A lot of different brands of toothpaste now have bicarbonate or baking soda in
them. Usually listed on the box, (crest, sensodyne, etc)

kathy
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Subject: [CFS-FMS_FIRST-Aid] BICARBONATE & Fatigue and Plaque Formation and
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I thought this was interesting. Also if this will help fatigue in
athlets; why wouldn't it help fatigue with various illnesses?
Wouldn't this be good for those whom sauna too?
Plus it is certainly good for teeth and cavities; that must be why
the recipe I have for using when brushing one's teeth has a lot of
bicarbonate in it. (in third article down - "Bicarbonate has been shown to
decrease
dental plaque acidity induced by sucrose and its buffering capacity is
important
to prevent dental cavities. Other studies have shown that bicarbonate inhibits
plaque formation on teeth and, in addition, increases calcium uptake by dental
enamel."
Can anyone explain exactly the difference exactly
between food-grade baking soda, Bicarbonate and food-grade Epson Salts?
Best wishes
Shan

Bicarbonate in Drinking Water
http://www.mgwater.com/page2.shtml

Bicarbonate is essential for maintaining the acid-base balance of the blood.
When ingested with mineral water, it helps buffer lactic acid generated during
exercise and also reduces the acidity of dietary components. Drinking mineral
water before exercising can help muscular fatigue and so increase the
performance of short- term physical exercise. Magnesium bicarbonate in
drinking water
enters body cells and increases the concentrations of bicarbonate ions inside
body cells.


Effects of ingested bicarbonate
http://www.mgwater.com/bicarb.shtml
For digestion, bicarbonate is naturally produced by the gastric membrane in
the stomach. This production will be low in alkaline conditions and will rise
in response to acidity. In healthy individuals this adaptive mechanism will
control the pH perfectly. To modify this pH with exogenous doses of
bicarbonate,
some clinical experiments have been conducted with sodium bicarbonate loads as
high as 6 g. Only a transient effect on pH has been obtained. It is quite
possible that bicarbonate in water may play a buffering role in the case of
people sensitive to gastric acidity. Thus bicarbonate may be helpful for
digestion.

The most important effect of bicarbonate ingestion is the change in acid-base
balance as well as blood pH and bicarbonate concentration in biological
fluids. It has been studied particularly in physically active people. Among
the
types of acid produced, lactic acid generated during exercise is buffered by
bicarbonate. In a study on sports, a dose of 0.3 g per kg of body weight of
sodium
bicarbonate was given (15.25 g bicarbonate for a man of 70 kg) to subjects
before performing 30 minutes cycling. While blood pH was increased and then
maintained constant with this bicarbonate load due to the changes in blood
bicarbonate concentrations, increased acidity and decreased bicarbonate blood
concentration were observed in controlled subjects. Mineral water which
contains
bicarbonate (>600 mg/l) may have an effect on acid-base balance. It is the
case of
Qu zac. The daily consumption of 1.5 liter of Qu zac in healthy subjects has
produced a significant increase in the urinary pH due to the ingested
bicarbonate (1685 mg/l).


Prevention of renal stones

Bicarbonate also reduces the acidity of dietary components such as proteins.
As an example, adding sodium or even more potassium bicarbonate to subjects on
a high protein diet known to acidify urine and leading to hypercalciuria
(high level of calcium in urine) has been shown to greatly reduce calcium
urinary
excretion. The effect has been observed with 5.5 g of bicarbonate supplement
received daily for two weeks. A recent study presented in the review of
literature highlights that a bicarbonate-rich mineral water could be useful in
the
prevention of the recurrence of calcium oxalate and uric acid renal stones.

Many oral hydration solutions contain bicarbonate showing the usefulness of
bicarbonate to control water absorption in patients at risk of dehydration.

Sodium intake is restricted in patients with hypertension, but it is
demonstrated that the accompanying anion, such as bicarbonate or chloride,
plays an
important role. It is now well established that sodium bicarbonate as well as
citrate and phosphate salts do not raise blood pressure to the same extent as
do
the corresponding amounts of sodium chloride. A study on mineral water
containing sodium bicarbonate has confirmed the absence of effect on blood
pressure
in elderly individuals.

Bicarbonate has been shown to decrease dental plaque acidity induced by
sucrose and its buffering capacity is important to prevent dental cavities.
Other
studies have shown that bicarbonate inhibits plaque formation on teeth and, in
addition, increases calcium uptake by dental enamel. This effect of
bicarbonate on teeth is so well recognized that sodium bicarbonate-containing
tooth
powder was patented in the USA in October 1985. Sodium bicarbonate has been
suggested to increase the pH in the oral cavity, potentially neutralizing the
harmful effects of bacterial metabolic acids. Sodium bicarbonate is
increasingly
used in dentifrice and its presence appears to be less abrasive to enamel and
dentine than other commercial toothpaste.


Bicarbonate helps physically active people combat fatigue
(news vol 3, no 1, May 2001)

An ingestion of 300 mg/kg of body weight of bicarbonate before exercising
will help you reduce muscular fatigue and so increase the performance of
short-
term physical exercise. Thus drinking mineral water containing bicarbonate may
contribute to this beneficial intake.

Sportsmen continuously have two problems to solve : the other athletes to
overtake and fatigue to overcome.

The causes of fatigue are multifactorial, either they have physiological or
psychological origins. From the physiological point of view, fatigue can have
a
central or peripheral origin. Among the peripheral causes, fatigue could be
due to the accumulation of metabolites in muscle, such as lactates, hydrogen
ions and ammonia. During prolonged submaximal effort, the major cause of
fatigue
is the energy substrate depletion (namely carbohydrates), but it has been
shown that hyperthermia (over 40.1 C) or dehydration (over 1 or 2 % of body
weight loss) could also contribute to the occurrence of fatigue.

In fact, to optimise performance, it is important to minimise fatigue and to
delay its appearance. Athletes are aware of substances which could offset
fatigue and since the 90s the use of sodium bicarbonate has become usual among
sportsmen to buffer the acids produced during exercise.























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