Restore Your pH Balance
With Vinegar Home Remedies

The best way to find out what is going on inside your body is to check the pH balance of your urine.

The pH (potential of Hydrogen) balance is a way of describing the acidity or alkalinity of a substance on a scale of 0 - 14.

Your healthy body should maintain a slightly alkaline blood pH of about 7.4 compared to the neutral (water) at a pH of 7.0.

It may sound counter-intuitive but vinegar can help you do this even though it is well known for being very acidic.

Your healthy body should maintain a slightly alkaline blood pH of about 7.4 compared to the neutral (water) at a pH of 7.0.

You have probably heard that when you are sick your body's pH level has strayed further towards the acidic end of the scale.
(see the up arrow in the graphic image below)

Find out for yourself what your pH level is when you are healthy and then compare it with the level when you are sick.

Testing the pH of your body sounds like an involved procedure requiring medical tests at the hospital but fortunately it is quite simple and can be done in the privacy of your own home using ...

The pH Balance Paper Test

pH paper comes complete with instructions on its use in testing the pH level of your urine or any other liquid you are curious about.

You can get pH Paper from Amazon - PH PAPER 100 STRIPS or Micro Essential Lab 51 Hydrion Wide Range pH Test Paper Dispenser, Single Roll, 1 - 11 pH

When urine touches the paper it (the paper) will change color to indicate the approximate acid/alkaline or pH balance in your body.

The lower end of the scale is acidic while numbers approaching 14 represent an alkaline environment.

Your urine should register at about 6.0 pH but ...

Different parts of your body will have different levels varying from slightly acidic to slightly alkaline. If they stray too far from the norm you will have health issues.

• Stomach (gastric acid) — 0.7 pH.
• Skin — 5.5 pH.
• Urine – 6.0 pH
• Saliva — 7.4 pH.
• Blood — 7.4 pH.
• Pancreatic secretions — 8.1 pH

Too much alkalinity signals alkalosis while too much acid causes acidosis. Your urine should register slightly on the acidic side of the scale to be healthy. If you are sick your body will likely register too far on the acidic side.

For a complete diet to help balance your body's pH I recommend the book The pH Balance Diet: Restore Your Acid-Alkaline Levels to Eliminate Toxins and Lose Weight (See all undefined)

Eating an Alkaline Diet will do wonders for your health and vinegar will help but ....

How Can Apple Cider Vinegar Help?

Apple cider vinegar will help maintain your pH balance either upward or downward whichever is needed. Let me explain ...

If you burn your hand what is the first thing you do to cool it off?

You blow on it right? But what do you do if your hands are cold?

Get my point?

Vinegar, although it is acidic, can affect you as if it were alkaline.

Ok, Ok. I can hear you laughing.

You have probably read other websites that say acidic is acidic and alkaline is alkaline. I have read them as well and they make a lot of sense, don't they?

I mean, how can an acidic food have an alkaline effect on your body's pH balance?

Adding acid to an acidic environment can only make it more acid right? That's what they say in the blogs you read on the web. The problem is these people are only looking at the question one way. Black is black and white is white and obviously so.

They make a very good argument and most reasonable people will agree with them but things are not always that simple.

How can Vinegar be Alkaline?

When you categorize foods you need to know that there are 2 properties of food that must be considered.

1. Foods are acidic or alkaline. This refers to the acid or alkaline that is contained in the food.
   
2. Foods are also acidic or alkaline forming. This refers to the affect that digesting them has on the pH balance of your body.

As you know the process of digestion involves adding some very strong acid to the food. If we were to consider only property number 1 above, wouldn't this make all foods acidic? After all they all contain lots of acid while they are being digested.

The fact is, vinegar has both acidic properties and alkaline properties that can come to play depending on the circumstances. (as do other fruits) In this case, digestion is the circumstance that applies. (see item number 2 above)

Any food, including vinegar, undergoes oxidation when digested by your body. This oxidation process turns vinegar alkaline because that is it's natural state even though it "contains" malic acid and acetic acid. (Other foods may become more acidic when digested.)

Remember I said your body's pH balance is more acidic when you are sick? The alkaline effect of digested apple cider vinegar has the ability to "nudge" an acidic body towards a more alkaline (healthy) state, so ....

Want A Vinegar Boost?

If you are not feeling 100%, try testing your pH balance and then take 2 tablespoons of raw organic apple cider vinegar and honey (for taste) in 6 ounces of clean hot water* to nudge your system back in line.

* The temperature of the water doesn't really matter. I say hot water because I think it makes the drink more enjoyable.

I recommend Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar.

Bragg Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar, 128 Ounce - 1 Pack

This concoction serves as an excellent “pick-me-up” and tastes pretty good as well.

If the taste doesn’t suit you try using apple juice instead of water and honey.

I find that mixing vinegar with hot water takes the edge off and makes it quite pleasant.

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