Why do we age
In the human body, the number of times cells can divide to form new cells is limited, and the only cell that can divide endlessly is the cancer cell. Accordingly, solving the secret of cancer would also shed light on the phenomenon of human aging. Aging is a natural process, and the average human lifespan is said to be 75 years. Science is doing everything it can to extend this period. Studies have shown that diet and eating patterns play a primary and highly important role in aging and survival.
In this natural process, in which birth, growth, aging, and death follow one another, there are various theories about aging. The most widely accepted of these theories is the accumulation in the body of waste products resulting from reactions occurring within it. As a result of the reactions that occur to sustain life and meet our basic energy needs, acidic waste forms in the body. This waste is excreted from the body through urine, stool, sweat, or breath. However, we cannot get rid of all the acidic waste that forms. As the years pass, this waste accumulates. Aging is a result of the accumulation of acidic metabolites in the connective tissue.
THE CAUSE: ACID BUILDUP
According to Dr. George W. Crile, one of the founders of the Cleveland Clinic, "There is no such thing as natural death. What we call natural death is the final point reached by progressive acid concentration."
A healthy body has the capacity to tolerate acid buildup. However, once this capacity is exceeded, clinical processes that impair quality of life begin to appear, such as wrinkles in the skin, fatigue, roaming pain, a feeling of heaviness, deterioration in hair and nail quality, and skin blemishes. The main underlying cause of all these is acid buildup.
The metropolitan lifestyle we choose or are forced into, the environmental pollution brought on by industrialization, the excessive stress caused by fast communication and competition, the consumption of toxins such as alcohol and cigarettes, unnatural types of nutrition (ready-made food, coloring agents, preservatives, artificial chemical fertilizers, hormone-treated foods, etc.), acidic beverages, energy drinks, and high-protein diets are all further increasing the acid concentration in our body. With technological and industrialized, refined lifestyles, we're drifting toward an increasingly acidic existence. As we age, we begin losing bicarbonate at a faster rate. And at the point where we can no longer compensate for this loss, we age even faster.
DOOMED TO FALL ILL
In research conducted in 1996 by Dr. Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian at the University of California, it was found that acid radicals increase with age while bicarbonate levels decrease, scientifically explaining how metabolic acidosis develops with age.
Ideally, the human body should be alkaline. The environment most preferred by disease-causing germs and viruses is an acidic environment. By raising the pH of the environment to make it alkaline, it's possible to create an environment where germs and viruses cannot survive, thereby preventing disease.
Even a very small increase in the amount of acid in the blood negatively affects its fluidity, reducing blood flow and making circulation more difficult. This negative effect on blood circulation triggers the development of degenerative diseases, because any tissue that cannot be adequately nourished is doomed to fall ill — in fact, it is already ill.
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