sodium bicarbonate

I seem to recall Hip, Cort Johnson and others taking sodium bicarbonate before exercise to help reduce PEM? Sodium bicarbonate ingestion mitigates the heat-induced hyperventilation and reduction in cerebral blood velocity during exercise in heat, 2021, Akira Katagiri et al NEW & NOTEWORTHY...

Not addressing the underlying cause of course but by reducing inflammation associated with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus. It's a little bit garbled but as far as I can tell baking soda appears to reduce inflammation by inducing the cholinergic anti-inflammatory...