I’m only 6 weeks pregnant and feeling a little nauseous first thing in the morning. I make a smoothie every morning which I add greens, clay and omega oils to. Since being pregnant the thought of making the smoothie has made me feel sick and my body seems to be craving unhealthy food like toast and fry ups! (Even though I’m a vegetarian).

Dr Robert Young has helped explain why this is happening and what any woman with morning sickness needs to do.

Dr Young believes the cause of nausea to be the body’s need for sodium bicarbonate to neutralise the excess dietary and/or metabolic acid (acid is caused by foods, negative emotions and hormones; pregnancy is a time when emotions and hormones are going crazy!)

The stomach is the main organ for producing sodium bicarbonate, when the stomach makes sodium bicarbonate it leaves a residue of hydrochloric acid and the increasing amounts of hydrochloric acid cause nausea.

Therefore, when you start feeling sick your stomach needs more alkaline salts, especially sodium bicarbonate.  Dr Young has produced ‘The Ultimate Baking Soda’, a product called pHour salts. I was taking just sodium bicarbonate until recently, now I’m adding pHour salts to my water 2-3 times a day and feel even better. I’ve also started adding pH drops to all my drinks to really boost my alkalinity.
NB: Medicine has taught us that acid is needed for digestion, this has since been disproved my Dr Robert Young’s research and acid is just the by-product of sodium bicarb production. Therefore, if you ask your GP about this they are still using the old, out of date medical model and may not understand this concept. Dr Robert Young is an expert in the field of establishing the body’s correct alkaline pH and has been researching this for 30 years. He has published some fantastic books including; ‘The pH Miracle’ and ‘The pH Miracle for Weight Loss’