Is acid reflux destroying your immune system?
The lymph tissue in your gut is a whopping 70 percent of your body's immune system. If you don't take care of your intestinal tract, you will become sick and will contract diseases that deteriorate your nervous system, your organs, your digestive tract and every other part of your body. Eventually, you will succumb to illnesses that others with healthy guts simply shake off. Acid reflux may be an indication that you're destroying your gut's natural immune system.
First, a little lesson from HIV treatments
Bear with me for a moment as I write about HIV, as this is very pertinent to today's blog about acid reflux. A recent article in the Journal of Virology states that immediately after a person is infected with HIV, the body's gut battles the virus. If the gut is unhealthy or not robust, the virus is not destroyed. The virus ends up making a home in the gut, wreaking havoc on the immune system. Its very presence prevents the gut from effectively fighting microbes and diseases. It even uses the gut to hide from drugs that can destroy it.
Your gut may also be acid - and killing you!
Acid reflux may be a sign that your gut is also acidic. Acidity is a fertilizer for viruses, bacteria and other deadly microbes. Whatever acidity is doing to your stomach, it's doing much worse things to your gut. If you shut down the acidity, you will remove the environment that microbes and deadly diseases need to grow and take over your body.
An alkaline body is a death sentence for disease. If you eat mostly alkaline foods, your body becomes alkaline and your reflux disappears. Yes, it's that simple! Your gut returns to its natural alkaline state and sweeps out all disease-causing microbes living in it. The other organs that have been held hostage by acidity and acid-loving microbes return to their natural alkaline state and become reinvigorated and function properly.
An alkaline body enjoys vitality, energy and robust health. If you're tired of being a guinea pig for acid reflux drugs, then give your body the alkaline diet it craves. It's the only way you can have perfect health for the rest of your life.
How to get started on an alkaline diet
I've written a number of blogs about eating an alkaline diet. Here are the links:
Burp! How to prevent & stop GERD
More food tips to halt acid reflux
Acidic foods can stop acid reflux and GERD
Avoid doctors to stay healthy & alive!
Do you drink a gallon of water every day?
Is your GERD a symptom of a MUCH bigger problem?
The following books will help you get started on an alkaline eating plan. Two of the books are by Dr. Robert O. Young and Shelley Redford Young. The two cookbooks (Back to the House of Health) are written only by Shelley.
If you want to enjoy perfect health and eliminate acid reflux forever, then you'll order these books. Nothing happens until you take that first step!
Additional resources:
J Virol. 2006 Aug;80(16):8236-47
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I am not a doctor and have no medical training.
The information in this blog is not intended
to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Statements made on this blog
have not been evaluated by the FDA.
Consult a healthcare professional before using any products,
treatments or exercises mentioned on this blog.
"Let food be thy medicine and
medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates
First, a little lesson from HIV treatments
Bear with me for a moment as I write about HIV, as this is very pertinent to today's blog about acid reflux. A recent article in the Journal of Virology states that immediately after a person is infected with HIV, the body's gut battles the virus. If the gut is unhealthy or not robust, the virus is not destroyed. The virus ends up making a home in the gut, wreaking havoc on the immune system. Its very presence prevents the gut from effectively fighting microbes and diseases. It even uses the gut to hide from drugs that can destroy it.
Your gut may also be acid - and killing you!
Acid reflux may be a sign that your gut is also acidic. Acidity is a fertilizer for viruses, bacteria and other deadly microbes. Whatever acidity is doing to your stomach, it's doing much worse things to your gut. If you shut down the acidity, you will remove the environment that microbes and deadly diseases need to grow and take over your body.
An alkaline body is a death sentence for disease. If you eat mostly alkaline foods, your body becomes alkaline and your reflux disappears. Yes, it's that simple! Your gut returns to its natural alkaline state and sweeps out all disease-causing microbes living in it. The other organs that have been held hostage by acidity and acid-loving microbes return to their natural alkaline state and become reinvigorated and function properly.
An alkaline body enjoys vitality, energy and robust health. If you're tired of being a guinea pig for acid reflux drugs, then give your body the alkaline diet it craves. It's the only way you can have perfect health for the rest of your life.
How to get started on an alkaline diet
I've written a number of blogs about eating an alkaline diet. Here are the links:
Burp! How to prevent & stop GERD
More food tips to halt acid reflux
Acidic foods can stop acid reflux and GERD
Avoid doctors to stay healthy & alive!
Do you drink a gallon of water every day?
Is your GERD a symptom of a MUCH bigger problem?
The following books will help you get started on an alkaline eating plan. Two of the books are by Dr. Robert O. Young and Shelley Redford Young. The two cookbooks (Back to the House of Health) are written only by Shelley.
If you want to enjoy perfect health and eliminate acid reflux forever, then you'll order these books. Nothing happens until you take that first step!
Additional resources:
J Virol. 2006 Aug;80(16):8236-47
I am not a doctor and have no medical training.
The information in this blog is not intended
to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Statements made on this blog
have not been evaluated by the FDA.
Consult a healthcare professional before using any products,
treatments or exercises mentioned on this blog.
medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates
posted by Edith Gaylord | 7:37 AM
3 Comments:
Hi Edith,
Your blog is very useful, thanks. I have been on Omeprazole for a month now and came off it for a few days after reading 1 month was enough. (My doc prescribed 2 months treatment). My acid reflux has come back with a cough and a tight chest. I am worried about long term medication as I am a relatively healthy 37 year old man, however I know that this condition occurs in my family. I will try the alkaline diet, but I guess I have to come off the medication first to see the effect? Also is there any alcohol to avoid or is all of it bad? many thnaks
Colin,
I don't know why you'd want to wait to start an alkaline diet if you have acid reflux. I'd just start it and be happy that I didn't have any reflux.
As far as alcohol is concerned...you're not supposed to have any on the alkaline diet. I suppose you could try having some wine or a beer and see if it causes reflux. It may not cause it in you...or it might. Even things that are alkaline in nature can be issues for some individuals.
As I've written in several of my blogs, I'm not a person who suffers from acid reflux. I have some acid indigestion a few times a year, but certainly not regularly. I discovered recently that brown rice, which is not acidic, gives me an immediate acid burn in my esophagus. Just swallowing it...before it reaches my stomach...causes a strange burning sensation in my esophagus. So, that's something I can't have, even though rice is considered one of the foods that's supposed to be easy for anyone to digest. On the other hand, polished white rice (which is missing all the good nutrients & bran) doesn't cause this burning. Strange!
So, the bottom line is that you may have to try some things to see how they work for you.
Edith
I didn't know that cooked tomatoes actually caused acid reflux. I figured that raw tomatoes would actually cause heartburn. It is the exact opposite with onions.
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