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Best Home Remedies To Balance pH levels! Part 11
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Balance pH Levels

Best Home Remedies To Balance pH levels! Part 11


http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/pH.html

ReaderQuestion:
Anonymous writes, "Very impressive and informative stuff! Why don't you use magnesium sulphate?"

Ted's answer:
"Good question. I don't have good experience with using sulfates. There's a lot of differences in sulfates, sulfites, nitrates, peroxide, carbonates, oxide, etc. The one advantage that magnesium chloride is that it is antibacterial, antiviral and it also increases your stomach acids as well as having a therapeutic effect.

The actions of sulfates is still an unknown. I have also bad experience with many kinds of sulfates, such as zinc sulfates which causes vomiting. Sulfates did not have much medicinal properties when it comes to having a bad back, weakness, tiredness, etc.

Nitrates and nitrites are toxic, while carbonates have varying absorbability. Oxides are poorly absorbed. Chlorides are completely soluble and make it ideal for bioavailability.

Therefore, based on trial and error (and a painful one at that), magnesium chloride do in fact have medicinal properties.

Of course, you can challenge me on that. But French doctors in the beginning of the century found magnesium chloride were valuable in treating many diseases."

Reader Q&A:
Question: I checked my urine with a test strip, and I was wondering if you are supposed to read the total alkalinity or the pH. My alkalinity was around 120+ and my pH was very low.

Answer:"Read the strips as a pH only. Getting a pH at 6.1-7.0 is an acceptable range. Try changing your diets to more fresh vegetables and less soft drinks and your pH should be normal. For me fried foods are killing my pH to a very acid range and it caused me a urinary tract infection. The pain went away in minutes after alkalizing my urine with baking soda. Of course a complete cure for me is the addition of 1-2 teaspoon of sea salt/day does in fact have therapeutic value by killing off all the remaining bacteria and somewhat stabilized my pH indirectly. What this means is simple: bacteria may also caused the acidity of the urine since the wastes thrown off by the bacteria might be acidic!"

Reader Q&A
Question:There are photos of the pH meter Ted used, but it does not give the name of the device. Where can I get one of these?

Answer: "Mine is a no-name pH meters. So buying a no-name is quite difficult to you. Most popular electronic pocket pH meters in general quite acceptable for our use, since the pH is accurate to the nearest 0.1 pH.

I don't generally recommend any particular brand pH meters, but if I were to mention a popular pH meter, at least in the U.S.A. this would be Hanna pH meters. There is a good reason why I don't recommend particular brand, sometimes your local area don't have that brand and another brand might be just as good.

The link is here:

http://omnicontrols.com/lists/Hanna_portab...H%20Meters.html

Usually your decision to buy pH meters at least for most people is the price or affordability. Accuracy for any electronic pH meters especially pocket ones are not important since most of them in the market is quite accurate for our purposes."

Reader Question from Boxford, MA: "Who's really correct? most sources say your pH saliva should be 7.5, in order to be healthy! This article says 6.4. Why so large a difference? Thanks, Bob"

Ted responds, "Urinary pH is between 6.1 - 7.3. Salivary pH must be higher than urinary pH, generally it is 6.8 - 7.4. Ideally urinary pH is 6.4 and salivary is ideally 7.4.

To resolve this is simple, if your pH does not fall within this range and you are sick, then you probably know which pH to believe. The pH figures are derived from averages of healthy people!"

1/17/2006: Matthew, from Fayetteville, AR writes, "I have a question over PH levels. I have been taking ACV (_______s) for over a week for acid reflux - it has been effective - but my body PH is very high all the time (5.5). For the last two weeks I have been eating veg/juice etc & limiting my food intake of acid foods. Should I stop taking the ACV?"

Ted responds, "I suspect the acid reflux issue is a parasite issue. To get your pH to a more reasonable value, it is o.k. for you to take some one teaspoon of baking soda to help you balance the the pH to a more ideal value. What the ACV does is it kills the parasites, and the acid reflux becomes controllable. However, you might mess up your body's pH so you can try some baking soda added to ACV or taken separately."

