Hey what's up guys, Dustin Williams here
and in today's video, I want to share
with you a little bit about baking soda
and how it can really have a big impact
on your health overall, in several different areas.
Now most people, whenever they think about baking soda,
or sodium bicarbonate as it's also known,
is they think of it as something that you bake with,
or maybe something that's in
your grandmother's refrigerator.
And even though those are probably
the best-known ways for baking soda,
it turns out that there's actually some more benefits
to using baking soda beside just creating those
delicious baked goods.
So before I get into those reasons,
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Reason number one, the first reason why baking soda
can be beneficial to your health
is acid reflux, or heartburn, as it's most commonly known.
It can be a definite help
if you're in a situation where you have heartburn,
baking soda can kind of help combat this.
Heartburn, or acid reflux, is pretty much
kind of how it sounds.
We get acid that's in our stomach
and it ends up making its way into our esophagus,
and it causes kind of a burning sensation,
some people feel it in their upper stomach,
some people in their chest,
some people upwards of their throat,
but that's what acid reflux is,
is that acid getting in and up to the esophagus.
Now there are multiple different things
that can cause acid reflux in general,
but I want to focus on how baking soda can have an impact
on it, if you're having acid reflux in the moment.
So if you're having it and you need something
that's going to make it better,
you need a quick fix, this is where baking soda comes in.
Baking soda helps to neutralize that acid.
So we got the acid that's coming up into the esophagus,
taking the baking soda helps to neutralize it,
essentially make it less acidic,
and helps to eliminate the burning sensation
that comes along with acid reflux.
So it's a really easy fix, take a little bit of baking soda
if you're having heartburn or acid reflux, problem solved.
Second reason why you may want
to consider taking baking soda
is it is anti-inflammatory,
which can be huge for a lot of different people.
A daily dose of baking soda has really been shown
to help reduce overall inflammation.
There is some studies that show that this cheap,
over-the-counter substance taken can actually
get our spleen to promote an anti-inflammatory environment.
They have shown, scientists have shown,
that whenever you take a dose of baking soda in a solution,
you drink it, that it is actually,
it triggers the stomach to create more acid
for the next meal, in preparation for the next meal.
And it also, you have these cells that sit on top
of the spleen, it essentially tells those cells
that there's no need for it to mount any type of
immune response to any type of issues
that you have going on, so it kind of helps calm
the spleen down, so that it doesn't create
an immune response as well.
Really interesting is this has also been shown
to be very beneficial with certain auto-immune diseases
like Rheumatoid Arthritis as well.
We have a lot of inflammation that kind of moves
around throughout the body, so big impact,
very helpful as far as anti-inflammatory
for auto-immune and in healthy people as well,
taking daily doses.
Reason number three to take baking soda is it
increases exercise performance, and if you do any type
of exercise, you're always looking for something
that's kind of help push you, give you the energy,
move to that next level.
The biggest benefits that they have seen
from taking baking soda have been in peak performance,
high-intensity exercise, so high-intensity
strength training, like what we do here at Precision Fitness
and I work with most of my clients,
anything that's higher intensity is where they've seen
the biggest benefits.
Essentially what happens is whenever you are
doing high-intensity exercise,
you tend to release more lactic acid.
And the baking soda acts almost as like a buffer,
it goes in and kind of helps neutralize
some of the excess lactic acid
because that lactic acid can also cause muscle fatigue.
So it allows you to have less muscle fatigue
because of less lactic acid.
It'll be very beneficial in the higher-intensity exercises.
And I've got one more reason, but before I get into it,
I do want to know, just because I'm curious,
how many of you guys have actually used baking soda before?
And if you have used it, what was your reason,
I know that there are a lot of different reasons
people use baking soda, and I'm genuinely
intrigued to hear what the reasonings are
that you may have used it in the past.
Just let me know down below in the comments.
And the fourth and final reason as to why you may
want to start taking baking soda on a daily basis
is there has been some evidence to show that it
helps fight against cancer.
Now there needs to be more research done on this
to be able to fully confirm, it's not 100%
confirmed on this, but it does it kind of similar
in the way that it works with exercise performance.
Whenever we have cancer cells, they can pump out a lot of
lactic acid, and put you into a very acidic environment.
And by taking the baking soda, it kind of helps neutralize
the acidic environment and can be very beneficial towards
cancer patients as well.
So there you have it, several reasons to start
adding baking soda to your daily routine.
You can start off at a smaller dose,
you might start off at, maybe,
a quarter of a teaspoon a day,
you can mix it in some water and drink it,
some people work their way up to three-quarters
or even a full teaspoon, sometimes people will take more,
if you wanted to take more, that's a conversation
you may want to have with your doctor,
but, most of my clients and myself,
I do anywhere between a quarter and three-quarters
of a teaspoon a day on average.
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