acid/alkali balance, was Lots of calcium, was Re: leg cramps

[Guest guest]

LOL Sheila! I think you mean me, not Larry!

I am not convinced about the acid/alkali business being necessary

for optimum health either. I really do believe our bodies are

marvelous systems of interrelated systems, themselves based on

more inscrutable systems.

On the other hand I love messing around with stuff. Hey, I

think I came to this planet for the entertainment anyway!

The acid/alkali thing did impress me, like I said, when I got

heat stroke and my urine ph went off the charts on the acid side.

I felt poorly for days till I got normal again, and come to

think of it I think I got a leg cramp one of those nights!

Over the years I have run across all sorts of stuff about the

acid/alkali biz and health. Some of it makes sense but some

of it doesn't, like acid fruits such as lemons having an alkali

reaction in the body. That sounds like an overgeneralization to

me.

On the other hand I do suspect that one author might be right

in claiming that our bodies use PH differences across different

membranes to get things done. One guy said that you need your

lymph to be more alkali than the blood for some sort of reason,

and that makes more sense to me. I consider lymph PH to be the

same as urine PH, since urine is simply filtered lymph. Saliva

on the other hand has a managed PH. You can observe that directly

by holding either acid or alkali in your mouth, and see how

your body creates saliva to balance out the PH. One of the tests

for adequate calcium is to see if your saliva ph can get to 8.0

when it needs to. If it cannot then sure, there is some sort

of problem. When you are that low on calcium then your body

simply must take it out of your bones. That makes sense to me.

Anyway I sure am having fun taking ph readings, and for the first

time in my hopefully very long life I think I am learning something

useful about acid/alkali stuff. There is nothing like really

measuring numbers to provoke conversation and/or resultant action.

As we joke around the office, " Without data, everything else is

a guess! "

Cheers!

Steve

> Hi Larry,

> I eat a high protein diet too. I have even tried the urine and

> saliva testing. I read about it at www.krispin.com. Krispin

Sullivan

> is writing a book about vitamin D, called " Naked at Noon " . It

should

> be is stores quite soon. Anyway I could not get my reading to be

> alkaline either. You have shown me how to do that. It is

interesting,

> but I am not sure I am convinced that the acid alkaline business is

> critical for optimal health. Are you? If so why?

> Sheila