Reader Question from Medina, Ohio
1/22/2006: I have been taking 1350 mg of soduimbicarbinate 3 times a day for the past 3 months to maintain an 6.5 PH level. I was told that this shoul help in reduicing the kedney stone I have been getting for the last 35 years. I was very acidic, around 4 to 5 Ph. I hope this willhelp and does not cause any other side effects. Please respond, thanks."

Ted responds: "The side effects you have to worry about taking too much sodium bicarbonate is a slightly loose stool. However, it is actually taken not to cause a diarrhea, but to prevent constipation.

Let me tell you the theory of how a kidney stone is formed. Most people's kidneys stones are formed by calcium oxalate. It is as a result of your intestines LACK OF BICARBONATES, necessary to neutralized the oxalic acid you eat from foods. Therefore oxalic acid enters the blood stream and attacks calcium in your body to from calcium oxalate. Calcium oxalate is a precipitate and forms stones and will accumulate in your kidney CAUSING kidney stones. So if you take plenty of sodium bicarbonate with each an every meal, the oxalic acid will react with sodium bicarbonate to form sodium oxalate and will not be absorbed into your blood stream but will be safely excreted normally into the stool.The other issue you have to worry about of the formation of kidney stones are caused by accumulation of insoluble fats, which is rather soft stones but they can cause gallstone instead. In this case the body cannot utilized the fats properly. A remarkably simple solution I discovered is to take only 1 teaspoon of granulated powdered lecithin (only) mixed with food every day.

So taking sodium bicarbonate and lecithin will resolve a lot of health issues relating to stones, kidney stones or gallbladder stones."

Reader Question from Fenelton, PA: "I have a urinary ph of 7.6 and a salivary ph of 6.2. Are these considered normal?"

Ted Responds: "No. This is not good! Normally your salivary pH has to be between 6.8 - 7.3 and the urinary pH is between 6.1- 6.5. This means that your salivary pH has to be more than your urinary pH. In your case this is the opposite or "flipped over". So what it means is your body's buffer is depleted and it uses the body's protein or other sources to maintain your pH. Just take the 1/4 teaspoon citric acid + 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda for two weeks. Your pH should be restored as mentioned here within the about a week or two. Long term conditions like this can mean your body's will be weak, lack energy, brain fogged, etc."

8/10/2005: Reader Comment from Mt. Vernon, Washington: "you can get an accurate pH reading by using one drop bromthymol blue in urine and saliva. Reading should be between 6.4 and 6.8. Take the test 1.5 hrs. after eating. Test after eating foods to see how your body reacts. Strips aren't as accurate."

Ted responds: Yes, strips are not accurate. Urinary pH changes very quickly even within 1-2 hours after eating so you don't have to wait that long. This sound like testing them for doing a blood tests. In blood test you must fast for at least overnight. However, urinary pH is fast acting. Also normal salivary pH is frequently over 7. The mentioned method might work for urinary pH. However it is very difficult to know how far off the mark since most urinary pH varies between 5.5 to 7.5. While the mentioned method will tell you reach it, in practice, getting over 6 is usually acceptable. However, there are exceptions such as serious conditions as cancer or flu, in which you have to get them over 7.0 - 7.3 to kill or destroy the virus or cancer.

However, i prefer to use digital pH meters since you can calibrate with greater accuracy. At least here in Thailand, the price of a pocket digital pH is the same as the chemical methods, it was rather easy for me to go digital pH. Obtaining a digital pH is easier than getting chemical versions for most people since you can get them at a garden shop or pet shops also."

Reader Comment:
6/13/2005: David writes, "Yet again a bit of scientific information has led to so called scare intensity in populations.. I am a nutritionist and a biochemist dealing specifically in conductivity and acid/base balance.. I do agree that certain foods exhibit either a positive or negative balance on the body, esp. with regards to pH..what i have question marks about is the fact that the pH of our stomach and parts of our small intestines are acidic, and therefore need to be acidic in order to break down and absorb nutrients effectively..Also i would not recommend whatsoever self administration of compounds in order to maintain pH levels within a so-called "desirable" range, does any of your readers know of the deleterious effects of these compounds on the cells lining the throat, alimentary cannal, stomach etc..The pH of your stomach is about 2, so any of these compound's pH will be effected from the stomach on..The reason why the stomachs pH is 2 is in order to break down foods, making then suitable for absorption in the small intestine."

