I am thinking this is a good time to share some basics about supplements. In Reams' day there were many hangers-on who visualized themselves getting rich selling supplements. He got rid of them. My reading of the old documents is that Reams felt focusing on selling instead of simply running tests was not such a good idea. I think he suggested that many testers would be better off to form an alliance with a health food store and let them stock basic supplements. In return, the store would send sick folks to the tester. One of the more senior consultants has told me of a mid-west operation that is working very well that way.

The Yahoo RBTI group is a study forum, not a RBTI classroom. However, people there are always looking for ways to make RBTI easier and more efficient. There are some people there who are interested in making their own supplements. Clarence Johnson gave a lecture back in 1977 that included some great ideas for "roll your own" and I am attaching the pages from the transcript. I am also going to copy over the notes I have collected about Algavim-whatever. BTW, I do believe one of the members once pointed out that anyone can purchase the product in bulk at Amazon and put up their own capsules cheaply.

RBTI is not as hard as some try to make it. Skimpy finances should not be an excuse to keep you and your loved ones sick.

Rex Harrill

ALGAVIM
NOTE: Algavim, Algazim, Alganim, and AlgaLife (or others) are similar formulations of a low-sodium Norwegian sea plant harvested from fjords. Your personal consultant may have a preference. All instances in this document have been changed to read "Algavim" as that is the name Reams used 100 times in the ARM..
ARM: The older and weaker or the lower the reserve energy, the more they need Algavim and Min-Col. These are good to give pregnant women to help restore the body of mother and baby.
ARM: Algavim is excellent for cataracts.  The cataracts go away without any operation.  Also good for glaucoma.  Use Algavim 2, 3, or 4 times a day with meals.  Algavim makes vitamin A available to your system.
BEDDOE: [Algavim] is a source of an enzyme that is a catalyst to the uptake and availability of vitamin A.
BEDDOE: Algavim is used for four primary reasons. One, it has a low salt with proper oil content, while still having good levels of available iodine for feeding thyroid needs. Each capsule has .225mg of iodine naturally available. Two, it is a general vitamin and trace mineral supplement. Three, it is a source of a type of potassium that is easily used by the body. Four, it is a source of an enzyme that is a catalyst to the uptake and availability of vitamin A. The organs that especially benefit from its use are the eyes, skin, lungs, blood, pancreas, liver and brain. 
CHALLEN: Bone cancer - Heavy amounts of Min-Col and Algavim. 
CHALLEN: If, on the initial test, the client has a total of the ureas of 11 or less, then they probably have a 220 or brain tumor. The messages are not getting through to the rest of the body. Never tell the client, because they are already too nervous. Never put this client on a fast because they cannot afford to lose any energy. Just put them on a good diet and lemonade and retest and if urea total is greater than 12, then they are gaining on tumor, if less than 12 the 220 is the same. These clients cause the most trouble and are not responsible for what they say. Should eat lots of potassium foods i.e. hominy, salmon, sardines, Algavim, bananas, etc.
CHALLEN: If no inflammation or pus on cataract, then use Algavim and a good diet.
C.H.E.M: Algavim is a bromeliad, which means that it does not have any roots, but it has bromelain similar to pineapple. It is not a kelp, it is a bromeliad. It is harvested once every seven years in the coldest month of winter. When it is taken out of the sea and put up on the deck of the ship, it freezes instantly, and the salt is crystallized out of it; it turns almost pure white. When the ship is brought into port, fresh water is used to wash the salt off and then it is processed to remove the oil. That which is left over is the supplement Algavim. It has no salt or oil.
C.H.E.M: Whenever the pancreas is manufacturing too much or not enough insulin, Algavim is needed.
CLASS 1-5: Algavim is a powder and it does a marvelous thing for people who have cataracts and eye trouble.  It's a rich source of mineral, free of salt and sodium. 
CLASS 1-5: Also one of the processes of aging is a lack of vitamin A, and practically all senior citizens over 60 need some Algavim to help make vitamin A available, and it does a fabulous job.  Carrot juice is rich in vitamin A but you don't give carrot juice to anyone that is on insulin, diabinese, orinate or diabinate because it is high in sugars.
CLASS 1-5: When people take Algavim, plus getting their body chemistry in top shape, in about 5 to 6 months of taking it regularly the cataract disappears. Doc saw people that were totally blinded by it, that had to be led everywhere, and their problem disappeared completely in one year.
DAILY: Min-Col and Algavim are long-term minerals. They are used initially in assisting to restructure the body chemistry and are continued to help maintain this balance and keep the body from slipping back into its old patterns. Do not be surprised if you're told to take Algavim for at least a year or to take Min-Col for the next 43 years, etc. It's his way of telling you that you are always going to need mineralization. The vast majority of these should come from your diet. Each year however, tests show foods slipping in nutritional value. A study in Iowa showed corn protein down 15% in ten years. To hedge against this food value loss, Reams will have you continue some minerals indefinitely. Health is a worthwhile investment. 
DUNLAP: Algavim is green and is helpful when sugars are in high ranges. Algavim assists vitamin A to assimilate more easily. Reams would have said that Algavim makes Vitamin A more available to the body. 
ION INSTITUTE: Individuals with an extreme potassium deficiency or who sweat profusely should use 3 [Algavim] capsules 3 times a day.
ION INSTITUTE: Algavim has little to no effect on the pH. The vitamin and mineral materials are used to rebuild the liver. This will be reflected in improved saliva pH readings over an extended period of time. 
ION INSTITUTE: The brain's need for potassium and hence Algavim increases when the ureas are low and/or any type of heavy metal poisoning occurs. Algavim is the brain's most nourishing overall food.
JOHNSON: Algavim is used for both high and low sugars, as is distilled water.
MANTHEI: Question: What kind of potassium are you using? Manthei: I use Min-Col and Algavim first and foremost, hominy every day, and celery juice and food sources.
MANTHEId: What are the two food supplements that are the richest source of minerals for the body? The answer is Algavim Min-Col.

