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Is Heartburn or Acid Reflux Keeping You Up At Night Watch This!

If you’re a first time viewer, please have a look at the channel. There are a lot of videos on this channel, many thousands of videos, in fact, extending lots of different playlist and all kinds of topics. So I talk about many different subjects here.

Here is something that everybody seems to talk about, is heartburn or reflux, or stuff coming up. So here’s a question I got from a guy in the States. Where is it again? Yeah. Well, this guy basically wants to know what’s keeping him up at night. He keeps getting this heartburn all the time, this acid reflux. I can’t understand why people suffer from this kind of problem really. To me, it’s common sense. I mean, if you’ve got a tube where food goes in and you’ve got a bag at the other end called the stomach, and you’re putting stuff in here, and if you put too much down there, it’s going to spill out, isn’t it?

Let’s look at your trashcan. If we keep chucking stuff in your trashcan all the time, we put the lid on it occasionally, so the dog doesn’t get his head into it and eat half the stuff out of there, like our Labrador does that sometimes, our big dog. So you’re chucking stuff in the trash can. You’re putting the lid on there, but you keep filling up and filling it up. And then eventually it spills over because you’ve put too much contents into the trashcan. You’re not really clamping the bag up, throwing it out. You’re not getting it out. You’re just filling it up too much.

Most people’s stomach problems start from too much food. They just put too much food into the stomach. If it’s not too much food, they eat too fast, they don’t chew enough, and they eat the wrong kind of food. That’s another classic one too, is the wrong kind of food, like deep fried food. Too many burgers or chips or these sorts of things, takeaway food, cheeses, these heavy kind of foods, heavy meat with gravies, and especially large portion sizes. The stomach’s going to work too hard and you’re going to lie down there at nighttime, and that sphincter, that muscle at the top of the stomach, won’t be sealing properly, it’ll open up and stuff will come up and it will come up.

So if you regularly get heartburn, I would say to you, what the hell are you eating? What are you eating? And not only what are you eating, what time are you eating? How fast are you eating? All right. So it’d be cool to sit down in your house and watch you, put a video camera of your table for, say, a couple of nights and just watch how you eat. And then sit down with you in my room here and play that back and say, “What the hell’s going on here, man? Wow. You’re eating more food than 20 people, and you’re eating so fast, and you’ve got three screens on at the same time while you’re eating, you’ve got food falling out your mouth while you’re watching Facebook here, and you’re watching the Simpsons here, while you’re putting more food in your mouth. And then you go to bed at night, then you complain about your stomach playing up. Come on. If it’s not that it’s X-Box. If it’s not that, it’s Netflix.”

So rule number one, what I’m looking at now, you can’t be doing, when you’re putting stuff in here, it doesn’t really work. Does it? You can’t focus on chewing, you can’t focus on the digestion, you can’t relax your body when you’re watching a spear get thrown through someone’s back or something, or a zombie putting a meat cleaver in someone. How can you relax? I think you get my point, right? So that’s not really good, is it?

So if you’re not in that category, and you’re laughing, thinking, “This guy is a silly fool, I don’t have any of that. I eat small portions. I still get heartburn.” okay. You’re one of those. Then let’s have a careful look at what you’re eating, what type of food you’re eating, at what time you’re eating. If the portion size is small and you’re getting heartburn regularly, then I need to know exactly what type of foods you’re eating. And you need to know what the trigger is, because it’s nearly always a dietary trigger when it comes to heartburn.

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So if it’s nighttime, you’re getting the burn, let’s look what you’re eating for your dinnertime. Are you having an ice cream on top of the steak that you had? Are you having a cup of coffee with two sugars after your dinner? Could it be that? Who knows? Think of the combo. Maybe you like a nice little pudding to have after you have your beautiful meal, a pudding. Could be that. Maybe it could be the peanut butter sandwiches before bed we have with jelly on when we’re watching Elvis.

