Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights. So I keep getting this question over and over and over and over again.

So I'm going to do another video on this topic.

People want to know, is it healthy to alkalize my body?

Okay?

The truth is, it's better to acidify your body than to alkalize your body.

Let me explain. First of all, we have

this scale of pH. And at 7, we have neutral. Anything higher, like in 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, you get a pH

that's more alkaline. Okay, so the numbers that go higher are more alkaline. The numbers that go lower, like 6, 5, 4 are more acid.

And for every whole number, you're going lower from 7 to 6, you're getting a compound effect

by the factor of 10.

So for example, if you have a pH of 5, that is 10 times more acid than a pH of 6.

Okay?

All right, so that's what pH is. You have a lot of different parts of the body that have a lot of different

pHs. The one that's really significant is the stomach. The stomach should be extremely acid, like between one and three. Now, if we compare

this to the different fluids of the body, the stomach is the most out of range pH, okay, in the

entire body. And so you have the stomach, which is kind of like the main organ that is at the very

beginning of the digestive cycle or the chain of

events. And so if that stomach doesn't work right or you have a problem with it, from that point

on, nothing else can work right. And the reason I'm bringing up the stomach is because you have

various enzymes that are activated by your pH. In other words,

enzymes, those things that help you with digestion, those magical little proteins that allow all the

biochemistry to work are controlled by an optimum pH.

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