parasites will naturally act upon this toxicity. Yet this natural response by
your immune system to this toxicity and, of course, to the parasites who feed
upon this toxicity, is oftentimes mistakenly called an autoimmune disorder.
Parasites and immune responses are always secondary to the cause; they are
side effects of the symptom.
THIRD ROOT: OVERACIDITY—ACIDOSIS
The body digests, absorbs, utilizes, reproduces, and eliminates in the presence
of fluids. These fluids include digestive juices, blood, extra- and intra-cellular
fluids, lymphatic fluids and urine. To fully understand the effects that food
and toxins have within your body, however, you first have to understand
opposites.
Creation exists because of the dynamic interplay of opposites, without
which everything would be the same. (Of course, because God is One, the
closer to God you get, the more the opposites merge.) The interplay between
opposites creates movement, activity, shapes, sizes, colors, temperatures. As
complicated as chemistry is, it rests upon two pillars or opposites: hot and
cold, or yin and yang, the names for the two opposing dynamics within
Chinese philosophy and medicine. Hot is called acid and cold is alkaline.
Acids initiate change and alkalis balance. This is the basis of all matter.
The elements which comprise matter are either acid or alkaline in nature.
Acid-forming elements include nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Oxygen,
calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium are alkaline elements. Many of
the alkaline elements are known as electrolytes because of their ability to
carry and deliver electrical charges. Alkaline elements have oxygen and
carbon dominating the hydrogen, whereas acids have nitrogen and hydrogen
dominating.
To maintain health and vitality, all of your body’s fluids should be
alkaline, except for the stomach’s gastric juices, hydrochloric acid and pepsin,
which are acidic for initial protein breakdown. The acid or alkaline
measurement in your body is classified in what is called pH factors. The pH
means “potential of hydrogen.” The pH scale is 0 through 14—with 0 being
the most acidic, 7 being neutral, and 14 the most alkaline. Since each number
on the scale represents a logarithm, there is a 10-fold difference between each
number. This can be very significant when you understand that the pH of the
blood should be 7.4, or slightly alkaline. Coma and death can take place