12/02/2016
vegetable intake and discomfort relating to short leg ? A long bow
in many peoples books on several levels, but I'll draw the bow....
Many people dealing with a short leg fail to cope after about 35/40 yoa, in my clinical observations, but that's not always true; why not?
Around this time, age related progressions in renal acidosis and mitochondrial competence are becoming pronounced
I suspect dietary balances of acid-base foods become more important at this time of life
Blood is very well buffered but not extracellular compartments like the proteoglycan matricies; connective tissue properties degrade, and heal less well with more protons floating about
example, studies have shown nutritional diffusion across vertebral end plates into the discs decreases significantly with increasing acidity at the end plate. Degeneration begets more degeneration
Magnesium losses increase from acidic kidneys (weather you're healthy or not)
Acid sensitive ion channels in nerves become more "painful"
At the end of the day, we can mathematically and reliably predict the acid loading of a diet, it's easy to assess
Testing the hypothesis is easy, inexpensive, changes like eating more veges, less sodium chloride and so on often show distinct acid-base improvements in a week you see for yourself at home, and are innocuous interventions that even if the rationales are without enough "scientific" and popular expert merit, don't matter if it works and won't hurt if it doesn't
Nutritional deficiencies in muscular trigger point production and short leg are another related bow I'll draw later, or maybe leave it for the short leg session next Friday
