Have you heard about baking soda or also known as Sodium Bicarbonate?
The white powder that you put in the back of the fridge to control the odors in your fridge,
or in baking or cooking, yes that white powder… well there has been a lot of individuals and my
subscribers asking me: “Maria I've heard that it's amazing in taking it internally to make
your body more alkaline & amazing on the skin …what do you think?”
Well today I am going to go into step by step, and explaining the pros and the cons of this
white powder. So let's get started right now ! Very quickly my name is Maria from Vancouver,
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One of the biggest thing is Acid Reflex and a lot of people
might get that because of eating wrong foods or stress so they go and grab
Alka-seltzer, Rolaid or Tumbs and that will cause a benefit but it is a temporary… because you are
neutralizing the acid in your stomach. But, there is a reason why the stomach
is acidic. I have a lot of pictures and a lot of charts today, to explain this. The body has
different level of acidity throughout the body and there is a major reason why the stomach is acidic,
if you are unbalancing the acidity in the stomach you are going to cause major problems.
These Diagrams, I will put them up for you so you can look at them, you can stop the video so
you can write down the information. If you have acidity as I mentioned before, you can go get
some Baking soda, mix it in water and drink it down, or get yourself an alka-seltzer,
but to do it as a habit or regularly is not good, because the stomach has to stay acidic. Acidity
has many purposes, for in the mouth you will notice here that the ph is about 6 -7.5 - 8 but
then in the stomach, the pH goes down to 1.5 to 2.0 and the reason why is because in the stomach
the food gets sterilized, also breaks down the proteins molecules, but the main one
is it stimulates the delivery of the bile. The bile is released right after the stomach, here
notice the purpose of the bile is to bring back the alkalinity of the food. We must leave the
stomach acidic, if we take Alka-seltzer or baking soda continuously we are going to have
some problems if we don't keep the stomach acidic. I know that you've heard that if your body is too
acidic you might get cancer or immune disorders and that could be true, but we need to control
that through diet, by drinking more water and all that, we'll talk about it more later on about the
benefits. I'm going to show you here about having the acidity in your stomach is very important
but if the acidity is neutralized and the alkalinity is elevated and becoming more alkaline
some of the problems are: bloating, belching, flatulence, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation,
oral immunity, rectal itchiness, candida albicans, etc. all these things because
we are wanting to reduce the acidity in the stomach …the hydrochloric acid in the stomach
has to stay acidic! Do I agree in taking baking
soda regularly? NO, I don't! I am going to look here some of the things that a lot of individuals
have mentioned on YouTube that you should take baking soda regularly your kidneys will benefit,
release arthritis pain, better with exercising performance because while exercising you are
producing lactic acid so by taking a baking soda you will neutralize the acid, that
fights cancer, we know that when you have acidity in the body you MIGHT
get cancer but not necessarily. We can regulate our bodies by some foods, the acidity in the body
by eating proper foods. UTI the urinary tract infections you can prevent that by drinking
baking soda? Other things you can is by drinking cranberry juice…Amazing for you! So eating good
foods that helps the body is essential. I have a list here to improve your acid and to balance your
acid without taking Alka-seltzer or thumbs or even baking soda so here is an outline and I am
going to post it up for you so you can look at it. Liquid green nutrition so starting from number one
that means taking in foods such as greens, kelp, spinach…so you can blend it. Eat
ginger or drink ginger tea, super hydrate outside so drink lots of water throughout the day.
Do not drink water during meals, also very important drink water with apple cider vinegar or
lemon throughout the day, eat protein foods at the beginning of each meal,
eat fermented foods such as kimchi, kombucha that is a fermented drink, eat
your largest meal when you are relaxed. These simple steps will help you not to
get acid reflex. I have a chart here that I would like to show you what are the effects
of acidic foods on the body. If you quickly can read it over here or you can stop the
video. We need to intake more alkaline foods and some of the alkaline foods are like spinach,
broccoli, asparagus anything that is green, chard, carrots and collard greens, strawberries those are
all alkaline foods, intake neutral foods such as beans, coconut, salmon, bananas and apple so many
variety foods. Acidic foods - that are acidic that you should stay away are: processed foods,
coffee, white flour, cookies, cakes and chips, minimize the amount of red meat, cream cheese,
all the dairy. Now you know if you follow me, I don't agree with dairy … (but the let's agree to
disagree) and the thing is I do enjoy some nice cheeses such as Italian Asiago like cheese or
some good Parmigiano so good cheeses, I really enjoy, but as a habit, I stay away from dairy
milk, I will drink coconut milk I will put almond milk in my coffee, and stay away from a pop,
sugary fruity drinks and a lot of alcohol its not good for you … Now a
good glass of red wine … that is good for you ! I have another chart here. I do love charts
because when you see a visual, you remember (not only you me too) this chart is about the blood pH
which is around 7.35 to 7 4.5 and if we're on this side we have Acidosis and if you are over here
Alkalosis that this means over acidity and too much alkalinity and all this
and if you're over here and in here you're dead. All this is controlled by
what you eat. I am not saying that you should stay away from everything and the only thing you're
going to drink is water and eating green stuff, no you to have a balance, because you have to
be happy too 😊 so if you want to drink once in a while or eating chips and salsa
and have a pop once in awhile it's not going to kill you, it is when it is done day after day,
the body is it's an amazing system and it will heal itself up, but it will come to a point
that you're taxing every single organ in the body from the liver and the kidneys and
the body will start to break down and you will get things like being tired, bloatness,
acid reflux, arthritis autoimmune diseases, and other situations so yes drink your water,
eat right and be more mindful of what you're putting into your body and that brings me to
things like a kombucha, fermented foods that are so good for you, probiotics, NRF2 and if you want
more information I have information below on things that you can take, supplements that you
will see results very quickly. Should we take baking soda
to control cancer, kidney disorders, urinary infection, arthritis and all that? Absolutely NOT
you control that by eating properly, by drinking your water, by eating alkaline foods,
taking probiotics, by eating fermented foods, and your take NRF2 activators,
so then your blood is at a right pH and you're going to be a very healthy, happy individual.
