Acid? OrAlkaline!

Cortisol - the Stress Hormone

 Inflammation and Undigestible Proteins

Stubborn Belly Fat

Catabolic means to break down. Cortisol is a catabolic hormone released as a result of managing inflammation and fat cells around the abdomen have four times more receptors for cortisol. These receptors are in and around the intestinal tract and in subcutaneous fat around the abdomen. That and water retention, are all affected by cortisol having been raised. And people have a hard time getting rid of that and the midsection fat. Patrick Timpani asks, “So, how do ladies lower their cortisol level and guys get rid of that midsection body fat? What are some things they can do?"

A true healing therapeutic is a result of people having changed their ways for periods of time to allow the body to balance and be able to heal. It is really these strange and undigestible proteins that create inflammation of the mucous membrane and create all these autoimmune conditions of the intestinal tract. Undigestible proteins are proteins that never were really in nature. Plants grew as we selected them because, “Oh. that's a bigger and fatter grain. Let's go with that.”

For example, some are fragments of wheat, corn, carrots, beets, bananas, dates, oats and all the cereals. Of course, seeds are fine. Some undigestible proteins are gluten, gliadins and glutenins and of course, casein is another one, an undigestible protein fragment from milk. If you look at immune-compromising conditions, it's so amazing how much celiac pops up.

Celiac is an inflammation of the mucous membrane and often occurs before we end up with manifestations such as colitis, diverticulitis and all kinds of Crohn's conditions. They can start with a little bloating, a little water retention and show up as a little bottom-lip asymmetry, visible when you look at someone's face.

These are indications of allergies and gluten intolerance. This can show up in infants as autism because of the inflammatory effect on the cranial nerves in utero. Our soil is highly deficient in minerals and trace minerals which are more important than anything else. Minerals are essential in remaining hydrated. if you are just drinking water without minerals you can be literally washing your minerals out.

For vitamin B12 the body needs cobalamin, a form of cobalt. When people eat a lot of acid-forming foods like starches, meat and cooked foods, mucus forms and the body cannot make its own B12 like it normally would. ~ David Jubb, Ph.D.

Hear Dr. Jubb in the Patrick Timpone interview #183. Scroll down to the 2nd one.

After millions of years as hunter-gatherers, we were not accustomed to digest these 'strange’ proteins. which our bodies now find undigestible.

Some symptoms are digestive problems, fatigue, nutrient deficiencies, arthritis and joint pain, brain fog, forgetfulness, depression, anxiety, discolored teeth, itchy skin, canker sores in the mouth, tingling or numbness in limbs, fingers and feet, bloating, diarrhea or constipation, gas and lactose intolerance. We are frugavores which means we do best eating anything that grew from a flower as in fruits, including bland fruits that we usually refer to as vegetables such as zucchini, avocado, cucumbers, tomatoes, winter squash and peppers, in addition to nuts and seeds. Thank goodness for photosynthesis!

Why is an alkaline diet and body so essential?

Brunner’s glands function to neutralize acids from your stomach and they release a hormone that stimulates the secretion of mucin and enzymes into your intestinal juices. These secretions are quite alkaline and contain bicarbonate (think of baking soda) which allows the nutrients consumed from fresh, enzymatically rich food to be absorbed. Without it, acidic highly-caustic crud and junk accumulate leaving your body’s ability to be able to digest food unprotected. Bacterial overgrowth can come as an observed result of this sort of adulteration. Along with acid-forming dead food and tap water, Glyphosate is perhaps the most infamous culprit here.

Learn More about all this Here.

What does fat storage have to do with electrons in an alkaline body?

In an alkaline body there are spare electrons and having spare electrons equals having a vital body and a long life. Cooked fat is dead and does not transmit electricity efficiently. It insulates instead, so it gets stored as fat. Food with added preservatives obstructs cell metabolism of lipids (fats). Correct blood flow, reaching the tiniest capillaries and penetrating to the furthest reaches within us, allows for proper nutrition and efficient elimination to occur. Good stuff in, bad stuff out.

Sparks of Life 

Energy!

Each cell in the body is like a wet cell battery. Particularly in the blood, we need both poles of the battery to get a current for proper blood flow. Growth and repair functions become impaired when both electrical wet cell battery poles are disturbed. Both positive and negative attract because of opposing charges, The electrons attract photons (light) through their magnetic field and a photon is the purest form of energy. It is emitted from the fission reaction of the sun. Through resonance, electrons capture these energetic photons. There is an inexhaustible and free source of energy stored in cosmic rays on Earth.

