About Heartburn and Indigestion

What I am about to write may seem laughable upon initial reading because of the degree of propaganda from the mainstream medical industry. Nevertheless, you will find my statements to be true if you are willing to experiment as I am about to suggest.

Almost everything you have been told about heart-burn, indigestion, and common stomach ailments is a lie. Indigestion is not caused by excess acid in the stomach, nor is acid reflux. The worst treatment for these problems is taking any type of antacid ― whether prescribed or not. Being acidic is the natural state of the stomach, so there is no such thing as an excess of acid or acid build-up in regards to the stomach. It is like claiming that the lungs suffer from excess oxygen, or the blood has an excess of red and white cells.

Attempting to neutralize stomach acid to treat an uneasy stomach is as effective as treating an excess of blood cells with leaches in the long term. Both cases would be demonstrations of using poor medicine to treat only the symptoms of relatively non-existent medical conditions, which the establishment either cannot accurately diagnose, or finds it too unprofitable to do so. Remember as cited above, the stomach's natural state is acidic. In fact, the stomach contains one of the most powerful acids in existence: hydrochloric acid. This highly destructive acid is the core fuel of the stomach, and in concentrated form, it will tear through titanium like a hot knife cutting butter.

The truth about most stomach disorders is one of not having enough acid, so the industry has made fools out of most of us. The true reason behind acid reflux and indigestion is that when the stomach is lacking enough acid, it must churn violently to make the best use of the limited acid during these times of deficiency, which in turn causes pressure and back-flows of the existing acid. Antacids seem to work because they render the acid being spewed by the churning stomach as less potent, and therefore less painful. In the cases where acid is actually being over produced by the stomach, it is merely the body attempting to overcompensate for antacids having been routinely administered. So the effects of taking antacids snowballs, preventing proper digestion, temporarily eliminating the symptoms only, and eventually causing the excess acid problems which the treatments had been meant to stop.

Moreover, to recreate acids which have been neutralized, the body must carry out a set of chemical reactions which causes the rest of the body to become more acidic ― which is very unhealthy and will be discussed later. The next time you have indigestion problems try the experiment of giving your stomach the acid it needs. Take one tablespoon of vinegar. Your stomach churnings and pain will subside within seconds. It will amaze you. Of course, no pharmaceutical company will make billions from this, and none of them will ever be able to become the gate keeper of this remedy by getting a patent to monopolize it. It is exactly why they and the main media have decided you are not allowed to know about it.

Oh... by the way... apple cider vinegar (daily) combined with the Omega oils found in fish and nuts and the minerals found in sea salts helps to reverses heart disease and hardening of the arteries. Heart disease is the number two money maker.

A Precautionary Notice About Baking Soda and Antacid Use

We do not recommend the use of antacids, and technically baking soda is an antacid. Indigestion is caused by a churning stomach that is overcompensating for too little stomach acid. Having too much stomach acid is a medical rarity.  Thus, the use of antacids often worsens the problem in the long term, and ensures that proper digestion does not take place.  Apple Cider Vinegar is almost always a better solution, even though this clearly flies in the face of conventional wisdom.

Too little baking soda is always better than too much.  Take special note of the fact that the acidity of the stomach has an inverse relationship with body pH ― the stronger the stomach acid, the more alkaline the body is. You, therefore, want strong and unneutralized stomach acid.

Donna Gates, from bodyecology.com accurately reported that, "There are two main consequences of low stomach acid: 1. You become protein malnourished. When your stomach acid is low, you are not able to digest protein. Improper digestion of protein creates toxins in your intestines that can set the stage for illness and disease. Improper digestion of protein also creates acidic blood, since protein is by nature acidic. 2. You become mineral deficient. As your blood becomes more acidic, it will look for minerals from anywhere in your body, in order to get your blood to its more ideal alkaline state. Acidic blood robs your body of minerals, even taking minerals from your bones (which is important to know if you want to prevent osteoporosis).

"Low stomach acid eventually creates a vicious cycle: low stomach acid = low minerals = acidic blood. This cycle continues because acidic blood further creates low minerals and low stomach acid. Once this vicious cycle has started, there is a cascade of consequences:

"You could eat plenty of protein and still be protein malnourished. This raises cortisol levels (stress or death hormone), thereby raising your blood glucose (blood sugar levels). Elevated cortisol adversely affects your behavior and temperment.

"Eventually, your adrenals become depleted (adrenal fatigue) and DHEA, the youth hormone, is suppressed, leading to premature aging.

