International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine Using Sodium and Potassium Bicarbonates in the Prevention and Treatment of all Sickness and Disease Abstract Mini Review This article suggests that the use sodium and potassium bicarbonates are non- Volume 9 Issue 6 - 2017 toxic primary alkalizing agents in the prevention and treatment of all cancers, kidney disease, liver disease, Type I & Type II diabetes, Lupus, heart disease, Pharmacological toxicosis, vascular surgery operation, tonsillar herniation due Universal Medical Imaging Group, USA to cerebral edema, lactic acid toxicosis, and hyponatremia or low salt or loss of salts due to excessive or over-exercise! *Corresponding author: Robert O Young, Universal Medical Imaging Group, 16390 Dia Del Sol Valley Center, California Keywords: Cancer; Diabetes; Lupus; Heart disease; Vascular surgery; 92082, USA, Tel: 760 751 8321; Herniation; Cerebral edema; Lactic acid toxicosis; Liver disease; Kidney disease; Email: Hyponatremia; Pharmacological toxicosis Received: January 10, 2016 | Published: December 08, 2017 Introduction Sodium and potassium bicarbonate increases the hydroxyl ions or electron levels through increased alkalinity to the cells Sodium and potassium bicarbonate are excellent agents for buffering the metabolic acids that can cause cancer [20]. It is a natural alkaline approach in the treatment for all sickness and also one of the most basic medicines in allopathic and alternative disease, including cancer. Sodium bicarbonate is the universal medicine we have for the treatment of kidney disease. Research by mainstream treatment of acidosis. It is used every day by British scientists at the Royal London Hospital shows that sodium oncologists to neutralize the heavy acidic nature of their chemical bicarbonate can dramatically slow the progress of chronic kidney and chemotherapeutic agents which are often quite toxic. Sodium bicarbonate is also used routinely in many clinical situations as understand something as simple and essential as alkaline water herein noted including many peer--reviewed journals: anddisease it is [11]. quite We the don’t same need with a sodium thousand and years potassium of scientific bicarbonate. tests to a. Severe diabetic ketoacidosis [1] Sodium and potassium bicarbonate are always present in the best alkaline drinking waters and organic raw green foods and b. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation [2] is constantly being produced by the cover cells of the stomach to c. Pregnancy [3] alkalize the acidic foods and liquids we ingest, including buffering metabolic and respiratory acids in order to maintain the alkaline d. Hemodialysis [4] design of the blood and tissues at a delicate pH of 7.365 [20]. e. Peritoneal dialysis [5,6] Pharmacological toxicosis [6] What is Latent Tissue Acidosis? f. Hepatopathy [7] Medical doctors are not taught in medical school and g. Vascular surgery operations [8] therefore do not understand or recognize latent tissue acidosis. They understand and recognize compensated acidosis and Medics and emergency room medical doctors are accustomed decompensated acidosis. In compensated acidosis, breathing increases in order to blow off more carbonic acid which decreases person’s live after a cardiac arrest--inserting IVs and breathing PCO2 because of the lowered carbonate or HCO3. When the to participating in a flurry of activity when trying to save a breathing rate can no longer get any faster and when the kidneys bicarbonate is a constant performer under such conditions and can no longer increase its’ function to keep up with the acid load, istubes, more performing commonly defibrillation used than magnesiumto restart the injections, heart, etc. which Sodium is then the blood pH starts to change from a pH of 7.365 to 7.3 then traditionally at the top of every doctor’s protocol for cardiac to 7.2. At a blood pH of 6.95 the heart relaxes and the client goes arrest. into a coma or dies. Mainstream oncologists recognize the routine involvement of Latent “acidosis” is a condition that exists when there are not late stage infections which I refer to as outfections in all cancerous enough bases in the alkalophile glands because they have been conditions. Medical savants also recognize that bacteria, yeast and used up in the process of neutralizing the acids adsorbed to mold is present in over forty percent of all cancerous conditions [9]. The most recent research in this area demonstrates how even means the blood pH has not changed but other body systems have changed.the collagen This fibbers. can then This lead leads to decompensated to compensated “acidosis” “acidosis.” where This percent of certain types of cancerous conditions [10]. the alkaline reserves of the blood are used up and the pH of the viruses, which I describe as crystallized acid, is present in fifty Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Int J Complement Alt Med 2017, 9(6): 00318 Using Sodium and Potassium Bicarbonates in the Prevention and Treatment