Checking your pH
- By Chris Hardwicke
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- 01 Jul, 2018
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Is it important to check your pH?
Your annual physical will no doubt contain your blood pH results. However, by the time your blood Ph is low you are already in serious trouble. Otto Warberg won the Nobel Prize for proving that cancer cannot live in a cell rich in oxygen and with a balanced pH. A balanced pH is required for safe elimination of bodily toxins and proper absorption of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. A low pH is an invitation for fungal problems as well as immune challenges of all sorts and has an undeniable connection to premature aging. In fact, balancing your pH is the number one priority in your biological system and your body will draw calcium from your bones in order to buffer an acidic body and this is one way your blood pH levels may be maintained at a great expense. This is borne out by saliva pH testing of those with osteopenia and osteoarthritis and finding a high correlation with low pH.
We test saliva because urine testing is very reactive against what one eats or, in particular, drinks the night before testing. However, if one has a serious condition, such as cancer, your goal should be a neutral urine pH as well. This has required an alkaline diet with the most common choice being a macrobiotic or veggie juice diet until recently. (see Vaxa below) While blood pH should test between 7.30 and 7.45 (slightly alkaline), saliva should test between 6.8 and 7.2. On Enzymedica test paper, which we recommend, this would be a dark purple color. This paper is sold locally at Earth Fare and I would be happy to give you enough for 3 tests.
To perform your pH test you must not eat or drink anything when you rise in the morning. This includes water. Clean your mouth THOROUGHLY with your tongue; front and back of teeth and gums. Swallow or spit this saliva. Generate saliva from under the tongue by repeatedly pressing the tongue down into the glands. Scoop and raise this with your tongue and lay pH paper in this saliva while pressing paper between upper lip and tongue. Move the tongue gently back and forth to soak paper. Deep purple is 7.3 and is the optimum result. Any hint of green, even dark green, is low (6.5). Any hint of yellow in a green test is very low or 6.0. A yellow test or 5.5 on the scale in commonly found in cancer patients or others with life-threatening disease. This test should be done 3 times on three different mornings to insure accuracy. It is not possible to save the paper for others to interpret as the color will fade with time. It takes most of us 30 or 40 years of a highly acidic diet to lower our pH. Coffee, alcohol, heavy meat eating and other acid forming foods (all of our favorites!) are the culprits. To balance these foods we need a lot of veggies and large salads every day are my personal choice. All prescription drugs, including antibiotics are HIGHLY acidic and some of you may have lowered your pH while using them.
Fifteen years ago, a homeopathic product came on the market which makes it easy and inexpensive to bring the pH up to normal without any dietary changes. The product is Buffer pH by the company VAXA and is also sold by Earth Fare. I also have it in stock here at the gym. Take this ONLY if your pH is low and only until your pH test paper is dark purple which indicates a perfect pH.
My mother died of bladder cancer and when I first tested my own pH, it was 5 which is critically low. My research led me to the then new product Vaxa Buffer. In two months my pH was normal and many positive things happened. Among them, the taste in my mouth became sweet where formally it was sour and the heavy plaque on the inside of my lower front teeth fell off while flossing. Heavy plaquing there indicates low pH as the acidic saliva secretions from the glands under the tongue etch the teeth plaque is called in for repair. Please note that this same process, arterial scarring and cholesterol patching, is taking place in the arteries of those with a low pH as well. This is how we clog our arteries, not by eating saturated fat.
We are fight or flight, hunting and gathering animals. In our DNA are all the tools for energy creation. Through the Kreb’s cycle, we can convert ALL food to energy. We can live in excess of 40 days on water alone. We can walk 300 miles without anything other than water. Though it is occasionally not evident, we are the most highly evolved animals on Earth.
To better understand how we create more energy, we would do well to visualize a spiral. If we follow the line of the spiral we see that it moves up and then levels out, reaching an ever-increasing height. The same is true when we create energy. Our energy levels cannot simply rise straight up. We must also level out to create energy (rest).
