Reflux, GERD, heartburn, upset stomach, indigestion, or gas and bloating are not normal. Suppressing the symptoms does nothing about the causes, and wrecks your digestion. Do you want to wean-off heartburn medicines? You need a root cause reflux doctor.
The true causes of heartburn and reflux are never mentioned in advertisements. Drug makers don’t care about what causes heartburn, acid reflux, or upset stomach. All they want is to sell you a temporary suppressant that you take for the rest of your life. Ritually taking that medication never addresses the root causes, and could worsen gas, or bloating.
Acid reflux treatment
There are long-term consequences of using acid reflux medicines. Some side effects may be indigestion, gas, and bloating. The indigestion treatment has a side effect of indigestion! They cause incomplete digestion, and malabsorption.
Long-term use could also lead to muscle loss (sarcopenia), osteoporosis, chronic pain, stomach pain, gas, bloating, and SIBO. Then there’s constipation, use of stool softeners, chronic fatigue, and even brain fog, or a heart attack!
“Our observation [is] that PPI [type of antacid] usage is associated with harm in the general population, including the young… with risk of MI” [MI= heart attack]
Integrative reflux treatment
Your stomach produces acid, and it has an important function. If your stomach were working optimally, you would never feel stomach acid, but when it struggles, you feel heartburn. Your stomach might need help, but it doesn’t need to be shut off. Taking an antacid is like taking an anti-stomach pill!
What causes heartburn, or reflux?
Heartburn is when you feel like you have excess stomach acid, even though you don’t. Heartburn is your symptom. “Acid” is what you think the symptom feels like. A feeling like “heartburn,” or “acid indigestion” is not a cause; it is the end symptom. The root causes of upset stomach are what lead to reflux.
Your heartburn symptom is the result of something causing it, and it sure feels like excess stomach acid. The words, “acid indigestion” or “heartburn” describe your symptoms, but your heart isn’t burning and you don’t have excess stomach acid. These words are descriptive, but deceiving. They are not the causes of your upset stomach, digestive issues, or reflux.
So what causes the feeling of excess stomach acid? Remember, the symptoms you feel are the result, they are not the causes of your heartburn. It feels like something burning—like there is too much acid, but it’s not. The true causes are due to something else.
Imagine that a reflux doctor could turn-on your stomach instead of just turning it off. Imagine that your stomach could start functioning like it did when you were just 15 years old. Did you have reflux back then? No! Yet, your stomach was producing plenty of stomach acid back then, without heartburn, or indigestion. It was producing enough, good quality stomach acid, so you never had heartburn, indigestion, acid reflux, bloating or GERD.
The cause is NOT too much acid. The causes are fermenting, putrefying, rancidifying food, not digesting!
If there’s still food in your stomach when you wake in the morning, that’s part of your real problem.
Wean off medications
Instead of suppressing your tired, worn-out stomach, you need help to turn it back on. It’s the opposite of antacid therapy. Whatever you were taking for reflux, worsens your digestion. This fact is important, but it is not enough to help you. There is a complex weaning process. It is too simple to think you can use this page to treat your condition yourself. Now is not the time to try self treatment without the right professional help.
Choose a health center with extensive knowledge of your many internal systems that influence your stomach and digestive function. These systems work together and integrate with each other.
Integrative heartburn treatment
Do you already have IBS: irritable bowel syndrome? You will need an integrative health center using natural alternatives to help you. We have a powerful command of the herbs and natural nutritional concentrates necessary to rebuild your digestion, such as Okra Pepsin E3, which could be a great starting point for a return to better digestion.
Your lasting solution is not about temporarily shutting down your stomach. Doing that leaves you more susceptible to a parasite getting past your stomach. Our system is second to none! Our experience and expertise in cases like yours, is why such a large percentage of our patients have great results.
Say goodbye to indigestion, bloating or reflux. Contact us today.