Frequently Asked Questions

 
6 Critical Reasons to Balance Your pH
  1. Heart Disease - Proper electrolyte activity, smooth blood flow throughout arteries, veins and heart tissue, all keys to efficient heart function, are affected by an acid pH. When blood plasma is acidic, it acts as a chemical irritant, which slowly attacks and eats away at the smooth muscle tissue of the inner walls of arteries and veins, as well as the heart itself. Like acid eating into marble, a continually acid pH erodes and eats into cell wall membranes of the heart, arteries and veins, weakening the structural composition of the heart, arterial and venous walls, causing lesions of plaque and microscopic tearing throughout its framework, and creating irregularities of blood pressure.
  2. Weight Gain - Proper fat metabolism, and healthy insulin production doesn't happen when the body is in an acidic state. An acid pH can directly cause immediate weight gain by causing erratic insulin production by the body. When the body is flooded with insulin, it diligently converts every calorie it can into fat.
  3. Diabetes - Before the advent of synthetic insulin, buffering the system with base or alkaline powders treated diabetes. An acidic pH increases pressure to continually produce insulin, cellular communication is thwarted and the immune system begins to over-respond. Stress within the cells increases, making it difficult for them to perform adequately and survive. They simply burn out!
  4. Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis - An acidic body leaches calcium from the bones and teeth in a desperate attempt to balance itself. This leaching process increases the risk of bone disease. The rate of hip fractures has doubled in the last 50 years, a clear sign that something has changed. The likely culprit is our acidic diet.
  5. Dangerous Cholesterol Levels - Simply reducing the amount of cholesterol in the diet isn't enough. The amount of cholesterol ingested has not been found to be a major factor in cholesterol plaque formation. Rather, it is because an acid pH allows the binding of cholesterol with heavy metals and other cellular debris to form plaque.
  6. Premature Aging - Acidosis causes partial lipid breakdown and destructive oxidation, accelerating free radical damage of cell walls and intracellular membrane structures, which then unravel, killing cells in the process. Acidosis is thus thought to contribute to age-related problems such as eyesight and memory loss, wrinkling, age spots and dysfunctioning hormonal systems.
What causes pH imbalance?
 
Diet appears to be the major influence in maintaining appropriate pH levels throughout the body. Research demonstrates that when food is metabolized and broken down, it leaves certain chemical and metallic residues, a noncombustible "ash" which, when combined with our body fluids, yields either acid or alkali potentials of pH. Certain foods are "acid-forming" in nature, whereas others are known to be "alkali-forming. The chart below shows you which foods are acid forming and which are alkaline
 
How to test yourself in 3 seconds
 
Fortunately, there is a quick, painless way to see if you are at risk. Just place a Växa pH test strip in your urine flow FIRST THING IN THE MORNING and compare the reading with the chart that comes with the strips. Perfect balance would be 7.4. A reading below 6.5 or above 8.5 indicates a need for Buffer-pH+.
 
