Your Body After Years of Acid Reflux Pills (It Gets Worse)
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The acid reflux drug that causes acid
reflux or heartburn. [music] This is the
video that should be watched before
anyone gets on an antacid, especially
PPI, and especially this one right here
called omeprazole, [music]
which is the 10th most prescribed
medication in the US. In 2009,
researchers recruited 120
healthy people. Not a single one of them
had heartburn at all, and they gave half
of them this very popular PPI. And then,
they took the drug away.
Within weeks, 44% of them developed
heartburn, indigestion, and acid reflux.
If we compare that to the sugar pill
group, only 15% of those people got
those symptoms. So, the drug did not fix
the problem. It didn't cure them. It
actually gave it to them. And this is
the problem with medication in general.
There's a managing of the symptom
without the further investigation of the
root cause. Today, we're going to talk
about that. And then, there was another
study. They tested the amount of acid
that the stomach produced in 155 people
with verified esophageal damage. And
then, they compared that acid output to
a larger healthy group of over 500
people. You would think the group that
had the acid reflux had more acid. Well,
guess what? They found
there was no difference in the acid
production level. Except, some reflux
patients actually produced less acid.
The other fascinating thing you should
know about acid reflux
is that PPIs do not reduce the frequency
of acid reflux. Now, they do reduce the
acid production, but the actual
frequency of how many times they get
that reflux doesn't change when you take
the medication. So, today we're going to
go deeper into this and explain what's
really going on. Because if you go to
the local drugstore and you pick up any
of the over-the-counter
antacids, you flip to the back and you
read it, it'll tell you, "Do not take
for more than 14 days." And then every
single prescription for a PPI
says 4 to 8 weeks max. Yet today, over
25% of these people take it for over a
year.
3.9, just under 4% of them take it over
5 years. The whole goal with antacids is
to neutralize or reduce the acid going
on in our stomach. The pH in your
stomach is between 1 and 3. That is
extremely acidic. And the reason why we
have such a strongly acidic stomach is
to be able to digest protein, and also
to kill microbes, and also to help you
absorb B12, and break down and dissolve
and absorb calcium and magnesium and
other minerals. And we also need this
strong pH to trigger the pancreas to
release its enzymes, and also to trigger
the liver to release bile that can be
produced and travel down the bile ducts
into the gallbladder. Because for
certain reasons, which we're going to
get into, this acid comes through that
valve up into the esophagus, where you
have tissue that's not protected, and
then that can burn. And this acid can
travel all the way up to your vocal
cords into your throat. So a lot of
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you'll find more information. Now, I
briefly want to just cover some of the
complications that happen when someone
is on an antacid for too long. Anxiety
is a big one. Depression is a big one.
But you should know, if someone's
chronically on a PPI,
it really depletes magnesium big time,
which is so needed in so many different
biochemical pathways. And so just by
depleting magnesium alone,
you'll develop additional symptoms like
tremors, leg cramps, being irritable,
and having anxiety. In order to absorb a
lot of these minerals, you need an acid
stomach. Taking away the acid decreases
the absorption of minerals. And then we
have B12, which is really important in
supporting your nerves.
And so without this very acidic pH in
the stomach,
then the B12 deficiency kicks in and you
can potentially start having
neurological problems. Kidney
inflammation is one of the side effects.
Many microbes cannot exist in that low
pH, that very acidic pH. What is causing
this valve to open? One they'll say it
just opens spontaneously for no reason,
but there's always a reason. And one of
the biggest reasons
is when you stretch the stomach, like in
a bloated stomach. Also, if you have a
hiatal hernia, that back pressure can
easily pop open that valve. They've also
evaluated people that eat more sugar
causing this valve to pop open as well.
Now, when I was in practice for 30
years, there was one remedy that seemed
to work and that was something called
betaine hydrochloride. It helps acidify
the stomach. Well, first of all, if
you're not digesting the food in the
stomach, it can actually sit there and
ferment and back up pressure and then
pop open that valve. By adding more
acid, betaine hydrochloride, many times
that can actually help solve the deeper
problem. Now, some people take PPIs for
an ulcer. In that case, if you give
someone betaine hydrochloride, you're
going to make it worse. Another remedy
is called zinc carnosine. So, that would
be something to maybe take first for a
while to heal up that ulcer or gastritis
before you introduce betaine
hydrochloride. But, what you have to
realize too is when someone starts a PPI
and then comes off a PPI, one of the
side effects is a rebound of producing
more acid. Because when you start
lowering the acid in the stomach, you
sometimes can get a three to five times
more production of gastrin, which will
actually lead to more acid production,
which can last between two and eight
weeks. In that situation, maybe a little
baking soda in water might give you some
relief as you make the transition so
your stomach can produce less acid. Now,
check with your doctor before making any
of these changes because I cannot tell
you to come off a medication or to take
a medication. That's beyond my scope.
All I'm doing is trying to educate you
on some really important data and also
to tell you where to do more research
because many times
this informed consent that you're
supposed to sign off on before you start
this medication is not really explained
thoroughly to you. So, in other words,
this is the big question is, did the
doctor tell you that this medication
could actually cause you to end up with
acid reflux? Did the doctor tell you
that a PPI doesn't stop the number of
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couple other really important things to
implement in your daily lifestyle are
intermittent fasting because eating too
many meals per day never lets this
digestive system rest. And then on top
of that, going on a low-carb diet
because if you're consuming more carbs
and sugars and starches, that can also
affect the protein digesting in your
stomach and in intestine. Now that you
have the data and analysis, the next
most important video for you to watch
would be on bloating. And for that
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