Swedish bitters is the cure. One tablespoon, 3 times daily for one month brings high and low stomach acid back to homeostasis

Good information, but as always....it is very difficult to find a gastroenterologist who will actually help!! All they want to do is prescribe PPI'S!! It is very discouraging!!

@Berlina18

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@lisamoore8664

11 күн бұрын

Agree! I don’t know what to do.😢

Great to see you on video, Norm. It's a first for me who bought your book "Fast Tract Digestion" in 2013. It's one of the few books I actually read cover to cover. And it helped me big time!

@DrNormGutHealth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, great to hear it.

Thanks for the informative vid. Subd'. I have been taking a PPI's for approx 25 years. As I recall I started with Prilosec but not long after was put on Prevacid and have ridden that train for a very long time. I got wind of possible bone fracture issues and have been on alert since. I am 58 years old. Now I have what feels like every major joint in my body has arthritis, hips...shoulders....hands.....feet.....back.......etc. For the last few years I have been asking my gastro and my regular Dr if I should stop taking this PPI but the over all consensus is that it solves my acid issues. I do get heartburn if I stop taking it....and I feel the damage is done to my bones....joints....and stomach health. I had my gallbladder removed 25 years a go as well so things are stacked against me. I have lived fairly well with a pretty decent digestive system I believe especially with the awful diet I have had for most of my life. Recently I have experienced some really odd bloating and also odd cramping like pain in my kidney areas. Sometimes my stomach will get locked up and I will feel like I cant eat a bite even though I havent eaten much and know I should be hungry. This got me watching videos like yours and I believe that I could certainly have SIBO or low stomach acid. So on my own I started taking my PPI every other day to get my stomach producing some more acid....which it sure did. I also have switched to decaf coffee and lowered my diet soda's to just one a day. One of my suspicions was that too much caffeine with the coffee along with more caffeine and horrible chemicals in the soda may have finally caught up with me. I have yet to figure out if its the coffee or the soda that is tensing up my stomach or if I had a stomach bug. I just wish there was an easier way to test for these issues. Also it seems that I would really need a specialist like yourself to put me through all of the tests to figure out exactly what is going on...SIBO....low acid....leaky gut.....etc? No doubt I fall in one of those categories. One of the only ways that I get relief is moving around and working on a project......if the project is physical and has me sweating that's even better. It seems to help with digestion and lets my stomach relax. Anyway sorry for the long ramble....I am just grasping for straws and making stuff up on my own but I would love to have a specialist like yourself help me do a more scientific look at my situation. Thank you

Great explaintion..Doc..

Wow, my dad died of stomach cancer in 2014, and he had been on PPI twice daily for a decade! I asked him to double-check with his doctor if this was absolutely necessary. But he said "anything my doctor prescribes...I don't question, I trust him implicitly". He also had pernicious anemia and osteoporosis for the last few years. I take a PPI, but only when I feel an ulcer coming on...and only for a few days. My doctor asked why I don't take it every day ... I have osteopenia...and I don't want it to get worse! Thank you for this important information!!

@MegaSeanymc

Жыл бұрын

PPIs do not cause stomach cancer..I have been on them 30 years..20mg a day..not issues

@RAY-bg2po

Жыл бұрын

Long term Ppi will reduced hcl acid, lead to low B12 and worsen protein indigestion

@JonRowlison

6 ай бұрын

Have you looked into taking a Betaine supplement? Do some quick research... I know it sounds "backward" but you may be surprised by what it can do if you have stomach acid issues.

@JuanitaClarkGarcia

Ай бұрын

@@RAY-bg2poI was on 2 PPI a day for over 25 years. I stopped over a month ago. I have gastroparesis., osteoporosis, anemia, B12 deficiency. Etc

@JuanitaClarkGarcia

Ай бұрын

@@JonRowlisonI started betaine tablets today.

Ever since i took a ppi been having digestion problems

Good info

Every time I take antihistamines I get very bad bloating and general indigestion, this has alerted me to the possibility of low stomach acid.

I have some of the symptoms. I believe I have low acid. I have/had H pylori.

So, stick with the RDA (the Recommended Deficiency Allowance) for supplementation. Got it.

