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you know i used to have really bad

ulcers in college i just wish i would

have known back then what i know

now because there is a very simple

remedy but ultimately you have to

correct your diet because if you had

your diet being corrected you would

never get the ulcer in the first place

so what is an ulcer well it’s not a

minor thing it’s a major thing it’s a

hole in your stomach or your small

intestine where the lining has broken

down

now there are many theories about what

causes an ulcer

from stress

nutritional deficiencies

to

a microbe called h pylori helicobacter

pylori and of course the side effects

from taking nsaids which are medications

but today i’m going to show you a remedy

that can

really help you get rid of an ulcer in

college i had it so bad i would be

waking up in the middle of the night

with this

gnawing

dull

burning pain in my stomach that would

only be relieved if i ate something and

of course the way i dealt with it was

mega

mega amounts of tums which is calcium

carbonate like limestone so i do know

what it feels like to have this

condition and it’s

not very pleasant now the most popular

remedy for ulcers would be prolosac

which is a ppi a protein pump inhibitor

type

medication in which it stops the acid

production and i’m not saying it doesn’t

work it does work it does help people no

doubt

but there’s some slight minor

complications

these are called side effects

like gas

vomiting

nauseousness

headache abdominal pain increased risk

of dementia

increased risk of the infection c diff

increased risk of pneumonia bone

fractures from osteoporosis and polyps

in kidney inflammation but other than

that it’s totally safe so the question

is are there safer alternatives than

these medications now one study was an

animal study

the medication called omeprazole

to

cabbage juice and the study demonstrated

that the group that

took the cabbage juice for ulcers showed

an 83 improvement versus an 81 percent

group with the medication group so it

was only slightly better but without the

side effects in another study involving

the comparison of the medication

cymetidine to cabbage showed that the

group that consumed cabbage

healed their ulcers in 15 days

compared to 28 days in the group that

took the medication so let’s talk a

little bit about cabbage what is in this

cabbage that helps ulcers well they

isolated it down to

this

vitamin u

now vitamin u is not really a vitamin

it’s a term used to describe a group

of sulfur compounds okay these are

plant-based compounds with an s because

there’s quite a few of them

and they’re made from sulfur so this

group of compounds

are called

glucosinolates now what’s very

interesting about glucosinolates

is that it has a very potent effect

to

dismantle and destroy

h pylori one of the most commonly found

microorganisms involved with ulcers so

this is probably why cabbage works so

well

with ulcers now the real question is why

do you have h pylori well i did a video

on this in in a normal person

h pylori is not acting in a pathogenic

form and apparently when your acids go

too low and you don’t have enough

stomach acid so the ph

is going higher more alkaline when the

stomach should be between one and three

very very acidic this microbe tends to

overgrow and becomes pathogenic and

starts to create ulcers

and so here the person is left with the

treatment

of

getting rid of the acid that’s the very

thing that triggered this infection in

the first place and so originally and

this is my own point of view

ulcers were created by a lack of acid

not

an excess amount of acid and then these

h pylori microbes start growing and then

you get the ulcer so cabbage apparently

will put these things

either in remission or kill them now

there’s a couple things you need to know

about cabbage if you cook it too much

you’ll destroy this chemical compound so

you can do raw cabbage juice okay that

will work and it doesn’t matter if the

cabbage is green or red it’ll work the

same you can use steamed cabbage because

apparently you can retain 97

of this compound if you steam it just

don’t overcook it so steaming is one way

to consume cabbage

or you can ferment cabbage as sauerkraut

now one tiny problem with fermenting

cabbage is it does reduce this compound

but you then get all these additional

beneficial

uh friendly bacteria when you consume

sauerkraut you get the prebiotics which

is the fiber that feeds your microbes so

there’s really four ways i would

recommend consuming cabbage just eating

it raw in some salad or some dish

fermenting it as sauerkraut

steaming it or juicing it which you’d

probably get the most concentrated form

of this phytonutrient

the next video i think you should watch

would be on sauerkraut there’s so many

benefits of sauerkraut i think this

would be a really important video check

it out

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