Apple Cider Vinegar for Health & Wellness
Beth Quist, Guest Writer
Waking Times
According to Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley, CA, apple cider vinegar has lots of healing benefits. It has been used for hundreds of years by traditional healers. It’s alkaline property assists your body in restoring proper pH levels and brings health and balance back to your digestive system.
Rich in potassium apple cider vinegar helps to prevent brittle teeth, hair loss and runny noses. The pectin (from the apples) helps to regulate blood pressure and Malic Acid gives apple cider vinegar the healing properties of being anti-viral, anti-bacterial & anti-fungal.
According to Jess Ainsough in her article “7 Reasons to Love Apple Cider Vinegar”, it can help with the following:
- Detoxification
- Promotes weight loss
- Helps with digestion
- Alleviates skin problems
- Gets rid of warts
- Helps ward of sickness
- Helps produce soft and shiny hair
She recommends to always use the organic raw, unpasteurized and unfermented apple cider vinegar and suggest looking for it in a glass container, (preferably dark glass), to protect it’s nutritional qualities from sunlight. Once opened, it is important to keep your apple cider vinegar ‘alive’ by storing it in the refrigerator.
For me, I even had one of those earth shattering dreams which prompted me to start drinking apple cider vinegar each day. I started with a shot of apple cider vinegar, which is how I saw it in my dream. I made that mistake just once, as it almost wiped me out. I now put a few teaspoons in a warm glass of water to dilute it, and then drink it with a straw as fast as I can so I taste it as little as possible. (Yes, I am a wuss).
There are apple cider vinegar pills for those who can’t stomach drinking vinegar, but the pills I checked out are filled with chemicals and additives, so I’m going the natural route; the stuff in the bottle. I’ll report back after I’ve been doing this for a month or so to let you know what health changes I’ve noticed from consuming apple cider vinegar each day. I’m hoping for a sexy body with soft shiny hair to my butt. (Yes, I’m dreaming big!)
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Beth Quist is an RN and a Medical Qigong Therapist trained in both Western and Eastern Medicine. You can read more about using Qigong to improve your health and empower yourself with wellness at http://QigongbyQuist.com, or “Like” on Facebook, or follow on Twitter, https://twitter.com/
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Wrong! Apple cider vinegar has a pH 4.25 and 5.00 which is well into the acidic range of the ph scale. Prove this by testing AC vinegar with ph strips.
The potential hydrogen (ph) scale is acidic from 0 to 6.9 and alkaline from 7.1 to 14 with 7 being neutral. It’s no surprise that a RN would believe this lie, as they are taught lies to reduce their effectiveness at curing diseases and disorders of the human body.
I was recently diagnossed with congestive heart failure and diabetes for the symptoms of swolen feet and sent home from the hospital with 7 medications that made me feel like death warmed over. I stopped taking the meds and resumed my sugar and salt rich diet, thinking that would kill me. But instead, I regained my lucidity and strength. I’ll return to a hospital only if I’m taken there unconscious.
Apple cider vinegar is very acidic. It may help digestion. But, it definitely won’t help alkalize the body.
Wrong! You could not be more incorrect with your reply to this article. You tested ACV on litmus paper i.e outside the body, did you actually read the article? The article refers to the internal alkalysing effect of ACV.
A very small amount of research will prove to you that ACV, although acidic outside the body, has an alkalysing effect once digested. This is in the exact same way as lemons and limes.
I never reply to articles but when I see such comments filled with uninformed trash like ‘it definitely won’t help alkalise the body’ I feel compelled to ensure others that this is completely incorrect.
I hope that readers can see that such outlandish comments giving advice on health coming from someone with heart problems diabetes and sugar addictions is ironic in itself.
A little harsh perhaps? Whilst Al may be wrong, just perhaps they need a little help in learning. Replying with labels “uninformed trash”, and “outlandish comments” does not help Al or anyone in increasing knowledge. As for ‘ironic’, such a reply on a site called WAKINGTIMES certainly is!
No, Wrong! was met with same, and, the point that someone advocating a high sugar/salt diet is yelping Wrong! to start a paragraph merits the reply. How about you stop the hall monitor stuff, then I won’t have to do the same to you. lol.
thanks Noel, for people not knowing a lot about apple vinegar, could be quite easily to confuse. Now im sure, i can use acv safely, thanks to bother.
gabriela.
So, you advocate we consume acid to alkalinize our bodies? Isn’t that suggestion akin to war is peace or slavery is freedom? If I drink battery acid, does it, too, magically convert into alkalinity inside my body? Apple cider vinegar is strongly acidic. What alchemy magically converts it into an alkaline once it’s inside the body? Your answer ought to be really good!
