if the entire human race were on trial, facing a judgment of total extinction, for crimes against nature and for being irredeemably evil, and i were called upon to defend humanity in cosmic court, my sole defense would be this video…
your body's buffering system is based upon the equilibrium between CO2 dissolved in your blood and bicarbonate anion [HCO3]-
it's already in you and critical to life fuctions
you cannot appreciably affect it by bathing in bicarbonate or drinking it
but you go ahead and believe what the snakeoil saleswoman told you