Balancing Your body's pH using Sodium Bicarbonate

Your body's pH levels can be corrected by oral consumption of Sodium Bicarbonate.

1. What is Sodium Bicarbonate: 
Sodium Bicarbonate is what we commonly know as baking soda.
The use of Sodium Bicarbonate is extensive and it is considered to be a natural substance that is already present in our diets, and that has been used for medical purposes for the last 200 years.

Back in the 1920's doctors used to prescribe Sodium Bicarbonate for a variety of ailments including the common cold and other infections.

The most common dosage was to have 1 teaspoon of SB in a glass of water every 3 hours.

More information you can read on the book "Sodium Bicarbonate" by Mark Sircus.

In a nutshell, Sodium Bicarbonate:

• is a naturally occuring substance
• is used in medicine for the last 200 years
• balances the levels of Oxygen (O2) and Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the blood
• increases blood capacity to transport oxygen to the cells
• correcting the body's PH, makes the body an unfriendly place for all paracites, mucus, microorganisms, viruses, and cancer cells.

2. Using Sodium Bicarbonate to raise the body's pH levels, prevent or help cure ailments:

I am copying from Dr. Sircus book:

Over 150 years ago Dr. Austin Church formed a business to produce and distribute Baking Soda. 

ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda is derived from a natural occurring mineral called trona. It is 100% pure, safe, and natural. Baking Soda (also known as sodium bicarbonate) is a substance that is found naturally in all living things. 

Its purpose is to maintain pH balance in the bloodstream, which is necessary to sustain life.
Due to its chemical and physical properties, sodium bicarbonate has unique medicinal capabilities that every healthcare practitioner, doctor and patient needs to know about.
The only problem is that Arm & Hammer Baking Soda can replace many more expensive medicines and this does not make the medical industrial complex happy.
In today’s modern world of medicine the FDA just will not let companies that sell products make medical claims about them unless they have been tested at great expense and approved as a drug. 

But this was not always the case and as we can see in the information in this chapter, which is from a 1924 booklet, published by the Arm & Hammer Soda Company. On page 12 the company starts off saying, “The proven value of Arm & Hammer Bicarbonate of Soda as a therapeutic agent is further evinced by the following evidence of a prominent physician named Dr. Volney S. Cheney, in a letter to the Church & Dwight Company:
“In 1918 and 1919 while fighting the ‘Flu’ with the U. S. Public Health Service it was brought to my attention that rarely any one who had been thoroughly alkalinized with bicarbonate of soda contracted the disease, and those who did contract it, if alkalinized early, would invariably have mild attacks. I have since that time treated all cases of ‘Cold,’ Influenza and LaGripe by first giving generous doses of Bicarbonate of Soda, and in many, many instances within 36 hours the symptoms would have entirely abated. Further, within my own household, before Woman’s Clubs and Parent-Teachers’ Associations, I have advocated the use of Bicarbonate of Soda as a preventive for “Colds,” with the result that now many reports are coming in stating that those who took “Soda” were not affected, while nearly every one around them had the “Flu.”

Recommended dosages from the Arm and Hammer Company for colds and influenza back in 1925 were:

• During the first day take six doses of half teaspoonful of Arm & Hammer Bicarbonate of Soda in glass of cool water, at about two hour intervals.
• During the second day take four doses of half teaspoonful of Arm and Hammer Bicarbonate of Soda in glass of cool water, at the same intervals.
• During the third day take two doses of half teaspoonful of Arm and Hammer Bicarbonate of Soda in glass of cool water morning and evening, and thereafter half teaspoonful in glass of cool water each morning until cold is cured.

3. Where can you buy Sodium Bicarbonate:

You should buy FOOD Grade or PURE Sodium Bicarbonate, since the supermarket type of Banking soda, has additives (like gluten and aluminum) that should not be consumed in high dosages.

So, just search for "food grade Sodium Bicarbonate" on amazon or ebay.

Amazon: <search amazon.com for Sodium Bicarbonate Food Grade>

Ebay: <search ebay.com for Sodium Bicarbonate Food Grade>

Arm & Hammer maintains that their product is pure food grade Sodium Bicarbonate.

In any case, i would definitely prefer to buy something branded over something that is unbranded.

4. Measuring your results & what to aim for:

You can measure your results using pH strips.

See related post here: <PH Strips>, that outlines how to use pH strips to measure your body pH, and what are the pH measurements to aim for.