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What if there were a natural health-promoting substance that was inexpensive, available at any grocery store in the country, and probably sitting in your cupboard right now? There is. It is called sodium bicarbonate, although you may know it as baking soda. For years, sodium bicarbonate has been used on a daily basis as part of a number of hospital treatments, but most people remain unaware of its full therapeutic potential. In his new book, Dr. Mark Sircus shows how this common compound―along with magnesium, potassium, and calcium bicarbonates―may be used in the alleviation, or possibly even prevention, of many forms of illness.
Sodium Bicarbonate begins with a basic overview of the everyday item known as baking soda, chronicling its long history of use as an effective home remedy. It then explains the role sodium bicarbonate plays in achieving optimal pH balance, which is revealed as an important factor in maintaining good health. The book goes on to detail how sodium bicarbonate and its effect on pH may benefit sufferers of a number of conditions, including kidney disease, fungal infection, colds and flu, periodontal disease, hypertension, and even cancer. Finally, the author explains the various ways in which sodium bicarbonate may be taken, suggesting the easiest and most effective method for your situation.
By providing a modern approach to this time-honored remedy, Sodium Bicarbonate illustrates the need to see baking soda in a whole new light. Safe, simple, and effective, sodium bicarbonate contains powerful properties that may help you balance your system, regain your well-being, and avoid future health problems.
Wow, where to even begin about how harmful and lacking in scientific credibility this book is. Sadly, I bought it back when I still believed in all this pH nonsense, so now I feel compelled to write a review, based on my 25 years or so of research studying this subject. I'm also a cancer survivor, myself, so I take this subject quite seriously.
Well, I think the easiest way to handle this is to go right for the throat: the whole pH and health connection is 100% false. Allow me to explain: This whole premise that I've heard ad nauseam online is something like "Disease cannot live in an alkaline environment." This is based on the work of Dr. Otto Warburg back in the 50's, who has been credited with getting a nobel prize for discovering the true cause of cancer. The problem is... this WHOLE theory was based on misquoted, misrepresented parts of Warburg's research. What did he actually say? He actually said that no matter the oxygen level present, cancer will STILL grow. And this is relatively easy to prove, when you think about it. Poorly vascularized tissues such as cartilage, ligaments, etc. don't get cancer any more than other tissues.
He ACTUALLY said that, because of cancer metabolism, acids were created in the body. He did NOT say that acids in the body caused cancer. Modern research, in fact shows that tumors are sometimes quite alkaline on the inside. Again, it is easy to prove that acidic states don't equal illness: I bring to your attention fermented foods. Why does the fermentation process work? Because the organic acids created by the fermentation process PREVENT the growth of bacteria and molds. And the argument that there is a correlation between oxygen and pH? Nope. Calcium oxide is so alkaline it is caustic, and only contains one oxygen atom. Whereas sulphuric acid contains 4 times more oxygen atoms as calcium oxide, and is very acidic. If acids equaled cancer, or any other disease, then athletes (who's bodies produce tons of lactic acid) would be the sickest people of all.
The statement that the body needs to be more alkaline, again, is a generalized, silly statement. Parts of the body, the adrenals and the digestive tract, for example, NEED to be acidic to function correctly. If your digestive tract is not acidic enough, your food doesn't get digested properly, which means malnutrition will result. It also means that opportunistic organisms are free to grow, which will further compromise health. But let's say you did take a small amount of sodium bicarbonate to "alkalize" your body. The only thing it will alkalize is your stomach, because upon contact with the stomach acid, they will simply neutralize each other. Now, if you took a lot more bicarbonate, repeatedly, then yes, that will start to cause problems.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. This book needs to be thrown in the trash, and you need to get as far away from the information as you can. If I was allowed to post links in a review, I would keep going, but I'm not sure if it's allowed? Anyway, that's my review. I hope you find it informative
Who would have thought that the little box of baking soda in my refrigerator that absorbs odors would be “Nature’s Unique First Aid Remedy”? This is the subtitle to Dr. Mark Sircus’ book, SODIUM BICARBONATE, otherwise known as baking soda.
