In order to function at its best, each tissue and organ has a reference pH value that allows it to perform its role precisely. If the global pH of our body must be slightly alkaline with a value of 7.39 (on average), the pH of the gastric environment is 2, because the process of digestion of proteins requires a very acid environment.

When a person experiences heartburn or develops gastritis or an ulcer, it is called gastric hyperacidity. We are all in a state of permanent gastric acidity, which is normal and allows the digestive processes to take place correctly. Fortunately, the mucous membrane of our stomach is protected from this strong acidity by a thin layer of protective cells and mucus, otherwise our own digestive wall would be digested. This is what happens with ulcers. At this point, the stomach wall, which has lost its protection, is attacked by stomach acids and this causes severe pain.

This protective barrier can be eroded for a variety of reasons. This erosion can be caused by stress, poor diet, smoking or certain medications.
The person who has a wear and tear of this protective barrier will then feel burning sensations or more. It will suffer from heartburn, gastritis, and even ulcers when the acids in the stomach environment begin to attack the deeper layer of the stomach muscle wall.

Caution: one can have gastric acidity without having tissue acidosis. Conversely, many people are in chronic acidosis and do not have stomach pain, gastritis or ulcers.
We must therefore avoid confusing the concept of acidity of tissues that leads to a pathology called acidosis and the phenomenon of gastric hyperacidity which is caused by the internal imbalance specific to the stomach.

Remember that the tissue pH is that which is measured by the acids excreted in the urine (mirror of the intracellular environment). It is the pH of the humors such as lymph and intra and extracellular fluids circulating through all tissues and cells.

As for the mucus (along the digestive tract or in the stomach) and the different flora (skin, vagina, intestines), they constitute indispensable protective barriers. These defensive barriers destroy aggressive microorganisms and foreign bodies. They prevent their deeper penetration into the body and the damage they could cause.

Traditional medicine generally ignores the problems of tissue acidosis. On the other hand, she is well aware of the problems of gastric acidity for which doctors advise taking a medication (proton pump inhibitor) and/or a chemical gastric dressing (such as Maalox or Gaviscon, which contain aluminum). Not only does this approach not address the root of the problem, which is to rebuild the protective mucus barrier, but it also completely ignores the causes, which may be stress, poor diet, other medications, etc. By taking chemical drugs, we do not correct the tissue acidity at all, on the contrary, we aggravate it since all the chemical molecules tend to accentuate the phenomenon of acidosis.

To solve both the problem of gastric acidity and tissue acidosis, there is a simple and economical way: drink the juice of one or half a lemon diluted in warm water in the morning on an empty stomach. However, if your tissue acidity is very high, you will probably need to take food supplements to correct the pH of your tissues.