Heartburn/GERD/Acid Reflux and Protonics/Proton Pump inhibitors

Again, you see a lot of ads on TV for Nexium and what they call protonics (medicines to inhibit peoples' stomach acid) and the fallacy is; most people who have acid reflux or heartburn don't have too much acid. If anything, they have an inadequate amount of acid - either a decreased or absent amount of acid.

Now, how does that happen?

Well, if you don't have enough acid in your stomach, you can't break down the protein properly to the amino acids, and you can get heartburn. The typical conventional response is to give you medicine to inhibit that stomach acid.

When we test people, we have them swallow a capsule, put a belt around them while they read a magazine in a non-invasive way, and we're able to measure their stomach acid. As a matter of fact, 95% of people with acid reflux need stomach acid and the minute you either change the food they eat or the ability to improve their digestion, the acid reflux goes away.

How many people with constipation can just (solve it by) resolv(ing) transit time (you should move your bowels every 12-18 hours)? Many times when that's delayed, food could just reflux back, and to inhibit that acid ... if anything, that inhibits function and causes other downstream consequences like chronic yeast problems, food and chemical sensitivities, and other things. You can't even absorb your foods properly!

And they've done a study to show that when you give people medicine to inhibit your stomach acid, it really sets you up for osteoporosis and thinning your bone. It's not such a surprise. If you can't absorb your foods or your calcium, it's going to set you up for thinning your bones.

There's lots of perils with many of the drugs to inhibit stomach acid.

Links from the video:

http://www.medicinenet.com/gastroesophageal_reflux_disease_gerd/article.htm

http://www.webmd.com/heartburn-gerd/news/20080811/lengthy-use-of-reflux-drugs...

http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?id=8571&t=cfids_fm

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[Shoosta92]

If I have acid reflux, how do I know if it is due to too much or too little acid?

I am scared to take a PPI, because I am afraid that I won't have enough acid in my stomach. The acid isn't the problem, the reflux is. So maybe my LES is weak?

[baycoralore]

Dr. Ash, what do you order in a restaurant?

[cookthekitchen914]

thanks, good video