Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for Pascoe Natural Medicine and BASENTABS. All opinions expressed are my own.
Hi friends! I’m back to talk to a bit more about BASENTABS, acidic and alkaline pH levels and Pascoe Natural Medicine. About a week and a half ago I told you all about my partnership with Pascoe Natural Medicine, as well as telling you about pH levels and why it matters where your pH levels fall when it comes to your health – and in particular bone health. If you missed that post, please stop right now and go back and read it, I’ve linked it below for easy reference:
Alkaline or Acidic – Why Does It Matter?
Are you all caught up? Great! Let’s continue on then.
After publishing that post I recording my pH levels prior to starting the BASENTABS to get a better indication of where I was naturally. A lot of people have asked how you measure your pH levels, and at least for this kit, you measure it in your urine. It’s really pretty easy. Get a little pee on the paper, see what colour it turns, compare it to the chart they give you then toss it the bowl. No biggy! Except, the first day I recorded my pH levels the colour on the paper never changed. It stayed orange. Which either meant I am really acidic – or the pH paper wasn’t working.
As a reminder, here is a picture of the chart. The pH testing strips are naturally that yellowy orange colour so if you are showing as acidic the colour doesn’t really change.
That full first day it was that same yellowy orange colour. No change at ALL. Definitely not up in the dark greens where you ideally will fall at some part of the day. Eep.
You can see above that your pH levels naturally fluctuate during the day, with your morning and evening readings likely being more acidic than your mid-afternoon readings, but clearly, they shouldn’t be listing as acidic the entire day through!
In with my product was a couple other tests you could take to learn about your pH levels. One was an almond test for Buffer Reserves, but as I’ve been having issues with my IBS lately, almonds are currently off the diet so I had to skip this one. The second test was the BASENTABS pH-balance PASCOE Tablet Taste Test. This test helps to establish where a person’s acid-base problems might be coming from. Since I am clearly having an issue I thought this would be interesting to do.
The second test was the BASENTABS pH-balance PASCOE Tablet Taste Test. This test helps to establish where a person’s acid-base problems might be coming from. Since I am clearly having an issue I thought this would be interesting to do. To complete the test, you simply put a BASENTAB in your mouth and hold for 30 seconds. After 30 seconds you take note of what kind of taste you are feeling and compare it to the chart. Frankly, the taste options weren’t all that appetising.
- Rotten: Putrefaction process in the gastrointestinal tract
- Bitter: Functional disturbance of the liver and gallbladder
- Sulfuric: Detoxification disturbance of liver; Blockage of sulphur metabolism
- Salty: Elimination disturbances of kidney due to Massive Acidity
- Raw Fish: Zinc deficiency, blockage of zinc metabolism
See what I mean? Salty seems like the best taste to hope for as far as tastes go, but looking at what that could mean, I couldn’t really hope for it because that would indicate I could have a disturbance in the kidney due to massive acidity. Not great.
So what did I taste? I’m not so sure. After 30 seconds I could taste saltiness, but also some sulfuric tastes as well. But did I really, or was it psychosomatic? Did I really taste those things, or did I think I had because I had read those were options? I’m not sure if we’ll ever know. Definitely, this is a test better done blindly without knowing what the options are. Since then I’ve done the test a second time, and this time I would say it still tasted salty, but not sulfuric. I also made my husband do it and he said it tasted bitter.
After my day of testing, I started taking the BASENTABS the following day. The instructions are a bit lose as to how much you should take with the dosage instructions being 2-4 tablets 1 to 3 times/day for adults. SO I decided to start with 3 tablets 1/day for the first week to see how that went. I figured it would be easier for me to remember to take them once/day versus 2 or more, and it would be a better baseline when I did my second set of pH strip testing.
After five days of taking 3 tablets 1/day, I re-tested. My morning pH level was still acidic but in the afternoon I finally saw the green on my pH strip. YAHOO! I know knew without a doubt that the strips worked and I’m just the problem, haha. I’ve now decided to increase to 3 tablets 2/day to see if that will help bring me closer to that ideal pH balance level.
I’m not surprised that I tend to move towards acidic, but I am certainly surprised at just HOW acidic I am. I’m a healthy person. I eat well and exercise. I am more mindful of the chemicals I use than most people and live in the country – not the city – where pollution is less of an issue. But interestingly, as I mentioned earlier, my IBS has been acting up this past month or so, so I’ve had to seriously cut back/out eating raw vegetables and fruit (which tends to happen each spring), so I am willing to bet at least part of my acidity is due to the reduced intake of those foods. I’ve been careful to make sure I’m getting my VegaOne (with greens) each day, but a powdered product is never going to be as good as the actual food.
This coming week I am going to be starting to slowly re-introduce some raw foods into my diet to see if my gut can once again handle them, and that along with the increased dose of BASENTABS will hopefully result in a better pH profile when I test again next week.
Until then, thank you for following along with my journey – I hope you’ve found it as interesting as I have!
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for Pascoe Natural Medicine and BASENTABS. All opinions expressed are my own.