The Buffer-pH+ Formulation Advantage
 
The Only Product Formulated to Balance pH AND Replace Leached Minerals
There are other products that will help balance a person's pH. Coral Calciums will do a decent job with that. Unfortunately, they leave out a critical step. They do nothing to replenish the minerals that are leached while the body is in an acidic state. Your body craves a balanced state and does whatever it can to create that environment, even if that means leaching critical minerals such as calcium, potassium and sodium from your system. Buffer-pH+ acts synergistically to balance pH and replace those leached minerals.
Buffer-pH+ attacks the issue of pH imbalance on both critical levels. First, Buffer-pH+ balances the body's pH and then it replenishes the minerals that are leached when the body is in an acidic state. Ingredients such as Sodium Bicarbonate, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Bicarbonate, Berberine Alkaloid, Aloe Vera Extract and Cucumber work together as alkalizing agents. Sodium Bicarbonate, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Bicarbonate also act to replenish minerals that are leached in the body's struggle to balance itself. 14 homeopathic ingredients are included based on their ability to impact bodily functions and chemistry as it relates to pH imbalance. These 20 ingredients act synergistically to solve the problem of pH imbalance.
Carbonate Complex Balances pH AND Replaces Leached Minerals
The Buffer-pH+ formulation starts with Sodium Bicarbonate, Potassium Bicarbonate, and Calcium carbonate. The carbonate complex helps maintain the pH in the body and acts as an antacid. These are also the key minerals the body robs from itself when the body is too acidic for a period of time. When the body continues to rob these key minerals for an extended period of time serious health issues can result.
  • Sodium is principally involved in acid-base balance, along with nerve and muscle function.
  • Potassium is also key in acid-alkaline balance and is critical to the disposal of bodily waste. Potassium also aids in regulating the transfer of nutrients to the cells.
  • Calcium is a very important mineral for pH. So much so that when the body does not have enough to balance the pH it will begin to leech the Calcium it needs from your bones. Calcium has other important roles within the body such as regulating heart rhythm, energy production, vitality and endurance. Many people are deficient in calcium not because they do not get enough calcium from the foods they eat but because the body is too acidic and uses the calcium to buffer the acid in the body.
  • Aloe Vera and Cucumber are plants that are considered to be highly alkaline forming. The cucumber and the Aloe Vera work together with the bicarbonate complex to adjust the pH in the stomach.
14 Homeopathic Ingredients Working Synergistically
Cell Salts Working to Balance Inside the Cell Wall
The homeopathic formulation begins with cell salts, which act in concert to balance the body's chemistry at a sub-cellular level. The common table salt (bad salt) is the wrong molecular size to pass through cell membranes. If we rely on our dietary salt intake to provide the critical salts that are necessary for optimal cellular function, we end up badly deficient. Cell salts (good salts) are the right molecular structure to pass through the cell membranes where they balance at a sub-cellular level. These cell salts include:
  • Natrum Muriaticum
  • Natrum Phosphoricum
  • Natrum Sulfuricum
  • Kali Carbonicum
  • Kali Oxalicum
  • Kali Phosphoricum
  • Kali Sulfuricum
  • Kali Muriticum
More Homeopathy to Attack an Imbalanced pH From Every Angle
Other homeopathic ingredients are included to touch important causes of pH imbalance.
Chamomile - This remedy is used for acidity caused from anger. It is frequently used to treat great anguish, complete discouragement, agitation and frenzied excitement. It is believed that your emotions and unresolved anger affects the pH.
Rheum Officinale - Commonly called Chinese Rhubarb, this is used to treat early stages of diarrhea, as a laxative in constipation from debility of the digestive organs. In small doses, it improves digestion and appetite, and makes the renal secretions healthier. Proper digestion and elimination is key to the body's pH.
Robinia pseudacacia - This ingredient is used clinically to treat acidity, flatulence, indigestion, pyrosis and stomach affections. Clinical experience has shown results with heartburn and acidity that comes on when lying down at night.
Graphites - An allotropic (the existence of a substance and especially an element in two or more different forms usually in the same phase) modification of carbon. Trituration of prepared black lead from finest English drawing pencils. Graphites are suited to persons who have a tendency to put on unhealthy fat.
Nux Vomica - Tincture of imported seeds from the Coromandel coast and Cochin China. Nux Vomica is especially suited to people who are:
  1. prone to anger, spite, irritability or impatience (stress is damaging to pH balance).
  2. troubled with indigestion.
  3. addicted to wine, coffee or pepper that are acid forming.
Homeopathy…As Prescribed by the Father of Medicine
Homeopathy is a system of medical therapeutics for treating people and animals on the basis of the principle of "similae" or "simile." The great homeopathic principle is (in Latin) "Similia similibus curentur," meaning "Let like be treated by like." Indeed, Homeopathy finds its first roots recorded in the writings of Hippocrates (c.470-400 B.C.), the "Father of Medicine," wherein he said that healing is found in the methods of "contraries" and "similars." Hippocrates wrote, "Disease is eliminated through remedies able to produce similar symptoms." These ideas were later rediscovered by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) a medical physician who, through a process of experimental and scientific discovery, largely developed what Homeopathic medicine is today.
Hahnemann demonstrated that homeopathic principles of simile and potency could cure typhoid and cholera much better than the conventional medicine of his day (Cholera and typhoid were then epidemic in Europe because of 3 major wars, namely, the Seven Years' War, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars). Hahnemann himself healed 180 cases of typhus with only one fatality. And one of his pupils lost only six cholera patients among 154 treated, whereas in the same town, of the 1500 patients treated by orthodox methods, 55% (825 people) died.
Later, in 1854 in Britain, a cholera epidemic was stopped in Homeopathic hospitals with only a 16.4% death rate compared to that of a 51.8% death rate at other hospitals practicing conventional medicine. Homeopathic medicine and the principle of simile was protected by law by the British Parliament, and later protected by the United States Congress as a practical and legitimate method of medical practice. Today, unlike nutritional substances, Homeopathic substances are considered medicines, recognized as powerful entities, which allow specific medical claims to be made about them.
Like Treats Like
The principle of "Similae" or simile is the principle that certain substances (herbs, minerals, inorganic salts and other organic materials, etc.) in full strength yield the same symptoms as does a known disease, and that those same substances when "potentised" (or diluted and vigorously agitated") can provide relief of those same symptoms. Titrated dilutions and succussions of a particular substance can often be the means to bring relief from diseases, which cause the same symptoms as that which the identical substance in full strength causes (be it herb, mineral or other organic material).
To give an example of the simile principle, the effects of peeling an onion are very similar to the symptoms of acute coryza (flu-type cold). And the homeopathic remedy prepared from Allium Cepoa (the Red Onion) is used to treat this very type of cold. In another example, the symptoms and signs of acute arsenic poisoning are very similar to the symptoms seen in certain cases of gastroenteritis. And true to the principle of simile, Homeopathic potencies of Arcenicum (arsenic) are used to effectively treat gastroenteritis.
As you can see, great care has been taken in formulating Buffer-pH+. We believe that imbalanced pH is one of the more important health issues we face today and take pride in the fact that we offer the only product that is specifically and synergistically formulated to solve that problem.
 
