Acid Defense
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Acid/Alkaline and Your Body's pH
When your body becomes too acidic, it will attempt to compensate by retaining alkaline salts in the bloodstream to offset the increase of tissue acidity. Since your body can only tolerate a small imbalance in blood pH, it will rob alkaline components from other placesincluding your body’s precious alkaline reserves in an effort to restore a proper pH balance. This can result in heartburn, digestive distress, stomach upset, fatigue, and a multitude of varying symptoms.
Commercial antacid products only alleviate the symptoms by blocking the production of acid and can often produce unwanted side effects. They alter your body's ability to absorb protein and calcium which can then create the need for a calcium supplement to compensate. Theingredients in Acid Defense however, contain naturally occurring alkalinizing components such as calcium and magnesium that reestablish a balanced, healthy, system-wide pH. It is safe for daily usage with no known side effects.
The Important Role of Sodium & Potassium
If it were not for the presence of sodium making the tissue in the stomach highly alkaline, the lining would be destroyed by the hydrochloric acid normally produced in the stomach. The stomach, intestines, joints, and ligaments are in constant need of natural food-sourcesodium such as that present in the goat mineral matrix in Acid Defense. Naturally occurring sodium is not to be confused with the sodium from common table salt which is processed with extreme heat using many chemical and bleaching agents.
A Necessary and Beneficial Combination:
Potassium neutralizes acid wastes, and in combination with sodium, maintains a healthy acid/alkaline balance. Potassium and sodium are nearly always found together in the body and perform many of the same functions. Second only to breathing and maintaining a heartbeat –the most important metabolic function our body performs is to maintain a balanced pH.
The Foundation of Health
We believe that the very foundation of health begins with the proliferation of beneficial flora in the gut. The probiotics, live enzymes, and alkalizing minerals naturally occurring in goat's milk whey, along with organic vegetable juice concentrates and our powerfulStomach Soothe™ N•Zimes Blend™ – together produce a soothing effect, maintain a balanced pH, and promote the growth of healthy flora throughout the intestines.
Ancient Wisdom Fermentation
The ancient Greeks understood that important chemical changes took place during fermentation. Their name for this change was "alchemy".
The whole food ingredients in Acid Defense, are lacto-fermented and enzymatically pre-digested, utilizing a proprietary natural process called Poten-Zyme™ (Potentiation by Enzymatic activation). This ancient method of bio-fermentation incorporates 14strains of beneficial microorganisms and their enzymes into the foods, gently breaking them down into their most basic elements.
Fermentation creates and liberates valuable medicinal compounds within the foods including enzymes, antioxidants, beta glucans, phytosterols, and other phytonutrients - greatly enhancing the nutritional value while making it easier to digest. This assures more complete absorption anddelivery of nutrients at the cellular level.
How does alkalinizing reduce my heartburn and otherdigestive symptoms?
Dietary salt/sodium is alkaline by nature, and can be useful in the digestiveprocess to break down foods and perform a wide variety of metabolic functions.When your body becomes too acidic, it compensates by pulling alkaline salts intothe bloodstream. Since the body can tolerate only a slight imbalance in bloodpH, it can rob precious alkaline reserves from the digestive tract in an attemptto restore the proper pH balance. This can result in heartburn, digestivedistress, stomach upset, fatigue and other uncomfortable symptoms.
Commercial antacid products alleviate symptoms by blocking the production ofacid, which can produce unwanted side effects. The ingredients in Acid Defensesupplement, however, contain naturally occurring alkalinizing components thatreestablish a balanced, healthy, system-wide pH. Acid Defense is safe for dailyusage with no known side effects.
Why does this formula include sodium and potassium?
If it were not for sodium making the tissue in your stomach highly alkaline,the lining would be destroyed by the hydrochloric acid normally produced there.The stomach, intestines, joints and ligaments are in constant need of naturalfood-source sodium like that found in Acid Defense.
Potassium neutralizes acid waste and, in combination with sodium, maintains ahealthy acid/alkaline balance. Potassium and sodium are almost always foundtogether in the body and perform many of the same functions.
How do I use Acid Defense to prevent heartburn?
Simply take one heaping tablespoon mixed with eight ounces of water or juicebefore bed or whenever symptoms occur.
What makes your Garden of Life Acid Defense supplement better thanother acid relief formulas?
Every day, millions of people reach for commercial antacids and the growingnumber of over-the-counter options for acid reflux. Many of these products tryto address acid reflux symptoms by reducing the production of stomach acids.Stomach acids are critical for proper digestion, however, especially of calcium.
Many commercial antacids also contain toxic ingredients such as aluminum andartificial colors and sweeteners. These chemicals not only disrupt digestion,but they also alter the structure and function of stomach lining cells and causeside effects like headache, diarrhea and abdominal pain.
The worse effect, despite the temporary relief, is that antacids exacerbatethe underlying cause of acid reflux and one of its most annoying symptoms. Byneutralizing what little acid the stomach may produce, the stomach acidinsufficiency is made worse. Then, in a desperate attempt to correct theproblem, the stomach occasionally produces a surge of too much acid, causing theuncomfortable burning sensation.
