The most obvious benefit from eating foods that are digested well is a greater supply of food molecules available to the cells for carrying out their intracellular functions. Well digested food also means fewer leftover food molecules that turn into acid waste. When acid waste in the blood is reduced, elevated stress hormone levels, such as estrogen and cortisol, return to normal and we feel calmer. Lowering acid waste also helps balance organ function. When all the organs are functioning at the same speed, healing is accelerated. Lowered acid waste levels provide other benefits as well. By keeping estrogen levels low men also have estrogen, only in smaller quantities than women oxygen is preserved. Disease prevention depends on this because oxygen destroys cancer cells and is essential to the cells production of energy. Perhaps most important of all, when acid waste levels have decreased to the point where the only acidic waste in the body is from normal cellular function, organs don't become inflamed and degenerate. The Acid Alkaline balance diet deals with the dangers of acid waste from undigested food and explains the different ways you can detoxify your body whether the toxicity consists of acidified food debris, heavy metals, or man made chemicals. It also reveals how you can prevent autoimmune disease. Each chapter is devoted to a particular health problem and contains newly discovered nutritional supplements and foods that have a healing effect. There are also dozens of heartrending stories about individuals by following the advice recounted in these chapters, have escaped a life of chronic illness death. The solution is to include in your diet only those foods that your digestive enzymes can handle. An anion gap is the difference between the positive and negative electric charges in the electrolytes in your blood. Electrolytes are ions that help regulate many metabolic processes in your body, such as bringing nutrients into your cells and taking waste products out of your cells. Your kidneys and lungs help maintain a proper pH balance. Your kidneys remove excess acids and bases from your blood through your urine. Your lungs regulate the amount of carbon dioxide in your blood. Metabolic acidosis occurs when your body produces too much acid, or your kidneys do not remove enough acids from your blood. Acidosis develops when your body loses too much sodium bicarbonate. It may occur if you take too many laxatives. Lactic acidosis develops when you have too much lactic acid in your body