The Best Way to Measure Your pH
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
What’s the best way to measure the pH of your blood? Find out!
Today we’re going to talk about how to measure the pH of your blood. Are you too acid or too alkaline? It’s possible to try to figure this out by looking at your symptoms. There is also a difficult test that can be performed. However, your bicarbonates are another indicator that you can look at to get a rough idea of what your pH is.
Bicarbonates are alkaline substances that help to buffer the pH and keep it at a certain level. You can measure bicarbonates by getting a basic metabolic panel or a comprehensive metabolic panel.
Conditions that could cause high bicarbonates:
• Severe prolonged vomiting or diarrhea
• COPD
• Cushing’s syndrome
High bicarbonates are an indication that your body may be too alkaline, and you need to acidify it. You can do this by taking apple cider vinegar or betaine hydrochloride, as well as correcting the root cause.
Conditions that could cause low bicarbonates:
• Addison’s disease
• Chronic diarrhea
• Diabetic ketoacidosis
• Kidney disease
• Aspirin overdose
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights. |
| 0:26.1 | Is there a good way to measure the pH of your blood? |
| 0:28.1 | This question comes up quite frequently. |
| 0:31.5 | Are you too acid or are you to alkaline? |
| 0:35.9 | Now, you can try to figure this out through symptoms. |
| 0:38.4 | And there is another test to measure your pH. It's very, very difficult to do because as soon as you take your blood out and it's exposed to oxygen, that pH gets |
| 0:45.1 | changed. So it's very, very difficult. But there is another indicator that you can look at to get a |
| 0:52.5 | rough idea of what your pH is. And that is to check your bicarbonates. |
| 0:58.2 | Okay. Now, bicarbonates are an alkaline substance. And it's actually considered one of the electrolytes, |
| 1:06.3 | which is interesting, because it does work with other electrolytes like sodium, chloride, and potassium |
| 1:11.6 | to help maintain electrical neutrality in your cells. So in other words, it helps to buffer the pH. |
| 1:20.1 | In fact, your pancreas makes bicarbonates to neutralize the stomach acid that is coming into |
| 1:25.6 | the small intestine. But you also have bicarbonates in your |
| 1:28.7 | blood to buffer the pH to kind of keep it at a certain level. And they're an electrolyte because they |
| 1:34.3 | carry in a negative charge when going through the body. And so you will normally measure the bicarbonates |
| 1:40.2 | when you get a basic metabolic panel, a BMP, |
| 1:45.0 | or a CMP, comprehensive metabolic panel, |
| 1:50.0 | or if you get a blood gas panel. |
| 1:53.0 | But typically you'll actually get this information |
| 1:56.0 | if you just get your basic metabolic panel |
| 1:58.0 | or your comprehensive metabolic panel. |
| 2:01.5 | And they'll actually give you the range between normal and abnormal, |
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