Alakalarian Lifestyle
Alkalizing Foods
Chart of Alkalizing Foods  
Liver and Gallbladder Cleanse
Olive Oil
Prostate Care

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Alakalarian Lifestyle

The Beauty of pH Balance

The key to health and beauty is learning to support the body as it strives to maintain its natural alkalinity. When finding our body’s balance on all fronts, including hormones, emotions, diet and lifestyle, it’s important to remember it takes 20 parts of alkalinity to neutralize 1 part of acid.  

Adding an abundance of fresh vegetables, particularly the dark green leafy vegetables are a wonderful way to support your body in maintaining a healthy pH balance. 

These alkalizing foods can help balance the pH level of you intestinal tract over time. The pH level of our internal fluids affects every cell in our bodies. Probiotics also play an important role in our body’s balance. It’s critical to have your pH level be balanced and within the sweet spot range of 7.0-7.5 in order to maintain optimal Health and Vitality.

Alkalizing Foods

pH balancing foods

This chart of acid/alkaline-forming foods can help you gain a better understanding of the effect individual foods have in terms of digestive pH.

There are many such lists out there, some more definitive and reliable than others, and contradictions between them do show up, but the basics are fairly consistent. This list is just a sampling, by no means complete, to provide an overview of which foods fall on either side of the pH scale. From this basic understanding you can begin to assess how pH might be playing a part in your personal health and diet picture.

Chart of Alkalizing Foods  

Alkalizing vegetables
Alfalfa Barley grass Beets and beet greens Broccoli Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery Cucumber Fermented veggies    (sauerkraut, kim chee) Garlic Green beans Green peas Kale	Kohlrabi Lettuce  Mushrooms Nightshade veggies    (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, etc.) Onions Peas Pumpkin Radishes Sea veggies Spinach Sprouts Sweet potatoes Wild greens
Alkalizing fruits
Apple Apricot Avocado Banana Berries Cantaloupe Cherries, sour Coconut, fresh Currants Dates, dried Figs, dried Grapes Grapefruit Honeydew melon	Lemon Lime Muskmelons Nectarine Orange Peach Pear Pineapple Raisins Raspberries Rhubarb Strawberries Tangerine Tropical fruits Watermelon
Alkalizing protein
Almonds Chestnuts Millet	Tempeh (fermented) Tofu (fermented) Whey protein powder
Other alkalizing foods
Apple cider vinegar Bee pollen Green juices Lecithin granules	Mineral water Molasses blackstrap Probiotic cultures Soured (cultured) dairy products

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Chart of Acidifying Foods

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Liver and Gallbladder Cleanse

OLIVE OIL AND FRESH LEMON

A simple, safe yet highly effective way to cleanse the liver this gentle process repeated eachmorning has been shown to dissolve gallstones and carry them safely out of the body.

     · One Tablespoon High Quality Olive Oil           
· One Half Fresh Organic Lemon
· Eight Ounces Warm Water

Each morning before you eat or drink anything take one tablespoon high quality olive oil. Immediately follow with eight ounces of warm water and fresh lemon juice. Do not eat or drink anything for a mini mun of half an hour. Repeat this ritual each morning for 4 to 6 weeks depending on individual needs. At Cove Wellness we compliment this routine with our 2 hour LIVER/GALLBLADDER therapy consisting of an Edgar Cayce Castor Oil Pack, an hour of foot reflexology and our lymphatic Detox Foot Spa.


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Olive Oil 

Olive oil is a veritable treasure chest of things good for the body: It is a fresh, unfermented fruit juice which has not been chemically treated. Olive oil contributes toward a reduction of cardiovascular risk, provides vitamin E, is easy to digest, has a positive effect on the gall bladder and contains elements, which help combat osteoporosis.

Olive oil is particularly rich in monounsaturated fatty acids, which oleic acid making up 55-85% of content. Oleic acid has an efficacious preventative and even curative action in cases of cardiovascular difficulties arising from hardening of the arteries, liver ailments and some digestive diseases (the biliary contractions associated with it help in the digestion of heavier foods).  Its richness in oleic acid protects the bones. Indeed, it is the only food which is known to contribute significantly to the conservation of the normal mineral density of bones in adults, particularly the elderly (see Olivae, June 1996). The ancient Greeks vaunted the virtues of olive oil and the traditional beliefs surrounding it have been supported by modern studies.  These have confirmed in particular the beneficial role of olive oil in the metabolism in respect to cholesterol.

Virgin olive oil is a fatty acid found to be among the most efficacious in preventing hardening of the arteries. In short, virgin olive oil (and only virgin olive oil, since it comes from a single pressing with no external additives or interventions, no organic solvents or refining) contains some very interesting elements, including pigments such as chlorophyll, many varied vitamins, aromatics and natural anti-oxidizing agents which fight against aging and heart disease.

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Prostate Care

Lymph Disfunction and its Role in Prostate Health

Can Lifestyle Affect Your Prostate? Recent studies suggest that a healthy lifestyle can help reduce the risk of prostate cancer, a disease that strikes roughly 200,000 men each year. Simple measures can also help control the symptoms of an enlarged prostate. The prostate is the vital center from which men derive their vitality, creative energy and sexual drive... without it, overall health and quality of life is severely diminished.

In men special attention should be given to the Inguinal Lymph Nodes, they serve as the primary channel for lymphatic drainage, a vital connecting point for lymph fluid removal. These nodes are responsible for helping the prostate gland stay in balance, keeping the internal environment healthy by carrying the toxins away from the cells. Our unique combination of colon cleansing, lymphatic therapies and supporting the body in achieving it's acid/alkaline balance may be an important adjunct to a healthy diet and exercise in prostate health.

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