Someone asked...
What about this other list we find in the internet - free for all - alkaline/acid food - is this the same ?

​I am surprised that several people did not jump to help you.

Whatever...check the ARM and you will see where Reams said, "​Combinations of foods, there’s a little bit of truth in it.  Only a little bit.  Fads.  I have not been able to bear out any of those things in laboratory work testing people.​"​
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"Food combining" has to do with the widely touted "acid/alkaline"​ concept popularized by Dr. John Tilden, one of my heroes. There are all sorts of charts out there to help people and Tilden had decades of success with the method. My research makes me think that Tilden probably helped a dozen people get well for every one that Reams helped.

The paradox of Tilden pushing one thing and Reams another probably can be resolved by realizing that Tilden had no test equipment when working with severely digestive-impaired clients. He taught that they should eat far less food and to be picky about it. OTOH, Reams' research showed him that the digestive power was greatest when the saliva pH was 6.4 (saliva and liver digestive juices are like mirrors).

You don't affect the liver digestive juices by paying attention to "acid/alkaline" charts. You affect them by paying attention to the predominant calcium types in the foods you eat. Some of those types help move the saliva in a cationic direction, some are neutral, and some provide the calcium type that moves things toward the anionic side.

I don't know if Beddoe teaches this. I know that Manthei was given the information by Reams, but I'm not sure he ever paid close attention. I do know that Michael Olszta took the information and ran with it. He and his students have developed some handy charts and I personally think all RBTIers should have one to help them work on their diet so that they are not constantly having to take so darn many supplements just to offset poor food choices. 

The above is one of the more important reasons I always advise people to get a competent teacher and learn the basics. This is not a teaching forum, but all of us here have a responsibility to explain things in great detail when a question indicates the person asking is going in a very wrong direction.

The long and short of it is this: dump the acid/alkaline charts and learn RBTI or forget RBTI and spend years playing with something that will only frustrate you. "Go by the numbers" is as real as it gets.