Is it any wonder that our connection to nature is so vital?

As above, so below.

David Jubb has a Ph.D. from New York University and is a neurobehavioral physiologist, a microscopist, a blood formation specialist and an expert in nutrition. Author, lecturer, he is a shaman in the Native American Toltec tradition and one of the world's top naturalists. As the founder of Colloidal Biology, which is the understanding of life below the level of the cell, he has conducted trainings and seminars around the world on cleansing, vitality and diet for the last 40 years. His prime-time television show, “The Universe Inside Our Mind”, ran on Manhattan cable for over a decade. For a free consultation, books and supplements

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Healthy fats are key in an alkaline body full of electrolytes = spare electrons, 

particularly critical with uric acid, as in gout, for example.

Unhealthy fats are related to high levels of acid, resulting in pain and inflammation,

Celiac is an inflammation of the mucous membrane from undigestible proteins such as in grains.

"Grain Brain,

Eating Fat Makes You Smart"

by Dr. David Perlmutter, 2013

Eating grain increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease leading to neurological issues. This was described in the early 2000s, by Dr. Marius Hajovosulu talking about various neurological issues that he had found great success in improving with a gluten-free diet in non-celiac patients.

There is a difference between healthy fats and water and unhealthy fats and water needed to dilute down the sodium that is so pervasive in our foods today. Most of this sodium is devoid of trace minerals, unlike Celtic Sea Salt, for example. You want electrolytes from salt in the context of magnesium and potassium with water on board. So a too-low salt diet is also not good of course. The right amount of salt actually leads to mitochondrial biogenesis, the creation of more mitochondria, your little energy factories in each cell of the body. Who’s not going to want that?

"Uric Acid: A KEY Cause of Weight Gain, Diabetes, Heart Disease & Dementia"

by Dr. David Perlmutter

Dr. David Perlmutter discusses how the elevation of uric acid in the body is a causative mechanism in the development of metabolic diseases, and one of the key links between obesity, diabetes, heart disease, neurologic diseases like dementia, ADHD, fatty liver disease, and more. Metabolic downstream issues are chronic degenerative conditions that are beyond epidemic and are affecting 88% of Americans right now.

The several mechanisms of how uric acid causes cellular dysfunction and insulin resistance, including oxidative stress, inflammation, and even preventing insulin from getting out of the bloodstream effectively.

There are evolutionary reasons why the metabolic dysfunction and weight gain caused by uric acid would have benefitted us historically. In terms of low access to food and water, packing on weight and raising blood pressure in case of famine was critical. Now, in the face of caloric abundance, we live in an evolutionary-environmental mismatch where this survival mechanism is hurting us.

Glutamate

The different dietary and environmental factors that generate uric acid, include fructose, purine-rich foods, dehydration, alcohol and umami foods.

Umami foods are foods that have a strong ‘umami’ flavor and include meats, shellfish, fish (including fish sauce and preserved fish), sardines, anchovies, tomatoes, mushrooms, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, meat extract, yeast extract, miso, parmesan and other aged cheeses, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, Vegemite or Marmite and olives. They are all high in glutamate.

30% to 35% of gluten (much of the protein in wheat) is glutamic acid. Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda, patented a method of mass-producing a crystalline salt of glutamic acid, MSG (Monosodium glutamate), often cited as producing headaches. Malignant brain tumors use glutamate as an energy source!

Glutamate is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. It is a non-essential amino acid because the human body synthesizes enough for its use. It is very acidic, so too much glutamate can damage nerve cells and the communication networks and is associated with such diseases as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Higher levels of glutamate are linked to increased sensations of pain.

Anti-oxidants can reduce glutamate toxicity.

Antioxidants counteract free radicals that damage DNA, cell membranes and other parts of cells.  Because free radicals lack a full complement of electrons, they steal electrons from other molecules  and there you go again, We need an alkaline body full of electrolytes -  spare electrons, NOT more acid!

Are there optimal levels for uric acid?

Uric acid impairs our hunger signals, drives us to eat, and even promotes risk-taking behavior. Reversing high uric acid levels is a way to unlock optimal health.

