How do I nourish properly?

Alkalinity providing foods

Vegetables and fruits

Microwave – no, thanks!

Protective cooking – yes, please!

Herbs, germ buds and sprouts

Potatoes

Avocado

Pollen

Chufa sedges

Bitter constituents

Spices

Neutral foods

Fats and oils

Acid-forming foods

Meat, lunchmeat and sausages

Fish

Eggs

Milk and dairy products

Cereal products

Cereal-similar plants

Semiluxury food and tobacco

Low-calorie products = poor pleasure products

Ready-to-serve meals and additives

How to supplement nutrition?

Provide a daily plan for an alkalinity providing diet

The intestine – the root of the “human plant”

Drinking keeps you fit: People who drink alkaline water double their daily drinking amount.

Overview of alkalinity and acidity providing foods

You are what you eat!

This well-known proverb illustrates a serious problem that affects a lot of people in our prosperous society since our nutritional habits have radically changed during the last centuries.

For more than two million years human beings have fed on vegetable and plant based foods like wild uncultivated vegetables, nuts, roots, seeds, berries and fruits. Additionally they moderately consumed animal protein in the form of mostly raw meat or fish. Our ancestors often moved for up to thirty kilometres per day on their search for something edible. On the basis of this nutrition and exercise the metabolism, cardiovascular system, physique and digestive tract of the human being were developed.

With the help of vital substances from foods that we eat and drink on a daily basis our organism forms its cells, organic system and physical structures and keeps up regeneration itself.

Nutrition today

Today we eat large quantities of animal protein, salt and fat, sweets and treats as well as white flour products. Acidity providing foodstuffs like sausage rolls, Pizza Salami with extra cheese, soft drinks and chocolate bars are to be found daily in the diet of many people. The oversupply with foodstuffs that contain many “empty calories”[1] does in the long run not only lead to overweight and nutrition- or overacidity-related diseases of civilisation. It also brings about a lack of health-promoting and essential vital substances. In a way it is as if we starve having a full stomach.

Particularly overweight is a serious problem in all age groups today. In Germany 1.9 million children and teenagers between 3 and 17 years are overweight. That is 15 % of this age group. In the age group of grown-ups 55 % of females and 65 % males are overweight. People oftentimes turn to ready-to-serve meals or got to fast food restaurants because they lack time and cooking experience or fall victim to the clever strategies of the advertisement industry. Another important factor that promotes overweight is lack of exercise.

Dietary lessons for parents-to-be and for children and teenagers are not held. Thus a healthy alkalinity providing diet remains a secret for many people.

When is enough enough for the human being?

In addition to the unhealthy eating habits oftentimes lack of exercise or extreme exercise can be observed. Exercise is an important part of a good acid alkaline balance as long as it is pursued in a healthy degree. During exercise acids are eliminated due to increased breathing. Also the enhanced intake of oxygen supports all metabolic processes.

Emotional and physical stress, noise, harmful substances and pollution, emission from mobile phones and other energetic burdens oftentimes are this “enough” for the human being. All these influences promote the development of overacidification of the organism and civilisation diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, gout and rheumatism that result from it.

We can counteract many of these factors that endanger our health. We have to get active and inform ourselves on healthy nutrition. This brochure wants to make an informative and important contribution to this and throw light on alkalinity and acidity generating foods. It wants to show you how you can create a simple, healthy and alkalinity providing diet. What do you want to change? What are you able to change? Even small changes can make a difference. Take over the reins of health. The decision what you eat and drink every day is yours alone.

How do I nourish properly?

You should select foods that are as natural and unprocessed as possible. With a diet that is predominantly full-value and vegetarian you supply your body with all necessary nutrients and encourage the self-regulation of your acid alkaline balance. Too much acidity providing food disturbs this equilibrium of your organism.

Particularly in old age the organism can no longer compensate dietary sins like it did in younger years. The danger of overacidification rises with progressing age because the performance of liver and kidneys declines. Simultaneously the alkaline reserves in the body decrease. It is also of importance that older people are less physically active.

[1] Foodstuffs that are rich in calories but contain few or no vital substances.

The food you eat does more than nourish and energize you. It also affects the chemical composition of your body. If it goes out of balance, particularly turning predominantly acidic, a host of health problems can ensue. When this happens, there are a lot of approaches to restore the balance. And one of them is through the consumption of alkaline foods.

