The Fastest Way To Rid HEARTBURN, GERD and ACID REFLUX

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about three ways to get rid of heartburn without using antacids. Antacids only work for a short time, requiring you to take more and more to keep your symptoms at bay. Through prolonged use, antacids will only make heartburn worse by depleting your stomach acid.

Antacids are associated with the following side effects:

• Bloating

• Indigestion

• Allergies

• Increased infection in the stomach

• Depression

Antacids create a condition known as achlorhydria, which depletes your stomach acid, but you need your stomach acid to get rid of heartburn. Your stomach is very acidic and should have a pH between 1 and 3. Enzymes cannot be activated if you do not have the right pH.

Heartburn is not a problem resulting from too much acid—it's a valve problem. Keeping the pH of the stomach between 1 and 3 keeps the valve shut.

How to get rid of heartburn naturally:

1. The most important nutrient to eliminate and prevent heartburn is vitamin B1 (thiamine). Your stomach can not produce acid when you’re deficient in vitamin B1. A diet high in carbs depletes B1. Low B1 deprives the autonomic nervous system, which controls the valves of the stomach. Look for a natural source of vitamin B1 to get rid of heartburn.

2. Potassium and zinc are very important for your stomach acid. Try a good electrolyte powder and trace mineral supplement to increase your intake of these important minerals. Also, make sure you’re getting plenty of sea salt.

3. Increase your stomach acid. This triggers the valve at the top of the stomach to close. Apple cider vinegar and betaine hydrochloride can help acidify the stomach.

It’s important to note that if apple cider vinegar or betaine hydrochloride causes burning, you may have gastritis or an ulcer. In this situation, you need to heal the stomach before taking apple cider vinegar or betaine hydrochloride.

DATA:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/716330/

https://www.objectivenutrients.com/in...

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0:00.0	You know, I'm like terrible, debilitating, painful heartburn was the best thing that ever happened to me.
0:09.2	But also I want to show you three things that will help your heart burn and one of these things will correct
0:15.2	it from here and out. It started in college where I started getting this terrible burning.
0:21.1	I'd lie down and this acid would just come up driving me crazy.
0:26.0	It was just so bad because I had to literally have all these pillows and kind of prop myself up.
0:31.2	I started on an acid, like not just a little bit I mean I'm talking like popping these little
0:36.2	an acid like all that long but this went on for months and months and the problem is it never corrected anything.
0:42.8	Is this how I'm going to be spending the rest of my life just taking pills?
0:46.1	This forced me to think outside the box, to look at alternatives that I would never in a million years look at.
0:52.3	Not just with heartburnburn for many, many different things.
0:56.1	If I never had this heartburn, I would never have gotten into the alternative health field.
1:03.1	And of course, the side effects from man acids,
1:05.8	oh my gosh, bloating, indigestion, allergies,
1:09.7	increase infection in your stomach,
1:11.5	depression, etc, etc.
1:13.0	I had zero awareness over health.
1:16.0	I mean, it was so bad.
1:17.0	It just never even crossed my mind.
1:19.0	And I was shopping at the discount grocery stores, putting things in my body that I would cringe now if you
1:27.2	put it in front of me.
1:28.4	And then of course that was when I was introduced to this thing called coffee, not just
1:31.6	a little coffee, but a tremendous amount of
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