Why does taking too much Sodium Bicarbonate / Baking Soda cause diarrhea?

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Why does taking too much Sodium Bicarbonate / Baking Soda cause diarrhea?

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Acid + Base = Salt + Water

This makes your digestive system be flooded with water and salt from the stomach acids being neutralized.

Rather than having to process all the salt in the kidneys, the body flushes it out of the bowels.

Also Carbonate makes CO2 gas, putting gas pressure in the digestive system causing either burping, or digestive distress (think explosive, gas powered diarrhea)