Such chemical imbalance can be identified by certain signs and symptoms. Some include headaches, listlessness and fatigue. You will also experience recurring allergies and sicknesses such as fever and colds. There are many other problems linked to excessive acidity of the body, from minor to fatal ones.

As mentioned earlier, one way of restoring this chemical balance within you is through consumption of food high in alkalinity. Doing so will neutralize the unwanted amounts of acid trapped inside the body. As a general rule of thumb, three-fourths of what you eat should be composed of those that are high in alkalinity.

But before we discuss what you need to eat plenty of, let’s go through some of the things you have to avoid. Some of them include meat, meat products, seafood, coffee, carbonated drinks, alcohol, and all instant and processed items. The problem is many people find it hard to completely shun away from all these as they’re simply hard to resist.

Now let’s go to the good stuff – those which you should have plenty of. Some recommendable vegetables include cabbage, radish, carrots, spinach, garlic, turnip, asparagus, onions, celery, cucumber and leeks. Fruits you should consume include lemon, avocado, watermelon, apples, banana, grapes, peach and grapefruit.

Some other things you can add to the list of alkaline foods include seeds, nuts and grains. There are also healthy types of oils you can have, including coconut, flax and olive oil. If you research for a similar list online, slight variations may be observed. Your best bet is to stick to dark, green, leafy vegetables and fresh fruits that are organically grown.

Pregnancy

by Dr. h.c. Peter Jentschura

Pregnancy can be an especially happy time in a woman’s life, but it can also cause problems.

Right from the start of pregnancy, a woman is in a situation where her own metabolism has abruptly changed. Her periods have stopped and the future child is growing in the amniotic sac. This situation requires the previous quantity of minerals and vital substances taken to be tripled.

The pregnant woman wants to maintain her health and beauty, and has the normal needs for this. As she is not having her monthly periods, the acids and harmful substances in the body which were previously eliminated remain in the body and have to be metabolized internally, which means the quantity of minerals and vital substances taken has to be doubled.

But the growing child also needs to develop its body, which means that the consumption of vital substances and energy-rich minerals has to be tripled. Five to twelve tablespoons of WurzelKraft aromatic or fruity (AlkaLife aromatic or fruity) a day are appropriate. This granulate made from 100 untreated plants can be taken as it is, or diluted with juices, soups or water.

Another source of vital substances which is very rich in contents is the breakfast porridge MorgenStund’. Give yourself the energy-rich vital substances from the eight ingredients in this great tasting breakfast porridge every morning. Your digestion, metabolism and the appearance of your skin will thank you for it. You can also feed your baby MorgenStund’ from the age of ten months. There can scarcely be a healthier porridge for babies and young children.

With this supply of valuable vital substances the pregnant woman will avoid spots and cellulite, hemorrhoids, losing teeth and hair, and the dreaded stretch marks.

A second way of maintaining health and beauty during pregnancy are the alkaline applications which can be carried out almost as a substitute for menstruation. As well as alkaline full baths, the most important and helpful alkaline applications are alkaline foot baths, AlkalineStockings and alkaline compresses on the stomach.

By using these methods of tripling the intake of vital substances and the alkaline menstruation substitute, a pregnant woman can successfully maintain her health and beauty, and also have a healthy and intelligent child with a birth free from complications.

As well as this, during pregnancy you should avoid food and drink which contains a lot of acid, such as cola drinks and candy, cooking salt, strong spices, pure coffee, alcohol and smoking. You will be glad you did so when you not only maintain your own beauty and health, but also the health and vitality of your child.

Having a long alkaline foot or full bath is the easiest way to deeply relax and help your body release toxins and acids in a very natural way.

Why? The high PH-level of the water is pulling out acids and toxins via the principle of Osmosis. The skin is semi permeable which means that liquids e.g. skin lotions go into the skin but also toxins and acids move out.

Why bathing although chlorine water is toxic? Here we recommend either to use a water filter for the complete house. If that is not an option we use a little trick: Fill your bath tub with extremely hot water and let is cool down for 30-40 min until it has nice warm temperature. The poisoning Chlorine will gradually evaporate.  Then you put in the bath salt and yourself.

