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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 twelve-time book author and doctor of traditional natural medicine, whose works include: 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-newsletter World's Healthiest News at WorldsHealthiestDiet.com.

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3:43PM PDT on Oct 23, 2011

thanks

8:33AM PDT on Aug 1, 2011

thank you :)

10:50AM PDT on Jul 10, 2011

gladly noted, many thanks

3:12AM PDT on Jul 10, 2011

thanks for the great article

5:38AM PDT on Jul 4, 2011

Thanks for sharing.

9:30AM PDT on Jul 3, 2011

Thanks!

12:55PM PDT on Jul 1, 2011

Thank you, enlightening.

10:36AM PDT on Jul 1, 2011

noted

10:57PM PDT on Jun 30, 2011

Noted. Thank you.

7:50PM PDT on Jun 30, 2011

Apple cider vinegar.

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