Dr. Jonathan Wright, an MD here in the Seattle area is extremely well thought all over the world. He explained the acid-reflux situation to me in a manor that made and continues to make sense. In fact he wrote a book called: Why Stomach Acid is Good for You: Natural Relief from Heartburn, Indigestion, Reflux and GERD.

You might also enjoy reading both of these articles from his website:

• “Digestive Theory” of Aging Part I
  by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D.
• “Digestive Theory” of Aging Part II
  by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D.

Let’s us an analogy. Say you put a few pieces of paper into the fire place with no kindling to get that big log burning. Is the log likely to catch and start burning? Probable not. It might smoke and smolder a bit, but than it will go out. The smoke that log produces is a gas.

This is similar to what Dr. Wright says happens in the stomach. As we age the amount of HCL that our stomach produces in response to the foods we eat decreases. In order for us to ‘burn up’ the food we need a hot fire. If the fire is not hot enough the food will smolder and produce gas, this is called fermentation or purtrification. It occurs when food is held in the stomach and basically rots.

The gas that is produced tends to push up on the esophagus and sometimes it gets so bad that we experience that acid reflux and regergatation.

Now I’ve found that when I add enzymes with betain HCL in them I increase the fire of digestion and am able to burn the log in my fire without leaving a big smoldering hunk of it that I than have to dispose of by some other means.

Many of you let doctors push you into taking an anti-acids. Why? Because they make you feel stupid when you tell them you don’t want to.

What you really need to take is a two to three week course of digestive enzymes. Sometimes the stomach goes “sour”. It just doesn’t like anything you put down there. Anti-acids are the common thought form for symptoms like yours, yet they are usually the exact opposite of what would be in your best interests.

I don’t need anti-acids to solve this problem. It’s easily solved in just a few weeks by taking digestive enzymes after any meal that I react to. What enzymes do I like to take? My body loves Nutriwest Hypo-D. It works like a charm.