1. A Question About GERD and Whether to Eat Grains
Hello Cassie,
I’m from méxico and i really need some help!!
I’ve been having gerd or acid reflux for 9 months now!!!
Yesterday i decided to go alkaline and just in one day i felt much better,,,i substituted meat with
quinoa and buckwheat as another alkaline website said ( by the way it said totally avoid animal
products and so i did, hopefully you are familiar with dr youngs approach)
i had a serving of buckwheat for breakfast..a little quinoa for lunch and a lentil muffin for
dinner…all these three meals with a lot of veggies…i felt a little heartburn but very little compared
to this nine months!!
Then today i increased the amounts of buckwheat and guess what??? The heartburn is
horrible!! Im very confused because they said quinoa and buckwheat were alkaline i see you
can have meat in your approach…can you help me understand??
I really want to cure my gerd and i don’t know what is the best approach for it…i really
appreciate your help!!! Have you met someone with gerd that is better now?? I’m getting so
frustrated and depressed…i’m already on a candida diet (5months) no sugar, gluten, dairy,
yeast its getting better but not as fast as i would like to…maybe because i havent stopped
grains? Helpppp.
Thanks!!!
Alejandra
Hi Alejandra,
I tried to post you an answer earlier but due to the strange goings of my site my answer got lost
so here it is in another version.
The Paleo Alkaline diet is very different than the Alkaline diet. The Alkaline Paleo diet includes
meats but definitely does not include grains in any form. Fruit is also excluded as I have come
to learn it is quite acidic in the body and should never be consumed in large quantities even
when we have been healed.
The first reason all grains (alkaline or not) are out of my diet is that there is a substance called gluten in all grains.
Here is a video on how all grains contain a variety of glutens and I recommend watching it.
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2. Gluten by itself is a very difficult protein for the body to digest and causes all sorts of problems
in the gut as well as inflammation in the body. Inflammation of itself causes acidity in the body.
Our digestive systems are not really able to deal with these glutens as we have basically the
same digestive systems that we had when we mostly ate meats and vegetables
in Palaeolithic times.
It takes thousands of years for our bodies to evolve to being able to handle a new diet and we
have only been eating a high carbohydrate diet for a very small amount of this evolutionary
time.
Wheat causes so much trouble in our bodies. Wheat, with the new strain that has
been genetically chemically produced to create high yields to feed the world, contains very
high amounts of gluten. This new wheat strain which is now grown all over the world, raises the
blood sugar higher than sugar itself. Wheat is now highly addictive and will actually increase
the appetite as most addictive substances do. Wheat also has a particular characteristic which
causes Zonulin, a chemical in the gut, to open the gut wall and allow food particles and bacteria
such as Candida to enter the bloodstream. This process causing a permanent condition of
Leaky Gut (also called intestinal permeability), has itself been shown to be the precursor of
autoimmune diseases. I highly recommend a book called “Wheat Belly” by Dr William Davis
MD where he explains about this new kind of wheat and how he has successfully used a no
grain diet to treat his patients.
Wheat is also highly acidic in the body much more so than meat. Wheat has a highly inflammatory response in the body due to being very hard to digest and the fact that it raises blood sugar levels as
high as sugar does. Sugar is very acidic to the body.
All grains (legumes, seeds and pulses) have digestive inhibitors called Phytates,
All grains are a problem.
Lectins and more to actually stop us digesting them. This enable the seeds to get through our
digestive systems. In this way these seeds get to propagate themselves in nature. These
digestive inhibitors just of themselves cause a lot of digestive trouble. Grains need very high
stomach acidity to cleave the essential amino acids (proteins) from the grain. Most people in
today’s world don’t actually have a very high stomach acidity and so we aren’t even
receiving the benefits of the nutrition within the grains, such as the amino acids.
