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Welcome to When Your Health Matters. Your host is doctor
Richard Huntoon of Advanced Alternative Medicine Center located right here
in Pool of Georgia. Doctor Hantoon has been practicing alternative health,
utilizing chiropractic and many other health techniques for the past
twenty seven years to support you when your health matters.
It's his intention to offer practical advice every week for
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Speaker 5 (01:23):
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Speaker 3 (01:27):
Welcome to this week's show, When Your Health Matters, the
show designed to empower you to better health through knowledge
and education. And I'm your host, doctor Richard Untun from
Advanced Alternative Medicine Center. And here's my partner for the show,
your health Advocate Mark Say, Doc Rick.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Great to be back here with you, Toda, and I
wanted to talk to you today about the second half
of summer when we start to shift our energies towards
what's known as the Earth element. And I would like
to know from your point of view, what is the
significance of the Earth element and how does it relate
to your health.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, the energy shifts from the heart of the fire
element into the stomach of the Earth element, so there's
an elemental change as the seasons change. How it relates
to health is it changes the focus to the earth
organs and support the breakdown and absorption of food and
for energy and healing within the energy being highest in
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the stomach and in preparation for the immune and sugar system.
We will discuss in the month of September. So the
month of August is about heart energy, is about stomach energy,
and it's about identifying the self. It's where self esteems lives.
Where the sense of self is is in your stomach.
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And so shifting from the heart, which is where spirit lives,
to the embodiment of spirit, which is where the stomach
takes place. So that shift and that transition is the
significance for the earth element.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Right. Just in terms of physiology, isn't your stomach located
right below your heart?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It is, and there's a wonderful muscular wall that separates
the two, known as your diaphragm.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now, one of the things that's interesting about Chinese medicine
is they differentiate two different types of organs, the solid
organs and then the organs that are hollow, like the
stomach is a hollow.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Organ, right, So they're either the yin organ or the
yang organ. The yin organs are the more solid organs
like the lungs and the kidneys or the heart, where
the yang are the hollow organs of the stomach, the
small intestine, the large intestine, and the gallbladder.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Now, one of the things I remember you saying to
me is that the stomach is widely misunderstood. How would
that be possible?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
People really don't appreciate what it does and what it
houses energetically. The true misunderstanding is when a condition of
the stomach occurs, and most healthcare practitioners missed what the
symptoms indicate. That is a condition of a hyadel hernia.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And what is ania.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That's where the stomach has pushed up through the diaphragm
and now is occupying the thoracic cavity as opposed to
the abdominal cavity. And it creates a lot of different
symptoms within the stomach. Where you can get heartburn, indigestion,
you get that reflux, you can get that lower esophageal
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sphincter issue to where now you get the reflux of
food from the stomach up into the esophagus as a result.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Now, what are the different parts of the digestive tracts?
Just give us a sort of an overview of the
digestive tract, because that's a whole dynamic in the body.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
It is, well, you start with a mouth, and once
food leaves the mouth and you swallow it, it goes
down the esophagus, crosses through the diaphragm itself, past the
lower esophageal sphincter into the stomach. From the stomach, it
leaves the pyloric sphincter and gets into the small intestine,
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and then after all the small intestines where most of
the absorption takes place, it goes into the large intestine
and the rectum, and then the other parts of the
digestive tract include the liver and the gallbladder, as well
as the pancreas that feeds into the digestive system.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now, what's so interesting is that the digestive tract really
isn't even inside your body in a way.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, it isn't. Technically, it's outside of the body proper,
meaning that it's a tube that needs to be crossed
if food, water, and air are to truly enter into
the bloodstream and actually be now inside the body. So
the digestive tube or the digestive tract is physically inside
the body, like the center of a donut is technically
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inside the confines of the donut. But you're not physically
in the body until you've crossed that digestive barrier and
are now into the bloodstream.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Into the bloodstream, yeah, now you breathe air, you drink water,
you eat food. That whole digestive system is key to
your health and it's one of the things that you
spend a lot of time in terms of looking at
what a person is eating and what they're drinking, and
what they're taking into their body, and just about anything
you can swallow goes in. So one of the things
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that your digestive track has to be able to do
is to not let the things that shouldn't get into
your body into your body. So how do the things
pass through that don't belong.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, there's a system. It's like a second nervous system.
It's called the enteric nervous system. What it does is
it inventories the ingredients that we ingest and determines through
the discernment of that small intestine, what it allows into
the body and what it allows to pass through and
out of the body.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So one of the things that could happen is that
you're taking in food and maybe you're wolfing your food
down some people do, and you're not chewing your food
well enough. What happens then.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
The digestive problems will follow, as the stomach will be
unprepared to receive what the mouth has swallowed without adequate chewing.
So it's really important for you to chew your food
and chew your food well because it actually sets you
up for better health and better digestion. And having better
digestion is significantly better than dealing with indigestion or heartburn
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or reflux or any of those kinds of symptoms.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's certainly true. That is certainly should Now one of
the things that your stomach has is it has a
lot of acid in it. But there seems to be
different schools of thought about stomach acid, Like you want
to get less acid more acid, But isn't the acid
of the very thing you need to break the food
down in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well, it is. There's a very strong acid called hydrochloric acid.
The problem is poor diet and high in carbohydrates and
poor digestive enzymes. Secretion leaves the poor breakdown of the
proteins causing that to combine with the carbohydrates and they
begin to ferment. The acids of fermentation caused the stomach upset.
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It may result in gas in bloating, and the aforementioned
hydl hernia.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So the acids of fermentation are different than the stomach
acid is the hydrochloric acid.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Right, The stomach acid that the stomach actually manufactures is
a very very strong acid. And the acid in digestion
that most people get has nothing to do with your
secreted acid. It actually has to do with a lack
of properly secreting acid. And so when the carbohydrates and
the proteins are being introduced to the body at the
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same time, the carbohydro start getting broken down in the
mouth with the enzyme in the saliva, and then it's
supposed to go through the stomach and finish in the
small intestine with the help of the gallbladder and the pancreas.
The challenge is when it's combined with the proteins, the
proteins get broken down from macromolecules into smaller molecules, not
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the micromolecules. That's what the stomach acid is for, is
to take the complex protein and break them down into
simple proteins and eventually amino acids, and then once that's done,
then they can be absorbed in the small intestine. But
it has to fully break down within the stomach in
order for that to occur. And if it's not breaking
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down fully in the stomach in order for that to occur,
then you're going to have health issues that as a result,
because the body can't now use the proteins necessary to
heal and can't use those same proteins to make hormones.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That is the stomach absorb any of the nutrition or
is it just breaking it.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Down just calcium, assuming the environment is truly acidic and
not the results of poor carbohydrate breakdown. So if you
have proper stomach functioning, the thing that's going to get
absorbed is calcium.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, Now with that strong acid, how come that doesn't
hurt your stomach?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well. Stomach acid, also known as hydrochloric acid, is a
very strong acid. It's pH level typically ranges from one
to three, which is more acidic than battery acid, which
is a strong acid that we also want to avoid.
The stomach also secretes. The lining of the stomach protects
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the stomach from the harsh acid secreted by the stomach itself.
It secretes a layer of mucus and bicarbonate to protect
the stomach from the acids that the stomach secretes.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh, by carbon Is that why people used by carbonate
soda to calm upset stomach.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's certainly one of the things that they would use
that for. Certainly.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh, that's interesting. Okay, Now what happens with the food
after it leaves your stomach?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It enters the small intestine or the upper part known
as the duodenum or the duadenum, depending upon your school.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Of pronunciation, and where does it go from there?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Once it's in the small intestine, and the enzymes that
come from the liver gall bladder system and from the
pancreas system to help take those micromolecules and break them
down into their component parts. Proteins ultimately need to get
fully broken down into amino acids.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So the stomach has broken it down to micromolecules.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, it's broken them down from polysaccharides to die saccharides,
and they may start to break them down into the
mono sacharines. But definitely when it leaves the stomach and
goes into the small intestine under the direction of the gallbladder.
It's going to determine if the food's allowed to go forward,
then it's going to continue to break down from the
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disaccharines to the monosacharine.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So continues that breakdown process. Then the small intestine, because
the small intestine is largely responsible for absorbing the food.
That's where the food crosses over from the tube to
getting inside your body.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Getting into the bloodstream. That is correct.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay, so all right, now food poisoning does that typically
happen in the stomach or does that happen in the
small intestine?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Well, food poisoning is a is a response, that is,
the person is made aware of the response going on
within the body that is potentially from food poisoning based
uponding gallbladder's response. The gallbladder controls and regulates all digestion.
So if the goal gallbladder is getting food from the
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stomach that's in the proper form, then the gallbladder will
let the food continue to come in. If the food
that is being sent to the gallbladder isn't in the
desired form, then the gallbladder is going to tell it
to go back and finish the process, and that's where
you get reflux, that's where you get indigestion, that's where
you get heartburn. It's because the food that's coming and
being assessed by the gatekeeper, so to speak. I consider
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the gallbladder the gatekeeper of the digestive system. It decides
what goes forward versus what gets sent back for further consideration.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And so.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
When the food leaves the stomach, it enters into the
small intestine, the first part of the small intestine being
the duodenum, and that's where the gallbladder feeds right into
that small intestine and helps to take a temperature, if
you will, and assess it kind of inspects what's coming through.
