IS THAT ULCER FROM TOO MUCH STOMACH ACID? Most likely not. It’s actually very, very rare for someone to make too much stomach acid. Consider this. As we get older we make less and less stomach acid (the region of the stomach that makes stomach acid begins to atrophy), so if you’re past maybe 50, […]
The body digests and does everything else. In other words, digestion is absolutely critical to good health. Period. And this process hinges on stomach acid. Without proper digestion, you open up a large Pandora’s box of problems because stomach acid has many different roles. With this in mind, you can begin to see how both emotional […]
Therapy With Gastric Acidity Inhibitors Increases the Risk of Acute Gastroenteritis and Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children Ok. My first question would be, why the &*^% are we putting any child on acid suppressive therapy!!! Holy physiology disruption, Batman!! And so, we completely mess with one of a child’s most important functions, and then wonder why […]
Association of H2-Blocker Therapy and Higher Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Infants While this study was done in low birth weight infants, it again supports the role of healthy digestion and stomach acid levels in acting as a sterilizing agent to all bugs making it into the stomach. While this inherently […]
Use of Gastric Acid Suppressive Agents and the Risk of Community-Acquired Clostridium difficile associated disease. Let’s first say that C. difficile is not something you want to suffer through. The authors of this paper seemed a little surprised to find an almost tripling of the risk of acquiring this infection in patient on acid suppressive […]
