Grab a pack of pH test strips from a drugstore or online. They look like tiny paper fortune tellers. Cost? About ten bucks for a hundred strips.
First thing in the morning, before you even look at coffee, spit into a clean spoon. Dip the strip in for two seconds. Don’t swish it around like a teabag.
Wait 15 seconds. The strip will change color. Match it to the chart on the box. Orange means acidic. Blue means alkaline. Greenish-yellow is your sweet spot.
Here’s the quirky fact: your saliva pH changes wildly during the day. After eating, it drops into acidic territory. That’s normal. Test it three or four times to get a trend.
Don’t panic if it’s acidic one morning. You probably just had a dream about pizza. It happens.