Diets which include grains, seeds and pulses, plus vegetarian and vegan diets in general do not support a high stomach acidity as these modern high carbohydrate diets, whole foods or not, will actually decrease stomach
acidity. There is a epidemic or GERD and indigestion problems from today’s modern diet.
These undigested grains (and legumes) then enter the small and large intestine. This is
where we start to get problems with bacterial overgrowth such as Candida. Candida is actually
a natural bacteria in the gut, and you can’t and wouldn’t want to get rid of it entirely, as it does
have a job. The problem is when these bacteria have too much food to eat, such as these
undigested carbohydrate grains, causing them to overpopulate. When Candida is found in the
gut in large quantities we not only get thrush, but Candida causes the gut wall to open and
undigested proteins enter the bloodstream. Grains which are already an acidic food become
even more acidic forming when they are not digested properly by the body. Eating Quinoa and
Buckwheat, which are often a part of the normal Alkaline diet, demonstrates one of the
problems with this diet as they are still very hard to digest.
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3. GERD can definitely be cured.
I know of hundreds of people who had GERD and now no longer suffer with it. GERD contrary
to the general population and most doctors understanding is not caused by too high a stomach
acidity. GERD is now being understood to be an autoimmune disease.
The pharmaceutical companies know GERD is not caused by high stomach acidity but they
receive too much revenue from selling the drugs that negate stomach acidity. They only infer in
their advertising that GERD is from too high a stomach acid but never actually say it outright as
this would be against the law as they know it’s not true.
GERD and indigestion are now in epidemic proportions in the world. Proton Pump Inhibitors,
antacids and acid blockers are being prescribed and bought over the counter in huge quantities.
This epidemic hasn’t just happened out of nowhere.
GERD is always preceded by too low a stomach acid.
There are many people who have found this out just by taking Betaine Hydrochloride and
Pepsin tablets with their meals and within days their symptoms have completely gone or at the
least lessened.
However we need to get to the initial reason why our stomach acid is too low in the first place.
We need to fix the cause and not just ingest another tablet to ease the discomfort.
The cause of low stomach acidity is from eating high carbohydrate foods especially including
hard to digest grains, legumes and seeds. Grains need to a very high stomach acidity to cleave
the very important body building amino acids from the grain itself. Without this process we are
not only unable to utilize the amino acids in the grains but also end up with these undigested
foods our guts causing all sorts of strife.
It will take time for the body to reverse this disease. The body does all sorts of healing some is
obvious and some you won’t see, but nevertheless there will be a lot of healing going on. Be
patient it took a long time to get GERD and it’s takes a while to reverse the problems incurred
from eating a high carbohydrate diet.
The cascading effects just from a low stomach acidity will time truly heal. If you aged under
thirty years it will take less time just because the body is much more able to heal quickly.
Good stomach acidity creates alkalinity in the body.
When we make stomach acids in our body we equally create, within the same process,
bicarbonates. In a healthily functioning body there are plenty of stomach acids and therefore
plenty of bicarbonates. The acids enter the stomach for protein digestion and the bicarbonates
enter the bloodstream creating an alkaline tide. Some of these alkaline bicarbonates in the
bloodstream are used to neutralize the acidic food as it moves from the stomach to the small
intestine. The rest of the alkaline bicarbonate is used to buffer the acids in the bloodstream.
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4. To keep the body alkaline it is imperative for the body to create good stomach acidity.
Alejandra in the meantime, while you body is healing on the Alkaline Paleo program, you will
probably get a lot of relief from your GERD from taking Betaine Hydrochloride and Pepsin
tablets with each meal. You will need to work out for yourself how much you needs of this. It’s
quite easy just up your dose by one tablet each day until you get a burning sensation in the gut
and then reduce your dosage by one tablet. This is the appropriate dosage you need to begin
with. You can easily relieve the burning sensation with a little Bicarbonate of Soda in water.
I hope this has helped you to understand a little better why GERD is such a problem in today’s
world and with this understanding you can now embark with confidence on the Alkaline Paleo
program.
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