Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

I want to show you how to completely stop acid reflux once and for all.

I had acid reflux really bad in college.

I was downing massive amounts of thumbs, not having a clue of what caused it.

I really wish I knew back then what I know now because it would have been so easy to correct.

I mean, just months and months of suffering, this terrible heartburn.

I'd have to kind of sit up like propped up in my bed to try to have it drained because at night, it would be terrible.

So what is acid reflux? It's a situation where you're having acid that's regurgitating coming up through a valve into the esophagus.

And that valve is called the lower esophageal sphincter.

Now, the most important thing to know about acid reflux is that it's caused by not enough acid.

There's a deficiency of acid in your stomach.

And that acid is not triggering a certain mechanism to close the valve at the top of the stomach at the bottom of the esophagus.

And then the valve doesn't close, and so the acid regurgitates.

So the term for this low acid situation is called hypochlorhydria.

That is the root cause of your heartburn.

So that means low stomach acid.

There's another condition called a chlorhydria, which there's no acid in your stomach.

And that happens with people as they get older and older.

As we age, we lose the acid in our stomach, and we have all sorts of digestive problems.

30% of the population over the age of 60 has a deficiency of stomach acid.

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