In a collaborative study involving 3 universities- Stanford, London’s Imperial College and Houston Methodist College- researchers looked at the systemic effects of common reflux drugs and found disturbing results.
Not only are these drugs completely useless in the long haul, they’re now proven to raise blood pressure and cause both stroke and heart attack.
Drugs like Prilosec, Nexium and other Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) work by constricting the valves in the stomach that produce acid. For people with acid reflux disease, the over-production of acid, frequently paired with a faulty hiatal sphincter, causes pain and erosive esophagitis.
The drugs are prescribed to stop the acid from causing so much pain and to keep it at a minimum so it doesn’t wash up into the esophagus. Over time, stomach acid eroding the lining of the esophagus causes the lining there to resemble more like what the stomach has, but the abnormal cell development can turn into cancer.
The problem with the PPIs, the researchers found, is that they don’t just constrict the acid pumps. Because the drugs wind up all over the body, they affect all manner of vessels, including those of the circulatory system.
The constriction of these vessels over time, say the researchers, is leading to severe problems with high blood pressure and heart disease, as well as a thickening of the lining of the arteries, which can tear. This leads to a much increased risk of stroke.
The study authors note that the findings help to explain why people taking PPIs are at a much greater risk of having a second heart attack when taking the medications, and that the results of the study should warrant further research.
The ironic thing is that even if drug companies are pushing millions of dollars worth of medications to ease the acid reflux pain, there is a simple home remedy that will completely eliminate acid reflux in 5 minutes… without side effects.
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As a massage therapist with training in visceral manipulation, I have good success in treating acid reflux using manual therapies. It is possible to work on all of the sphincters of the digestive track including that at the neck of the stomach to reduce reflux. it also possible, using Osteopathic techniques to affect the functioning of the stomach and improve acid production regulation.
This is great news.
Hi, Try a tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar (ex: Bragg) before each meal. That should work. If not, take another tablespoon to calm things down. Works for me. Ken
From my experience with molasses and sodium bicarbonate for possible cancer and finding that my heartbeat has become normal and acid refllux gone I suggest it is worth trying. See Utube baking soda videos. This treatment seems to be growing for many diseases. Molasses and baking soda together create an alkaline condition. An acidic condition seems to be cause of many diseases.
I agree that baking soda and apple cider vinegar is very helpful in treating acid reflux. It always helps me.
Medications to treat any kind of disease have harmful effects. Very often prescribed pills treat only the symptoms of the disease, or they treat one but harm something else…
I try to stay away from medications and just try to live my life as healthy as I can. Healthy diet and lifestyle.
I am healthier than most of the people my age ( I am 71 )
Thanks for posting this useful information.
Thanks John Barnes for your comment. I will definitely try that with my manual therapist.
I seemed to have a peptic ulcer so I was given nexium which did not seem to last long before the pain was back. Pain was going through to my back bone in between my shoulders so I started taking a teaspoon of cayenne pepper three times a day in hot water and got instant relief on the first day, so i intend to take this for the rest of my life, reflux has also gone and the need to eat to take the pain away has also gone. I am very pleased.
Also no more blood in phlemb because that has stopped too ( the phlemb):) my tongue is clear again and normal.
I read once that celery is good for high blood pressure, even if it contains sodium. How true is this?
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THE ROOT CAUSE OF CANCER – Noble prize Winner Dr. Otto H Warburg
Dr. Warburg has devoted his life to study the causes of cancer.
"All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen – a rule without exception. "Deprive a cell 35% of its oxygen for 48 hours and it may become cancerous." Dr. Warburg has made it clear that the root cause of cancer is oxygen deficiency, which creates an acidic state in the human body. Dr Warburg also discovered that cancer cells are anaerobic (do not breathe oxygen) and cannot survive in the presence of high levels of oxygen, as found in an alkaline state.
Biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg, one of the twentieth century's leading cell biologists, discovered that the root cause of cancer is too much acidity in the body, meaning that the pH, potential hydrogen, in the body is below the normal level of 7.365, which constitutes an "acidic" state. Warburg investigated the metabolism of tumours and the respiration of cells and discovered that cancer cells maintain and thrive in a lower pH, as low as 6.0, due to lactic acid production and elevated CO2. He firmly believed that there was a direct relationship between pH and oxygen. Higher pH, which is Alkaline, means higher concentration of oxygen molecules, while lower pH, which is acidic, means lower concentrations of oxygen…the same oxygen that is needed to maintain healthy cells.
In 1931 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this important discovery. Dr Warburg was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (now Max Planck Institute) for cell physiology at Berlin. He investigated the metabolism of tumours and the respiration of cells, particularly cancer cells. Below are some direct quotes by Dr Warburg during medical lectures where he was the keynote speaker:
"Cancerous tissues are acidic, whereas healthy tissues are alkaline. Water splits into H+ and OH- ions, if there is an excess of H+, it is acidic; if there is an excess of OH- ions, then it is alkaline.”
In his work The Metabolism of Tumours Warburg demonstrated that all forms of cancer are characterized by two basic conditions: acidosis and hypoxia (lack of oxygen). Lack of oxygen and acidosis are two sides of the same coin: where you have one, you have the other.” "All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen – a rule without exception. Deprive a cell 35% of its oxygen for 48 hours and it may become cancerous."
Dr. Warburg has made it clear that the root cause of cancer is oxygen deficiency, which creates an acidic state in the human body. Dr. Warburg also discovered that cancer cells are anaerobic (do not breathe oxygen) and cannot survive in the presence of high levels of oxygen, as found in an alkaline state.
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