pH: The Acid/Alkaline Balance and Your Health

I picked up some pH strips to measure our family's acidity. What I've learned is that our bodies strive to maintain an alkaline state. Acidity is associated with disease. If your extracellular fluids are alkaline, you will be healthy. Because:

An Alkaline Body = A Healthy Body

An Acidic Body = A Sick Body

As a matter of fact, people with cancer happen to be extremely acidic. You have to get alkaline to get well.

So . . . we're checking our pH.

It's quite simple really. I got some pH strips (http://www.ph-ion.com/) and do three tests each day for two days. I measure urinary and saliva pH for a composite (more accurate) reading.

You know, even though we're doing just about everything right - eating our greens and veggies, avoiding processed foods, drinking lots of water - we're still more acidic than I 'd like us to be. I think we may be low in magnesium. (We did a checklist in Mark Hyman's UltraMind Solution. http://www.ultramind.com/)

We're going to take some vitamin and mineral supplements, eat more raw foods, and check our pH again in a couple of weeks.

Tip for the day: Check your pH!