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so today we’re going to talk about

excuse me one second

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chronic phlegm in the back of your

throat

so to really figure this problem out you

want to think like an engineer

not as a medical professional because

when you do research on this you’re

going to quickly find out

that it’s all about again

suppressing the symptoms and even

classifying these conditions based on

their symptoms so it it makes this

symptom sound like a disease and

unfortunately they’re not going deep

enough into

the root causes of these issues and then

also letting you know what are the more

common causes to

these symptoms so what i’m going to do

is i’m going to take one symptom chronic

mucus generation in your throat and just

trace it back to the most likely cause

now with this chronic mucus production

you can have a post nasal drip you can

have chronic coughing

more at night than during the day which

i’m going to cover why that is you can

definitely have hoarseness or a scratchy

throat you can also experience the

sensation like a lump in your throat or

something stuck in your throat you’re

not sure what it is or even a sore

throat when you really don’t have an

infection so to take an engineering

point of view they’re going to look at a

cause and effect relationship they’re

going to really

look at the logic behind this problem

instead of just taking this

tip of the iceberg symptom

and then matching a medication for it to

suppress it now you could have an

allergy you could have a virus in your

sinuses producing this mucus

but a more likely cause would be

something related to

two other symptoms which i’m going to

get to the root cause but one would be

gerd

which stands for gastroesophageal

reflux disease where you have

acid coming up through

this valve

at the top of the stomach and it’s

coming up through your esophagus or this

other condition called lpr that stands

for laryngopharyngeal

reflux and so really the basic

difference between gerd okay and lpr

because they’re both very similar the

valve is not closing and so we’re

getting acid that comes up with gerd

into the esophagus but with lpr we’re

getting acid that comes up higher into

the vocal cords into the back of the

throat and each one of these conditions

is classified as a certain condition

that’s treated directly usually with

antacids and other medications that

suppress acid in your stomach now if you

have mucus in your throat you want to

ask yourself if you have

all these other symptoms that are

related to that so with gerd you would

have heartburn you would have

belching you would have regurgitation

you could have excess mucus throat

irritation you can have a lump in your

throat difficulty breathing because when

there’s acid that comes up through your

throat your ability to get oxygen

dramatically decreases so you’ll have

difficulty swallowing sometimes post

nasal drip with that and it’s worse when

you’re lying down at night because that

valve again is not closing correctly and

you may have food allergies which i’ll

talk more about that and then with this

other condition called lpr you’re going

to get a lot of those symptoms

but you also may have like a metallic

taste in your mouth and more irritation

in your vocal cords like hoarseness when

you’re trying to talk now before i go

deeper into the root cause of these

issues i want to just talk first about

some of the treatments

which

can even cause the condition and

aggravate the condition even more for

example antacids a big side effect would

be constipation even acid reflux and

then you have these other medications

that are

work a little bit differently they’re

called ppis

protein pump inhibitors so they

basically stop the enzymes that are

producing

um acid and they also have side effects

of

constipation gas

risk for stroke risk of getting c diff

which is an infection because it’s a

pathogen palpitations and even high

blood pressure then you have another

side effect called

hypergastronemia now what is that that

is too much gastrin

which is going to cause too much acid in

your stomach so here you are trying to

get rid of your acid by taking

a solution that’s giving you more acid

doesn’t make sense at all another

problem with these treatments is that

they will remove acid and now you’re

going to have a difficult time absorbing

minerals like calcium and magnesium so

now we have a problem with bones muscles

and the list goes on and on and on but

of course there’s other solutions too

you can get a surgery you can tighten

this valve even more but there are some

slight minor complications like

inability to belch anymore or burp

increase gas in your digestive system a

greater need for more antacids and those

ppis that i just talked about so

ultimately

the optimum solution to something should

not give you a bigger problem

than you started out with right so let’s

talk about the most likely cause of this

valve not closing

giving you

this gerd

or

lpr not too much acid it would be

an acid deficiency low hydrochloric acid

when the acid or concentration of acid

in your stomach is lower

the valve um doesn’t close that properly

in fact it can open up but when the acid

starts increasing when you start

digesting things like proteins

the top of the valve should close very

very nice and tight if everything is

working correctly so the root cause of

this valve not closing is basically you

don’t have enough acid in your stomach

and that is the underlying reason and

because you have acid reflux you’re

thinking wow i have too much acid i need

to get rid of this acid so i’ll take an

antacid or or i will do something to

reduce the acid but the root cause is

actually you don’t have enough acid now

hydrochloric acid in your stomach is a

very

important

fluid um for many different things

especially within your immune system

one of the purposes of this very strong

acid which should be between one and

three

is to kill pathogens believe it or not

your stomach is very sterile okay

nothing can live because that acid is so

strong and this is one of the barriers

that your body puts up in the immune

system because if we can kill pathogens

that come from our food into the stomach

and prevent them from going down to the

rest of the tract we have a very good

defense against these pathogens

but if we have weak acid in the stomach

pathogens can escape and get into the

system and create all sorts of problems

in the lower part of the digestive

system and even in the small intestine

you can get what’s called small

intestinal bacterial overgrowth and that

