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Can Baking Soda Treat Crohn's and Colitis?
Against the Grain
English - October 18, 2018 21:22 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness disease crohn's ulcerative colitis diet samir Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The answer is we don’t know yet but there may be a mechanism to explain how it theoretically could be anti-inflammatory and possibly helpful for autoimmune disease. Today I spoke with Dr. Paul O’Connor who recently published some very interesting work on anti-inflammatory effects of baking soda -- something that you probably have in your fridge right now. However, as a disclaimer, this is not an endorsement or recommendation to use baking soda for IBD as it has not been FDA approved and has not been studied in the form of a randomized controlled trial (which admittedly would be a lot easier to do than some of the other treatments discussed in other episode so I am optimistic that it will eventually be done).