Can Baking Soda help in the fight against COVID-19?

As I search for ways to maintain my health and wellness, I personally enjoy researching alternative methods of treatment that have a strong scientific thesis. This mentality and my commitment to learning, educating and growing inspired Archetype’s Core Value – We are Curious.

In my efforts to get curious, I had a conversation with my good friend and colleague Dr. Bill Seeds, President of the International Peptide Society and a leading expert in health and human performance. He just released a compelling blog highlighting the merits of baking soda (also known as sodium bicarbonate) as a means of preventing contraction or reducing the intensity of our symptoms of a cold, influenza and even a virus such as COVID-19.

Currently, the US government is examining drugs that have historically treated symptoms of Malaria, HIV, Hepatitis-C, and Rheumatoid Arthritis as potential treatments for the novel coronavirus. One of these drugs, Chloroquine, contains an intercellular pH neutralizing compound.

As it turns out, many viral activations are pH dependent. Dr. Bill Seeds blog discusses the idea that viruses thrive more readily in cellular environments that are more acidic. Typically, once a virus penetrates a host cell it can “hijack” the cell’s DNA and replicate or use its own viral RNA and the host cell machinery to make the proteins necessary for viral activation and replication. By increasing pH minimally and thus raising alkalinity, you halt the virus’s ability to replicate and increase the cell’s resistance to foreign intruders.

If you’re curious like me, learn more about how baking soda might help bulletproof our bodies. Check out Dr. Seeds blog at:
https://seeds.md/fight-covid19-with-this-ingredient-you-have-at-home/

Yours in health,

Simon Bennett - Founder