1.Purchase some pH paper

2. As soon as you wake up in the morning lick and moisten the end of the pH test strip with saliva. Do not do anything else prior to this including brushing your teeth, drinking, eating or smoking. Record the Color/Number.

3. Then test your second urine of the morning. Remember at 2am your urine is going to be the most acidic and then again your first morning urine will be on the acidic side as you are getting rid of the acids. Record the color/number. You are looking for a pH of around 6.8 at this time.

4. Eat your breakfast, it doesn’t have to be huge, and five minutes after breakfast check your saliva again. Record the color/number. This number should go up from what it was before you ate. The larger the increase the better.

5. Then check your urine pH between meals. Between breakfast and lunch around 10am and then again between lunch and dinner around 2pm. Your pH here should always be around 7-8.5 after meals. Be sure to record the color/numbers here as well

You may be taking all the best vitamins, exercising and eating a “healthy” diet but if your internal terrain is out of balance, you will not reap the benefits of what you are doing and you will not experience foundational wellness.

The internal terrain is made up of proteoglycans, water, minerals and fibrous proteins. The first place to start then is to make sure you are staying hydrated with pure filtered water!! I recommend three liters of water daily for optimal metabolic function.

Understanding Your Results

Your morning urine shows how well your digestive system dealt with what you ate the night before.

The first saliva reading shows how vital your liver is, the overall alkaline reserve of your body which reflects the diet you have eaten over the last months to years. The salivary pH is an indicator of intracellular pH and therefore should never be below the pH of the phosphate buffering system 6.8. We do this reading as soon as we wake up because during sleep the body is removing waste and is in an anabolic state of restoring and replenishing the body. If your second salivary reading after eating breakfast did not increase this means there is no alkaline reserve in your body and you are demineralized. With good reserves simply thinking about a lemon can cause the salivary pH to rise. Remember the mind is one of our most powerful healing tools.

You can also do a simple test any time during the day by eating a lemon to check your alkaline reserves of your body. If you take a bite of a lemon with proper reserves your salivary pH should drop sharply for an instant but immediately it should then bounce back to a pH of 8.5.

Optimal saliva readings would be 6.8 on awakening. 7 before eating and then 8.5 following breakfast.

The pH’s of the urine between meals should be alkaline 7.0-8.5 meaning you are eating an alkaline based diet and secreting enough bicarbonate when digesting your meals.

I always recommend working with a licensed physician who is familiar with and trained in terrain medicine who can appropriately prescribe the correct drainage remedies for you and guide you through the process.

1. Get your lymph flowing. Sweating is one of my fave ways to do this. You can sweat in a hot yoga class, an infrared sauna, during sex, running around the block or in a wonderful bath tub. Please be sure to check with your physician before undergoing any new physical activities including the sauna.
2. Mind your thoughts. Negativity, Anger and Fear affect our internal terrain and turn it acidic. This is easier said than done so give some thought to a plan and seek professional guidance with this one.
3. I mentioned it above but I’ll mention is again STAY HYDRATED!!! Starting the day with lemon in hot water is a great habit. Although lemons are cidic they metabolice in the body become alkaline.
4. Get 8 hours of sleep nightly. 10pm – 6am is optimal.
5. Eat only organic and do not over-do it on the protein.
6. Eat the rainbow but especially your greens
7. Get in Nature daily – minimum of 30 minutes.
8. Turn off your Wifi.
9. Take a Minduflness Meditation Class.
10. And don’t forget to breathe deeply with intention!