I know I’m sounding goofy, but I’m trying to make a point here. The point I’m trying to make is, is your lifestyle normal, or is it a little bit off the wall, or is it like way out? Elvis Presley didn’t find it bizarre to sit in the jungle room with shot guns pointing towards TV channels while he’s having four or five burgers with all this crap on it. He didn’t think that abnormal either. And the poor guy died at what, 42? I mean, it’s really, really sad when someone doesn’t understand about nutrition. Okay, he might’ve been on about 15 different uppers and downers at the same time, but his diet was very bad. If that guy’s diet was as good as his singing, man, he’d live to probably 500 years old. You know?

So again, the point is, what are you eating? What time are you eating? How much are you eating? How fast are you waiting? Have you identified the trigger? Okay? Have you identified the trigger? What is it for you? It could be tomatoes for this guy over here. It could be a lasagna for this lady over here. It could be a cup of coffee for this guy over there. Each person may experience a different trigger when it comes to reflux or heartburn. It could be medications you’re on. You need to find the cause. Okay? You need to find the cause.

I had heartburn bad when I was in my 20s. I think I’ve mentioned this on a few videos. It was my own stupid fault. I worked as a guy tipping bins, emptying rubbish cans for five, six years when I was studying. So of course we’d be doing favors for shopkeepers in emptying three or four garbage cans for a guy at a shop, and he’d give us a couple of sausage rolls and some deep fried stuff in the morning. And of course, driving the truck home, you’re eating that stuff. So by the time I got home, maybe 10, 11 o’clock in the morning, my stomach is just burning, I’ve got reflux, I’m thinking, “Man, why do I feel so sick all the time?” It was the crap I was eating, the crap I was eating. I haven’t had heartburn since. So think about it. You need to find the cause.

But the other part of the question is, what can you do? For example, let’s give you some solutions what you can do. Well, I’ve often mentioned the trick with the cabbage juice. If you’re going to go to bed and you think you’re going to have heartburn, you could be looking at all these antacid tablets, Tums and things like that, but they’re a bad idea. When you rely on that kind of stuff, it’s shocking, because then you’re basically going to accept the heartburn, and then you’re going to keep taking these medications. That’s really, really bad news when you get into that form of spending many years of heartburn, taking drugs, heartburn, taking drugs. It’s almost like you owe money to 10 different loan sharks, and you can only manage to pay off a little bit at a time to keep your head above water. That’s all you’re doing. So you can’t live like that.

Fresh cabbage juice. Couple of different cabbages you can try, but just the leaf, one or two leaves of a green cabbage juiced up, a tablespoon of that generally between, you’ve had your supper and bedtime, I would take that somewhere in between there, that might help you significantly. And the other one of course is, some sodium bicarbonate or baking soda. Dissolve it, start with half a teaspoon and a glass of water. Try that, that can often settle the stomach right down.

But of course, the number one thing that you want to do is to find out the cause. The cause is you, you’re the cause. You’re doing something that’s causing it. So you need to find out what the hell you’re doing that’s causing the problem. And then you can switch that off. No more reliance on medications. And that’ll be a turning point for you when your stomach starts improving. You’ll find your energy will go up, everything will go up. It’ll be a turning point in your life.

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Why Drugs Loke Antibiotics And Steroids Only Make Eczema Worse Why You Will Never Get Rid Of Eczema

Interesting questions, I get so many of them. Here’s one that I’ve had many people ask me face-to-face: “I’ve got eczema, I’ve got a skin problem,” or, “My son or daughter has got it, and we put them on an antibiotic,” or, “My uncle has got a skin problem, he’s been on a steroid drug for some time and his skin condition is getting way worse. What the hell’s going on here?”

Well, if you look at these medications, they’re designed either to suppress the immune system, like a steroid does, or basically to wipe the immune system out, like an antibiotic does, because it wipes out your bacteria, which basically govern your immunity. We know now in your gut, your small bowel, that a lot of the bacteria actually regulate and govern immunity, so if we take them all out and we suppress them as well, or in addition, of course we are not going to get eczema better.

