May 31, 2025 • 54 mins
30% of all Americans have GERD at some point in their lives. GERD is often described as heartburn or acid reflux. In this episode, you'll learn:
—How women are more likely to get GERD than men. And the causes of GERD, including a hiatal hernia and gallbladder disease.
—The damage GERD can do to the larynx, vocal cords, and esophagus.
—Why getting GERD at night is even a greater problem and is a sign of a more advanced case.
—How pharmaceutical companies make a ton of money off of drugs for GERD, but the drugs can damage the stomach over a period of time and actually make the GERD problem worse in the long-run.
—The foods that should be avoided with GERD and what time you should eat to avoid symptoms. And the foods that are helpful for GERD.
—The natural supplements that are effective for combating GERD without the side effects of pharmaceuticals.
—The Vitamin and Mineral deficiencies that can kick off GERD.
—Why every GERD patient should be tested for food allergies.
—How chiropractic adjustments provide relief from GERD. And the immediate relief and healing that Acupuncture can provide for GERD patients.
—Why the Diathermy treatment makes "an amazing difference" for GERD patients by increasing blood flow and lymphatic flow.
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—How women are more likely to get GERD than men. And the causes of GERD, including a hiatal hernia and gallbladder disease.
—The damage GERD can do to the larynx, vocal cords, and esophagus.
—Why getting GERD at night is even a greater problem and is a sign of a more advanced case.
—How pharmaceutical companies make a ton of money off of drugs for GERD, but the drugs can damage the stomach over a period of time and actually make the GERD problem worse in the long-run.
—The foods that should be avoided with GERD and what time you should eat to avoid symptoms. And the foods that are helpful for GERD.
—The natural supplements that are effective for combating GERD without the side effects of pharmaceuticals.
—The Vitamin and Mineral deficiencies that can kick off GERD.
—Why every GERD patient should be tested for food allergies.
—How chiropractic adjustments provide relief from GERD. And the immediate relief and healing that Acupuncture can provide for GERD patients.
—Why the Diathermy treatment makes "an amazing difference" for GERD patients by increasing blood flow and lymphatic flow.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hi, I'm Lisa Praither and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Praither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. We're talking today about GIRD, the subject of gourd.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
That just sounds terrible.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
When I told some of that we were doing a
show on GIRD. Well, what is God?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
God stands for gastro esophageal reflux.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, so it's g e r D and we just
say GIRD.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We say God is the easiest way instead of saying
gastro esophageal reflux.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It doesn't quite have the same thing GERD.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Just kind of like, uh, yeah, GIRD doesn't sound pretty.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
No, no, and it's not. Yeah, And if you think
about what that means, is it the word kind of
self explains it. So your stomach, gastro it's with that esophagus,
So your stomach content goes up your esophagus and it
refluxes it kind of like burps out.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I was yeah, just kind of giving some real illustrations
along those lines, just to kind of get that feel
of what that feels like.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm just thinking I haven't you don't burnt much?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No, okay, I try to keep my stomach healthy.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yes, you do. Well, what are the symptoms of gird.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, it's the heartburn, so you got that burning sensation.
That burning sensation is the acid that's going along the
esophagus because you're not supposed to have acid up there, okay,
and it can even go all the way up to
I was just talking to a patient who came in
for gard. Women are more commonly haveit than men.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Really, yeah, men?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Women?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They don't have quite the stomach musculature that men do,
so it's much easier. Oh and pregnancy kind of pregnancy
kind of ruins a lot of things in your body.
And there was kind of a pushing up on the study.
It's all worth it, Yeah, that's what she keeps saying.
It is, I know, but women are more likely to
(02:19):
get it than men. But thirty percent of everyone gets
GIRD in America, so it's a very common type of problem.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So when do you know you have gurn?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, I still explaining the suthing.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Okay, I'll let you do that, right, but it.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Comes up and I sent her in to get her scoped,
you know, because of their symptoms. Yes, and they went
down and she had lesions on her larynx and her esophagus.
So it had gone all the way up to the
vocal cords, the burning on the hydrochloric acid, and then
all along the esophagus.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And you said she burned her vocal cords all.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The way up to the vocal cords, and the vocal
cords were damaged.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So does it burn because of the acid?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The acid?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What you're doing is you're putting acid up through the
esophagus where it's not really supposed to be going. So
that's what they talk about the heartburn. You can have
sort of like a feeling of a lump in the throat.
