Most children are a pH of 7.5. Over half of adults are a pH of 6.5 or lower, reflecting the calcium deficiency of aging and lifestyle defects. Cancer patients are usually a pH of 4.5, especially when terminal."
The Calcium Factor: The Scientific Secret of Health and Youth,
Carl J. Reich, M.D., Gilliland Printing Inc., Arkansas City, Kansas, 1996

Testing Your Urinary pH

The pH of the urine indicates how the body is working to maintain the proper pH of the blood. The urine reveals the alkaline building (anabolic) and acid tearing down (catabolic) cycles. The pH of urine indicates the efforts of the body via the kidneys, adrenals, lungs and gonads to regulate body pH balance through the buffer salts and hormones.

Urine can provide a fairly accurate picture of body chemistry, because the kidneys filter out the buffer salts of pH regulation and provide values based on what the body is eliminating. Urine pH can vary from around 4.5 to 9.0 for its extremes, but the ideal range is 6.5 to 7.0+. Urinary pH tends to be lower in the morning and higher in the evening.

The pH of the urine can vary widely. The pH of urine is also affected by the biochemicals that the body is eliminating. These include biochemicals such as excess minerals, vitamins, and products of metabolism and also include drugs and toxins being eliminated by the body.

The pH of the urine is not as affected by digestive enzymes as salivary pH. However, the pH of the urine can be affected by:
preservatives you eat
pollutants you breathe
stress you encounter
the food you eat
how much water you drink
the amount of pathogens in your system
how much rest you receive
all the biochemical activities going on in your body.

Generally, when urine pH is 6.0 and below for extended periods of time, it is an indication that the body's fluids elsewhere are too acid, and it is working overtime to rid itself of an acid medium. Thus, when urine pH is normal, then the blood pH is normal, but when the urine pH is overly acid, the body releases too many electrolytes to keep the pH level normal and maintain life.

The saliva pH of the non-deficient and healthy person is in the 7.5 to 7.1 slightly alkaline range. The range from 6.5 which is weakly acidic to 4.5 which is strongly acidic represents states from mildly deficient to strongly deficient, respectively.

Blood pH:
The bloodstream is the most critically buffered system of the entire body, far more sensitive than any other. Arterial and venous blood must maintain a slightly alkaline pH: arterial blood pH = 7.41 and venous blood pH = 7.36. Because the normal pH of arterial blood is 7.41, a person is considered to have acidosis when the pH of blood falls below this value and to have alkalosis when the pH rises above 7.41.

These statements have not been evaluated by the U.S.A. Food and Drug Administration