And if it passes inspection, then it continues into the
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small intestine and for absorption. If it doesn't pass inspection,
then it's going to turn it around and send it back,
and that's where you get digestive flow going in the
opposite direction, and that's typically what leads to your hydel hernias, etc.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
M H. Now, what do your stomach if you get
contaminated food before it gets into your small intestine, Can
the stomach reject it? Can the stomach handle it? With
that strong acid.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well, the stomach is supposed to handle it with a
strong acid. The problem is is because of the amount
of crap food that we've consumed over the years, is
our body doesn't respond the way that it's supposed to,
and so its pathogens that are supposed to get burned
up by the harsh stomach acid so that it's no
longer a pathogen. If that's not happening in a timely fashion,
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and it's not being happened fully, then the gallbladder is
going to take the temperature of that and say, you
know what, we don't like this. And the strongest response
that the gallbladder can have to rejecting food coming from
the stomach is to actually cause you to throw up.
So when you're throwing up, you have gallbladder irritation, you
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have bile duct irritation. And so if you get nausea, heartburn, indigestion,
upset stomach, and diarrhea, those are a lesser response than
throwing up would be. They're all part of the same response.
It just depends upon the strength of the gallbladder and
it's a willingness to let you know how irritated it is.
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And so when somebody has that, we use one very
specific supplement called choline, which helps to flush the gallbladder route,
which then gets rid of the irritation over a meal
or two.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I see, I mean, because there's I mean, I hear's
so many reports about now more contaminated food getting into
stores and having been recalled and things like that. When
that contaminated food gets in there, and a lot of
times you've already you've already consumed it before you've got
that message that has been recalled, you have to your
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body's having to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, you know, ideally your body's supposed to break it down,
and some of it gets stuck in the bile duct
and cause of the feeling of nausea, and the response
of that, if it's a healthy response, is going to
be throwing up. The least healthy response is is going
to liquefy it and run it out the other end.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
M H. Because if I mean, if you get it
out of your system as quickly as possible, that would
be the best, the best possible scenario. Right.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The longer it takes to get rid of it, the
bigger the consequences are going to be.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Now, is a stomach ache really a stomach ache, if.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I understand your question correctly. Not. Typically when a person
claims they have a stomach ache, it usually involves the
small intestine. But they point to the area below their
diaphragm and they just assume that that area is where
the stomach is because that anatomically is where the stomach sits.
But you usually they're holding an area below the stomach
and that relates to the small intestine.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Now, when the stomach but it's acids and everything, can
it actually destroy bacteria to get in and other pathogens?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, it can by using the strong acids to burn
up any potential pathogens ingest it. And that's you know
why you need to have good strong stomach acid to
destroy the viruses and the bacteria.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So why wouldn't do that? I mean, would there be
a reason is that your stomach acids are not functioning well?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It can if it's able to recognize them and produce
strong enough acids to do the job. If it's not
able to do that because of the imbalances that you
have within your system that you're not producing strong enough
acids or you're consuming things that have more than the
stomach acids can break down all in one sitting and
something slip through the cracks, then you're going to be
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dealing with those problems.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
So as we're talking about the stomach health and what
goes on in the stomach. One of the things I
wanted to know is when you have all that acid
in your stomach, what happens or why does it ever?
Why doesn't it stay in your stomach? Why would it
ever get out?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Well, as in reflux, where stomach acid reverses up the esophagus,
it may burn the esophagus and cause pain, indigestion, and heartburn.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So what And that sounds like that could cause some
significant damage.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I mean, well, it can over time, and you certainly
don't want that happening, and you certainly want to address it.
And I would say that probably the easiest thing that
you could do to address it, it would be to
drink a shot of liquid al of air.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Juice liquid really yeah, wow, stops burning, stops burning. Yeah.
I know, I've known about it for external burns, but
I hadn't heard about it for something like that.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah. And just because you've now found something to get
rid of your symptoms, you don't want to ignore it
and just rely on that. You want to go figure
out what going on as to why you need to
be consuming alo regularly.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
True true true true? So, uh, why why does food
come up. Is that a gallbladder issue or is that
a stomach issue.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, it's usually due to the gallbladder not liking what's
being as it's being asked to digest. So the flow
reverses under the order of the gallbladder, and the gallbladder
sends things back from whence they came.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Right, I mean the stomach should keep the food in
it until it's done breaking down.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Right, Right, If the lower esophagel sphincter is working properly,
then the answer is yes. If the lower sophageal sphincter fails,
then things could have a tendency to get pushed back
up into the esophagus.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Mm hmm. So there's a the sphincter, which is basically
a muscle that keeps the food from coming back up.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, you have a lower esophageal sphincter, and then at
the other end of the stomach you have a pyloric sphincter.
And when those two sphincters are close, and then you
have this acidy type kiln which burns up everything within
the stomach, and then the pyloric sphincter will open for
the food to move forward into the small intestine. And
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then after it's moved to the small intestine, then the
upper stomach or the lower esophageal sphincter will now open.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So that's what happens when acid reflex becomes chronic.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Well, you end up burning your esophagus. And like I said,
that's why you would want to use a home remedy
of drinking some al of AA juice to help put
the fire out. But again you're going to want to
go to a to a healthcare professional to find out
why that's happening. Why do you have a lower esophageal
sphincter issue of it not opening and closing the way
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that it's supposed to. And typically you're going to have
some kind of hygaddle hernia. And so we would just
simply fix the hyattle hernia and allow things to go
back to normal.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Now, does that prevent somebody from having esophageal reflux disease
the gourd that I've heard so.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Much about, Yeah, well, gourd Gastroesophageal reflux disease is a
combination of of your gallbladder rejecting the food that's coming
and a failure in your lower esophageal sphincter, causing the
stomach acid content to move up above that lower esophageal
sphincter into the esophagus. And so then you get the name,
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which is gastro esophageal reflux disease because it is reflux.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Now, one of the things that people take is they
take all these different ant acids. But you were saying
that there are different and there are different acids that
the stomach produced, and then there's the acids of fermentation.
So do the ant acids attract both types of acid
or just the acids of fermentation.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, you're gonna if you take in acids, you're gonna
basically stop the breakdown going on. You're gonna suppress the
stomach acid production, which is going to lead to poor
calcium absorption, poor immunity, and many other consequences as a
result of not absorbing the calcium that the body needs
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to just simply remain healthy.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
So if you use those things all the time, you know,
on a regular basis, then you're actually gonna create some
other problems like loss of calcium.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, at a minimum, you're going to stop the body
from being able to absorb calcium. Because you've changed the
acidic environment to where you need it to be in
acidic environment to absorb calcium. So and acids are going
to prevent you from getting the nutrition that you need
since you cannot absorb your proteins. And this causes all
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soorts of healing issues and hormonal issues because you need
proteins in order for the body to heal and as
a precursor formones.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And you also said that a lot of the foods
are already lacking nutrition.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yeah, they do lack nutrition, and this is only compounds
the problem and therefore everybody's health is failing now.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I mean, there are probably sixty million people that are
suffering from acid indigestion. And that acid indigestion could it
be this fermentation acid or is it that there are
other acids in the stomach that are causing problem.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, poor digestion from poor chewing, poor chronic acid deficiency
and the combination of carbohydrates fermenting and creating acids, fermentation
and indigestion that results because of that, And so there's
a lot of things that goes on. We're all in
such a hurry to get to whatever's next in our
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day that we don't take the time to eat properly.
We don't take the time to sit down and be
grateful for our food, to give things for our food.
We don't take the time to do any of those things.
And the chaotic lives that we all lead in the
way in terms of what industry expects from its employees.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now, from what I hear that there, you take these medicines,
but there's really not a lot of relief that the
medications are giving people.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Well, it gives you short term relief because it handles
the immediate fire, but once the fire has been put out,
your body still has to deal with whatever is inside
the stomach trying to make its way through the rest
of the digestive system.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Now, I've also heard that, like with gourd, that people
have that constant chronic condition that they might try sleeping
at a different angle so that they're not they're a
little bit more like sitting in a chair. I remember
my father used to always sleep sleep in his lazy
boy chair, not in the bed. I mean, he would
always fall asleep there. And I don't know if he
had good or not, but I do remember that that's
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a common way for people to sleep and I've heard
it's beneficial for people who have that kind of well, it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Is beneficial because what you're doing is you're if you
lay flat on your back, then the food can either
go up towards your head or can go down towards
your feet, and if you don't want it to go
up towards your head and up into your esophagus and
create gird and all sorts of symptoms associated with that.
