Baking Soda vs Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) for Indigestion: Which is Better?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 21 May 2020
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Today we’re going to talk about which is better for digestion, baking soda, or apple cider vinegar (ACV)?
There is no doubt that both of these home remedies for indigestion work. But I want to talk about the long-term effect of baking soda vs. apple cider vinegar.
Hypochlorhydria is a situation where you either don’t have enough stomach acid, or the acid is weak. The purpose of stomach acid is to help break down protein, to help kill pathogens, and to help with the absorption of minerals and trace minerals.
Symptoms of hypochlorhydria:
• GERD
• Acid reflux
• Indigestion
• Anemia
• Constipation
• Stomach infections
• Malabsorption
• Carcinoma
• Heartburn
Baking soda vs. Apple cider vinegar:
Baking soda
Baking soda for indigestion will make you feel better because it’s going to help remove some of that excess acid in your esophagus. But, the next time you eat, you’re still going to have the same symptoms because it’s not corrective. Baking soda also contains a tremendous amount of sodium. When you increase sodium, you deplete potassium, which is connected to many different conditions. You also deplete chloride. This can cause you to deplete hydrochloric acid in your stomach and then cause you to need more baking soda.
Apple cider vinegar
Apple cider vinegar is a great natural remedy for indigestion. You need to dilute it. Mix one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water and take it before you eat.
The fluids in your stomach should be acid, but the blood in the body should be slightly alkaline. Alkalizing the body is not the best thing to do in every situation.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So today I'm going to talk about the difference between using baking soda versus apple |
| 0:49.0 | side of vinegar for indigestion. There's no doubt that you're going to experience results if you take either or but the question is long term what can happen |
| 0:58.9 | So what I want to first talk about is this idea on pH of the body. There seems to be this push to |
| 1:08.4 | alkalize the body and I'm not sure exactly where that came from. |
| 1:12.6 | It could be, I think there's a book called |
| 1:14.8 | Alcoizer Die, could be that, or it could be other things, |
| 1:18.0 | but people tend to associate health |
| 1:20.5 | with being alkaline and sickness with being acid. |
| 1:25.0 | Okay, so I just want to first mention that when you're talking about alkaline or acid, |
| 1:32.0 | you have to be specific on what part of the body you're talking about because in the stomach you need a pH between one and three. |
| 1:40.3 | This is super acidic, but when we're talking about the blood, we're talking about a very narrow range between 7.35 and 7.45. |
| 1:51.0 | 7 being neutral, so anything greater than seven is more alkaline, and anything |
| 1:57.6 | less than seven is more acidic. |
| 2:00.9 | So you can see blood is slightly alkaline. Now when we're talking about being too acidic or |
| 2:06.7 | to alkaline, we're really talking about two different conditions. One being too acid, |
| 2:11.4 | it would be acidosis, and the other one to alkalosis. |
| 2:12.8 | And the other one to alkaline being alkalosis. |
| 2:16.7 | Now if you understand the symptoms for each different condition, |
| 2:20.0 | you can help to use the right remedy. |
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