Acid Defense, on the other hand, contains alkalinizing components that helpsoothe the stomach and reduce acid indigestion naturally. Acid Defensesupplement is safe for daily usage with no known side effects.
Acid Defense™
Supplement Fact Sheet
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| Suggested Use: Take 1 heaping tablespoon mixed with 8oz of water or juice before bed or when symptoms occur. Note: Our organic beet, carrot, and barley juice concentrates do not contain gluten, soy, or GMO ingredients. They are a 33 to 1 densely concentrated ratio, which means that it takes 33 pounds of raw vegetables to make 1 pound of concentrated powder. |
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Acid Defense Goes Beyond Zantac and Pepcid-Addressing Acid Stomach with Natural pH Balancers
Judging from the plethora of heartburn-related advertising you see nowadays on television, it is pretty clear that a lot of people have acidity problems. We find it remarkable and distressing that none of the companies offering consumers acid-blocking and related products such as Zantac(ranitidine), Pepcid (famotidine) or Tagamet (cimetadine) appear to be interested in offering more than a patchwork approach to stomach acid problems.
None of these products offer fundamental methods of addressing the root causes of over acidity, which we believe are due in large part to the departure from the diets our ancestors were exposed to prior to the agricultural revolution only a few thousand years ago and sinceindustrialization only 200 years ago.
Among the many health problems resulting from this mismatch between our genetically determined nutritional requirements and our current diet, some are without doubt a consequence of the deficiency of potassium alkali salts, which are amply present in the plant foods that our ancestorsate in abundance, and the exchange of those salts for sodium chloride, which has been incorporated copiously into the contemporary diet.
In fact, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) have demonstrated that, "contemporary net acid-producing diets do indeed characteristically produce a low-grade systemic metabolic acidosis in otherwise healthy adult subjects, and that the degree ofacidosis increases with age…"
Second only to breathing and maintaining a heartbeat, the most important metabolic function our body performs is to maintain a balanced pH. When your body becomes too acidic, it will attempt to compensate by retaining alkaline salts in the bloodstream to offset the increase of tissueacidity. Since your body can only tolerate a small imbalance in blood pH, it will rob alkaline components from other places, including your body's precious alkaline reserves in an effort to restore a proper pH balance. This can result in heartburn, digestive distress, stomach upset,fatigue, and a multitude of varying symptoms.
So instead of relying on temporary solutions with potential side effects, including jaundice and chest pain for Zantac, as well as gynecomastia (i.e., male breast enlargement) for Tagamet, give true dietary modifications a try. You might find the results to be astounding.
Acid Defense Reduces Net Acidosis
Acid Defense™ from Garden of Life was formulated to be used especially in cases of heartburn, acid indigestion and upper gastrointestinal distress. It is a combination of super-alkalinizing ingredients that rapidly restore the body's proper pH and provide reinforcement for alkalinereserves in the body. An excellent source of electrolytes, Acid Defense contains a blend of live enzymes, alkalinizing minerals, and probiotics from goat's milk whey. In addition, the certified organic vegetable juice concentrates enhance liver and gallbladder functions and aid in fatmetabolism.
The ingredients in Acid Defense-such as barley, beet, and carrot juices-contain naturally occurring alkalinizing components such as potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium that reestablish a balanced, healthy, system-wide pH.
Potassium and sodium are nearly always found together in the body and perform many of the same functions. Potassium neutralizes acid wastes, and in combination with sodium, maintains a healthy acid/alkaline balance. If it were not for the presence of sodium making the tissue in thestomach highly alkaline, the lining would be destroyed by the hydrochloric acid normally produced in the stomach. The stomach, intestines, joints, and ligaments are in constant need of natural food-source sodium such as that present in the goat mineral matrix in Acid Defense. (Naturallyoccurring sodium is not to be confused with the sodium chloride from common table salt.)
The formula also contains Stomach Soothe N Zimes Blend, a powerful digestive enzyme blend to produce a soothing effect on the stomach.
In addition, as with all Garden of Life whole food supplements, the ingredients in Acid Defense are lacto-fermented and enzymatically predigested utilizing a proprietary natural process called Poten-Zyme™. This ancient method of bio-fermentation incorporates 14 strains of beneficialmicroorganisms and their enzymes into the foods, gently breaking them down into their most basic elements. Fermentation creates valuable medicinal compounds within the foods including enzymes, antioxidants, beta-glucans, phytosterols, and other phytonutrients, thus greatly enhancing thenutritional value while making it easier to digest. This assures more complete absorption and delivery of nutrients at the cellular level. Acid Defense is your ph balance solution.
Acid Defense References
Frassetto, L., et al. "Diet, evolution and aging-the pathophysiologic effects of the post-agricultural inversion of the potassium-to-sodium and base-to-chloride ratios in the human diet." Eur J Nutr 2001;40(5):200-213.
**Statements on this website have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, but rather are dietary supplements intended solely for nutritional use.
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