If you put yourself at an angle where your head
is higher than your feet, then the food is going
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to have a tendency to stay down. But it's not
an ideal way to sleep, and it's not the most
comfortable way to sleep, and you may find yourself waking
up several times over the course of an evening because
you're not in a proper sleeping position.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Now, could you just avoid eating the foods that are
causing the symptoms?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You could, except it may mean all foods over time,
and again that's not really a solution. You need to
address the underlying mechanism of cause. And when you do that,
then you can just go back to eating food the
way that you would normally want to eat food.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
The problems that would result as if you have this
ongoing problem like where you're having reflex over time chronically.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Well chronically you're going to get scarring of the esophagus,
failure of the lower esophageal sphincter, chronic heartburn, and poor
bone healths. Those are just a few of the larger
ticket items that will result from chronic reflux.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I mean, isn't there a thing like doesn't esophageal cancer
start oftentimes from this kind of thing? Or do you
have what is it Barrett's esophagus?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I think it was called, well, Barrett's esophagus is where
you definitely have a lot of damage going on due
to acid being refluxed up into the esophagus, and when
it starts to change negatively, that's when you get the
condition called Barrett's esophagus. You know, again, going back to
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the remedy I mentioned earlier, is if you have any
of that stuff going on and you need to get
immediate relief, taking a shot roughly two ounces of valive
air juice with no other things mixed into it, just
pure alive air juice that will help to put things
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definitely will help get rid of the fire. But then
you want to go have a consultation with somebody similar
to myself to where now you can get it, get
an understanding of what's the reason for why you're having
these issues and what you have to do to address
them so that they go away once and for all.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Now I've heard that with that chronic condition that there
are actually surgery pal procedures where they tight that is
offageal sphincter to prevent the acid from coming back up,
which just seems like it's kind of like putting a
dam in where you should have something that's opening and closing.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
You should have something that's opening and closing. So what
ends up happening if they tighten that spin to prevent
the acid from coming back up the esophagus is you're
going to end up creating a malfunctioning of that sphincter
and then you're gonna have chronic symptoms, probably for the
rest of your life as a result.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Now, the hiatal hernia that you were talking about is
when it's instead of being below the diaphragm, there begins
to be some kind of penetration above the diaphragm.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah, the stomach pushes up through the diaphragm and now
occupies the thoracic cavity and n the abdominal cavity and
what causes that it's an offset gallbladder and a weak
lower esophageal sphincter based upon the things that you are
doing and how you embody your emotions.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Now in terms of creating the naugen and the vomiting
and diarrhea, are those are those typically pathogens or can
other things cause those.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Pathogens can cause it?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And you know.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
The effects of the those pathogens whether they're found in
our foods and our foods aren't properly cooked, etc. So
you want to make sure that your food is fully cooked.
You want to make sure that you chew your food
really really well before swallowing, and you're not. It's not
a race to see who can finish their food fastest,
because that's the person that's going to end up having
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health issues.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Now. One of the things that I know people have
gone on because they're trying to lose weight, and they
figure that, you know what, I keep filling my stomach
up so much, maybe if I had a smaller stomach,
I would be able to lose weight. And they now
have procedures where they staple your stomach to make it
smaller that for me as a late person, that doesn't
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sound like a very appealing solution.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
No it's not. And they will sell it to you
and you'll eventually sometimes say yes, but it certainly doesn't
solve the food issue, and it doesn't solve the emotional
issues that are associated with food.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
What are the emotional issues low self esteem.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Discussed? Egotistic nervousness, despair, feeling stifled, having overconcerned, overthinking. All
of these things will create stress. So emotionally affect your
stuff to.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Try to overcome those uncomfortable emotions.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, you're gonna because what is putting food in your
stomach to it actually takes away the stimulus that is
being provoked by the emotion.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, I remember because we've talked about this before, where
you know people that will sit there and grab a
pint of ice cream or something or a bag of
potato chips to sort of assuage the feelings of low
self esteem or getting rejected or something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Right, And so what you need to appreciate is, well,
what is it that you're doing to yourself as a result.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
And so it's.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
You know, it's a vicious psych and one that I've
certainly helped hundreds of people, if not thousands of people
deal with it over the course of my practice. And
it's you know, once you understand the psycho emotional connection
to why you reach for the certain foods that you
reach for when you're feeling certain ways, once you understand
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all the components that go into that chain of events,
if you will, then you can actually cut the chain
and prevent that from happening anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Now, the other thing that's happened to for the last
few years is some of these new weight loss drugs
like azimpic. What is going on with those? How do
those work? And why are they not a good solution?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Well, the side effects and the lack of addressing the
problem for starters, the problem will come back when the
person is tired of being on the medication, And like
all medication, it doesn't fix the problem, it just addresses
the symptom.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And so are there are other natural weight loss alternatives.
There are supplements that you can use it would help
with weight loss.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Well, there are, and helping a person understand what is
not working properly and addressing that issue is a much
better solution if you truly want to help the person
regain their health and get in front of their condition,
because I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
There are you know, these various kinds of different than
the kind of supplements that you use in your office.
But I certainly have heard about all these things where
people are promoting their weight loss solutions. Those unlike the
prescription medications where you kind of can find out what
the side effects are. Do you ever know what the
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side effects are some of these other supplements that people
are selling.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Well, At the end of the day, you want to
research whatever it is that you're going to be ingesting,
whether it's a medication or whether it's a nutritional or
whether it's some kind of chemical based over the counter
kind of thing. You want to understand what it is
that you're taking into your body and the effects that
it's going to have, both short term and long term.
Nice thing about what we do in the office is
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that we always test the person for a particular nutritional
that we're going to recommend to them, and we only
recommend it to them when their body tests that they're
going to respond favorably to consuming that supplement. And we
do the same thing with their medication and whatever else
it is that they may be taking. I have people
bring me their medications and their supplements. They'll bring me
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their supplements from their other doctors. They'll bring me their
medications from their other doctors. And my job is a
big part of my job is to inform people in
terms of what it is that they're doing to themselves
and the consequences and the effects that it's having on them,
and what they can do to stop those negative effects
from occurring.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Well, that would certainly be the optimal solution, is to
sit there and figure out what's going on with you
so you can actually make choices that are difference rather
than going down taking some kind of outside solution that's
not necessarily going to help you ultimately.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Right, And that's the purpose of the show, and that's
the purpose of my office, is to empower people to
understand what's truly going on with their body, not necessarily
masking it with medications that may lead to other problems
down down the road.
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Speaker 1 (36:24):
What are the things that goes on in the stomach
that we've talked about extensively over the years. Is the
microbial life that lives inside your gut. What role does
the stomach play with that microbial life.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Well, it influences it by what it allows to pass
into the intestines and the flora found there. So it's uh,
you know, it's part of the ingredients that go into
that is, the ingredients that help to feed the the
enteric nervous system and the microbiome that's found within the
rest of the digestive system.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Doesn't the acid in your stomach kill off the micro.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
It kills off the pathogenic microbes, but it also creates
a food, if you will, that goes on to feeding
the microbes that are found further down in your digestive tract.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
How interesting, Yeah, that's interesting. So now now one of
the things that I know is recommended for digestion are
these fermented foods, things like sauerkraut and yogurt is a
fermented food, and kimchi and the Korean culture. Why are
those foods beneficial and what advantages are there to eating them?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Well, it helps keep the bacteria happy that are found
within the lower part of the digestive system once you
get past the harsh asses of the stomach.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Now, because we were differentiating with the things that are
fermenting in your stomach versus the fermented foods that you're
eating and putting into your.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Stomach, right, so it's not proper ingredients fermenting and it
does not have the same effect on the body so
you want you don't want your food fermenting while it's
waiting to be moved to the next stage of digestion.
You want that to happen in a timely fashion, whereas
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when you're eating fermented foods, they're immediately going to be
allowed to go through the stomach into the small intestine
where they're going to be most vital and most active.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Now, why is it that there are so many stomach problems.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
People don't know how to address them properly. People don't
appreciate the emotional component that affects how the stomach functions.
And if they keep repressing and suppressing their emotions, then
they are going to continue to have stomach issues.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
So let's talk a little bit about those emotions we
mentioned them before. What would you be doing to repress
or suppress those emotions?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
What would you be doing not wanting to acknowledge the emotions,
not confronting them, you know, just trying to ignore them
and trying to eat them away. For some people that
will make the choice to when they feel these emotions,
they'll have a tendency to eat more, and so they're
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trying to avoid dealing with the emotions directly. By doing
something that will impact those emotions indirectly, and therefore they
never actually handle their emotional problems.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
So you're kind of stuffing the feelings back in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
But yeah, and you're eventually going to create some kind
of stomach problem that if you don't change your habits
and behaviors, that stomach problem can become really severe and
potentially life threatening.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Now with extreme weight loss surgery and shrinking the stomach,
what effect does that have on a person's overall health.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Well, they reduce the size of the stomach in an
effort to restrict what they can't accept, so to speak.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
And so.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
When you reduce the size of the stomach, then what
you're actually doing is you're reducing your body's ability to
digest absorb calcium, for most importantly, because calcium gets absorbed
in the stomach, so you're reducing how that functions, and
you're reducing how much food you're actually letting into the
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system in an effort to maintain the body. And so
a person who has a procedure like that done may
find themselves losing weight, but what they're actually doing is
they're no longer absorbing the nutrients that they need. In
order to maintain their health.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah, I would think that you would need that whole
stomach to be able to do the full absorption of
what you're taking in.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
You definitely do.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
It's interesting too, because there was a cousin of mine
that had that surgery done some years back, and he
was a very heavy young man at the time and
had the surgery. But in seeing him in the years since,
he's still the same large young man. I mean, he's
a little bit older, but he's the same guy. I mean,
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he hasn't really lost the weight, so I don't know
that the surgery was necessarily effective.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Well in terms of how he dealt I mean, you
can't run away from your emotions. So it's interesting. I
had a patient a number of years ago. I helped
Louise one hundred and twenty pounds quite a bit, and
the more weight she lost, the more she had the
change your wardrobe, the more she had the change her look,
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and then the thing that she basically had put weight
on to avoid, the more attention she got from men.
And when she got into a a permanent relationship with
somebody again, it was all about how she sees herself
and how she deals with things, and so at the
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end of the day, she ended up putting some of
that weight back on simply because it's your comfort and
your security with who you are and your own self
esteem that influences your stomach health and the things that
you do to feed your stomach.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
And so.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
You know, you can help a person lose weight, but
you may be uncovering a problem that the weight was
insulating the person from having to deal with in the process.
