Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is a remarkable product. Other vinegars do not have its properties. I do not know about baking soda, but I would worry about consuming so much Sodium, as it could have effects like too much salt.Taking one tablespoon daily in water has good effects on many conditions. It does act very well against gout, which is a rheumatic condition, involving uric acid crystals in the joints, and it really hurts. Any gouty twinges go in about 12 hours, with me. I have given some to a 19 year old who had gouty symptoms(!), and they disappeared quickly. FWIW.The explorer , Ranulph Fiennes swears by it. I believe he has a rheumatic condition, but he has walked all over the globe successfullyu2026..It is oddly effective with the digestive system. It gets rid of acidosis. Yes, it is acid, and logically you treat acidosis with alkali like baking soda, or Gaviscon, which also lines the stomach with sodium alginate, or various pills like zantac, that suppress the production of stomach acid. However, it emphatically works. I wonder if it has an effect on the bacteria in the stomach such as H.pylorii that increase acid production.It also seems to be good at stopping or limiting various food poisioning organisms. There is a story of people who ate a contaminated lobster meal. None of the people using ACV were hit, but non users were. Not exhaustive evidence.I have used it as a food supplement with cattle. Growth rates were improved and the ones on ACV had much better coats and appeared better overall. Again not exhaustive evidence.It even has good effects on dandruff! As a hair wash after shampooing, leave for 5 mins and wash out.There is a lot of talk about it changing body pH to alkaline. Personally I think this is wrong. The amount used could not do this alone, unless it is controlling metabolic pathways in the body. I do not know. The body is very good at buffering excess acid or alkali, and maintaining a constant pH.There is an element of u201cif it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.u201d It seems to be active against a number of conditions that the medical profession throw some fairly nasty chemicals at, but it does not seem to have any side effects.Therefore it may be a very useful cure.(If you read up on the pain killers used against gout, and the increased heart attacks, you might avoid them, and long term use of chemicals to limit acid production in the stomach is not good.)The core issue as to why it is not better known is that there is no money in promoting its use. ( The same is true with turmeric as well, but to get the best from that you need some fat, and other spice ingredients (pepper and ginger) and soya lecethin to get the curcumin available, and there are commercial offerings. Another story.)There is an argument that you should use the cloudy variety, with the u201cmotheru201d. Again I do not know as both the cloudy and the filtered seem to work for me.I know that ACV has many other uses, and apparent successes, with other people, but I have not seen them.