86 Achieving pH Balance to Treat Specific Ailments
from undigested food circulating in the blood provides germs in the
blood with the same kind of acidic brew that the dead bodies of wild
animals and plants provide the bacteria in nature.
Acidic waste particles make scratches and tears on the inside walls of
the blood vessels. The injured cells die off and turn into acidic waste,
adding to its accumulation in the blood. The larger the quantities of
acidic waste the greater the food supply for germs; they multiply cor-
respondingly. This forces the immune system to defend the walls of the
arteries by triggering the growth of tumors to encapsulate germ colo-
nies, causing further damage to the arterial walls.
The immune system also patches the injuries in the lining of the
vessels with calcifi ed plaques to prevent life-threatening leaks, and it
reacts to arterial degeneration the same way it does to bodily injury
from accidents—by triggering the fl ow of blood to t he area t hat infl ames
the walls of the arteries. These measures prevent imminent death but
set up the conditions for a heart attack. All that has to occur is for a
blood clot to form, blocking the fl ow of blood to the heart. This can
occur when a calcifi ed plaque on the vessel wall breaks loose.
The most common symptoms of a heart attack are nausea, a feeling
of suffocation, dizziness and fainting episodes, tightness in the chest,
or pain in the region of the heart or left shoulder accompanied by feel-
ings of anxiety. If, however, a pain in the chest occurs at the same time
as the hands and feet become cold and breath becomes short, it is usu-
ally a sign of indigestion.The Cholesterol Issue
Why was the role of “bad guy” in coronary heart disease assigned to
cholesterol—that waxy, gray-yellow substance in our bodies that is vital
to the growth of tissue, development of the brain, and manufacture of
hormones? The answer lies in the mind-set of the medical establish-
ment, which holds that when a medical problem arises, a “bad guy” is
responsible: a virus, bacteria, or some substance researchers label harm-
ful, which the body itself manufactures—such as cholesterol.
Medical researchers have ignored studies conducted by Rudolf Vir-
chow in the nineteenth century. He discovered that degeneration of the
blood vessels started before cholesterol plaques appeared in the lesions.