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now this is a really really important

topic if you have Gerd acid reflux

heartburn or bloating gas any digestive

symptoms this video is very very

important now one of the first things

that people normally do when they have

acid reflux is they go to their doctor

and they get it evaluated and then

they’re put on a medication usually a

PPI or some type of antacid which

suppresses the acid now at first it

might seem logical you have this acid in

your stomach we got to get rid of it

right but the question is what causes

acid reflux well if you look it up it’ll

say that acid reflux comes from the

valve on the top of the stomach not

closing properly all right well that’s

cool but what causes that valve not to

be able to close well they don’t really

know right and then my question is okay

you’re going to put give me a medication

how long am I going to be on this is it

going to correct my problem what happens

when I start the medication and come off

are there rebound effects is it safe

well for certain ppis uh long-term

effects are really bad osteoporosis

increased risk of cancer increased risk

of gallstones increased risk of sibo

small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

increased risk of anemia increased risk

of allergies and the list goes on and on

so you always want to ask how long am I

going to be on these beds for is it

going to be indefinitely and what are

the long-term problems and what is the

underlying cause of the problem these

are things that a lot of people don’t

really ask and they don’t find out about

I recently talked to a lady who was on I

mean she’s fairly young I think she’s in

her early 30s and she’s on eight

medications right and she doesn’t feel

well I mean how the heck are you going

to know what is causing what what is

creating different effects I mean I’m

not against poison I’m sorry medication

but when you’re on that many medications

it’s bound to create all sorts of issues

making you not feel good but when we’re

talking about ppis anything that

suppresses the acid you really want to

think twice before getting that

medication but of course I need to give

you a disclaimer check with your doctor

before taking any of my advice so why

don’t doctors recommend apple cider

vinegar

well mainly there’s not a lot of studies

in relationship to acid reflux or gerd

using apple cider vinegar that’s the big

reason who’s going to invest that much

money to do a study because there’s not

a lot of profit in selling apple cider

vinegar it’s a very very inexpensive on

drugs yes but outside of vinegar no now

as far as myself being in practice for

30 years

I’ve run into thousands of patients who

had acid reflux who tried apple cider

vinegar and got great results of course

that’s not a study but it’s uh my own

personal observation that it really

really works so we’re talking about this

acid an apple cider vinegar okay it’s

called acetic acid in fact these little

bacteria acetic acid bacteria

live on rapes they live on different

foods especially when that grape becomes

ripened okay and then when they make

wine they’re going to turn that grape

sugar into alcohol but during that

fermentation process they’re going to

remove oxygen because one thing about

the acetic acid bacteria is they can’t

live with oxygen and that’s how you kill

them but if you allow this fermentation

process with the conversion from grapes

into alcohol to get oxygen it eventually

just turns right into vinegar now

there’s some really really important

things to know about the stomach so if

you’ve checked out check back in right

now because this is very important

number one the normal pH

of someone’s stomach should be between

one and three that is extremely acid

okay that’s normal so when someone says

that you have too much acid and your

stomach uh what actually are they

talking about I mean normal acid is that

is acid as you can go like one to three

so what does this mean someone has too

much acid with acid reflux or gerd so

acid reflux heartburn and gerd are

really not a situation where you have

too much acid you just have acid in the

wrong place you have it in the esophagus

the acid should be in the stomach okay

so the real problem is that valve right

well that’s a kind of a secondary

problem a deeper problem is the pH in

your stomach is not one to three it’s

higher it’s more alkaline it’s not as

acid as it should be and there’s a

sensing mechanism between the level of

pH in the stomach and your valve on the

top of the stomach they’re both in

communication and so just think about it

it’s it’s logical that if you eat like

meat or something you need all that acid

right and you don’t need the acid refl

flexing so that valve closes tightly if

the acid reaches a certain pH you need

it very very acid in the stomach and the

valve will close so the real underlying

cause behind gerd acid reflux and

usually bloating okay and heartburn is

that your strength of the acid the pH of

the acid is not between one and three it

might be higher four five six even seven

the stuff in your stomach is not just

acid you have other things you have an

enzyme okay it’s usually an inactive

enzyme and then it converts to an active

enzyme pepsin is the active enzyme that

gets activated with acid that’s a very

powerful protein enzyme okay that’s one

of the purposes of your stomach is to

digest protein you don’t want that

enzyme up in your esophagus why because

your esophagus is also a protein okay so

it’ll start dissolving yourself we don’t

want that now what makes that enzyme

active is the pH being acid okay very

acid if that solution is to alkaline the

enzyme will not become active it stays

inactive so another question is what

type of acid stimulates the active form

of this enzyme peptase well does it have

to be Hydrochloric like in your stomach

well actually no it can be another acid

it can be apple cider vinegar acetic

acid because that acid has a very low PH

okay now this also relates to some other

data about the stomach having your

stomach acid be between one and three

also will help release bile okay now if

you can’t release bile from the liver

and the gallbladder what happens is that

you tend to get gallstones this is why

one of the big side effects from

antacids and ppis is gallstones now we

have pepsin which is activated by acid

but there’s other enzymes too from your

pancreas enzymes that help you digest

carbohydrates to digest fats

so when you don’t have enough

acid in your stomach you’re going to get

less enzymes released from the pancreas

and less digestion also you need this

strong acid in your stomach to be able

to absorb not just minerals but also

