so baking soda is it good is it bad
should you keep taking it for acid reflux a lot of people are taking this thinking it's good for them and they don't really understand
what they're doing baking soda is sodium bicarbonate now take a look at this we got the
stomach right here the stomach normally should be not just slightly acid extremely acid between
one and three that's normal you need your stomach acids to be at that ph to digest proteins to kill
microbes and to absorb minerals okay now as this food gets through the stomach it goes into the
small intestine right here and the pancreas releases a bicarbonate now remember what
baking soda is it's sodium bicarbonate okay so our bodies are supposed to have bicarbonates
not in the stomach but just past the stomach in the small intestine to neutralize the acid so it
doesn't damage the small intestine and also the bile that comes out of the gallbladder that's also
alkaline to help neutralize it so bicarbonates are are alkaline so what we're trying to do is we're
trying to neutralize that acid but if you're putting this baking soda this sodium bicarbonate
at this level in the stomach you are going to mess up your digestion down the road now you're going
to feel better temporarily because of the acid reflux it's going to help neutralize it but the
next time you eat it's going to be a little bit weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker because
you're treating the symptom you're not treating the cause of the problem the question is why is
the stomach more acid why are you getting acid reflux in the first place normally what happens is
the valve on top of the stomach is not shutting so that acid is refluxing back up into the esophagus
it's also called gerd and so why is that it could be from either an autonomic nervous system problem
because you're deficient in b1 or it could be you don't have enough stomach acid because that
valve closes if you have enough stomach acid and this is why people feel so much better when
they start taking apple cider vinegar for problems like this or they take betaine hydrochloride
which is an acidifier they can build up their hydrochloric acid they feel so much better
and it's more correct sometimes you might take three but in reality you may need five six seven
eight even up to ten before a meal initially for it to work just from experience working with a
lot of people over many years i found that some people just need more and then it works like a
charm and the problem is they don't know that so they try for a couple days they take a couple
it doesn't do anything and then they give up the key with that is taking more there's
some other things you can do as well like the combination of zinc carnosine and betaine
hydrochloride is very effective for acid reflux some of the long-term side effects that can occur
if you're taking too much sodium bicarbonate over a period of time vomiting diarrhea kidney
damage depressed breathing because your ph is altered worsened cardiac heart failure so
if you already have pre-existing heart problems and you're taking baking soda that throws off
the ph it messes up the um the heart okay then we have cerebral hemorrhage bleeding and then
we have a deficiency of calcium which causes muscle spasms then we have a decrease in
potassium which leads to a whole cascade of bad things that can happen after that you can get
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