of all Copyright: 2/5 Sickness and Disease ©2017 Young blood is altered. Decompensated “acidosis” can be determined by Current research suggests that supplemental sodium testing the blood pH, urine pH and the saliva pH. The decrease bicarbonate, like the pH Miracle pH our Salts (contains sodium in the alkaline reserves in the body can occur because of hyper- and potassium bicarbonate) is particularly helpful in speed-based proteinization, (eating meat and cheese!) or too much protein, events, including sprints, football and other fast-moving games, and hyper-carbonization, or too much sugar or from excessive or and middle-distance (up to 10km) running, swimming and over-excercise. This is why young athletes fall over dead or why cycling. “Essentially, sodium bicarbonate is an alkaline substance 80 to 90 year old folks are all shrunk up and look like prunes. They that increases the pH of the blood,” Dr Folland says. “This seems have very little or no alkaline reserves in their alkalophile glands. to reduce and offset the acidity produced in the muscles during When all the alkaline minerals are gone, so are you and your intense, anaerobic exercise that produces lactic acid most quickly, battery runs out of charge. The charge of your cellular battery such as fast running or swimming.” can be measured by testing the ORP or the oxidative reduction In Dr Folland’s study, swimmers who took the sodium potential of the blood, urine or saliva using an ORP meter. As you bicarbonate knocked 1.5 seconds off their time for 200m, a become more acidic this energy potential or ORP increases. How is Sodium Bicarbonate created In the Body? but which is substantial at elite level. difference that may seem insignificant to recreational swimmers The parietal or cover cells of the stomach split the sodium “At the last Olympics, the top four swimmers in the men’s chloride of the blood. The sodium ion is used to bind with water 200m freestyle were separated by just 1.4 seconds,” Dr Folland and carbon dioxide to form the alkaline salt, sodium bicarbonate says. “So, in theory, it could be the difference between winning a medal and not.” or NaHCO3. The biochemistry is: H20 + CO2 + NaCl = NaHCO3 + HCL. This is why I call the stomach an alkalizing organ not an organ Anyone can try it, he says, but only those who are serious of digestion. The stomach does not digest the food or liquids we enough to monitor their times and progress in sports such ingest but it alkalizes the foods and liquids we ingest. We have as running, swimming or cycling may notice the few seconds one instrument in the human body to digest food and it is not the advantage it might provide. “The increments of improvement stomach it is your teeth. Once we swallow our food or drink the stomach begins to prepare the food by alkalizing it in a bath of someone who competes,” Dr Folland says. sodium bicarbonate. are relatively small to the average person, although significant to Athletes for years have sworn that taking a spoonful of For each molecule of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO ) made, a 3 bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) helps them to keep going molecule of hydrochloric acid (HCL) is made and secreted into the for longer. For years, experts doubted that there was anything other than a placebo effect to these claims until they subjected pits in the stomach) - to be eliminated via the blood. Therefore the substance to rigorous examination. Most exercise scientists so-called digestive system - specifically, the stomach (the gastric HCL is an acidic waste product of sodium bicarbonate created by investigating the trend for “soda-doping” among athletes and the stomach to alkalize the food and liquids ingested. endurance and speed.” Exercise Creates Metabolic Acidic Waste Products gym-goers have shown that it offers significant benefits for which are Harmful to the Blood and Tissues At Loughborough University, for instance, physiologists reporting in the June issue of the International Journal of Sports When one exercises or over-exercises the body needs Medicine showed that swimmers who took baking soda about additional alkaline bicarbonate salts to buffer lactic acids. The additional bicarbonate is created in the stomach lining to buffer time off their usual performances. Dr Jonathan Folland, who the increased amounts of lactic acids produced as a waste product ledone thehour study, before says a 200mthat it event is not were uncommon able to shavefor top a swimmerssignificant of metabolism. The production of sodium bicarbonate will to take sodium bicarbonate (another name for the substance) always leave an acidic waste product of hydrochloric acid in the before a competition to give them an edge. Indeed, he showed gastric pits of the stomach leading to nausea, light headedness, that of nine swimmers tested, eight recorded their fastest times dizziness, muddle thinking, and poor circulation. If the excessive after ingesting a supplement of the common baking ingredient - sodium bicarbonate.