Also you cannot just measure the urine pH and discover anything useful in the pH line. It is much more complex than that.
Any imbalance is a bad thing and many chronic diseases and other causes have metabolic alkalosis = being too alkaline. Examples:
Villous adenoma
Los of gastric secretion
bartter's syndrome
Gittelman's syndrome
Active diuretic use
Low Potassium
Low magnesium
Plasma renin activity
renal artery stenosis
renin secreting tumor
accellerated hypertension
cushongs syndrome
Glucocorticoid steroid drug use
Liddle's syndrom,e
eating licorice
hyperaldosteronism
adrenal carcinoma
adrenal hyperplasia
various enzyme deficineies
etc
In all these cases, it is a big error to "alkalize"
This would deplete your potassium and magnesium at the very least, causing alkalosis.
That is so true, becasuse it has a horrible domino effect.
I have a current case of a cat with alkalosis complications. They include
obesity, hyPERthyroid, (which do not usually go together), adrenal exhaustion, low blood pressure, out of breath, heart failing, inability to handle slightest stress.
The alkalosis starts this ball rolling. It casues dilated blood vessels and constricted bronchial tubes, craving for salt to try to increase the nearly nonexistent BP, but if fed, it causes the heart to be overloadded as it is already struggling. With hypertyhyroid, adrenals are depleted, and that aggravates stress response...The slightest stress threatens heart attack, and the cat pants for air in those almost closed bronchial tubes.
Of course the alkalosis has a cause but the point is that alkalosis is NOT a happy condition and as you also imply can be very dangerousy bad for health.
Nobody should mess with pH when they do not know what they are doing or what the true arterial gases look like. A BALANCED diet is appropriate.
Urine pH does not tell the story.
The lungs, not the kidneys, work to immediately correct pH issues in the body if they can, by the amount of CO2 exhaled. The kidneys wil try to help but their effect is very delayed and slow by comparison, and they cannot correct any states of deficiency. They can hep correct excess. If there is lack of anything they cannot supply it. It must be supplied exogenously.
Also the urine can give a totally incorrect idea if you are assuming a very acid pH has any meaning.
There are too many situations where ammonia or other metabolites affect pH and have nothing to do with the actual blood arterial pH. It is a very complicated subject, the study of pH regulation.
I have to fight mine as I have several items on the alkalosis list simultaneously.
My health is just weird. I will no sooner have some kind of health crisis that the Drs do not know what to do with, and I wil work to figure out how to handle it - then VERYsoon after, (as if the universe nderstands my bad short term memory) I will be asked by someone if I know how to handle "such and such" set of features or what causes them - that I just learned about by experience
Yes. For example cushing syndrome causes metabolic alkalosis and the cancer rate is 50%.
Yes.
Rather - it should be "Neutralize" IF you know truly your acid/base status.
or just plain "eat a balanced diet"
.... becasue KNOWING the right data to know if you are alkaline or acid is not so easy, and a guess is not worth it.
Yes it is often that way.
You can have metabolic alkalosis with respiratory acidosis
Or the other way round.
Or two acidotic
or two alkaline
and so too other fluids or "compartments" of the body - each has a pH.
It is arterial blood pH that is the critical one.
Well the urine is not much help with knowing what the body pH is, as the kidneys will get rid of stuff to leave a neutral body, if the lungs have not already done so. And they may use alkali like ammonia converted from hydrogen (acidic) ions or may use hydrogen ions but more likley use potassium or chloride - point being the urine ions have various sources and causes and are not a reliable guide to what the pH is in the body.
The bicarb level in a regular blood test is a better guide than urine or saliva pH. It will be high in alkalosis. But the defnitive test is that combined with arterial blood gases, not an easy measurement.
Cancer takes advantage of any IMBalance.
Not just pH.
Namaste,
Irene
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