Which bath salt should I use? Epsom salts are very popular but do only create a PH-level of 6.5. Baking soda will only create a PH-level of 6.2. Dead Sea salt will also create a Ph-level around 6.5 – I also felt a little “dead” and tired after using Dead Sea salt for a full bath. Of course we highly recommend Dr. h.c. Jentschura AlkaBath: it created a PH-level of 8.0-8.5!! And the 8 precious stones so add an awesome energy to the bath.

Our skin starts to feel silky like baby skin. Why? As babies we swim in Amniotic Fluid with the same high PH-level.

We also recommend brushing your body every 5 min in bath tub. This is really addictive since you really feel your body/skin energy flowing after each brushing.

We promote a special very effective way of brushing to quickly release toxins. Please visit our website http://www.youinfocusproducts.com/Alkaline_Diet_Downloads.html

Download our alkaline cure leaflet.  On page 13 we show you in a display the most effective cleansing brushing technique. It is not energy or lymphatic but impurity brushing. Knowing that the largest amount of glands is under the armpits and the genitals we brush towards these body regions.

 Enjoy your life and health!

Toxins and Our Weight

In today’s world, we’re exposed to a myriad of toxins and pollution.

These come from things as diverse as the off-gassing of new carpet, the exhaust of automobiles, and residues of herbicides and pesticides in our food and water. (The list goes on.)

Internally, our bodies are very sensitive and easily recognize the difference between the beneficial nutrients we get in our food and the toxic chemicals we’re exposed to that get into our bodies. The difficult part is getting the toxins out of our system once they’re in.

If our physiology isn’t strong, there may not be the energy and resource to remove the toxins.

Having toxins in our bodies can be like coming home to a dirty house after a long day at work and having guests due to arrive in just a few minutes. In an attempt to tidy things up with the time and energy we have, we may just toss a lot of the mess into a nearby closet, leaving the proper sorting and cleaning for later when we have more time and energy.

When our bodies are faced with more to clean up than there seems time and energy for, the nearby closets they use to “tidy things up” are fatty tissues. Our bodies toss the toxins into our fat to keep them “out of harms way.” Our bodies know there’s much less danger with the toxins stored in the fat than floating through our bloodstream and vital organs.

In this way, fat is our friend. By holding onto our fat stores, even in the midst of dieting, our vital organs and tissues are protected from the damaging effects of the toxins and pollutants.

To ensure our organs are safe from these toxins, our bodies (intelligently) raise the fat thermostat. This means that when we want to lose weight by starting a diet, our bodies fight to keep the fat in place in order to protect us from the toxins. This is the struggle many dieters experience in trying to get that extra weight off.

Cleansing is great but it has to be correct!

So, how can we lower the fat thermostat to drop the extra pounds and do it in a way that’s healthy? It’s a simple matter of cleansing out those toxins at the cellular level.

It is important ot eat a lot of cleansing alkaline whole foods.

These whole foods are highly alkaline and our bodies need to be alkaline to be healthy. By eating more alkaline foods, our tissues are

gradually and gently cleansed of acidic by-products and waste (toxins).

All love and health to you,

Stephan

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We want to take a close look what happens in our body if we don’t eat alkaline foods:

Our blood needs to keep its alkalinity…

Our blood connects the 100 million cells in our body to make up a meaningful whole. For its many diverse functions, blood requires an alkaline pH value between 7.35 and 7.45. Only within this alkaline range blood flows optimally, nourishes cells and keeps the body cleansed.

All of our foods and drinks have either alkaline or acid generating effects in our bodies.

Due to our modern fast food and living civilisation most of the food we eat barely deserves to be called “nourishing”. It is often mass-produced, pre-cooked, frozen or pre-processed in one or another way. The ingredients in these products often originate from monocultures grown in impoverished soil. These types of foods lack essential nutrients and do not provide us with the vital energy that we need. This lack of nutrients especially minerals causes the fact that most of our food is acid generating…

What deteriorates our health and beauty?