So, we inherited this legacy as a survival mechanism by having elevated uric acid such that, in the late summer or early fall, when the fruit ripens, we might, as a hunter-gatherer, find some blueberries. It would be a signal to our bodies, "Get ready for food scarcity." Why? "Winter’s coming."

~ Here is Dr. David Perlmutter

Here are the Show Notes

Dr. David Perlmutteis a board-certified neurologist, five five-time New York Times bestselling author. He is a fellow of the American College of Nutrition and he became dismayed about how little nutrition was actually taught in medical school. He serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and has published extensively including peer-reviewed scientific journals. His books have been published in 32 languages and include the number one New York Times bestselling Grain Brain, Brain Maker, and Brain Wash amongst others.

Genetically, we haven’t changed. We haven’t had any significant metabolic changes in our genes for at least 70,000 years. What did change was the environmental signals that we send to our bodies and, primarily, the abundance of sugar in the diet, primarily fructose. We no longer need to be preparing for hibernation.

What’s worse, the cheaper, faster sugar to produce, high fructose corn syrup, took over markets to deliver four times the amount of sugar to most American households.

A uric acid level of seven is dangerous. An 8-year study, in Annals of Rheumatism 2018, looked at 90,000 adults, (42,000 men, 48,000 women). They found a 38% increased risk of cardiovascular mortality - related to gout and uric acid, a 38% increased risk of cardiovascular mortality and a 32% increased risk of dying from stroke. And for every point elevation above 7, (and we see it every day), there’s an additional 8% to 13% increased risk of all-cause mortality, meaning dying from anything whatsoever. Around 1888, Dr. Alexander Hague wrote a book describing how elevated uric acid causes high blood pressure and can be related to headaches, cognitive issues and even depression.

A similar study followed individuals for 12 years and showed that those individuals with the highest or above 7, had about 155% increased risk of any form of dementia, a 55% increased risk of Alzheimer’s and about an 80% increased risk of what is called vascular dementia.  There’s a very powerful relationship between elevation of the uric acid and vascular problems because it affects something called nitric oxide

Men who have elevated uric acid have about a 38% increased risk of erectile dysfunction. That’s a pretty good marker of vascular functional defect. Men with erectile dysfunction have a dramatically increased risk of cardiovascular death for that matter. So this is really starting to tie up some loose ends.

Glucose to Fructose Conversion

“The dose makes the poison.”

The amount of sugar we need to eat is zero grams a day. Anything else is unnecessary. If it happens to be packaged in blueberries or apples, so be it. Blueberries or apples have protective fiber and antioxidants in them. The body can handle and process a certain amount of fructose, especially in its whole-food form.

When you overwhelm the body’s machinery with processing a huge load of fructose, you get this big surge of the byproduct, uric acid, that’s going to cause damage to the cells.

This notion of drinking Coke or any of these 60% of the foods in the grocery store that have added sugar for no other reason, but to get you to buy them, is absurd. When you see this happening, then you look around at what people look like these days, everything fits in. You totally get it. When thinking about things like obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, fatty liver disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, neurological disorders, and premature death, what do they have in common? They have high uric acid levels.

Purines break down ultimately into uric acid, What are they?

Purines are the breakdown products of the DNA and the RNA that you find in foods like organ meats, liver and kidney and small fish like anchovies, very dense foods. Even some vegetables are high in purines. When we break down those purines, ultimately we form uric acid. Two-thirds of the purines in our bodies are generated from our own day-to-day activity. In breaking down our own muscle, our own tissue, we create these purines that can become uric acid or that can be recycled to form nucleic acids. There’s a general downregulation in mitochondrial function as a way of conserving energy.

Another source of uric acid is the metabolism of alcohol. The metabolism of fructose and alcohol are really almost identical. As an example, for men who drink wine, there’s no real effect on uric acid. Women who drink wine actually are observed to have slightly lower uric acid in comparison to women who do not. Both men and women who consume hard liquor show a fairly prominent elevation of their uric acid. 

The worst player by far is Beer. Why? Not only does it contain alcohol, but it’s loaded with purines. Why would beer have purines? Because it’s made from yeast. Brewer’s yeast loads that beer up with purines, hence the uric acid level goes way up and tells the body, "Make a beer belly." Right?