You can get the bial or hydrochloric acid taste up
in your mouth, you can have difficulty swallowing because you've
(03:18):
damaged the larynx, and then you can Sometimes it's not
as bad if you've got it during the day, but
if you start getting it at night, then you can
really get into some problems. So it could be worse
at night, and that's more advanced gird. That's when you
don't have things in your stomach, but you're still having
the hydrochloric acid coming up. So it's coming up at
(03:38):
a continual type of basis.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And why is it worse Why it's gird worse at nighttime?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, it's more dangerous because it can not only one,
you're not up, you're laying down, so it goes up higher.
It can set in the esophagus longer, and then it
can also go into the lungs and start to burn
the lungs and then you can start to have it
could become a lot more dangerous at that point.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, So this, I mean, this is a serious problem.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yes, all people, a serious problem.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So what are the main causes of gourd?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, there is a lot of different speculations, but just
you know, and there's a lot of things that can
kick it off. But what happens is your stomach. You
have a sphincter, lower esophageal sphincter that keeps the stomach
content from going back up into the esophagus. So it's
supposed to be a one way trip down and then
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not be able to come back up. But the sphincter
can become weakened through a lot of things. It can
be nutrition, it could be injury. One of the things
that kicks off that's very common is something called a
hyatal hernia. That's where your stomach goes up through the diaphragm.
And when it goes up through the diaphragm, then it
(04:55):
can have sort of a bulge there and it can
squeeze the stomach and cause it the content to go
through the sphincter. And then the sphincter is supposed to
be below the diaphragm, not above the diaphragm. If it's
above the diaphgm, then it stretches out. It's like, oh,
you've got the end of a balloon and there's a
little constriction on that. If you bring it up and
(05:16):
put pressure on it, then that opening actually opens and
kind of stretches out. So hidel hernias are a big
cause of that. Also, one of the things that we
find is gallbladder disease coolycystitis inflammation in the gallbladder and
bile material can go over into the stomach. And if
(05:36):
it does that, in other words, if you're getting things
that aren't supposed to be in the different places. So
if you get bile over the stomach, stomach goes into
spasm and then you start to get the hydrochloric in
some of the bile coming up into the esophagus, and
then you start to get some burning because it's not
supposed to be there. So things are getting into the
wrong place at the wrong time, and things don't work
(06:00):
well when that's going in the wrong direction, going in
the wrong direction. It's supposed to be going down, not up,
uh huh.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So you're seeing the hyadal hernia is.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
One of the things that really kicks that off if
you have the and that's one of the reasons women
have a more likely chance of having it because they
don't have as big of a muscle of a diaphragm
as men. So and then also pregnancy has a tendency
to push the stomach up because there's a real and
(06:29):
can kind of open up that little diaphragmatic opening that
the esophagus goes through.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Does it help to strengthen that diaphragm.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It does, It does get through the deep breathing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Also, if you have shallow breathing where you're not using
your diaphragm muscle and keeping that strengthened up. So if
you're not using it, you start to lose it and
the diaphragm starts to become weaker, and then it's much
easier to develop the heidle hernia.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and I know you had just the Heytle hernia,
and we're going to talk about tree. Sure, not yet,
but now is gurd dangerous?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Gurd is dangerous. There are we talked about one thing.
If that gets into the lungs, it can kick off
infections and other issues. But also the burning into the
esophagus can cause something called Barret's esophagitis, where it destroys
the cell lining and then the cells that grow in
place are not the same. There's more smaller cells, they're
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not the strong epithelial cells. Esophagus is going to should
develop that can develop into esophageal cancer. So it is
something there more and more about, right that can develop
into a cancer. And also if it's coming up at night,
it can cause some lung disease.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So when should a person seek medical help.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You should start to seek medical help when you start
to have this on a continual basis. Now, there are
over the counter types of medicines that you can do
control it, but one of the things is oftentimes they
can make it worse. So it can solve the symptoms
immediately but actually make it worse long term. So if
(08:09):
it's a continual type of thing, you should go on
ahead and seek some help. So if you have you know,
more than three times a week, and then if you
have it for longer than six weeks, you should seek
professional help.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's like a long time.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, if that goes on, then you're going to need
some type of help to get that under control, because
it's not going to get on. In other words, it's
not going to get better at that point.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You're saying three times a week up to six weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Up to six weeks, well, yes, now I would probably
seek help sooner, right, But then it's according to all
the literature, that's when they said, hey, you've got something
that is a disease process. It's not a temporary type
of thing. It's not something that you ate wrong. This
is a continual process that's going to eventually cause some
(08:57):
problems and you need to seek some professor help.
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Speaker 1 (13:36):
Well, we're talking today about GOURD and GIRD again stands
for gasroesophageal reflux. Okay, g e r D. And let's
talk about structure function care. How effective is that for GIRD?
