When we are born, our bodies are very alkaline. That makes us smell fresh and sweet.

As we grow older, our bodies become more acid.

 Acidity is caused by various circumstances: acid forming food, the inability to excrete accumulating toxins, environmental toxins, general toxins (insecticides, pesticides etc.) from the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the fact that most food today is very much devoid of nutrients necessary to counteract acidity.

That lack of nutrients prevents the body to function properly and to get rid of accumulating toxins.

 When we look at the situation from a balance and harmony point of view, we realise that acidity has a lot to do with protons and alkalinity with electrons. All atoms want to have a balance between protons and electrons...and living systems as well. If there are too many protons the body becomes acid....if there are too many electrons relative to the protons, the body turns alkaline.

 For me, the proton/electron balance is the most basic balance in the Universe.....without it the Universe does not exist! That is how important it is.\ for living systems as well...that basic, that important! The body was designed to operate  slightly alkaline. The blood pH has to be between 7.35 and 7.45...if it drops down to 7.0 you are dead!

 Some people want to argue that is true only for blood pH....but blood pH is not an isolated entity in empty space....it is connected to and dependant on the rest of the body!!! If the tissue is too acid....that tends to 'drag' the blood pH down as well....and hence the body must find alkaline minerals (such as calcium from the bones) to keep the pH at the 'designer level'...and that is why people can get osteoporosis. Not necessarily because they do not have sufficient calcium in their diet.

 When you place a piece metal in an acid solution it tends to rust faster. Why??? Because an acid medium is a medium in which you have lots of hydrogen ions = hydrogen atoms which have lost an electron = protons. Protons don't want to be without a 'partner', an electron, and hence they steal the electron from a neighbour. If that happens to be a metal (transition metals = anything from lead to copper, mercury, zinc, cadmium, nickel, iron etc.), the metal will become electrically charged because there now is an imbalance between the number of protons in the atoms core and electrons in the outer shells. Typically iron will lose two electrons and hence will have two positively charged protons too many. That positive electric charge will make the metals 'stick' to tissues like hair to the balloon. The body has no chance to eliminate such metals...or to use them purposefully.....unless it can 'chelate' them = make them electrically neutral.

 If we increase the amount of electrons in an acid medium, the hydrogen ion or proton can take an electron from that pool of additional electrons and does not have to 'steal' them from other atoms. The medium (or milieu as some researchers call it) becomes more alkaline. The metals do not 'rust' and do not form the basis for the production of huge amounts of free radicals through the metal mediated Fenton reaction either.

 Since free radicals are considered to be the root cause of all chronic diseases and ageing, less chronic diseases will develop and the person will age more slowly.

 The Alkalizer is a mixture of bicarbonates of soda and potassium, magnesium and citric acid.

 Sodium and potassium are necessary for the sodium/potassium pump across cell membranes, i.e. important for the proper functioning of the cells. Sodium keeps water in our body and potassium helps to get rid of it. It is a bit like yin and yang.

 Apart from that bicarbonates are 'buffers'. They prevent pH 'bounce'....or the rapid change of the pH. Everyone owning a pool will know that pH bounce is 'dangerous'. It can lead to the pool going green over night. The same, in a way, is true for our body. It is a kind of swimming pool as well.....depending on whom we read, the body consists of 70 to 80% water! And the water in that pool needs to be 'treated' just the same as the water in the pool we swim in. Bicarbonate of soda is natural to the body. A healthy pancreas produces about 2 litres of bicarb a day. Bicarbonate of soda is an electron donor and an electron acceptor and that makes it a ‘buffer’. It prevents ‘pH bounce’ or the rapid change in pH. pH bounce may give rise to allergies and encourages ‘opportunistic invaders’ (bacteria, viruses, yeasts etc.) to get a foothold.

 Magnesium carbonate in the Alkalizer turns into magnesium bicarbonate which alkalises the inside of cells....and citric acid is needed in the 'citric acid cycle', or Krebs cycle for energy production.

 That the mixture really alkalises the water in our body we can prove to ourselves easily. Just take a ‘narrow band’ pH paper (range between about 4 and 8) and check you urine pH. Ideally it should be between 6.5 (in the morning.... because during the night the body gets rid of acid waste) and 7.5 (during the day and in the evening). If it is lower than that, just take a teaspoon full of the mixture in `1/2 glass of water, wait for, say, 15 minutes and check you urine pH again. You will find that it has changed now….that it is more alkaline.

 We offer the mixture (The Alkalizer) without any by products (such as sweeteners, flow agents etc.) and properly balanced to the most beneficial pH as our ‘Alkalizer’. I have been taking the mixture for a couple of years now. Normally I take one heaped teaspoon in a glass of water in the morning and in the evening before I go to bed (that helps me to fall asleep!). If I want to drink acid forming beverages (coffee or alcohol especially) I will take another teaspoon of Alkalizer in some water before or after I drink that coffee or alcohol.

 A little bit of awareness is going a long way.

 There are numerous web sites on the internet dealing with alkalisation!