So there has to be an emotional component to helping
a person who is going through a weight loss procedure
or who is losing weight. Naturally, you have to build
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up their self esteem. Otherwise they're going to have a
rebound to where they go back not to where they were,
but they're going to end up becoming heavier than they
were before they started.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Well, this is really part of what it means to
be a holistic health practitioner. I mean, you're not just
dealing with trying to change the symptoms of having too
much weight or to have a particular stomach problem. You're
actually dealing with the whole measure of what it is
to be a human being.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Yeah, and that's the thing about what it is that
I do in the office is is you're not a condition.
You're a person who hasn't imbalance that they're calling a condition.
And so it's not a question of what you call
the condition, it's about what you do to address the
mechanism that causes the condition to develop to begin with.
And so I can't give you medication, So I actually
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have to have tools an ability to wield those tools
in an appropriate fashion to help you understand what's actually
going on with you and why it's going on with you.
And then most importantly, what you can do to change
the outcome of what what's going on with you so
that it comes more in line with what you would
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like and what is healthy.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
So can you help with things like gastritis and stomach
ulcers or peptic ulcers.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Absolutely, I mean those are simple conditions in which to
deal with and there's no drugs involved. And again it
goes back to understanding, well, what's the mechanism of cause,
Why does a person have those conditions? What is the
underlying factor that's causing the condition. And once we address
the underlying factor, then their condition has tends to go away.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Now I know, you know your philosophy has to have
a proactive approach to health. And one of those proactive
things you do is probiotics. What do probiotics do for
your stomach health.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Well, probiotics are the necessary They are the necessary good
bacteria that the body needs in order to maintain a
healthy digestive system. So when we're doing as many as
fourteen different things on a daily basis that disrupts our
good bacteria, then we need to replenish those bacteria with
good bacteria. And that's why we recommend that people take probiotics.
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And so whether you're taking in sugar, whether you're taking
in alcohol, whether you're taking in pharmaceuticals, whether you're taking
in over the counters, whether you're being exposed to chlorine,
fluorine or bromine, artificial colors, artificial flavors, not consuming enough water, etc.
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All of these things contribute to an imbalance within your microbiome.
So we recommend taking probiotics on a regular basis, and
that gives you a better chance of maintaining a normal microbiome.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Now, when we look at the emotions that we were
talking about in terms of your stomach health, and we
were talking about the fact that the motions play as
a significant role. Can the emotions be the main cause
of why you would have stomach issues?
Speaker 3 (46:01):
I have found in every one of the people that
have come to me with stomach issues that there is
always an emotional component because at the end of the day,
when you aren't feeling well, how are you going to
feel emotionally?
Speaker 1 (46:15):
You're not going to feel well emotionally.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Right, So if you don't feel well physically, that's going
to impact your self esteem emotionally, and that's going to
affect how your stomach functions, because self esteem influences how
your stomach functions.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Now, you mentioned there's the enteric nervous system. So we
have the sympathetic and the parasympathetic, but the enteric nervous
system is something that I think a lot of people
don't really understand what that is. Can you talk a
little bit about what the enteric nervous system is and
what it does in terms of your health and giving
you insight to your health.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Well, it's like a second brain. It's actual nervous tissue
that lines your digestive tube and helps to regulate what
it lets in versus what it lets go, and it
is it is directly connected to the brain, but it
acts independently of the brain and helps to influence how
the brain functions. And so when your enteric nervous system
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goes out of balance, then you're going to have the
emotions that directly relate to you as an individual, you
as a spiritual being, and how you feel about all that.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
And so.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
When your enterreg nervous system is being stimulated the wrong way,
that's going to cause you to experience different types of emotion,
which influences how you see the things that you're dealing with.
And it's the difference between seeing things rationally and clearly
versus seeing things irrationally and emotionally.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Now, with that in mind, when you had a gut
feeling about something, whether it's a good feeling or a
bad feeling, is that your inter nervous system speaking to you.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
It is your enteric nervous system speaking to you. So
when you have a gut feeling, it's where you're being
pushed up against in a way that doesn't feel right emotionally.
And if you trust that gut feeling, then you'll either
get out of the area or you'll avoid whatever's coming next.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
Yeah, I mean, because there's so often that somebody walks
in the room and you're either find that well, your
heckles go up and you feel like you don't want
to be near that person, or conversely, you can see
somebody that's very charismatic that you're drawn to.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
Right, And so what's important for you is to always
check in with how you feel emotionally and make sure
that you deal with your emotions in a balanced, healthy
way as opposed to dealing with them in a suppressive,
unhealthy way. And you know, if something doesn't feel right,
honor that feeling and either put an end to it
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or get yourself out of the area where it's occurring.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Now, in terms of we talked about emotion, we've talked
about the physical part and another part of the aspect
that you deal with when you're talking to somebody about
the holistic component of what goes into being a person.
As you said, you treat what you treat people, not conditions.
The spiritual aspect of all this is also relevant. So
how does the stomach health and that effect or fit
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into the spiritual perspective that you bring to helping people
recover their health?
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Well, Again, when a person is out of balance in
their body in some way, shape or form, and they're
not emotionally in agreement with what's going on with them,
it does impact their spirit. And so wanting to restore
balance to the triune being of the body, of the mind,
and of the spirit is really the focus of what
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goes on in my practice. And you know, I've seen
over the years that different people have different relationships with
their own spirituality. Sometimes people feel that they get their
spirit served properly through going to church or going to
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a synagogue or what have you. And that's all good
and fine. It's not my intention to step upon your
faith belief system. But it is my job as a
holistic health care provider to help create balance between the
trying and being of the body and the mind and
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of the spirit. And when something jumps out at me
in relationship to the person that I'm interested in helping
that it's not a physical problem, it's not grounded in
an emotional chemical problem, but it is actually a spiritual issue,
then we will bring that conversation up and I will
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try to approach that with that person in the most gentle,
agreeable way possible in an effort to help them overcome
their imbalance.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
There's an important aspect of keeping that in mind when
you when you're actually dealing with people, because we are
we are the whole measure of what it means to
be human. And I think that if if there are
those people who are out there listening to our show
today and we'd find this curious and would be interested
in finding out a little bit more and maybe getting
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a personal take on their particular situation and want to
reach out to you. What are the best ways to
go about doing that?
Speaker 3 (51:28):
Well, the best way to do that would be to
call my cell phone directly at area code eight four
to five five six one two two two five Again
eight four five five six one two two two five.
I'm interested in actually speaking to you on the phone.
I'm old school, so I am more of a speaker
kind of person. That way, I don't misinterpret what you're saying,
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or you don't misinterpret what my response is. Again, I
don't necessarily like this, but this is the methodology that
most people are going to do. Uh, send me a text.
But if you are going to send me a text,
please identify who you are by name, and what your
issue is and why you're contacting me, and I'm happy
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to get back to you. And continue the conversation that way.
You can always email me directly at doc Rick at
spineboy dot com. That's d O c r ic k
at spineboy dot com. And whether you call me, whether
you text me, or whether you email me. Last thing
you can do is you can always stop into the office.
I'm not there every day, but the days that I'm there,
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I more than happy to have you walk in and
let us have a conversation because my natural curiosity is
going to be to give you an evaluation just so
that I understand what you're dealing with and what I'm
up against. So that's probably the best thing that you
could do would be to stop into my office. So
those are the ways, Mark, those are the ways.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Well, I get the advantage of being able to speak
to you every week and they have these these conversations
and get a lot of information, a lot of education.
And you know, the great thing that we're doing is
this information is out there for people that want to
listen to it. There's a lot of important information. We
do this show every week and we're always talking about
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different subjects, but ultimately it comes down to talking to
people when their health matters and providing them some ideas,
some perspectives, some options that they can use to improve
their health without having to go through the kind of
ordeal you might have to go through if you're going
through medicine and surgery and things like that. If that
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is something that's avoidable in your case, this is an
opportunity for you to take advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (53:39):
Yeah, So having a conversation with me, I will be
completely upfront and honest with you in terms of if
I feel I can help you, or if I feel
that you should go to a particular specialist for your
particular condition. But all that starts with the conversation. And
so I appreciate you putting this show together. Mark, I
appreciate you as a listener who are listening to this
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show right now. I want to thank you for tuning in.
I would ask you to tune back in next week,
same health time, same health station. This is doctor Richard
on tune from Advanced Alternative Medicine Center, saying, I look
forward to supporting you when your health matters. My physician
he said, you're definitely ill.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
Then said the nurse, I've seen worse.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
So the doctor just gave me a pill.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
Take one of those three times a day. Don't ever
stop on till you're nearly dead or almost better.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Keep out of the region.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Children, the things that might be some side effect me
probably will. Well, littit of fact can come back and
I give you one out of the film. On top
of that, on top of that, on top of that,
on top of that, on top of that, on top
of that, Ready showed me his bill.
Speaker 1 (54:49):
I pu
Be my physician.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
He said, you're definitely ill than to the nurse. I've
seen worse than the doctor.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Just gave me a pill.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Take one of those three times today.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You don't never stop on till you're really denner awful.
Better keep out of the region children.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
The thing is that.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Might be some side effects.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You mean the probably will well.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Limits of fact, you can't come. I'll give you one
out of the film. On top of that, on top
of that, on top of that, on top of that,
on top of that, on top of that, and many
showed me his bill.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I've popped another pill.
