Sat, Jan-14-17, 09:29
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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I can't remember this question coming up, so I'm guessing actually testing ph is rare. The idea of eating a ph balancing diet does come up semi-regularly. If you look at just the foods I eat, I probably eat towards the alkaline end for a low carb diet, at least looking at the foods, but I eat towards the ketogenic end of things when it comes to the total protein and digestible carb content, so those ketones are an acid influence that the body has to balance, something that I think it's perfectly capable of. I eat the lower carb veggies more for the macronutrients and because they make eating more enjoyable, not for alkalinity. People treating kids with epilepsy with a ketogenic diet noticed years ago that kidney stones were a risk, potassium citrate protects against this, I guess careful supplementation (people have died supplementing excessive potassium, that's why they sell it in tiny little 100 mg pills) might be in order for people on a very ketogenic diet.
I guess the best you can hope for from those ph strips is very dull results.
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