Healing Acid Reflux - A Dietary Problem
"Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine and Thy Medicine Be Thy Food" Hippocrates (460 B.
C-370 B.
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) When one looks at solving a health problem, understanding how it has evolved will engage a correct approach to treatment.
As acid reflux affects 1 in 5 people, it would be prudent to clarify the basis of this common ailment.
Unfortunately, with acid reflux, a generally accepted response to treatment is to prescribe one of the many heavily advertised medications-as if the reason for becoming ill with acid reflux was related to a ridiculous notion that it was caused by not taking this type of medicine in the first place.
Another line of treatment reasoning that seems logical would be to test a medicine for its healing effectiveness in the people using it.
However, the statistics for the efficacy of these medications make it hard to believe that they have become the only standard treatment prescribed by most doctors, as the drugs do not work at all in 1/3 of the people, 60% of the ones on these medications continue to have problems at least three times a week and 75% of those on prescription medications are doubling up with over-the-counter drugs! From this image, one might ascertain that healing is not really the true intention of these doctors and drugs, and even symptomatic relief is questionable.
Yet, when the prescription drugs for acid reflux went over-the counter, the drug companies received $400,000,000 in sales! Before the industrialization of our food supply and the creation of the pharmaceutical industry, most good doctors utilized a change in diet when there was a health problem.
As far back as Hippocrates, (460 BC-370 BC), the Father of Medicine said "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food" and "All diseases begin in the gut.
" Why then do we not follow the excellent healing protocols of our most revered health leaders who have shown us healing wisdom? Unfortunately, it is because today, there is no profit for the pharmacy or the doctor that prescribes a change in diet as the "medicine" for his illness! The exponential escalation of acid reflux prevalence in the last 20 years points entirely to problems with the poor quality of foods people are eating today, as this is what has been so drastically altered.
Before 1950, people ate cultured foods that supported healthy digestion, like kefir, yogurt, beet kvass, kombucha, homemade sauerkraut, pickled beets and other lacto-fermented foods.
Their diets focused on many more nutrient-dense foods like meats, poultry, dairy and eggs from animals on pasture instead of the factory-farmed foods and processed, low-nutrient, difficult-to-digest foods of today.
Acid reflux is therefore a dietary problem created solely by a massive change in our foods that is affecting our entire population.
By returning to the real foods of our ancestors, acid reflux could be totally eliminated.
Truly solving this problem would reap greater benefits to our national health than continuing to support the medical approach of doctors and drug companies with our pocketbooks.
C-370 B.
C.
) When one looks at solving a health problem, understanding how it has evolved will engage a correct approach to treatment.
As acid reflux affects 1 in 5 people, it would be prudent to clarify the basis of this common ailment.
Unfortunately, with acid reflux, a generally accepted response to treatment is to prescribe one of the many heavily advertised medications-as if the reason for becoming ill with acid reflux was related to a ridiculous notion that it was caused by not taking this type of medicine in the first place.
Another line of treatment reasoning that seems logical would be to test a medicine for its healing effectiveness in the people using it.
However, the statistics for the efficacy of these medications make it hard to believe that they have become the only standard treatment prescribed by most doctors, as the drugs do not work at all in 1/3 of the people, 60% of the ones on these medications continue to have problems at least three times a week and 75% of those on prescription medications are doubling up with over-the-counter drugs! From this image, one might ascertain that healing is not really the true intention of these doctors and drugs, and even symptomatic relief is questionable.
Yet, when the prescription drugs for acid reflux went over-the counter, the drug companies received $400,000,000 in sales! Before the industrialization of our food supply and the creation of the pharmaceutical industry, most good doctors utilized a change in diet when there was a health problem.
As far back as Hippocrates, (460 BC-370 BC), the Father of Medicine said "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food" and "All diseases begin in the gut.
" Why then do we not follow the excellent healing protocols of our most revered health leaders who have shown us healing wisdom? Unfortunately, it is because today, there is no profit for the pharmacy or the doctor that prescribes a change in diet as the "medicine" for his illness! The exponential escalation of acid reflux prevalence in the last 20 years points entirely to problems with the poor quality of foods people are eating today, as this is what has been so drastically altered.
Before 1950, people ate cultured foods that supported healthy digestion, like kefir, yogurt, beet kvass, kombucha, homemade sauerkraut, pickled beets and other lacto-fermented foods.
Their diets focused on many more nutrient-dense foods like meats, poultry, dairy and eggs from animals on pasture instead of the factory-farmed foods and processed, low-nutrient, difficult-to-digest foods of today.
Acid reflux is therefore a dietary problem created solely by a massive change in our foods that is affecting our entire population.
By returning to the real foods of our ancestors, acid reflux could be totally eliminated.
Truly solving this problem would reap greater benefits to our national health than continuing to support the medical approach of doctors and drug companies with our pocketbooks.
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