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4 Supplements that Alkalize Your Body

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4 Supplements that Alkalize Your Body

Choosing a healthier lifestyle can be as simple as alkalizing your body, which may sound complicated but it really isn’t.  Basically, acid and alkaline are opposite sides of the biochemical spectrum.  Ideally, your body should be slightly alkaline, but most people’s bodies are excessively acidic due to high stress levels, a diet high in meat, sugar consumption, and other acid-forming habits.  While supplements are not a substitute for a healthy diet and lifestyle, they can assist you in making your body more alkaline.

1.  Green Food Powders
There are many different kinds of green powders, primarily made from spirulina or chlorella algae and the juices of various types of grasses:  barley, wheat, or alfalfa.  These ingredients might seem like a recipe for swamp water but add a teaspoon or two to water, juice diluted with water, or a smoothie and you’ll be surprised how good they can taste.  More importantly, they help alkalize your body, thereby promoting greater energy, improved resistance to illness, and less pain.  If you don’t like one type, choose a different kind since there is a significant variation in taste between various green powders.

2.  Calcium
To cope with acidity, your body may withdraw calcium from your bones since it is a natural anti-acid mineral.  Like a bank account from which regular withdrawals are made, your bones can become vulnerable to excessive calcium losses.  To help restore the amount of calcium in your body, you can supplement with this critical mineral.  Everyone’s needs are different but they usually range from 800 mg to 1500 mg.

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Michelle Schoffro Cook

Michelle Schoffro Cook, MSc, RNCP, ROHP, DNM, PhD is an international best-selling and 14-time book author and doctor of traditional natural medicine, whose works include: 60 Seconds to Slim, Healing Recipes, The Vitality Diet, Allergy-Proof, Arthritis-Proof, Total Body Detox, The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan, and The Phytozyme Cure. Check out her natural health resources and subscribe to her free e-magazine World's Healthiest News at WorldsHealthiestDiet.com to receive monthly health news, tips, recipes and more. Follow her on Twitter @mschoffrocook and Facebook.

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11:20PM PDT on May 11, 2013

Thanks, important info.

4:08AM PDT on Apr 7, 2013

Thank you.

3:32PM PDT on Apr 6, 2013

Thank you for the important information. I just learned about this recently. (P, T)

1:56PM PDT on Apr 6, 2013

good info

3:34PM PDT on Mar 21, 2013

Does mineral water alkalize the body?

11:44AM PDT on Mar 16, 2013

interesting and simple

1:04PM PST on Nov 30, 2012

Thank you.

4:21AM PST on Nov 30, 2012

Good article, thank you

12:42PM PDT on Oct 11, 2012

thanks for the info.

12:27AM PDT on Sep 24, 2012

Thanks

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