You know that you’ve made it as a disinformation agent, as a shill for the plant-based food industry, when the top-dog of controlled opposition, Dr. Mercola, features your juvenile garbage on his website. Yes, I’m talking about Dr. James DiNicolantoni, a gatekeeping shill that mixes some nutritional truths, such as the ketogenic diet and the benefits of cholesterol, with a lot of deception and lies. And that is the only conclusion I can draw about him as he actually understands some aspects of nutrition and human physiology, while he still promotes some extremely old and debunked myths, such as the pH of foods and the need for extremely toxic and useless plant-based edibles. No one can be that retarded and still get some things right. So, he has an agenda, he is a shill. No doubts about that – especially not if Mercola uses his platform to promote him.
Now, the claims that Dr. James DiNicolantoni pushes forward is based on the concept of acidity and basicity, which was developed by scientists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pH scale, which measures the acidity or basicity of a solution, was introduced by Danish biochemist S.P.L. Sørensen in 1909. The pH levels in foods were measured using various methods, including litmus paper where the paper changed color depending on the pH level, with acidic substances turning red and basic substances turning blue. By pH meters where the pH level of a food was translated by the difference in electromotive force (electrical potential or voltage) between suitable electrodes placed in the solution to be tested. And by pH indicators, such as phenolphthalein and bromothymol blue, where these indicators changed their color depending on the pH level, with acidic substances causing a color change and basic substances not affecting the color.
This knowledge of the food’s pH-level was used to deem its quality and safety, especially when combining foods for the market. For example, it was reasoned that acidic foods could help preserve the food by inhibiting the growth of bacteria, while basic foods could help neutralize acidic substances. The idea was that maintaining the appropriate pH level in foods was essential for preventing the growth of harmful microorganisms and ensuring food safety.
However, after these discoveries, some extremely retarded nutcases bastardized the information and theorized that the pH could affect the body, hence the ridiculous ideas such as the “alkaline diet,” although it’s commonly known and understood that our bodies regulates pH-levels rigorously in every single tissue to keep homeostasis, no matter what we consume or expose ourselves to — otherwise we would die. Your body does not work and reacts like a chemical solution in a test tube, or like a litmus paper — it extracts and breaks down nutrients. I covered this in-depth in my article, “There is no such thing as acidic or alkaline food” from January 16, 2022.
And yes, Dr. James DiNicolantoni has now joined the crew of these extremely retarded nutcases. It’s laughable, and Mercola probably wet his briefs with excitement when he published this rubbish.
Here’s a summary from my old article on pH-levels in the body.
The nutrients from the food you consume are mostly absorbed in your intestines and filtered by your liver. As everything that occurs in your body, it’s a very controlled process. Only fully broken down and safe nutrients enter the bloodstream. Your body will do everything it can to always uphold homeostasis, i.e., the self-regulating process that controls internal variables necessary to sustain life. And guess what? Yes, that includes the pH-level of tissues and blood. You have kidneys and tissues making sure of that. Even when extreme nutrient deficiencies occur, your body will break down tissues as needed to uphold these processes vital to life for as long as it can – or you would die. It has absolutely nothing to do with foods and their pH-values.
Your blood has a normal pH range of 7.35 to 7.45. This means that blood is naturally slightly alkaline or basic. In comparison, your stomach acid has a pH of around 1.5 to 3. Your saliva can be between 6.0 and 7.4 depending on detoxification and other processes, just like your urine that can vary between 4.5 and 8.0 – which has nothing to do with your body being acidic or not. The pH in tissues can vary a tiny bit because an “acidic” environment is needed for cellular repair, for globulins to work and do their job. In other words, if your cells have been damaged by toxins, poisons, radiation or trauma, that area which experiences inflammation, as in the healing process, will be more acidic while our body repairs it and heals.
So, when shills like James talk nonsense about alkalizing your body, what part do you want to ‘alkalinize’? Do you want to impair food breakdown in your stomach? Do you want to stop your natural healing process? Do you start to see how stupid this idea is?
pH-levels are controlled by four variables. The first one is iron in your blood, which is strictly controlled by your kidneys. They filter nutrients in and out as they are required. The second is carbon dioxide and oxygen as provided by your lungs, which can be adjusted to maintain the correct pH in tissues, or make it more acidic to aid in repair purposes; this is controlled by your cells and their need for carbon dioxide. The third one is protein anions such as albumin and globulin in the blood; and they are built up or broken down depending on what is needed to aid in any process. And the fourth one is body temperature, which is maintained fairly steadily. And body temperature is not really used to control pH, more a result of it, as when heavy repair and detoxification occurs, hence a ‘fever,’ which requires a slightly more acidic environment.
None of these mechanisms are food. And none of these can be altered by what food you consume, as food is simply broken down into nutrients and the rest is discarded as feces.
The only time you will actually notice a small shift in pH towards the body being more acidic is when you experience kidney failure and/or when you die. But that, again, has nothing to do with food being acidic or alkaline, which is pure nonsense. And, just to humor the situation, even if a food were perceived as alkaline, the body would still not alter its pH balance, since its pH is always where it needs to be for the current metabolic and enzymatic processes taking place. Homeostasis.
Now, the claim that consuming “acidic” foods, as in high-protein animal foods, would deplete calcium comes from the simple observation (and misunderstanding) that your body uses calcium to buffer acid when a tissue is very acidic due to trauma and the repair process. When the trauma occurs, your body shifts to a more acidic milieu to aid the healing process. When the healing is complete, calcium is released to neutralize and restore the pH-level in the tissue to complete the healing process. Again, it has nothing to do with the food you consume, as that will never affect pH-levels. These fools have simply observed the relationship between calcium and acid, and from there they drew their own retarded theories and conclusions. Again, laughable.
It’s also funny that these charlatans call the carnivore diet a high-protein diet as they usually count non-existing calories, and a carnivore diet if using these measurements is about 80% fat and 20% protein.
And as for the shill Dr. James DiNicolantoni, the animal-based professor Bart Kay has destroyed every single argument that James has ever bleated out on this subject. While I do not in any way endorse Bart Kay, as he is somewhat trapped in the “science illusion” and also pushes for cooked meat instead of the superior raw meat (as it’s an easier sell and brings in more clients,) he is very knowledgeable on human physiology and our natural species-appropriate diet. And when it comes to this debate, about pH in the human body, Bart is 100% correct. Check the videos below.
If you happen to follow this charlatan, this James DiNicolantoni, unsubscribe him and warn all your friends. He’s now 100% confirmed controlled opposition and will be on our list until he retract this nonsense, apologizes for his mistakes, and also admits that plant-based foods have no place in the human diet.