Baking soda: For cooking, cleaning, and kidney health?
Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 16:35
in Health & Medicine
A daily dose of sodium bicarbonate -- baking soda, already used for baking, cleaning, acid indigestion, sunburn, and more -- slows the decline of kidney function in some patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), reports an upcoming study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).