Great video Dr Norm. Definitely different to other videos I've seen on KZread regarding this topic. I suffer from the symptoms of GERD. I generally have reflux all day and up my throat to back of mouth. I still have yet to see a gastroenterologist. My GP has prescribed me pantoprazole 40mg which i have been on for a couple of weeks. It's helped to ease the discomfort in my throat though i still get reflux. I definitely do not want to be on PPI long term. I understand the importance of a healthy gut and it eats at me that i have to take PPI to help one area of my body but yet cause damage to other. I've had a breath test done and came back negative for H Pylori. I heard you mention functional medical practitioner. I've been also thinking about seeing one as been highly recommended by someone i know. I've seen a lot of fixes if someone has low stomach acid, but what if stomach acids level aren't low? How can it be treated without staying on PPI long term?

@DrNormGutHealth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nope, As I indicated, low stomach acid is one of many possible contributing causes of GERD/LPR to rule in or out. If you need help navigating the others you can contact us. Great that you are H. pylori negative!

@obinmaparis3522

2 жыл бұрын

Dr I texted positive to H pylori and I have been suspecting I have LPR since early last year but I saw a gastro doctor last two months and he said I have bile reflux. I do not know how to ascertain if I have low or high stomach acid and I seriously do not want to be on PPI. Messaging from Nigeria. Please help by responding.

Few things you can try to help with this: - Blood type diet (search for a video called ‘An introduction to the blood type diet’ by Louisa) - Steaming your food for 15-20 minutes to make your food less dense, reduce cooked food toxins, and retain more nutrients and enzymes - Eat more raw food, raw food retains all nutrients and enzymes otherwise destroyed by cooking with none of the toxins and denatured proteins in cooked food which might help with digestion

Thanks Doc ❤ My blood work always shows low sodium and low chloride even though I eat a lot of sea salt and I drink electrolite drinks (coconut water, but I've stopped now bc of the carbs). I just started taking HCl with digestive enzymes, but it didn't alleviate all the symptoms. Apparently, I have SIBO now, too. I watched your SIBO video. It was very informative. I'm going no carb with intermittent fasting. I just don't understand why my sodium and chloride are always low, but I did sweat a lot with the digestive problems, so maybe that's why. I also have exercise induced asthma, and my elastase stool test was 149. I don't take any medications except the enzymes and some supplements that I'm reducing now. I use an asthma inhaler and estradiol cream. I do have high cholesterol, but I don't treat it bc the HDL is high. The whole thing is 250. I did have an endoscopy several years ago that showed an irritated stomach and bile in the stomach. I figured that must be from low stomach acid bc enough acid would have neutralized the bile. Thank you for all this great information.

Hello if I have sibo can I take more than the RDA of zinc since it’s most likely I’m not absorbing nutrients? Please help 🙏

Hi Dr, can you please tell me can long term antibiotic use cause low stomach acid. I had a 6cm bladder stome, enlarged prostate. Surgery delayed for 18 months due to covid. Prescribed every antibiotic available, ibuprofen, paracetamol,maxitram, amatriptaline for pain. Since Surgery i have been having various gut and digestion issues.

does low acid can cause gastritis?

So doc..what am I suppose to do..stop ppi and require dilations all the time. What is your answer to that?

How long does it take for pumps to come back to normal been having digestive problems for 6 months

Any tips to get the cells to produce new acid pumps as you are speaking about? For example if one has been on PPIs for 5-10 years but quitted 6-12 months ago, any experience with how long it normally takes to get back to working?

@DrNormGutHealth

8 ай бұрын

It should come back if you don't have any other underlying causes.

Can it cause hair loss

I stopped taking my anti acid and started taking apple cider vinegar before my meal but on the second day I got bad heartburn and it was burning. I rushed to take low fat milk because it is only thing that comforts the burning. So please tell me what I need to do? Taking apple cider vinegar or anti acid again? On my endoscopy I have been told I have chronic gastritis and gerd. Please help me with your advice 🙏

I had taken PPI (Nexum 40mg) twice a day for about 7 months, and now I'm very susceptible to infection. How I can check for hypochlorhydria at home?

I believe there are three tests for weak stomach acid. Heidelberg test being the best, but Betaine HCI increased dose test and burping test.

@davidgutierrez8795

Жыл бұрын

what is the burp test?, water and baking soda?

@sajeedkm2338

21 күн бұрын

Can we check acid during regurgitation of sputum by ph paper test

You eat lots of carbs sugars...your vit b1 goes low bcs of high carb diet...thus your vagus nerve lacks vit b1 thus lack of stomach acid..simple 😊

Hi, If an endoscopy shows minor scarring of the esophagus indicitive of reflux /gerd, is the scar always a result from high stomach acid, or could low acid still be the cause of esophageal scarring?

