Natural Remedies for GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) - Dr. Berg | DrEricBergDC

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hey guys I’m back in this video we’re

gonna talk about something called GERD

gastroesophageal reflux disease I’ve

done other videos on this I guess this

would be part three and the reason why I

wanted to do this videos because I had

several people on my show bring this up

they were doing the usual things it

wasn’t working so I guess this would be

a part three just to help people that

have tried the usual things and it’s not

working okay first thing what is it what

is GERD it’s a situation where you have

acid and that’s going the wrong way it’s

going up into this little tube right

here from the stomach into your

esophagus okay so it’s it’s it should be

staying down there but it’s going up

through the little valve here so it’s

really a problem with this valve the

valve is not staying shut now it’d be

nice if we can just call a plumber and

get developer placed in problem solved

but the usual thing that’s causing this

is that there’s not enough acid in the

stomach here you are you have GERD and

you have this acid reflux you’re

thinking wow I have too much acid it

makes sense

that’s logical but in reality if there’s

not enough acid in that stomach this

valve which has sensors will pick that

up and it won’t close properly so it’s

kind of an open valve if the stomach is

between 1 & 3 which is very strong this

valve stays shut that’s how it works now

there could be other causes as well

there could be a situation where you

have a problem with your part of the

nervous system called the autonomic

nervous system that does control valves

because your adrenals are really really

weak that’s a potential cause but most

of the time it’s just that you don’t

have enough of the acid and it’s not

strong enough so that’s what’s causing

this so it’s very cognitive because

you’re operating as if you have too much

acid when in fact it’s just the opposite

and this is why it’s very hard to fix

this problem because you’re doing all

the wrong things now medically what

they’ll tell you is number one lifestyle

changes which I’m not sure exactly what

they mean by that but you have to change

your lifestyle but they don’t get into

specifics number two there’s medication

number three if that doesn’t work we can

do surgery

very low very low emphasis on the exact

right food so unfortunately if you look

up medically what causes this condition

it’s kind of funny because they say what

causes GERD is acid reflux but like

seeing the cause of hypothyroidism is

low thyroid hormones you’re just

describing the whole thing you’re not

telling what really causes this problem

so they really don’t know okay risk

factors they always say it’s obesity and

pregnancy okay doesn’t really give us

any good data but if you just go about

this as if you have not enough acid and

you add more acid you’re going to be

shocked to find out that’s actually

going to improve the situation greatly

and maybe even resolve it okay now I

just want to touch on anti acids for a

second in America alone

there’s over 15 million people that are

prescribed anti acid medication that’s

not counting all the over-the-counter

antacids so it’s basically a nine point

five billion dollar industry okay so

what the problem is when you take these

any acids you never cure the problem you

have to keep taking them and keep taking

them and keep taking them and the

problem is there’s massive side effects

there’s one here for something called

PPI that’s protein pump inhibitor which

has a purpose of lowering the stomach

acid but there’s some slight minor

complications increase risk of death by

25% increase risk of dementia by 44%

increase risk of heart attacks by 20%

and you’re also going to increase your

risk of stomach cancer by a 50% totally

insane and people are still taking this

and this is still being prescribed

alright so now that you know what this

is what do we do the first thing that I

would recommend is to start taking apple

cider vinegar in a pill or in liquid

with your meals

I would also then add something called

betaine hydrochloride it’s an acidifier

it’s a natural acidifier and you take it

before the meal and you can take it in

pills like three or four or five or even

six before a meal

what’s gonna happen it’s gonna start

building up your acids and by the way

one of the causes of low stomach acid is

low salt because sodium chloride the

chloride helps make the hydrochloric

acid so that could also be one cause now

if you take either one of these and you

feel worse you get like a burning

sensation that means either you have

gastritis which is inflammation of the

stomach wall or you have an ulcer

so you don’t want to continue to add

acids to an area that’s like sensitive

or you have this hole in your stomach so

you want to back up first and start

consuming something like chlorophyll

chlorophyll like from a concentrated

leafy green wheatgrass juice powder or

something that can actually heal those

areas for a while and it’s going to

probably take a while for that to heal

could take months

licorice root in an extract form is

really good for that as well okay so now

if you take this and you don’t get the

success of burning but you still have

the problem then you may want to start

working on the lower intestinal friendly

bacteria down here because if you have

enough bacteria which by the way makes

lactic acid it’ll help sometimes balance

the acids up here and things will work

better so taking a good probiotic may

help you and the one that I recommend is

called effective microbes and I put a

link down below for more information but

probiotics can actually greatly help

this because it’s it’s actually

improving one part of the digestive

system to actually take the stress off

this area right here now one really good

food for gastritis or acid reflux or any

problem with the stomach is cabbage

sauerkraut is good but coleslaw cabbage

seems to be very soothing on the

digestive system so that’s just an extra

little tip now the last thing I want to

bring up there is a situation where you

may have a condition called SIBO SI bo

small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

okay that’s a situation where you have

too much bacteria from the bacteria and

your small intestine and it really

should be in the large intestine I put a

link down below for more data on that

but if you have that you’re gonna notice

when you consume vegetables especially

in larger quantities you’re gonna get a

lot of bloating and gas okay that would

be a good indication of that because

you’re actually feeding those microbes

also if you take a probiotic you’re

gonna feel worse alright so if that’s

the situation you want to follow what

I’m gonna recommend in the video down

below which is avoid vegetables for one

month because the microbes consume the

fiber in the vegetables and you don’t

want to keep feeding them because you’re

going to make them grow and they’re

already in the wrong place so we want to

avoid that and then we want to also add

the opposite of vinegar in the betaine

and the chloride because we want to make

this really really acidic that’s going

to help the digestion of the stomach

level because if we have an incomplete

digestion here we’ll get undigested food

down here and that’s gonna be a mess

okay so if if there’s a possibility you

might have SIBO we have to address it a

little bit differently of course it’s a

given that you need to do healthy keto

cut your carbs down and many times that

alone will solve this issue and let’s

not forget in a minute fasting an

average time period for food to travel

through the entire system is between 35

and 40 plus hours okay how often do

people eat very frequently right they

can’t even go three hours without having

to eat or snack on something so we have

a lot of food that is in our intestinal

tract all the time and we’re wondering

while we have GERD right so it’s very

healthy to do intermittent fasting

especially for this condition because

you’re allowing you digest a system to

finally for the first time rest and calm

down and after work so hard and actually

just clean it out you’ll get great

improvements in in the healing if

there’s a gastritis situation or an

ulcer in a mood of fasting is probably

one of the most powerful things you can

do to improve your digestion overall so

we don’t want to forget that and then

that’ll give you a system a chance to

reset and heal alright there you have it

this is this is more of a complete video

on what to do if you have GERD thanks

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