antacids to improve substance intake ?

[XzRzX]

would antacids (TUMS) help increase the percentage of substance orally taken ? like let's say you take vitamins/supplements, a good percentage of this is lost because of your stomach acids.

as i undertand

Gastric juice, the digestive juice used by our stomachs to digest food, is very acidic. Our stomachs have a special lining that normally can handle these conditions by constantly shedding its cells and replacing them.

Occasionally, however, such as when we eat something that is difficult to digest or when we are under a lot of stress, our stomachs produce more acid than they can handle. The excess acid causes the stomach to shed the cells of its protective lining faster than it can replace them. If this happens occasionally we feel the discomfort of indigestion. If it happens a lot we can wind up with an ulcer.

Antacids contain weak bases. Bases neutralize acids by reacting with them to form water and a salt and bringing out stomachs to a normal condition. http://channels.apollolife.com/show.asp?NewAid=9589

so if antacids lessen the gastric juices in our stomach, would we have a better percentage of getting in supplements more efficiently?

 

[XzRzX]

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[Johnny Cut]

i guess since they neutrilize some of the stomach acid, but this was also said that a person can drink gatorade to increase oral creatine monohydrate absorbtion becuase it neutrilizes stomache acids..

 

[CLOBRO]

***RANT BEGINS***
Don't believe the hype where stomach acid is concerned. Taking antiacids is a quick way to ensure your health goes downhill (malabsorbtion, increased bacteria & cancer risk, etc). As your body ages, you produce less stomach acid not more (just like hormones).

http://www.acu-cell.com/dis-hpy.html

Click here and read "Digestive Theory of Aging" part 1 and 2 under latest articles section:
http://www.tahomaclinic.com/articles.shtml

I was on antacides (that magic purple pill Nexium) for GERD and never felt worse. Why? Because I needed the stomach acid & pepsin to breakdown the protein. I felt much better when I started supplementing with an HCL acid supplement.
***RANT OVER***

 

[DeepZenPill]

I was on antacides (that magic purple pill Nexium) for GERD and never felt worse. Why? Because I needed the stomach acid & pepsin to breakdown the protein. I felt much better when I started supplementing with an HCL acid supplement.

For the record, Nexium is the most powerful acid reflux drug, and is not an antacid. It actually keeps your body from releasing a large portion of stomach acid into your stomach in the first place.

If it was reducing your acid production too much, then you probably didn't really need it.

 

[CLOBRO]

For the record, Nexium is the most powerful acid reflux drug, and is not an antacid. It actually keeps your body from releasing a large portion of stomach acid into your stomach in the first place.

If it was reducing your acid production too much, then you probably didn't really need it.

Not directly an antacid it's a proton pump inhibitor. It blocks acid right at the site from being produced.

 

[Themachine01]

prescription meds such as nexium, protonix, prilosec are all life savors. I am on one of them, and have been for over a year now, and it is a life savor. I have very bad acid reflux and even if I miss a day of my meds I am in pain all day.

 

[CLOBRO]

prescription meds such as nexium, protonix, prilosec are all life savors. I am on one of them, and have been for over a year now, and it is a life savor. I have very bad acid reflux and even if I miss a day of my meds I am in pain all day.

I read a book by the author of one of the articles above. He has a machine to test people in his clinic for stomach acid. You swallow a pill and it will transmit a reading back to a machine. He says 90% percent of the people he tests have too little acid as opposed to too much.

Another good book to read is "No More Heartburn" by Dr Sherry Rogers and it talks about treating hearburn/gerd naturally. These authors have provided very convincing arguements that reduced stomach acid causes cancer (via increase in h. pylori bacteria, increased stomach viruses, malabsorbtion etc.).

Heartburn/GERD symptoms caused by too little acid are do to either large portions expanding the stomach so much that the LES valve malfunctions or food fermenting in the stomach because there is not enough acid to break it down. This creates a gas and the pressure is to great for the LES to function properly. You end up refluxing the little acid that you have.

Anyway, these theories go very much against the grain of traditional medicine so I'm sure there will be lots of people ready to flame and argue with me about this. If you read up on natural therapies, most toute increasing acid to resolve the heartburn/GERD issues. Infact, way back before these antacids where available and the pharmacuetical companies marketed doctors used to treat symptoms with acid supplements.