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Dr. Eric Berg.

Is there a good way to measure the pH of your blood?

This question comes up quite frequently.

Are you too acid or are you too alkaline?

Now, you can try to figure this out through symptoms.

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 changed.

So it's very, very difficult.

But there is another indicator that you can look at to get a rough idea of what your pH is.

And that is to check your bicarbonates.

Okay.

Now, bicarbonates are an alkaline substance.

And it's actually considered one of the electrolytes, which is interesting,

because it does work with other electrolytes like sodium, chloride, and potassium

to help maintain electrical neutrality in your cells.

So in other words, it helps to buffer the pH.

In fact, your pancreas makes bicarbonates to neutralize the stomach acid that is coming into the small intestine.

But you also have bicarbonates in your blood to buffer the pH to kind of keep it at a certain level.

And they're an electrolyte because they carry in a negative charge when going through the body.

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