"Low DHEA and high cortisol affect your brain and behavior, but that's not all. The vicious cycle of low stomach acid affects your inner ecosystem too. Low stomach acid can lead to more bad guys (pathogenic bacteria, candida and viruses) than good guys (healthy microflora), thus lowering your immunity.

"Here are some of the common symptoms and disorders caused by low stomach acid: Bloating, belching, and flatulence immediately after meals, Heartburn (often thought to be caused by too much stomach acid), Indigestion, diarrhea, or constipation, Undigested food in stools, Acne, Rectal itching, Chronic candida, Hair loss in women, Multiple food allergies, Iron deficiency, Weak, peeling, or cracked fingernails, Chronic fatigue, Adrenal fatigue, Dry skin, Various autoimmune diseases."

The biggest medical secret: PH and diseases (including cancer)

The word disease is dis-ease: to be not at ease and harmony internally. Most medical practitioners have forgotten this, at the constant urging of industry, and merely participate in what is basically chemical warfare.

Times have changed much over the eons. Our diet hardly mimics the flora of the Garden of Eden. Even when we try to eat healthy our foods are saturated with insecticides, growth hormones, raised in deficient soils, have so-called flavor enhancers, and is genetically modified ― often without any labeling. Laws have even be rewritten to redefine what can be presented as "all natural" in our foods, so "natural" is routinely used to mask chemically engineered artificial ingredients. The goal of the involved powers-that-be is to engineer cheap, mass-producible foods, which are highly addictive, and keep us ignorant of it. These foods line the aisles of typical grocery stores. Even colorings have been altered from being natural: in some cases even petroleum based colorings for human consumption. Read about "red #40" if you want to have nightmares about what you are putting into your body. In the tap water we have chlorine and fluoride in addition to hundreds of other toxins. Some of these are poisonous heavy metals ― which accumulate over years since they cannot be flushed by the body. Even when not drank orally, these enter our bodies trough absorption into our skin, and in our lungs through the water mist of showers ― both direct paths into the blood. We are not supposed to know about this, just as we are not supposed to know about cherries. Our knowledge does not profit them, and if you ever wanted certain proof that the love of money is the root of all evil, then this is it.

The end result of our accumulated toxicity and everything mentioned above is that our body chemistry has been altered to become acidic. The medical term for this condition is acidosis. This condition ironically leads to an acid deficiency in the only organ requiring acid: the stomach. The majority of foods regularly going into our bodies while being digested cause the body to become more acidic, including most tap water. A body which is acidic (which is most bodies) destroys its own cells, has a crippled immune system, ages rapidly, experiences skin and hair problems, has metabolic and weigh regulation problems, is dis-ease prone, is prone to allergies, cannot effectively absorb nutrients, cannot effectively flush toxins, cannot properly cope with cholesterol, cannot properly regulate minerals such as calcium, and most importantly cannot maintain high levels of oxygen. The opposite of being acidic is being alkaline. Chemicals (and blood) which are alkaline readily absorb huge amounts of oxygen. Most infections and cancers cannot survive in an oxygen rich alkaline environment. For instance, oxygenated water (a.k.a. hydrogen peroxide) is the most effective infection killer because parasitic microorganisms cannot survive in contact with high levels of oxygen. However, our typically acidic bodies cannot retain the oxygen to function properly or to fight infections. When a body reaches a PH level of 7.4 (alkaline instead of acidic) cancers becomes dormant, and at 8.5 all cancers die rapidly, along with every other type of invader.

Shifting the bodies PH from acidic to alkaline requires restoring the bicarbonates, which we should be able to get from our diet, but cannot. There is a cheap and unpatentable source of this compound, so the industry will make certain you never learn of it from the news networks. It is called "baking soda". It is something we tried with impressive results. We have also attempted to embrace a healthier diet. We simply add a half a teaspoon of baking soda to each gallon of distilled water, and occasionally add a pinch of sea salts for necessary minerals and PH buffers. My health has made a dramatic upswing as a result. We are naturally drinking more and eating less, as the alkaline water and improved diet are altering our cravings, as they alter our body's' PH. We have more energy, and need much less sleep. The most surprising result was with Thomas, who has some slight male pattern baldness which has now begun to disappear.

There have been numerous reports of holistic doctors curing cancer cheaply and rapidly with baking soda and intravenous hydrogen peroxide to kill it with high oxygen concentrations in the blood. There were no side-effects, but no one got rich from it either. There have been some surprisingly good results treating HIV/AIDS also.

Further Reading: pH Food Chart