all right in this next question a person asks Dr. Berg what causes cataracts all
right so I want to discuss cataracts and it has to do with a person's pH their acid
alkaline levels and I talked about this in my book on page 50 under the adrenal
gland chapter because when the adrenal gland over acts and produces too much
cortisol that's the stress hormone what happens is it it causes the release of a
lot of acid from the urine so when you check the urine the person's pH is very
very very acid it's overly acid so you may look at that and go wow the person
is too acid we need to alkalize them that would be a big mistake because when
you lose your acids your pH then starts becoming more alkaline so 7 is neutral
when you go above 7 you're becoming more alkaline and when you're becoming low 7
below 7 it's more acid okay so if you're losing all your acids your pH is going
to rise upward and because the blood operates at a very narrow band between
7.34 and 7.45 so it it it's like within just like a very small range and if the
ph of that blood goes too high you're going to develop something called
alkalosis now what is alkalosis that just means that your blood is to alkaline
and that is a condition that it happens with adrenal gland problems and stress
so but when you measure the urine it's excessively acid that's because you're
dumping all your acids and your body is becoming to on the opposite and bloods
becoming too alkaline when the blood is overly alkaline you you're going to have
a big problem with calcium calcium will not necessarily go this doesn't even
work go in the body anymore it goes on the tissues ok so it develops
on the nerves as neuritis like like all the itisis inflammation
on the heels as heel spurs on the joints as arthritis on the bursa as bursitis
that's little sac around the joints on the tendons is tendinitis on the eyes is
cataracts that's a calcium plaquing because the body is too alkaline I'm
talking about the blood I mean there's books that say you have to alkalize or
die and that's actually a myth because you're here you're going to create a
worsening of the problems calcium develop develops on the arteries as
plaquing on the kidneys as kidney stones and the gall bladders gall stones on the
nerve on the left actually it could be on the right or left as a little
twitching on the eyelid that's calcium because the pH is too alkaline
and the calcium is not going in the bone the muscle that's why you get cramps in
your calves work tight shoulders up here so all of it from the adrenal
overacting you can have all those conditions could you imagine treating
each one of those separately we have to get to the root problem the cause and so
doing that you would want to acidify the body now how do you do that well people
that are excessively alkalyn tend to crave acids like they might like the
what's that outside of it another cider vinegar chips the vinegar chips they
might like carbonated water or sodas because it is carbonic acid so they want
that what they should do is do Pellegrino or Perrier because the
carbonated water will acidify them as well but the best thing to do is to take
a little lemon in your water or maybe some outside of vinegar in your water or
even cranberry all those are very acidic and of course I recommend that in my
book on the adrenal chapter you're going to do a drink with unsweetened cranberry
apple cider vinegar and a little lemon in some water to start to acidify you and
sometimes people say well Dr. Berg why are we trying to acidify because most
people are actually too alkaline in the blood but they're too acidic
coming out because they're losing all their acids and when the calcium doesn't
get absorbed your breathing becomes off so you you can't you like your can't get
enough air you don't sleep that well you can't why
down at night because you don't have the calcium to wine you down so there's a
lot of other problems that occur but that's definitely one of them so this is
some extra background data help that help I'll see you in the next video