Baking Soda as Medicine
In the Introduction, the author notes that sodium bicarbonate/baking soda is “a world class emergency room and intensive care medicine used every day to save lives.”
Throughout the book, he returns to this unique use of baking soda, especially in the area of diagnosing cancer with bicarbonate physiology and its use in natural chemotherapy, claiming and demonstrating its use in killing cancerous tumors.
The Importance of pH Balance
Early in the book he discusses The Four Bicarbonate Sisters: sodium, magnesium, potassium and calcium, all of which form bicarbonates, which the body uses to alkalize itself. From this basic information, Dr. Sircus explains the importance of pH and the need to lower the acidic foods in our systems and introduce more alkalizing foods to keeping the healthy body in balance. On pages 26 and 27 is a list of Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Symptoms that develop as a result of over-acidity in the body. Beginning Symptoms (28) include food allergies and hyperactivity; Intermediate Symptoms (28) include asthma and fungal infections, and Advanced Symptoms (13) include cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. The list is long!
“An alkaline-rich diet is the perfect diet program because an alkaline body can help reduce toxins and strengthen the immune system.” Unfortunately, our Western diet of meat, dairy, and processed foods keeps our bodies acidic, so we need to introduce more alkalizing fruits and vegetables to offset the imbalance.
Common & Uncommon Uses of Baking Soda
Before delving into the more serious uses of baking soda, the author has another interesting list of all the common usages of this ubiquitous natural remedy: 1) for your food (ex. baking), 2) for cleaning and laundry (ex. laundry booster);3) for kids (ex. bath fizzes), 4) for health and beauty (no-shampoo for hair), and 5) around the house (ex. natural pesticide).
This list is priceless, especially during this time of not leaving the house because of COVID-19. It clearly demonstrates that a concentrate of this natural substance can be applied safely in many everyday uses, which I plan to do.
On a more serious level, we learn that sodium bicarbonate can help: in cardiac arrest by being administered intravenously, in severe diabetic ketoacidosis, and in treating poisons from overdosing chemicals and drugs. He devotes many pages to the serious health conditions that can be helped with sodium bicarbonate.
The book goes into great detail about the many ailments and conditions that can be helped with sodium bicarbonate. However, near the end of the book, the good doctor does give the reader warnings and contraindications about using baking soda, so reading to the end is important. In Resources, Dr. Sircus provides information on the different protocols discussed in the book with the name, address, website, email, etc. of each resource, a helpful inclusion.
Summary
The book is written for the lay person, although some chapters do become a little more technical because the author discusses chemical components and formulas. But the basic information is readily understood and his enthusiasm for “plain old baking soda” is contagious and his research is compelling!
SODIUM BICARBONATE has 179 pages of good information for anyone wishing to investigate natural alternatives to many major and minor health conditions. After reading this book, I am convinced that we need to keep baking soda not only in the refrigerator, but also in our medicine cabinets. This soft-cover book is published by Square One publishers and costs $16.95.
This is a really interesting book about how medicinal Sodium Bicarbonate (aka baking soda) can be for us humans. I can't even write a good enough review on this book. It's kind of a complicated book though in that there's a lot of chemistry information in it (so for that, and the fact I am not a chemistry type person, it's kind of a hard book to understand). But, in reading this book, you can tell the author really did his research and what I do understand of it just blows me away.
One of the things it said was that people undergoing chemotherapy has to take a solution made up of baking soda as part of their process (these people probably don't even know they are taking it), so that they will not kill themselves, because chemotherapy will kill you. But sodium bicarbonate helps with chemotherapy in that it helps the body in eating up the radiation and other matter from overtaking the body. So, it's a necessity for many medicinal things. Even procedures in hospitals use this. We just don't know about it.
Anyways, it was a challenge to read this book, and it's a book where you'd have to do further research by looking up terminology and things of that matter to understand everything fully written in this book.
I personally use baking soda for cleaning and as an antacid for my stomach. There are so many uses for it, it just blows me away to read about it.
An interesting and informative read. I'd already noticed some health benefits from drinking bicarb and water daily and wanted to understand more about it.