trace minerals and vitamins as well so

you become very nutrient deficient when

you don’t have the strong pH in your

stomach the other purpose of this acid

is to kill pathogens coming in from the

body as well as to kill bacteria so the

bacteria doesn’t end up in your small

intestine and create a situation called

small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

where you have these microbes living in

your small intestine and competing for

nutrition from your your food and

leaving you with a lot of problems

especially bloating and gas and all

sorts of issues now the other problem

with not enough stomach acid is that you

might get anemia because you can’t

absorb iron and B12 adults there’s this

other thing

that gets activated with this strong

stomach acid it’s called the intrinsic

factor which I don’t want to really get

into but just realize that if you don’t

have enough stomach acid you’re not

going to be able to absorb B12 which can

create all sorts of issues with not just

anemia but a lot of neurological

problems that can be irreversible okay

in certain cases the other point about

not having enough stomach acid is that

can increase your risk of H pylori

becoming a problem normally about 80

percent of the population has H pylori

in their stomach but it doesn’t bother

them unless

you lose the stomach acid and then that

microbe can then become pathogenic and

create more issues okay so we don’t even

necessarily need hydrochloric acid to

fix a lot of these issues you can use

this very inexpensive apple cider

vinegar the type of apple cider vinegar

that I’m recommending is not the Braggs

okay Braggs sold their company to

another company and I found out they’re

diluting their apple cider vinegar if

you look in the back of the label they

add water so it’s not as strong as it

should be instead I recommend another

company fairchilds okay it’s a great

company I buy all my apple cider vinegar

from that company and I also buy the

apple cider vinegar for some of the

animals that I’m raising on my farm and

they love it I dilute it with water and

they’re very very healthy okay so this

is a really simple solution you get some

organic apple cider vinegar okay and you

just have to use two tablespoons in a

glass of water it could be eight ounces

it could be 12 ounces and you drink that

before you eat okay that’s the

Simplicity of it that will help lower

the ph it’ll start to help your

digestion you don’t want to take this

apple cider vinegar without diluting it

if you look at the problems of the apple

cider vinegar it’s usually related to

someone not diluting with water and

drinking maybe a lot of it in there

swishing around their mouth and it could

affect their teeth so all you have to do

is just take a straw and then sip it so

it doesn’t go into the tea and you’ll be

fine now I also recommend other things

too if you want to take it to the next

level I would recommend going on omad

one meal per day okay why because now

you’ll give your your system a chance to

reset and heal because it’s the constant

eating and the frequent eating and all

the snacks that really disrupts the

digestive system and probably is one of

the underlying cause to this GERD

problem in the first place and then the

last thing I would recommend is cabbage

cabbage as a vegetable would be very

very important in any type of acid

reflux situation even ulcers it really

helps the stomach I’m not going to get

into why but you’ll find that you can

digest cabbage better than other greens

and it will help you now just realize

that you’ll probably have to do this for

some weeks or months to fully correct it

but you’re going to feel a lot better

and of course I would also recommend a

certain eating plan if you have this

problem that would be called the healthy

Keto Plan and I will put a link down

below so you can download this eating

plan now this other point I want to

bring up is there a situation where your

stomach is producing too much acid yes

there is a condition okay but it’s not

very common the most common condition is

something called hypochlorhydria that’s

low stomach acid and one of the biggest

triggers for that is just getting older

so many people as they go into their 60s

70s 80s and 90s start just creating less

acid and they start having all these

issues with what I’m talking about a

more rare condition would be too much

acid and that does occur but usually

from three situations okay number one

zalinger Ellison uh syndrome basically

that’s a condition where you have this

benign tumor in the stomach or small

intestine and is causing the cells to

produce too much acid basically another

situation would be if you have

autoimmune gastritis which is not as

common so the parietal cells that are

making the acid are being attacked by

antibodies and then there’s a

compensatory situation where your body

is going to compensate and make more

acid until eventually you burn out that

cell and now it’s not going to make as

much acid now you’re going to end up

with no acid so you go from a hyper acid

state to a hypo acid State okay and then

the third situation for this sour

stomach or is production of too much

acid would be H pylori which I’ve

already covered and if you have H pylori

which is kind of a pathogenic situation

you want to take Mastic Gum garlic to

try to kill it off broccoli Sprouts on a

daily basis sulforaphane and broccoli

Sprouts is a potent way to kill off or

put this H pylori into a dormant stage

now one very very important point if

you’re drinking upside of vinegar and

you feel worse the burning increases it

could mean that you have either

inflammation

in your stomach lining or in ulcer in

which case you don’t want to take apple

cider vinegar right now you have to heal

this ulcer or this inflammation and for

that you want chlorophyll I recommend a

high quality raw wheatgrass juice powder

for that okay you take that and it does

take some weeks to heal that area and

then I also recommend the intermittent

fasting for sure and the healthy version

of the ketogenic plan as well as zinc

carnosine very very important then after

weeks of doing that when it’s healed up

then you can go back to the opposite of

vinegar now another common remedy that

people use is betaine hydrochloride

that’s another great remedy but this is

really just a no-brainer anyone has gerd

anyone who has indigestion bloating acid

reflux heartburn should definitely try

the apple cider vinegar because it works

so effectively now since we’re on the

topic of digestion there’s a lot more to

know about it I have a really Dynamite

video on digestion you have to check

this one out and I put that one up right

here