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there’s a very ignored but vital function of  your stomach that i’m going to talk about today  

normally people know the stomach helps you digest  protein like meats and things like that and then  

it’s supposed to turn into amino acids which are  the building blocks of protein so then your body  

can then use that to make body tissue another  function of the stomach is to help you absorb  

minerals like iron calcium and zinc and b12  another function of the stomach is to stimulate  

the pancreas to release enzymes to help  you digest food and another function is  

to stimulate the bile production and also your  gallbladder to help release the bile to help  

you start breaking down fats to then extract the  fat soluble vitamins from the food that you eat  

but another very important function of the  stomach is to kill pathogens now what’s a pathogen  

a pathogen is not a friendly bacteria so  your stomach is designed to kill pathogens  

and to prevent foodborne illnesses and so your  stomach has a huge function of immune defense  

so what’s in a stomach that helps you defend  against these pathogens number one it’s the  

hydrochloric acid in both quantity and ph if  you lose the acidity of your stomach acids  

okay so the ph normally should be between one and  three and let’s say it goes up higher to four or  

five or six or even seven you’re not going to  have that immune protection because it’s the  

concentration of acid that kills these microbes  as well as the stimulation of certain enzymes  

that actually dissolve these microbes but you have  other things in your stomach too that can help you  

like lactofurrin which is very very high  in colostrum which is milk to help a baby  

develop their immune system but lactoferrin also  is antibacterial and anti-fungal in the stomach  

you also have other antibacterial peptides which  are proteins which help defend against microbes  

and so if you have low stomach acids or the ph is  not concentrated or strong enough you start having  

side effects like infections in the lower part  of your gastrointestinal tract you can have sibo  

small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in which you  have too many bacteria in the wrong place normally  

you shouldn’t have a lot of bacteria in your  small intestine most of it should be in the large  

intestine if it’s in the small intestine you’re  going to have a lot of problems with bloating gas  

etc so without enough hydrochloric acid you can  get sibo you can get heartburn you can get acid  

reflux gerd and of course what’s the treatment  for that and acids tums ppis like proton pump  

inhibitors baking soda what does all that do it  lessens the amount of concentrated hydrochloric  

acid in your stomach and that leads to a domino  effect of then not being able to kill pathogens  

and then you end up with more pathogens  lower in your in your gastrointestinal tract  

and you have just a whole series of problems so  without enough hydrochloric acid you get bloating  

gas definitely indigestion increased risk for  allergies anemia mineral deficiencies especially  

calcium iron and zinc and by the way a deficiency  of zinc can then lead to ulcers which then you  

treat with antacids right but also h pylori can  cause ulcers and sometimes they’ll treat h pylori  

with antacids which then worsens the whole cycle  creating more ulcers and more need for antacids  

so not good and also you can end up with a bile  deficiency like i already mentioned that hcl helps  

you release and make bile and if you don’t have  enough bile you’re not going to have vitamin a  

d e or k or omega 3. more problems you can also  end up with enzyme deficiency so you’re not  

going to have enough enzymes to digest so you’re  going to have a lot of problems with digesting  

food but anyway i wanted to create this video  to talk about another function of the stomach  

that a lot of people are not aware of if you  haven’t seen my other videos on hydrochloric  

acid i put them down below check them out hey  before you go if you’re benefiting from any of my  

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