Fun biology fact: your body can even produce its own sodium bicarbonate, via the pancreas, but when acid levels rise too high, the pancreas can’t keep up, which is why a timely supplement of exogenous ...

Sodium bicarbonate isn’t a new concept when it comes to sport. There’s plenty of research that shows that ingesting it can improve an athlete’s performance and their anaerobic capacity — the ability ...

Baking soda is a deceptively simple product that has a long list of uses outside the culinary world. In fact, baking soda has been heralded as a way to absorb and neutralize unwelcome bathroom odors, ...

During a recent shift, our emergency department (ED) team saw a patient with fairly severe diabetic ketoacidosis. The patient's serum bicarbonate level was 6 mEq/L and the venous pH was 6.85. During ...

When Grant Fisher stepped off the track at Boston University on Feb. 14, it wasn’t entirely a shock that the American distance runner had just broken the world record for the indoor 5,000 meters. For ...