In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford will discuss the stomach and its roll in chronic conditions.

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They can be at that spot right after the gut right after small and large intestines, they can be, they couldn’t, be later it’s, something that it depends on the person’s history, but right now. This is a good relative order.

In the way you would attack a chronic condition case, which is mostly why we see chronic conditions. Neuro inflammation, we see autoimmunity a lot, but but even just a strict gut case. This is why you would you would attack so this week’s on stomach stomach is, I think it’s highly underestimated, as as a part of chronic conditions.

Most people are really aware of the intestines. Now it’s on the four-hour program, the heal, your gut, all these different programs. For that, do it do that audio, mute, alio, diet and and and take some supplements – and you know, kind of keep your fingers crossed and sometimes it’s going to help.

But the stomach is frequently missed and if you’ve done it automating, paleo diet or if you’ve, been diagnosed with small intestine bacterial growth and you’ve done that or you’ve done any number Of things for your diarrhea or constipation, and they work for a short period of time and and then they stopped working, you’re gonna find out.

Why? Right now, because the stomach has a huge player in not only helping to get those under control, but they are a huge player in keeping them under control. Once you’ve done one of those programs, so there’s, so the stomach it digest your food and – and one of the main things it does is one of main features of it is hydrochloric acid hydrochloric acid is, is designed to Primarily digest your protein, it’s.

Your stomach’s, a very acidic area for those of you who are alkaline people, you tend to dampen this response, which is not a good thing. The and, and so it is the beginning of the chain, it’s, it’s. Actually not the beginning of the chain of digestion.

The beginning of the chain of digestion is actually smelling your food, seeing your food that actually creates a beginning of the digestive process in your stomach in your pancreas and your gallbladder and, of course, chewing your food.

But then, after that, the next thing is hydrochloric acid. So cyntha so first there’s low there’s, low hydrochloric acid symptoms and their high hydrochloric acid symptoms. If people think about their stomach and they think about symptoms, what I my experience is mostly they say.

Well, I don’t have an ulcer or they say I’m, taking yeah I have or or they say I do have my do taking in acids, because I have acid indigestion and, and one of those is one of those – is Too much acid one of those is too little acid.

The problem with the stomach environment is usually too little acid and I think it’s, important to walk through that. Let’s. First, walk through other symptoms that our stomach symptoms that you may not connect with the stomach one is excessive, excessive belching, burping or bloating, and I think that’s.

What seem like it could be number of things, but that would be excessive, belching, burping and bloating after you’ve eaten the protein. I just had a lady yesterday patient and we’re close to the end and she started the range to do some food.

Oh she that’s, one of what she switched over to keto diet. Typically, she’s, starting to eat more meat than she probably should, and she’s having a hard time and she’s having a hard time digesting and she’s getting gas play.

Well, it’s because she she doesn’t have enough hydrochloric acid in her stomach and she’s now, trying to digest more pro team. So so, usually the guests and the bloating from the stomach versus a pancreas or gallbladder or SIBO would be.

If you are not able to digest protein, I eat a protein meal again gas and bloating that’s, usually lack of hydrochloric acid. In your stomach way, more about hydrochloric acid in a minute, so guess immediately following a meal same thing offensive breath.

So so many of the people come in here our health minded. They are brushing their teeth. They are flossing their teeth. They have going to the dentist. They’re, doing the right things, and yet someone come in here and they and their breath is really horrible and they’re embarrassed by it.

Of course, we smell their breath to see what it smells like, because breath coming from a lack of hydrochloric acid in the stomach has a very distinct smell, and it can alert us to the fact that that person, doesn’t have on the hydrochloric Acid understand difficult bowel movements, one of the number one causes of constipation, possibly the number one cause of constipation is stress and stress – creates a situation where it puts you into something called fight flight and when you’re in fight flight, your nature kind Of knows that you don’t need to be eating peeing pooping, so it shuts all of that down.

So if you’re in chronic stress, it shuts down your stomach, your intestines, your your goblet, your not your gallbladder, your urinary, bladder and so stomach. If it shuts that down what happens, is you stop making hydrochloric acid for that period of time? But if you’re chronically stressed, and you shut down that hydrochloric acid there’s, a chain reaction from hydrogen from not having enough hydrochloric acid, and that chain reaction is.

Is you’re, not making enough hydrochloric acid? That sends a signal to your gall bladder not to work, because doesn’t want you, you’re here. You’re in fight flight. We don’t want your gall bladder to work either you don’t need your gall bladder doing anything while you’re, trying to run from the barre right and then that will help to shut down your pancreas.

For all you, pancreatic enzyme fans, and so and and and that is a stressors and then those if you’re in stress long enough, can create inflammation in the intestines and for their. I’m just trying to point out at this point in time how important not having an of hydrochloric acid in your stomach is and where it comes from.

So we’re, so so difficult bowel movements will happen when you have all that happening. You’re not to just in your protein. You’re, not digesting your fats, you’re, not digesting your and your your your starches, because all those organs – aren’t working, that’s number one cause of constipation sense of fullness during the other thing.

By the way, second, most common cause of hypochloride Rhea low hydrochloric acid is thyroid. Hypothyroid Hashimoto’s thyroid slows down the ability to make hydrochloric acid sense of fullness during and after meals.

Of course, you’re, not digesting your meal, because you have enough hydrochloric acid difficulty, digesting proteins with meals, undigested food found in the stools. These are symptoms of low hydrochloric, acid they can and and and that can be caused by that can be caused by stress that can be caused by high power.

Just said late, just a few minutes ago, it can be caused by low thyroid. Those are the two most common causes that come into this office that can be caused by h, pylori, h, pylori is a bacteria that you get in your stomach.

That will actually cover the inside of your stomach and cause you to not make well. You’ll still make hydrochloric acid, but the hydrochloric acid can’t be expressed because the parietal cells that are making it are being covered by a bacterial infection.

So not having in my world not having enough hydrochloric acid is probably more important to look for immediately than whether the person has too much hydrochloric acid, because, as I’m, going to tell you here second to little.

Hydrochloric acid leads to you having symptoms up too much hydrochloric acid, just they are with me on this okay. So so what are the symptoms of too much hydrochloric acid, more people know these then know the symptoms of not enough.

Chloric acid stomach pain, burning aching when just right after eating use of antacids. This is like the number-one thing feeling hungry an hour to after eating heartburn when lying down or bending forward.

I’m gonna stop on that one heartburn when bending down or lying for it can also be a hiatal hernia, and I don’t have any to my knowledge. We should do something on high auto hernia, because I don’t think I have any presentations online on hiatal hernia, but hiatal hernia is when your stomach pushes up through your esophagus.

It can because you were vomiting it because it could be because you’re bent over too much. It could be because we sit too much and because you can live to much and it pushes up your stomach into your esophagus.

And then your acids become available to your esophagus and then it starts burning your esophagus long-term hypochloride, Riya, low low acid, long-term hyper chlorhydris too much acid or long-term hiatal hernia all can caught lead to something called Barrett’s, esophagus esophageal esophagitis.

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