Reaching and Maintaining good health is not as difficult as you might think. Your body has mechanisms that are built in for taking care of itself. The problem is that sometimes people forget that for these built-in mechanisms to work, they are to maintain a specific diet as every one of the nutrients they get from foods they eat contributes to the maintenance of body chemistry that allows the body to function smoothly.
The term body chemistry applies to processes that occur inside the body from your heart beating to the production of cells. These processes are made possible by chemicals the body produces. Based on this definition of body chemistry, we can then deduce that balanced body chemistry is having the right amounts of chemicals to support the proper functioning of the body.
The health of a person is said to be good when his body chemistry is well balanced. Your body continually needs the nutrients provided by the food that you eat to maintain this balance. You get proteins (amino acids), vitamin, minerals, and fats which your body uses for maintaining and sustaining its operations. Health problems can result from too little or too much of these nutrients.
How does body chemistry affect your body?
Your biochemistry constantly changes. It changes when you eat, study, work, exercise, and sleep. After jogging your heart rate goes faster, or your blood pressure rises after arguing with somebody. Also when you eat, the sugar in your blood increases.
Every activity you do could be damaging or beneficial depending on the chemical changes created that either balance or cause an imbalance in your body chemistry.
When your weight is healthy for your height and body type, meaning you are neither fat nor thin, and your blood pressure is also normal, and you do not suffer from any health problems you have balanced body chemistry. On the flip side, when you weigh more or less than you should, you are also more likely to have abnormal blood pressure and suffer from various health problems resulting in imbalanced body chemistry.
One important aspect that contributes to body chemistry balance or imbalance is the amount of acid/alkaline in your body. PH is the measurement of the acid or alkaline content in your body. If your pH level is lower than seven, this means your body contains more acid while if it is more than seven, this means your body is more alkaline. The neutral pH level for everyone is at 7.
Medically it has been proven that when your urine and saliva are a bit over 7 PH level, your body works at it's best, even though your blood PH is slightly alkaline. It is at this pH level that the body is equipped to fend off fatigue and illnesses. Your metabolism works well, and you can keep your proper weight.
You could face dangerous health problems over a long-term period if your body suffers from over-acidity because, to counter this acidity, your body is forced to get nutrients from your vital organs, weakening your body until it's no longer able to perform its tasks.
What for my next blog, where I will explain further how chemistry and balance plays a huge part in maintaining your health.
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