ACID-ALKALINE BALANCE

ACID-ALKALINE BALANCE: ROLE IN CHRONIC DISEASE AND DETOXIFICATION Deanna M. Minich, PhD, FACN, CNS; Jeffrey S. Bland, PhD, FACN   Deanna M. Minich, PhD, FACN, CNS, is the Director of Information Integration and Innovation at Metagenics, Inc, and a clinical nutritionist at the Functional Medicine Research Center in Gig Harbor, Wash. Jeffrey S. Bland, PhD, FACN, serves as the chief science officer of Metagenics, Inc, and is president of the MetaProteomics Nutrigenomics Research Center. Several researchers have noted that the contemporary Western diet has increased in net acid load relative to diets of the ancestral pre-agricultural Homo sapiens. 1-3 Quite possibly, this shift occurred because of the agricultural revolution and the ubiquity of processed grains and shelf-stable food...