How to Drink Bicarbonate of Soda for Health
Courtney
By Chyrene Pendleton -
eHow Contributing Writer -
Bicarbonate of soda, better known as baking soda or sodium
bicarbonate, has numerous uses--it's a cleaning agent, antacid, fire
extinguisher and more. There also are interesting health benefits when
you drink baking soda, which is alkaline, in water. Viruses and
diseases such as colds, flu, cancer and even heart disease thrive in
an acidic body, but cannot survive when your body is alkaline. The
2009 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology revealed a study of
134 patients with advanced kidney disease. Taking baking soda daily
dramatically slowed down the progression of kidney disease, resulting
in no need for dialysis.
Instructions
Step 1
To increase your body's pH, take 1/4 tsp. of baking soda dissolved in
one-half glass of water on an empty stomach, once in the morning and
again before bedtime. Acidity and alkalinity is measured by pH, which
ranges from 0 to 14 with 7.0 being neutral; a pH above 7.0 is
alkaline, and below 7.0 is acidic. Baking soda has the highest pH of
14. Create a healthy body by keeping your body's pH between 7.1 and
7.5.
Step 2
Drink the baking soda and water solution at the very beginning of cold
or flu symptoms, such as a runny nose or sneezing, to help kill the
viruses. Keep your body alkaline by increasing fresh fruits and
vegetables in your diet.
Step 3
If you're an athlete, swallow sodium bicarbonate supplements with
water to buffer lactic acid buildup and improve your exercise
performance. Ingest 0.3 g of sodium bicarbonate per 2.2 lb. of body
weight, one to two hours before the event, drinking plenty of water.
Step 4
Drink a glass of water with a half lemon or lime squeezed into it
twice daily if you are unable to take baking soda and water. Lemons
and limes are acidic but become alkaline in your body, raising your
alkalinity almost as well as baking soda.
Rod Speed
> By Chyrene Pendleton -
> eHow Contributing Writer -
Get back to us when you can substantiate the claims with double blind trials.
Don Klipstein
Courtney wrote:
>By Chyrene Pendleton -
>eHow Contributing Writer -
>Bicarbonate of soda, better known as baking soda or sodium
>bicarbonate, has numerous uses--it's a cleaning agent, antacid, fire
>extinguisher and more. There also are interesting health benefits when
>you drink baking soda, which is alkaline, in water. Viruses and
>diseases such as colds, flu, cancer and even heart disease thrive in
>an acidic body, but cannot survive when your body is alkaline. The
>2009 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology revealed a study of
>134 patients with advanced kidney disease. Taking baking soda daily
>dramatically slowed down the progression of kidney disease, resulting
>in no need for dialysis.
>
>Instructions
>Step 1
>To increase your body's pH, take 1/4 tsp. of baking soda dissolved in
>one-half glass of water on an empty stomach, once in the morning and
>again before bedtime. Acidity and alkalinity is measured by pH, which
>ranges from 0 to 14 with 7.0 being neutral; a pH above 7.0 is
>alkaline, and below 7.0 is acidic. Baking soda has the highest pH of
>14. Create a healthy body by keeping your body's pH between 7.1 and
>7.5.
No way baking soda or a saturated solution of baking soda has a pH of
14. 14 is approached by a "1-molar" solution of potassium hydroxide, and
can cause chemical burns to skin, and easily damages eyes and mucous
membranes.
Meanwhile, the body regulates its pH. If your body is already normally
regulating its pH, all taking baking soda will do is increase your sodium
intake and cause your blood to retain more carbon dioxide to keep its pH
where it already was.
<SNIP from here>
- Don Klipstein (d...@misty.com)
Courtney
>
> Meanwhile, the body regulates its pH. If your body is already normally
> regulating its pH, all taking baking soda will do is increase your sodium
> intake and cause your blood to retain more carbon dioxide to keep its pH
> where it already was.
>
Whatever it does it will stop a cold/flu dead in it's tracks.
Just try it.