Hey everybody, welcome to this week's episode of Red Pill Your Healthcast. My name is Dr. Charlie

Faganholz and I'm here with Lauren Johnson, your favorite nurse. And so we're going to continue

talking about pharmaceuticals this week. Last week we did statins and blood pressure. This week we're

going to take a dive into proton pump inhibitors,

which is medications that are prescribed for acid reflux, which a lot of people have. And in this

episode, we're going to talk a little bit about the medications. We're also going to talk a little bit

about the causes of acid reflux so that you can listen and digest it in a very digestible way.

Because Lauren and I have both experienced this in our health histories.

And this is kind of what got me into natural medicine, so to speak.

So let's start out by some of the statistics of proton pump inhibitors.

Lorne, what do the people need to hear about it?

Yeah, I mean, so proton pump inhibitors are one of the most commonly prescribed drugs out there,

ranging from infants to adults.

And you'll see in the literature that they should not be given long term.

But unfortunately, they are given long term and they are, they will still be given long term

because it's very hard to get patients off of them. A patient will try to go off of them.

And they will just feel absolutely miserable.

And so that is one thing that we're going to talk about today is that, you know,

it is really hard to go off of them. Here's why. Here's one of the reasons why they shouldn't be

given long term. And then, and then what you can do about it instead.

You know, I was at a seminar once. I'm at a lot of seminars, but the one that I'm referring to,

I was listening to this doctor speak. And my question to him was, he was talking about digestive health.

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