What causes this acid environment of the body?

Acidity develops from one or more of the following:

• Dehydration and eating the wrong food for your metabolic type
• Infections in your body – including toxic material from the colon
• A body burden of heavy metals
• The presence of insecticides, pesticides and fungicides In you body ; more than 300,000 petroleum chemicals in the environment are detrimental to your health
• Emotional attributes of the person
• The effects of the living and working environment on the individual

In other words, your body can become persistently irritated, or inflamed, for a variety of reasons