# Baking Soda Health and Exercise Benefits: Claims Explained

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2092738131720290416
- Source account: [@DawnsMission](https://x.com/DawnsMission)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:08
- Published: 2026-08-27
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained) This might just be the cheapest, most versatile medicine in the world, and they want you to think it's just for baking.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained?t=5) By drinking as little as a half a teaspoon of baking soda, it can help with things like indigestion, heartburn, ulcers, and gout flare-ups.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained?t=13) In animal studies, it reduced inflammation and pain markers, considering it a remedy for things like rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained?t=19) And for a hundred years now, baking soda has been long known to knock out cold and flu symptoms within as little as thirty-six hours.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained?t=26) It has also been shown to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease in humans, and perhaps most surprisingly is that it can shrink tumors by reducing the amount of cancer cells in your body. And if you work out and aren't using this stuff,

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained?t=36) you're really missing out because it can allow you to exercise at peak performance for longer by neutralizing lactic acid buildup and delaying fatigue.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained?t=43) In fact, for that same reason, it's actually been banned in horse racing.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained?t=46) All of the benefits of baking soda tie back to your body's pH.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained?t=49) When you have excess acidity in your blood, it creates stress and inflammation that harm your cells, and baking soda quickly stabilizes it.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ASC6s8QJuId0/en/baking-soda-health-and-exercise-benefits-claims-explained?t=56) That's why they use it as emergency medicine in every operating room, emergency room, and ICU, yet your doctor has likely never mentioned it.