Testing your body
Want to know whether you are prone to disease? Use universal indicator! By testing your salive or urine can help to determine the pH value of your body. Acidic body provides an atmosphere that cancer and other diseases can grow and thrive in. Whereas healthy cells have a high pH value and hence a "good" environment is required for its survival.
How do you test your body acidity level?
Litmus paper or universal indicator is used to test out how acidity an object is. By using the litmus paper, we can determine how acidity our body is and change our diet accordingly. Each litmus paper or universal indicator can be used only once.
Saliva Test - Wait for 2 hours after eating. Then fill up your mouth with saliva and swallow it. By doing the movement twice helps to ensure your saliva is clean and the test will be accurate. The optimal pH value should be between 6.8 to 7.2.
Urine Test - Test your urine of first thing in the morning. This urine has been stored in your bladder during the whole night. You need to wet a strip of litmus paper with your urine, note the color change and note down the pH number. The optimal pH value should be between 6.8 to 7.2.
What happens if your pH value is lower than 6.8?
If your urine or saliva pH value is lower than 6.8, your body is within the acidic range. This means you are deficient in alkaline buffers and need to move to a more alkaline diet rich in fresh green vegetables and fruits.
What happens if your pH is higher than 7.2?
If your first urine pH or sailva pH is higher than 7.2, your body is working at the optimum condition. This mean your alkaline buffers are sufficient to neutralize the acidic food and drink you ingested the day before. So inorder to balance the pH of the urine you need to move away from acidic foods and drinks and begin ingesting liberal amounts of electron rich green vegetables, low sugar fruits and healthy polyunsaturated fats.