Apple Cider Vinegar and Mineral Absorption

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I had some questions about stomach acid and mineral absorption if apple cider vinegar was the best thing to take if you want to improve mineral absorption so I wanted to create a video just on this one topic and yes it can help you but I need to explain a couple little points about this so normally in your stomach you have a very very acidic acid called hydrochloric acid the pH should be between one and three now think about it neutral is seven so every number that goes below seven you go seven six five four three two one is 10 times as acid so if we compare six to seven six would be 10 times more acid five would be 10 times more acid than 6 so it compounds so when you get down to these lower numbers you have a very very acidic acid and this is normal there’s three main things that your stomach acid is supposed to do number one it’s supposed to help you break down protein okay so if you don’t have the acid you can’t break down the protein it starts to putrefy you get undigested protein number two it helps kill pathogens from invading the body so if you eat food with some microbes guess what that stomach is there to kill off the pathogens and if you can’t kill them off they can invade the body and you can create all sorts of infections in the colon it’s kind of part of the immune system and number three and this is the topic that we’re discussing now it helps mineral absorption so having the right amount of acid in your stomach can make minerals more bioavailable if you don’t have enough stomach acid then the absorption of calcium iron magnesium zinc copper cobalt and other minerals won’t be as efficient you also won’t have a hundred percent absorption of folic acid vitamin C vitamin D and vitamin A so basically we need this strong acid or stomach to actually absorb these nutrients as we age we lose the strength of this acid and start having deficiencies of these nutrients so aging is a very common cause of not having enough strong acid in your stomach other causes are antacids if you’re taking antacids or if you have hypothyroidism or if you have pernicious anemia which is an autoimmune disease of certain cells in your stomach or if you have the infection Hpylori that can do it or if you had gastric bypass which is a surgery that can affect the pH of your stomach now there’s two conditions one is achlorhydria which is zero stomach acid you have no more stomach acid and then another condition hypochlorhydria which is a deficiency of that strong acid in your stomach both of these conditions will affect the absorption of minerals and this can also create a problem with SIBO which is a condition where your microbes are growing in the small intestine instead the large intestine and this can affect your absorption of nutrients because these microbes are eating your nutrients and starving you of the nutrients now the question is can apple cider vinegar fix low stomach acid and the answer is it can help absorption of food and has a lot of other benefits but it doesn’t necessarily fix hydrochloric acid itself it will help the absorption even in the small intestine of nutrients and it actually can help to inhibit some of the microbes growing in the small intestine so it has a lot of benefits but to build up hydrochloric acid there’s several other nutrients that you’re going to need number one you’re gonna have to find the cause of it for example if it’s age well you can’t do anything about that right but if you’re taking any antacids you might want to find the cause of that get with your doctor and see if you can actually reduce that because the more you’re on this it’s gonna be very difficult to correct this this hydrochloric acid is made from chlorides as in hydrochloric acid and sodium and potassium and zinc and iodine so you want to make sure that you have all of these in your diet another good remedy to help build this up would be something called betaine hydrochloride okay so the chlorides can actually help build up hydrochloric acid but apple cider vinegar can help in digestion but it’s not the main thing to correct a low hydrochloric acid situation so anyway I just wanted to give you a summary on answering this question and I’ve also put some really important videos on hydrochloric acid on this page thanks for watching