It’s also bizarre to recommend “whole grains” to someone with digestive issues, as whole grains (like whole wheat and brown rice) are always harder to digest than refined grains (like refined flour and white rice, assuming no added iron). Many people find eliminating ALL grains as beneficial to their digestive system
@Zack Vegas, what are your thoughts on having inadequate stomach acid as a root cause of inflammation as well as infection leading to many diseases including conditions such as acid reflux as a result of the lower esophageal sphincter requiring a certain level of acidity to close properly, SIBO, many autoimmune conditions such as celiac disease as well other conditions due to improperly breakdown of foods as well as improperly destroyed bacterium entering the intestine and potentially the bloodstream due to leaky gut.
One of the pieces that I learned during COVID-19 was that foreign protein in the bloodstream is an absolute danger signal. So if at the primary breakdown in chewing with saliva breaking food down is poor, then the secondary breakdown is inadequate due to low hydrochloric acid levels the proteins are not adequately broken down into separate amino acids, with intact or partially broken down proteins then entering the small intestine and eventually the colon leading to various other diseases from this inflammation.
Dr Mercola mentioned that Vitamin D is required for stomach acid but did not go into detail as to how. But salt containing chloride as well as hydrogen rich foods ie fruits this would be providing the materials the stomach needs for acid production.
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