This is the craziest thing I’ve ever read posted here.
I don’t care who you are or what your experience is.
Taking baking soda is not just a nail in your coffin, it’s a dozen.
Science 101: Sodium bicarbonate neutralizes gastric acid.
Such a MORONIC thing to do...totally ignorant.
The so-called “alkaline diet” BS has no bearing here whatsoever. If you have cancer, the last thing you want to do is FURTHER compromise your endocrine system.
Insofar as cancer therapy, a prudent internet boolean search will reveal what others have done “naturally” and it doesn’t involve ingesting baking soda.
Go yell at the study authors.
You are correct that it neutralizes acid, but baking soda appears to do more than that, once it leaves the stomach.
“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.
I recall reading several papers about people inhaling a baking soda and water mist for respiratory cancers.
However, until a few weeks ago, I had never read about drinking it.
One point - most chemo therapies are anti-metabolites, if I understand that correctly. So, if a significant percentage of the cells in a cancerous tumor are dormant at any particular time, I can see that would have an impact on chemotherapy.