The Buffer-pH+ Ingredient Selection Process
 
We Will Not Compromise on Ingredient Quality
That's Why 98% of Suppliers Flunk Our Test
The First Test
We believe so strongly in Buffer's formulation that we absolutely will not compromise on ingredient quality. For each ingredient we screen potential suppliers by several critical factors. We ask questions such as: "In which region was it grown?", "Is it certified organic?", "Was it grown for supplements or for whole foods?", "How do you prevent degradation of the product?", "Is it irradiated or chemically cleaned?". Active ingredients such as Sodium Bicarbonate, Calcium Carbonate and Potassium Bicarbonate must be pharmaceutical grade.
The World's Leading Source of Homeopathy
Växa uses unique combinations of electromagnetically induced homeopathic ingredients, which are manufactured by Dolisos America, considered the world's largest investor in homeopathy. The production procedures at Dolisos are carried out in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices and meet or exceed ongoing FDA Homeopathic Pharmaceutical requirements. All potencies are manufactured, certified pure and registered potent in one facility. All of that is a good start, but we dig deeper. There are hundreds of sources for homeopathic ingredients, many of which start with good raw materials. Dolisos is separated from the other "high quality" suppliers by its handling procedures. You see, homeopathic ingredients are very electromagnetically sensitive and must be handled with extreme care. No machines can be used in bottling the tinctures. The tincture must be sent in an amber vial, no plastic, and no metal. The cap on the vial must be plastic with a wax liner and must be put on by hand by a person wearing a rubber glove. Dolisos cares as much as we do and follows all of these procedures and more to ensure the highest quality and most electromagnetically active homeopathic ingredients in the world.
Only the Superior Supplier Passes the 1st Examination
A More Rigorous Test Comes Next
In the lab, raw materials from a vendor are tested as they come in the door - we do not accept the certificate of analysis at face value. Tests are done visually, by smell, taste and then scientifically. Alkalinity is tested and the batch is run through a pharmaceutical standard, state of the art machine called a high-pressure liquid chromatographer to test down to the trillions the elemental factors of the compound. Then it is blueprinted on a near infrared scanner that identifies 450 constituents qualitatively. That becomes our standard and every future batch from that vendor must match. Before the ingredient goes to manufacturing it is tested for macro-biological contaminants, such as strep, E Coli, or salmonella.
As you can see, there are no compromises at any level in our ingredient selection process.
 