If you have been sedentary for a long time and one day you decide to go jogging for a couple of miles, you will be tired for several days after. You will need to rest. Tiredness is the downside of the spiral. From just that one run, you have created more energy that is yours to use AFTER recovery. This increased energy is the upswing of the spiral. If you continue to run and rest, the spiral will go up and level out with the net result being a gain in energy. Our heart becomes bigger and our lungs more toned, the relevant jogging muscles are stronger and more efficient.
To return to our car analogy, our engine has become bigger and stronger. When running a couple of miles no longer challenges us we have ADAPTED to our running regimen. At this point, if we do not run faster, farther or longer we will not continue to increase our energy. Our current level of running will MAINTAIN our current level of ADAPTATION (energy level). If we stop running we will gradually go back down the spiral. If we do not allow for full recovery through proper sleep we will also see a drop in performance. Sleep is an important part of the leveling out of the spiral.
In a nutshell, we must work hard enough to go higher “up” the spiral, and then rest, through which we will adapt to higher and higher levels of energy.
You can feed all the fuel you want to a weak engine and it will still not go faster. You can cleanse the fuel lines all you want and you will not increase YOUR performance if your engine is small and weak.
We have total control of our energy level. We are responsible for creating our own energy. If you do not have any, you have created the weak engine I am talking about. It is very easy to look to cleanses and supplements, but a strong engine can run very well for a long time on junk food, much as putting cheap gas in your car often takes 100,000 miles to have a negative effect.
In our car analogy, we fixed everything but the engine and still we had no better performance. A big difference between human engines and car engines is that if you park your car in the garage for a few years, the engine remains just as powerful. The human engine, however, will actually shrink. Your entire system can get clogged by parking it on the couch too long and not taking it out for a good drive once in a while. If you only drive it to work and back it won’t continue to run well for long. You will see what I mean when you finally “floor it” and black smoke pours out of the exhaust! It may even stall! Quick, before it’s too late, let’s make this thing run right, faster, and longer.
Why don’t you have some coffee, sugar, or fruit? That ought to pick you up! How about an energy drink with some wild sounding jungle herbs? Most of us regularly look for energy in a particular food or drink and we are eventually forced to acknowledge that it does not work.
We have an epidemic of blood sugar problems (hypoglycemia) that affect an estimated 60% of this country. In fact, most companies give workers a break at 10 a.m. and often this is not because they are generous, but productivity has markedly slowed. At this point you have only been at work for two, at most three, hours! Certainly you are not already out of energy. Notice that your break room is filled with caffeine, candy, and salty and sweet carbohydrates in hopes of kicking you back into productivity.
Further notice that the great ‘medication stations”—convenience stores— that are filled from one end to the other with these items! I can fix your “Blood Sugar” problem such that you can fully access energy you already have, but that will NOT create more!
Many alternative modalities promise to remove “blocks” to your energy or increase the flow of energy. Often “cleansing” of some type is recommended. Notice that removing blocks and increasing FLOW are NOT the same as creating MORE energy. For a better understanding of energy, I shall use a car for my analogy.
Let’s say that the tube that carries gasoline to the engine (the fuel line) is clogged. The car runs poorly. When you clear the “blockage” you “increase the flow” of fuel to the engine. While this is important and I often recommend energy-flow work, you will NOT have MORE energy, but full access to the energy you already had.
How about if the carburetor is not mixing the air and gasoline correctly? Again the car runs poorly. Many vitamin and supplements companies make “increased-energy” claims based on improving your fuel mix. While supplements and diet can sometimes correct nutritional deficiencies, you will only have better fuel, not more fuel. This is very important as better fuel is necessary for high performance. Many people in third world countries suffer from malnutrition and cannot perform well. However, you and I are likely getting everything we need for our day-to-day performance and even our “weekend warrior” athletics. Body builders, high school, college and professional athletes may well need supplements if their diet is less than perfect but I’m willing to bet that quality fuel is not your problem.
For now, let’s assume that your fuel system is clean enough and you eat a good enough diet. If this is the case, and most often it is, the cause of your lack of energy is that your motor is small and inefficient and that nothing you put in the gas tank can change that!
