A simple test you can do to measure your susceptibility to cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, and many other degenerative diseases. We should take personal responsibility for our health. We should be proactive in creating our good health instead of reactive when we become unhealthy. Would you like a simple test that can help you participate in planning for your good health? Of course you would. That is what tracking your personal pH can do for you.
Testing your pH levels is not about diagnosing or treating disease. It is about keeping track of how well your body is handling your particular diet and lifestyle. The test is to tell you whether your body is alkaline and creating the environment for good health or whether it is acid and creating an environment that usually leads to poor health. The Acid/Alkaline scale runs from 0-14. 0-6.9 would register as acid, 7 would be neutral and above 7 would be alkaline. There is a desirable alkaline range. With saliva and for our purposes of good health, that range may be a slightly acid 6.8 on the first test, to an alkaline level of 8 or even 8.5 on the 2nd test.
WHAT DO YOU TEST WITH: You want to use a pH paper designed specifically to indicate pH values. We sell booklets of the correct testing papers in the store.
HOW DO YOU TEST: You want to ''control'' the elements of the test. Random tests are subject to all sorts of stimuli and can be inaccurate and misleading. For example, to prepare for a saliva test, don?t eat, drink, chew gum, or put anything else in your mouth except water for at least two hours. Now you are ready for the first test.
TEST ONE: Some people only do one test. If you do this, it will give you an indication of whether your saliva is acid or alkaline. To do this, start with a clean mouth. Fill your mouth with saliva, swallow it and repeat this procedure. This will help ensure that your saliva is clean. Next, put some saliva onto the pH paper. It is best not to touch the paper to your tongue. Some experts suggest that you let the saliva drop onto a glass or plastic surface and then test. This is especially beneficial if you have been sick.
THE RESULTS: You should get 1 of 3 colours: yellow, green or blue. Yellow would be very acid green-yellow would be about 6.5 or lower, blue is about 7.1 and dark blue is about 7.5. You would hope to achieve a range of 7.1 to 7.5 (if you are testing first thing in the morning, you might get a 6.8 and as you get closer to eating and the saliva flows, this should move up to about 7.1. Record this number.
TEST TWO: The purpose of doing a second test is to indicate whether or not your body has the alkaline reserves that it needs to address the acidity of your diet and other environmental factors. This is very important to know. Do this test after eating a meal or sucking on a lemon or Chewable Vitamin C. Place the Vitamin C tablet or powder in your mouth and suck on it until the entire mouth is coated, spit it out, swallow four times; then check the pH of your saliva as you did in Test One.
Compare the colour and write down the number. If you are doing the comparison after eating a meal, wait for 15 minutes after eating; then test your pH level. Now compare your results to your first test.
THE RESULTS: The alkaline levels of your saliva should be greater after chewing the vitamin C or eating a meal, therefore, the pH level should rise.
This means that if you were blue , you should be a darker blue OR if you were yellow you should be green, etc. If the pH level does not rise within the pH ranges, then your alkaline mineral reserves are low. With this test, the object is for the pH to rise, no matter what the first number was. If it changes to a higher number/color, that is good. Of course, some goods are better than others and we would hope that your change was blue to dark blue or, at least green to blue.
YOU WERE ACID: You need to address the mineral reserves within your body as they are too low. You want to include more of the alkalizing foods in your diet. And, you want to start as soon as possible. It can take 90 days or more to begin restoring your alkalinity. So, don?t test everyday! And, realize that as your body begins to adjust, it could briefly get more acid. The important thing is to start on the road to good health and stay there.
The Importance of Acid and Alkaline Balance for Health
Virtually all degenerative diseases including cancer, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, kidney and gall stones, and tooth decay are associated with excess acidity in the body. While the body has a homeostatic mechanism that maintains a constant pH 7.4 in the blood, this mechanism works by depositing and withdrawing acid and alkaline minerals from other locations including the bones, soft tissues, body fluids and saliva. Therefore, the pH of these other tissues can fluctuate greatly. The pH of saliva offers a window through which you can see the overall pH balance in your body.
Cancer cannot exist in an alkaline environment. All forms of arthritis are associated with excess acidity. Acid in the body dissolves both teeth and bones. Whatever health situation you are faced with, you can monitor your progress toward a proper acid/alkaline balance by testing your saliva pH.