The Buffer-pH+ top 1% Manufacturing Standard
 
There Are 1037 Nutritional Manufacturing Facilities in The U.S…. One Passed Our Rigorous 7 Step Examination
Less than ½ of 1% of the nutritional manufacturing facilities in the country match the exacting standards followed in the Växa facility. Buffer-pH+ is manufactured in a lab that follows standards beyond those suggested under Good Manufacturing Procedure guidelines.
Clinical Lab Conditions
No Contamination
The manufacturing lab is a clinical environment with all stainless steel construction. To clean the lab we UV sterilize, carbon filter, reverse osmosis, ozone inject, mix bed de-ionize and boiler kettle our own water. This procedure is above kosher requirements.
Precise Environmental Standards
No Contamination
Each room has its own air handler that completely exchanges the air 50 times per hour. Pure, clean air is a critical element in manufacturing a pure product. There are so many contaminants in the air that a state of the art air scrubbing system is a necessity. Many facilities just have a dust handler and rely on the air conditioning system to fight to replace the air. You might as well make the product in the parking lot. The temperature is at a constant 71 degrees and the humidity is less than 35%.
Particle Sizing Means Greater Absorbency
Every Capsule Has the Same Ingredient Mix
The key element of our manufacturing process is particle sizing. Simply put, all of the elements come in different particle sizes. Picture BBs, ping-pong balls, golfballs, baseballs, softballs and basketballs. Improper mixing yields batches that have all of the basketballs balls at the top and the BBs at the bottom. This would mean that each capsule has a different mix of ingredients (those early in the loading process - too many basketballs). We use cold process pulverization to take all particles to the same size - everything is a BB. Smaller particle size means that the body assimilates the elements more readily.
Blending Process Reduces Oxidation
Capsules Have Longer Lasting Potency
The product is then weighed and blended in a static and gravity free environment. This incorporates 100% batch involvement in the mixing process with no dead spots. While in the blending process, the ambient air has been removed and replaced with stable nitrogen, which is heavier than air and reduces oxidation and process contamination. The bulk material is weight validated to assure batch size compliance then formulation and quality control verified for batch uniformity. The lab signs off on weight sheets to make sure that everything that was supposed to go in went in.
Capsules are Loaded One at A Time
In the encapsulation department, pharmaceutical standard, GMP certified machines employ the dose tamping method. Powder goes into the machine then is tamped with pins into the capsule to the milligram of accuracy. This process is done one capsule at a time. During this process, at 5- minute intervals, a person will test to validate quantities. The capsules are polished, dust is removed and they are hand inspected to see that they are not dented, scratched or broken. The finished product is analyzed using high-pressure liquid chromatography, which creates a quantitative analysis of a compound. Then a mass spectrometer is used to create a qualitative analysis. This creates the blue print that all future capsules must match.
Every Capsule We Make is Within a 1% Weight Tolerance
No Short Cuts
At the end of the production process, checks are run to insure that the product weighs what it should. Industry standards allow +/- 5% failure tolerances. We insist on a tolerance of +/- 1%. Many manufacturers cut corners here. It is in their interest to do so as 5% less material in each capsule adds up to serious costs saved over time.
Acceptable Contamination Levels are 1/10th of Industry Standards
Finally, a macro-biological test is done to make sure that the lab didn't contaminate the product. Växa's standards are 1000% higher than what the industry allows.

In the end, each batch comes with a certificate of analysis and has a National Drug Control #. Once Buffer-pH+ is manufactured and packaged, the product is then tested by lot to ensure quality control, stability, consistency, weight, and content. Time series and dating analysis are performed twice on all lots, first at the lab and then when received as a finished product by Växa. Strict controls of inventory dating and ongoing computer evaluations are performed daily while total rechecks of inventory are performed each month.
Who is Växa?
For 15 years, Växa International has been recognized worldwide as a leader in the nutraceutical field. Växa's advancements in phytomedicinal combinations and biosystem specificity have made the nutraceutical industry what it is today, not just in the United States, but worldwide. Since the late 1980's, our successful pioneering efforts in the use of free-form amino acids, DHEA, alpha hydroxy acids, melatonin, glycosaminoglycans and their subsequent worldwide popularity attest to the seriousness and worth of our research to date.

At Växa, we believe in the body's ability to heal itself when given the proper nutrition and we have developed our formulas around that logic. With close to 50 highly specific formulas, we offer solutions for many of life's health challenges.
 
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