Acid Reflux Alternative Treatment
Q: What alternative medicine claims is that the LES needs a pH of less a 3 in
the stomach to close fully. Alternative medicine
claims that acid reflux is for many the result of
the decline in HCL secretion due to aging or pathology
What I think is a higher pH in stomach results
in a longer residence time of food in the stomach.
I suspect this leads to air swallowing and reflux.
Can anyone help me solve this problem?
A:In most cases of GERD the problem isn't excess acid.
Even conventional/orthodox medicine says that chronic
heartburn is the result of an incompetent lower
esophageal sphincter (LES). What alternative medicine
claims is that the LES needs a pH of less a 3 in
the stomach to close fully. Alternative medicine
claims that acid reflux is for many the result of
the decline in HCL secretion due to aging or pathology.
What I think is a higher pH in stomach results
in a longer residence time of food in the stomach.
I suspect this leads to air
swallowing and reflux. When one is using the PPI drug
the reflux is nonacidic therefore it less damaging.
Go back and read Howard McCollister caution
about alkaline/bile reflux. One does need a pH below
3 for the pepsinogen to be cleaved and activated into pepsin.
Indeed, the ideal pH range for pepsin is between
1.5 to 2.0.
So do I fully agree with alternative view? Not yet, I'll
need more time which why I plan to keep posting
to this forum and this thread as a sort of blog.
But I do now know that lowering the pH with
additional acid is a GREAT HELP. I won't do this
if I was bleeding due to an acid damaged esophagus
( been there done that) but since I am
in remission it seemed like a reasonable experiment and
it sure seems to help. No longer do meals just
set in the stomach for hours with the resulting
belching and reflux.
I am still