Why Zinc Carnosine Fixes Ulcers and Gastritis
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
When I was younger, I suffered severe heartburn and ulcers, and I used to take a lot of antacids. Those antacids only helped for a short amount of time, and my symptoms came back within a few hours. I wish I had known what I know now.
It's important to understand what causes ulcers and gastritis. For the longest time, it was believed that ulcers were a result of too much stomach acid. However, recent scientific evidence found that Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is the leading cause of peptic ulcer formation.
While most people are exposed to these microbes, not everyone gets ulcers, as healthy stomach acid levels help destroy H. pylori and prevent infection and associated stomach issues.
Taking antacids or histamine blockers to manage gastritis can increase the risk of infection as these drugs lower the stomach’s acidity, creating a perfect environment for H. Pylori to thrive.
In contrast, zinc carnosine is a highly effective remedy that coats the stomach, increases stomach acid production, and stimulates the production of mucous lining the stomach wall.
Zinc is also a potent antibacterial agent, directly inhibiting the growth of H. pylori, which helps prevent and manage ulcers and gastritis.
Carnosine, on the other hand, is broken down and converted into superoxide dismutase (SOD), a powerful antioxidant that lowers inflammation. This explains why zinc carnosine is one of the best supplements to promote intestinal health.
Consider taking 75 milligrams of zinc carnosine twice daily. Although zinc carnosine is highly effective, it doesn’t work immediately and should be taken for one to three months to see results. To find relief from stomach pain, natural remedies such as baking soda or liquid chlorophyll help soothe stomach irritation.
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| 0:00.0 | So today I went to the drugstore to look for an ant acid. I wanted to see if they had a special remedy in that section. |
| 0:08.3 | And the remedy is zinc carnosine and I could not find it anywhere. In fact I couldn't even find it under the |
| 0:15.0 | vitamin section which is shocking because zinc carnosine is the cure for ulcers. |
| 0:22.3 | That's probably because it's pretty cheap. I mean I think it's probably less than $10 a bottle. |
| 0:27.2 | So today I'm going to talk about the mechanism of why zinc carnacine fixes an ulcer. |
| 0:33.8 | And I have a lot of experience with this |
| 0:35.6 | because in college, I had severe heartburn and ulcers, |
| 0:42.0 | and I didn't know what to do, and was suffering so what I did is I just took massive |
| 0:46.5 | amounts of tums which is chalk. Three hours later started to hurt again and this cycle happened over and over and over. |
| 0:55.0 | Taking tons of antibiotics or an acid doesn't really heal the problem. |
| 1:00.0 | So the main treatment for an ulcer is an antibiotic. Why? Because fairly recently they discovered that the cause of ulcers is a bacteria called H-Pylori, but they also use an H-2 inhibitor |
| 1:15.4 | H standing for histamine which I'm going to explain a little bit but I think |
| 1:19.8 | most of the medic profession initially thought that an ulcer was really just too much |
| 1:26.6 | acid, right? |
| 1:27.6 | Well, now we know it's a breakdown of the mucous layer around part of your stomach or the small |
| 1:36.7 | intestine and now you have this open wound and it can be infected. Let's break down |
| 1:42.2 | this zinc carnosine. So when you take the zinc |
| 1:45.4 | carnosine, it's a pretty stable compound that doesn't really break down too easily |
| 1:50.1 | so it kind of stays in the stomach and it kind of coats the area but it |
| 1:54.7 | eventually breaks down into zinc in Carnesine. Carnesine then breaks down into |
| 1:59.4 | El histidine. It's the amino acid that turns into histamine. |
| 2:04.0 | Now this is very confusing for a lot of people because when you think of histamines, |
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