So, you advocate we consume acid to alkalize our bodies? Isn’t that suggestion akin to war is peace or slavery is freedom? If I drink battery acid, does it, too, magically convert into alkalinity inside my body? Apple cider vinegar is strongly acidic. What alchemy magically converts it into an alkaline once it’s inside the body? Your answer ought to be really good! Notice that I didn’t attack your intelligence or character.
An acid is made akaline by the elements in your body, check out an A/B extraction in Chemistry to understand whats going on?
I don’t know what to believe now !
Acid: a compound capable of reacting with a base to form a salt.
Base: a compound capable of reacting with an acid to form a salt either with or without the elimination of water.
Base=Alkaline=elements in the body.
I don’t what to believe now. HELP !!!!
I don’t know what to believe now. HELP !!!!
I add lemon juice, honey and a little stevia to my glass it tastes great.
2. Mineral Deficiencies and Bone Loss
Long-term use of apple cider vinegar can cause potassium deficiencies and worsen osteoporosis. If you have these conditions, your doctor should be consulted prior to using vinegar as a supplement.
http://www.3fatchicks.com/5-risks-of-the-apple-cider-vinegar-diet/
As a health expert of more than 30 years I, nor I think most on this site are interested quotations from ’3fatchicks’, but thanks.
If someone is guzzling vinegar like pigs, perhaps it may lead to problems. So would drinking bleach.
There are many benefits to apple cider vinegar. Used in moderation it will not cause any of the nonsense you claim.
Already 2000 years ago Roman soldiers was drinking apple vinegar on daily basis and none of them suffer potassium deficiencies or osteoporosis. And you believe or not… they was walking across Europe on their legs.
Go take cold shower so you may start beter thinking.
Hi everyone. I’m going to intend to clarify this issue on the potentiality of consuming ACV as a means of alkalizing the body. So just as lemons, ACV has alkaline-forming properties. Pretty much these foods are alkalizing. Even though it may taste acidic or may land in the acidic range when tested outside the body (i.e. litmus paper), our bodies process such foods as being “alkaline” so it is in fact good in balancing the acidic/alkaline levels in our bodies. The most important thing to note is not what the pH of the food is in it’s natural state – rather the EFFECT THE FOOD HAS ON THE BODY. To add on, Gareth Edwards who is very knowledgeable on the alkaline diet has stated:
“It is not the relative acidity/alkalinity of the food but rather the effect it has on the body that is important. Seemingly acidic foods such as lemons, limes and tomato are acidic in their basic state, but once metabolized by the body have an alkalising effect. The high alkaline mineral content of these foods means that once consumed and metabolized they increase the alkalinity of the cells of the body.”
Hope this helps. If anyone finds more information and support for this claim, please feel free to do so. And furthermore, please let’s refrain from any aggressiveness or hostility in discussing such issues. We are all here to learn from one another and help each other improve
Don’t know Al’s age but at least he seems to be searching for answers outside of pharmakiea/poisoning. Hope he finds what he needs quickly. His condition sounds fairly serious.
It is the minerals in limes and lemons and alkaline digestive secretions that produce an alkaline ash/waste byproduct, i.e. end metabolic compounds. This is all well known and not debated or much questioned in scientific circles. Most all citrus has an alkalyzing effect on the body. I assume that ACV is the same and has a relatively high content of calcium and other minerals. Dairy and meat are alkaline outside the human body, but because of the digestive secretions involved in their digestion (hydrocloric acid)they produce a acid ash waste product, and tend to be osteoporotic, especially in women, but also cause acidity problems in men, especially problems such as gout, where painfull uric acid crystals form in the feet where waste products tend to accumilate in sedentary individuals. All that said, my personal opinion is that Al Smith is very wise to get rid of the drugs and look to the true cause of his suffering, which incidentaly, is not a lack of sugar and salt. ACV should not be viewed as a cure, as it will do little for a persons overall health if grossly bad habits are maintained in the presence of serious disease conditions. If high sugar, salt , and fat intake (along with all the other crap this implies – MSG, preservatives, chemicals, syn. hormones, etc., etc.) is continued in the face of Al’s symptoms he can expect nothing but more of the same. Getting off drugs is a good first step, but a dietary change to alkalynizing, enzyme rich foods is a neccesity, and can be easily researched via the web. Google Herbert Shelton along with the symptoms to understand the true cause and effect occuring.
By the way, I have had success removing warts with ACV when nothing else helped. Before bed – small ball of cotten soaked with ACV, put on wart, secure loosely with athletic tape, cover with plastic bag to keep bed clean and let it soak while you sleep. If it gets painfull I take a night off. Takes days to weeks but it works. I have had warts all my life on my feet, and they usually go away after a couple of years, but I had several on my little toe that were there a long time and ACV has removed all of them except one big one the width of my toe, and it is almost gone too. I’ve been soaking it off and on for about a month. I’m terrible at consistency with this kind of stuff, and I missed doing it quite a few nights but it still worked really well.