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  Natural Biblical Health

antacids cause
Pneumonia

“(When  you chronically  take  antacids)...
simply put, through a  series of biochemical interactions, you will  be  up a  creek without a  paddle. Your  immune  system will  be  constantly stymied. You  will  be  prone  to  more coIds, flu, infections, and viruses (including those that attack your coronary  vessels or heart). You would have trouble recovering from simple problems. You  could  develop Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from a host of chronic, immune-debilitating, sub clinical infections and invasions by ever-present microbes. And all this from your antacids–––-–-Thank you doctor.”

Health Alert, Vol. 21, No. 6 
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I have always  maintained  that once you start  blocking,  inhibiting, or sopping up digestive acids, you  will  eventually  be made permanently ill. If you read my quote at the beginning of this article, it may sound  too strong, or even hard to believe. But digestive acids are critical germ fighters .That is correct–-adequate stomach acids are essential to fighting germs and infections.

I  am  not the  only one  who  knows  this  to be true.  A  remarkable  Dutch  study of over 300,000 people discovered that the most popular antacids increase the risk for pneumonia: What kills tens of thousands  of seniors  every  year?  Pneumonia! What do the same number of seniors gobble up by the trainload every year? Antacids!

Stop Stomach Acid Production?

   The highest risk for pneumonia was found with the  most  powerful  acid  stoppers  called  proton pump  inhibitors.  These  include Nexium, Prevacid. and Prilosec. These don't just sop up acid, they actually  inhibit  it at  its  source–-a  ridiculous  proposition  for 99%  of indigestion  sufferers.  For these folks, indigestion is caused by poor diet, food processed  beyond  recognition  by  the  body,  bizarre combinations  of-foods  at the  same  meal,  over-eating,  hiatal  hernia,  antibiotic  use,  and  the  most common cause of all —insufficient digestive acids.

    That's  correct,  the  most  common  cause  of indigestion and heartburn is inadequate quantities of digestive acids and enzymes in the stomach. Just how can this be? Well, given the poor eating habits listed`  your  body  has  quite  a  time  digesting  the "food`s" you put into your stomach. When stomach acid is deficient, a good portion of this food never digests.

    Instead it lies in the stomach for hours-churning, bubbling, fermenting-producing a mash of acids, gasses,  and caustic  by-products  of purification. If you think not, just take a good whiff of vomit.  So  instead  of improving  diet  and  food combinations and supporting good acid production in  the  stomach,  medicine  comes  along  with  the "little purple pill."

    Knowing that most people are too uneducated, brainwashed and/or unmotivated to make the necessary changes to improve digestion,  the pharmaceutical industry has filled the void by producing antacids. These sop, block, or inhibit both the good and bad  acids-the  bad  ones  produced  in  the stomach  by  poor digestion.  You  get relief because the caustic  mash  in  your gut  has  been  neutralized to some degree, but at a very high cost.


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The Cost Of Blocking Stomach Acids 

   If you are a typical  senior on a host of cardiac drugs and come down  with  a good case of pneumonia because you no longer have any germ-fighting acids  in your digestive  tract,  you could easily die. If you are a young person and you have already started on the downward health  spiral  of antacids and  acid stoppers`  please  wake  up.  You  could  be slowly  killing yourself. Unlike the senior, you  will recover from  pneumonia–-at  least until  you  become older.

    For all  patients,  once you reach the endpoint and get really hammered  by pneumonia, you  will find out fast that all  of medicine's  drugs can  no longer stop the infection. And you will  die  never  having  known  that  the  innocuous little  daily  pills may have contributed to your death.
Don't fall for this Hoax.  Indigestion, except in the most rare of cases, is not caused by excess stomach acid. The same goes for heartburn, reflux, Barrett's esophagus, chronic nausea, gas, belching, bloating, and the rest. These are  mostly  the signs of inadequate production of good stomach acid combined with all the bad habits already discussed.  The hoax  of antacids  is simply a money-making scheme. These drugs produce billions of dollars in sates every single year.

As I have stated for the past 25 years, once you jump  on  this  bandwagon,  you  will eventually be made permanently ill.  So use common sense. Be sure  to read my article,  "Calcium,  Antacids,  and Disease,"  


Health alert   Vol.  21,  No.  6.  T

 NOTES JAMA. October  27` 2004.
Health Alert  Jan 2005, Vol 22 Issue 1
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