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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 and so you will normally measure  

the bicarbonates when you get a basic metabolic  panel a bmp or a cmp comprehensive metabolic panel  

or if you get a blood gas panel but typically  you’ll actually get this information if you just  

get your basic metabolic panel or your  comprehensive metabolic panel and they’ll actually  

give you the range between normal and abnormal so  you can kind of see if you are low or too high now  

what conditions might you have high bicarbonates  in well if you have severe prolonged vomiting  

or diarrhea because you’re losing a lot of  electrolytes when you vomit or you have diarrhea  

copd chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or  cushing’s syndrome which is a an adrenal problem  

where you have higher levels of cortisol you’ll  see high levels of bicarbonate and so this would  

kind of give you an indication that your body is  too alkaline and you need to acidify it and you  

can take apple cider vinegar between hydrochloride  but realize that’s just treating the symptom okay  

of course you’d want to you know fix the reason  why you have severe prolonged vomiting or diarrhea  

or you know why you have copd or why you have  cushing’s which is stress so there’s a there’s two  

things one is treating the symptom another thing  is treating the cause and so i’m just saying that  

you could actually acidify the body and start  to reduce the bicarbonates but you have to also  

correct the real problem now let’s say for example  your bicarbonates are low well that happens in  

addison’s disease which is a an adrenal problem  where you don’t have enough adrenal hormones you  

basically ran out of adrenal hormones also  can occur with chronic diarrhea so with  

chronic diarrhea you can have either high  or low bicarbonates okay depending on other  

factors which i’m not going to get into now you  also see low bicarbonates if you have diabetic  

ketoacidosis because it has the word keto in it  i have to explain it’s very rare for a person to  

have keto acidosis unless they are a diabetic type  one if you’re doing the ketogenic diet you are not  

going to get ketoacidosis so you don’t have to  worry about that but if you are a type 1 diabetic  

and you’re not taking your insulin correctly  your ph can go very very high through the ketones  

and basically when you do a blood test  it’s going to show up with low bicarbonates  

in which case you need to alkalize the body really  quick and you could probably take some baking soda  

that would help and some other things including  taking your insulin all right with kidney disease  

we have a ph problem because the kidneys and the  lung are constantly helping you adjust your ph  

the kidneys are releasing a lot of  acids and if they’re dysfunctional  

they can’t release the acids so you become too  acid you can’t regulate that correctly you also  

have the lung getting rid of co2 constantly  and so it’s also trying to adjust the ph  

now if you’re also having to take a lot of aspirin  because you have migraine headaches or you have  

pain and you overdose you’re going to see low  bicarbonates now i have a lot of videos on what  

to do if you have alkalosis or acidosis but this  video is just on how do you measure your ph hey  

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