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Welcome to When Your Health Matters. Your host is doctor
Richard Huntoon of Advanced Alternative Medicine Center located right here
in Pool of Georgia. Doctor Hantoon has been practicing alternative health,
utilizing chiropractic and many other health techniques for the past
twenty seven years to support you when your health matters.
It's his intention to offer practical advice every week for
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Speaker 5 (01:23):
You are listening to the Alternative Healthcare Network.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Welcome to this week's show, When Your Health Matters, the
show designed to empower you to better health through knowledge
and education. And I'm your host, doctor Richard Untun from
Advanced Alternative Medicine Center. And here's my partner for the show,
your health Advocate Mark Say, Doc Rick.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Great to be back here with you, Toda, and I
wanted to talk to you today about the second half
of summer when we start to shift our energies towards
what's known as the Earth element. And I would like
to know from your point of view, what is the
significance of the Earth element and how does it relate
to your health.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, the energy shifts from the heart of the fire
element into the stomach of the Earth element, so there's
an elemental change as the seasons change. How it relates
to health is it changes the focus to the earth
organs and support the breakdown and absorption of food and
for energy and healing within the energy being highest in
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the stomach and in preparation for the immune and sugar system.
We will discuss in the month of September. So the
month of August is about heart energy, is about stomach energy,
and it's about identifying the self. It's where self esteems lives.
Where the sense of self is is in your stomach.
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And so shifting from the heart, which is where spirit lives,
to the embodiment of spirit, which is where the stomach
takes place. So that shift and that transition is the
significance for the earth element.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Right. Just in terms of physiology, isn't your stomach located
right below your heart?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It is, and there's a wonderful muscular wall that separates
the two, known as your diaphragm.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now, one of the things that's interesting about Chinese medicine
is they differentiate two different types of organs, the solid
organs and then the organs that are hollow, like the
stomach is a hollow.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Organ, right, So they're either the yin organ or the
yang organ. The yin organs are the more solid organs
like the lungs and the kidneys or the heart, where
the yang are the hollow organs of the stomach, the
small intestine, the large intestine, and the gallbladder.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Now, one of the things I remember you saying to
me is that the stomach is widely misunderstood. How would
that be possible?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
People really don't appreciate what it does and what it
houses energetically. The true misunderstanding is when a condition of
the stomach occurs, and most healthcare practitioners missed what the
symptoms indicate. That is a condition of a hyadel hernia.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And what is ania.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That's where the stomach has pushed up through the diaphragm
and now is occupying the thoracic cavity as opposed to
the abdominal cavity. And it creates a lot of different
symptoms within the stomach. Where you can get heartburn, indigestion,
you get that reflux, you can get that lower esophageal
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sphincter issue to where now you get the reflux of
food from the stomach up into the esophagus as a result.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Now, what are the different parts of the digestive tracts?
Just give us a sort of an overview of the
digestive tract, because that's a whole dynamic in the body.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
It is, well, you start with a mouth, and once
food leaves the mouth and you swallow it, it goes
down the esophagus, crosses through the diaphragm itself, past the
lower esophageal sphincter into the stomach. From the stomach, it
leaves the pyloric sphincter and gets into the small intestine,
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and then after all the small intestines where most of
the absorption takes place, it goes into the large intestine
and the rectum, and then the other parts of the
digestive tract include the liver and the gallbladder, as well
as the pancreas that feeds into the digestive system.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now, what's so interesting is that the digestive tract really
isn't even inside your body in a way.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, it isn't. Technically, it's outside of the body proper,
meaning that it's a tube that needs to be crossed
if food, water, and air are to truly enter into
the bloodstream and actually be now inside the body. So
the digestive tube or the digestive tract is physically inside
the body, like the center of a donut is technically
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inside the confines of the donut. But you're not physically
in the body until you've crossed that digestive barrier and
are now into the bloodstream.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Into the bloodstream, yeah, now you breathe air, you drink water,
you eat food. That whole digestive system is key to
your health and it's one of the things that you
spend a lot of time in terms of looking at
what a person is eating and what they're drinking, and
what they're taking into their body, and just about anything
you can swallow goes in. So one of the things
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that your digestive track has to be able to do
is to not let the things that shouldn't get into
your body into your body. So how do the things
pass through that don't belong.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, there's a system. It's like a second nervous system.
It's called the enteric nervous system. What it does is
it inventories the ingredients that we ingest and determines through
the discernment of that small intestine, what it allows into
the body and what it allows to pass through and
out of the body.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So one of the things that could happen is that
you're taking in food and maybe you're wolfing your food
down some people do, and you're not chewing your food
well enough. What happens then.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
The digestive problems will follow, as the stomach will be
unprepared to receive what the mouth has swallowed without adequate chewing.
So it's really important for you to chew your food
and chew your food well because it actually sets you
up for better health and better digestion. And having better
digestion is significantly better than dealing with indigestion or heartburn
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or reflux or any of those kinds of symptoms.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's certainly true. That is certainly should Now one of
the things that your stomach has is it has a
lot of acid in it. But there seems to be
different schools of thought about stomach acid, Like you want
to get less acid more acid, But isn't the acid
of the very thing you need to break the food
down in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well, it is. There's a very strong acid called hydrochloric acid.
The problem is poor diet and high in carbohydrates and
poor digestive enzymes. Secretion leaves the poor breakdown of the
proteins causing that to combine with the carbohydrates and they
begin to ferment. The acids of fermentation caused the stomach upset.
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It may result in gas in bloating, and the aforementioned
hydl hernia.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So the acids of fermentation are different than the stomach
acid is the hydrochloric acid.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Right, The stomach acid that the stomach actually manufactures is
a very very strong acid. And the acid in digestion
that most people get has nothing to do with your
secreted acid. It actually has to do with a lack
of properly secreting acid. And so when the carbohydrates and
the proteins are being introduced to the body at the
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same time, the carbohydro start getting broken down in the
mouth with the enzyme in the saliva, and then it's
supposed to go through the stomach and finish in the
small intestine with the help of the gallbladder and the pancreas.
The challenge is when it's combined with the proteins, the
proteins get broken down from macromolecules into smaller molecules, not
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the micromolecules. That's what the stomach acid is for, is
to take the complex protein and break them down into
simple proteins and eventually amino acids, and then once that's done,
then they can be absorbed in the small intestine. But
it has to fully break down within the stomach in
order for that to occur. And if it's not breaking
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down fully in the stomach in order for that to occur,
then you're going to have health issues that as a result,
because the body can't now use the proteins necessary to
heal and can't use those same proteins to make hormones.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That is the stomach absorb any of the nutrition or
is it just breaking it.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Down just calcium, assuming the environment is truly acidic and
not the results of poor carbohydrate breakdown. So if you
have proper stomach functioning, the thing that's going to get
absorbed is calcium.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, Now with that strong acid, how come that doesn't
hurt your stomach?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well. Stomach acid, also known as hydrochloric acid, is a
very strong acid. It's pH level typically ranges from one
to three, which is more acidic than battery acid, which
is a strong acid that we also want to avoid.
The stomach also secretes. The lining of the stomach protects
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the stomach from the harsh acid secreted by the stomach itself.
It secretes a layer of mucus and bicarbonate to protect
the stomach from the acids that the stomach secretes.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh, by carbon Is that why people used by carbonate
soda to calm upset stomach.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's certainly one of the things that they would use
that for. Certainly.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Oh, that's interesting. Okay, Now what happens with the food
after it leaves your stomach?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It enters the small intestine or the upper part known
as the duodenum or the duadenum, depending upon your school.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Of pronunciation, and where does it go from there?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Once it's in the small intestine, and the enzymes that
come from the liver gall bladder system and from the
pancreas system to help take those micromolecules and break them
down into their component parts. Proteins ultimately need to get
fully broken down into amino acids.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So the stomach has broken it down to micromolecules.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, it's broken them down from polysaccharides to die saccharides,
and they may start to break them down into the
mono sacharines. But definitely when it leaves the stomach and
goes into the small intestine under the direction of the gallbladder.
It's going to determine if the food's allowed to go forward,
then it's going to continue to break down from the
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disaccharines to the monosacharine.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So continues that breakdown process. Then the small intestine, because
the small intestine is largely responsible for absorbing the food.
That's where the food crosses over from the tube to
getting inside your body.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Getting into the bloodstream. That is correct.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay, so all right, now food poisoning does that typically
happen in the stomach or does that happen in the
small intestine?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Well, food poisoning is a is a response, that is,
the person is made aware of the response going on
within the body that is potentially from food poisoning based
uponding gallbladder's response. The gallbladder controls and regulates all digestion.
So if the goal gallbladder is getting food from the
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stomach that's in the proper form, then the gallbladder will
let the food continue to come in. If the food
that is being sent to the gallbladder isn't in the
desired form, then the gallbladder is going to tell it
to go back and finish the process, and that's where
you get reflux, that's where you get indigestion, that's where
you get heartburn. It's because the food that's coming and
being assessed by the gatekeeper, so to speak. I consider
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the gallbladder the gatekeeper of the digestive system. It decides
what goes forward versus what gets sent back for further consideration.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And so.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
When the food leaves the stomach, it enters into the
small intestine, the first part of the small intestine being
the duodenum, and that's where the gallbladder feeds right into
that small intestine and helps to take a temperature, if
you will, and assess it kind of inspects what's coming through.