@DrNormGutHealth

8 ай бұрын

Reflux contains acid (less if you have hypochlohydria), and also bile, pepsin, other digestive enzymes. and microbial end products. I would imagine any of these other factors, particularly bile would be inflammatory/damaging to esophageal tissue.

Some people need to be on PPI's for life..they have a bad LES, or just create lots of acid due to stress. Why risk esophageal cancer, stricture etc.

Can hyperparathyroidism cause low stomach acid

Dr! I have a horrible situation and I need you help! I have bad gastritis and Methane SIBO. I can’t take PPI’s because I need stomach acid and bile to help the SIBO. The SIBO is causing so much inflammation it’s putting me into a state of low t3 syndrome. What do I do? I need bile and stomach acid, but it hurt my gastritis. I also don’t think my stomach is producing stomach acid anymore.

@ad6417

4 ай бұрын

Have you tried garlic capsules? They will kill the methane bacteria.

None of those for me.... But can take a dozen hcl, no warmness. Also failed the baking soda test. Did that several times

Are you more likely to have low stomach acid if you have a hiatal hernia?

@DrNormGutHealth

Жыл бұрын

I don't believe HH has anything to do with your ability to produce stomach acid. But it can increase the pressure in your stomach and impact LES function potentially increasing reflux symptoms.

It's a liver blockage bitters r good but vagitables juices cure fast.

Eating a low meat diet will also do this. You don’t use it you lose it. People eating a high plant base diet with low fat will suffer the most.

@contrarian717

6 ай бұрын

Nuts? Plant based but high fat, can this work?

Hi dr.please do you have any idea of someone taking like 10 to 12 pills of hcl and still not feeling any warmth in his stomach ? Please

@wocket42

Жыл бұрын

If you have perfect stomach lining, this may be the case. Doesn't mean that much acid is good or needed

@MM-is7hq

Жыл бұрын

@@wocket42 thanks

You do consults?

@DrNormGutHealth

8 ай бұрын

Yes, see the pinned post or go to DigestiveHealthInstitute.org

hi doc,does apple cider vinegar worsen a gastritis?

@boop5287

Жыл бұрын

It can

@nasali4817

5 ай бұрын

It will cause real big ulcers .

I believe I have methane sibo or low stomach acid. I was diagnosed with gastritis. I took apple cider vinegar mixed with water for a month but it stopped all bowl movements. Any ideas why?

@stephaniecatena7966

Жыл бұрын

You’re dehydrated. Consume minerals. One crystal of Celtic salt on you tongue then drink your water. Mineral transports electrolytes from water to your cells. I’ve been through this and it cured the problem

@RAY-bg2po

Жыл бұрын

Try ginger tea without sugar for sibo and bowel movement

@izsxx

10 ай бұрын

It did the same thing to me!!!

@smilee22

8 ай бұрын

What are your symptoms ?

hello sir, i'm 17 years old..i'm really stressed i have LPR, is modifying lifestyle and diet will cure this? I have no more money for this plisss answer i have health anxiety because of this this almost one year that effected my all ENT area

@karenzimmer7607

5 ай бұрын

I have it too. So frustrating that nothing can really be done besides lifestyle changes.

@MARJ-zz8hv

4 ай бұрын

Are you okay now?

Dr I texted positive to H pylori and I have been suspecting I have LPR since early last year but I saw a gastro doctor last two months and he said I have bile reflux. I do not know how to ascertain if I have low or high stomach acid and I seriously do not want to be on PPI. Messaging from Nigeria. Please help by responding.

@chazdog789

Жыл бұрын

check this out... simple test for acid...Hope it helps kzread.info/dash/bejne/d2mI2MyNhsbUmKQ.html

@boop5287

Жыл бұрын

H pylori can cause heartburn

@sianmom878

Жыл бұрын

Then you need bile salts. TUDCA is good

Hi doc,can Oxycodone reduce stomach acid

@DrNormGutHealth

Жыл бұрын

Interesting question Michael. According to the package insert for Oxy, gastritis (can result in hypochlorhydria depensing on the location and severity) is a less common side effect occuring in 1 - 5% of people. So, it's possible. Here's the link bit.ly/3QKBzEk

Can eating too many raw vegetables and greens on an empty stomach decrease stomach acid?

