NEVER Drink Baking Soda Until You Watch This!

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Is baking soda safe to drink? It has been used in countless natural remedies, but are there any baking soda dangers you should be aware of? Watch this video before drinking baking soda or using a baking soda remedy!

0:00 Introduction: Is baking soda safe to drink?

0:39 Baking soda health benefits

0:49 Baking soda for an acid stomach

2:49 Baking soda for teeth and oral health

4:33 How to safely use baking soda

5:11 Other natural remedies using baking soda

Sodium bicarbonate is an alkaline compound made naturally by the pancreas to help neutralize stomach acid as it enters the small intestine. A poorly functioning pancreas can result in bloating, diarrhea, and constipation.

Baking soda can work as a temporary solution for an acid stomach, but not for indigestion! Indigestion is caused by low stomach acid, so baking soda would only worsen the problem. Apple cider vinegar and betaine hydrochloride can help with indigestion.

GERD and acid reflux are also related to low stomach acid, but baking soda can help temporarily. ACV and betaine hydrochloride are better long-term solutions. Baking soda can also help with gastritis, but it should be taken with zinc carnosine for this problem.

Stomach acid should be highly acidic with a pH between 1 and 3. Drinking baking soda for long periods can neutralize your stomach acid, inhibiting your ability to digest protein, absorb B12, and absorb minerals. Low stomach acid can also lower your ability to kill microbes and pathogens in your food.

Baking soda neutralizes the acid in your mouth and is an excellent addition to toothpaste. It can also help relieve itching related to a kidney problem and enhance athletic performance!

Baking soda consumption can help prevent kidney stones and can also be helpful if you have a UTI.

Baking soda can be used topically for certain insect bites, especially for fire ant bites and bee stings. It can also be used as pest control for insects like cockroaches.

Don't take baking soda with vinegar or lemon juice! This creates a significant amount of carbon dioxide, which can leave you feeling bloated.

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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0:00.0	Do not take baking soda unless you watch this video.
0:04.0	Baking soda has the potential to help or even poison you.
0:07.3	Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate.
0:10.1	It's an alkaline compound.
0:11.7	And guess what?
0:12.3	Your body makes it.
0:13.2	Your pancreas makes it.
0:14.5	As the strong acid comes from your stomach into the small intestine,
0:17.8	if that pancreas does not release enough sodium bicarbonate, you don't get
0:21.7	any of the benefits from the enzymes coming from the pancreas to help you digest fats and other things.
0:27.7	This is why when someone's pancreas is not working, boy, they can get severe bloating, they get
0:33.5	diarrhea, they get constipation. We need a really strong acid stomach, and then we need an alkaline
0:39.1	small intestine. Let's talk first about the benefits of baking soda. Baking soda being an alkaline
0:44.3	substance can be beneficial for temporarily relieving an acid stomach. I have to clarify something
0:51.6	because when we talk about an acidic stomach, a lot of things come up.
0:54.4	You might have like gurd, acid reflux. All those things are a little bit different because you
0:59.9	never want to take baking soda when you have indigestion. Indigestion is like this backup of food that
1:05.9	just you feel like your stomach is like cramping. That is a classic low acid or a lack of acid situation.
1:14.5	So of course, adding more baking soda is just going to go from bad to worse. Anytime we have
1:18.5	indigestion, you need to take either apple cider vinegar or something called betane hydrochloride.
1:23.9	It'll fix it really fast. But when we get into more of an acidic stomach, whether it is acid
1:29.2	reflex or gurd, if you wanted some temporary relief as you fix the problem, a little bit of
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