Testing Your pH Balance
by Dennis Myers
The test is simple:
- Saliva test upon waking. First thing in the morning right when you
get out of bed, lick and wet the end of an acid test strip with saliva.
Note the color change and write down that pH number. Do this before
brushing your teeth, drinking, smoking, or even thinking of eating any
food. This pH should be 6.8.
- Then test your second urine of the morning. The urine stored in your
bladder during the night, that is ready to be eliminated when you get
up, should be acid so you don't want to test that. Drain your bladder
in the morning, the last time you get up if you get up during the night
and then see what that urine pH is. Again, record this number. This
number should be the pH of your urine after you got rid of your acid
load from the day before. The acids should be gone the second time you
go to the bathroom so your urine pH should be around 6.8 also.
- Eat breakfast, an apple will do, anything, and five minutes after
breakfast check your saliva again. Write this number down also. This
number should go up from what it was before you ate, the more the better.
- Then check your urine pH between meals, i.e. between breakfast and
lunch and between lunch and dinner. The pH should always be 7.0 to 8.5,
a couple of hours after meals.
These tests show the following:
A. How well your digestive system dealt with what you ate the night
before, i.e. the AM urine pH. These numbers may change from day to day
depending on what you did eat the night before.
B. How well we treat ourselves in general, i.e. how "strong"
the liver is. This is the AM saliva pH. This number shows the overall
state of our health, the condition of the alkaline reserve of our bodies
which reflects the diet we have eaten over the last months to years. This
number stays rather constant and will only change after some work has
been done in re-mineralizing the body. Since the saliva pH is an indicator
of intracellular pH, saliva pH readings should never be below the pK of
the phosphate buffer system, 6.8. (see below). The most accurate reading
of saliva pH is recorded immediately upon awakening--after sleeping at
least five hours and before brushing the teeth. It is during sleep that
the body removes waste and is in an anabolic state restoring and replenishing
the body. If the patient has a saliva pH of 5.5 at this time and only
5.6 after eating, you know that this person has no alkaline reserve and
that his body is devoid of the minerals necessary to process food properly--his
body cannot adequately respond to the physiological crisis of handling
food.
C. The pH of your saliva after you eat gives an indication of what the
mineral reserves of your body are (the pH number should increase after
you eat). My son just thought of a lemon for a minute and the pH of his
saliva went up a whole point. He had enough reserve minerals, which are
basic, to pull into his digestive system to begin the digestive process.
The ideal saliva pH pattern is 6.8 on awakening, 7.0 before eating and
8.5 following breakfast.
Besides just thinking of a lemon one can eat one. This is a simple test
that can be done at most any time of the day. It too checks the adequacy
of the alkaline reserve of the body. When a healthy person with adequate
alkaline reserves takes a bite of highly acid lemon, the saliva pH drops
sharply for an instant but returns almost immediately to pH 8.5. The more
acidic the food that is eaten, the more rapid the response of the alkaline
reserve, and the higher the saliva pH should be following a meal.
D. The pHs of the urine between meals should be kept in the basic range,
pH 7.0 to 8.5. After one eats, the stomach generates the necessary acid
to digest the food. While doing this, it also performs the opposite action,
i.e. it makes an equivalent amount of base or baking soda, sodium bicarbonate,
that is picked up by the blood stream and delivered to the alkaline glands
of the body, the saliva, the pancreas and the liver. The maximum amount
of base in the blood and therefore in the urine occurs one to two hours
after you eat.
This rhythm of the acid and base flow of the body, is called by Frederick
F Sander, the Base-floods and the Base-tides of the Acid-Base household.
This information is from, The Acid-Base Household of the Human Organism
and its cooperation with the nail circulation and the rhythm of the Liver,
Frederick F. Sander, about 1930, translated from the German by Robert
Miller, D.C. This book is not yet in print in English.
Actually the body fluids and therefore the urine is most acid at 2:00
A.M. (pH 5.0 to 6.8) in the morning (the base tide) and most alkaline
at 2:00 P.M. (pH 7.0 to 8.5) in the afternoon (base flood).
"The ideal pH numbers depend on the time of day. Plotted on a curve
it looks like the double hump of the back of a camel. Two times a day
the urine should be alkaline and that is the top of the humps and corresponds
to 10 A.M. and 2 P.M., the alkaline tide after meals. During the rest
of the day the pH should be between 6.6 and 6.8. This is optimal urine.
The first urine in the morning should be more acidic because of the decalcification
that takes place during the night."
If all the acids are not all flushed out during the night they accumulate,
day after day. It hurts for one thing and the cycle of chronic disease
begins. It effects different people in different ways; heart disease in
one, arthritis, osteoporosis, stones, ulcers, cancer, in others.
If what you are doing to get better isn't working, if you are sick,
be it with modern allopathic medicines or any of the alternative, complementary
therapies, it is probably because you haven't dealt with this acid
problem, first.
Definitely, this puts the responsibility of caring for one's own
health back into a patient's hands. It guides your therapy and shows
you if what you are doing is working or not.
You do the above tests a month or so after you did the initial ones.
The numbers should be less acid, if you are doing the right thing. If
not, you and your doctor should, re-consult. It all takes time.
Simple pH Indicator Solution
A simple way to prepare a pH indicator, instead of using pH strips,
is to use the spice, Turmeric. Turmeric is a yellow powder but in a basic
solution it turns a ruby red color. Actually, it turns color right at
a pH of 6.8. the pH that the urine and saliva should be, most of the time.
To prepare this pH indicator solution you just add a teaspoon of Turmeric
to a pint of rubbing alcohol. Shake it up and let it settle.
To use it pour some of the yellow, alcohol/Turmeric solution into a
test tube or similar container. A small drinking glass will do. Add a
few drops of urine or saliva and if it turns red it means that whatever
was added had a pH greater than 6.8, that it was alkaline. If it stays
yellow the pH is acid, less than 6.8, need more fruits and vegetables.
If your urine is acid you need Base Powder. You take enough Base Powder
so that the Turmeric solution stays red most of the time. After awhile
it will stay red all by itself and then you will know what it means to
be in pH balance. You will simply just feel good.
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