Harmful amounts of acids and toxins are accumulated in our bodies. Alkaline neutralizing nutrients in the form of natural, energy-rich minerals and trace elements are barely even contained in processed, concentrated foods, and are instead replaced by horrendous amounts of “empty” calories. The following overview shows just a few typical acid-inflated, nutrient destroying foods, drinks and energy-consuming behaviour:

Meat and meat products Uric acid
Pork Sulphuric and nitric acid
Sweets,Sugar, White flour products Acetic acid
Artificial sweeteners Formic acid
Soft drinks Phosphoric acid
Coffee, black tea, red wine Tannic acid
Pain relievers Acetylsalicylic acid
Physical overexertion Lactic acid
Stress, anger Hydrochloric acid

One of the chief principles of metabolism is keeping the pH value of blood and the balance between acids and bases stable.

If the pH-value of blood drops by the slightest amount, then the blood will become thicker and clotted (the coin rolling phenomenon of red blood cells). The functions of providing the cells with oxygen and nutrients as well as of removing and eliminating toxins are impaired. Acids, toxins and other harmful substances then build up in the body.

The acid-base regulation risks losing its balance. It is the basis for all metabolic processes and functions in the body, as e.g. hormones, enzymes and our immune systems cannot function in an overly acidic environment. The human body reacts to decreases in pHvalues with the following symptoms:

1. Structural damage

An excess of acids and toxins deteriorates our cells, tissues and organs, as well as our joints and bones. The observed deterioration is often accompanied by inflammatory processes, such as e.g. tonsillitis, gastritis or diabetes. Acids and toxins threaten to bring our vital acid-base equilibrium out of balance. In order not to be deteriorated and destroyed by acids and toxins, our bodies neutralize them with the help of energy-rich, alkaline-generating vitamins and minerals. Due to an excess of acids and toxins and the lack of nutrients in foods today, the body must often consume or depend on its own mineral reserves. Acids and toxins consume the mineral reserves in our skin, hair, teeth, joints and bones and, with results such as hair loss and osteoporosis, also have negative effects on our health and beauty.

2. Elimination

Neutral salts result from neutralizing acids and toxins with the help of alkaline-generating minerals. However our usual elimination organs (kidneys, intestine and lungs) cannot simply eliminate large amounts of acids and toxins or the resulting neutral salts as they please. Each of these organs has a very specific elimination function as well as capacity which cannot be exceeded due to an existing protective mechanism, as it would then lead to the deterioration, contamination and salinisation of these organs.

Skin problems – in order to prevent that from happening, the human body increasingly takes care of elimination through the skin. However the skin does not have a natural protective mechanism. Depending on the sensitivity or concentration and aggressiveness of the acids and toxins, the skin becomes excessively stressed and irritated. Signs of this include body odour, sweat, pimples, acne, eczema, furuncles, neurodermatitis, psoriasis, allergies and stasis ulcers.

Fungi and yeasts – The acidic or even toxic environment on the skin and mucous membranes resulting from elimination creates ideal conditions for the growth of skin and nail fungi as well as intestinal and vaginal yeasts. They start to grown in areas with acidity levels between pH 3.5 and pH 5.5. The growth of yeasts and fungi are both the results and symptoms of an overly acidic and contaminated body. In natural medicine, fungi and yeasts are referred to as so-called “acid and toxin eaters”. They will disappear once the acidic environment of the skin, their ideal feeding grounds, is corrected by alkaline-generating nutrients on the inside and alkaline-cleansing on the outside.

3. Deposition of impurities

Our bodies neutralize acids and toxins that cannot be eliminated through the kidneys, intestine, lungs or through the skin and mucous membranes with minerals, turning them into neutral salts. Since they can only be eliminated to a certain extent, the body must store them as residue bound to water and fat. For many women these residue deposits come in the form of cellulite, e.g. on the upper thighs, bottom and hips. “Gout” is a result of uric acid calcium deposits after years of consuming too much animal protein. Other deposits can manifest themselves as rheumatism, gallstones, kidney stones or bladder stones, lipoma, fibroma, etc. Not drinking enough fluids, lack of exercise, poor circulation and low body temperature promote the depositing of impurities. Over-acidity can manifest itself in different ways. Look for yourself: Many signs of over-acidity or contamination can be seen externally, i.e. on the face and head, on our skin and mucous membranes. Hair loss, pimples, sweating, itching, fungi and yeast infections, liver spots, etc. are unmistakable signs of contamination, acidification or residue deposit build-up.

