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/prett...) and Asparagus Pee (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspar....

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/alkal....

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

Superfood Bargains (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/super...) 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/bigge....

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/testi... 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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