| Tom Cigolotti ([log in to unmask]) writes:

| >On 27 May 1995 11:22:48 GMT,  [log in to unmask] writes:
| >>It would be so nice if you would read a physiology book, like that
| >>Guyton you say you have.  Acid made by the stomach results in alkali
| >>made somewhere else in the body.  It does nothign to your urine or bones
| >>at all. Steve Harris, M.D.

| >any chance of getting a detailed explaination on this steve?
| >do acidic foods revert to acidic foods and visversa? There seems to be some
| >confusion on this issue!

| That there is a net zero global change in pH due to production of
| stomach acidity does not mean that urine pH does not change. It
| can indeed change. During the HCl production phase, the tissue
| pH (and often the urine pH by defense of blood pH stability) become
| more alkaline. When the HCl production returns to baseline, these pH
| shifts reverse. The magnitude of the effect is small and easily
| swamped by other metabolic influences on pH, but sensitive people
| can be significantly perturbed by this influence. Back in the
| 1930s, Revici observed and documented this effect in the pain
| patterns of unmedicated cancer patients. He was able to do
| direct pH measurements of tumors to find that cancerous tissues
| were not able to defend pH homeostasis as well as healthy tissue.

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