"I was wondering why there is such a difference between ones Urine PH, and Ones Saliva PH. Also, which one would give a correct indication of the body's Alkaline/Acid content.. Thanks, Grant.."
The following is to address the pH issue, from the literature I give to all my clients. It is intended here for informational purposes, not as a marketing ploy. The Calcium Connection Determining which calcium your body needs Nowadays there is a lot of talk about our need for calcium. You will see products from milk to orange juice with the words Calcium Added! prominently displayed on the label. Nearly everyone knows how a lack of calcium can contribute to such health issues as arthritis and osteoporosis. Nearly everyone also knows that calcium levels have decreased significantly in our modern food, which is commercially grown in mineral-poor soil. To get enough calcium, most people recognize the need to take calcium supplements. But when you go to the pharmacy or a health food store, it can become confusing. You see all kinds of calciums. There is calcium carbonate, lactate, citrate and gluconate, which are on almost every shelf. Then there are the less well-known calciums such as calcium phosphate, sulphate, aspartate, orotate, hydroxide, plus others with names too difficult to pronounce! It makes you wonder: Are some kinds of calcium better than others? Does it matter which kind of calcium you take? Is it possible to take too much calcium? Can calcium hurt you? Do the various kinds of calcium affect the body in different ways? According to the late Dr. Carey Reams, bio-chemist and bio-physicist, our bodies need a balanced variety of calciums. He spent over 50 years studying and researching the affects of various calciums and other minerals on the human body. He found that there are essentially three categories of calciums to be considered: Alkaline-pH calciums (calcium hydroxide, phosphate and carbonate), Acid-pH calciums (calcium lactate and sulphate) and neutral-pH calciums (calcium citrate, aspartate, gluconate, etc.). "pH", as used here, refers to the acidifying or alkalinizing effect upon the body. The body needs calcium from each of these groups in order to achieve balance for good health. Frequently people have an adequate amount of one kind, but a deficiency of the other. The presence of both acidifying and alkalinizing calciums is important because the interaction between the two is how both kinds are assimilated. Without enough of one kind, there is a poor assimilation of the other. Imagine taking a cup of vinegar and a cup of baking soda. If you dump them together in a bowl, you will see a lot of energy released. But if you were to pour together a cup of baking soda and a teaspoon of vinegar, there would not be much energy released, because of the unbalanced ratio between the soda and vinegar. A deficiency of alkaline calcium, for instance, will express itself as an apparent excess of acidifying calcium, resulting in an acid pH (calcium "deposits" are nearly always one type of unassimilated calcium accumulating somewhere in your body because of a deficiency of the other). The alkalinity or acidity of your urine or saliva pH is not primarily a reflection of the foods you eat. It is an indication of your calciums balance. Special pH test paper (carried by many Health Food stores or available from Metabolic Solutions) determines which kind of calcium your body may be deficient in, and indicates which kind of calcium should be supplemented. This pH paper is not the same as the regular litmus pH strips normally found in a pharmacy. It is much more accurate. Also provided with this special pH paper are detailed instructions describing how to conduct these simple, easy tests. Metabolic Solutions provides this special pH testing paper (if you cannot find it at a HF store) which enables you to test yourself and determine exactly which calciums you need. When the body has a balance of both kinds of calcium, it extracts a large amount of metabolic energy from both of them, which it uses to maintain the bodys health. The implications of unbalanced pH are highly significant. People with acid pH have overly-fast digestion, and their bodies cant get much nutrition (energy) from their food. They tend to struggle with diarrhea, and frequently have a low body temperature. Ultimately, acid pH can be a precursor to cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis and diabetes. People who are alkaline have very slow digestion. They are usually constipated. Their body temperature may be too high. Depending on the other numbers (from the Metabolic Bioanalysis), overly-alkaline people tend towards heart disease, hypoglycemia and colon cancer. What balanced pH translates into is efficient digestion. Nowadays, the most common kind of calcium you will find being sold is an alkaline-pH calcium, calcium carbonate (usually ground-up oyster shell). Most multi-vitamin/mineral supplements use it, and wherever you see those labels which announce "Calcium added!" (whether in food, drink or supplement), it is nearly always calcium carbonate. (It is the cheapest form of calcium available.) Most acid-indigestion supplements are made of this calcium (Tums, Rolaids, etc.). This would be okay, except that most calcium carbonate is extremely difficult to digest and assimilate (much like eating chalk). Not all adults and very few children need to take alkaline-pH calcium (and especially commercial calcium carbonate). So if a person's metabolic pH is already too alkaline (indicating a deficiency in acidifying calcium), taking alkaline-pH calcium will only aggravate the health problems which can be caused by having an overly-alkaline metabolic pH. Remember, the goal is to achieve a balanced body chemistry. Another source of calcium carbonate is bone meal, which is decidedly preferable to oyster shell, but which is only mildly alkaline, thereby requiring significant amounts to effect ones pH. Dr. Reams taught that unbalanced pH in either direction brought with it different kinds of health problems, from constipation to cancer. It also contributed to or aggravated many other poor-health conditions. Without resolving the pH issue, all other therapies will be continual band-aid therapy at best, and a constant effort to try to offset the effects of unbalanced pH. Although, in a laboratory, balanced pH is 7.0 (the pH scale is 0-14), in the human metabolism (as measured from urine and saliva) balanced pH is 6.4. Trying to simplify this, urine pH is the primary measure that indicates the type of calcium needed. Saliva pH, singly and combined with urine pH, indicates what is happening with the minerals in the body (whether they are being retained or lost), how far into demineralization the client has gone, and other important dynamics. When a client tests urine and saliva morning and evening for six days, the resulting numbers, i.e., if they fluctuate, how much and how great they fluctuate, etc., indicates how efficiently the body is functioning. When inquiring at a Health Food store for pH paper, ask for pH paper made by a company called Greens Plus. This pH paper measures in .2 increments (6.0, 6.2, 6.4, 6.6, etc.), unlike litmus paper, which measures in .5 increments (5.0, 5.5, 6.0, etc.). Other companies may also make pH paper that measures in .2 increments, but I have not seen it. Upon request, I will send or email you an instruction page for self-testing your pH, which includes spaces to enter the test results and a chart for determining your calcium needs. Terry Chamberlin Metabolic Solutions Institute RR1 314 Carleton Rd Lawrencetown, NS B0S 1M0 902-584-3810 voice 413-826-7641 fax service [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________ Music, Movies, Sports, Games! http://entertainment.yahoo.ca -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
