For Strong Bones, Keep Your Kidneys Healthy And Your Blood Pressure Under Control

If you are following the Osteoporosis Reversal Program, then you are familiar with the acid/alkaline balance to build your bones. The basic idea is to balance your meals and snacks so that you consume 80% alkaline-forming foods and 20% acid-forming foods. Maintaining this balance is crucial for increasing and maintaining bone density. But did you ever stop to think about how your body maintains its pH? It’s really quite interesting!

Acidic vs. Alkaline Body Environment: Why Does It Matter?

An acid is a substance that neutralizes alkalis and can dissolve some metals. In other words, acid is corrosive, and it neutralizes alkalis.

While some acids are stronger than others, these characteristics are fundamental to the nature of acid in general. When your body is acidic, the acidic environment must be neutralized by the dissolution of alkalis.

Quoting from the Osteoporosis Reversal Program:

“The blood, lymph and cerebral spinal fluid in the human body are designed to be slightly alkaline at a pH between 7.35 and 7.45.”

When you eat acid-forming foods, your body uses the available alkalis to neutralize the acidic environment in order to maintain the desirable pH. This process is called buffering. Unfortunately, some of these “available alkalis” are key minerals like calcium that are in your bones, or in your blood from diet or supplements. To neutralize the acid, once the circulating alkaline reserves are depleted, these minerals are pulled or leached out of the bones, or they’re intercepted to buffer the acid before they even get to your bones.

When it comes to these acid-alkaline reactions in the body…

Your Kidneys Do The Lion’s Share

Your kidneys are vital in maintaining the acid-alkaline balance because they are responsible for filtering out the excess acid from your system. They also reabsorb alkalizing bicarbonate from the urine. A constant load of acid caused by the typical American diet (and other diets around the world) means that these vital organs have to work very hard to remove it.

Our kidneys tend to get less efficient as we age, so a high-acid-forming diet combined with age sets the stage for compromised kidneys and continually high acid levels in the body. “The higher the acid load and the older you are, the worse your kidney function is and the higher the body’s acid level [that] is maintained,” study author Lynda Frassetto wrote.¹

This is why even if you’re following a pH-balanced diet…

Keeping Your Kidneys In Top Shape is Vital To Your Bone Health

Eating an acid-alkaline balanced diet is the first key step to relieving your kidneys of their work overload to get rid of the acid. But there’s another (unfortunately) common condition that can damage your kidneys, which means that it’s also detrimental to your bones. And that condition is…

High Blood Pressure

Blood pressure is the force of blood against blood vessel walls. If this pressure is high, it results in damage to various blood vessels – including those in the kidneys. When the kidneys can’t do their job, excess acid, toxins, wastes, and fluid are not removed properly and therefore accumulate in the body. The resulting excess fluid increases blood pressure, so it’s a cyclic process.

High blood pressure is so hard on the kidneys that it causes more than 25,000 cases of kidney failure each year in the US alone.²

Thus, managing high blood pressure and keeping your kidneys in tip-top shape are crucial to the health of your bones.

Controlling Blood Pressure Is Another Key To Bone Health

“Savers” know that at Save Our Bones, we explore and research drug-free alternatives to improve bone health. Thankfully, there are drug-free, natural approaches to managing high blood pressure. In fact, studies have shown that…

Vitamin C, A Foundation Supplement, Helps Control Blood Pressure

According to a 2012 study, increased intake of Vitamin C, with dosages as low as 500 mg, has been associated with lower blood pressure.³ Since Vitamin C is a Foundation Supplement in the Osteoporosis Reversal Program, when you follow the Program you’re a step ahead.

How To Restore Kidney Function

If you're ready to reverse age-related and environmental kidney function decline, the good news is that you can “fast track” your body’s ability to heal itself and grow stronger bones.

That's why I created the Osteoporosis Fresh Start Cleanse: The 7-Day Bone Building Accelerator.

The Osteoporosis Fresh Start Cleanse is a seven-day plan, uniquely designed to promote bone health and protect kidney function. When followed, it will help flush out the toxins in your body to keep your kidneys operating at their optimum levels.

If you want maximum benefit from your bone-building efforts, you simply must flush out the dangerous chemicals and toxins that are standing in your way. A very powerful daily habit (it’s not hard) that can help keep your kidneys and liver operating at their optimum levels.

Following the Osteoporosis Fresh Start Cleanse is especially important if you've ever taken any prescription osteoporosis drugs and would like to cleanse your liver and kidneys thereby accelerating your bone building efforts.

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References

¹ Frassetto, Lynda, MD. “Acid-base, diet, and preventing ‘age-related’ dysfunction of bone, muscle, kidney, and cardiovascular system.” 7 Oct. 2009. p. 9. PDF file.
² United States Renal Data System. USRDS 2007 Annual Data Report. Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2007.
³ Juraschek, Stephen P., et al. “Effects of vitamin C supplementation on blood pressure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. April 2012, doi: 10.3945/ajcn.111.027995. Web. https://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/95/5/1079.full