BNEFITS OF STOMACH ACID FOR HEALTH – (02-13-06)



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 drugs.

Well, given that we are constantly exposed to an enormous amount of bacteria in our daily lives, and given that stomach acid acts as a very strong barrier to these bacteria, suppression of this protection will of course open up yet another Pandora’s box of health problems with acid suppression. Ah heck. What was Mother Nature thinking anyway? We don’t need stomach acid for health.

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James Bogash

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