Anti-Inflammatory, alkalizing foods, GF, low sugar

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  • VBnotbitter
    VBnotbitter Posts: 820 Member
    The pH of lemon is low as it has a lot of citrate but the potassium content will tend to increase the pH of urine as it is an alkali.

    Is that what they are on about with alkalising diets, urinary pH? Unless your prone to renal stones why bother?

    I believe so, the intake of alkaline ions like Na, K etc. In some processes the "natural alkalinity" of the raw material is a measure of these things, even when the pH is acid.

    So in the bodies acid / base balance I think the idea is that a higher intake of basic ions may shift the cellular pH or the urine / saliva in an alkaline direction. Salive and urine pH are the things "they" would point to, not blood or stomach pH.

    See this is when I really hate pseudoscience and people who prey on the vulnerable. They take a tiny bit of actual medicine - in this case potassium citrate is prescribed to sufferers of renal calculi because urine with a higher pH reduces size of calculi - and they package it up as a cure all for allsorts.

    I guess it's a pretty good business model. Charge people a fortune for bloods and saliva tests and prescribe a diet with no over heads to them and a promise of a cure for all kinds of non-specific maladies. Well you can eat as many cabbages and lemons as you want but it won't make a bit of difference to your blood pH.

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