Eczema will only respond really, in my opinion, to looking at one of the main triggers that causes eczema, and generally with a person it’ll be a dietary trigger. So that needs to be addressed, and to take that particular food out of the diet for the best results.

They’ve actually done a lot of research and study into eczema and they’ve found, even in New Zealand, at the medical university here in the South Island, with a bunch of kids they found that eczema was seriously improved with probiotics, rather than antibiotics. So usually you make more peace with people if you take the guns away and stop shooting at them but try and shake their hands, if you get my drift, right?

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So when you make friends and you put a probiotic into a child’s gut, or an adult’s gut, you improve the micro flora, which is going to help to balance the immunity out and do many other things besides that. You’re going to improve the eczema, particularly if you take one or two of the key trigger foods or drinks, beverages out, and often it’ll be cow’s milk. Sometimes it could be gluten, but much more commonly it’s going to be cow’s milk will be one of the big triggers for eczema. It could be chocolate, it could be oranges. It could be a couple of freaky different foods, but generally it will be a cow product, in my opinion. Especially with a child, you take that out, eczema starts improving, no drugs required, no drugs required.

For eczema, I’ve never found drugs required, and in nine out of 10 cases, we can get a very satisfactory outcome just by working with probiotics and diet change. So these drugs will only make it worse. Particularly an antibiotic, you’re going to repeatedly come in there and destroy the gut. What kind of an immune system are you going to try and create? You’re going to get more reactions with different foods over time and just make a hole bigger and bigger and bigger.

All the years I’ve seen patients, the biggest mess I’ve seen: antibiotics. And steroids even worse when they’re used long-term with people for 10, 20, 30 years. I mean, how ridiculous is that, keep a person on a drug for 20 or 30 years? Pretty dumb.

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WHY I Don’t Recommend Tums, Pepto Bismol?

Let’s talk about why I don’t recommend medications like Pepto-Bismol, Tums, Quikeze, antacids and stuff like that. There are so many different types. This is a huge money spinner for many companies, as I’ve always mentioned. Go to the supermarkets and have a look at the medication sections, the drug sections or Walgreens if you’re in the States. Go to a chemist, basically. The supermarkets are interesting, if you go there and have a look at the section to see what kind of medications they sell the people, you’ll see rows and rows and rows and bottles and bottles of antacids. You’ll see poop pills, you’ll see gut pills, you’ll see headache pills. You see all the normal stuff there for the wine drinkers, the beer drinkers, the deep fry eaters, the junk food eaters. So those are all the drugs for those junky kind of people.

These medications are shocking, they’re really bad. Relying on them longterm is one of the biggest health mistakes you can make because you’re going to constantly undermine the function of your stomach and small intestine by putting a drug in there that actually does exactly the opposite of what you want that system to do. It’s almost like driving a car and having a problem and then saying, going to the [KR 00:01:20] and saying, what the hell there’s something wrong with this car? So then the guy sells you a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, and says, this is what you want. Okay. And then you drive it and you realize there’s something wrong with it. And the guy says, oh, I’ll show you how to fix it. We just get this huge, big piece of iron and we’ll just throw it out the back of the car and you can drag that along. That’ll slow it down a bit, if it’s going too fast for you, mate, we’ll just put a thousand pound weight on the back. You can drag that along the road.

That is stupidity. To me that’s the same way of thinking as relying everyday on Tums or Pepto or junk like this, okay. You’ve got a perfectly good system and you’re ruining it and retarding it by putting a drug in there. But what this will do, it will give you instant relief. And this is why people have it because having that hot liquid coming up the esophagus, okay, it’s shocking. It’s probably like a volcano erupting inside you. It’s terrible. I’ve had heartburn. I’ve had bad reflux in my twenties. Shocking heartburn, I know exactly what it’s like. It’s like you’ve got this lava fountain coming up. So anything you can do to relieve that instantly. Well, is a winner. Okay, it’s a winner.

