The Two Causes for GERD – Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (Acid Reflux) – Dr.Berg

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let’s talk about the two underlying reasons for gerd okay first one is a vitamin d deficiency if you haven’t seen my other video on how vitamin d influences muscles i put a link down below but it does typically people have this idea that vitamin d controls calcium and affects the immune system but it does a lot more including controlling muscle function to a very large degree and when we deal with the stomach we’re dealing with smooth muscles both in the sphincters the top one and the bottom one as well as the muscle itself which is smooth muscle vitamin d increases calcium absorption so it’s all about contractibility so if you’re lacking vitamin d you can get incomplete closure of this valve right here so gerd stands for gastroenter reflux disorder so the acid in the stomach is coming going right up to this valve into the esophagus and it can damage the cells of esophagus create inflammation and even increase the risk of cancer vitamin d deficiency is one cause and you have vitamin d receptors in the esophagus in the stomach in these valves so you have a lot of locations where vitamin d is involved the second underlying reason why someone might have gerd is they have lower amounts of hydrochloric acid in the stomach itself which is very common as we age we decrease the production of hcl if you’re on an antacid that can also decrease the stomach acid and as soon as you come off that medication now you really can’t digest because it just depleted most of your stomach acid but what happens when you don’t have enough hydrochloric acid in the stomach is you get incomplete closure of this valve there’s a little sensor a ph sensor in this valve which makes a lot of sense because when you eat food you want to have food go through here and have it being digested and have this completely closed off right you don’t want acid backing up so if there’s just not enough acid to trigger this the sensor in this valve then what happens the acid splashes up now the other thing that’s happening is if you don’t have enough hydrochloric acid you’re going to get incomplete digestion especially a protein and the biggest symptom is gas so we start building up gas bubbles right here and it’s going to pop this open right here just from the gas in this situation you would take about 30,000 IUs of vitamin d3 per day in this situation you would want to take something called betaine hydrochloride as well as apple cider vinegar the combination actually works very very well so i put a link down below for more information about hydrochloric acid thanks for watching before you go if you have a question about a product or you’re new to keto and you want to know how to begin keto or you’re on keto and you need a debug because it’s not going as smooth i have a keto consultant standing by to help you this is just for the people in the u. s hopefully in the future we’ll be able to answer everyone’s call but i put the number down below so you can call and get some help