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“Science 101: Sodium bicarbonate neutralizes gastric acid.”

It’s a bit more complicated than that, which is also one of the reasons that eating meat in large quantities effects normal gastric acid levels.

The G-cells in the stomach that respond to not only the acid level but also the stretching of the stomach release gastrin, not into the stomach but as a hormone into the bloodstream. This gastrin triggers the parietal cells to produce both intrinsic factor and acid. Without intrinsic factor which is an akaline moleculle that attaches to certain nutrients such as B-12 to protect them in the acid environment of the stomach, the nutrients are destroyed before they can get to the protection of the changes in ph below the pyloric arch where the akaline solutions from the liver and bile from the gall bladder enter.

Many patients are on B-12 shots as they get older for depression. It would be interesting to determine how many of these patients get GE or stomach cancer later as the B-12 deficiency was just a symptom of a greater undiagnosed problem. I studied much of this while caring for a family member in my home who was dying of stomach cancer and I needed to feed using a J-tube and pump. It gave me many hours on a puzzle much better than any crossword.

Ironic that you mention “puzzle”; I write about that metaphor at length.

Here’s a new piece, absent missing content from your comment:

Depression is caused by hormonal imbalance (my own theory, particularly-given my health recovery and its positive effects, including reversing all symptoms of depression et al). Systemic hormonal imbalance, when unchecked, is like cocking the gun at the temple. The problem is that the shot never comes; it’s a slow, painful demise in many cases.

I don’t agree with the B12 shots for depression. Your comment on “symptom of a greater undiagnosed problem” is very prescient.

The problem is that waiting until cancer expresses is too late, but humans respond better to crises than evidence...