It’s like people going to the casino and putting in a coin and winning 20 bucks. Wow, I’m going to make millions of dollars. I’m a winner. I’m a winner. You’re not a winner. You’re a fool. But people like to be fooled, right? They love to be fooled. They’d love to think if they can take this pill, they’ll cure this disease. You’ll never cure any disease with these medications. In fact, you suppress the symptom, which is what you’re trying to achieve, but in the interim you are wrecking your health.

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Now let me explain why you’re wrecking your health and why I don’t like these drugs. They lower the acidity of the stomach and the small bowel. That is bad because acidity is there for many different reasons. One of the most important ones is it stops you from getting germs inside your body, in through your gut, yeasts and viruses and bacteria. They get killed off with that low pH in the stomach and the small bowel. So when you change the pH, you’re changing the whole micro biology of the gut, all right?

You’re going to allow more bad guys to grow in there. The good guys won’t like it so much anymore. So many, many, many times I’ve had patients who’ve been on these drugs for sometimes 10, 20 years have got massive yeast infections in their gut. They’ve got bad SIBO. They’ve got chronic constipation. They end up with bone loss because they don’t get enough calcium in their body. They get mineral deficiencies because they’ve made their stomach too alkaline so they can’t absorb what they want from their food anymore. So they get insomnia, they start getting energy problems and they go back to the doctor.

Oh, I know what’s wrong with you. You need an antidepressant, you need the sleeping tablets. That’s what’s going to cure your disease. Yeah right, okay. Now I can see why people in America carry hand guns in their hand bags because they get annoyed with people’s telling stupid things like that. I’m not saying you should shoot doctors, but I mean, when you’re given dumb advice like that, it really makes you wonder. You go into a doctor for a symptom, you get a pill, you create three more symptoms that you get three more pills for. How convenient is that? Don’t fall for it. All right.

As I mentioned in a previous video, if you’re relying every day on an antacid, you need to work out why you need that antacid. Okay. You need to be your own doctor and find out what the hell is causing this reflux. Okay. What’s causing it? Is it a gallbladder problem? Is it a stomach problem? Is it a small bowel problem? Well, a good starting point for you is to work out what you’re eating. And if that has any effect on the reflux or heartburn and you know what, in most cases it does, it’s common sense. Something you’re putting in here is not really agreeing with something down here so think carefully what you’re putting in there. Okay. And that’s all there is to it.

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Is It Possible To Get Rid Of Asthma By Healing The Gut Or Improving Gut Function

Here’s a question I got from a lady over in Australia. Is it possible to get rid of asthma by healing my gut, my digestive system? If I improve my gut function, can I ditch the puffers? Can I get rid of the puffers? You know, the medications people take for asthma? Well, I never use the cure word, but what I can tell you is this. If you start really improving your diet and lifestyle, and lessen your dependence on asthma medications, and particularly start looking at the Buteyko method of breathing, which I’ll write down for you now, Buteyko, you can, over time absolutely lessen our dependence on medication. I wouldn’t use the cure word. You can’t cure asthma by fixing up the gut, but you’ll be able to get the symptoms down to a point where asthma is barely noticeable.

You can certainly reduce the amount of medications you are taking whether it’s Ventolin, the blue inhaler or whether you’re using the preventative. I’ve worked with many patients over the years and helped them reduce, reduce, reduce, and eventually even stop these medications altogether. It can ne done. Let me write down this word for you. B-U-T-E-Y-K-O.

So Professor Buteyko is a Russian professor who basically worked out that most people breathe incorrectly. They breathe wrong. A lot of people mouth breathe. You’re not supposed to mouth breathe. You’re supposed to nose breathe. So I’d like you to have a look on YouTube of the Buteyko method, or look up about Buteyko and read up in general. If asthmatics follow the Buteyko method carefully, they will usually not need any medications at all for asthma. It’s totally possible to do that. But the question here is, can you get rid of asthma or fix it by healing the gut. I would say yes and no. It really depends on how much medication you take. One of my patients was taking over 30 Ventolin puffs per day, a builder, a carpenter, and he said he could not even ascend stairs or a ladder, go up a ladder without having a puff of the Ventolin.

