The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet, Second Edition: An Innovative Program that Detoxifies Your Body's Acidic Waste to Prevent Disease and Restore Overall Health

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underactive. The osteomyelitis in her leg bone would never have devel-

oped if the immune system had sprung into action. And it didn’t react

at all to the rapidly multiplying bacteria that infected her fi nger while

she was gardening. Furthermore, autoimmune diseases are much more

prevalent among those with underactive immune systems. For example,

rheumatoid arthritis is thirty times more common in individuals who

have an immune defi ciency disease called Bruton’s syndrome than in

individuals who don’t have this syndrome.^1

The Underlying Cause of Rheumatoid Arthritis and
Osteoarthritis

The systemic nature of arthritis and other degenerative bone problems

is a reminder that the circulating blood is the principal carrier of the

toxic agents that cause disease. Australian scientists, researching the

cause of arthritis, came up with part of the answer. They discovered

that the thicker the blood the more likely the individual is to have

osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.^2 They attribute the thickened

blood to small blood clots in the capillaries that feed the bone joints.

But then they veer off in the wrong direction by claiming that these

small blood clots are wholly the result of high blood pressure and ele-

vated cholesterol and triglycerides.

Holistic doctors, chiropractors, and naturopaths come closer to the

answer when they point a fi nger at acid waste in the blood as the clot-

ting agent that congeals the blood and leads to arthritis. But they take

for granted that this acid waste is the naturally occurring by-product

of metabolic function. This seems unlikely.

I’ve found that people with arthritis are exceptionally prone to food

allergies. That explains why they have thick blood. Food allergens, con-

taminated by histamines, turn into acid waste particles. As they accu-

mulate they stick together, and when this happens the blood thickens.

The blood, congealed as a result of these wastes, is no longer diluted

enough to transport nutrients and oxygen to the bones. As a result, the

bone joints become malnourished and deteriorate. The “cement” (col-

lagen) that holds the bone cells together is washed away by the sur-

rounding waste-filled synovial fluid. The bones suffer another

onslaught. To protect the alkaline pH of the blood, acid waste in the