Has anyone utilized baking soda as a means to raise your ph? I know all of the info out there talking about using it as a way to combat cancer.
I feel I haven’t been overdoing it, but today my body felt like a wreck. Almost like I may have created an alkalosis state and My body reacted by creating acid to balance. Joints hurt like a mother. Very fatigued but getting better with hydration.
I’m also curious about the impacts on blood pressure as baking soda ingestion creates a ton of salt. Thanks for any info/experience.
I have used baking soda before, when my kidneys were infected, and the urine stung, on order of the doctor. However, I wouldn't on the regular, not if I wasn't sick in my kidneys, which is very rare these days - more about that in a second. Baking Soda tends to make one excessively thirsty, and then one is likely to drink the wrong stuff, like soda.
If you are feeling down, as in depressed, it is better to take a glass of water with up to half a teaspoon of pink salt in it - a fat pinch will do. Maybe a squeeze of lime or lemon, but that is optional. One of the first symptoms of salt deficiency is depression and a feeling like one is dragging oneself around, the next is dizziness, and the next a propensity to faint.
Salt water is also a cure for acid reflux, which most people mistake for being 'too acid', when they reach for the baking soda. What is happening is a low chloride situation, NOT a carbonate deficiency, whereby your stomach does not have enough hydrochloric acid to digest stuff, and food starts fermenting and bubbling like a science experiment.
I found this out by myself when I believed that baking soda would cure acid reflux: baking soda caused me to have night cramps in my legs that was extremely frightening - signs of a mineral deficiency. Use baking soda to clean your teeth, or to bathe in. Not to ingest all the time, because it will destroy your ability to digest anything, leaving you starved and thirsty, and likely to stuff more food in than necessary, but then you will get indigestion. The excessive liquids will strip minerals from one's system - a vicious circle.
TOO MUCH SALT is a lie. Please do your research, and look at what academics are saying NOT what blogs are saying - most of those are still spouting the lo-salt nonsense, and pushing potassium salts as an alternative. - and too much potassium is actually dangerous. Such a lie - the salt demonization was aimed at making the pharma industry rich, through antacids for example, and antidepressants. Sodium Chloride is the most prevalent mineral compound in the blood - It was once more precious than gold. Just think of animals licking a salt block: they know what is good for them. You sweat it out, hence salt tablets that are prescribed in the tropics. Unless you have a rare disorder whereby salt causes an allergic reaction, take salt to taste, or if you are feeling down, or if you are suffering acid reflux. No need to force yourself, listen to your body, you will know if you had too much, because you will be thirsty for hours afterwards. One little salt drink won't do this. Salt overdosing is usually not a problem - Westerners are more likely to have too little salt in their diet because of the prolonged brainwashing.
Please cut out the Baking Soda. Oh and the acid/alkaline debate is also a lie. Believe me I went down that route, and found that it is a way to stop us eating meat and start eating potatoes or "whole" grains or something. Great if you WANT to be a vegan - but not great if you want to be healthy.
Re: the arthriticky joints: Seriously try keto or carnivore. I did and it cured the joints, after many years of suffering. Too many carbs are the main reason for sore joints - oh and high blood sugar, which can lead to heart attacks and water retention. Quite the opposite to what we were told: