Something that is counter intuitive is that to raise or lower the pH of your blood you need to understand that this is one of those absolutely vital homeostatic body mechanisms. So like an oven thermometer that senses the temperature you set it at and when it reaches that temp it switches off and when it senses it has dropped below it switches on. This is good enough for some body processes that are not that critical. There are other body homeostatic balance mechanisms that are so critical that they have one mechanism to push it up, and a separate mechanism to push it down. These antagonistic mechanisms are used for things like blood sugar and blood acidity and body temperature. Blood pH is one of these mechanisms that are too critical to allow you to fuck with it. You cannot influence your body pH directly by swallowing pH up or pH down.
Now you must understand that there are acid foods and alkaline foods, but that is not what affects the pH of your blood, what you want are foods that have an acid or alkaline forming effect on the body. For example, citrus fruits are acid, but the effect they have on the body is to make the blood more alkaline. Dairy produce is often an alkaline food but the effect it produces on the body is acid forming.
The way that your body controls for too low pH of the blood is to leach alkaline salts of calcium and magnesium out of your bones. So milk not only does not give you strong bones, it makes your bones weaker, contrary to the propaganda of the dairy industry. So if you want to avoid an acid condition of the blood then do not eat acid forming food. For example Almonds are acid forming, Walnuts are acid forming.
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