The Scam of Heartburn and Indigestion

The Health Wyze Report
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By: Sarah C. Corriher
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Almost everything you have been told about heartburn, indigestion, and common stomach ailments is a lie. Indigestion is not caused by excess acid in the stomach, nor is acid reflux. In fact, the worst treatment for either is taking an antacid, whether prescribed or not. Being acidic is the natural, healthy state of the stomach, so there is no such thing as an excess of acid or acid build-up in regards to the stomach. It is like claiming that the lungs suffer from excess oxygen.

Attempting to neutralize stomach acid to treat an uneasy stomach is as wise as treating an excess of blood cells with blood letting, but they both mirror the methodology of standard allopathic medicine. Both cases would be demonstrations of using poor medicine to treat only the symptoms of relatively non-existent health conditions, of which the establishment either cannot accurately diagnose, or finds it too unprofitable to do so.

A healthy human stomach contains one of the most powerful acids in existence: hydrochloric acid. This highly destructive acid is the core fuel of the stomach; and in its most concentrated form, it will tear through titanium like a hot knife cutting through butter. The truth about most stomach disorders is one of not having enough acid, so the industry has made fools out of most of us. The true reason behind acid reflux and indigestion is that whenever the stomach acid is weak, it must churn violently to make better use of its limited acid, which in-turn induces pressure and causes back flows of the existing acid. Antacids seem to work because they render the acid being spewed by the churning stomach into the oesophagus as less potent, and therefore less painful.

In the rare cases when acid is being over-produced by the stomach, it is usually the body attempting to over-compensate for antacids having been routinely administered. The effects of taking antacids snowballs, preventing proper digestion, and eventually causing the very excess acid problem for which the treatments had originally been meant to stop. In order to recreate stomach acid which has been neutralized, the body must carry out a set of chemical reactions which cause the rest of the body to become more acidic.

The next time that you experience indigestion problems, try the experiment of giving your stomach the acid that it needs. Take one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, and optionally follow it with a glass of water. Your stomach churning and pain will subside within minutes, unless the problem is ulcers. The result is likely to amaze you, especially if you have been suckered for years by antacid advertisers and doctors. Of course, no pharmaceutical company will make billions from this, and none of them will ever be able to become the gate keeper of this remedy by getting a patent to monopolize apple cider vinegar. Likewise, regulatory agencies will not be able to get funding from this either, so do not expect to read about this in the medical journals, or hear it reported in the regular media. You will see whatever is good for maintaining the current business model: antacids.

How Antacids Destroy Health

"There are two main consequences of low stomach acid: 1. You become protein malnourished. When your stomach acid is low, you are not able to digest protein. Improper digestion of protein creates toxins in your intestines that can set the stage for illness and disease. Improper digestion of protein also creates acidic blood, since protein is by nature acidic. 2. You become mineral deficient. As your blood becomes more acidic, it will look for minerals from anywhere in your body, in order to get your blood to its more ideal alkaline state. Acidic blood robs your body of minerals, even taking minerals from your bones (which is important to know if you want to prevent osteoporosis).

"Low stomach acid eventually creates a vicious cycle: low stomach acid = low minerals = acidic blood. This cycle continues because acidic blood further creates low minerals and low stomach acid. Once this vicious cycle has started, there is a cascade of consequences: You could eat plenty of protein and still be protein malnourished. This raises cortisol levels [stress hormones], thereby raising your blood glucose (blood sugar levels). Elevated cortisol adversely affects your behaviour and temperament. Eventually, your adrenals become depleted (adrenal fatigue) and DHEA, the youth hormone, is suppressed, leading to premature aging. Low DHEA and high cortisol affect your brain and behaviour, but that's not all. The vicious cycle of low stomach acid affects your inner ecosystem too. Low stomach acid can lead to more bad guys (pathogenic bacteria, candida and viruses) than good guys (healthy microflora), thus lowering your immunity.

"Here are some of the common symptoms and disorders caused by low stomach acid: bloating, belching, and flatulence immediately after meals, heartburn (often thought to be caused by too much stomach acid), indigestion, diarrhoea, or constipation, undigested food in stools, acne, rectal itching, chronic candida, hair loss in women, multiple food allergies, iron deficiency, weak, peeling, or cracked fingernails, chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue, dry skin, various 'autoimmune'..diseases."

-- Donna Gates (bodyecology.com)

Pharmaceuticals are inherently toxic to the human body, because they are specifically designed to disable systems of the body, for the sake of symptom suppression; and thus the toxic-by-design drugs cause disruptions in the gastrointestinal tract. Drugs routinely cause the stomach itself to poorly digest foods, which results in additional malnourishment. The resultant lack of absorbed minerals disrupts the pH balance of the body, which causes a snowballing effect in which a body is less able to utilize its other nutrients, such as vitamins. In this typical state of semi-starvation, the body is more vulnerable to sickness and cancers. Meanwhile obesity or wasting away is occurring for most individuals to some degree, which is ironically due to the malnutrition from our processed foods, and the drugs that we believe will compensate for the subsequent self-inflicted diseases. The inevitable health tailspin is like being chained to a treadmill that keeps getting faster and faster, while hoping that we can continue running fast enough. Thus, malnutrition may be a bigger problem for the industrialized nations than the so-called 'poor nations', because of the chemical industry.