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A Healthy Body is Slightly AlkalineOur cells, organs and tissues must maintain a state of slight alkalinity for our very survival. The blood that circulates throughout the body must maintain a range of slightly alkaline pH of 7.35 to 7.45.
Certain substances and foods can potentially disrupt the healthy pH of the blood lowering it to unhealthy levels. A slightly acidic blood with a pH of 6.95 can lead to coma or death.
That’s why it’s necessary to assist your body with its complex pH regulating system. An alkaline diet helps you achieve that outcome.
Acid-forming and Alkaline-forming FoodsAs food is digested, absorbed and metabolized, foods release either acid or alkaline compounds into the blood. Acid-forming foods are foods that leave high concentrations of chloride, phosphorus, or sulphur in their ash – they all contribute acids to your body. Alkaline-forming foods are foods that leave high concentrations of magnesium, calcium, and potassium in their ash.
While our bodies can easily handle an occasional acid load, long-term acid build-up can exhaust our available alkalizing reserves and lower your body’s critical pH to dangerously low levels.
The Alkaline Diet – pH ‘friendly’ Diet Modern diets are largely acid forming. Most people gamble with their health by overeating on low-mineral, high-fat and high-sugar processed and refined foods. Such diet is highly acidic in nature and is the primary cause for a string of diseases. That’s why many health experts recommend an 80/20 mix of alkaline and acid foods to keep the pH level in check.
Is Your pH Balanced? Find Out By Testing.To maintain good health the body is constantly seeking to get rid of the excess acids that irritate the tissues and deplete them of minerals. One of the principal systems it uses for this purpose is the renal system (kidneys). The normal rate of acid excretion through the kidneys gives urine a pH that falls between 6.75 and 7.25.
By testing the degree of acidity of the urine, you can determine whether your body is eliminating a normal quantity of acids. If the acid excretion rate is higher than normal, the urinary pH will be more acidic. This low urinary pH is also an indication that the body is saturated and therefore in an acid state.
Another indicator of the overall pH balance in your body is the pH of your saliva. When your body has the mineral reserves that it should, the abundance of minerals will show up in a saliva ph test as a pH reading of 7.0 to 7.50. A low saliva pH reading indicates that the mineral reserves in your body are low, and are being used to buffer acids elsewhere in the body.
There is a strong correlation between the pH of the body's internal environment and that of the urine and saliva: urine and saliva become acidic when the body's internal environment becomes acidic.
You can discover the pH of these fluids by using our Alkaline pH Strips. These pH test strips are made specifically to test saliva and urine, and are the most accurate and economical test strips on the market.
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