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For starters, it’s packed with sodium. As per the American Heart Association, the daily allotment for sodium should ideally not exceed 2,300 mg, and a single teaspoon of baking soda contains ...

Don’t take baking soda within 2 hours of other medications. When the baking soda lowers stomach acid, it can slow the rate at which your body absorbs some medicines and change the way others work.

Baking soda supplementation wasn’t associated, however, with improvements in blood pressure or cardiovascular disease risk. These findings affirmed 15 or so other studies on the topic.

It has a name too. “This new ‘soda loading’ is kind of the new thing we’re seeing,” Youssef said. She said baking soda also has other, more well-known health benefits.