URINE AND SALIVA TESTING
This is an old and simple test of urine and saliva that was used extensively before
modern blood tests came into existence. The amount of information it provides is
considerable and forms a basis that unites all forms of medicine, makes them all
work if you will.
As stated above, the basic premise is that as societies become more "advanced",
protein consumption, fast foods, (not necessarily, fat, cholesterol) become the
basic foods. These foods are converted to strong acids which must be eliminated
by the kidneys. Every acid molecule that is passed through the kidneys must take
a mineral with it so we develop a relative base deficiency, i.e. we become acid. As
a result, pleomorphic organisms come out of the blood, out of the cells themselves
to clean up the mess. This is chronic degenerative disease.
So, the healing process, no matter what is wrong with you, begins with REMINERALIZATION.
The only way you can replace these minerals is by consuming
fruits and vegetables. You can take mineral supplements but these only work
temporarily. These type of minerals are basically ground up rocks and cannot be
incorporated into the body cells. Plants can digest rocks, people can't. We have to
eat our fruits and vegetables.
This urine/saliva tests shows basically how many minerals are left in our bodies,
i.e. what the MINERAL RESERVES of the body are and what we must do to
remineralize it. This lays the foundation for any and all healing therapies.
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The test is simple:
1. Saliva test upon waking. First thing in the morning right when
you get out of bed, lick and wet the end of an acid test strip with
saliva. Note the color change and write down that pH number. Do
this before brushing your teeth, drinking, smoking, or even thinking
of eating any food. This pH should be 6.8.
2. Then test your second urine of the morning. The urine stored in
your bladder during the night, that is ready to be eliminated when
you get up, should be acid so you don't want to test that. Drain your
bladder in the morning, the last time you get up if you get up during
the night and then see what that urine pH is. Again, record this
number. This number should be the pH of your urine after you got rid
of your acid load from the day before. The acids should be gone the
second time you go to the bathroom so your urine pH should be
around 6.8 also.
3. Eat breakfast, an apple will do, anything, and five minutes after
breakfast check your saliva again. Write this number down also. This
number should go up from what it was before you ate, the more the
better.
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4. and 5. Then check your urine pH between meals, i.e. between
breakfast and lunch and between lunch and dinner. The pH should
always be 7.0 to 8.5, a couple of hours after meals.
These five tests show the following:
1. How well your digestive system dealt with what you ate the night
before, i.e. the AM urine pH. These numbers may change from day
to day depending on what you did eat the night before.
2. How well we treat ourselves in general, i.e. how "strong" the liver
is. This is the AM saliva pH. This number shows the overall state of
our health, the condition of the alkaline reserve of our bodies which
reflects the diet we have eaten over the last months to years. This
number stays rather constant and will only change after some work
has been done in re-mineralizing the body.
Since the saliva pH is an indicator of intracellular pH, saliva pH
readings should never be below the pK of the phosphate buffer
system, 6.8. (see below). The most accurate reading of saliva pH is
recorded immediately upon awakening--after sleeping at least five
hours and before brushing the teeth. It is during sleep that the body
removes waste and is in an anabolic state restoring and replenishing
the body. If the patient has a saliva pH of 5.5 at this time and only
5.6 after eating, you know that this person has no alkaline reserve
and that his body is devoid of the minerals necessary to process
food properly--his body cannot adequately respond to the
physiological crisis of handling food.
3. The pH of your saliva after you eat gives an indication of what the
mineral reserves of your body are (the pH number should increase
after you eat). My son just thought of a lemon for a minute and the
pH of his saliva went up a whole point. He had enough reserve
minerals, which are basic, to pull into his digestive system to begin
the digestive process.
The ideal saliva pH pattern is 6.8 on awakening, 7.0 before eating
and 8.5 following breakfast.
Besides just thinking of a lemon one can eat one. This is a simple
test that can be done at most any time of the day. It too checks the
adequacy of the alkaline reserve of the body. When a healthy person
with adequate alkaline reserves takes a bite of highly acid lemon, the
saliva pH drops sharply for an instant but returns almost immediately
to pH 8.5. The more acidic the food that is eaten, the more rapid the
response of the alkaline reserve, and the higher the saliva pH should
be following a meal.
4. The pH's of the urine between meals should be kept in the basic
range, pH 7.0 to 8.5. After one eats, the stomach generates the
necessary acid to digest the food. While doing this, it also performs
the opposite action, i.e. it makes an equivalent amount of base or
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baking soda, sodium bicarbonate, that is picked up by the blood
stream and delivered to the alkaline glands of the body, the saliva,
the pancreas and the liver. The maximum amount of base in the
blood and therefore in the urine occurs one to two hours after
you eat.
This rhythm of the acid and base flow of the body, is called by Frederick F Sander,
the Base-floods and the Base-tides of the Acid-Base household. This information
is from, The Acid-Base Household of the Human Organism and its cooperation
with the nail circulation and the rhythm of the Liver, Frederick F. Sander, about
1930, translated from the German by Robert Miller, D.C. This book is not yet in
print in English.
Actually the body fluids and therefore the urine is most acid at 2:00 A.M. (pH 5.0
to 6.8) in the morning (the base tide) and most alkaline at 2:00 P.M. (pH 7.0 to
8.5) in the afternoon (base flood).
" The ideal pH numbers depend on the time of day. Plotted on a
curve it looks like the double hump of the back of a camel. Two times
a day the urine should be alkaline and that is the top of the humps
and corresponds to 10 A.M. and 2 P.M., the alkaline tide after meals.
During the rest of the day the pH should be between 6.6 and 6.8.
This is optimal urine. The first urine in the morning should be more
acidic because of the decalcification that takes place during the
night."
If all the acids are not all flushed out during the night they accumulate, day after
day. It hurts for one thing and the cycle of chronic disease begins. It effects
different people in different ways; heart disease in one, arthritis, osteoporosis,
stones, ulcers, cancer, in others.
If what you are doing to get better isn't working, if you are sick, be it with modern
allopathic medicines or any of the alternative, complementary therapies, it is
probably because you haven't dealt with this acid problem, first.
Definitely, this puts the responsibility of caring for one's own health back into a
patient's hands. It guides your therapy and shows you if what you are doing is
working or not.
You do the above

Dennis L. Myers, M.D