Male PH question

[Throwaway_panther]

So I know pH has been thoroughly debunked, but I'm curious on insight into the male element.

I know male pH matters, since too alkaline can actually indicate infection and too acidic impedes conception. But when DH's pH came back at 8, I freaked out -- that's basic!

Until I read the ref ranges and did some research and saw that 8 is the max limit for semen pH! So when everyone over on IG or even here in the past were testing DH's pH, how were they getting numbers practically near 10? How is that successfully getting pregnancies when everything I'm reading says the man's pH shouldn't be that high for conception?

[atomic sagebrush]

8 is great! :) A-ok.

To answer your question - it's not.

If you take a drop of food coloring and drop it in water you see how it doesn't disperse immediately. There's part that is darker and then parts of it aren't completely colored yet. It works like that. And additionally semen and mucus are not super water soluble - it's not like dropping food coloring into water, more like droping them into egg white or partly set up jello. They test their pH but even if they mix it up, there's sperm in there in pockets that are safe and eventually the sperm will exit into the CM (again, even with a baking soda finger, there are pockets of CM that will be safer and that is how the sperm get through and survive.

[BabyRendu]

With regards to this. I checked my DH ph and it was around 8 too so is it good for baby boy?

[Throwaway_panther]

I don't think it matters, period -- pH doesn't actually sway, and healthy male pH is actually a very limited range, so it's not quite the same as female pH either. The only issue is if it's too out of the range, it can show infection :)

[onebigwish]

I checked my dh’s PH too and it was 9 !! Very high. Is that why we have boys? I’m doing the LE diet now so hope his PH doesnt matter too much

[atomic sagebrush]

With regards to this. I checked my DH ph and it was around 8 too so is it good for baby boy?

Yes, it's fine. :agree: perfectly normal.

Sky high pH does not work for swaying blue. That actually kills sperm.

[atomic sagebrush]

I checked my dh’s PH too and it was 9 !! Very high. Is that why we have boys? I’m doing the LE diet now so hope his PH doesnt matter too much

pH doesn't work for swaying in any reliable way. I have a full essay on it here. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gender-swaying-general-discussion/11684-ph-pickle.html