Hello Jade i have a question about the Balance pH theory of a diet based with foods that are 80% alkaline & 20% acid.

I have read alot of your book but not completely yet The New ME Diet and its brilliant and with already knowing about this Alkaline based theory and seeing its benefits first hand in people and know numerous very experienced Naturopaths and Non Conventional Medical Doctor's that promote this heavily as a great regime to massively decrease the chances of attaining many disease's, cancer's and promoting brilliant health and wellness.
Obviously these Medical Doctor's are not conventional types as the conventional Doctor's do not like to promote this because they like to handout drugs in accordance with Pharmaceutical corporations where sickness is big business and profit.
As you talked about in your book conventional Doctor's do very little study on nutrition and then of course there's the right nutrition v's the wrong commercial & processed types of nutrition so who's to say they learn the right nutrition in what little study they do in this area. I heard a Doctor recently say in 6 years of studying medicine to become a Doctor he did "2 WEEKS" of study on nutrition....the rest was all about Pharmacology as its all about the drug and profit NOT Health and Wellness as they are not interested in getting to the grass root of health problems and treating the cause, they are in the business of treating symptoms as "symptoms" is big business...keeping people sick = profit!, so again Pharmaceutical companies as you know and iam sure alot of people know (or should know) have a massive influence to our so called health system. There's no way you can rely on the conventional Doctor's for out health!

The work done by German scientist Otto Warburg back in the 1930's was instrumental in this research and he even won a nobel peace prize for his successful work.

Robert O Young's book The pH Miracle: Blance your Diet, Reclaim your Health goes into the detail of how this theory works and in my personal opinion its brilliant and makes so much sense too.

Sorry about the rant there and now to my question:
How does this Alkaline base theory go with your training philosophy that you have promoted at the Metabolic Effect ??

Iam under the impression they go very well together ?

You may be surprised to hea my take on acid base balance.  In reality, PH is very important but this has been oversimplified to such a degree.  Every tissue in the body has a different PH that is optimal some of which are acid and some of which are more alkaline.  When we speak of acid/alkaline we are really talking about blood PH.  Again here, you don't want to be wither too acid or too alkaline.  All foods after being absorbed into the blood reach the kidney as alkaline or acid and then the kidney, lungs, and buffering systems in the blood go to work to normalize blood PH.  Any high vegetable diet is an alkaline based diet.  The acid forming foods are meat, dairy, and grains.  Alkaline foods are fruits and veggies.  Since most people eat 50 to 75% of their diet in the form of grain or dairy, you are right that the Metabolic Effect diet corrects this simply through eliminating these influences and then balances PH by working to get the right proportion of protein foods and vegetables.  Hope this helps.

Hello Jade,

I'm in the process of obtaining my ME Nutrition Cert and I'm reading the PH Miracle book by Robert Young which not only claims that limiting or even eliminating animal proteins is essential to achieve a health PH balance but also that anaerobic exercise increases the body's acidity because of oxygen debt.  Not only that the author claims that lactic acid is toxic and aerobic exercise allows the body to access electron energy from fat while anaerobic exercise causes the body to obtain electron energy from carbs or protein instead.

Very curious about your thoughts.

Hello Jade,

I'm in the process of obtaining my ME Nutrition Cert and I'm reading the PH Miracle book by Robert Young which not only claims that limiting or even eliminating animal proteins is essential to achieve a health PH balance but also that anaerobic exercise increases the body's acidity because of oxygen debt.  Not only that the author claims that lactic acid is toxic and aerobic exercise allows the body to access electron energy from fat while anaerobic exercise causes the body to obtain electron energy from carbs or protein instead.

Very curious about your thoughts.