Who knew? Who could explain that in the past? In Japan, you can buy purine-free beer

You don’t drink an apple. So it’s going to take you a little time to consume it and that will be metabolized by the small intestine and pretty much dealt with at that level. And it won’t make its way to the liver where all the problems really begin. The other thing that is that fruit has fiber, which slows it’s fructose release in the body. Fruit contains bioflavonoids like quercetin that target one of the important enzymes in making uric acid.

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Five apples a day, the doctor you will pay.”

Exercise is one of the most powerful things you can do for your health because it inhibits the enzyme that makes uric acid called xanthine oxidase.

We turn to our friend, the camel. The camel has this huge hump on his back or her back, walks across the desert, doesn’t get dehydrated, doesn’t drink any water and yet manages to survive. What’s in the hump? Fat, up to 80 pounds pure fat. When we burn fat, we produce carbon dioxide and water, metabolic water. So making and storing body fat has been a powerful survival mechanism against dehydration.

Munching chips are going to raise your blood sugar which also activates this pathway, but it’s the salt. Your serum sodium goes up and the next thing you know, you’re getting fat because you’ve stimulated the survival pathway, great if you are in the desert.

Chips are refined carbohydrates and salt so you’ve got the raw material to make fructose and you’re turning on the pathway with the salt and off you go and your weight goes up and you wonder why.
The first step in the metabolism of fructose utilizes an enzyme called fructokinase which uses your energy, your ATP.

This process eventually creates adenosine, which has lots of its own effects on the body like inflammation, oxidative stress and so forth,

Glucose can feed into these processes as it's either recycled back up to make more ATP or it’s broken down further or converted into pneumonia.

It has to go. Glucose has lots of its own effects on the body also like inflammation and oxidative stress which can feed into these processes. It often results in glycation, AGEs, (Advanced glycation end products) - sugared proteins that tangle in the brain and are related to poor memory, tinnitus and eventually dementia and Alzheimer’s.

In one study, of 22 young men with mild elevation of their uric acid over eight weeks, it was found that by giving them 500 milligrams a day of quercetin, it dropped their uric acid by about 8%, just in eight weeks. Luteolin, at 100 milligrams a day, also helped.

Why do we have this pathway that’s so bad? Why would it have persisted?

We know that it amplifies inflammation. That’s a good thing when you are injured and have the possibility of an infection, for example. The inflammation carries nutrients into the area and the pain keeps you from using the finger or whatever too much while it it healing. However, many of these chemical pathways are being hijacked by our modern lifestyles. We are having an evolutionary environmental mismatch.

We have a primitive, impulsive, non-forward thinking, “I want it now,” area called the amygdala. And we have the more advanced prefrontal cortex that looks at a lot of information, comes up with a really good decision that takes into account how a decision is going to affect us, other people, what the impact of this decision may be a year from now, whatever.

So that’s basically the adult in the room, right? Because the prefrontal cortex exercises top-down control over the more impulsive five-year-old, the amygdala.

That pathway is fundamental. When we sever that pathway, we disconnect from the top-down control. We take the adult out of the room. In Brain Wash, we call that the disconnection syndrome and it turns out that inflammation severs the pathway.

So, when we become inflamed as is what happens when uric acid level goes up, (and that’s what gout is all about), we lock ourselves into a very simplistic decision maker that will further eat the crappy food and further choose to spend time, not exercising, but watching TV. And it creates really a vicious cycle.

So we need to bring the adult back into the room. We need to bring that uric acid level down and reduce inflammation. And everybody knows the right thing to do, but we don’t always do the right thing because sometimes we give in and the adult leaves briefly and the 5-year-old takes full advantage of it.

To sum things up, here are:

5 Quotes by Dr. Robert O. Young

“Acid causes inflammation and inflammation leads to all degenerative disease, including cancer and heart disease.”

“The only purpose of the small intestines is to manufacture stem cells and blood out of liquid alkaline food.”

“The pancreas is an alkaline gland that secretes sodium bicarbonate.”

“The pH of the urine is a measurement of the interstitial fluids and not the blood.”

“The single most important measurement that should be tested daily is the pH of the interstitial fluids.”

“Dr. Robert O. Young is on the threshold of a New Biology that will change the biology and medical worlds as we have known them today.” ~ Neil Solomon, MD, former head of research at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine