What is Acidosis?

[stevearn]

Acidosis is an increased acidity in the blood. The term acidemia describes the state of low blood pH, while acidosis is used to describe the processes leading to these states. Nevertheless, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. The rate of cellular metabolic activity affects and, at the same time, is affected by the pH of the body fluids. Metabolic acidosis may result from increased production of metabolic acids or disturbances in the ability to excrete acid via the kidneys.

[electra]

Acidosis is the outcome when our pH becomes overly acid. The pH balance of our internal cells and fluids can effect every process in our body. Of these fluids, the blood is perhaps the most important. In a similar way that you body will do whatever it takes to regulate your body temperature, it will also do the same to ensure a slightly alkaline pH in the blood.