Fragrantly Beautiful

Beauty Lies in the Cell of the Beholder

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 / Dr. Andrea McCreery

Beauty is more than a new wardrobe, coiffure or makeover (although shopping does have its benefits). It isn't celebrity status or money. Beauty is more than skin deep...it's molecular! Every cell in your body must be doing its individual job of keeping you healthy and radiant from the inside out. It's a combination of physical, spiritual and emotional health...and all about balance. You can't look good if you aren't feeling good!

At Life Sources’ Wellness Center we call it Targeted Nutritional Intervention. To manage our health properly we have to understand the process of aging which is actually a disease in and of itself. Simple recommendations are all that’s necessary to adjust your internal environment that can increase your energy, maintain a healthy weight, keep you healthier and slow and stop aging. You read it right! Stop the process of aging, but, it must begin from the cellular level.

Let's start with a simple basic tenant of health. You've heard of pH balanced skin care most of your adult life but, how does your internal pH affect your health? Microscopic observations going back nearly a hundred years has proved what Dr. Robert Young of Utah has recently stated; "over-acidification of the body through an inverted way of eating and living ...causes a proliferation of the 'fungus among us' which debilitates the body and, if not corrected, will ultimately cause our demise. He continues to assert that all illness is but one "constitutional disease" which results in an internal toxicity caused by mycotic infection." In other words, the great decomposers of living and dead tissue, yeast, parasites and fungal forms, consume our bodies. And this is not just a female situation...this is all humanity! What that simply means is that the same process that nature uses to decompose dead and useless matter is the same process in an acidic body. Conversely, these "death factors" and most deadly illnesses cannot exist in a pH neutral or alkaline environment. Ask any competent cosmetologist about pH and they'll tell you that your acid/alkaline balance should be closely monitored and fitted to your skin type. How much more important is your internal environment to the overall condition of your external health?

Most of us are eating foods with little if any nutritional value, drinking beverages which increase our acidity and take precious little time out to "smell the roses." You have to be as committed to your own health as you are to your loved ones who depend upon you. Most chronic conditions like most cancers (yes, even yeast infections) cannot exist in an alkaline environment.

So where to start? Well, find out what your pH is! Simply go to your local drug store or veterinarian, and purchase some litmus paper. First thing in the morning before you eat or drink anything, put a teaspoon of lemon juice in your mouth (well, it's better than your toothpaste anyway). Wait a few minutes and place a litmus strip on your tongue.

Compare the color with the color on the pH chart that came with the strips. The higher the pH, the more alkaline your body is. The lower the pH, the higher the acid! Now, the difference between neutral pH (7 or 7.2 pH) is doubled for every point...a human Richter scale for health. O.K! Now what to do if you determine you're too acidic?

There are supplements you can take to increase your pH, but the most productive and long lived will be lifestyle changes. Stop eating fried foods, white flour and white sugar; drink plenty of good healthy water (more on this later) and, above all...no more fast foods! This alone will make a major change in your health. Additionally, you can follow a diet rich in alkaline producing foods while avoiding as much of the acid producing foods as possible. You'll even find that almost effortlessly, your body will begin to assume its own correct metabolic level and those who need to will lose weight.

Life Sources’ president Andrea McCreery, Ph.D., is a nutritionist and an expert in the field of vital hematology, the microscopic, real-time observation of living blood cells. Dr. McCreery has a long list of private and contract clients from around the world, and back even handled the vital hematology cases for the former Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York City.

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