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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