Slow Disease With This Product Found In Your Kitchen

Cook with it, Clean with it, Treat sunburn with it ... and now slow disease with it.

Ivanoe Newswire has reported that research from the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology suggests that sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, may slow the progression of chronic kidney disease.

Researchers studied 134 patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and low bicarbonate levels. The patients were divided into two groups, one group received a small daily dose of sodium bicarbonate in tablet form, and the other group received their routine treatment.

In the group receiving the baking soda tablets, the decline in kidney function was reduced by two-thirds. Only 9 percent of those taking the tablets experienced a rapid progression of kidney disease, compared with 45 percent in the second group.

Baking soda may be an inexpensive and simple way to treat patients with chronic kidney disease. Remember, this was not a blind study -- researchers knew which patients received the tablets; also, there was no placebo group. Of course, future studies will be necessary for validation.