New Research re Reducing Inflammation -- Working for me -- Dramatically
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Don't know if anyone has covered this yet, but there was a U of GA study funded by NIH that started to be talked about this Spring. The scientists discovered that drinking baking soda water 2 X a day can help with inflammation. Apparently, the baking soda turns off the inflammatory production of the pancreas and TURNS ON an ANTI-INFLAMMATORY mechanism.
I was having great success with boron/turmeric/serrapeptase earlier this year for my PMR -- my lab results showed huge reductions in CRP and Sed Rate within one month of this regime. Something like a 60plus reduction right out of the box. But, even though my markers were incredibly lower, the pain/stiffness/numbness, while reduced, was still plaguing me -- not terrible and debilitating like the initial onset, but still there. Then --
I tried the baking soda. Have done it for a month now -- results ----- AMAZING. Am practically free from pain and stiffness. No, not all gone but dramatic!!!! First time in 9 months that I am practically NORMAL.
Are there complications with the baking soda -- of course. Are there complications with ANYTHING you do -- of course. Is baking soda for everyone -- NO. Don't know if you can do if on Prednisone. I WAS NOT ON PREDNISONE. I only took the pred for one week in order to be diagnosed with PMR but have not been on it since. DO YOUR HOMEWORK -- INTENSELY -- and see if it is something you could try. Just Google (or whatever) Baking Soda and Inflammation or Baking Soda and Autoimmune.
My regime -- 1/2 TEAspoon in 8 oz of water in AM and PM. I always took away from foods and medicines. Two hours either side. (This can be the hard part.) This dosage was less than some recommendations but worked for me. May need to supplement with folic acid in connection with B-12 absorption, etc., etc. Again, do your own research.
My goal was to be free of PMR within one year WITHOUT PREDNISONE. I am getting closer by the day. If my doctor had not taken 4 months to finally admit I had it, I probably would have already reached that goal But that is okay -- I'm almost there. 
Best of luck.
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pauline36422 e50553
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ptolemy pauline36422
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pauline36422 ptolemy
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ptolemy yes there the ones i was paying £11 per large bottle from costco bigger than the one from holland barret, and dialuting it with the cherry juice drink in cartons £1.50. , but now on the montmorency dark cherry capsules from troo health worth a try but like i said earlier. it 2 month b4 i noticed a differance .
BettyE e50553
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I have long felt that my immune system is over enthusiastic and cursed it when PMR struck twice. My reservation is that, while PMR was the worst thing that ever happened to me healthwise, I'd worry that damping down the immune system might mean that I was also risking my otherwise very good record by exposing my body to worse conditions that until now have been fought off by my immune system.
Very interesting read. Thank you.
doni89057 e50553
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I'm very interested in trying this, but my concern is related to what the baking soda might do to the gut microbiome. I eat a very austere diet by choice which has eliminated all of my health concerns except for the PMR, which I got while eating this way, so it obviously didn't prevent it. That said, I have been able to drop my dose of Pred very quickly and have had virtually no Pred side effects, which I contribute to the diet as I had had to take Pred several times before the diet for another issue (spine) and had awful side effects. I sure don't want to mess up my gut by trying this. I have a message out to the doctor who wrote the diet I use and am hoping that I hear back from him. Half of his patients are autoimmune cases.
Michdonn doni89057
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ricky23486 doni89057
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kate50809 ricky23486
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If you google-
Science Daily -Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease
It tells you who did the research etc. This site doesn't seem to like us sending links but google will get you there!
All the best
Kate
ricky23486 kate50809
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patricia38799 e50553
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doni89057 patricia38799
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kate50809 patricia38799
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I am also taking bi-carb - half teaspoon twice a day. I wasn't in a lot of pain so it's hard to comment. I have to start reducing the pred next week so I'm hoping it will help with that. The only thing I am sure about is that I feel better than I have for months. Still tired but my whole system feels sort of 'Tuned up'.
This is the 7th day I have been taking it. I have a problem with my hands the fronts of them are very inflamed and my fingers a bit swollen and I still get aches in my wrists in spite of the pred. If the bi-carb really works I should be able to see a difference in my hands -but maybe another week.??!!
Good luck
Kate
ricky23486 e50553
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kate50809 ricky23486
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This is his quote. He urges caution but he doesn't rule it out!!
"When asked to comment, Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, head of clinical immunology at Sheba Medical Center who holds a chair in autoimmune diseases at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, urged caution.
“There is something to baking soda. It affects many factors in the microbiome [microbes in the body] or cells in the stomach that affect cytokines that cause inflammation.” He spoke to The Jerusalem Post by phone from the Netherlands, before going to Australia to present a lecture on using diet to improve the immune system.
Don’t exaggerate; if taken, it should be in small amounts, said Shoenfeld. “Baking soda has a lot of salt, so it could raise blood pressure and interfere in diabetics.”
One could ask one’s doctor, but “they don’t know much about it,” he added. It could also interfere with medications. “I can’t make a recommendation before reading the whole paper and studying the effects on humans with chronic conditions,” said the immunologist."
I don't think half a teaspoon twice a day would be considered "exaggerating" so I find his comments quite reassuring. On he other hand I am not on any special medication - heart, diabetes or anything like that. I just don't know who you could check it out with if you were.
ricky23486 kate50809
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Well done, Kate. I was too lazy to include the full interview!
My query is this... if we are talking about what is affecting the microbiome to cause leaky gut resulting in inflammation and possibly autoimmune disease ... if we take bicarbonate (which I did today just out of curiosity) which is supposed to turn off the inflammation response - we are kind of missing the point ... since we really want to know what turns on the massive inflammation response in pmr was rather than what turns it off.
kate50809 ricky23486
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Yes, it would be good. But for the moment I am more concerned with how to switch it off!!
I will keep taking the bi-carb simply because I don't believe it will do me any harm and you never know, it just might do some good.
Anhaga ricky23486
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Probably being alive on the planet for decades and the assaults of modern life, food and chemicals. I don't think we'll ever find any one thing, just an overload of many little insults to our person throughout our lives and one day a straw breaks the camel's back.
Michdonn Anhaga
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Anhaga Michdonn
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I don't remember a virus. I do remember a very stressful time. I think there may be something in my younger life, though, which could have predisposed me to auto immune disease, and maybe that involved a virus of some sort. Don't think in my case it was as simple as catch a virus and a few months later come down with PMR. And maybe without the stress which occurred PMR would never have stirred to life.