Written by: Heidi Whitaker

Commercials for heartburn relief medications haven given stomach acid a bad rap. What these advertisements don’t tell you is that too much stomach acid and too little stomach acid have the same symptoms.

• Consistent use of antacids favors yeast growth, bad bacteria in the stomach, inflammation, and stomach cancer.

• Most minerals and Vitamin B-12 requires adequate stomach acid for absorption.

• For individuals with MS, autism, Lyme, and perhaps Fibromyalgia and CFS, the problem is compounded. Adequate stomach acid production is necessary for the body to be signaled to produce secretin, which is necessary for myelin sheath repair.

Addendum by Randi Gerber

What you can do to reduce or eliminate heartburn naturally.  Most will find with these 10 simple changes in diet and the way they eat they will naturally eliminate all symptoms of heartburn.

1.  Do not drink cold beverages including water with your meals, because cold beverages will destroy your natural digestive enzymes.

2.  Instead drink a very small cup of warm to hot water. This will actually increase enzymatic activity.  Drink most of your water in between meals. 

3.  Drinking a teaspoon of organic apple cider vineger may be very beneficial if low acidity is a problem for you.  If this does not help you than your problem is not low acidity, but is more likely a lack of sufficient digestive enzymes.

4.  Nuts may increase heartburn, because they are a natural enzyme inhibitor.  Soaking nuts in water or toasting them in the oven will destroy the natural enzyme inhibitors. 

5.  Eat fruits and vegetables with every meal.  They contain natural digestive enzymes. 

6.  Supplementing with plant digestive enzymes at every meal may prove to be extremely beneficial.  click to order enzymes. 

7.  Do not cook with Canola oil or eat foods high in it.  All hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils will destroy enzymes, and make meals very difficult to digest.  Virgin Coconut oil is a far superior cooking oil.  You also may use olive oil, flax oil, or peanut oil.   

8.  Chew your food until it is nearly liquid in the mouth.  Chewing activates your natural enzymes, and makes digestion easier on the body. 

9.  Do not eat too much at one meal. 

10.  Stay away from greasy foods, and too much red meat, especially pork.

Heidi Whitaker is an author and popular speaker on the topic of nutritional support of autoimmune disease.  An advocate for alternative health solutions, she co-founded http://healthydivas.com, a resource center for those autoimmune sufferers looking for real answers outside of what conventional medicine can provide.

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