And if it passes inspection, then it continues into the
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small intestine and for absorption. If it doesn't pass inspection,
then it's going to turn it around and send it back,
and that's where you get digestive flow going in the
opposite direction, and that's typically what leads to your hydel hernias, etc.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
M H. Now, what do your stomach if you get
contaminated food before it gets into your small intestine, Can
the stomach reject it? Can the stomach handle it? With
that strong acid.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well, the stomach is supposed to handle it with a
strong acid. The problem is is because of the amount
of crap food that we've consumed over the years, is
our body doesn't respond the way that it's supposed to,
and so its pathogens that are supposed to get burned
up by the harsh stomach acid so that it's no
longer a pathogen. If that's not happening in a timely fashion,
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and it's not being happened fully, then the gallbladder is
going to take the temperature of that and say, you
know what, we don't like this. And the strongest response
that the gallbladder can have to rejecting food coming from
the stomach is to actually cause you to throw up.
So when you're throwing up, you have gallbladder irritation, you
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have bile duct irritation. And so if you get nausea, heartburn, indigestion,
upset stomach, and diarrhea, those are a lesser response than
throwing up would be. They're all part of the same response.
It just depends upon the strength of the gallbladder and
it's a willingness to let you know how irritated it is.
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And so when somebody has that, we use one very
specific supplement called choline, which helps to flush the gallbladder route,
which then gets rid of the irritation over a meal
or two.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I see, I mean, because there's I mean, I hear's
so many reports about now more contaminated food getting into
stores and having been recalled and things like that. When
that contaminated food gets in there, and a lot of
times you've already you've already consumed it before you've got
that message that has been recalled, you have to your
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body's having to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, you know, ideally your body's supposed to break it down,
and some of it gets stuck in the bile duct
and cause of the feeling of nausea, and the response
of that, if it's a healthy response, is going to
be throwing up. The least healthy response is is going
to liquefy it and run it out the other end.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
M H. Because if I mean, if you get it
out of your system as quickly as possible, that would
be the best, the best possible scenario. Right.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The longer it takes to get rid of it, the
bigger the consequences are going to be.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Now, is a stomach ache really a stomach ache, if.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I understand your question correctly. Not. Typically when a person
claims they have a stomach ache, it usually involves the
small intestine. But they point to the area below their
diaphragm and they just assume that that area is where
the stomach is because that anatomically is where the stomach sits.
But you usually they're holding an area below the stomach
and that relates to the small intestine.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Now, when the stomach but it's acids and everything, can
it actually destroy bacteria to get in and other pathogens?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, it can by using the strong acids to burn
up any potential pathogens ingest it. And that's you know
why you need to have good strong stomach acid to
destroy the viruses and the bacteria.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So why wouldn't do that? I mean, would there be
a reason is that your stomach acids are not functioning well?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It can if it's able to recognize them and produce
strong enough acids to do the job. If it's not
able to do that because of the imbalances that you
have within your system that you're not producing strong enough
acids or you're consuming things that have more than the
stomach acids can break down all in one sitting and
something slip through the cracks, then you're going to be
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dealing with those problems.
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
So as we're talking about the stomach health and what
goes on in the stomach. One of the things I
wanted to know is when you have all that acid
in your stomach, what happens or why does it ever?
Why doesn't it stay in your stomach? Why would it
ever get out?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Well, as in reflux, where stomach acid reverses up the esophagus,
it may burn the esophagus and cause pain, indigestion, and heartburn.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So what And that sounds like that could cause some
significant damage.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I mean, well, it can over time, and you certainly
don't want that happening, and you certainly want to address it.
And I would say that probably the easiest thing that
you could do to address it, it would be to
drink a shot of liquid al of air.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Juice liquid really yeah, wow, stops burning, stops burning. Yeah.
I know, I've known about it for external burns, but
I hadn't heard about it for something like that.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah. And just because you've now found something to get
rid of your symptoms, you don't want to ignore it
and just rely on that. You want to go figure
out what going on as to why you need to
be consuming alo regularly.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
True true true true? So, uh, why why does food
come up. Is that a gallbladder issue or is that
a stomach issue.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, it's usually due to the gallbladder not liking what's
being as it's being asked to digest. So the flow
reverses under the order of the gallbladder, and the gallbladder
sends things back from whence they came.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Right, I mean the stomach should keep the food in
it until it's done breaking down.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Right, Right, If the lower esophagel sphincter is working properly,
then the answer is yes. If the lower sophageal sphincter fails,
then things could have a tendency to get pushed back
up into the esophagus.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Mm hmm. So there's a the sphincter, which is basically
a muscle that keeps the food from coming back up.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, you have a lower esophageal sphincter, and then at
the other end of the stomach you have a pyloric sphincter.
And when those two sphincters are close, and then you
have this acidy type kiln which burns up everything within
the stomach, and then the pyloric sphincter will open for
the food to move forward into the small intestine. And
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then after it's moved to the small intestine, then the
upper stomach or the lower esophageal sphincter will now open.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So that's what happens when acid reflex becomes chronic.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Well, you end up burning your esophagus. And like I said,
that's why you would want to use a home remedy
of drinking some al of AA juice to help put
the fire out. But again you're going to want to
go to a to a healthcare professional to find out
why that's happening. Why do you have a lower esophageal
sphincter issue of it not opening and closing the way
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that it's supposed to. And typically you're going to have
some kind of hygaddle hernia. And so we would just
simply fix the hyattle hernia and allow things to go
back to normal.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Now, does that prevent somebody from having esophageal reflux disease
the gourd that I've heard so.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Much about, Yeah, well, gourd Gastroesophageal reflux disease is a
combination of of your gallbladder rejecting the food that's coming
and a failure in your lower esophageal sphincter, causing the
stomach acid content to move up above that lower esophageal
sphincter into the esophagus. And so then you get the name,
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which is gastro esophageal reflux disease because it is reflux.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Now, one of the things that people take is they
take all these different ant acids. But you were saying
that there are different and there are different acids that
the stomach produced, and then there's the acids of fermentation.
So do the ant acids attract both types of acid
or just the acids of fermentation.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, you're gonna if you take in acids, you're gonna
basically stop the breakdown going on. You're gonna suppress the
stomach acid production, which is going to lead to poor
calcium absorption, poor immunity, and many other consequences as a
result of not absorbing the calcium that the body needs
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to just simply remain healthy.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
So if you use those things all the time, you know,
on a regular basis, then you're actually gonna create some
other problems like loss of calcium.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, at a minimum, you're going to stop the body
from being able to absorb calcium. Because you've changed the
acidic environment to where you need it to be in
acidic environment to absorb calcium. So and acids are going
to prevent you from getting the nutrition that you need
since you cannot absorb your proteins. And this causes all
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soorts of healing issues and hormonal issues because you need
proteins in order for the body to heal and as
a precursor formones.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And you also said that a lot of the foods
are already lacking nutrition.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yeah, they do lack nutrition, and this is only compounds
the problem and therefore everybody's health is failing now.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I mean, there are probably sixty million people that are
suffering from acid indigestion. And that acid indigestion could it
be this fermentation acid or is it that there are
other acids in the stomach that are causing problem.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, poor digestion from poor chewing, poor chronic acid deficiency
and the combination of carbohydrates fermenting and creating acids, fermentation
and indigestion that results because of that, And so there's
a lot of things that goes on. We're all in
such a hurry to get to whatever's next in our
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day that we don't take the time to eat properly.
We don't take the time to sit down and be
grateful for our food, to give things for our food.
We don't take the time to do any of those things.
And the chaotic lives that we all lead in the
way in terms of what industry expects from its employees.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now, from what I hear that there, you take these medicines,
but there's really not a lot of relief that the
medications are giving people.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Well, it gives you short term relief because it handles
the immediate fire, but once the fire has been put out,
your body still has to deal with whatever is inside
the stomach trying to make its way through the rest
of the digestive system.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Now, I've also heard that, like with gourd, that people
have that constant chronic condition that they might try sleeping
at a different angle so that they're not they're a
little bit more like sitting in a chair. I remember
my father used to always sleep sleep in his lazy
boy chair, not in the bed. I mean, he would
always fall asleep there. And I don't know if he
had good or not, but I do remember that that's
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a common way for people to sleep and I've heard
it's beneficial for people who have that kind of well, it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Is beneficial because what you're doing is you're if you
lay flat on your back, then the food can either
go up towards your head or can go down towards
your feet, and if you don't want it to go
up towards your head and up into your esophagus and
create gird and all sorts of symptoms associated with that.
