Hey guys, Dr. Axe here from Draxe.com, doctor of functional medicine and nutritionist.
In this video I'm going to talk about how to naturally cure acid reflux and acid reflux
or heartburn or indigestion.
These are issues that millions upon millions of people struggle with on a regular basis.
In this video I'll go through the exact acid reflux diet, the best supplements for acid
reflux along with the lifestyle changes you need to make in order to help overcome acid
reflux for good.
This is something that I've helped thousands of patients overcome in my years of practice.
So step number one, let's talk about what causes and triggers acid reflux.
Typically it's an enzyme deficiency, if you're not getting enough enzymes in your diet, that's
a one big issue along with if your stomach... if the acid is imbalanced in your stomach.
Typically it's caused from low stomach acid, so your stomach is not producing enough acid
and not enough enzymes being produced in your body.
So again, lack of acid, lack of enzymes, that's what's causing your acid reflux.
So in order to address that, we need to do a few things.
Number one we got to change your diet and there are a few things that trigger acid reflux.
Consuming citrus fruits, tomatoes, chocolate and carbonated beverages like soda, those
can trigger acid reflux along with consuming too many grain products and hydrogenated oils.
Those are the first foods you want to actually remove from your diet.
Then what you want to do is start replacing those with foods that are high in enzymes
and foods that are easy to digest.
Doing vegetables, doing most forms of fruits, doing organic meats, doing bone broth.
Consuming foods that are easy to digest, that's where you want to start in terms of diet is
getting those into your diet.
So again, organic meat products, fruits and vegetables are a great place to start when
you're replacing those foods in your diet.
The next step to overcome acid reflux is you have to start using certain supplements.
And the best supplements that can help you are taking a digestive enzyme supplement,
two caps with meals of digestive enzymes along with taking something called HCL with pepsin.
That's hydrochloric acid with pepsin and what you'll do with hydrochloric acid is you'll
take one capsule and you'll only take this when you consume meat or a form of protein
and see if you get a warm feeling in your stomach.
And then eventually you'll go to two caps into three, but hydrochloric acid is the acid
your stomach produces that helps to break down food, so actually getting more of that
acid will help you with digestion.
But really digestive enzymes are the first place to start.
If the enzymes help all the way, you don't need to do hydrochloric acid but if that still
isn't enough then you can add in those in as well.
The third step is lifestyle; you really need to eat less at your meals.
So oftentimes, acid reflux is caused from stuffing yourself, eating too much, eating
too fast.
So eating too much, eating too fast is a major cause of acid reflux.
And step number four to naturally cure acid reflux, is to start using apple cider vinegar.
This is the number one natural cure or home remedy is apple cider vinegar and what you'll
do is take one number tablespoon in a small amount of water and drink that before your
meal.
About ten minutes before your meal and apple cider vinegar contains probiotics enzymes
and certain acids like acidic acid which actually helps you digest your food.
So this apple cider vinegar is the number one natural remedy for acid reflux that you'll
want to start using.
And you want to make sure that when you're buying apple cider vinegar that it has some
of the cloudiness you can see there on the bottom.
It's called the mother in it, you can see there it says organic, raw and filtered with
the mother.
This is what you'll want to start getting and of all the things, this is the most beneficial
thing you can do to naturally overcome and heal acid reflux is start doing one tablespoon
of apple cider vinegar before your meals.
With that and enzymes will make a big difference in turns of natural treatments.
So remember this if you're looking at overcoming acid reflux.
Number one, get some of those triggers out like doing too much citrus, tomato sauce,
hydrogenated oils, sugar, grain products.
Get those out and start consuming more fruits, more vegetables and organic meat products.
Step number two; hey get some of those good supplements like digestive enzymes as well
as hydrochloric acid.
Step number three, change your lifestyle, don't over eat and eat slowly.
Try and chew about 20 to 30 times before you swallow and start using apple cider vinegar.
If you follow those steps, you're going to find yourself well on your way to overcoming
acid reflux for good.
By the way, if you want to see a full guide on how to overcome acid reflux, I have a video
on my website, go to draxe.com, that's d-r-a-x-e dot com, just search apple cider vinegar and
I actually have two articles.
One on apple cider vinegar uses and cures and another one on all the medicine studies
on apple cider vinegar.
But the 20 uses of apple cider vinegar, I think you'll like that article there.
Check it out on Draxe.com, hey guys this has been Dr. Axe with home remedies for acid reflux.