Nutrition for Acidosis and Pain

Based on my many years of experience in daily practice as a pain therapist, I am a convinced advocate – not only as a doctor but also privately as a mother – of a holistic approach. This means sustainable, healthy living, taking into account all accompanying factors: psychological, emotional, and physical.

In the healing process of my patients, all essential aspects and possible causes are considered as much as possible (e.g., stress, lack of exercise, over- and incorrect loading, possibly excess weight) – nutrition plays a significant role here and can be easily changed by anyone. Motivation, understanding, and behavioral change are at the forefront.

Just as a house built from brittle bricks and rotten wood will not fulfill its function for long, our body also needs good building materials to experience long-term strength and well-being. "I am what I eat" – this phrase is gaining new significance.

This applies to the sufficient quantity of good individual substances such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and secondary plant compounds with their complex functional relationships in the body. The same applies to a balanced ratio of energy carriers: fat, protein, and carbohydrates. And of course, also to limiting harmful substances that we encounter in large numbers today.

Problem of Our Time - Empty Calories

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Health Problems in the 21st Century: The Fast Food of Our Modern Society

Source: Prof. Spitz - Academy for Human Medicine

One of the essential imbalances in our industrialized societies is the intake of large amounts of poor carbohydrates, e.g., in the form of sugar and flour products. The energy supply disorder of cells that usually develops over years in connection with lack of exercise and stress is largely responsible for the development of most so-called civilization diseases.

A re-balancing in this area, in terms of "species-appropriate" nutrition, can usually restore the originally existing balance of cellular energy supply. This repeatedly results in amazing potential for therapeutic help and restoration, especially in chronischen and seemingly incurable diseases.

In the regulation of pain conditions, back problems, joint impairments, and muscular imbalances through optimization of energy metabolism, a sustainable improvement of complaints can be achieved. 

Further positive – also important therapeutic – effects can be achieved through targeted nutrition concepts.

For example, our modern lifestyle with excessive hygiene, low-fiber diet, refined sugar, massive use of pleasure toxins such as alcohol, nicotine and coffee, glyphosate residues in food, antibiotic residues in animal foods, medicines such as anti-inflammatories but also emotional stress has led to drastic changes in the intestinal flora.

We are colonized by a variety of bacteria, fungi, viruses, worms and other single-celled organisms (such as algae, amoebae, flagellates), from which we ideally benefit because they provide important vitamins for us or strengthen us immunologically by building tolerance.

As long as parasites colonize us in limited numbers, they weaken the reaction to pollen and own body cells and thereby reduce allergies and autoimmune reactions.

In addition, diseases such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diverticulosis and -itis, dementia and cancer are only a problem in industrialized societies.

Numerically, our own cells compared to the "foreign mass" are estimated to be approximately equal. (Older estimates assumed a significant majority.)

New findings are that all organs are colonized and have their own healthy microbiome.

Through industrialization, we have lost about 40-50% of microbiome diversity.

There are multiple interactions between the human microbiome and metabolism. This even influences which genes are activated and which are not. Estimates are that even 80% of health can be related to our "environmental conditions".

Through our nutrition and lifestyle, we largely have these factors in our own hands.