Just like testing your swimming pool or fish tank, it is so important to keep your body pH in balance. I wrote the pH Pamphlet for the purpose of making this process a simple  thing for people to do. Once your pH is balanced and you know what foods to eat for alkalinity and which one to eat for acidity, it's a simple thing to test your pH periodically to make sure you are staying in balance.

Again, just like you check your pool or fish tank periodically, check your body, too!

Actually, Ineke, I don't. That would be a great project, but also a lot of work. However, a much needed list and a very informative one. Do you need a new project???

Carolyn,

The Fibro may be caused by  toxic metals that are still within your muscle fibers, so maybe it is time to do a serious metal detox. I recommend doing a detox regimen at least once a year to keep the body really clean. The Candida can be helped using caprylic acid products like our Yeast Ex or a product by Nature's Sunshine called Caprylic Acid Combination. NOW has a good caprylic acid also - all these products can specifically address the yeast.

You are correct that avoiding all sugars helps you because the sugars breakdown into the acids that feed the yeast. But don't turn to the diet sweeteners as a substitute; just avoid adding extra sugars and avoid the sugary processed foods. You'll lose weight doing this, too.

The pH drops to increase alkalinity should be available at any high-end health food store. Shop for brands and then see if you can find them on the web. Fresh lemons or limes squeezed into warm water or room-temp bottled water will increase alkalinity, also. Lemons and limes are misunderstood - they are NOT acidic foods, but alkaline foods. Their breakdown is alkaline.

BUT, with these issues looming over you, it is wise to continuously check your body pH to see how you stand. And do you have a copy of my 75/25 Eating Plan? It lists the foods tare acidic and those that breakdown as alkaline. A diet plan including these foods will serve your body's needs the best as a great way to eat and snack.

Thank you for you support, Carolyn. It is always appreciated!

The Importance of ph Balance and body health
According to a current stream of research, the natural pH in the human body fluctuates, over a 24 hour period, between alkalosis and acidosis. If this oscillation did not occur, it would be impossible for the various biochemical processes in the body to take place and metabolism would grind to a halt. This ebb and flow in our pH is precisely what drives the engine of biological life. These are only small fluctuations around the point of equilibrium, but they are sufficient to create biochemical motion.
Although it is generally accepted that pH is the inverse logarithm of the concentration of hydrogen ions, the concepts of this almost mathematical definition are virtually impossible to understand. What it really means is that pH tells us the quantity of hydrogen ions in a solution, and more specifically, for what concerns us here, in the human body. Hydrogen ions have a positive electric charge and there is a constant state of equilibrium between these and other hydroxide ions which have a negative charge. The result of this interplay is that the quantities of both in a solution will always remain constant (ionic result), because if one rises then the other must inevitably fall. When the number of hydrogen ions rises, the positive electrical charge will rise and the negative charge, in the form of OH or hydroxide ions, will fall. In such a case we say that we are in a state of acidosis, and in the opposite case, when the negative charges predominate, we would be in alkalosis. As we can easily deduce, the oscillation of these electrical charges creates an electromagnetic field, and this is the first moment in scientific medicine that such fields are mentioned. It is therefore that in physics, a magnetic field is defined as that place in space where electromagnetic forces occur and since Maxwell, the concepts of electrical charge and electromagnetic charge have been intertwined. So when we speak of pH, we are also speaking of electromagnetic fields.
Every living biological system, be it an ant, a plant, or a bacterium, even a single cell, is therefore an electromagnetic field fluctuating between positive and negative charges, and owes its life to this motion.
This motion can only be explained by the living organisms’ drive to escape a state of charge, be it negative or positive, to find repose, or in other words, electro-neutrality, but absence of charge would mean the end of biochemical motion, which would be the same as death. If we call that fruitless drive ‘life’ and the absence of that compulsion, ‘death’, then we could conclude that all organisms seek death. Following along these lines, we could define ‘life’ as the eternal quest for electro-neutrality or ‘death’. As it happens, the precise point of equilibrium is never found, so the organism ends up moving continuously from one state of charge to its opposite. In other words, it is like a scale of unbalanced equilibrium in which the organism is forced to make constant back and forth oscillations. As this fluctuation in pH continues over 24 hours, each oscillation must be not only of equal amplitude in each direction, but also of equal speed. As such, the system always leans either towards alkalosis or acidosis, in each case giving rise to different illnesses.
Only by regulating this system, when it is in an altered state, can health be restored.
Imbalances in this system are found in almost all human pathologies, even more so in adult and senescent life. Refensal works to regulate all possible imbalances in the body, thus contributing to the recovery of health.
More info and Clinical Cases: http://www.healthtotem.com/en/refensal/clinic.html
Best regards Luis Majo

healthtotem - thank you for your post. It is most thorough.

Never doubt that you are finding the answers that you seek on your own - answers the expensive medical bills have not provided you satisfactorily. This is pretty black and white, I think.

That said - keep on the quest you are on. You can combine the answers from your doctors with those you find on your own - that's just good common sense that we are seeking.

Welcome on board. Good luck in your complete recovery and self-empowerment journey.

Jessica, you are correct in that balancing your pH and keeping it slightly alkaline is the best marker for your body's environment to stop Candida overgrowth. To remove any microbe, you must remove the source, and removing yeast from your body is a long term project, but one that can be successful.

Many fruits, like lemons and limes, are actually alkaline because they breakdown into alkalinity. So, may I suggest that you continue with the science behind pH balanced foods and read my pH Booklet (with the testing strips and the 75/25 Eating Chart) that has exactly which foods that end up acidic and which foods that end up alkaline? Continuing to eat a balanced diet is important for over-all health, and you must also do this.

Body pH is more important than people think. Whether your pH is too acidic or too alkaline, health issues can result. It is good to keep your saliva and urine between 6.4 - 6.6.