Podcast 482: pH Balance On today’s episode, we’ll explore how our bodies manage acids through critical metabolic pathways. Our metabolism constantly produces acids, mainly hydrogen ions (H+) and carbon dioxide (CO2). We can breathe out CO2, but H+ needs to be either combined with CO2 with bicarbonate or removed through urine using phosphate and glutamine/ammonium pathways. Join Martin and Spencer as they discuss these metabolic pathways, their health implications, and a new way to support your body’s naturally acidic systems with Bicarbamet. Looking for pH strips? We sell them in our dispensary. Please contact to inquire further. Download our FREE Chronic Pain Manifesto. Subscribe to our newsletter, so you are always up to date with new health information, product tips, podcasts, webinars, and much more. Follow Life Enthusiast Podcast on Amazon Music and get new episodes when they become available! Find us on Telegram and catch our live show every Sunday @ 9:00 am PST MARTIN: Well, hello there. This is Martin Pytela at Life Enthusiast podcast. And with me today, Spencer Feldman. Spencer is the CEO at Remedy Link. And Spencer, wouldn’t you believe it, has found a way to dive into the most persistent problem we have faced, which is the pH balance, acidosis, alkalosis, knowing where we are and working on it. But there’s so much to it. I would rather have Spencer kind of dive into it. But the main point that I want to make is when your pH balance is off, your mineral stores are affected and your mineral stores are in your bones. So if you’re suffering with thinning bones, you may have an issue with pH balance. MARTIN: And this talk will probably interest you a lot. Spencer, what do you think? SPENCER: Hey, Martin, I have got a lot to share about pH, so here we go. Okay. So it’s one of the things you hear in the alternative medical spheres is, oh, you should be more alkaline and kind of, right? You don’t want to be completely alkaline. You need stomach acid to break down proteins and sterilize the foods you eat. You want the colon to be acidic to make good short chain fatty acids. But yes, as a general rule, we are too acidic. MARTIN: Let me just butt in here before you get in. Because this is my metabolic typing hat. We know that there are some people who wake up overly alkaline. Over-alkalinity is represented in your emotional world as dark moods, unmotivated, procrastinating, and even depressed. SPENCER: I wouldn’t agree with that. I’ve seen plenty of people that are, I see plenty of people that have great metabolic acidity with the same symptoms. MARTIN: I know that when we have acidity, people are short tempered, anxious, ragey, easy to anger, that sort of thing. Now, if you see them swinging back and forth, that would be because their meals are affecting them. I promise you that if you’re an oxidizer, you’ll be alkalized by fats, and if you’re autonomic, you’ll be alkalized by carbohydrates on your plate, in your food. And this will swing. SPENCER: Okay. MARTIN: Anyway, the main point is, what’s your overall situation? Right? SPENCER: So as a general rule, if you check most people’s pH and through their urine and saliva pH, I’ll tell you a bit about that later. Almost everybody I find is acid. And the people that look like they’re alkaline,
