[amih]

You seem to be acidic, your urine pH is 5.5 I am no specialist in medicine or nutrition but this seems to mean you eat too much cooked food and too little fresh fruit and vegetables.

Eat more apples, bananas, oranges and watermelons for calories, don't worry about the sugar, this is not sucrose. For minerals and other good stuff eat green leaves: lettuce, spinach, kale and cucumbers. This might seems contradicting the theory you're testing at the moment, it is full of fiber, so you might reject it, but please consider this perhaps after you have some conclusions with regards the Celiac.

There are some theories regarding cooked food that claim there is a strong immune reaction in the human body after eating a cooked meal, the body is exposed to massive amounts of deformed protein and each person may react differently. You will go back to several bowel movements a day eating many fruits and vegetables but that's a small price to pay for your health.

Feel free to ignore me. Good luck with your health!

[eru]

Any studies supporting those views? The pH-theory of illness sounds quite bogus to me--the body has all sorts of pH-buffers build in, and can produce it's own acids and bases.

[pradocchia]

The pH-theory of illness originated in Japan as best I can tell, and has spread to China in recent years. Perhaps Korea too.

Basically, the idea is that the body prefers a slightly alkaline pH (stay with me now). Rice, meat, cooked foods, coffee, black tea and smoking all acidify the blood, where as fresh vegetables and green tea de-acidify it. Acidified blood then leads to cancer, heart disease, and other chronic ills.

Ok, but the body naturally maintains blood pH in a narrow range. If this theory has any truth to it, then it wouldn't be "acidified blood" that's bad for you, but the energy and nutrients consumed, and the byproducts created and disposed of, in the course of maintaining proper pH against an acidifying diet. Low-pH urine might be a sign of the body working overtime to keep the blood neutral.

To this end, you can buy water ionizers that produce alkaline water, and drink that rather than normal water. According to the product literature I saw (my neighbors in China had one installed--a lot of money for a retired couple), the original research looked at villages around the world where people lived longer than their average countrymen. The common thread was slightly alkaline water (supposedly). I went online to check sources, and indeed, there was a lot of university-affiliated research along these lines in Japan.

This was 6 years ago. I'm sure you can find more information online, if you are curious.

[amih]

My personal journey started after I had a severe virus attacking my liver, this was the third time in my life that I had a liver disease and I was really ill, I was extremely tired and weak for a month at least with a very slow recovery after that. I had hepatitis (I think it was A) at age 7, mononucleosis at age 21 and anonymous hepatitis at age 35. I am almost 40 now and don't want to be sick again when I'm 49...

I read a lot about raw food on the internet and tried it myself. I used to eat the SAD (Standard American Diet) even though I was born, grew up and still live in Israel.

4 years ago I switched to a vegan diet and a year and a half ago I started on a raw vegan diet.

The best diet for me personally is 811rv, this does not mean it is the right diet for everyone, but you should at least try it before dismissing it as rubbish. It is not a quick fix, it takes a lot of effort, mainly in the social pressure from close friends, family and the society in general. this idea is so alien that everyone will be against it. Think for yourself and research the subject. It can't hurt you to eat healthier, right?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away - its just not true! You need to make the apple the main course and eat many apples during the day.

Here are some pointers regarding nutrition:

nutridiary.com (free journal where you can log what you eat and it calculates the nutritional value of the food)

juicefeasting.com http://juicefeasting.com/JuiceFeastingSpectrumIntro/Whatisth...

http://www.google.co.il/search?q=raw+fat+or+fruit

http://www.google.co.il/search?q=811rv

[eru]

Interesting.

I find it easy to accept that your diet works--especially that it works for you. Just the notion that it works for the reasons outlined, seems outlandish to me. (But I do not have enough information either way.)

[natrius]

> Eat more apples, bananas, oranges and watermelons for calories, don't worry about the sugar, this is not sucrose.

Care to explain that? It sounds like a common misinterpretation of the "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" video that was floating around a while back. Most fruits have plenty of sucrose anyway.

[pyre]

Fructose, which is in high abundance in fruits, is the sugar to avoid. Sucrose = Fructose + Glucose. So saying "don't worry about the sugar, this is not sucrose" is misleading. Glucose is the sugar that your body is designed to digest/process. The reason that fruits are better for you than sugary things is because the amount of fructose is smaller than in most other things, and most fruits contain a lot of fiber.

[a-priori]

Bull. Urine pH can vary anywhere from 4.4 to 8 and still be considered normal [1]. And that's the urine. It says nothing about the pH of the blood or other fluids that could actually cause the sorts of problems the OP is encountering. With a low urine pH you'll get stones [2], not neurological and digestive problems.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine#pH [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperuricosuria