In July 2026, people searched for legitimate AlkaSlim reviews after viewing videos alleging Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Ania Jastreboff endorsed a baking soda recipe for weight loss and bottle of supplements bearing the “Alka” name.
For example, social media and website ads led to a purported “Today” show website with the headline, “Yale Doctor Reveals the $1 Baking Soda Recipe That Helped Oprah Drop 43 lbs — Without Injections.” That website featured a lengthy video presentation showing Winfrey, Jastreboff and others pitching a “baking soda water shot” recipe and supposed rave AlkaSlim reviews.
In sum, my investigation determined AlkaSlim capsules and the baking soda recipe promise were part of a long-running scam. Winfrey and Jastreboff never endorsed AlkaSlim or a “baking soda water shot,” nor did any other doctors, university officials, hospital personnel or celebrities. Further research found any positive AlkaSlim reviews were fake or misguided.
Scammers have for many years featured Winfrey alongside marketing for bogus weight loss products, and the “Today” show reported about fake GLP-1 and weight loss ads flooding social media.
Information gathered from the last several years of the online supplement scam world helped to confirm AlkaSlim and other similarly-named products — for example, AlkaLean — will not help with weight loss. Such products often charge consumers more money than they believed they’d be charged — including the potential of hidden or partially hidden monthly recurring fees. Past scams involving promises of a gelatin trick also show scammers would be unlikely to honor money-back guarantees.
My investigation of AlkaSlim appears below on my personal YouTube channel in a video titled, “AlkaSlim Baking Soda Scam Exposed. Fake Reviews and AI Video Showing Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff.” After that, look for a transcript if you’d rather read through my findings. I advise victims of this scam to file a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center via IC3.gov.
For further reading, see the U.S. National Institute on Aging’s website about weight loss research, as well as The New York Times’ article about weight loss drugs rapidly changing.
Transcript from my AlkaSlim scam-busting YouTube video
The following is a word-for-word transcript from my AlkaSlim and baking soda recipe scam-busting YouTube video. Please note some of the quoted material originated with scammers’ AI-generated depictions and does not constitute me speaking positively about this scam:
Transcript From Video (Click To Expand)
It is July 27th, 2026, and this video is all about how there is a scam for something called AlkaSlim. And right at the top of the video, I did want to mention my name is Jordan Liles. I’m a senior reporter with the fact-checking website Snopes.com. And I come here to my personal YouTube channel on nights and weekends to help people stay away from scams. And so I really appreciate it if you want to hit the like button down below.
You may have seen this going around online as a purported weight loss product. AlkaSlim supplements are part of a scam. It used to be called a different product name, and now the scammers have changed the product name to AlkaSlim, and they claim there’s a baking soda recipe, and they have AI-generated depictions of, this is doctor supposed to be Dr. Ania Jastreboff, and she has no involvement with this. Oprah Winfrey has no involvement. No doctors, hospitals, universities or celebrities have any involvement with AlkaSlim.
And there is no baking soda recipe that you can, you know, it’s a new thing. That’s what the scammers are claiming that you can put together with a bunch of ingredients, and it can help you lose weight. This is a a scam strategy developed by people to try to fool you into believing that such a recipe has legitimacy. And the reason they come up with a recipe, they don’t ever actually tell you what the recipe is, is that’s the way they get you to watch this very, very long video on a website like this. Because if they tell you right off the bat, “It’s a bottle of pills, it’s called AlkaSlim,” you’re probably not going to watch it. But if they tell you, “Hey, it’s a recipe involving baking soda,” you might say, “Hey, I’ve got that in my kitchen. I need to watch this video.” And that’s what the scammers are hoping that you do.
So, this is a scam, AlkaSlim. If you’re looking for AlkaSlim reviews, it has no legitimacy. Please hit the like button down below, that can tell Google and YouTube my video has value and credibility. I would really appreciate it. I’m putting good time and effort into making this video. Let’s watch part of this video we can see here and see exactly what the scammers have put together. Again, this is a deepfake, not deepfake, it’s a, that was a fake version of Dr. Ania Jastreboff in a fake kitchen all created with AI that they just showed about 20 seconds ago. This right here, let me hit play.
“If you’ve seen any video on social media talking about the baking soda shot for weight loss, I need you to stop everything and listen carefully because most of what’s being shared online is wrong, and it’s actually making you gain weight instead of losing it. I’m Dr. Ania Jastreboff …”
Let me zoom in on this. Just want to see if there are any visible signs of AI. Like “A” “R,” and then the “M” looks kind of weird behind the the black opacity thing going on here. “Arm and,” and then it should be “Hammer.” Of course, sometimes you’ll see illegible text issues with characters, and that’s, that’s the only one I see right there. Let’s keep watching here.
“… weight loss specialist for women over 40. And today I’m going to show you exactly how to make the baking soda shot the right way, the same recipe I gave.”
That is a completely AI-generated Oprah in a completely AI-generated kitchen. That entire video you can see right here is fake. And scammers are using this to try to basically fool people into believing this has legitimacy. It has celebrity backing. It’s got credible, you know, backing from Dr. Ania Jastreboff of Yale. I believe she’s, she’s from Yale, I think. If I’m wrong about that, I’m wrong. But this is something that has zero legitimacy whatsoever.
“… Oprah, who lost 56 lbs in 45 days without diets or injections, just one glass of this recipe every morning. That’s it.”
“Guys, this is wild. Ever since I shared that I replaced my injections with this baking soda water shot, I’ve seen dozens of fake recipes go viral. And I’ve been getting messages every day from women saying it’s not working or worse, that it’s making them feel sick. That’s not the recipe I used. The real baking soda shot, the one that helped me drop 56 lbs in 45 days, came from Dr. Ania.”
“You see, the problem is that taking baking soda the wrong way throws off your stomach pH, causing bloating, cramping, and nausea. And worst of all, it shuts down the cells responsible for producing GLP1 and GIP, the hormones your body uses to burn fat naturally. You think you’re activating your metabolism, but you’re actually killing it. That’s why so many women tried the baking soda trend and didn’t lose a single pound. It’s …”
So again, there is no baking soda trick or water shot or recipe. AlkaSlim is a scam. This entire presentation is a scam presentation trying to get you to believe it has credibility. There are lots of product names that are being sold with this supposed baking soda recipe promise. And with deepfakes or fully AI-generated famous people like Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Ania Jastreboff. I do believe Dr. Ania Jastreboff was on Oprah Winfrey’s podcast or something like that, but they didn’t talk about a baking soda water shot or weight loss with miracle drugs like AlkaSlim.
Just go and look for the founder’s name of AlkaSlim, you’re not going to find it. Where’s the mailing, mailing address of the company? They’re not, you’re not going to find that either. Where do they bottle it? Any of that information. It’s all secret because it’s hidden because it is a scam. And the people behind this know it’s a scam.
And you know, the AlkaSlim bottle even has like a design that looks kind of like the Arm & Hammer round red circle to try to make you think maybe, “Ok, the baking soda water shot is in the pills.” That’s what they, at the end of these very long videos. We’re not going to watch any more of this. These very long videos, they’ll claim, you know, for like an hour that it’s a recipe, but by the end of the recipe, they say, “We formulated it into a pill form or a dropper bottle or a gelatin thing or maybe a gummy or whatever.”
These products have zero credibility. They will not tell you where they make them. You will not be able to find information about them. And here’s one of the worst parts, besides the fact that they don’t do anything. These products usually come with subscription charges of hundreds of dollars a month that are difficult to stop. And sometimes people tell me their credit card company blocked the charge initially because they know it’s a scam already, which is great. But there’s that about the recurring monthly charges you didn’t know about the first charge, the first amount of money you pay being a whole lot more than you thought it was going to be. A lot of bad stuff going on here.
And the money-back guarantee, guess what? Scammers are not going to honor the money-back guarantee. Sometimes they do. And the reason why I think they do sometimes is keep the heat off of them so that people who are angry about losing their money don’t go to authorities to try to start investigating these sorts of things.
But here’s what you should do. If you did fall for this, go to IC3.gov, the Internet Crime Complaint Center. Just the three characters IC3.gov. File a complaint. If you did make a, if you fell for it and you paid some money, look on your credit card or bank statement on the charge that went to the scammers and see if there’s a phone number, mailing address, email address, anything that might be helpful to investigators, you know, so the FBI or someone might be able to take a look at this and maybe one day justice will be served. Maybe one day something will happen. That’d be really cool, obviously.
So stay far away from AlkaSlim. This thing that claims it’s going to be able to have amazing properties and it has celebrity endorsements. AlkaSlim reviews, the review is it is a scam. It is not legit. And there is no baking soda recipe for weight loss coming from anyone credible.
If you, you might find online a baking soda recipe for weight loss like listed out with ingredients and everything. That’s not, it’s not a real thing. It’s created by, the baking soda promise thing about the recipe was created by people who are scammers who wanted a strategy to try to fool people into ordering lots of different names of different bottled pills. That’s all this is. It’s not a real thing.
They’ve done this before with gelatin and, you know, cumin and maybe, I don’t know, turmeric or whatever, like any sort of spices or herbs or things you might find in your kitchen pantry or your refrigerator. They pick an ingredient, they go with it, they see how it does, they see how it performs. By performs, I mean how well does it scam people, and they might continue with it if it works, but if it doesn’t, they go to a different herb or spice or kitchen product.
And that’s the way these things work. They cycle. They go fast and they continue for years. Don’t fall for this. Like, comment, subscribe. The join button is down below. Thank you so much for watching.