I know “stuffy” isn’t a very scientific term, but it works here. When your liver and gall bladder are stuffed to the rafters and the juices are so thick they don’t flow out very well, then that’s a stuffy gall bladder. Those juices are called “bile”.
This bile functions to help break down the fats you eat and help eliminate toxins from your liver. All good stuff. Here is a real quick way to tell if your bile is thick like pea soup.
If you eat a meal with some fat in it…do you burp right away?
If you answered “yes” for yourself or your significant other, then keep reading.
Besides eliminating fat, the bile is responsible for helping eliminate the toxins you take in throughout the day.
Often it is the dust in the air, pollen, drywall dust, pet dander, or anything you suck into your lungs that isn’t pure air. This “dust” goes from your lungs to your liver, and once it is broken down, it is passed to your gall bladder’s bile.
That bile is then dumped into your intestines and passed on out.
Now, one of the rivers I’ve fished numerous times is normally as clear as crystal. After a heavy rain, it turns to a chocolate milk brown that is full of sediment. If you have to filter that water to drink, which one do you think will clog your filter faster?
Right? The dirty water. The more pollution you are around, the harder it is on your liver and gall bladder.
How do you fix it sooner rather than later?
The Supplement, AF-Betafood (from Standard Process) is made with young growing beet leaves. Those beet leaves are the greatest natural source of betaine. To keep it simple, betaine is very important for supplying the liver with good stuff to run the detoxifying mechanisms. If all is working well, and you are well nourished, the bile stays thin and fluid and the system works great. Toxins in… toxins out.
People run into trouble when they stop eating good food. If you are noticing burping after eating a meal with fat in it (butter, oils, animal fats, etc.), then AF-Betafood may help a lot and get you over the hump until your body and diet are working better.
So WHY is this important?
Now that you are possibly eating more protein,
You may be noticing some more digestion stress. If you are burping, passing more gas, or getting that burning feeling in your throat, we need to address it before we move on to fats.
Fats will exaggerate these symptoms more.
If you are going to be healthy, you need a good digestion system.
Burping, gas, and burning are easy, simple indicators of early trouble brewing. So, if you let them be, it will only be a matter of time before you have your gallbladder removed, and you are on acid stopping pills.
FACT: At LEAST 90% of those suffering from “reflux, acid- indigestion, or GERD” are actually suffering from too LITTLE STOMACH ACID.
I realize that T.V. commercials and your doctor have told you time and again that you have too much stomach acid. You probably say ” I know doc, it just burns like acid in my throat.” It feels like acid. Technically, you are right and wrong at the same time.
Here is how your stomach works. When you eat food your stomach starts making acid right away to digest the food. It has all your life. You were born to make acid, it is part of NORMAL digestion. If your acid levels are too low, that food will just sit in your stomach and ROT.
Just like a squished squirrel on the side of the road in the hot sun!
The rotting food will make its own acids and give you the feeling of acid indigestion.
YOUR BODY IS NATURALLY INTELLIGENT
It wants to get rid of bad things, so it starts coming back up.
So what happens when you take an antacid? (any one of them). You trick your body in away, like putting a piece of duct tape over your oil light in your car, so you don’t know your car is having trouble. Your symptoms will stop but your problem will get worse. I will go over how problems get worse a little later.
All those antacids make less and less stomach acid so it is easier and easier for undigested food to be forced through your body.
NO Acid, No Digestion!
You are trying to run your body on less and less. You eat food for energy to run your body. If you can’t digest it, guess what you don’t get? THAT’S RIGHT-MOST of your food. Why do you think SOOOO many people who take acid-stopping drugs are so tired?
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. You will NOT hear this from any other DOCTOR, because as far as I know, I discovered it. The #1 thing that exists with over 90% of ALL chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia patients that I have ever seen is a past history of using acid-stopping drugs.
Here is something T.V. Commercials also don’t tell you.
The acid-stopping medications like Prilosec, Prevacid, and Nexium (and whatever new version they are cooking up) stop your stomach cells from producing acid. They also stop your body from absorbing Vitamin B12.
Vitamin B12:
Without it you can slow down healing, become anemic, mess up your nerves, and have problems with protein, fat, and carbohydrate metabolism. And to top it off… Low levels of Vitamin B12 can increase heart and vessel disease. Not a pretty picture! No wonder they don’t want you to know about it.
So What To Do
If you have these problems,
You might want to shoot me a quick email. I suggest using supplements, only because they are really necessary to dig out of these holes. Unlike drugs, they are healthy and natural and able to be weened off of.
If you don't try and address these problems now you will only face larger ones later, guaranteed.
Simple Solutions
All of these come from Standard Process
Why do I recommend a particular company? Really, they are the best supplement company I have found. They have their own organic farm, have been around since 1929. Yes, 1929. Are the founding fathers of whole food supplements and do it better than any one else. If you haven't heard of them that's very possible. They keep a low profile and are only sold through doctors and almost all of which are chiropractors. I can not recommend them high enough. Their supplements have saved the lives of many patients. Just ask me for some testimonials. I have many.
To start with:
Burping = get some AF Betafood
Acid reflux = Get some Zypan
Any other digestive problems, contact a chiropractor that sells Standard Process or me, for the slight variations on those recommendations.