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In a recent newsletter, I pointed out an amazing study that showed how acid reflux was NOT due to too much stomach acid.

Instead, acid reflux is an inflammatory reaction in the body.

The drugs that doctors prescribe for acid reflux include proton pump inhibitors.

These are the older medications for GERD.

And they do work — but they also cause a lot of serious disease and complications.

These drugs include:

In today’s newsletter, I want to talk about one of the complications these drugs cause.

It’s called small intestine bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO.

SIBO is when you have bacteria in your small intestine.

Normally, if you are healthy, you should have a sterile small intestine.

You only have bacteria in your colon, your large intestine, where your food sits prior to defecation.

It’s the job of stomach acid to keep the small intestine sterile.
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Here’s what is supposed to happen.

Food enters the stomach where it is subject to one of the strongest acids known, hydrochloric acid (HCl).

And then the body manages to remove the hydrochloric acid and send the stomach contents along into the small intestine.

They body is expecting that the food is sterile when it hits the small intestine.

Food should be free from bacteria as a result of all that treatment from the HCl.

Of course, it won’t be completely sterile, and that’s fine — but it should almost be sterile.

However, if you are taking these acid suppressors for GERD, you will not have enough stomach acid to sterilize your food properly.

And the result is often SIBO because the food entering the small intestine has a lot of bacteria in it.

The small intestine becomes infected with large amounts of bacteria that do not belong there.

According to WebMD, symptoms of SIBO include:

You can add excessive burping to that list.

And really you’ll notice that it’s difficult to narrow down the symptoms of SIBO.

That’s because the symptoms resemble the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

And that resemblance is because they often go together.

SIBO is a result of metabolic problems that lower stomach acid.

But it’s not just metabolic issues that lower stomach acid.

One of the primary causes of SIBO is the GERD medications that lower stomach acid.

The report says that there is a:

growing body of observational literature linking ACID SUPPRESSORS  use to a variety of enteric, respiratory, skin and systemic infectious diseases and complications (Clostridium difficile diarrhoea, pneumonia, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, septicaemia and other).

So these common medications for acid reflux may be responsible for even more damage.

In the long run, there are other complications they can cause such as osteoporosis and heart attacks.

But today we’re focused on infectious diseases.

Stomach acid must be strong and at a healthy level.

And healthy men and women maintain their stomach acid strength through their old age.

But taking these drugs such as proton pump inhibitors to lower stomach acid work against you.

They may cause disease and illness that you would not otherwise get.

You should make every effort to get off of these medications.

Talk to your doctor if you are on them.

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