A new study revealed that a daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.
The study was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Immunology.
Scientists at Augusta University have some of the first evidence of how the cheap, over-the-counter antacid can encourage our spleen to promote 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 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, a renal physiologist at Augusta University and the…
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