Drinking Baking Soda: A Cheap Way to Combat Autoimmune Disease Inflammation?

They have some of the first evidence of how the cheap, over-the-counter antacid can encourage our spleen to promote instead an anti-inflammatory environment that could be therapeutic in the face of inflammatory disease, Medical College of Georgia scientists report in the Journal of Immunology. They have shown that when rats or healthy people drink a solution of baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, it becomes a trigger for the stomach to make more acid to digest the next meal and for little-studied mesothelial cells sitting on the spleen to tell the fist-sized organ that there's no need to mount a protective immune response. https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/drinking-baking-soda-a-cheap-way-to-combat-autoimmune-disease-inflammation-300124?utm_campaign=Newsletter_TN_BreakingScienceNews&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=62400342&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9R5zXQKEf8F0rezV9ERITRRNT1biX_KtVay0fqAPyNMVL0_k6xFhUFbLYO8Tt92ybceiuTiajLGqJ6QZZv7WMJGQwOFg&_hsmi=62400342