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The indisputable connection: Your pH levels and cancer risk
by Dr. Veronique Desaulniers
NaturalHealth365
Understanding pH in the body is very simple: the lower the reading, the more acidic; the higher the reading, the more alkaline. Although pH levels will fluctuate in your body according to meals, exercise, stress, hormones, sleep, and a variety of other factors, a healthy and balanced saliva pH should be between 7.0 and 7.5.
Why is this information so important to know? Simply put, a higher pH level promotes health while a low pH level creates an environment conducive to diseases like breast cancer.
Understanding acidity: The common denominator for all cancer growth
Studies conducted at the University of Bari in Italy clearly demonstrated that a hallmark of all tumors, regardless of their origin or background, is their acidic environment:
“This perturbation in pH dynamics rises very early in carcinogenesis and is one of the most common patho-physiological hallmarks of tumors,” the researchers say.
Cancer cells, they conclude, prefer an acidic environment. In truth, there are many factors that can create acidity in the body but basically, all of them have to do with stress in some form or another.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2015/04/the-indisputable-connection-your-ph.html
