Testing Your Diet with Pee & Purple Cabbage

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DESCRIPTION: Plant-based diets tend to be alkaline-forming. This may help protect muscle mass and reduce the risk of gout and kidney stones. The pH of one’s urine can be estimated with natural pigments using kitchen chemistry.

Now I have low-flow toilet, so there’s very little water in the bowel to start with. The effect might not be as dramatic if diluted in a larger quantity of water. More bathroom chemistry can be found in Pretty in Pee-nk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/pretty-in-pee-nk/) and Asparagus Pee (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/asparagus-pee/).<br />
What does acid have to do with bones? You might have missed the prequel to this video, Alkaline Diets, Animal Protein, & Calcium Loss (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alkaline-diets-animal-protein-and-calcium-loss).

How else can we protect our muscles? We can eat healthy enough to avoid statin drugs (see Statin Muscle Toxicity, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/statin-muscle-toxicity/) and the neurotoxins that can cause movement disorders (Muscle Tremors & Diet, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/muscle-tremors-diet/).

Superfood Bargains (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/superfood-bargains-2/) is the video in which purple cabbage takes the gold, though it was unseated in Biggest Nutrition Bang for Your Buck (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/biggest-nutrition-bang-for-your-buck/).

Why do I always go on and on about dark green leafy vegetables? Check out my 58 videos on greens (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/greens/) and find out!

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/testing-your-diet-with-pee-purple-cabbage/ and he’ll try to answer it!

Image Credit: Fundamental Photographs, diy.org, wallpapercraze.com, Listentoreason via flickr, and Biusch via Wikimedia.

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100 Risposte a “Testing Your Diet with Pee & Purple Cabbage”

  9. OK, this was really interesting, so I decided to try it. Instead of using cabbage, I simply used a PH tester, took a sample of my urine, and tested it. The color turned out orange-ish. I do not see that color on this video's spectrum. The PH tester indicated this was in the 5 range, yet this video indicates 5 should be a pink color. According to this video, the orange color exhibited most closely resembles the 11 range. I am thoroughly confused. Can anyone shed light?

  12. Okay I tried this and have a question.  How much (volume) of the purple cabbage water do you pour into the urine?  First time, I poured so much it just stayed dark purple. 1 cup? 1/2 cup?

  14. Why can't he narrate in a matter-of-fact tone instead of attempting to sound melodramatic?  It is off-putting. I rather read the text if there's the alternative.

  16. But Dude, what about all the farting that happens when you make everybody eat vegetables? A room filled with feasting vegetarians needs a WALL of windows – all open!

    It's hard to believe that a diet which so obviously upsets the average stomach can be so superior to a meat-inclusive diet. Do Vegetarians really live longer – or do they just smell old?

  17. The best way to do this test is to pee in a cup and pour a small amount of the cabbage juice into the cup. It turned blue when I did it. I tried this with some vinegar to see if it would turn pink, it did. this test worked great for me, everyone should try this.

  22. Does this mean that i drink the water from the boiled purple cabbage? I want to have some fun with my doctor the next time she asks for a urine sample heh heh heh heh 🙂

  24. "You should use what you probably have right now in your crisper….. purple cabbage."

    You don't know me! You don't know what's in my crisper drawer! checks crisper drawer God damnit! Are you a wizard or something?

  30. Since women have less muscle mass to spend treating acidosis with aging and are more prone to bone loss after 40 is it possible that the theory is correct on women only? Has any study been done only on women?

  33. nice lifehack Dr. G! last year i had uric acid showing in my general medical analysis. ive been vegan for the past 6 months and im curious to see where i stand now 🙂 time to pee!!

  34. OMG im buying a cabbage tomorrow! I'm vegan and the rest of my family eats meat and my parents are doctors. i hope we can all do this and see the results!

  47. Wouldn't you want your urine to be acidic. Metabolic processes produce acidic waste which are filtered out through the kidneys. If urine is acidic that means you are getting rid of acids. If it is base, you are not filtering properly and are holding acidic waste. Is my logic flawed?

  55. LOVE this. Where I live I can't buy litmus paper and was searching madly on the internet how to figure out the pH of urine else-wise. And voila! there you were. Going to try it today. PS: I always have purple cabbage in the crisper. PPS: Heard about you from the magnificent Kris Carr.

  60. But I read that, when your gut gets too alkaline your reabsorption of ammoniak isveryhigh, wich causes numerus side effeckts, thats why i stopped taking basic powder in the morning, didn´t feel well afterwards. also don´t most good gut bakteria prefer slightly acidic ph levels ?

  63. I like this. I eat keto, but with lots of vegetables. In fact, every day we have red cabbage on the dinner table, we eat it raw (mixed with a little bit of maio.)

    This will be a fun experiment.

  68. if ur pee is alcaline
    u r doing something wrong
    it needs to feel like (at least diluted) vinegar so u know they r filtering lymph
    otherwise u r holding onto a lot of gunk

  77. Love this science experment♥️ I love purple cabbage😘 I eat it all the time in Marcus recipes Spicy Tye Cabbage, book love on a plate, inspired by Cara Brotman💑👙💃🕺🍌🍏🍉🍎🍑🍑🍆🍐🍇🍓🥝🍈🍋🍋🥝🥒🥑🍆🍅🥗🥗🥗🥗🍲🍵🥂

  80. What if you eat dark green leafy veggies, red cabbage, hot chillies, vinegar, beets, and orange turmeric… I guess the pee test will fail because of the pigments in those plants.
    Not to be gross, but my urine is always orange and red despite excellent hydration because of all the pigmented veggies I eat…
    If I'm ever deprived of those veggies, my urine is clear with my typical level of hydration.

  81. It sounds like it is not worth it purchasing a really expensive water filtration system like Kangen water if we can just eat our leafy greens and our bodies should be okay with alkalizing our bodies right?

  82. Since I want to test daily, for a while, can I just put some purple juice from cabbage in a glass cup and pee in it? What should the ratio of pee to cabbage liquid be? OK to store the rest of the liquid in the fridge? For how long? THANKS!

  84. I get at least 1 cup of cooked green leafy vegetables a day (so like 2 cups raw I guess) plus loads of other veggies both cooked and raw, lots of fruit/whole grains/legumes too so why is my water staying like the 6? 😂 too much protein? 🤷🏻‍♂️

  87. Great info, thanks.
    I love purple cabbage but I'm afraid it contains lectins and oxalate, to both of which I'm very sensitive. Please does anyone know anything about that (whether it really contains oxalate)?

  92. Does our blood really get more acidic as we age or were those all people eating garbage (S.A.D.)? Do we have a column for people only eating whole plant foods yet?

  93. I couldn't find any confirmation that Quorn actually has a renal acid load of 7.8 anywhere on the web. According to Cronometer, it's PRAL is about 2, which is about the same as full-fat cow's milk, but is higher than other fungi that vegetarians or vegans eat (-2.2 generally). The Vegan Quorn items are listed as having a PRAL of over 7, but that's because the data about minerals other than sodium are missing. So I suspect something is wrong with the quoted figures.

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