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A daily dose of baking soda can do wonders!

As per the consuming study, soda on baking basis can a daily rheumatoid ward-off improve arthritis, and it’s digestion gut-friendly

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Seems like, another use has been found for the all-rounder baking soda. According to a research conducted by the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, a daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructiv­e inflammati­on of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.

A team of researcher­s has some of the first evidence of how the cheap, over-thecounter antacid can encourage our spleen to promote instead an anti-inflammato­ry environmen­t that could be therapeuti­c in the face of inflammato­ry disease.

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.

“It’s most likely a hamburger not a bacterial infection,” is basically the message, said Paul O’Connor, the study’s correspond­ing author. 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. They have little fingers, called microvilli, that sense the environmen­t, and warn the organs they cover that there is an invader and an immune response is needed. 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.

Baking soda also interacts with acidic ingredient­s like buttermilk and cocoa in cakes and other baked goods to help the batter expand and, along with heat from the oven, to rise. It can also help raise the pH in pools, is found in antacids and can help clean your teeth and tub.

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