@wocket42

Жыл бұрын

No acid needed for those foods. No long term effect either, though.

What about drinking habits, like drinking before or after a meal?

@DrNormGutHealth

2 жыл бұрын

If you're talking about alcohol, I took a look and was suprised by how little data is available on this. My takeaway is moderate drinking likely has little impact in terms of hypochlorhydria / achlorhydria risk. Beer / wine stimulate acid (not surprising since they have some nutrients), distilled beverages do not. Here's a paper on this (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC1374273/). When it comes to binge drinking / alcoholism, all bets are off - rough on liver / intestinal mucosal surface, etc., and may impact stomach acid production. This review cites a book by Bode and Bode 1992 suggesting alcoholics may be impacted for gastric acid secretion (pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh21-1/76.pdf). Perhaps I should have included this in the video, but was looking for more data to support.

@oldxebeche

2 жыл бұрын

@@DrNormGutHealth Thanks a lot. Your video is great, I just thought, naively so, that there should be plenty of literature about how beverages (water, sugary, carbonated, caffeinated, alcoholic) influence gastric acid. Maybe it's just not a big issue for healthy guts because as you pointed out acid levels are restored much faster than food is digested in the stomach?

@DrNormGutHealth

2 жыл бұрын

@@oldxebeche I see your question goes beyond alcohol. I didn't include these beverages since they are not linked to low stomach, but things we eat or drink do impact acidity. Water reduces acidity (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18473176/), as do fats (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/956391/), but other drinks / foods in general increase acidity with proteins being the most potent stimulant of acidity.

@gardenwatch3754

2 жыл бұрын

@@DrNormGutHealth Could you please list a few drinks that increase acidity - I could do with something other than water to wash down the reflux I get in bed.

@mare6839

2 жыл бұрын

I have chronic gastritis, after Covid pneumonia 3 months ago I got a severe acid reflux (LPR and GERD), something horrible, all the time…Gastroscopy showed mild gastritis and gastroenterologist put me on PPI ( 6 weeks already). Now I have pain in stomach and no big progress with acid reflux. I tried to stop gradually, took only 20 mg in the morning, but then it was even worse. Don’t know what to do. I’m on FT Diet (I’m often bloated, but tested negative for SIBO).

The gastritis thing doesn't make any sense. How could someone have gastritis from low stomach acid. Gastritis is inflammation of the stomach. Gastritis caused by low stomach acid makes zero sense. What would be causing the inflammation ? 😂😂

@alexforce9

Жыл бұрын

Coz you need acid to kill pathogens. And you are confusing things. A healthy stomach can handle the acid it produce. It doesn't get inflamed by it. Coz its lining its fine.

@no_country_for_real_men

Жыл бұрын

@@alexforce9 what you are saying doesn't make sense because doctors prescribe PPIs for gastritis to shut down production of stomach acid. Again what would be causing the inflammation if it's not acid ?

@alexforce9

Жыл бұрын

@@no_country_for_real_men The PPIs work on gastritis coz your lining is already inflamed and gone. So the acid irritates it. Gastritis is kinda of a mystery - some get it from bad eating habits, others from drinking, h pylory, autoimmune, ect. Low stomach acid my get you gasttis coz you cant digest food properly , it rots in your stomach, bring pathogens in it, gas, bloating. Irritation all around. Also - you need good digestion to get nutrients that you need to build your stomach and its lining. You need proteins and minerals for that. (Zinc, and glycine comes to mind) And you need strong stomach acid to digest proteins. Thats why they give you digestive enzymes with your PPIs. To help you maintain digestion. Stomach needs about a week to heal if its not too much damage. So PPIs help to stop the irritation, so it can restore itself. But they dont cure gastritis. You still have it.

@no_country_for_real_men

Жыл бұрын

@@alexforce9enzymes with PPIs ?!?!? I've NEVER heard of any doctor telling anyone to take enzymes. In fact they tell me I shouldn't take enzymes. And yes you need pH acid between 1- 3 to kill pathogens and breakdown protein but what this guy says still doesn't make sense when it comes to inflammation factor.

@alexforce9

Жыл бұрын

@@no_country_for_real_men If the acid was the problem then ALL stomachs in the world would have been inflamed. Coz they all produce acid.