I just love Alt-Med and medical Luddites who don't even know the basics of what they're talking about but boldly assert to know "the secret" abou the medical money machine racket.
So true, and then someone like below fails to understand and proves your point even further. Note to everyone, if you have an idea and are going to criticise experts of a field of science PLEASE PLEASE do a little research and make sure you aren't speaking gibberish or have misunderstood what you are talking about!
Actually, in my opinion, we have too much mucous in the stomach and intestinal lining, and the proper nutrients aren't getting to the cells, causing their ph balance to go down.
Main area of ignorance -
pH balance in the human body.
Firstly do you (oneofGod) understand what pH even means? If so how would changes in nutrient input affect pH, are we talking macronutrients or micronutrients? Through what mechanism does it cause the pH imbalance? There are too many ways in which pH can be influenced for us to just guess. Also how come the body is unable to compensate for the pH change caused by the nutrients? The body is fairly effective at keeping our pH at around 7.35-7.45 (off the top of my head i'm 90% sure that's the right range) and I know of no studies that show that there is a significant amount of people with pH imbalances of idiopathic origin, could you cite them please? Do you even know the mechanisms through which the body maintains its pH (just the basics even)?
Other areas of ignorance -
Epidemiology - 'in my opinion' is not sufficient with this, you need to be able to show that there is actually an increase in mucous of peoples stomachs and an increase in amount of people with idiopathic pH imbalances. Where are the studies, you can't just guess. Also you have to show a theoretical causal link between the two as correlation does not imply causation, other wise it may be a third related factor which causes both not one causing the other.
GI physiology - basically all absorption of nutrients occurs in the intestines, not the stomach, thus mucous lining changes would only affect absorption indirectly by influencing digestion. Besides the mucous is VITAL to stop the enzymes and pH digesting your own stomach (unless you like ulcers and cancer)
I'll move on...
I think a good stomach lining cleaning, with a mild acidic food, such as raw onion, washed down with saltwater would do wonders for people.
Mild acidic food is not likely to clean your entire stomach lining, since its purpose is to stop the much more acidic secretions of your stomach from digesting yourself (so the acidic food is a drop in the pond). This is assuming that you are healthy and have no underlying conditions, etc. Why you would want to expose your stomach to digestion by itself anyway is beyond me though.
As for the salt water. Why? Its mainly just going to dehydrate you, possibly stuff around with your electrolyte balance for a while before your kidney compensates (bad if you are salt-sensitive hypertensive) though healthy people will be fine as long as it is not too high a volume or too concentrated (lots of K+ would stop your heart for example, though I doubt that was the salt you were referring to - not that you likely new what salts you were talking about to begin with).
Can you tell us why this would help? Do you have any double blind randomised controlled trials that can back you up? Any studies at all? Or is this all a guess?
We're making ourselves sick, and because we are a set the kids down in front of the tv society, we just let them pump our kids full of untested and unproven chemicals, cause doctors and the government, are smarter than God.
You accuse government and doctors of arrogance, yet here you are stating thing as fact with no evidence. At least they have to prove their hypothesis right, have to test their drugs etc. Sounds like they aren't the arrogant one's here. Where did they ever claim to be smarter than god anyway? I've worked and studied under many doctors (i'm a student doctor myself) and that's not the impression I get.
This whole debate about the efficacy of vaccines is such a joke anyway, one side has evidence through epidemiology, science and history while the other has anecdotes, scaremongering and "I think XXX" (which really means I guess XXXX because I don't have a clue what I'm talking about). There is debate and uncertainty about many things but as far a vaccines are concerned the opposition is completely unable to gain any scientific credibility after so long and so much scrutiny, doesn't that suggest something? i.e. They're wrong/don't know what they're doing or talking about