Peter Ochsenham - The Alkaline Solution: Survive the Modern Western Diet

The Alkaline Solution Survive the Modern Western Diet

How acid/base balance and magnesium deficiency impacts diabetes, heart disease, depression, migraines, cancer and pain management

By

Professor Jrgen Vormann & Peter Ochsenham

Copyright 2016 by Professor Jrgen Vormann & Peter Ochsenham. All rights reserved. SmashWords Edition

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Peter Ochsenham & Professor Juergen Vormann

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Copyright 2015 Peter Ochsenham & Professor Juergen Vormann

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Peters early life was dedicated to the delivery of low invasive therapy to individuals for healthcare. He is trained in all facets of natural healthcare, including nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, body therapy including myofascial release, dry needling, NLP, hypnosis and breathwork. However, he would say his most important tool in practice was his whiteboard!

Peters mission is to provide a platform for people to be given self-empowering options and messages for their health choices. For Peter the healthcare practitioner is the promise for the future of every person they see and the message they give holds the invitation to enhance the life power and embrace responsibility for greater wellbeing. Peter realises this journey is unique to each individual and it is as much about mindset, beliefs and empowerment as it is physical activity.

The modern western diet is a testament to our affluence but has also become a major contributor to ill health and chronic disease. As recently as twenty years ago, the medical establishment, at the coal face of service delivery, doubted there was any close correlation between diet and disease. However, researchers were uncovering a very different picture.

We fear the same is happening today. We now postulate that in Australia magnesium is under prescribed by medical doctors, even though the research is very strong and undeniable for numerous conditions. Unfortunately, there seems to be a blind spot to the use of magnesium.

If we look at an over acid diet, for example, our fear is that the understanding and recognition of its impact on health will go unnoticed by the people that can make a change in the population.

We hope this book serves as a reminder that the data is out there, that change can happen, and that it gives you what you need to make modifications in your diet that may even save your life.

There has been much of information disseminated on what is known as the Paleo diet, which our ancestors are said to have consumed during that period of human history when we were hunter-gatherers.

Paleo is short for the Paleolithic Era, the period of roughly two and a half million years that preceded the agricultural revolution. The term Paleolithic is made up of two Greek words. Paleo comes from palaios, meaning oldreferring to prehistoric timesand lithos from the Greek word for stone. Hence, we commonly refer to the period when our ancestors were hunter-gatherers as the Stone Age, since it was marked by the development and use of such items as stone-tipped arrows for hunting.

For about the last 8,500 to 10,000 years, depending on which part of the globe we are talking about, humans have been cultivating crops and breeding livestock. When we say livestock, we use the term in the more general sense that includes not only cattle but also foods, such as poultry and farmed seafood. Before the development of agriculture, all of our food was a product of the wild (Cordain et al., 2005).

Many of us have known for a long time that most of our modern diseases are intimately linked to the industrial worlds flawed eating habits. From cardiovascular issues, such as heart disease, stroke, and congestive heart failure, to diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases, such as Crohns or rheumatoid arthritis. If whole populations began to eat wild berries, roots, nuts, free-range meats and wild seafood, much of the pharmaceutical industry and the medical fieldthe areas that deal with degenerative diseaseswould quite simply go out of business.

Despite the current popularity of a return to what people imagine as the diet our Stone Age ancestors feasted on, it isnt quite so simple as cutting out grains and other starchy carbohydrates, along with replacing the mass-produced factory-farmed meat most of us consume with grass-fed beef and poultry, wild-caught fish, pasture-raised eggs, and other products. For whether we are talking about Australia or China, the United States or the countries that make up the European Union, Canada or Japan, our foods today just arent the same as those of the Paleolithic era.

It isnt simply a matter of a cow is a cow is a cow. A modern cow has been bred to be a very different creature from those killed and consumed by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Consequently, what we consumeeven when we try for the most natural of diets todayhas a quite different effect on our metabolism, and we should keep in mind that this kind of Paleolithic diet cannot feed the more than eight billion people on earth.

Dont get us wrong. Were all for cleaning up our diet. We are saying that simply opting for more naturally produced foods isnt enough. Neither is it merely a matter of adding vitamins and minerals to our diet, whether as additives, such as vitamin D added to milk or taking supplements. Many do all these things yet still dont get well, let alone enjoy optimum health. Millions are tired, overweight, anxious, and in many cases suffer from anything from haemorrhoids to acne. Food alone isn't the answer for most of us living in the modern world.

What has been lacking is the scientific data showing why this is so. Now, at last, this data is available. From this scientific research, we are now finally able to say definitively what the issues are and figure out how to fix them. When you see the data, youll understand why it isnt quite so straightforward as merely changing our diet.

This is whats different about this bookit gives you the hard science, which no one has ever done in a book of this kind before.

To understand the fundamental difference between a Paleolithic diet and what most of us eat today, its necessary to consider the findings of an elaborate scientific study that investigated 159 possible preagricultural diets.

You didnt know there were that many Paleo diets? Most think there is essentially just one diet. We said it was more complicated than just switching from grains and factory farmed beef!

One of the most crucial aspects of the human metabolism has to do with the balance of acid versus alkaline throughout our systemwith the exception of our digestive system. In science, we generally refer to this as the acid-base balance, the term base denoting alkaline.

The study we referred to earlier set out to discover the effect of these 159 possible Paleo diets on the acid-base balance of the human body (Sebastian et al., 2002). The researchers sought to determine the net endogenous acid production from such diets.