I don’t think you’ll ever look at baking soda the same way again after reading these 13 benefits!
As a doctor, I use it for some remedies that will surprise you. Baking soda is easy to add to your regimen, so let’s go over some ways to use it!
1. Alkalizing The Body
You certainly don’t want to consume baking soda every day as food, but it can help counteract acid in your body.
If you’re in the middle of a gout flare-up, an acid level attack, or a problem with your digestive system or joints, half a teaspoon of baking soda in water can help.
Simply drinking that is a quick way to swing your body back over to being more alkaline, which has saved a lot of people from suffering and given them quick relief.
It’s going to calm the joints down, and level out the uric acid in your system.
2. Absorbing Heavy Metals
Baking soda is fantastic to eliminate heavy metals in the body that we get exposed to, whether they’re in our water, medication or food.
If you know you’ve been recently exposed to heavy metals, drink half a teaspoon of baking soda mixed with water.
You have to be careful about the baking soda that you buy, because it could come with heavy metals already in it.
Try to look for a natural form of baking soda that has been heavy-metal tested.
Since baking soda absorbs heavy metals so well, it doesn’t take much to get heavy metals in your baking soda.
Now you’re cooking with it, baking with it, and ingesting heavy metals because the baking soda absorbed it.
3. Absorbing Radiation
Half a teaspoon of baking soda in water can help with radiation after an X-ray, MRI, or CT scan, especially when contrast dye is involved.
I would drink that 1-3 times a day for anywhere from 3-7 days after heavy radiation exposure.
We do have to get medical tests sometimes, but if it involves heavy metals or radiation, baking soda is fantastic to take afterwards.
There’s a video you can watch that goes over my full protocol for going through medical testing.
4. Natural Toothpaste
Baking soda is a natural toothpaste, a natural whitener for the teeth, and eliminates halitosis, otherwise known as bad breath.
If you have some stinky breath, or if your teeth are getting kind of yellow, put your toothbrush under the water and dip it into baking soda once a week.
It’s very cheap and easy to use. If you get a quality baking soda, you could even use it every day.
If you’re in a pinch, you can also mix baking soda with water and swish it around in the mouth to deodorize it.
5. Facial Scrub & Exfoliant
Try putting baking soda in a cup with a little bit of water and making a paste out of it.
You can then use that as an exfoliant and a facial scrub that is cheap and easy to use.
Excess skin and oil on the face is easy to get rid of with baking soda!
6. Deodorant
If you have an excessive sweating problem, you may want to try and put baking soda on your underarms.
You could make that same paste or get some in powder form and put it on the underarms to see how it affects your sweating and odor.
7. Soothes Irritated Skin
If you have a bug bite or a rash, you can use a simple baking soda paste for a soothing effect.
This will neutralize the acids oftentimes involved in a bite, or with coming into contact with some kind of plant or something that gives you a rash.
Baking soda will give you some quick relief from any skin-related irritation.
8. Cleaner
We know that baking soda is an excellent cleaner, but in the bathroom, it can also help clean some of the harder things, like a brush or a comb.
Put baking soda in water, mix it up, and then put your brushes and combs in to cleanse them.
This is a simple thing to do to keep them sanitary if you haven’t cleaned them in a while, and the same would apply to a toothbrush.
9. Foot Soak
Baking soda is fantastic to use as a foot soak because it has a detoxifying effect.
It’s also exfoliating, so this would be a good time to work on any calluses or rough part of your feet.
You could even file your feet if you have warts and plantar warts on the feet, because the baking soda will detoxify them.
If you have sore or hurting feet, this is going to help soothe them.
Put a half-cup to a full cup of baking soda in enough water to submerge your feet in to get some relief.
10. Home Cleaning
Baking soda can be a really good cleanser for the tub, sink, or other grimy, mildewy areas of your floor or bathroom.
Adding some of the powder or using the paste might be a way to do a non-toxic cleanse of some of the dirty areas of your house.
11. Deodorizer
Baking soda is a great deodorizer, which means you can keep it in the fridge to eliminate bad odors, or in any other stinky areas of the house.
But it’s especially good if you have stinky feet and shoes!
Sprinkle a little bit of baking soda on your shoes each day when you come home. This is a good way to deodorize them, especially if they’re starting to smell over time.
12. Cleansing Wash
Baking soda can easily be added to a wash cycle to help give extra deodorizing to a t-shirt, workout clothes, or anything that needs to be freshened up.
For linens, for example, you could add a little bit of baking soda into the wash to give it that extra non-toxic freshness.
13. Detoxifying Bath
If you take an Epsom salt bath, it will extract toxins at the skin level, provide magnesium, and help you relax.
But if you add a half-cup to a full cup of baking soda, you’re going to get more of a detoxifying effect.
Baking soda’s exfoliating, so you’re going to get a good cleanse on the outside, too.
If you suffer from inflammation, which a lot of us do, this is a great way to soothe those muscles or joints that are in pain.
I actually put together an entire inflammation video that you can follow to get inflammation in the body down quickly.
