The Cause of Acid Reflux Disease

 How to Get Rid of It For Good

To find a natural cure for acid reflux disease we must first understand the cause of acid reflux disease.

Many doctors and scientists theorize that the cause of GERD is an incompetence of the lower esophageal sphincter to close. Increased acidity or production of gastric acid can contribute to the problem, as can obesity, tight fitting clothes and pregnancy. It is also thought that yeast infections of the digestive tract can be a cause of acid reflux disease. Yeast is absolutely True!

Other factors that can cause acid reflux disease are:

Hiatus hernia which is a protrusion of the upper part of the stomach increases into the region of the body that extends from the neck to the diaphragm of the lungs. This condition can increase likelihood of GERD due to mechanical and motility factors. Surgery is recommended if indeed this is the cause of acid reflux disease in your body.
 
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is a disorder where increased levels of the hormone gastrin are produced, causing the stomach to produce excess hydrochloric acid. Often, the cause is a tumour of the pancreas producing the hormone gastrin. As these tumors are benign, they are only removed if the disease cannot be controlled with medication. These conditions are extremely rare.
 
Hypercalcemia or an increased calcium level in the body can increase gastrin production, leading to increased acidity and be a cause of acid reflux disease.
 
Scleroderma and systemic sclerosis which are both characterized by excess deposits of collagen can cause acid reflux disease.

The Most Common Cause of Acid Reflux Disease

The cause of acid reflux disease is simply the result of incomplete digestion in the stomach and small intestine. Whether it is from a lack of hydrochloric acid in your stomach, or not enough enzymes being released by the pancreas. The food then sits there and ferments, creating gas and other digestive distress as the whole mess backs up into your esophagus.

Now because of the fact that our bodies are designed to provide 50% of the enzymes to digest foods and the other 50% comes from the food itself if those enzymes are still alive. Most of these enzymes are quite dead, you see cooking foods above 118 degrees kills all the enzymes. Right from the get go you are enzyme deficient.

If the lack of enzymes wasn't enough, our diets today are loaded with sugars, which trigger the pancreas to release insulin to calm the sugar fire. The very same pancreas that creates enzymes for digestion. Our pancreas are over worked and more than likely not producing the digestive enzymes you need to complete the digestion of the foods you eat.

These undigested food particles can also end up deposited along the colon walls as compacted wastes and restrict the perasystolic action of the colon from dumping the waste from the entire colon. The good bacteria present in the intestine will go to work trying to remove these wastes by producing lactic acid, hydrogen peroxide, and enzymes used to digest or dissolve this waste. 

These good bacteria are also being killed constantly from the processed foods we eat and drink, the medications we take, and the chemicals we expose ourselves to on a daily basis.

The largest cause of acid reflux is the under production of hydrochloric acid and/or digestive enzymes. That's right...under production, not over production.

The Journal of the American Medical Association says that only 10% of older adults have normal levels of hydrochloric acid production in their bodies for digestion. In the 1930's both John Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic did studies on thousands of people over 60 and half of those had functionally low stomach acid production. They did not produce enough for complete digestion but enough to cause pain from "indigestion".

We also know for a fact that Zollinger and Ellison syndromes, which are the over production of acid are very rare. Dr. Barry Marshall proved that ulcers are not caused by acid but h. pylori, a bacteria.

Webster's dictionary defines indigestion as: "inability to digest or difficulty in digesting something". It's not because of over production of stomach acid that would most certainly turn that steak into liquid, hydrochloric acid will burn a hole in steel, but under production that won't. There is just enough acid to cause burning because the meal backs up into the esophagus because it is not digested and sits in the stomach way to long.

The common over the counter ant-acids quench this little bit of acids in many cases but you are treating the symptoms and not curing the problem. What do you think the affect of undigested food is?

Your body suffers a lack of nutrients because the nutrients in the foods cannot be absorbed, because they were not digested into small enough particles. Result, you age faster and your health can deteriorate as the aging process picks up speed because you are literally starving to death.

Thankfully, the natural cure for acid reflux solves most of the cause of acid reflux disease issues once and for all.

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