Why do I suffer from heartburn?

Interestingly, the body has a built-in bias toward over-acidity. This is because nature has created a conundrum: Every day the body’s metabolic processes produce acidic wastes—creating some 70,000 mmol of H+ per day.1 However, to maintain itself the body must remain slightly alkaline, staying in an overall range up to 7.45. Thus, cellular function is itself acidic, but the body needs to be slightly alkaline to function as a whole. To achieve this, it must effectively eliminate or neutralize excess acid on a daily basis.

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