Re: Hair loss & blood pressure.

 Our mom just got tested for uric acid and CA 125 yesterday. I'm wondering if perhaps we should have tested for elevated uric acid levels in the urine? Is that more likely to show up than the uric acid in the blood?

Neither are really going to tell you much.  Again, blood uric acid is not going to be the same as uric acid at the site of cells being destroyed.  Same for urinary uric acid levels.

Is there a correlation between the two?

Uric acid is found in the blood all the time.  But it is normally in a dissolved state, and is partially excreted in the urine and feces.  It is when concentrations become too high and they precipitate out as urate crystals that they damage the tissues.  But levels again will be higher near the area in which cells are being destroyed.

I'm asking because the alternative practitioner who sometimes visits my mom somehow tested her urine for acidity (not sure how) and has repeatedly said that her pH is very low.

Urine pH is easy to test.  You can simply use urine pH test strips or paper.  But there is a major misconception that urinary pH reflects blood pH.  This simply is not true.  First of all normal urinary pH is slightly acidic.

But to really show how ridiculous the acid-alkaline claims are all we have to do is look at the claims then use a little common sense.  Ok, so the acid-alkaline promoters claim that acidic urine indicate an acidic blood pH.  But they also claim that high acidity of the blood leads to mineral loss from the bones as the bones BUFFER the acids.  See the massive contradiction in their claims already?  If the acids are being buffered this means that the acids have been neutralized.  If the acids have been neutralized then how are these acids being excreted in the urine since they are no longer acids?

A big problem is that so many myths have been perpetuated about the acid-alkaline balance and the people promoting these myths have no concept of how pH is regulated in the body.  The primary means of pH regulation for the body is respiration.  I discuss pH regulation more in depth in this post:

http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1502701#i