#1 Remedy for Heartburn / Acid Reflux / GERD without Medications

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm going to cover the #1 remedy for heartburn, GERD, and acid reflux.

We're told that the cause of acid reflux, heartburn, and GERD is too much acid. But, I've found that rather than the overproduction of acid, these issues are typically caused by an underproduction of acid.

Two main conditions cause low stomach acid: hypochlorhydria and achlorhydria. Symptoms of both these conditions include acid reflux, heartburn, and GERD.

Hydrochloric acid is there to help you break down food, absorb minerals and vitamins, and protect against pathogens. A deficiency in hydrochloric acid can lead to a myriad of health concerns.

One of the side effects of antacids or other acid-suppressing medications is a loss of stomach acid. This can temporarily cause someone to feel better but can lead to other health issues.

Top causes of low stomach acid:

• Hypothyroidism

• Poor diet

• A suppressed immune system

• Antacids

• Low-salt diets

• Potassium deficiency

• Zinc deficiency

• Iodine deficiency

• Eating too frequently

Betaine hydrochloride is the best natural remedy for heartburn, GERD, and acid reflux. However, you shouldn't take it if you have an ulcer, and don't take betaine hydrochloride on an empty stomach. Consuming the Healthy Keto diet® and doing intermittent fasting may also be beneficial.

DATA:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...

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0:00.0	So if you have heartburn in the gestion gird, you're going to be very happy you watch this video.
0:06.0	I mean, we all know what acid reflux and heartburn really is. It's too much acid, right?
0:11.0	Is there a difference between acid reflux heartburn and the overproduction of acid?
0:17.2	There's a huge difference, okay? When you have heartburn or acid reflux or gird,
0:23.4	where do you actually feel it? Do you feel it in the stomach?
0:27.0	Usually not, unless you have an ulcer. Normally you feel it just above the stomach in the esophagus
0:33.8	or even in the larynx as it can come up to esophagus into your throat. And so what you're going
0:38.7	to soon learn is that heartburn, gird, acid reflux is actually the opposite problem.
0:46.4	It's usually not an overproduction of acid. It's an underproduction of acid and I'm going to prove it.
0:53.7	So let's go through this. I mean, I would bet you anything. If you go to your doctor with heartburn
0:58.4	or acid reflux, they're not going to test the pH of your stomach, okay? They're not going to
1:04.3	check your acids. They're not going to look at that because it's obvious that you have too much acid.
1:08.7	But here's the problem. When you don't have enough acid, the valve on the top of the stomach doesn't
1:15.1	necessarily close tightly enough. And the acid can then regurgitate up into the esophagus,
1:22.1	making you think that you have too much acid. When in fact, you have just acid in the wrong place.
1:28.4	It's a well known fact that people develop gird as they get older. You don't normally have
1:34.8	this problem when you're younger. Well, it's an exception to myself. I'm my 20s I had this because
1:40.4	I had really bad digestive issues, but that was more of an ulcer, okay? Which actually also had
1:46.0	some acid reflux. But normally speaking, as you age, okay, over 40, 50 years old, a lot more people
1:51.8	get acid reflux. But it's also true that as we age, we lose our stomach acid. The acidity in our
1:59.4	stomach becomes less and less and less as we age. So that's kind of conflicting. It doesn't make
2:05.7	sense unless you really understand that the normally the root cause of acid reflux, heartburn,
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