Body pH Testing Using Ph Test Strips

[Xjr5rjX]

thank you

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@Xjr5rjX You are most welcome!

[mybluemars]

Ok, I'm I missing something? The lady who wrote the book has a low PH? And it's not an exact science (her words)? Is that even her on the cover? Lol

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@mybluemars Yes, I tend to have low pH. I have to eat more alkalizing food than most people to keep my pH out of the inflammatory range.  Yes, that is me on the cover, although, like many people, how I look changes with time and the book as been out for a while now.

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@mybluemars Yes, even though measuring the pH of the body isn't an exact science, for those of us with a tendency towards low pH and inflammation, it is still a useful practice that can help us know when it is important to get our pH back up before the pain and inflammation start back up.

[monju124]

So much fantastic!

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@monju124 Glad you liked my video!

[dudev]

Diet has no effect on body pH. The stomach is always acidic from stomach acid, and the intestines are always alkaline. Quackery!

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@dudev My goodness, despite your statement to the contrary, diet most certainly has an effect on overall body pH, as measured by salivary pH. Because certain areas in the body must be held at certain pHs to maintain life (like blood pH) that makes maintaining a healthy overall body pH even more important.

[dudev]

@RheumatoidArthritisx

You can't measure body pH by testing saliva. That's just silly. The gastrointestinal system is technically outside of the body. All sorts of abnormalities affect stomach and intestinal pH, but have no effect on the pH of the body itself. And what exactly is body pH, when the body is compartmentalized and has many different and independent pH levels?

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@dudev You have some factual knowledge but somehow you aren't understanding how that comes together to affect the pH in the various parts of a complex, living, breathing, digesting, circulating person. To read your arguements every man and woman is an island and within that island is another island called the disgestive system and these islands are not affected by anything external to themselves including ingested food.

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@dudev Salivary pH, measured properly, is a very useful indicator. I do not understand why you think a saliva test is not a good indication of overall pH in the body. True, certain organs, such as the stomach, have a tightly regulated pH that changes depending on what is happening, for instance what is in the stomach or if the stomach is empty. Because the stomach has a function that make it important for its pH to be highly regulated, it is a poor candate to measture overall body pH.

[dudev]

@RheumatoidArthritisx

I keep hearing these claims from "body-pH practitioners", but medical science and biology seem to contradict everything they're saying. A saliva test is no indication of pH in the rest of the body. Stomach pH varies depending on stomach content --empty vs. full. A cup of coffee has a pH of around 5. And the hydrochloric acid in the stomach has a pH around 2. That's 1000 times more acidic. pH is logarithmic. All food is basically rendered to the same pH in the stomach.

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@dudev What makes you think that because the stomach is acidic and the intestines are alkaline, the diet has no effect on overall body pH?

[dudev]

@RheumatoidArthritisx

The gastrointestinal system is technically outside of the body. It's a tube within a tube. The pH of food is really irrelevant since it is treated with stomach acids and then treated again with alkalies. Body pH is regulated at the cellular level. Different parts of the body have different pH levels. Exercise, for example, produces lactic acid in the stressed muscles, which produce a burning sensation. And buffers keep blood pH relatively constant and in a narrow range.

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@dudev One way of looking at the body is as a collection of chemicals. One can also think of food as a collection of chemicals. The body is most definately affected by the food you eat, including at the level of pH. You are falsely assuming the body is a closed system and that somehow food does not effect it, including at the level of pH. Just because the body has elaborate systems for regulating pH and various levels and various places, doesn't mean food doesn't have an effect.

[dudev]

@RheumatoidArthritisx

I keep hearing these claims from "body-pH practitioners", but medical science and biology seem to contradict everything they're saying. A saliva test is no indication of pH in the rest of the body. Stomach pH varies depending on stomach content --empty vs. full. A cup of coffee has a pH of around 5. And the hydrochloric acid in the stomach has a pH around 2. That's 1000 times more acidic. pH is logarithmic. All food is basically rendered to the same pH in the stomach.

[dudev]

@RheumatoidArthritisx

I keep hearing these claims from "body-pH practitioners", but medical science and biology seem to contradict everything they're saying. A saliva test is no indication of pH in the rest of the body. Stomach pH varies depending on stomach content --empty vs. full. A cup of coffee has a pH of around 5. And the hydrochloric acid in the stomach has a pH around 2. That's 1000 times more acidic. pH is logarithmic. All food is basically rendered to the same pH in the stomach.

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@Bob You are most welcome. I hope this info helps you increase your level of wellness, even if you are already doing well.

[rdbasile]

Barbara,

Thank you for posting this video. I have recently started reading up on the positive effects of raising our pH levels. It's amazing this information is not more widely discussed!

Best regards,

Bob

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@Fattboy26 Ph does affect testosterone but the studies I have seen have been on pH changes within cells. The pH measured by the saliva test I demonstrate in this video is for overall body pH. There is a correlation between the overall pH and the pH within cells, but I don't know how increasing overall body pH affects testosterone levels or testosterone activity.

[Fattboy26]

Can Ph affect testosterone?

[RheumatoidArthritisx]

@studynerd You are most welcome.

[studynerd]

Thanks for the video.