And again, once we got this guy on to a correct way of eating, you know, instead of drinking Coca Cola all day and eating crap food, we got him onto a better diet. We got him to improve his sleep cycle. But most importantly, I got him to learn how to breathe properly, nasal breathing, and also taught him some of the elements of the Buteyko method. And the puffers within months were gone. No more Ventolin required whatsoever. Not only that, the guy felt a hundred percent better. So when you rely on these medications, it’s not really a good idea to do that.

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So the beneficial bacteria certainly play a big role, as I’ve always mentioned, in boosting up your immune system. Having asthma means that you’ve got problems with your immune system. So improving your gut to any degree is guaranteed to help you significantly improve your asthmatic symptoms.

So remember, we’re not saying cure, but we’re saying you can get better and better and better. And not only that, as you improve your gut function and your sleep and your diet, and you start looking at incorporating elements of the Buteyko method, let me just hold that up again, the Buteyko method, once you start incorporating this into your lifestyle, it’s goodbye asthma. I have a very good friend, a dear friend, up in Auckland, who’s a Buteyko practitioner who was trained by Professor Konstantin Buteyko back in the 80s. Glen has helped thousands of people with asthma recover, get the health back again.

In fact, I believe he’s even now working with the New Zealand Asthma Foundation to some degree, they are finally working with this guy after many years of just basically laughing at Buteyko, they’re sitting back and paying attention to it. Most people don’t breathe correctly. It’s a fact, they don’t understand about the parasympathetic and the sympathetic control of breathing. They don’t understand how stress affects breathing. And furthermore, they’ve got no idea on how the asthma medications actually work against them and not for them. So there are many different ways you can skin a cat, I tell you, but the way to beat asthma, in my opinion, is the natural way. It’s not the drug way.

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Is There A Link Between SIBO And Sinus Infections

Is there a link between SIBO, small intestinal bowel overgrowth, and a sinus infection? That’s a very interesting question. And there’s no easy answer for that question either. But I can tell you this, most people I’ve seen with bad sinus problems, especially real bad sinus problems generally had problems with their gut. So I don’t know why this is, but I’ve certainly seen the link there. And I know that by fixing up the gut and improving that you can really help fix up the sinus a lot. It could have to do with the vagus nerve connection, the parasympathetic nerve connection between the small bowel and the digestive organs and parts of the brain. It could be that. It could be different reasons why people are more prone to getting sinus when they have got a small intestinal bowel problem.

Because if you think carefully about it, the small intestine is really the powerhouse for the body’s immune system. It’s the powerhouse. So once we start getting a problem with bacterial fermentation, with poor bacterial fermentation, shunting a person into constipation or diarrhea or irritable bowel syndrome, we start messing up their immune system. We make them more susceptible. We make them more prone to getting different types of infectious diseases, including sinusitis, which is a shocking condition to have, particularly if it’s chronic and protracted and drawn out. I’m certain I’ve made some videos on sinus on this channel. If you go and have a look, you’ll find them. I would say there is some type of link there and it will all come out down the track. It’ll all come out through studies and research that when the small bowel’s messed up, many parts of the body are messed up.

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So in time, well down the track years from now, this gut will be seen as the most important part of the entire body, probably more important than anything we’ve ever realized. So by ameliorating and mending, repairing this intestine, we’re going to mend nearly every part of the body. And if you look at Asian philosophy, they’ve always said that health starts from the gut. It radiates out to the rest of the body. And then of course, we’ve had famous Western doctors jump on the bandwagon and say, “All diseases start in the colon.” I think that Asians have known this for thousands of years. This needs fixing up. When it is, most of the other things take care of themselves.