What can you do if you have low stomach acid? How can you get the stomach cranked up and working properly?
One of the first things you can do is make sure that you are chewing food properly. Don’t eat while you are on your mobile phone or computer. Don’t watch a screen of any sort while eating. You need to pay attention to what you are eating. You need to smell the food, taste the food, and chew the food.
Make sure you have enough natural acids in your diet like apple cider vinegar or lemon juice. Including these foods in your diet every day is going to go a long way towards improving your digestion.
If you have a flat stomach and hypochlorhydria, you may need to take some strong betaine hydrochloride (HCL) capsules.
If you have reasonably good health and you think your stomach is okay, but you want to give your digestion a little boost, consider CanXida Restore. CanXida Restore contains seven different types of enzymes, including protease, cellulase, and hemicellulase. There are carbohydrate busting enzymes and protein busting enzymes in CanXida Restore. For most people, that will be sufficient to do the job of improving their digestive health. The great thing about CanXida Restore is that it also contains probiotics. The enzymes enhance the action of probiotics. Breaking down the carbohydrates into smaller sugars provides beneficial bacteria with a great food source.
A supplement like CanXida Restore is more than adequate for most people. If you need a stronger treatment, I suggest taking betaine hydrochloride capsule. Take the betaine HCL with a protein meal. For a vegetarian, that would mean taking the betaine HCL with legumes, nuts, or seeds. For others, the betaine HCL can be taken with meat. Fish doesn’t usually require the addition of betaine HCL.
Once you’ve been on the betaine HCL for a couple of weeks to months, you can easily move on to CanXida Restore.
I have believed for a long, long time that autoimmune diseases are reversible. I’ve seen people recover fully from autoimmune disease, including reversing the associated blood markers. They achieved these results by following healthy living principles for many years.
There is an autoimmunity expert from the USA, Dr. A. Fasano, who believes that several things need to be in place for autoimmune diseases to occur. Necessary factors include genetic predisposition, an environmental trigger, and the formation of leaky gut.
Up until a few years ago, many doctors didn’t believe in leaky gut. I’ve known about leaky gut for about thirty years, although back then we called it dysbiosis. We called it a permeability problem with the gut. We called it allergies. At the time, we didn’t understand the breakdown of the intestinal barrier and the mucous membrane. We didn’t understand how the tight cell junctions would open and allow antigen expression through there to trigger immune reactions.
Although we can’t alter genetic predisposition, we can modify environmental triggers and leaky gut. You need to follow a good, clean, healthy lifestyle and avoid putting any junk into your body.
I suggest eating clean, healthy foods, drinking fresh water, and living a low-stress lifestyle. If you follow these principles, you have a much better chance of not having a leaky gut, particularly if you don’t take regular pharmaceuticals, such as antibiotics.
It’s essential to understand the concept of repairing your digestive membrane, reducing your stress levels, and stopping environmental triggers from affecting your body. Do that, and you can reverse autoimmune disease.
In many cases, autoimmune diseases are determined to have no known causes. The only treatments available are steroids and painkillers. That’s crazy because there is always a cause.
The more chronic the pathology, the more difficult it will be to reverse autoimmune disease. That’s why it is important to start following a healthy lifestyle as early as possible in life. If we fix things early on, the body can self-heal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22109896 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28588585 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30081517
SIBO stands for small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Many people with SIBO may be on a FODMAP diet or a low carbohydrate diet. Does FODMAP help to get rid of SIBO, or does it just manage the symptoms of SIBO?
Both FODMAP and low carbohydrate diets take the foods out of the diet that trigger the symptoms of SIBO, such as gas, bloating, and pain. When carbohydrates are reduced in the diet, it makes sense that these symptoms are also reduced. Symptoms improve because there are fewer hydrogen-producing bacteria. Constipation also improves because of a reduction in methane-producing bacteria.
However, taking these foods out of the diet for the long-term isn’t a great idea. We are potentially starving the beneficial bacteria that live further down the gut. Less good bacteria causes more problems for the digestive system. I’ve repeatedly seen low levels of lactobacillus and bifidobacterial on stool tests as a result of FODMAP or low carbohydrate diets.
People who have been on FODMAP or low-carbohydrate diets for several months or years, end up with very low levels of beneficial bacteria. Then they end up with fatigue, brain fog, deficiencies, and many other problems. They also can’t understand why they are getting these symptoms because they expected the FODMAP diet to make them feel better.
When it comes to treating SIBO with FODMAP, it’s crucial to bring an antimicrobial into the treatment plan. When the symptoms start getting better, even in the first few weeks of the FODMAP diet, add an antimicrobial right away. Adding an antimicrobial is critical because you want to kill the overgrown bacteria, not just starve them. You also don’t want to starve the beneficial bacteria. Allowing the beneficial bacteria to thrive will improve your immune function and overall health.
My experience with thousands of patients with SIBO is that diets don’t work over the long-term unless they used in conjunction with a good antimicrobial, a good probiotic, and good digestive enzymes. This combination works very, very well. Diet alone is not enough to treat SIBO.
You can use a combination of antimicrobials such as oregano oil, garlic, grapeseed fruit extract. But this approach is expensive, cumbersome, and difficult to manage. The same is true for taking the antibiotic rifaximin. About half the people with SIBO who take rifaximin don’t get the result they expected.
Check out CanXida Remove and CanXida Restore. It’s a simple protocol that has worked very well for many people with SIBO. If you are dissatisfied with the effectiveness of rifaximin, CanXida products may be the answer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30645678
Some people report an increase in the sensitivity of their gut when they are addressing leaky gut and Candida infection. For example, they notice an increased sensitivity to wheat and sugar. Others have reported an increase in anxiety during the process of healing their gut.
In cases like that, I strongly recommend focusing on relaxation rather than stress.
Intensification of symptoms can occur under sympathetic domination. Sympathetic domination occurs in response to stress. The result is that you can end up feeling much, much worse. You may even be pushed into a panic attack. By working on the relaxation response, the “rest and digest” response, you can down-regulate the stress mechanisms in your body, and you won’t experience so many gut-related symptoms.
Be careful about cutting out foods and putting them back in again. When I start very sick patients on the program, I take them very slowly through the protocol. Only once they are feeling quite good will we re-introduce any foods. You don’t need to follow a complicated diet. Following a very simple lifestyle works the best.
Look at your lifestyle. You are probably living a very stressful life. It’s not what you put in your mouth that is the most crucial factor in recovering from leaky gut. It’s the things that are happening in your life that make the biggest difference to your digestive health.
Taking a vacation for a couple of weeks can be very helpful. You can see how the anxiety reaction decreases as the connection between your gut and brain changes.