Posted on 11/09/2019 1:47:07 PM PST by ConservativeMind
A daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scientists say.
They have shown that when rats or healthy people drink a solution of baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, it becomes a trigger for the stomach to make more acid to digest the next meal and for little-studied mesothelial cells sitting on the spleen to tell the fist-sized organ that there's no need to mount a protective immune response.
Mesothelial cells line body cavities, like the one that contains our digestive tract, and they also cover the exterior of our organs to quite literally keep them from rubbing together. About a decade ago, it was found that these cells also provide another level of protection.
In the spleen, as well as the blood and kidneys, they found after drinking water with baking soda for two weeks, the population of immune cells called macrophages, shifted from primarily those that promote inflammation, called M1, to those that reduce it, called M2. Macrophages, perhaps best known for their ability to consume garbage in the body like debris from injured or dead cells, are early arrivers to a call for an immune response.
In the case of the lab animals, the problems were hypertension and chronic kidney disease.
"The shift from inflammatory to an anti-inflammatory profile is happening everywhere," O'Connor says. "We saw it in the kidneys, we saw it in the spleen, now we see it in the peripheral blood."
When they removed or even just moved the spleen, it broke the fragile mesothelial connections and the anti-inflammatory response was lost, O'Connor says.
The treatment also attenuates inflammation and disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis.
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It takes very little and should show effects in 2-3 weeks. It appears to be somewhere between 1/4 and 1/8 of a teaspoon a day.
It might also work with other forms of bicarbonate, if the sodium is too much.
One article describing dosage to try:
I’m almost 73 years old and have been brushing my teeth with baking soda since 1968. Still got all my teeth.
Thanks for posting. Health/life BUMP!
I like baking soda for my teeth...feels refreshing.
Ping
I find that coffee is too acid on my prostate. So when I drink coffee, I also include a glass or two of bicarbonate of soda which helps adjust the ph back to normal.
Review later.
Bkmrk.
Keeping your body as alkaline and not acid is the key to a healthy life.
I mix a half teaspoon into every gallon of Iced Tea that I make.
It stays clear and fresher tasting longer. And gives it a little zip.
Seven teabags brewed in a kettle
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Water to complete one gallon
It’s funny that my MD just told me last wk that baking soda should not be taken b/o the salt. But when I go to the hospital, first thing they hook me up to saline solution IV. Isn’t that table salt? Plus, if u google b.s. the first page is nothing but “health benefits of baking soda”
What gives?
Baking soda is basically salt based........Be careful
Or did they not really mean that they work together?
I use it the other way.
I drink a half-teaspoon of baking soda with 8 oz of water before going to bed to counter acid reflux. It's a base that neutralizes the acids that dinner is still causing my body to produce.
-PJ
Bkmk. Thanks!
Best of all, the stuff is cheap!
Bkmk
You put coffee on your prostate?
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