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now there’s an interesting

link or association between using

probiotics in improving acid reflux or

heartburn but the question is why how

can a probiotic that affects the gut

bacteria

affect the stomach in one study i read

79 percent of people who took probiotics

benefited from their acid reflux symptom

so there’s a couple reasons why

probiotics might help you

one is that you have to look at the

digestive system as one whole connecting

organ or system and as you affect one

part of it the other parts are affected

so one type of bacteria we have is the

lactic acid bacteria and this bacteria

actually acidifies

a colon then you also have lactic acid

yeast which acidifies the colon as well

so these microbes help you digest and

the more you have complete digestion in

the lower part the better it’s going to

be for the upper part like the stomach

if you’re not digesting because you

don’t have enough microbiome in your

large intestine

that can also lead to an overgrowth of

bacteria in your small intestine called

sibo and that can also back up the whole

system where you get regurgitation of

fluids like for example

lactic acid coming from the small

intestine up into the stomach you can

also have bile reflux or regurgitation

coming up in the stomach and then you

can also have hydrochloric acid that

backs up into the esophagus simply

because you don’t have all the help of

your large intestine in the lower part

now the other point i want to bring up

is this gut brain axis or this

relationship between your brain in your

gut

it’s connected by a very large nerve

called the vagus nerve and the vagus

nerve is bidirectional okay so in other

words it communicates going up this way

and communicates going down this way so

whatever’s happening down here affects

your brain and whatever happens up here

can affect your gut now the unique thing

about the vagus nerve

is that it is part of the autonomic

nervous system specifically the

parasympathetic nervous system

and the autonomic nervous system

controls

all of the valves in the body as in the

valves

on top of your stomach and the valves on

the bottom of your stomach which

regulate the amount of food that goes

through these different passages and one

way that people have a problem with the

vagus nerve is you have some type of

dysbiosis or some type of problem in the

lower part of your gut in the large

bowel now the other connection is that

if you’re taking antibiotics for example

one of the big side effects is gerd

and acid reflux which are pretty much

the same thing so what do antibiotics do

they destroy your flora

if you don’t have enough flora if you

don’t have enough good bacteria that can

severely affect the stomach it can even

give you gastritis or a sour stomach now

the microbes in your large intestine

also make

bile salts so if there’s a problem with

that that can also affect the

neutralization of this acid coming into

the small intestine because bile salts

are alkaline and so if you don’t have

enough alkalinity that can throw things

off and so you can then have more of an

acid effect in your small intestine

which could not just create ulcers but

it can back up and create ulcers in the

stomach and lead to an acid reflux

situation so this is what i recommend if

you have acid reflux

or if you have heartburn

i recommend consuming

apple cider vinegar obtain hydrochloride

which are both acidifiers that can many

times help the stomach but you also may

need some probiotics and a few natural

good ones are kefir make sure it’s not

with added sugar make sure it’s whole

milk kefir

another one is sauerkraut my favorite

and kimchi which is a fermented

cabbage product usually eaten by koreans

and actually many other people alright

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