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originally posted by: loam
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Seriously, people, don't do anything stupid. The purpose of this thread is to merely discuss an entirely unscientific, but interesting, observation on my part.
A week or so ago, I watched this video about a woman who lived through the 1918 Spanish Flu era. She claimed her family was the only one in their town to avoid infection. You can see it here:
She attributed their "luck" to the possibility of her mother's insistence that their family take a daily dose of bicarbonate soda.
Certainly not compelling testimony at this point. But then I remembered something that has been bugging me for a while.
Germany.
Look at the ratio of their CFR (case fatality rate) relative to their European neighbors:
Odd, no?
So maybe its just related to timing and the CFR will come in line in a few days with everyone else. But I've been watching their numbers for quite awhile and they just aren't tracking in the same way as other countries. I've read that some attribute it to their healthcare system. But I know that system and I see little material difference to others in western Europe. But maybe they are right. Time will tell.
But returning to the topic of this thread, I decided to do some research on sodium bicarbonate to see if there was any scientific evidence that it might help with something like this current crisis.
Frankly, there doesn't seem to be much out there. I certainly found many adjacent studies addressing bacterial and fungal infections. And a few related to SB as an external disinfectant. But nothing directly on point. (Maybe some of you could find something and post it here in this thread. I'll, of course, keep looking.)
There was, however, this interesting posting:
Baking Soda May Help Fight Colds And The Flu
Some people believe that when taken internally, baking soda can help maintain the pH balance in your bloodstream.
This is likely the basic premise behind its recommended uses against both colds and influenza symptoms. In their booklet “Arm & Hammer Baking Soda Medical Uses,” published in 1924, Dr. Volney S. Cheney recounts his clinical successes with sodium bicarbonate in treating cold and flu:
“In 1918 and 1919 while fighting the ‘flu’ with the U. S. Public Health Service it was brought to my attention that rarely anyone who had been thoroughly alkalinized with bicarbonate of soda contracted the disease, and those who did contract it, if alkalinized early, would invariably have mild attacks.
I have since that time treated all cases of ‘cold,’ influenza and LaGripe by first giving generous doses of bicarbonate of soda, and in many, many instances within 36 hours the symptoms would have entirely abated.
Further, within my own household, before Woman’s Clubs and Parent-Teachers’ Associations, I have advocated the use of bicarbonate of soda as a preventive for ‘colds,’ with the result that now many reports are coming in stating that those who took ‘soda’ were not affected, while nearly everyone around them had the ‘flu.’
Recommended dosages from the Arm & Hammer Company for colds and influenza back in 1925 were:
Day 1 — Take six doses of ½ teaspoon of baking soda in glass of cool water, at about two-hour intervals
Day 2 — Take four doses of ½ teaspoon of baking soda in glass of cool water, at the same intervals
Day 3 — Take two doses of ½ teaspoon of baking soda in glass of cool water morning and evening, and thereafter ½ teaspoon in glass of cool water each morning until cold symptoms are gone
Snake oil? Perhaps.
But this brings me back to Germany.
originally posted by: visitedbythem
My kids have told me about a doctor who cured people of all kinds of diseases including multiple cancer patients. He brought their body's pH up .
The doctor was murdered after announcing the results.
It probably does work.
Diseases need a lower pH to thrive in a body
originally posted by: Gothmog
originally posted by: visitedbythem
My kids have told me about a doctor who cured people of all kinds of diseases including multiple cancer patients. He brought their body's pH up .
The doctor was murdered after announcing the results.
It probably does work.
Diseases need a lower pH to thrive in a body
This^^^^
You would not believe where I heard this is a possibility and from "who" .
originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
a reply to: rickymouse
And isn't it also try that as we age, we have fewer digestive enzymes?
So, if nothing else, digestive enzymes would help most older individuals....if it helps thwart this virus, all the better.
originally posted by: olaru12
a reply to: one4all
.we know who they are and will know for a thousand years as we erase them one by one by one.
I don't know who they are. Tell us how to identify them so we won't get sucked in by their evil.
originally posted by: one4all
originally posted by: Gothmog
originally posted by: visitedbythem
My kids have told me about a doctor who cured people of all kinds of diseases including multiple cancer patients. He brought their body's pH up .
The doctor was murdered after announcing the results.
It probably does work.
Diseases need a lower pH to thrive in a body
This^^^^
You would not believe where I heard this is a possibility and from "who" .
Yes.
Its just a bug.
Make your body terminal to it.
A PH balanced body is one they cannot thrive in.
A body filled with natural foods that kill them is also one they cannot thrive in.
You do not need Pharmacuticals...you need natural remedies…..your BODY CURES ITSELF the Remedies do not....the remedies simply shut down the parasitic Superhighway the bugs use to blitzcreig our auto-immune systems,how do you think the arse-holes can legally stop people by suing them?...they can prove the body does the curing not the Remedys…..these are goddam monsters we are dealing with....in case people aren't clued in yet the gloves are off now its us against them.....we know who they are and will know for a thousand years as we erase them one by one by one.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: one4all
You make a very - very strong argument and I concede your point's, in Japan - specifically Okinawa there is a region were the water, the soil and even the air are naturally rich in Calcium, it also mean's it is alkaline in that region, many put it down to the diet (which is of course therefore also rich in Calcium) but other's point to a mix of factors, genetic, diet and environment all contributing toward one of the longest living populations in the world were it is not unusual for a man or woman of a hundred to still be working.