No, baking soda does not make you lose weight.

• On the TikTok social network, Internet users seem to have found the miracle recipe for losing weight before summer: baking soda.

• Except that according to a dietician, interviewed by "20 Minutes", the mixture is not necessarily effective in the long term.

• It also warns about the quantities to be respected, which must remain low.

Summer is in full swing and like every year, Internet users are using their little techniques to achieve the perfect “summer body”.

If it is not essential to bring in your suitcase, it puts pressure on some holidaymakers who are afraid to put on a swimsuit.

Latest trend to date, baking soda would help lose weight according to several publications seen on TikTok.

Published on July 10, a video recommends, for example, drinking a glass of baking soda mixed with lemon every morning “to gradually purify the body of its toxins”.

"The elixir" - as it is named in the video - would act as a dietary supplement and serve as an appetite suppressant.

Very quickly, the debate is created in the comments of the video: "I'm going to test", or on the contrary: "It's a product for cleaning, I don't know if I want to taste".

According to a dietician, interviewed by

, if the product is not dangerous, the baking soda technique is not very appropriate in the long term.

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Before leaving this summer, should you inflict shots of baking soda on yourself to try to lose the extra pounds?

No, dietician Valérie Samama answers straight away, “baking soda does not make you lose weight as such”.

In reality, the so-called miracle cure will act more like an appetite suppressant, as the video indicates.

“It doesn't help with weight loss, but it has satiating properties.

It only fills the stomach,” explains the dietitian.

Baking soda can be used more in the treatment of gastric disorders.

The

dictionary describes it as “an antacid used to relieve indigestion or heartburn (sour stomach)”.

But experts warn: “Baking soda often causes belching and abdominal discomfort.

Due to excessive sodium intake, prolonged use may lead to ankle edema and nausea.

For the same reason, it is contraindicated in cases of heart or kidney failure (risk of oedema).

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Not a long term solution

In her office in Levallois-Perret, Valérie Samama meets many patients interested in this new trend.

"I would never recommend this technique to them," says the dietician, who instead recommends "a balanced, healthy, varied diet, with natural products, minerals, vitamins."

For the practitioner, the technique - if it is not scientifically proven - is however not dangerous.

Only, Valérie Samama warns on two points.

On the one hand, the duration of the treatment.

“It has to be maintained over a short period of time, and not over several months”.

On the other hand, the doses remain to be monitored.

"As with many diets, if you take really large amounts, it can be annoying."

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Diets as the summer holidays approach, Valérie Samama sees them parade every spring.

“At this time, patients want to lose weight very quickly.

It's possible, but you have to keep in mind that the most complicated thing afterwards is not to gain weight again”.

According to her, this is the whole problem of restrictive diets.

“We inevitably resume a more or less normal diet afterwards.

And above all, we create big deficiencies, ”she warns.

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