The desposition of impurities takes place according to the “Hierarchy of Vitality”, which has been studied by Dr. Peter Jentschura and Josef Lohkämper. It first occurs in fat tissue, then in connective tissue, then in the muscles.

If these “depositories” are full, then additional build-up can occur in the joints, fibrous capsules and in the kidneys, bladder and gallbladder, and subsequently in other organs, finishing in the heart and brain. Because the hands, feet, knees, ankles and knuckles as well as the neck and shoulder area have lower temperatures than the mid-region of the body, residue is deposited in these peripheral spots first. The least water-soluble salts, such as uric acid, oxalic acid and tannic acid salts are deposited first.

Who knows about the problem to get a refreshing and nurturing meal if we don’t have enough time to prepare it? How can we take care of our alkaline diet if we do have a time problem?

Who’s got kids and has real problems in feeding them healthy green stuff like veggies and green salats?

Well, we do but we know the answer to both problems:

Preparing a tasty and healthy juice!
The secret for tasty is putting some sweet fruits in it and the obvious for healthy is getting the greens in it so that our bodies get flooded with minerals, vitamins and all vital substances.

Especially kids do need all vital substances desperatly since most school cafeterias like to serve acidic foods like burgers, fries, pasta, pops, sweets and white flour products. And kids (at least ours) don’t really prefer eating green salat or veggies.

So here is our recipe ( and we are happy to find out about yours!)

GREEN Godess SMOOTHIE
4-5 leaves of dark greens, such as Kale, Collards, Romaine, or Spring Mix
2-3 pieces of fresh sweet fruit, such as banana, pear, apple, mango
2” piece of raw ginger
1/3 cucumber
1/3 Red Pepper
1 stalk Celery
1/8 (or less) Onion
(Any other raw veggie that strikes your fancy!)
1 Tablespoon of WurzelKraft, Dr. Jentschura dietary supplement made out of 100 plants
½ cup Organic Apple Cider (or other organic fruit juice)
Also please add some Stevia if like. Celery and onion have a strong taste so you also could take lots of green salad.
Fill the blender to the top with purified Water
Mix until smooth.
(This is a big smoothie for me and my 2 boys. If it’s too much for the size of your blender, scale it all down to where it fits.)

Enjoy your life!

In today’s world, we’re exposed to a myriad of toxins and pollution.
These come from things as diverse as the off-gassing of new carpet, the exhaust of automobiles, and residues of herbicides and pesticides in our food and water. (The list goes on.)

Internally, our bodies are very sensitive and easily recognize the difference between the beneficial nutrients we get in our food and the toxic chemicals we’re exposed to that get into our bodies. The difficult part is getting the toxins out of our system once they’re in.
If our physiology isn’t strong, there may not be the energy and resource to remove the toxins.

Having toxins in our bodies can be like coming home to a dirty house after a long day at work and having guests due to arrive in just a few minutes. In an attempt to tidy things up with the time and energy we have, we may just toss a lot of the mess into a nearby closet, leaving the proper sorting and cleaning for later when we have more time and energy. When our bodies are faced with more to clean up than there seems time and energy for, the nearby closets they use to “tidy things up” are fatty tissues. Our bodies toss the toxins into our fat to keep them “out of harms way.” Our bodies know there’s much less danger with the toxins stored in the fat than floating through our bloodstream and vital organs.

In this way, fat is our friend. By holding onto our fat stores, even in the midst of dieting, our vital organs and tissues are protected from the damaging effects of the toxins and pollutants.
To ensure our organs are safe from these toxins, our bodies
(intelligently) raise the fat thermostat. This means that when
we want to lose weight by starting a diet, our bodies fight to keep the fat in place in order to protect us from the toxins. This is the struggle many dieters experience in trying to get that extra weight off.

Cleanse at a Cellular Level

So, how can we lower the fat thermostat to drop the extra
pounds and do it in a way that’s healthy?
It’s a simple matter of cleansing out those toxins at the
cellular level.
We highly recommand eating cleansing whole foods.
Here’s how it works:
Cleansing whole foods are highly alkaline and our bodies need to be alkaline to be healthy. By eating more alkaline foods, our tissues are
gradually and gently cleansed of acidic by-products and waste.

Make sure to drink lots of low mineralised water. That helps a lot!!!