Yes, lowly baking soda found at the back of the refrigerator, still priced less than one dollar per box may be the key to reducing joint inflammation caused by weather changes.  Folks, we’re in Missouri, right?   Weather changes daily, right?  Well, quite frankly this topic only became important to me when I found that after a recent knee injury I too have become the Dave Murray of weather forecasting!  What else you ask?  YES IT HURTS: stiffness, pain, and a general anxiety about what tomorrow’s weather will bring.  Then I remembered that crazy professor in college who insisted that baking soda was the cure to all maladies big and small.

Dr. Paul O’Connor, renal physiologist at the Medical College of Georgia Department of Physiology in Augusta University suggests that cells responsible for inflammation in the spleen trigger an inflammatory cascade throughout the body which can be turned off by taking baking soda for as little as two weeks.    My only suggestion is you dissolve it in water and take it on an empty stomach – that way it goes straight into the blood stream from the stomach.  The best news:  it will cost you less than a buck and only two weeks of your time to see if it works.

Wonderful news for those of us dreading weather changes!