occurs because you didn’t kill the

microbes at the stomach level

another very important purpose of this

hydrochloric acid is to break down

proteins to break down proteins

fully okay so if you don’t have enough

acid in your stomach you’ll get

incomplete

protein digestion and start to create

stress in the other parts of the

digestive system because they have to

produce more enzymes and they have to do

different things lower in the tract and

that throws off your whole digestion now

if you compound this with inflammation

okay in the gut and you have something

called leaky gut syndrome these proteins

go right into the little holes where you

have leaky gut and your immune system

starts creating antibodies against these

proteins and that’s the start of

autoimmune diseases that’s the start of

an allergy and then the third reason why

we need this hydrochloric acid in our

stomach is in your ability to absorb

minerals okay

so without that ph the minerals don’t

travel into the body that well

so this is one of the underlying reasons

why people are anemic or they have

mineral deficiencies they cannot absorb

minerals calcium magnesium potassium

zinc

iodine all these minerals but also this

strong ph

triggers things in your pancreas to

release certain enzymes as well as in

your gallbladder to release bile so

without this

concentrated

hydrochloric acid in the stomach

being at what ph should be

for the entire digestive system

starts to go downhill real fast and on

top of everything else

the sensing mechanism doesn’t allow that

that valve to close tightly

and then the acid starts regurgitating

you may even get regurgitation of the

bile up into the stomach

and both hydrochloric acid and bile can

then regurgitate up through the

esophagus up into your throat and this

irritates the back of the throat and

puts you in a constant state of

mucous protection that mucus is trying

to be formed an attempt to protect

against the strong acid that is

dissolving

your tissues so what i’m talking about

is the most likely root cause

of this mucous production this chronic

irritation your throat that makes you

cough so now that we know that the

solution is very simple because we don’t

want to necessarily suppress the symptom

we want to fix the root cause we want to

now increase the amount of acid in the

stomach and by the way you’re going to

have to figure out with help of your

doctor

how you can start to wean off some of

these antacids and if you’re not

interested just ask them this one

question what are the

long-term effects

what are the chronic effects of taking

antacids over a period of time and

what’s really behind these problems and

um you know i’m sure you’ll be curious

to find out what they say but it’ll

probably be something along the lines of

well it’s just stress it’s just genetics

and as we age most people just have

these problems but the way to get your

acid back

is to take um something to start

building up the hydrochloric acid and

the best remedy is betaine hydrochloride

okay betaine hydrochloride and you’d

want to take between

three to four to even five to six even

seven

right before you eat okay so that’s what

i would recommend now here’s the problem

with certain types of people that take

this if you have

an ulcer

because this condition has gone on too

far or if you have gastritis there’s

inflammation in the stomach and you take

betaine hydrochloride it’s going to make

it worse because the tissues are

inflamed in which case

you’re going to have to heal

the lining of your stomach first which

could take anywhere between two to three

months okay before you start adding more

acid to the system but you need to

understand the mechanism here you need

to know that ultimately you want to

acidify the stomach and get it back to

normal so if that is the case and you

have an ulcer or you have gastritis

you can watch that video i will put that

link down below you could probably

benefit greatly by taking zinc carnosine

if you don’t have an ulcer taking

betaine hydrochloride can greatly

greatly help you

in addition to that there’s other things

you need to do because

the foods that you’re eating probably

are not helping you and the biggest

offender for this problem

is

grains okay grains now what’s wild is

that if you look this up

they will tell you to consume grains

to improve your acid reflux but in

reality you’re going to find that makes

a lot worse there’s a lot of things in

grains

that are inflammatory

okay that create sensitivity allergies

autoimmune conditions even lower your

immune system

and dump a lot of omega-6 fatty acids

into the system a typical grain has like

20 or more times the omega-6 than it

does the omega-3 which are

anti-inflammatory so you’re basically

dumping a lot of inflammation in your

system when you consume grains and

consume animal products that were fed a

lot of heavy grains

versus grass-fed brass finished animal

products so i’m just trying to get you

to think with this and think outside the

box and see if you can start to sort out

your own diet and what you need to

change now

it’s essential also to do intermittent

fasting and not follow the well just

have uh

five or six small meals through the day

no no no you don’t want to do that you

want to do intermittent fasting because

the more that you do intermittent

fasting when you fast a period of time

at least 16 17 18 hours by skipping your

breakfast

you can now give your digestive system a

chance to rest and heal and recover

because it’s not constantly being

triggered by foods

now another big cause of this entire

problem and i’m talking about low

stomach acids

and

a lack of

bile salts okay which can inhibit your

ability to digest

fats

is a vegan diet okay

when someone’s a vegan many times

they consume a lot of grains

and a lot of foods that tear up their

digestive system

and they don’t consume a lot of animal

fats and because they’re not consuming a

lot of animal proteins

they might not have the triggering of

this hydrochloric acid so the

combination of all these inflammatory

foods and also the missing nutrients

that are in a vegan

diet can create havoc on your digestive

system now that being said there is a

correct way to do a vegan diet so i’m

not opposed of doing it correctly but i

am opposed to doing it with all the

different fake meats and the soy protein

isolates and the grains and the sugar

etc etc now i hope there are some good

takeaways from this video but i think

the next most important video for you to

watch would be on hydrochloric acid

check it out i put it right here

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