If you put yourself at an angle where your head
is higher than your feet, then the food is going
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to have a tendency to stay down. But it's not
an ideal way to sleep, and it's not the most
comfortable way to sleep, and you may find yourself waking
up several times over the course of an evening because
you're not in a proper sleeping position.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Now, could you just avoid eating the foods that are
causing the symptoms?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You could, except it may mean all foods over time,
and again that's not really a solution. You need to
address the underlying mechanism of cause. And when you do that,
then you can just go back to eating food the
way that you would normally want to eat food.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
The problems that would result as if you have this
ongoing problem like where you're having reflex over time chronically.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Well chronically you're going to get scarring of the esophagus,
failure of the lower esophageal sphincter, chronic heartburn, and poor
bone healths. Those are just a few of the larger
ticket items that will result from chronic reflux.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I mean, isn't there a thing like doesn't esophageal cancer
start oftentimes from this kind of thing? Or do you
have what is it Barrett's esophagus?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I think it was called, well, Barrett's esophagus is where
you definitely have a lot of damage going on due
to acid being refluxed up into the esophagus, and when
it starts to change negatively, that's when you get the
condition called Barrett's esophagus. You know, again, going back to
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the remedy I mentioned earlier, is if you have any
of that stuff going on and you need to get
immediate relief, taking a shot roughly two ounces of valive
air juice with no other things mixed into it, just
pure alive air juice that will help to put things
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definitely will help get rid of the fire. But then
you want to go have a consultation with somebody similar
to myself to where now you can get it, get
an understanding of what's the reason for why you're having
these issues and what you have to do to address
them so that they go away once and for all.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Now I've heard that with that chronic condition that there
are actually surgery pal procedures where they tight that is
offageal sphincter to prevent the acid from coming back up,
which just seems like it's kind of like putting a
dam in where you should have something that's opening and closing.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
You should have something that's opening and closing. So what
ends up happening if they tighten that spin to prevent
the acid from coming back up the esophagus is you're
going to end up creating a malfunctioning of that sphincter
and then you're gonna have chronic symptoms, probably for the
rest of your life as a result.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Now, the hiatal hernia that you were talking about is
when it's instead of being below the diaphragm, there begins
to be some kind of penetration above the diaphragm.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah, the stomach pushes up through the diaphragm and now
occupies the thoracic cavity and n the abdominal cavity and
what causes that it's an offset gallbladder and a weak
lower esophageal sphincter based upon the things that you are
doing and how you embody your emotions.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Now in terms of creating the naugen and the vomiting
and diarrhea, are those are those typically pathogens or can
other things cause those.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Pathogens can cause it?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And you know.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
The effects of the those pathogens whether they're found in
our foods and our foods aren't properly cooked, etc. So
you want to make sure that your food is fully cooked.
You want to make sure that you chew your food
really really well before swallowing, and you're not. It's not
a race to see who can finish their food fastest,
because that's the person that's going to end up having
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health issues.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Now. One of the things that I know people have
gone on because they're trying to lose weight, and they
figure that, you know what, I keep filling my stomach
up so much, maybe if I had a smaller stomach,
I would be able to lose weight. And they now
have procedures where they staple your stomach to make it
smaller that for me as a late person, that doesn't
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sound like a very appealing solution.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
No it's not. And they will sell it to you
and you'll eventually sometimes say yes, but it certainly doesn't
solve the food issue, and it doesn't solve the emotional
issues that are associated with food.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
What are the emotional issues low self esteem.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Discussed? Egotistic nervousness, despair, feeling stifled, having overconcerned, overthinking. All
of these things will create stress. So emotionally affect your
stuff to.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Try to overcome those uncomfortable emotions.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, you're gonna because what is putting food in your
stomach to it actually takes away the stimulus that is
being provoked by the emotion.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, I remember because we've talked about this before, where
you know people that will sit there and grab a
pint of ice cream or something or a bag of
potato chips to sort of assuage the feelings of low
self esteem or getting rejected or something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Right, And so what you need to appreciate is, well,
what is it that you're doing to yourself as a result.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
And so it's.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
You know, it's a vicious psych and one that I've
certainly helped hundreds of people, if not thousands of people
deal with it over the course of my practice. And
it's you know, once you understand the psycho emotional connection
to why you reach for the certain foods that you
reach for when you're feeling certain ways, once you understand
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all the components that go into that chain of events,
if you will, then you can actually cut the chain
and prevent that from happening anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Now, the other thing that's happened to for the last
few years is some of these new weight loss drugs
like azimpic. What is going on with those? How do
those work? And why are they not a good solution?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Well, the side effects and the lack of addressing the
problem for starters, the problem will come back when the
person is tired of being on the medication, And like
all medication, it doesn't fix the problem, it just addresses
the symptom.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And so are there are other natural weight loss alternatives.
There are supplements that you can use it would help
with weight loss.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Well, there are, and helping a person understand what is
not working properly and addressing that issue is a much
better solution if you truly want to help the person
regain their health and get in front of their condition,
because I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
There are you know, these various kinds of different than
the kind of supplements that you use in your office.
But I certainly have heard about all these things where
people are promoting their weight loss solutions. Those unlike the
prescription medications where you kind of can find out what
the side effects are. Do you ever know what the
(33:43):
side effects are some of these other supplements that people
are selling.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Well, At the end of the day, you want to
research whatever it is that you're going to be ingesting,
whether it's a medication or whether it's a nutritional or
whether it's some kind of chemical based over the counter
kind of thing. You want to understand what it is
that you're taking into your body and the effects that
it's going to have, both short term and long term.
Nice thing about what we do in the office is
(34:09):
that we always test the person for a particular nutritional
that we're going to recommend to them, and we only
recommend it to them when their body tests that they're
going to respond favorably to consuming that supplement. And we
do the same thing with their medication and whatever else
it is that they may be taking. I have people
bring me their medications and their supplements. They'll bring me
(34:32):
their supplements from their other doctors. They'll bring me their
medications from their other doctors. And my job is a
big part of my job is to inform people in
terms of what it is that they're doing to themselves
and the consequences and the effects that it's having on them,
and what they can do to stop those negative effects
from occurring.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Well, that would certainly be the optimal solution, is to
sit there and figure out what's going on with you
so you can actually make choices that are difference rather
than going down taking some kind of outside solution that's
not necessarily going to help you ultimately.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Right, And that's the purpose of the show, and that's
the purpose of my office, is to empower people to
understand what's truly going on with their body, not necessarily
masking it with medications that may lead to other problems
down down the road.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Well, this is a great conversation, Doc Rick. We do
need to take another short commercial break to hear from
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bunch of more questions about the semmach health and what
goes on in terms of being able to help yourself
using some of these natural solutions.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
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Speaker 1 (36:24):
What are the things that goes on in the stomach
that we've talked about extensively over the years. Is the
microbial life that lives inside your gut. What role does
the stomach play with that microbial life.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Well, it influences it by what it allows to pass
into the intestines and the flora found there. So it's uh,
you know, it's part of the ingredients that go into
that is, the ingredients that help to feed the the
enteric nervous system and the microbiome that's found within the
rest of the digestive system.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Doesn't the acid in your stomach kill off the micro.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
It kills off the pathogenic microbes, but it also creates
a food, if you will, that goes on to feeding
the microbes that are found further down in your digestive tract.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
How interesting, Yeah, that's interesting. So now now one of
the things that I know is recommended for digestion are
these fermented foods, things like sauerkraut and yogurt is a
fermented food, and kimchi and the Korean culture. Why are
those foods beneficial and what advantages are there to eating them?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Well, it helps keep the bacteria happy that are found
within the lower part of the digestive system once you
get past the harsh asses of the stomach.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Now, because we were differentiating with the things that are
fermenting in your stomach versus the fermented foods that you're
eating and putting into your.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Stomach, right, so it's not proper ingredients fermenting and it
does not have the same effect on the body so
you want you don't want your food fermenting while it's
waiting to be moved to the next stage of digestion.
You want that to happen in a timely fashion, whereas
(38:15):
when you're eating fermented foods, they're immediately going to be
allowed to go through the stomach into the small intestine
where they're going to be most vital and most active.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Now, why is it that there are so many stomach problems.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
People don't know how to address them properly. People don't
appreciate the emotional component that affects how the stomach functions.
And if they keep repressing and suppressing their emotions, then
they are going to continue to have stomach issues.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
So let's talk a little bit about those emotions we
mentioned them before. What would you be doing to repress
or suppress those emotions?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
What would you be doing not wanting to acknowledge the emotions,
not confronting them, you know, just trying to ignore them
and trying to eat them away. For some people that
will make the choice to when they feel these emotions,
they'll have a tendency to eat more, and so they're
(39:20):
trying to avoid dealing with the emotions directly. By doing
something that will impact those emotions indirectly, and therefore they
never actually handle their emotional problems.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
So you're kind of stuffing the feelings back in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
But yeah, and you're eventually going to create some kind
of stomach problem that if you don't change your habits
and behaviors, that stomach problem can become really severe and
potentially life threatening.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Now with extreme weight loss surgery and shrinking the stomach,
what effect does that have on a person's overall health.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Well, they reduce the size of the stomach in an
effort to restrict what they can't accept, so to speak.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
And so.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
When you reduce the size of the stomach, then what
you're actually doing is you're reducing your body's ability to
digest absorb calcium, for most importantly, because calcium gets absorbed
in the stomach, so you're reducing how that functions, and
you're reducing how much food you're actually letting into the
(40:39):
system in an effort to maintain the body. And so
a person who has a procedure like that done may
find themselves losing weight, but what they're actually doing is
they're no longer absorbing the nutrients that they need. In
order to maintain their health.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah, I would think that you would need that whole
stomach to be able to do the full absorption of
what you're taking in.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
You definitely do.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
It's interesting too, because there was a cousin of mine
that had that surgery done some years back, and he
was a very heavy young man at the time and
had the surgery. But in seeing him in the years since,
he's still the same large young man. I mean, he's
a little bit older, but he's the same guy. I mean,
(41:24):
he hasn't really lost the weight, so I don't know
that the surgery was necessarily effective.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Well in terms of how he dealt I mean, you
can't run away from your emotions. So it's interesting. I
had a patient a number of years ago. I helped
Louise one hundred and twenty pounds quite a bit, and
the more weight she lost, the more she had the
change your wardrobe, the more she had the change her look,
(41:50):
and then the thing that she basically had put weight
on to avoid, the more attention she got from men.
