
emmer strain of wheat. Now this emmer strain of wheat, its structure is not
as fragile, its protein or gluten structure and that emmer wheat is the wheat that went through intensive crossbreeding in the 1950s to produce
the hybridized wheat. The reason they put the plant through intensive
crossbreeding was they wanted to produce a plant that had a high yield. So they produced a plant
that only grows this high, it has a thick stem, so it has that heavy yield of grain. One farmer told me he
gets six times more grain per acre with that wheat. So notice the timing. 1950s they're playing with it. 1969, Dr. Norman Borlaug got a Nobel Prize for
this hybridized wheat. So 1970 this wheat went worldwide. So by the 1990s, every
wheat, pasta, sorry, every pasta, cereal, bread, cake, biscuit, donut, what's it made of? The hybridized wheat. But what was never addressed was the effect of that hybridized wheat on the gut of human beings. On Wednesday night, we had a look at how it changed the starch structure and so it's largely responsible for the diabetic epidemic we're seeing. But now I want to show you the effect of this hybridized wheat, what it had on the gluten
or the protein structure. It created an incredibly complex protein or gluten structure. And it's almost only a cast iron gut that could break that down and we don't have many of them any more. Now if that hybridized wheat is made into a sourdough bread, the culturing process breaks down the protein
or the gluten in the grain so it is less complex. But it is still much more complex than it originally was. Spelt and kamut are wild hybrids of the emmer strain of wheat, so they have retained a
fairly fragile structure. And if that spelt flour is
made into a sourdough bread, it can bring that structure back to its original fragile structure because that's what sourdough bread is. It's a cultured bread. It breaks down the protein
or the gluten in the grain. Now this explains why we see
so much gluten intolerance. Number one, the hybridized wheat. Number two, how many Aussies eat cereal and toast for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, pasta for tea, biscuits, cake,
mid-morning, mid-afternoon? It's just overload. Total overload of one grain. And not only one grain
but the hybridized grain. There's more. In Australia today, wheat is grown in soil that has been fed with super phosphate that locks up the minerals in the soil so it can't get into the plant. But there's more. Wheat in Australia today is
grown with Roundup glyphosate. Now they've always said Roundups one of the safer herbicides. Did you know recently
they've changed their mind? It's toxic now. It is very toxic. In fact, the Sri Lankan government have banned glyphosate because so many rice farmers were dying of kidney disease. Even their children were
getting kidney disease from the glyphosate. It also has a disastrid effects on the microbes in the gut, further contributing to so many gut problems we're seeing today. But there's more and I
mentioned this last night when we looked at the gut. Children are being fed food too young, further compromising the gut and their ability to break down this. So no wonder we see so
much gluten intolerance. What are the symptoms
of gluten intolerance? The most common symptoms
of gluten intolerance are brain fog and bloating. And there are so many
people that have that and just think it's age. You've heard of poor old age. It gets blamed for so many things. Irritable bowel, constipation, psoriasis, eczema, so many things can be caused because of
this hybridized wheat. We're looking at the most alkaline foods. Fruit. Fruit is alkaline but
it does a question mark. So why does fruit have a question mark? If a person has a yeast
presence in their body and they eat fruit, the sugar in the body feed the yeast. And as the yeast feeds on
the sugar in the fruit, it gives off acetic acid, it gives off lactic acid, it gives off uric acid, and it gives off alcohol. So can you see what yeast does? It feathers its nest. It creates the very
environment that it thrives in, which is the 5.5 environment. So how do you know you've got
a yeast presence in the body? The tongue. The tongue should be pink
from the tip to the back. Remember when doctors
looked at your tongue? They don't look at tongues much now because there's not many
good tongues. (laughs) Now if you can scrape
off the white coating that is not yeast, that is waste. And my book, Self Heal by Design, it shows you how you can
eliminate yeast from the body. So fruit has a question mark. Almonds. Almonds are called the king of all nuts. They're the alkaline nut
and they're also highest in, they're highest in iron, they're highest in protein,
they're highest in calcium. Brazil nuts. Brazil nuts are phenomenally
high in selenium. Yeah, selenium is a very important mineral that the body uses, the thyroid uses to convert
iodine into tyrosine. And you only need five Brazil nuts a day to get all the selenium
that you need in a day. So look after your thyroid gland and have five Brazil nuts a day. Lima beans. Lima beans and lentils, whether they be green or
brown or yellow or red, they're alkaline and soy. And soy is only a problem if
it's been genetically modified. A friend of mine did a thesis on soy and people say to her all the time, Tell us about soy. She said, it's really easy. God made it good, man mucked it up. Got that? So if you, the good news is that Australia still does not have genetically modified soybean. The soybean Australia grows,
