My discovery of baking soda's healing properties began when i actually started searching for natural ways to cure acidity. I had been suffering from severe acid re-flux problems right since my teenage days and frankly speaking, the medicines or antacids simply cured the problem from a highly superficial level. And it was severe so to speak to suffer day in and day out. The problem intensified during my college days and adding to the woes was my fast food diet. In fact, i got scared from eating anything cooked in restaurants or fast food joints.
I told my parents about this wonder drug and to my utter dismay they scolded me for doing something so foolish and dangerous. They said that "who drinks baking soda solution? Are you a fool? Please do not do it in future." They took me to a doctor who prescribed milk of magnesia solution costing way too high than the simple soda powder.
I wondered about the fact that my parents had no problem when the same stuff was mixed in cake batter and used to make those delicious cakes that we all loved to eat. Then i researched some more about the chemical composition of baking soda and what it does when taken with water.
The HCO3(-) ions and H+ ions react with each other to produce water molecules and CO2 (carbon dioxide gas). This is the reason you have burps when consuming the solution. The gas is released. The only thing that is left is excess of Na+ ions.
Excess of Na+ ions is nothing new for our body because this happens when we eat too much of table salt too. Therefore, i found nothing dangerous about the whole affair.
Yes, if you are someone suffering from blood pressure issues, excess Na+ is not a desirable state to have. But i have had checkups and basic vital parameters in my case were all right.
Not paying attention to my parents warnings, i continued to drink baking soda in light proportions on a regular basis. I took 1/2 tablespoon mixed in a glass of water, waited for one minute and then drank the solutions slowly.
It is important to drink slowly so that the reaction occurs quickly and there is immense relief.
It took almost 6 months for the problem to go away completely. In between i kept on reading several blogs about people who were also baking soda fans and drank the solution on a regular basis.
One thing was clear, if you are taking in lots of fast foods, smoking, working in highly stressful environments, you are bound to have that uneasy feeling or sometimes acid re-fluxes. Light concentration baking soda solution works wonders in such cases.
Then i read about the antacid properties of baking soda in an online article. However, each of the site had a disclaimer stating any lack of medical backing. So although the method worked, you cannot get a doctor to recommend it. I took the risk and started drinking 1/2 tablespoon of baking soda mixed in one glass of water whenever i faced too much acidity. The soothing effect was wonderful.
I told my parents about this wonder drug and to my utter dismay they scolded me for doing something so foolish and dangerous. They said that "who drinks baking soda solution? Are you a fool? Please do not do it in future." They took me to a doctor who prescribed milk of magnesia solution costing way too high than the simple soda powder.
I wondered about the fact that my parents had no problem when the same stuff was mixed in cake batter and used to make those delicious cakes that we all loved to eat. Then i researched some more about the chemical composition of baking soda and what it does when taken with water.
What is baking soda after all?
The chemical composition of baking soda is NaHCO3. When mixed with water the Na+ ions and HCO3(-) ions separate.Acidity in stomach implies an excess of H(+) ions.
Excess of Na+ ions is nothing new for our body because this happens when we eat too much of table salt too. Therefore, i found nothing dangerous about the whole affair.
Yes, if you are someone suffering from blood pressure issues, excess Na+ is not a desirable state to have. But i have had checkups and basic vital parameters in my case were all right.
Not paying attention to my parents warnings, i continued to drink baking soda in light proportions on a regular basis. I took 1/2 tablespoon mixed in a glass of water, waited for one minute and then drank the solutions slowly.
It is important to drink slowly so that the reaction occurs quickly and there is immense relief.
It took almost 6 months for the problem to go away completely. In between i kept on reading several blogs about people who were also baking soda fans and drank the solution on a regular basis.
One thing was clear, if you are taking in lots of fast foods, smoking, working in highly stressful environments, you are bound to have that uneasy feeling or sometimes acid re-fluxes. Light concentration baking soda solution works wonders in such cases.
Our bodies require alkaline environments
Human blood has a pH value which is slight more than 7. This implies that our blood is alkaline in nature and NOT ACIDIC. This also means that if we are taking acidic diets on a continuous basis, problems are bound to occur. On the contrary alkaline diets are bound to create benefits.
This video here explains why alkaline diets are great for great health (Tony Robins, the master motivator explains his viewpoint)
But let's be smart. This diet is what all parents and grand parents tell their kids to eat. Something rich in fruits and vegetables. Nutritional benefits are there to be taken but more importantly you get a diet that does not produce too much H+ ions after digestion.
You will find several debates about acid alkaline diets and whether they are truly beneficial to us. But i have trusted to learn from experience. The baking soda experience taught me more about cure that are simple and can be done at home. But yes, i offer no medical guide here, only my experience.
Companies wont provide baking soda as a cure for acidity because it is dirt cheap and therefore nothing to be taken as profits. You have to be vigilant when consuming foods and experiment a bit to find the right answers. If you are apprehensive about not so famous cures, try going for a great alkaline diet by researching on foods that you eat.
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