Baking Soda and Maple Syrup Cancer Treatment

Is Mrs. Butterworth the latest anti-cancer crusader? Can eating pancakes cure cancer? No and no.

The maple syrup and baking soda cancer treatment is another in the seemingly endless line of sham treatments thrown together by people of low morals who are hoping to cash in on cancer in one form or another.

In this protocol, the patient is instructed to purchase 100 percent maple syrup and aluminum-free baking soda. In measured quantities, they will combine the two in a saucepan and, after stirring for a bit, consume the finished product.

How does it work?

It doesn't work. But here's the hypothesis that proponents use to support its efficacy:

Baking soda is "very alkaline" and is therefore an effective anti-cancer agent. (a number of other sham treatments function according to the alkaline logic, such as cesium chloride).

In order for this cancer killing BS (i.e. baking soda ...) to get past the cell membrane and into the cell, it requires a carrier. In this case, it is the maple syrup because, as one site argues, "maple syrup targets cancer cells (which consume 15 times more glucose than normal cells) ". Thus, glucose-mad cancer cells ingest the maple syrup like a fat man on pancake day at I-HOP, not realizing that in doing so they have ingested their doom in the form of the baking soda.

Now, let's assume cancer cells consume glucose at the stated clip--this presupposes, without offering anything to support it, that there will be no maple syrup for healthy cells. But there's no reason to believe that this concoction, assuming for a moment it actually worked like this, wouldn't also end up killing many, many healthy cells and tissue along the way. The best they can offer is that there are tiny, cancer-specific microbes inside cancer cells, and the baking soda kills these microbes.

The entire scientific community anxiously awaits evidence of these microbes.

All patients are encouraged to discuss all their treatment options with their physician, including this one.

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