Study Finds Acid-Suppressing Medication Increases Risk of Death

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A large and very compelling study with over 200,000 participants suggests caution about taking acid-suppressing medication (proton pump inhibitors and H2 blockers). The study found an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and upper gastrointestinal cancer. PPIs have been shown to heal gastric and duodenal ulcers when in short-term applications of 4-8 weeks. So, it’s important to keep an open mind about the potential benefits of these drugs. But I discourage you from taking acid-suppressing medications over the long term for reflux. There are several excellent alternatives for treating the root cause of reflux. These include dietary interventions and probiotics. In the long run, addressing the root cause of your reflux symptoms improves your overall health and reduces your risk of serious side effects from medication. https://drruscio.com/?p=49002

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and
0:13.9	functional medicine.
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0:27.1	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease.
0:33.5	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.3	Now let's head to the show.
0:40.1	Hi, this is Dr. Roushaw.
0:41.4	Are PPIs or acid suppressing medications bad for your health and might they even be linked to an increased risk of death?
0:49.7	Let's take a look at a recent study that's fairly damning against the potential
0:55.2	detriments from using acids oppressing medications. Let's go through this point by point.
1:01.5	And this following study published in the BMJ in 2019 entitled Estimates of All Cause Mortality
1:08.6	and Specific Cause Mortality associated with proton pump inhibitors
1:14.3	among U.S. veterans, a cohort study. The researchers were attempting to look in a prospective cohort
1:23.1	fashion, meaning we take a group of people and we track them going forward in time to evaluate if there's
1:29.2	an association between the use of PPI medications, acid lower medications, and any type of mortality
1:35.4	or death. Let's look at what they found. In this group of 157,000 users of PPIs and 56,000 H2 blockers.
1:47.0	H2 blockers are a more mild form of acid suppressing medication.
1:52.0	They're known as histamine receptor 2 antagonists,
1:55.0	so they block the histamine 2 receptor,
1:59.0	are the participants or the groups that were tracked. So we have very compelling,
2:03.7	very large sample sizes that are being tracked. Let's look at what they found. Conclusion,
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