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    The Alkaline Solution – Survive the Modern Western Diet
    The Alkaline Solution – Survive the Modern Western Diet
    The Alkaline Solution – Survive the Modern Western Diet
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    The Alkaline Solution – Survive the Modern Western Diet

    By Peter Ochsenham and Prof. Jurgen Vormann

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    The modern western diet is a testament to our affluence but has also become a major contributor to ill health and chronic disease. As recently as twenty years ago, the medical establishment, at the coal face of service delivery, doubted there was any close correlation between diet and disease. However, researchers were uncovering a very different picture. We fear the same is happening today. We now postulate that in Australia magnesium is under prescribed by medical doctors, even though the research is very strong and undeniable for numerous conditions. Unfortunately, there seems to be a blind spot to the use of magnesium. If we look at an over acid diet, for example, our fear is that the understanding and recognition of its impact on health will go unnoticed by the people that can make a change in the population. We hope this book serves as a reminder that the data is out there, that change can happen, and that it gives you what you need to make modifications in your diet that may even save your life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Ochsenham
    Release dateApr 22, 2016
    ISBN9781311109958
    The Alkaline Solution – Survive the Modern Western Diet
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    Peter Ochsenham

    Peter's early life was dedicated to the delivery of low invasive therapy to individuals for healthcare. He is trained in all facets of Natural Healthcare, including Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy, Body therapy including Myofascial release, Dry Needling, as well as NLP, Hypnosis and Breathwork. However he would say his most important tool in practice was his whiteboard! Peter's mission is to provide a platform for people to be given self-empowering options and messages for their health choices. For Peter the healthcare practitioner is the "promise" for the future of every person they see – and the message they give holds the invitation to enhance the life,"power" and embrace responsibility for greater wellbeing. Peter realizes this journey is unique to each individual and is as much about mindset, beliefs and empowerment as it is about physical activities.

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      The Alkaline Solution – Survive the Modern Western Diet - Peter Ochsenham

      The Alkaline Solution – Survive the Modern Western Diet

      How acid/base balance and magnesium deficiency impacts diabetes, heart disease, depression, migraines, cancer and pain management

      By

      Professor Jürgen Vormann & Peter Ochsenham

      Copyright ©2016 by Professor Jürgen Vormann & Peter Ochsenham. All rights reserved. SmashWords Edition

      Peter Ochsenham & Professor Juergen Vormann

      Published by www.madhousemedia.com.au

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 Peter Ochsenham & Professor Juergen Vormann

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of these authors.

      All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

      ―Arthur Schopenhauer

      Table of Contents

      [1] Foreword

      [2] And You Thought it was Simple

      [3] How the Body Establishes a Balance

      [4] On the Trail of the Causes of Osteoporosis

      [5] The Chemistry Behind Osteoporosis

      [6] Understanding Alkalinity

      [7] The Role of Protein

      [8] A Study Tells the Story

      [9] A Different Understanding of Chronic Pain

      [10] Acidosis and Alzheimer’s

      [11] The Cancer Connection

      [12] Acid-base Balance and Metabolic Diseases

      [13] Assessing the Effect of Diet

      [14] Are Your Adrenals at Risk? How an Alkaline Diet May Help

      [15] Why Supplementation with Alkaline Minerals Makes Sense

      [16] Magnesium – Life’s Essential Mineral

      [17] The Main Physiological Functions of Magnesium

      [18] How Magnesium Works

      [19] How Magnesium is Absorbed by the Body

      [20] How to Recognise Magnesium Deficiency

      [21] Your Heart and Brain are at Risk

      [22] Magnesium and Diabetes

      [23] Magnesium and Neurological Issues

      [24] Magnesium and Pregnancy

      [25] Other Benefits of Magnesium for Women

      [26] When Magnesium is the Wrong Thing to Give

      [27] Do You Have a Magnesium Deficiency?

      [28] How to Select the Best Magnesium Supplement

      [29] Conclusion

      Appendix 1 Magnesium deficiency metabolic typing

      Appendix 2: YouTube Video Resources:

      Bibliography

      Acknowledgments

      About the authors

      [1]

      Foreword

      The modern western diet is a testament to our affluence but has also become a major contributor to ill health and chronic disease. As recently as twenty years ago, the medical establishment, at the coal face of service delivery, doubted there was any close correlation between diet and disease. However, researchers were uncovering a very different picture.

      We fear the same is happening today. We now postulate that in Australia magnesium is under prescribed by medical doctors, even though the research is very strong and undeniable for numerous conditions. Unfortunately, there seems to be a blind spot to the use of magnesium.

