Measuring body acidity?

November 29, 2008

Hi Shan

thanks.

How do you measure acidity of the body? would urine ph be fine?

citrus might be aggravating my arthritis,too.

nil

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" The best way to measure pH is to set up an appointment with your doctor and ask

them to do a urine analysis as well as a blood analysis. You want him/her to

measure the fasting pH of your blood and urine. You can use litmus paper and get

a general indication of where the pH of the urine is. The saliva pH is too

variable and unpredictable. The saliva pH will vary depending on not only what

you are eating, but the emotions for that day can affect it as well. That is

true to a certain extent with the urine, emotions do impact the pH of the fluids

of our body.

The time to test the pH is in the morning, the first morning urine. Take a strip

of the pH paper and wet it. That would be a good indicator of what is happening

inside your body as it pertains to the internal pH. It is just an estimate. If

the paper does not change color, that indicates a highly acidic body. It should

change color. If it is too much color (dark blue), that also indicates highly

acidic. Balanced pH of urine should be 6.8-7.2. (medium green) Saliva, too,

should be between 6.8-7.2 "

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Some readings

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NOTE: Changing pH will change solubability of most minerals (Calcium, Potassium

etc)

NOTE: Typical the accuracy needs to be in the 0.1 range, not in the 0.5 range]

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