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Giving baking soda in food helps fix acid problems and protects kidney function in rats with damaged kidneys, but only if you first handle the high blood pressure that baking soda can cause.

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The study shows that giving sodium bicarbonate to rats with kidney problems helps their kidney function by fixing blood acidity, but only if the high blood pressure it causes is treated first, which matches the claim exactly.

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