Recently, a team of Zhe Ming and Hu Wei of Zhejiang University published a study in the academic magazine ELife in August this year, which triggered a heated discussion on 40 patients with advanced liver cancer who tried to use sodium bicarbonate (commonly known as baking soda) to treat cancer. "It seems like I'm going to buy more soda and I often drink." Ms. Zhang, a Haikou citizen, saw this news and sent out a WeChat circle of friends. Many people also think that drinking soda can change the acidic body and play an anti-cancer effect. In this regard, Hainan Provincial Cancer Hospital experts said that there is currently no evidence that drinking soda has health care, balance body pH role.
Niu Huimin, director of the Intervention Center of Hainan Cancer Hospital, said in an interview with reporters that the so-called use of baking soda to treat cancer is actually using a technique called intervention that injects soda into the tumor microenvironment. Lactic acid in the blood prevents tumor cells from growing using lactic acid, not drinking soda. Niu Huimin explained that the tumor microenvironment is a complex integrated system that is different from the microenvironment formed by normal cells and their surrounding tissues. Tissue hypoxia and acidosis, the production of a large number of growth factors and proteolytic enzymes, and immune inflammatory reactions constitute the biological characteristics of the metabolic environment of tumors. This characteristic has implications for tumor proliferation, invasion, migration, adhesion, and neovascularization. The formation has an important influence. Increasing the tumor therapeutic effect by changing the pH of tumor tissue has become a new strategy for cancer treatment.
“There is currently no evidence that drinking soda has health care and balances the body's acidity and alkalinity. And soda can't be consumed more,†Niu Huimin said. “Because of sodium, if you drink regularly and drink a lot, you will increase the risk of hypertension. In addition, some of the synthetic soda water will also contain extra sugar and fructose syrup, which will increase the risk of obesity, diabetes, and other diseases if consumed over a long period of time."
The study of baking soda by the Ming Ming and Hu Xin team showed good results in 40 people. However, this research is still in the experimental stage. Regarding how long it takes for a study to formally enter clinical application, Niu Huimin stated that a clinical study must first be approved by the Medical Ethics Committee and verified by animal experiments before it can enter human trials. After undergoing phase III clinical trials to prove that it is effective on the human body, it can finally get regulatory approval for listing applications. But this is not the end, there is a fourth phase of clinical trials, the purpose is to examine the efficacy and adverse reactions of the drug under widely used conditions. This baking soda test is just a frontier verification test, and it is still too early for large-scale promotion. (Source: Hainan Daily Author: Maki)
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