An excellent read. Having just finished "Cancer" by Mark Sloan which devoted a chapter to the use of Sodium Bicarbonate as a treatment for those afflicted with cancer. I spotted This book "Sodium Bicarbonate" at a second hand bookstore a day later and picked it up. I read it very quickly. It is clear and concise and deals with a complicated scientific topic explaining basic chemistry very clearly. It was easy to understand and very readable ...in fact the book is more interesting and addictive to read than some novels I have read in the previous year or two. The author proposes that cancer is a disease (as does Sloan) that responds to an environment deficient in Oxygen. He clearly explains why Carbon dioxide in the human body works in lock step with the oxygen we breathe to keep our cells and body healthy and when Co2 is deficient in our body oxygen does not get delivered. He explains how growing opportunistic cancer cells take over creating an Acid environment (PH < 6) Our body should be operating in a more alkaline state (PH 7.4) His overall premise is that Sodium Bicarbonate which is more commonly known as Baking Soda when combined with Maple Syrup / Molasses provides us with a vehicle to stealthily deliver Oxygen to the cancer cells which the latter hate. The process of raising Co2 levels in the body raises the alkaline state of the body and improves oxygen efficiency and technically makes it harder to gain hold. There is so much more in this book including a litttle dig at Climate Change being caused by toxic Anthropogenic CO2 that I cannot cover here. Just read it!!!! It will be more than worth your time!!!!!. Strongly Recommended!!!!!!!
Somehow, in all things I have read so far the concepts of acidity or alkalinity were not explored. It was all new to me. It is a small book, but just mining of information. The fact that bicarbonate might prevent degenerative diseases, acid reflux, kidney stones, diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, cancer and gout is shocking, especially because baking soda is so easy to access. Sodium bicarbonate baths are good treatment for psoriasis.
And there are the "Eureka!" moments. 1. Theory that the cancerous cells do not need to be killed, but they might be reverted to their normal, healthy state, given that they'll find themselves in healthy environment, is perhaps not proven, but should definitely be explored. 2. Analogies between cancer cells and fungi, both of which do not need oxygen, but require sugar in order to survive, and will die deprived of sugar. Tumor cells evolve through a few stages, one of them is fungus-like phase (would be a good time to attack cancer with fungus remedies).
Overdosing on baking soda will cause harm to kidney and bladder.
The book is not only full of practical information, but also relatively easy to read. I think everybody should read it.
This is a great book for detailing how baking soda creates alkalinity and through such an environment...health. I learned a lot from this book. It's an interesting and informative read. For those who are pursuing cancer alternatives, they should read this book. Alkalinity and acidity play a role in health, aging, and longevity...
I originally heard about baking soda as a cure from an old man who was with me helping a church friend move to an apartment. He used baking soda and molasses to cure his prostate cancer.
This guy told me about Vernon Johnson who had stage 3 cancer throughout his whole body and cured himself in 2 months, using this treatment.
To learn more about what Vernon did....On your search engine, type "baking soda and molasses for cancer Vernom Johnson"
Did not finish... I think this is a blend of some good information (body's absorption of sodium bicarbonate varies depending on factors like full/empty stomach) and some junk science. It gets a little repetitive. Take it with a grain of salt, but worth a look if you have concerns about acid reflux or ph levels (would be curious to know if there are cheap over the counter test for body/blood ph).
An amazing book that shares documented studies and the significance of controlling Ph levels in our bodies. How Ph levels impact our immune systems to fend off viruses, bacteria, fungi and cancers. Sodium Bicarbonate is widely used in emergency and critical care units at hospitals, to buffer chemo/radiation treatments and to restore general health and energy. Magnesium Bicarbonate is also covered well and used in conjunction.
This book is full of surprises and discoveries, it really leads to a healthier and less ignorant lifestyle! I loved it!! I strongly recommend it. It really fills you in with enthusiasm but I suggest to read it all before starting to experiment. Or, do follow your enthusiasm but refer to one of the last chapters as well, where it talks about counter effects. I now have both the audio as the paper version.