Re: Very Confused

Being too acidic or too alkaline is a one of many ways of telling that your body may be out of balance. Don't immediately attach the meaning of acidity with high protein or being obese without looking at other factors- it's much more complex than that. It's all about proper balance - for example being acidic can mean a number of things like mineral imbalance/insufficiency, wrong diet for your unique metabolism, weak digestion, blocked channels with toxin accumulation. These all contribute to pH of the body.

Some people may do well on a higher protein diet and lose weight if the diet is fit for their metabolism and their digestion is great that converts their food intake into energy and little residue accumulation. These people's pH may not deviate too far from "The norm".
Another group may have a sympathetic driven metabolism and do bad on a high protein diet and still lose weight but may not be digesting or assimilating half of their food intake (their digestion might not be suitable for this diet). At the same time the undigested food can accumulate in their systems and invite uunwanted organisms which may thrive in these conditions. Not being able to absorb much nutrition, these people may run into nutritional/mineral imbalances - These people may have acid/alkaline imbalance.

To make matters more complex, pH readings of saliva and urine may be very deceiving as, for example, you may be very acidic but your body may be excreting specific minerals from other tissues like potassium to raise the pH (tightly controlled in the blood) and this may cause an increase in urine's pH (may be very alkaline).
To give you an example, if I start hyperventilating (anxiety) I know if I go measure my urines pH at that moment it will be very basic (8.0 up 8.5) and that is because theres an imbalance in mineral ratio (in my case its most likely low sodium and low calcium to potassium and magnesium ratio).
Mike