Eric Bakker, the naturopath. Thanks for coming back to my channel and checking out the videos.
Do I have any recommendations for functional dyspepsia? So, let's have a look at that term
"functional dyspepsia". So, what we're talking about... Dyspepsia basically
is a problem with the stomach. Often it involves a symptom called heartburn, so it can be belching,
heartburn, feeling of fullness, indigestion. Sometimes it can be relieved by eating food.
It can also sometimes involve problems further down the gastrointestinal tract down in the gut.
Bloating can occur as a consequence, and weakness and fatigue. And then, of course,
insomnia can come along. All these issues can occur in the functional problem of the stomach.
So, if you look at Mayo Clinic or you go to WebMD or stuff like that,
you'll see that there's no known cause. We don't really know what causes it.
But, what we have found is that there is an increased incidence of functional dyspepsia
amongst people who've been sexually abused in the past. There is an increase incidence
with anxiety and depression. There is an increased incidence of people who are known to
be regular takers of Advil, for example, ibuprofen, or [inaudible 00:01:28] drugs,
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. So, these can cause gastric problems, heartburn,
for example. So, if you're taking pills every day and you've got functional dyspepsia,
that's likely going to be part of the causation. If you're a very nervous person, a very anxious
person, this could also likely be involved. The emotions of a person very much affect various
organs of that person. I've seen this in the clinic so many times in very nervy people.
The other thing I would look at with functional dyspepsia would be the food intake of the person.
How are they eating? What are they eating? And when are they eating? Are they having a bag of
Lay's chips in front of Netflix for example? Are they doing that regularly? Especially if
there's soda drinks or alcohol involved in it. So, it's important to look at the habits of the
person who has this problem rather than to say, "I don't know what caused it, but here's a pill".
So, it's always intelligent choices to try and understand the cause. So,
if you've got a loved one who's got dyspepsia or you've got it yourself,
the question to ask is, "What am I doing that's contributing now to this problem?"
because you can change things that are occurring now. Maybe you cannot change issues that occurred
a long time ago, but if you've got anxiety and depression, well, you can get help for that,
for example. And it's also important maybe to seek some professional counseling help
for these kinds of issues because often these emotional issues will result in eating issues.
So, I've seen this with my own father for many years. He had a lot of anxiety and depression.
And he loved eating ice cream. He loved eating cookies. So, he would eat 20 cookies a day, no
problem. And then he'd be burping and bloating all evening and not understanding why. And then going
to gastroenterologists for bowel examinations when basically he had a knife up to his own throat. So,
don't let that be you, for example, eating far too much food late at night. In my book... I wrote in
the book, "Candida Crusher", I wrote an article: "Do you Treat your Stomach like a Cement Mixer?"
Many people do. They'll throw everything in here. And, of course, what happens if you've
ever made cement or concrete? I think they call it concrete. When you put everything
in the cement mixer and turn it on, if it's overloaded, it's going to spill out everywhere.
It's called "GERD", gastroesophageal reflux disease. So, GERD, or being spilly as an adult,
often means you've put way too much down into the cement mixer. All right? Too much food's going to
slop out everywhere. So, if you don't overfill the mixer, it's easy to get the stuff out,
easy to get the next lot in. But, if you overfill it, man,
you're going to have a hell of a mess cleaning it all up. And we don't want that, do we? So,
my take on it: you need to look at what you're eating. You need to look at the emotional state
of the person who's eating because usually there's one and two. I find two things together.
There's emotional stuff going on there and that inappropriate eating of the wrong kind of foods
at the wrong time of day. Sorry. And then the wrong quantity. Thanks for tuning in.