Video

Transcript

I had some questions about stomach acid and mineral absorption if apple cider

vinegar was the best thing to take if you want to improve mineral absorption

so I wanted to create a video just on this one topic and yes it can help you

but I need to explain a couple little points about this so normally in your

stomach you have a very very acidic acid called hydrochloric acid the pH should

be between one and three now think about it neutral is seven so every number that

goes below seven you go seven six five four three two one is 10 times as acid

so if we compare six to seven six would be 10 times more acid five would be 10

times more acid than 6 so it compounds so when you get down to these lower

numbers you have a very very acidic acid and this is normal

there’s three main things that your stomach acid is supposed to do number

one it’s supposed to help you break down protein okay so if you don’t have the

acid you can’t break down the protein it starts to putrefy

you get undigested protein number two it helps kill pathogens from invading the

body so if you eat food with some microbes guess what that stomach is

there to kill off the pathogens and if you can’t kill them off they can invade

the body and you can create all sorts of infections in the colon it’s kind of

part of the immune system and number three and this is the topic that we’re

discussing now it helps mineral absorption so having

the right amount of acid in your stomach can make minerals more bioavailable if

you don’t have enough stomach acid then the absorption of calcium iron magnesium

zinc copper cobalt and other minerals won’t be as efficient you also won’t

have a hundred percent absorption of folic acid vitamin C vitamin D and

vitamin A so basically we need this strong acid or stomach to actually

absorb these nutrients as we age we lose the strength of this acid and

start having deficiencies of these nutrients so aging is a very common

cause of not having enough strong acid in your stomach other causes are

antacids if you’re taking antacids or if you have hypothyroidism or if you have

pernicious anemia which is an autoimmune disease of certain cells in your stomach

or if you have the infection Hpylori that can do it or if you had gastric

bypass which is a surgery that can affect the pH of your stomach

now there’s two conditions one is achlorhydria which is zero stomach acid you

have no more stomach acid and then another condition hypochlorhydria

which is a deficiency of that strong acid in your stomach both of these

conditions will affect the absorption of minerals and this can also create a

problem with SIBO which is a condition where your microbes are growing in the

small intestine instead the large intestine and this can affect your

absorption of nutrients because these microbes are eating your nutrients and

starving you of the nutrients now the question is can apple cider vinegar fix

low stomach acid and the answer is it can help absorption of food and has a

lot of other benefits but it doesn’t necessarily fix hydrochloric acid itself

it will help the absorption even in the small intestine of nutrients and it

actually can help to inhibit some of the microbes growing in the small intestine

so it has a lot of benefits but to build up hydrochloric acid there’s several

other nutrients that you’re going to need number one you’re gonna have to

find the cause of it for example if it’s age well you can’t do anything about

that right but if you’re taking any antacids you might want to find the cause

of that get with your doctor and see if you can actually reduce that because the

more you’re on this it’s gonna be very difficult to correct this this

hydrochloric acid is made from chlorides as in hydrochloric acid and sodium and

potassium and zinc and iodine so you want to make sure that you have all of

these in your diet another good remedy

to help build this up would be something called betaine hydrochloride okay so the

chlorides can actually help build up hydrochloric acid but apple cider

vinegar can help in digestion but it’s not the main thing to correct a low

hydrochloric acid situation so anyway I just wanted to give you a summary on

answering this question and I’ve also put some really important videos on

hydrochloric acid on this page thanks for watching