Yup, baking soda. Yup, alkalize.
Other things you're saying sound right.
OT a bit, we've talked about releasing the cures. As if there is some hi tech solution.
We live in a country that tries to hide these solutions that we've known a long time.
Baking soda is not profitable. Monopoly profits cannot be used to bribe politicians, there are no monopoly profits. So artificial things and not natural things are used to treat, despite the fact that it makes 100% perfect sense that the solution to natural problems is not likely at all to be something that needed to be invented recently.