GENERAL

1. The human body needs energy. The body is able to extract energy from food. This energy is necessary for us to be able to walk, speak, think, grow, regenerate, digest, excrete… etc. Ultimately, all organs and muscles have to be supplied with energy for them to work in the right way. Energy is generated in cellular metabolic processes from the food we eat. Fats, carbohydrates and proteins play a particular role. The oxygen we breathe is also of vital importance for the production of energy. If sufficient oxygen is present, then 18-times more energy can be generated from the same amount of food.
2. But so-called metabolic end products are also produced besides energy. These are substances which can no longer be used by the body and therefore have to be excreted via the intestine, the kidneys, the skin or the lungs. One can consider them as metabolic waste. Many of these waste products are acidic and have to be neutralised on their way to the excreting organ. If cells try to produce energy with too little oxygen, for example, particularly high levels of acidic waste products arise. This is most noticeable with muscle cramps, for example. In this case, a muscle had to do work and needed to produce energy for this purpose, but did not have enough oxygen available. This is why training exercises in sport studios are recommended under aerobic conditions (aerobic means that the cells receive enough oxygen).
3. The human body also needs vitamins and minerals. The body cannot produce minerals itself. They have to be absorbed from the food. They are present in all tissues and cells and are needed there for various metabolic processes. Alkaline mineral salts play an important role in the neutralisation of acids. The bones contain particularly large amounts of minerals. Calcium, for example, makes up 2% of our body weight, 99% of which is to be found in bone.
4. The pH-value is a measure of the acid-base ratio in a liquid. Blood in the human body has a slightly alkaline pH-value. This is important for the body to function optimally. So that the pH-value of the blood can be kept constant, it has so-called buffer substances at its disposal. These act so that the pH-value of the blood does not change straight away as soon as acids are released into the blood. With the help of buffer substances, acids can be balanced (neutralised) and the pH-value can be kept constant. Acidic metabolic waste products are transported in the blood to the excretory organs. Carbonic acid, for example, is exhaled as carbon dioxide via the lungs. Other acids are eliminated via the kidneys and excreted in the urine. The term acid-base balance is used to describe the interchange of both components. In the ideal case, a balance exists between acidic and alkaline mineral salts just as a balance is maintained between the uptake of food and the later excretion of metabolic waste products.

The human body needs energy.

The body is able to extract energy from food. This energy is necessary for us to be able to walk, speak, think, grow, regenerate, digest, excrete… etc. Ultimately, all organs and muscles have to be supplied with energy for them to work in the right way. Energy is generated in cellular metabolic processes from the food we eat. Fats, carbohydrates and proteins play a particular role. The oxygen we breathe is also of vital importance for the production of energy. If sufficient oxygen is present, then 18-times more energy can be generated from the same amount of food.

But so-called metabolic end products are also produced besides energy.
These are substances which can no longer be used by the body and therefore have to be excreted via the intestine, the kidneys, the skin or the lungs. One can consider them as metabolic waste. Many of these waste products are acidic and have to be neutralised on their way to the excreting organ. If cells try to produce energy with too little oxygen, for example, particularly high levels of acidic waste products arise. This is most noticeable with muscle cramps, for example. In this case, a muscle had to do work and needed to produce energy for this purpose, but did not have enough oxygen available. This is why training exercises in sport studios are recommended under aerobic conditions (aerobic means that the cells receive enough oxygen).

The human body also needs vitamins and minerals.
The body cannot produce minerals itself. They have to be absorbed from the food. They are present in all tissues and cells and are needed there for various metabolic processes. Alkaline mineral salts play an important role in the neutralisation of acids. The bones contain particularly large amounts of minerals. Calcium, for example, makes up 2% of our body weight, 99% of which is to be found in bone.

The pH-value is a measure of the acid-base ratio in a liquid.

Blood in the human body has a slightly alkaline pH-value. This is important for the body to function optimally. So that the pH-value of the blood can be kept constant, it has so-called buffer substances at its disposal. These act so that the pH-value of the blood does not change straight away as soon as acids are released into the blood. With the help of buffer substances, acids can be balanced (neutralised) and the pH-value can be kept constant.
Acidic metabolic waste products are transported in the blood to the excretory organs. Carbonic acid, for example, is exhaled as carbon dioxide via the lungs. Other acids are eliminated via the kidneys and excreted in the urine. The term acid-base balance is used to describe the interchange of both components. In the ideal case, a balance exists between acidic and
alkaline mineral salts just as a balance is maintained between the uptake of food and the later excretion of metabolic waste products.