How Fruit Heals

Let’s get into the simple chemistry of it. Everything has a pH (potential hydrogen). The pH scale runs from 0 (most acidic) to 14 (most basic) – with pure water being neutral at 7 pH. Our blood is kept at around 7.4.

When we consume food, it metabolizes into either “acidic ash” or “alkaline ash”. Our bodies thrive in an alkaline environment, whereas pathogens (harmful fungus, mold, yeast, bacteria, viruses, parasites) thrive in an acidic environment. What makes a food acid or alkaline forming? Foods containing elements such as chloride, phosphorous and sulfur will break down into acids, while foods containing elements such as magnesium, calcium and potassium will help alkalize.

There is a convenient system called the PRAL system (stands for potential renal acid load) that can give you a sense of whether a food is acid or alkaline forming. One can use PRAL tables to look up different foods. A deeper dive into the PRAL system can be found in this article: Dietary Acid Load: Mechanisms and Evidence of its Health Repercussions.

Putting the pieces together with this information is Dr. Robert Morse, N.D., D.Sc., M.H.. He speaks on how eating a fruitarian diet (fruit, berries, melons) and taking certain herbs will alkalize you and rid you of illness. He focuses a lot on the lymphatic system and kidneys and how these are directly impacted by the pH byproducts of the food we eat. Basically, blood delivers nutrients to cells, while the lymphatic system takes cellular waste (which is acidic) away and drains it out through our kidneys into our urine. When we eat acidic food, our body struggles to maintain the proper blood pH (if your blood becomes acidic you die), so it takes those acids and puts them in tissues and lymph fluid while also taking calcium from our bones, joints and connective tissue to help neutralize. If someone is also eating lots of fat, protein and salt, their kidneys aren’t filtering properly, so this now acidic lymphatic fluid has nowhere to go and the sewage system (so to speak) gets backed up, stagnant and more acidic, leading to a plethora of health issues. Point blank: all illness is acidosis.

Here are two interviews to give you a sense of Dr. Robert Morse and his knowledge base: first, second. This page on his website has many info-graphics, including his own pH food chart, detox symptoms, and how to food combine. His videos on healing can be found here. An informational database of his work can be found here. There are also some decent Facebook groups for communities who support each other’s healing while sharing his teachings. Dr. Morse wrote a book called The Detox Miracle Sourcebook and there are more books in the making.