EndAllDisease
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When describing the role of bicarbonate and pH in the body, Dr. Mark Sircus writes in his book Sodium Bicarbonate that it works to neutralize the acid in the blood.
When you add baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) to vinegar (acid), it bubbles and carbon dioxide is produced, so it would make sense to me that acids would be neutralized by bicarbonate and converted into CO2 and help stimulate it's production.
However, today while listening to the Ray Peat lecture called 'The Biology of Carbon Dioxide', I heard him talk about a guy named Peter A Stewart who, when asked 'what is the role of bicarbonate in acid base regulation' said, "none".
If it doesn't work in this way, then what is actually happening with the introduction of carbon dioxide into the body...
1. To the bloodstream, and,
2. To the cell
However, today while listening to the Ray Peat lecture called 'The Biology of Carbon Dioxide', I heard him talk about a guy named Peter A Stewart who, when asked 'what is the role of bicarbonate in acid base regulation' said, "none".
If it doesn't work in this way, then what is actually happening with the introduction of carbon dioxide into the body...
1. To the bloodstream, and,
2. To the cell