      If we look at an over acid diet, for example, our fear is that the understanding and recognition of its impact on health will go unnoticed by the people that can make a change in the population.

      We hope this book serves as a reminder that the data is out there, that change can happen, and that it gives you what you need to make modifications in your diet that may even save your life.

      [2]

      And You Thought it was Simple

      There has been much of information disseminated on what is known as the Paleo diet, which our ancestors are said to have consumed during that period of human history when we were hunter-gatherers.

      Paleo is short for the Paleolithic Era, the period of roughly two and a half million years that preceded the agricultural revolution. The term Paleolithic is made up of two Greek words. Paleo comes from palaios, meaning old—referring to prehistoric times—and lithos from the Greek word for stone. Hence, we commonly refer to the period when our ancestors were hunter-gatherers as the Stone Age, since it was marked by the development and use of such items as stone-tipped arrows for hunting.

      For about the last 8,500 to 10,000 years, depending on which part of the globe we are talking about, humans have been cultivating crops and breeding livestock. When we say livestock, we use the term in the more general sense that includes not only cattle but also foods, such as poultry and farmed seafood. Before the development of agriculture, all of our food was a product of the wild (Cordain et al., 2005).

      Many of us have known for a long time that most of our modern diseases are intimately linked to the industrial world’s flawed eating habits. From cardiovascular issues, such as heart disease, stroke, and congestive heart failure, to diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases, such as Crohn’s or rheumatoid arthritis. If whole populations began to eat wild berries, roots, nuts, free-range meats and wild seafood, much of the pharmaceutical industry and the medical field—the areas that deal with degenerative diseases—would quite simply go out of business.

      Despite the current popularity of a return to what people imagine as the diet our Stone Age ancestors feasted on, it isn’t quite so simple as cutting out grains and other starchy carbohydrates, along with replacing the mass-produced factory-farmed meat most of us consume with grass-fed beef and poultry, wild-caught fish, pasture-raised eggs, and other products. For whether we are talking about Australia or China, the United States or the countries that make up the European Union, Canada or Japan, our foods today just aren’t the same as those of the Paleolithic era.

      It isn’t simply a matter of a cow is a cow is a cow. A modern cow has been bred to be a very different creature from those killed and consumed by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Consequently, what we consume—even when we try for the most natural of diets today—has a quite different effect on our metabolism, and we should keep in mind that this kind of Paleolithic diet cannot feed the more than eight billion people on earth.

      Don’t get us wrong. We’re all for cleaning up our diet. We are saying that simply opting for more naturally produced foods isn’t enough. Neither is it merely a matter of adding vitamins and minerals to our diet, whether as additives, such as vitamin D added to milk or taking supplements. Many do all these things yet still don’t get well, let alone enjoy optimum health. Millions are tired, overweight, anxious, and in many cases suffer from anything from haemorrhoids to acne. Food alone isn't the answer for most of us living in the modern world.

      What has been lacking is the scientific data showing why this is so. Now, at last, this data is available. From this scientific research, we are now finally able to say definitively what the issues are and figure out how to fix them. When you see the data, you’ll understand why it isn’t quite so straightforward as merely changing our diet.

      This is what’s different about this book—it gives you the hard science, which no one has ever done in a book of this kind before.

      To understand the fundamental difference between a Paleolithic diet and what most of us eat today, it’s necessary to consider the findings of an elaborate scientific study that investigated 159 possible preagricultural diets.

      You didn’t know there were that many Paleo diets? Most think there is essentially just one diet. We said it was more complicated than just switching from grains and factory farmed beef!

      One of the most crucial aspects of the human metabolism has to do with the balance of acid versus alkaline throughout our system—with the exception of our digestive system. In science, we generally refer to this as the acid-base balance, the term base denoting alkaline.

      The study we referred to earlier set out to discover the effect of these 159 possible Paleo diets on the acid-base balance of the human body (Sebastian et al., 2002). The researchers sought to determine the net endogenous acid production from such diets.

      The word endogenous is important. We aren’t so much concerned with the alkaline or acidic nature of a food in itself, but with what the body does with a particular food. For instance, lemons are an example of an acidic food that, in the body, has an alkaline effect. That’s because the digestive system takes what we put into our mouths and breaks it down into its components. It’s the overall result of digestion that impacts our health.

      Extreme acidity can be dangerous. You wouldn’t put your finger into concentrated hydrochloric acid (HCl)—or at least, you would only ever do it once! But during our evolution, our taste has developed in such

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