It is the opinion of many researchers that antacid treatments actually increase the annoying experience of acid reflux rather than cure it.

Your stomach produces acid during meals which is part of its job, and a genuinely acceptable thing. Without stomach acid your stomach is unable to dissolve the food you eat or extract the essential nutrients you require, not only for optimal health, but just to live.

Neutralizing or suppressing stomach acid can in fact be detrimental to your health rather than a benefit.

I challenge you to find a biochemists who thenselves would ever use proton-pump inhibitors or antacid treatments with meals, yet this is exactly what the popular acid reflux medications do by decreasing or even eliminating stomach acid.

Furthermore, the suppressing of stomach acid can cause permanent
impairment of the stomach’s ability to form adequate acid for digestion as part of a continuing process.

Additionally, if your food is not effectively broken down by your stomach acid to be suitably digested, it is more liable to weaken your lower esophageal sphincter, which makes acid reflux more likely to happen.

Note that even the makers of antacid treatments advise that people use them for only 2 weeks or less, wheras numerous doctors keep their patients on them indefinitely.

The good news is that the rise in acid reflux is often linked to causes of our own making. That means we can make more healthy choices to decrease the chances of acid reflux. There are also more healthful ways to handle it when it does arise.

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