How to Test Your pH

Excerpt from The pH Miracle, by Dr. Young (page 23-24):

Monitor your pH according to these guidelines every day for at least 12 weeks or until you
establish a pH balance of 7.2 (with the help of the program in this book). Once you are balanced
at 7.2 or higher, you can reduce the number of tests to once a day or two to three times a
week, just to keep an eye on things. Use a notebook to record all your pH results.

1. Upon waking, before you eat or drink or brush your teeth or smoke or put anything at all into
your mouth, test your saliva with pH paper. Just wet the end of a test strip with your tongue.
Note the color change and write down the corresponding pH number. The optimal result is 7.2.

2. Next, test your first urine of the morning. You just need a couple of drops on the end of a test
paper. Note the color change and write down the corresponding pH number. The optimal result
is 7.2 or more.

3. Test your second morning urine before eating any food. Your result may differ from the first
check, because with the first urine you cleared the acid load from the previous day. Again, you
are looking for 7.2 or higher.

4. Eat breakfast – Wait 5 minutes and then check your urine and saliva again. After that good alkaline meal
your pH numbers should go up from the previous results. You’re looking to be between 7.2 and
8.4.

5. Check your urine and saliva pH again between breakfast and lunch, and again between lunch
and dinner. You’re always looking to stay between 7.2 and 8.4 after a meal and at just about 7.2
a couple of hours after a meal.