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Anyone actively monitoring/adjusting their ph levels?
I started last week, being I drink RO water I started adding an 1/8 tspn pink salt and a 1/4 tspn baking soda to 32oz of water. This got me up to about 6ish, today I'm bumping baking soda up to 3/8 tspn. Typically I drink about a gallon of water a day and add this concoction at each refill of my 32oz water bottle. I'll see where this puts me.
Just started back to keto a couple weeks ago and once that's run it's course for a bit I'll look into more of a ph balanced diet. Although the baking soda water really isn't too bad.
Have you tried celestial seasonings lemon zinger tea? It helped me get my ph in check, has electrolytes and brews hot or cold, tastes great and is bullshit free.
It really quenches your thirst - unlike water, which I don't drink that often now because it was drying me out (osmosis - and messing up cell fluids etc)
It's worth trying if you don't know about it. Anything zinger has natural electrolytes. Wild berry good too, but the lemon is by far the best from an all around health perspective.
Interesting, never heard of the tea or zinger other than a witty one liner.
Thanks, I'll give them a try.
You might want at find a better quality tea. Most bag tea sold in stores have bags made from plastic.
Absolutely. I have gout and maintaining pH level is very important in making sure I dont get a gout attack. I have been suffering from gout for almost 10 years, and nothing I did helped, but for the last 1.5 years I have been managing my pH levels and not a single attack. My doctor was baffled. (But he said "we will never know why your uric acid levels dropped", but thats a different story).
What I do is very simple. Also, I used to check my ph levels regularly, but I have stopped. I can start feeling the tingling in my foot when it gets too acidic and then I know I have been slacking.
So what do I do? Every night before going to sleep (and at least an hour after the last meal, which isn't an issue since I also do IF), I squeeze a quarter of a lime into a glass of water. I add 1/8 tsp of baking soda, mix it and enjoy the fizz. Thats it!
Its amazing how well this works. Some people say that if you drink a pinch of vinegar in warm water first thing in the morning on empty stomach and at least a hour before eating anything else, it works as well.
BTW, I used to do jus backing soda, but I find the lime + baking soda much much more effective.
Also, all the water I drink is not with a pinch of himalayan pink salk. Not sure about pH, but it definitely does wonders for hydration, and I think that in turn helps not just acidit but other things like detoxing as well.
Wow, that is awesome! I was trying a couple years ago with lemon juice, maybe lime I don't recall but didn't seem to notice any change in PH. Kind of what I'm noticing now, well unless I seemingly take copious amounts of baking soda.
So you take yours before bed, maybe I'll try this as well instead of mixing with drinking water through the day. Especially with weather cooling down my water intake will dwindle too.
The salt is just to add some nutrients back into the water, PHS because that's what I have. Video I saw mentioned sea salt and that's what I'll get when I need to reup. I was actually thinking of trying some Dead Sea salt. I've been on a Dead Sea kick, last bar soaps I got were Dead Sea salt & charcoal.
Thanks BB!
I have heard from couple of doctors that whats important is to use "living sea salts" so the mineral content is constantly balanced by nature. This excludes dead sea salt and the Utah salt lake salt, even though both are highly popular amongst hydration experts. Not claiming this as gospel, just something to keep in mind.
I use pink salt for cooking, but Indian black salt for hydrating, simply because i love its eggy taste and they both seem to work well.
how do you monitor? i can kill headaches a lot of the time with some alkaline water. just go easy with that, going too much alkaline is worse than too acidic.
Test strips, but I'm dubious of their accuracy. Thinking I may try a pool test kit.
That's why I add the salt, to add something back into the RO water.
You can purchase pH strips.
i see, tests saliva and urine.