There’s No Such Thing as Acid Reflux

But there is such a thing as digestive dysfunction and that dysfunction is actually caused by just the opposite: Not enough stomach acid. Well, if there is not enough acid, where does the burning come from? Read on. 

The stomach is not a swimming pool brimming with acid. It is not hanging around waiting for food to cannonball down into it and splash acid up into the esophagus. The stomach is an empty hollow organ. The cells lining the inside of the stomach are stimulated to secrete hydrochloric acid only when food initiates contact. Once this process is activated, stomach acid will ooze from the cells and the cells will secrete just enough to cover the bolus and start its breakdown. 

This condition we have come to call acid reflux is one in which there is actually too little acid (and too few enzymes). Instead of the food being broken down by acid/enzymes, it sits and rots like a compost pile. It is this rotting food that causes the burning feeling in the esophagus. Have you ever stood near a compost pile and felt the heat coming from the decomposing matter? 

The remedy for this alleged “disease” is actually to restore normal function of the stomach by adding more acid and more enzymes. By adding these two factors into the digestion equation, we will be giving the stomach exactly what it needs to break down our food. The stomach is supposed to be acidic. Medication is counter to this Natural Law. 

While medicine provides temporary relief (by covering up the rotting compost pile) it will exacerbate the condition by decreasing the low acidic level even further. Here are some alternative/natural remedies to try: 

1. Take one capful of Bragg’s apple cider vinegar in a shot of water before each meal and another round after the meal. The acid in the vinegar combined with the live enzymes will do wonders for processing our meal.

2. or take one Zypan (HCL supplement) from Standard Process in the middle of the meal and one more tablet at the end of the meal.

3. and/or stop eating processed and cooked food. Raw dairy products (www.realmilk.com), and organic fruits & vegetables are full of live enzymes. Enzymes aid in digestion. Cooking and processing food (boxed, bagged, canned, jarred) kills essential enzymes. 

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Fruit Fly Invasion

     Are you looking for a natural remedy to catch and rid your house of fruit flies? Summer time calls for open windows and lots of fresh fruit stacked up in the fruit bowl. This is the perfect calling card for those pesky buggers to come a knocking. They won’t ring your doorbell and they won’t wait for an invitation. These pests can detect fermenting fruit from great distances and can easily fit between the mesh of your screens. You wake up one morning and BAM! Your kitchen is swarming .

     The fermenting fruit creates yeast that the fruit flies needs to lay their eggs in. As much of an annoyance that this may be, these little guys are just doing what they are programmed to do: Eat, and make little babies. It’s nature in her finest. It’s the Circle of Life (Sing with me Elton).

     You can avoid this infestation by simply keeping your fruit in the refrigerator. But in our house, we have four mouths to feed and we keep lots of fruit on hand. We leave our fruit out on the counter top so the children have easy access to all those vitamins and minerals. 

     We keep the fruit flies a bay by placing our traps on the counter about 12-24 inches away from the fruit. In a small cup put one teaspoon of Bragg’s apple cider vinegar. Add to it a shot of water and one drop of dish-washing liquid. Cover the top of the cup with some plastic wrap and poke holes in the top with a sharp pencil. The rest is history.

     The fruit flies will be attracted to the fermented apples and find their way into the cup. Once inside, they can’t escape and will eventually fall into the mixture, become trapped, and drown. If you are an animal lover or Buddhist and cannot fathom the idea of killing fruit flies, do what I do. I pretend I am a bat and convince myself that I would have eaten them anyway. Survival of the fittest.

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Does the World Need Another Blog?

I know many of you follow your favorite athlete, movie star, or reality show celebrity with the same enthusiasm a child shows waking up on Christmas day. The morning cannot begin without knowing that Miley Cyrus has a new haircut, there’s another Hollywood divorce, or Danica Patrick’s latest NASCAR challenges. Facebook posts, Tweets, TMZ, Reality TV; It is meaningless distraction.

The time has come to change our focus onto something with a greater purpose. And that is why I have created this blog. This blog is about you and me; Our potential as human beings, our purpose on this planet, and how we can help spread meaningful change throughout our families, our neighborhood, our country, and ultimately, maybe even the world!

This blog comes with a warning though. The ego will fight us every step of the way. Our ego wants to keep us in familiar surroundings and patterns even if these are rooted in misperception. Familiarity breeds safety and the ego wants to be safe. I’m going to ask you to step out of your comfort zone; physically, emotionally, chemically, spiritually. I’m going to shake up your belief system and your perceptions of what is fact or fiction. (And maybe you will shake up mine!)

 If you are tired of the reality you have created, let’s change it. If you are stuck in a rut and need a push, I’ll give you one. If you have that feeling deep down inside that there’s got to be more to life than this, I’ll help point you in a new direction. If you are bored with the same old 9-5 and want to step outside your safety zone…just to take a peek, I’ll open the curtain for you. We will go one step at a time. Slow and steady wins the race.

I’m calling on you. The alarm is sounding. It’s time to wake up everybody. It’s time to be conscious, alive with a sense of purpose, and inspired to create change. It’s time to put the ego in the back seat and live a life with meaning. Each week will have a new message geared to making us all better humans and the world a better place. I’m glad you are here.

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