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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