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June 6th, 2011
Myths and Legends Revealed: Part 5
Vinegar. Vinegar is quite possibly one of the most insidious myths out there today. We get calls all the time from people about how they drank vinegar and it made them sick to their stomachs. People have told us about how they have used vinegar in their attempts to pass drug tests. The truth about vinegar is this: it does not work. It does not remove any toxins from your system, nor does it cleanse any toxins from your urine when you add vinegar to it directly. But people are convinced that Vinegar will work. Why has vinegar become so popular as a means for defeating tests, when it doesn’t do you any good at all? Because it changes the pH (or the acidic level of a liquid) of the sample. Your urine is supposed to have a pH of a certain acceptable level. When you drink vinegar or add it directly to your urine sample, you are changing the pH level. The reason this can be helpful to some is if they have diluted their sample with excessive amounts of water. When you dilute your sample by drinking excessive amounts of water you are effectively lowering the pH level of your urine sample. By drinking vinegar – or adding a few drops directly to your sample – you’re raising the pH level back up to an acceptable number.
But again, that your urine sample has a normal pH level isn’t nearly enough for a lab. It also must have proper balance, color, creatine levels, and temperature. As well as many other acceptable factors of a urine sample. Which again brings us around to the point that you could find all the things you need to temporarily cleanse your system of toxins at home, but why spend all that time and money hunting down the exact right vitamins, when you can save yourself the headache and trouble, by purchasing a pre-made Detox Product that already has all the things you need in it.
Beyond that, labs do test a urine sample for evidence of adulteration (or any method by which you have purposefully changed the urine sample that was provided). pH level is a big one, if the pH level is not within the norm then they will automatically refuse the sample and assume you purposefully tried to mess with it. Some labs go so far as to find this to be purposeful tampering and will automatically fail you for it. Do not risk it when there are so many products already available to you that won’t show up on an adulteration test, and will help you pass your test.