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pH Testing Notes If it's to be, it's up to me! Testing urine and saliva first thing in the morning tells us how well our digestive system is able to handle what we have eaten the night before (metabolic). These numbers will not be consistent or match as long as we are eating acidic foods and are living an acidic lifestyle. This first reading of the day is the "true" state of your body functions the reading should be 6.8 to 7.2 in a balanced individual. Testing the second urine of the day, before you eat, should give a reading of 6.8 to 7.2. Ideally, the first voiding eliminated all of the stored toxins and acid from the day before. If mineral reserves are adequate, your reading should be back in balance. However, if this does not occur, your next chance to balance body systems is with an alkalizing breakfast. After breakfast, check saliva again. An alkalizing meal should give a reading of 7.2 or higher (reactive). At this point you are testing the pH of the foods eaten and how they react with your alkaline reserves. If after this meal the pH reading is below 7.2, this shows your body is struggling to balance body systems. If the morning readings have gone from 5.5 to 5.8 and only to 6.0 after breakfast, the body alkaline reserve may be deficient when compared to acid intake. Use the pH and foods chart provided here, and check the food choices against the pH result. The body doesn't lie, nor does it know how to lie. Trust how you feel and choose wellness. If you like, use graph paper and "chart" your pH readings. It should look like a bell curve.
Continue to track pH levels. Urine and saliva pH should never be lower than 7.2 after a meal (it can go as high as 8.5), but two to three hours after a meal should drop down to the 6.8 to 7.2 range. The purpose of pH paper is as a teaching aide. Summary In unbalanced individuals, pH readings will fluctuate wildly. Even in a balanced individual, saliva pH may go as high as 8.5 after an alkaline meal, then should return to a baseline reading of 6.8 to 7.2 within two to three hours. The pH levels of urine and saliva paints a picture of how the body may be struggling to correct acid foods and beverages coming into the system. When you think about it, it makes sense. If a cup of coffee with a pH of 4.6 is not neutralized, it could drop the blood pH of 7.4 (we could die if it drops as much as one point). The body must buffer the acid, but with what? If you are not consuming enough alkaline foods to compensate for the high acid coffee, the body will take buffers from its tissues (calcium from bones and teeth for example) to balance the blood. Over time, the constant stress on the body to correct this condition will cause you to run out of sufficient buffers. This may take decades, but eventually tissues will no longer be able to help the blood. 
Your doctor may tell you that the only way to check the pH of the blood is with a fasting blood test. Your doctor is correct. The purpose of pH paper is to keep you informed as to the state of the toxic overload your body deals with every second of every day. Balance your body system and reduce stress from the inside out at the cellular level. We are all biochemically unique, however, we all possess the ability to control the toxic overload created with the foods we eat and the beverages we drink. That is the reason for checking urine and saliva pH levels. Everyday we make choices - what do you choose? |
