Conflation is a sign of conflict & bias. What is your bias here?
PPIs have the effect of increasing gastric pH.
Sodium bicarbonate has the effect of increasing gastric ph.
Please cite your own confusion, as I have none on the effects thereof.
“PPIs have the effect of increasing gastric pH.
Sodium bicarbonate has the effect of increasing gastric ph.”
Correlation does not prove causation. Clearly, different things can produce similar effects, through different mechanisms. You seem to confuse that.
Exercise has the effect of weight loss, and cancer has the effect of weight loss weight loss, therefore exercise is the same as cancer. That is the type of logic you propose.
PPIs do not cause their side effects from the level of pH in the stomach, the side effects are from the chronic disruptions in the processes the produce and regulate gastric acid, and other processes in the body.
Different foods have different pH. That is normal, and the body is designed to sense and react to produce the required pH for digestion (low), and later in the digestive tract, a higher pH for absorption into the blood. Baking soda’s effect is simply as a food with a high pH entering the stomach. If the body senses food that needs to digest, it will produce acid until it senses the right pH.
PPIs are drugs designed to interfere with the production of gastric acid itself - inhibitors.