132 Achieving pH Balance to Treat Specific Ailments
germs it must guard against. They also give the immune system the
impression that it is no longer needed to defend the body against
disease-causing microbes. Another downside to drug medications when
used routinely is their destruction of coenzymes (vitamins and miner-
als) that assist enzymes in carrying out lung function. Chemical food
additives also destroy lung enzymes.
But drug medications and other man-made chemicals are most dan-
gerous because, not being natural substances, the body has not devel-
oped the mechanisms for eliminating them. They remain in the
body—unless a special effort is made to eliminate them (see Chapter
1)—forming toxic residues that acidify the pH factor of the blood and
other body fl uids and clog and infl ame the blood and lymph vessels near
the lungs. This prevents the delivery of digested food particles and
oxygen to lung cells. Starving lung cells develop injuries that make
them sensitive to airborne particles.
Genetics also plays a role in asthma. Carole Ober, a professor of human
genetics at the University of Chicago, has found a genetic basis for the 15
percent of Hutterites (a religious sect living in South Dakota) who have
asthma.^6 But because they live in rural areas where they are exposed to
parasites from farm animals, where fast-food restaurants are not acces-
sible, and where all infants have been breast-fed for at least nine months,
asthma never becomes a serious problem. It is so mild that many of the
Hutterites didn’t even know they had asthma before she told them.SUGGESTIONS FOR ASTHMA*
➤ Avoid all refi ned carbohydrates.
➤ Test for your metabolic type and for food allergies and
follow an appropriate diet.
➤ Green powder. Take four to six teaspoons a day in juice or
water. Freeze-dried green vegetables build healthy cellular
membranes.
➤ Omega-3 fatty acid capsules (1,000 to 2,000 mg/day). Take
less, for example, 500 mg/day, if you are a meat eater.
➤ Raw adrenal extract. Take two tablets of freeze-dried
capsules a day.