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Can ½ of a Teaspoon of Baking Soda Before Each Meal Cure (Auto-)Immune Disease? Or is this Just a Misinterpretation of the Words of an Overzealous Press Release Writer?

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The press release that accompanied the publication of a study from the Augusta University  seems to promote baking soda as a panacea for every (auto-) immune/inflammation-related disease.  It sounds almost too good what a recently published press-release from the Augusta University claims ( read it ): "A daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis." WOW! ... but wait. This cannot be true, can it? Well, the mechanism that is introduced in the press release does not seem to be totally absurd. The fact that a temporary alkalization of the otherwise acidic chyme in the stomach will trigger for the production of an increased amount of stomach acid has been known for decades (it is also why classic antacids usually make heartburn worse when used more than occasionally | Maton 1999 ). You can learn more about bicarbonate and pH-buffers at the SuppVersity Caffeine + Bicarb Make Champions Alka...
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Gluten Free, But not Suitable For Celiacs: Milk, Chocolate, Corn, Instant Coffee and 20 Other Foods & Food Ingredients That Could Cross-React With Gluten Anti-Bodies

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Unless you got the right, i.e. breast milk as a baby and have rendered your gut "gluten proof" - being breast fed, when you are first exposed (or being exposed later in life) has after all been suggested as a protective factor (Farrell. 2005) This is not going to be a long post; and still, at least for some of you it is going to be an important post. A post that may have the potential to change your life for the better or for the worse depending on whether you actually suffer from gluten-intolerance or have simply been bamboozeled by the "gluten is the devil" messages that are plastered all over the Internet these days. Actually, I would hope that you belong to neither of the groups and can thus simply ignore this post. For the unfortunate rest, I have prepared a mini-summary of the results of a recent study from the Immunosciences Lab in Los Angeles (Vojdani. 2013) Milk and cornflakes - a killer combo A couple of recent studies, as well as reports from p...
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Vitamin A Educates T-Cells, Joins Forces With Vitamin D Against Liver Cancer. Milk Better Than Sugary Electrolyte Solutions for Rehydration? Helicobactor Pylori: Probiotics from Breast Milk & Feces Better Than Amoxicillin!

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Lactobacilli are hip, vitamin A is not - at the SuppVersity you still get news on both 1kg! That's the amount of weight you could probably lose if you rid yourself of all the microbes in your gut - from the weight of the bacteria alone, of course. Whether this would be a good idea or not, is however very questionable. On the one hand, we do have the still not fully understood studies on obesity-resistant germ free mice and an accumulating amount of evidence that having the "wrong" bacteria in the gut is at least associated with an increased obesity risk (Blaut. 2012). On the other hand, however, we are seeing new studies on the various benefits of having the "right" gut microbiome being published on an almost daily basis. So what? Before we take a closer look at a definite benefit of having the "right" gut bacteria, though, let's start out with another likewise gut-related news item on the role of retinoic acid in T-cell education. In a way i...
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Stevia - More Than Super Sweet: More Scientific Evidence, More Potential Implications for Weight Loss & -Maintenance, Anti-Diabetic & -Autoimmune and Even Pro-Anabolic Effects

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Image 1: Stevia is sweeter than sugar, healthier than sugar and could even help reverse some of the damage sugar may already have done to your pancreas. I know that a few of you were almost furious, when I had the audacity to mention the case-report on the pro-cortisol effects of stevia in the On Short Notice post on Saturday, August 18, 2012 ; and though I did emphasize that this was most likely something like an allergic reaction and/or an issue with solvents, heavy metals ( click here for data on heavy metals in stevia leaves; based on Das. 2012), or whatever else may have been in the specific stevia product the lady used; I suspect that you will like today's blogpost which is basically an update on the beneficial effects stevia could have on your overall and metabolic health, much better. So what's the latest about stevia, then? Previous studies have already hinted at the fact that the benefits of the use of stevia go well beyond a mere reduction in energy intake...
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CLnA, the "Omega-3 Variety" of CLA from Pomegranate & Co, Has Potent Anti-Obesity Effects and the Potential to Become More Than Just Another Anti-Diabetes Drug.

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Image 1: Pomegranate - I loved to eat them even before I realized that their seeds are the #1 dietary source (83%) of punic acid. While more and more people are beginning to grasp the notion that with (naturally occurring) fats - as with everything else in life - there is no simple "good" and "bad", no clearcut "black" and "white" and no definite "beneficial" and "detrimental". The number of different fatty acids and their respective effects on the human metabolism is so vast that it is pretty hard to keep track of all those varieties of saturated and unsaturated carboxylic acids. I would thusly not be surprised if you simply assumed that the "n" in the headline of this blogpost was a type that had slipped in because poor Dr.Andro is chronically stressed from Christmas shopping... well, while the latter is actually correct, the former is not: CLnA is actually the omega-3 variety of the famous conjugated linoic ac...
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