Dr. Clarke has a fairly simple and powerful solution. Go to //www.curezone.org/clark/ph.asp .

On a personal note, I suggest including Sea Salt in your diet. It is vegetarian friendly and tasty.

I don't think you need to worry about ending up OVERLY alkaline, unless you take trace minerals by the handful, it would be hard to accomplish. Even pure raw foodists, who are eating nearly all of their food as alkaline-forming foods, don't end up having ph that is in the range of too alkaline.

"Nothing tastes as good as fresh wheatgrass juice". I got a good laugh from that. I quit drinking WG juice a year ago, because I got tired of choking down stuff that tastes like cow-manure. I still drink lots of fresh carrot-beet-greens juice and fresh fruit juices. I guess taste is in the buds of the beholder :-)

David

It would be best to post your solutions here for other readers to see, this is a forum where we come to learn.

Dr. Mirkin's article reflects the current sentiment of Medical Doctors. The body can convert most any food into the proper pH.

Dr. Mirkin does not address the fact that many cancer patients have reduced saliva and urine pH. Dr. Mirkin does not cite any studies refuting the connection between lowered Saliva pH and lowered immune system performance. Dr. Mirkin does not cite any studies showing that a lowered immune system is often concurrent with the onset of Cancer.

I feel the Medical community is doing the public a disservice by not testing more routinely for pH and advising nutirional and gland evaluation follow ups for saliva pH below 7.

Robert O. Young, Ph D has published a number of books detailing the connection between the Immune system and the Cellular Alkalinity. the Sick and Tired Book may be the most direct explanation.

http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=6075364&wtit=Sick%20and%20Tire...

The medical community has a difficult time addressing the functioning of the immune system, because there are a number of factors that can affect the performance of the Immune System. The functioning of the immune system is important for preventing disease, which Dr. Mirkin does not dispute.

Diet is one factor in raising cellular pH. Other factors may be causing the pH balance to be low. The typical Amercian diet is more acidic, with more wheat, Meat, egg Yolks and hard Cheese, than the ideal 80% Alkaline diet. Eating an acidic diet places more strain on the immune system, as organs are busy converting Acidic food to Alkaline, rather than preventing disease.

Studies?

Dr.Mirkin is correct that the pH of the Urine is substantially determined by the acid/alkaline ash value of the food we have recently consumed.

Dr. Mirkin does not address the strain that a diet wtih less than 80% Alkaline foods, puts on the immune system.

The reason that the Saliva pH will increase as an alkaline balanced diet is utilized, is because the immune system starts working better. With less acid to process, the immune system can focus more on its job, removing aberrant cells, etc., and the Saliva pH will become closer to 7 if the Saliva pH was less than 7. There is an indirect relationship between the acid/alkaline balance of our diet and the Saliva pH.

There may factors besides diet, such as health of other organs, or the build-up of toxins, that places a strain on the immune system, as reflected in the Saliva pH.

Medical Doctors have decided that Saliva pH is a matter for Nutrionists, and do not ordinarily check the health of the immune system, by a saliva test of any otherr means.

Dr. Mirkin is apparently responding to claims made by some alkaline suplements. Dr. Mirkin is correct that the average pH balance of food most directly affects the urine. Lowered Saliva pH, below 7, may be the result of more than just taxing the Immune System with an overly acidic diet.

It should also be added, that overbalancing the diet to Alkaline, to bring up the Saliva pH, may be harmful to other organs. Overly Alkaline Diets can contribut to Kidney and Gall stones. If the Saliva pH is not coming up, check the rest of your organs. Some organs may need flushing, rinsing, detoxifying, or special supplements.

Oh yes, it certainly can be, and I am living proof of it.. But then I suppose you think Armand gives his baking soda away too..