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so let’s talk about the symptoms of GERD what is  GERD GERD stands for gastroesophageal reflux disorder  

and basically in a thumbnail sketch it’s a chronic  problem with the valve on top of your stomach it  

won’t close that well and all the acid kind  of comes up now the problem with that is that  

there are certain enzymes in the stomach certain  enzymes that are protein enzymes that are really  

really powerful that can break down a steak in  your stomach that thing gets up there it can  

actually start dissolving the esophagus all  it went up and irritate up into your throat  

and that’s why these are the symptoms acid reflux  belching excessive saliva food gets or a feeling  

that food gets stuck in your throat sore throat  hoarseness even a sour taste okay so those are  

some of the symptoms but you know if you look  up GERD it’ll say well we don’t really know what  

causes it it’s an unknown cause no one really  knows but let’s just look at the physiology I  

think it’s important to understand that there  is a cause for every symptom and that is this  

this valve is linked to the pH of your stomach  the physiology of what closes that valve is what  

the pH is down here normally the pH should be  between one and three now let’s take a look at  

this pH a neutral pH is 7 anything lower is acid  anything higher is alkaline so if it’s 7 and it  

goes from 7 to 6 that means that 6 if you have a  pH of 6 that’s 10 times more acid than 7 okay so  

it compounds by a factor of power of 10 every  whole number lower so 1-3 is extremely acidic  

okay as you age you lose this pH especially if  you if you have any heartburn and things chances  

are you definitely your pH is probably four five  six all right there are certain tests that could  

be done but a lot of times you have to request  them and it’s hard to find someone to do a test  

to measure the pH but what I would do if I were  you is I would take and acidifier and see if you  

get better like it’s a it’s an inexpensive way to  see if that was the problem okay so if you need a  

good one a natural acidifier have one below the  link below but what you want to do is you want  

to make the stomach more acidic so this valve  will close and what you do is you take these  

acidifiers before the meal sometimes you will  take start with like three four maybe even five  

at first and then you can take less over time but  if this stomach is not between one and three this  

valve won’t close you’ll get undigested food  get some gas all sorts of problems because  

we need this pH to digest protein and absorb  minerals those are the two big factors okay  

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