Ted responds: "Your position is that of the conventional medicine. However, you seem not to be aware that the pH of stomach varies. The stomach pH is not always 2 all the time. It varies between 2 - 6. This has been known for hundreds of years. When drinking water, pH does not get reduced in the stomach. The liquid goes quite quickly through the stomach. The stomach will produce a pH at two when a person is hungry. Most foods such as bread has a component of baking soda. The intestines creates bicarbonates to reduced the acidity. In many cases intestines get irritated whenever the body cannot produce the needed bicarbonates, creating the condition of bicarbonate deficiency, thus causing the irritation. So using baking soda does not create intestinal irritations as claimed by the person below. I was a student of biochemistry and my professor was able to prove that a large majority of the U.S. population has a bicarbonate deficiency which causes the leaky gut sydrome. Apparently, the stomach was unable to neutralize the acid created by the stomach acids because the body's imperfect chemical factory to produce enough bicarbonate to reduce such alimentary irritations.

It was also proven in laboratory conditions that before a virus or a cold conditions, the body's stores of bicarbonates get severely depleted, and there is a mathematical relation between bicarbonate deficiency and susceptibility to colds. The reason, as explained by biochemistry professor so clearly: the body's could not maintain the buffer so adequately making one's body very susceptible to infection."

5/7/2005: Terry asks, "Hi Ted, today i purchased a cheap $40 Hansa pH pocket meter the man in the shop calibrated it for me and also gave me buffer solution. when i got home i began to play with it .. i put it on a glass of distilled water and what i saw strange was it started at 6.8 and then began to slowly drop 6.7 ... 6.6 ... after two minutes it was 5.8 .. 5.7 etc. i thought something was wrong so i put it in buffer solution and it was stable 7.0 .. but after a minute it drop to 6.9 and then went back to 7.0 a few seconds later. i then ... thought ok i will try another glass of distilled water ... again it did the same thing ... it started at 6.8 and then began to slowly drop 6.7 ... 6.6 ... after two minutes it was 5.8 .. 5.7 etc why does pure water pH behave this way ? or is somethign faulty with the pH meter ? the only thought i had was temperature ?? as the probe got colder/warmer it changed pH ?? Thanks."

Ted responds: Your Hanna pH meter works very well! Very few people know that distilled water absorbs carbon dioxide very well as there this kind of water does not have buffers. Most natural springs water are very high in buffers. Buffers are usually sodium bicarbonate, magnesium bicarbonate and calcium bicarbonate. In most mineral springs water they are referred to as just "buffers". As a result the water's pH remains stable. So if you leave out your distilled water long enough the water will be acidic.

So if you want to continue drinking distilled water with adequate "buffers" you may need to sprinkle some magnesium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate to stabilize the distilled water.

People who sell distilled water do not tell people this fact. Distilled water absorbs a great deal of CO2 to form what is known as carbonic acid. And their pH is around 5.5 which is by the way similar to average unhealthy urine. The reason for unhealthy urine is not the distilled water per se, but this problem exists what is known in biochemistry (back door people) as "bicarbonate deficiency".

I have no objections about people taking distilled water if they try to maintain their Urinary pH at 6.5 by alkalizing their body with sodium bicarbonate or potassium bicarbonate. The most common components used in alkalizing your body is sodium bicarbonate. However, I prefer both sodium and potassium bicarbonate whenever I had the time to mix my own drinking water.

Yes, you get mineral from the food we eat but you need to supplement yourself with fulvic/humic acid to allow your intestinal flora to absorb mineral from the food we eat on a regular basis also. However, it IS NECESSARY that you add a couple of drops of sodium thiosulfate, fulvic acid/humic acid, as well some pinch of sodium bicarbonate to stabilize your water and aid in mineral absorption. Of course, you can also add them in your food and get the same effect.

It is sad that in today's society that many practical knowledge are not taught in schools and even the internet don't even provide much information on this matter. I still don't know what is wrong, which is why I now do my own experiments."

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