# Childhood Story Claims Baking Soda Prevented the Flu

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2110012723417530502
- Source account: [@JasielCTH](https://x.com/JasielCTH)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:24
- Published: 2026-10-13
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5zyvwyICwAYw/en/childhood-story-claims-baking-soda-prevented-the-flu

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5zyvwyICwAYw/en/childhood-story-claims-baking-soda-prevented-the-flu) I was 10 years old, and my family was the only family in the little town that did not contact the flu. And my mothers would take a half a teaspoon full of soda and put it in a, a glass of water for each of us, my twin brothers and for me,

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5zyvwyICwAYw/en/childhood-story-claims-baking-soda-prevented-the-flu?t=29) and we would drink that before breakfast.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5zyvwyICwAYw/en/childhood-story-claims-baking-soda-prevented-the-flu?t=34) I've often thought that that's what saved us.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5zyvwyICwAYw/en/childhood-story-claims-baking-soda-prevented-the-flu?t=37) She said that that soda would neutralize the system, and we would be less subject to pick up the germ.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5zyvwyICwAYw/en/childhood-story-claims-baking-soda-prevented-the-flu?t=47) It must have worked, because we were the only family in-- entire family that escaped having that dreadful flu.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5zyvwyICwAYw/en/childhood-story-claims-baking-soda-prevented-the-flu?t=59) Disease cannot exist in an alkaline body.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5zyvwyICwAYw/en/childhood-story-claims-baking-soda-prevented-the-flu?t=64) Something so simple, that they have built big pharma to be so complex, and it's made us forget the simple things.