And when she got into a a permanent relationship with
somebody again, it was all about how she sees herself
and how she deals with things, and so at the
(42:11):
end of the day, she ended up putting some of
that weight back on simply because it's your comfort and
your security with who you are and your own self
esteem that influences your stomach health and the things that
you do to feed your stomach.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
And so.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
You know, you can help a person lose weight, but
you may be uncovering a problem that the weight was
insulating the person from having to deal with in the process.
So there has to be an emotional component to helping
a person who is going through a weight loss procedure
or who is losing weight. Naturally, you have to build
(42:53):
up their self esteem. Otherwise they're going to have a
rebound to where they go back not to where they were,
but they're going to end up becoming heavier than they
were before they started.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Well, this is really part of what it means to
be a holistic health practitioner. I mean, you're not just
dealing with trying to change the symptoms of having too
much weight or to have a particular stomach problem. You're
actually dealing with the whole measure of what it is
to be a human being.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Yeah, and that's the thing about what it is that
I do in the office is is you're not a condition.
You're a person who hasn't imbalance that they're calling a condition.
And so it's not a question of what you call
the condition, it's about what you do to address the
mechanism that causes the condition to develop to begin with.
And so I can't give you medication, So I actually
(43:44):
have to have tools an ability to wield those tools
in an appropriate fashion to help you understand what's actually
going on with you and why it's going on with you.
And then most importantly, what you can do to change
the outcome of what what's going on with you so
that it comes more in line with what you would
(44:05):
like and what is healthy.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
So can you help with things like gastritis and stomach
ulcers or peptic ulcers.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Absolutely, I mean those are simple conditions in which to
deal with and there's no drugs involved. And again it
goes back to understanding, well, what's the mechanism of cause,
Why does a person have those conditions? What is the
underlying factor that's causing the condition. And once we address
the underlying factor, then their condition has tends to go away.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Now I know, you know your philosophy has to have
a proactive approach to health. And one of those proactive
things you do is probiotics. What do probiotics do for
your stomach health.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Well, probiotics are the necessary They are the necessary good
bacteria that the body needs in order to maintain a
healthy digestive system. So when we're doing as many as
fourteen different things on a daily basis that disrupts our
good bacteria, then we need to replenish those bacteria with
good bacteria. And that's why we recommend that people take probiotics.
(45:10):
And so whether you're taking in sugar, whether you're taking
in alcohol, whether you're taking in pharmaceuticals, whether you're taking
in over the counters, whether you're being exposed to chlorine,
fluorine or bromine, artificial colors, artificial flavors, not consuming enough water, etc.
(45:32):
All of these things contribute to an imbalance within your microbiome.
So we recommend taking probiotics on a regular basis, and
that gives you a better chance of maintaining a normal microbiome.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Now, when we look at the emotions that we were
talking about in terms of your stomach health, and we
were talking about the fact that the motions play as
a significant role. Can the emotions be the main cause
of why you would have stomach issues?
Speaker 3 (46:01):
I have found in every one of the people that
have come to me with stomach issues that there is
always an emotional component because at the end of the day,
when you aren't feeling well, how are you going to
feel emotionally?
Speaker 1 (46:15):
You're not going to feel well emotionally.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Right, So if you don't feel well physically, that's going
to impact your self esteem emotionally, and that's going to
affect how your stomach functions, because self esteem influences how
your stomach functions.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Now, you mentioned there's the enteric nervous system. So we
have the sympathetic and the parasympathetic, but the enteric nervous
system is something that I think a lot of people
don't really understand what that is. Can you talk a
little bit about what the enteric nervous system is and
what it does in terms of your health and giving
you insight to your health.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Well, it's like a second brain. It's actual nervous tissue
that lines your digestive tube and helps to regulate what
it lets in versus what it lets go, and it
is it is directly connected to the brain, but it
acts independently of the brain and helps to influence how
the brain functions. And so when your enteric nervous system
(47:11):
goes out of balance, then you're going to have the
emotions that directly relate to you as an individual, you
as a spiritual being, and how you feel about all that.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
And so.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
When your enterreg nervous system is being stimulated the wrong way,
that's going to cause you to experience different types of emotion,
which influences how you see the things that you're dealing with.
And it's the difference between seeing things rationally and clearly
versus seeing things irrationally and emotionally.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Now, with that in mind, when you had a gut
feeling about something, whether it's a good feeling or a
bad feeling, is that your inter nervous system speaking to you.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
It is your enteric nervous system speaking to you. So
when you have a gut feeling, it's where you're being
pushed up against in a way that doesn't feel right emotionally.
And if you trust that gut feeling, then you'll either
get out of the area or you'll avoid whatever's coming next.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
Yeah, I mean, because there's so often that somebody walks
in the room and you're either find that well, your
heckles go up and you feel like you don't want
to be near that person, or conversely, you can see
somebody that's very charismatic that you're drawn to.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
Right, And so what's important for you is to always
check in with how you feel emotionally and make sure
that you deal with your emotions in a balanced, healthy
way as opposed to dealing with them in a suppressive,
unhealthy way. And you know, if something doesn't feel right,
honor that feeling and either put an end to it
(48:51):
or get yourself out of the area where it's occurring.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Now, in terms of we talked about emotion, we've talked
about the physical part and another part of the aspect
that you deal with when you're talking to somebody about
the holistic component of what goes into being a person.
As you said, you treat what you treat people, not conditions.
The spiritual aspect of all this is also relevant. So
how does the stomach health and that effect or fit
(49:18):
into the spiritual perspective that you bring to helping people
recover their health?
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Well, Again, when a person is out of balance in
their body in some way, shape or form, and they're
not emotionally in agreement with what's going on with them,
it does impact their spirit. And so wanting to restore
balance to the triune being of the body, of the mind,
and of the spirit is really the focus of what
(49:45):
goes on in my practice. And you know, I've seen
over the years that different people have different relationships with
their own spirituality. Sometimes people feel that they get their
spirit served properly through going to church or going to
(50:07):
a synagogue or what have you. And that's all good
and fine. It's not my intention to step upon your
faith belief system. But it is my job as a
holistic health care provider to help create balance between the
trying and being of the body and the mind and
(50:28):
of the spirit. And when something jumps out at me
in relationship to the person that I'm interested in helping
that it's not a physical problem, it's not grounded in
an emotional chemical problem, but it is actually a spiritual issue,
then we will bring that conversation up and I will
(50:50):
try to approach that with that person in the most gentle,
agreeable way possible in an effort to help them overcome
their imbalance.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
There's an important aspect of keeping that in mind when
you when you're actually dealing with people, because we are
we are the whole measure of what it means to
be human. And I think that if if there are
those people who are out there listening to our show
today and we'd find this curious and would be interested
in finding out a little bit more and maybe getting
(51:22):
a personal take on their particular situation and want to
reach out to you. What are the best ways to
go about doing that?
Speaker 3 (51:28):
Well, the best way to do that would be to
call my cell phone directly at area code eight four
to five five six one two two two five Again
eight four five five six one two two two five.
I'm interested in actually speaking to you on the phone.
I'm old school, so I am more of a speaker
kind of person. That way, I don't misinterpret what you're saying,
(51:49):
or you don't misinterpret what my response is. Again, I
don't necessarily like this, but this is the methodology that
most people are going to do. Uh, send me a text.
But if you are going to send me a text,
please identify who you are by name, and what your
issue is and why you're contacting me, and I'm happy
(52:09):
to get back to you. And continue the conversation that way.
You can always email me directly at doc Rick at
spineboy dot com. That's d O c r ic k
at spineboy dot com. And whether you call me, whether
you text me, or whether you email me. Last thing
you can do is you can always stop into the office.
I'm not there every day, but the days that I'm there,
(52:31):
I more than happy to have you walk in and
let us have a conversation because my natural curiosity is
going to be to give you an evaluation just so
that I understand what you're dealing with and what I'm
up against. So that's probably the best thing that you
could do would be to stop into my office. So
those are the ways, Mark, those are the ways.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Well, I get the advantage of being able to speak
to you every week and they have these these conversations
and get a lot of information, a lot of education.
And you know, the great thing that we're doing is
this information is out there for people that want to
listen to it. There's a lot of important information. We
do this show every week and we're always talking about
(53:13):
different subjects, but ultimately it comes down to talking to
people when their health matters and providing them some ideas,
some perspectives, some options that they can use to improve
their health without having to go through the kind of
ordeal you might have to go through if you're going
through medicine and surgery and things like that. If that
(53:34):
is something that's avoidable in your case, this is an
opportunity for you to take advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (53:39):
Yeah, So having a conversation with me, I will be
completely upfront and honest with you in terms of if
I feel I can help you, or if I feel
that you should go to a particular specialist for your
particular condition. But all that starts with the conversation. And
so I appreciate you putting this show together. Mark, I
appreciate you as a listener who are listening to this
(54:02):
show right now. I want to thank you for tuning in.
I would ask you to tune back in next week,
same health time, same health station. This is doctor Richard
on tune from Advanced Alternative Medicine Center, saying, I look
forward to supporting you when your health matters. My physician
he said, you're definitely ill.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
Then said the nurse, I've seen worse.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
So the doctor just gave me a pill.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
Take one of those three times a day. Don't ever
stop on till you're nearly dead or almost better.
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Keep out of the region.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Children, the things that might be some side effect me
probably will. Well, littit of fact can come back and
I give you one out of the film. On top
of that, on top of that, on top of that,
on top of that, on top of that, on top
of that, Ready showed me his bill.
Speaker 1 (54:49):
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