it's not genetically modified. But a lot of soy products are made from soybeans from America, which has been genetically modified. So you just have to read your labels. If you get organic, you can be assured it's not genetically modified. All your seeds, have an alkaline effect. The most acid-forming substance you can put into your body is the pure crystallized acid that's been extracted
from the sugar cane plant. Sugar cane is alkalizing because it's got a lot of minerals in it, but that acid that's been extracted has an acid effect on the body. Now these foods here are
high in the acid minerals, which is chlorine and phosphorus and sulfur. So these are the foods that are the higher in the acid-forming minerals. Also the hybridized wheat. The hybridization of the wheat created more of the acid minerals. And if that wheat is
grown in super phosphate and water with chlorinated water, can you see that boosts it up even more? Meat. Meat is acid-forming. You might be familiar
with the book, China Study by Dr. Colin Campbell. He could switch cancer on and off by the amount of meat and animal products that he gave the rats. You see, when the body breaks down meat, it gives off a sulfur residue
which is highly acidic. Aged cheese, what's the blue and the blue vein cheese. (laughs) You ever visited a cheese factory and looked at the amount of mold that's on all the cheeses? Whereas your fresh cheeses like your feta, your cottage, they don't
have that mold factor so they're more on the pH of seven. But you really have to address that the state of the
cows they even came from. Caffeine, all your
caffeine foods and drinks have an acid effect. Alcohol. Alcohol has an acid effect, though it's not a food. Tobacco's not a food but it
has an acid effect on the body. All your other grains other than the list on the alkaline side. All your other legumes, other than lima, lentil and soy. All your other nuts other
than your almonds and Brazil have an acid effect. Now to maintain this 6.5
cellular environment, we should be having 70-80%
alkaline-forming foods and 20-30% acid-forming foods. That ratio will maintain
this 6.5 environment at the cellular level. Now the easiest way to do that
is to eat more vegetables, more grains. (laughs) Start exploring the other grains. One lady said, Oh no. Don't you mean walnuts are on this side? I love walnuts. I said, Yeah, but you
need a little walnuts. It doesn't mean they're out. And I'm sure you're not surprised to hear me say that the
20-30% should come from here. Have you met some sick vegetarians? I have. Where did the sick vegetarians live? Grain, sugar, hybridized wheat. Is that right? (laughs) They just overdo it. How many Aussies would
be doing the 90 acid, 10 alkaline? Mm hm. Cereal and toast for breakfast. Sandwiches for lunch, pasta for tea. Biscuits, cakes,
mid-morning, mid-afternoon. That's almost 100% acid. The easiest way to do it is just to eat more
vegetables, more greens. Pursuing the other grains. That's the easiest way to do it. Are you familiar with the hydrangea plant? The hydrangea plant is a big bush and it has huge flowers and each flower is made up of
a whole lot of little flowers. And sometimes you'll see a hydrangea plant and all the flowers are pink. Sometimes you'll see a hydrangea plant and all the flowers are deep magenta pink. And sometimes you'll see a hydrangea plant and all the flowers are purple. Sometimes you'll see a hydrangea plant and all the flowers are blue. They're not different
types of hydrangea plant. The gardener plays with the pH of the soil because different pHs of the soil produce different colored flowers. So just as the gardener plays with the pH of the soil, you can play with the pH of your soil, I mean cell, to produce different
health or sickness statuses in the human body. And as you can see when I
first started the lecture, keeping these eight laws of health, targeting on a more alkaline diet, that is a recipe for keeping the body in good working order. Many are sick through ignorance and I see they've got a
little book out the back called The Ministry of Healing, one of my favorite books. And there's a chapter in there called The Physician, The Educator. In fact, did you know that
the word doctor means teacher? Teaching. And in this book, it says, Let the physicians teach the people that restorative power lies not in drugs but in nature. The only hope of better things is the education of the
people in right principles. I believe every one should
be their own doctor. So as your own doctor, you now should be your own
teacher, is that right? And the best form of education is experimental education. What's experimental education? Doing it. (laughs) What's the old Aussie saying? If you're on a good thing, stick to it. The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Prove all things and hold fast to that which is good. It's old English. It means, If it works, do it. People say, Barbara, do you
ever step sideways in your diet? I say, Why would I? Why would I? (laughs) I feel so good eating like this. My mind is clear, I sleep well. Isn't that the result? And if the body starts protesting, you gotta listen and you gotta make adjustments. And sometimes the body'll say, Nah, don't do that again. (laughs) And sometimes the body'll go, Oh, I like that. So you listen to it. And the good news is tomorrow morning at 9:30, I'm gonna show how you
can rewire your brain. Do you know the research is showing that you can be rewiring your brain right up unto the day you die? Isn't that good news? I'm gonna give everyone a break now. And when we come back, we're gonna look at the importance of exercise. ("Amazing Grace")
