ALKALINE
- Prevention
- - Nutrition
- - Alkaline
An alkaline diet is based on the hypothesis that consuming a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and with moderate amounts of protein promotes an alkaline load and a healthier lifestyle. The alkaline diet emphasizes consuming alkaline foods in an attempt to make the body’s pH more alkaline. Studies show that there may be value in considering an alkaline diet in reducing morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases (Journal of Environmental and Public Health. 2012 October).
An alkaline diet may result in a number of health benefits (Journal of Environmental and Public Health. 2012 October), including:
- Improvements in the K/Na ratio and bone health, reduced muscle wasting, as well as mitigate other chronic diseases such as hypertension and strokes.
- Increase in growth hormone with an alkaline diet may improve many outcomes ranging from cardiovascular health to memory and cognition.
- Increase in intracellular magnesium, which is needed for the function of many enzyme systems, is another added benefit of the alkaline diet. Available magnesium, which is required to activate vitamin D, would result in numerous added benefits in the vitamin D apocrine/exocrine systems.
- Alkalinity may result in added benefits for some chemotherapeutic agents that require a higher pH.