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Acid Reflux: A Power Problem?

July 19, 2012 Dr. Barbara Kaiser, DC, CCWP Aging, Balanced living, Bone Health, Chiropractic, Digestive Health, Healing, Medicine, Nutrition, Spine, Stress, Supplements, Wellness 1

Acid-stopping medications are intended to provide short-term relief of heartburn and acid reflux symptoms.  Medications interfere with your stomach’s acid-producing mechanisms, or they neutralize acids that have already been produced. Over the long term, suppressing stomach acid can contribute to chronic illness. Strong stomach acid is required to break down proteins, fry pathogens like bacteria and parasites, and ionize calcium so it can be absorbed and made into bone. Medical journals have noted that long-term use of acid-stopping medication increases the risk of osteoporosis, bone fractures, parasitic infections, and pneumonia.

In most cases, the root cause of heartburn and acid reflux is low stomach acid, not stomach acid overproduction. When stomach acid is low, food sits in the stomach and ferments. This produces more acids, which then back up into the esophagus, causing heartburn symptoms. A major overlooked cause of digestive problems is the available power to the digestive tract. Your digestive tract is a muscular tube that contracts rhythmically to mix food and propel it from end to end. Muscular valves, such as between esophagus and stomach, need to contract at the right time, with the right strength, to keep food digesting efficiently. If nerve disturbance is present, it can prevent the muscles of the digestive tract from doing their job. Chiropractic care corrects nerve disturbance and strengthens the body so it can follow its innate program for health. Your body knows how to work properly, once normal nerve function is restored.

We have been told that stress makes our stomachs pump out too much acid, causing heartburn and ulcers. Yet any physiology textbook tells us that when we are overstressed, the digestive process is suppressed in favor of an adrenaline-fueled “fight or flight” response. Your body cannot be in a state of repair and regeneration while it is in a defense mode. Chronic stress prevents the lining of the digestive tract from regenerating itself. We cannot digest well when we are stressed! Holistic health practitioners understand that if your digestion is weak, the foundations of your health and well-being are compromised. Being unable to digest food is not a normal part of growing older – it is a serious malfunction that must be addressed!


Healing the Digestive Tract

June 22, 2011 Dr. Barbara Kaiser, DC, CCWP Aging, Balanced living, Chiropractic, Digestive Health, Healing, Supplements, Wellness 2 Comments

What is the body part that renews itself the most quickly? Your digestive tract, when it is healthy, is replaced about every five days. So why are digestive complaints so common? First of all, we overwork our digestive systems with modern processed foods and grain-heavy diets. A modern diet of grains, sugars, dairy, and chemically altered foods also damages the digestive tract. Second, the digestive tract can be underpowered. Muscle power is necessary to churn and mix food once it enters the stomach. Valves must open and close to maintain one-way progress of food. At the beginning of the large intestine, food must move upward against gravity. The digestive tract is a very active 30-foot muscular tube.

Why would the digestive tract be underpowered? It is controlled by nerves that start in the spinal cord and exit at different levels of the spine. Nerves to stomach and liver exit the spine at the upper-middle back, small intestine and liver at the middle back, and large intestine at the lower back. If there is interference to these nerves anywhere along the spine, digestion can become underpowered and weak. Only a doctor of chiropractic is trained to detect and remove nerve interference so the body can resume its normal operations.

Healing the digestive tract always requires healing nutrients. If you want a high-quality body, you need to eat high-quality foods. People with chronic problems see improvements more quickly when they use clinical-grade supplements to cleanse, repair, and protect the digestive tract. Consult with a doctor of chiropractic to determine if they can help with your unique situation.

Heartburn, indigestion, bloating and bowel issues are what many people live with every day, worrying about every thing they put in their mouth. It is common, but not normal at all, to need daily medications to be able to eat without pain. Are you tired of managing symptoms and ready to find the root of the cause? Then let the healing begin!

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