Is Baking Soda good for something? Absolutely, it has benefits, the first one is to use it as
a mouthwash. Just get a glass of warm water or room temperature a tablespoon of baking soda
mix it and then you can gargle or mouthwash the baking soda has an antibacterial effect,
so it's very good. On the other hand do not use it daily to brush your teeth, because it will
thin out with the baking soda crystals will thin out your tooth enamel. However, if you have some
stains on your teeth, yeah you can use it maybe once a month or mostly twice a month. If you have
a canker sore, just make it a paste with water and baking soda and put it onto the canker sore
every day leave it on for about an hour and you will notice because a canker sore is very acidic
and the baking soda is alkaline it will heal that area quite quickly. Baking soda is an
antibacterial and it is amazing on acneic skin or also comedogenic skin. The pH of baking soda
is around nine and acneic skin is around three so here is the chart so we can see it is right here
so what we do is we take a basin of a warm to hot water put a couple tablespoons of baking soda
and then you get a face cloth and you apply onto the face and leave it there until it cools down
and then you repeat that process three or four times. What's going to happen is the blood from
internally comes very close to the surface of the skin, healing the skin from within and the
baking soda on the other hand it's a balancing and healing from the outside an antibacterial, also
very good for the comedogenic skin, the alkalinity of the baking soda softens the blackheads so
it's very easy to extract the blackheads. Doing this process also you will notice is the pores
will start to tighten and shrink, now remember the pores do not open or close
it will just tighten up because we are softening the comedones and a lot of these comedones will
minimize. Another benefit of baking soda is as an exfoliant but be very careful don't do it on
active papules or pustules, because you're going to irritate and cause more problems. How do it,
make a light paste of baking soda and water and you just actively rotate around the areas and
put a little bit extra pressure in the area where you need more exfoliation, if you have sensitive
cheeks don't do it too hard but on the t-zone or if you have some dark areas on the neck
it acts actually lightens the skin. If you have stains underneath your
arms or bikini area or if you have some scarring like a hyperpigmentation you could mix
baking soda and lemon, but be very careful because it's very aggressive … so you mix 50 - 50 and you
apply in the area of the underarms or sometimes on the kneecaps or hyperpigmentation leave it up to
two minutes not longer than that and you could do this once or twice a week. You will notice
the skin start to lighten up after you use the lemon and baking soda, please rinse it
very well after a couple of minutes and do apply a moisturizer because the combination of lemon and
baking soda is actually quite dehydrating and don't do this more than twice a week.
I've heard a lot of people drinking it… I would not do it because you're using something that's
very acidic and something that's very alkaline and it's very explosive and we're telling only
a couple of minutes on your skin…can you imagine if you have this in your stomach
for all this time …I would not do it! Another combination I would not use is a baking soda with
vinegar …again a lot of people will drink it, I use that to remove stains on my carpets.
Baking soda is not only good for acneic and oily skin it is also good for dry and calloused
skin that needs moisture. So we notice here dry skin the ph is quite high and
the baking soda is nine so if you put some baking soda in your tub like a half a cup in your water
it softens the water and it also softens your skin and brings moisture to your
skin. For dry and callous feet make a paste and scrub your toes and your heel… heels you have two
heels (haha) and then put your feet in the warm water and soak for 10-15 minutes after that
take your pumice stone and you can remove all your calluses and have beautiful soft feet.
We are done finally! Thank you so much for being here until the end.
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Again this is Maria from Vancouver, Canada and I will talk with you very, very soon ! 😊