How to Cure Hiccups (INSTANTLY!) - Dr. Berg

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let’s talk about how to cure hiccups almost instantly now what is the hiccup well the diaphragm which connects the upper cavity from the abdominal cavity right here these two muscles um goes into spasm and that interrupts your vocal cords creating a hick sound okay so that’s what it is triggers involve laughing excessive talking i remember in the past when i prepared for a talk right i would practice right before my live presentation i would be practicing what i’m going to say right and sometimes i’d be going really fast and then i would get the hiccups and now i have to wait for a period of time before they go away because you can’t do a presentation with hiccups i really wish i would have known what to do back then but i’m going to show you what to do but if you’re eating too fast you can get these hiccups if you’re stressed you can get these hiccups and so people tell you that oh yeah you just need to hold your breath drink water upside down breathe into a paper bag or breathe really slowly okay and your hiccups will go away now the question is do any of these work but the bigger question is what’s going on what is causing this problem you know a solution depends on really understanding the problem and medicine it’s all about taking a problem and then treating it there’s this huge gap in understanding the problem so you can actually fix the root cause but it’s not about root causes it’s about let’s suppress the symptom and let’s keep suppressing the symptom and let’s create this solution that only lasts for 24 hours so you have to keep taking the solution over and over now before i get into how to fix this i just want to explain how i approach figuring out things okay let’s just take for example this symptom called gerd which is a condition where your valve on the top of the stomach is not closing and you the acid squirts up through into the esophagus so what i normally do to figure out something is i will take the symptom or the problem and compare it to normal physiology that happens in this area of the body so in a normal situation when you eat the valve on the top of the stomach should close right but with gerd it’s left open and so the acid comes back up and then they treat it with antacids or ppi’s or other types of medication so when i try to figure this out i want to know the mechanism i want to know what’s called pathophysiology which is patho means disease and physiology is how things actually work so i’ll study normal physiology of the stomach and pathophysiology of gerd to see if i could really understand what’s going on and then come up with a solution now with gerd i found some very interesting information that’s not broadly promoted that the valve has sensors for ph okay normally the ph of the stomach should be extremely acid between one and three but with gerd i found some data that the ph is higher it’s more alkaline it’s not as acid and so apparently what’s happening with gerd is that valve is not sensing that the ph is one to three and it’s not closing like it should when you eat so that data tells me that what we need to do with gerd is add more acid to the stomach and that’s what i did in practice and it worked like a charm would give people either retain hydrochloride or apple cider vinegar and boom gone i mean think about it antacids and ppis given to people who have acid reflux or gerd or heartburn have a side effect and one of the side effects of antacids nppis is gerd and heartburn and acid reflux so anyway i just wanted to explain how i figure these things out because this relates to hiccups there was a fascinating research study that i had to really dig to find this study and it was done in cats okay this is what they found this is interesting hiccups stopped immediately when the co2 carbon dioxide pressure in the veins equals the co2 pressure in the arteries okay now to make this very simple hiccups stop when you increase co2 okay that is very very counterintuitive doesn’t make sense unless you understand something if someone gets too much oxygen in their blood without enough co2 that oxygen doesn’t bind or get released like it should and the person basically starves of oxygen now how does that relate to hiccups well guess what what’s happening when you’re laughing you’re getting a lot of oxygen excessive talking you’re getting a lot of oxygen eating too fast you’re getting a lot of oxygen when you’re stressed a lot of times you’re hyperventilating getting too much oxygen and this also explains why holding your breath increases co2 making those hiccups go away when you’re drinking upside down you’re controlling your breathing okay getting more co2 less oxygen look what’s happening when you’re breathing into a bag you’re basically breathing your carbon dioxide it’s the carbon dioxide that then balances out this excess amount of oxygen and allows the oxygen to finally be bound and released into the bloodstream and into the muscles like the diaphragm when people have too little co2 okay their ph changes and becomes more alkaline in alkalosis everything gets really really tight you get spasms it affects your breathing and so one symptom of alkalosis is hiccups and then hiccups caused by too much oxygen can then trigger more alkalosis so it’s kind of a vicious circle so hiccups are caused by too much oxygen and not enough co2 and the best way to get rid of them very very fast is to increase co2 by doing any of these right here in fact if you have a bag and breathe into it that would work very nicely or you can just breathe through your nose not your mouth by slowing your breath down five seconds in and five seconds out you can even hold your breath any one of these will work as long as you understand you don’t want to get more oxygen you want to get less oxygen and more co2 so if you have that key understanding which is right here then you can you can be creative you can actually wear a mask right and uh increase your co2 that way so anyway the next time you get a hiccup or someone else around you gets a hiccup now you know exactly what to do now i’ve talked a little bit about this in my video on panic attacks which i give you a much greater understanding about this co2 oxygen thing i would highly recommend checking out that video if you haven’t seen it i put it up right here