Maintaining proper gut acidity is crucial for proper gut function and has profound effects on brain and immune system health.

“Your gut needs to maintain a certain level of acidity or alkalinity. For those of you without any chemistry background, basically the low numbers on the pH scale, that means more acidic. The higher the numbers, more alkaline. So more alkaline means more basic and acidic means acidic. Your gut needs to be more acidic than essentially all other tissues of your body in order to function properly. Gastric juices are actually powerful modulators of brain state. Put differently, one of the best things that you can do to have a healthy brain, a well functioning brain, and a healthy and well functioning body is to maintain proper gut chemistry. And that's basically accomplished by getting the right level of acidity and alkalinity in your gut.”