That type of care very good.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And one of the things that I always like to
do is differentiate between disease care and structure function care
so people have a good understanding. When you're dealing with
a disease care model for the god, you're usually thinking
about pharmaceuticals. There are surgical cases that you know that
they do do, but everybody says that should be a
(14:13):
last resort. But pharmaceutically, it's one of the most popular
pharmaceuticals out there is for Yeah. In other words, it's
a really big seller, and pharmaceutical companies make a ton
of money billions.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I haven't seen that commercial yet for the pharmaceuticals for gourd.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Well, when you're talking about god, you're talking about tagament, pepsid,
and xantec. Those types of drugs are very very common
along those lines, and those are huge sellers. So what
they do is they advertise for you know.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
For heartburn.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Okay, okay, so but yes, there are very big sellers
and disease care. What you're trying to do is to
help with the symptoms. The idea on taking a pharmaceutical
for the gourd is you want to get it under
control because what they do is they suppress the hydrochloric
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acid production. And when you suppress the hydrochloric acid production,
it gives your hopefully your esophagus a chance to heal.
So the ulcers are cleared up, and then you go
off of it, and then the gourd doesn't continue, and
then you get better, So that's the idea behind it. However,
you can't stay on those very long because they damage
(15:35):
the stomach over a period of time, and over a
period of time makes it there's more damage to the
stomach than there was before and you get more gourd.
So it helps with the symptoms but makes the problem worse.
So what we're trying to do with structure function care
is you try to get to the underlying cause. So
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with disease care, you're not interested in the cause. You're
interest in getting the symptoms under control for a short
period of time so that you can heal up and
hopefully just get over it. So that's the disease care model.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
With gourd. With the structure function what.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
We're doing is we're trying to find out why the
gourd has occurred in the first place, solve the problem
so that you don't have the issue. One of the
things that is very true if I was to take
the pharmaceuticals and I have absolutely no gourd and took
it for six weeks and then tried to well, actually,
(16:33):
if I took it longer than six weeks, six weeks
is about the max you should ever take any of
those pharmaceuticals that's it. After that it starts to cause damage.
And if I took it for like three months and
tried to go off of any of those medicines, even
though I'd never had a problem before, I would have gourd.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So it doesn't sound like that is a.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Good permanent solution.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You can do pharmaceuticals over the counter and then also
prescription and if it's a temporary problem and you're good,
then great. But you're only supposed to be on a
pharmaceutical for four to six weeks, and then after that
you are supposed to be off of it because the
problems outweigh the benefits at that point. Okay, So what
(17:20):
we do with structure function we actually try to fix
the problem and get to the root.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Of the cause.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Okay, well, let's talk about what foods should be avoided
with gourd ah.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
And one of the things that you want to do
is you want to eat at early dinner because you
do not want to be eating late because again, when
you're laying down, it makes it much much worse. So
you should at least eat about five or six if
you're going about four hours before you go to bed.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So that's about four hours before you go to bed.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Now, the things that kick up gourd is alcohol, chocolate, coffee,
and especially decaffeinated coffee, faty meals. And the reason faty
meals are a big problem is because it stimulates the gallbladder. Remember,
the gallbladder is one of the things that can kick
off girt. So faty meals, milk, orange juice, spicy foods
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also is something that stimulates GIRT. And all those things
stimulate the gallbladder. So one of the things we oftentimes
find with people is high bilirubin levels in their blood test.
That's a sign that they have some gallbladder issues. And
getting the gallbladder solved oftentimes solves the gard. Sugar, tea,
tomatoes and tomato products, and then you want to also
(18:41):
avoid carbonated drinks. And then the big thing with a
sugar is I always love to talk about fiber, you know,
and fiber is the good guys, So high fiber diet
actually helps girt out a lot. Yeah, low sugar, high fiber. Yeah, right,
So those are the big things the foods that you
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want to avoid with gourd.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Okay, so what foods help with gird symptoms?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
A big things with gourd is again what I talked
about was fiber, and then some of the other things
that are really good along those lines is cabbage and
green vegetables. Cabbage has the highest concentrate of something we
call vitamin you vitamin vitamin I know, methyl methiony is
(19:32):
also another name for that, and that's something that they
sell in tablets, but cabbage is basically the root.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Of that, So that's the vitamin U.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That's the vitamin U. So cabbage is excellent for healing
up goerd and healing up the stomach. So that's one
of the big things that you're looking for on that
to kind of get that under control. Also, one thing
that has been shown to help that out is the
juice of potatoes, So a juice potato actually also is
(20:03):
something that helps out with kurt. And the best way
to take cabbage is to have cabbage juice. And they
found that cabbage juice, if you drink that down, that
the healing rate on the cabbage juice was every bit
actually a little bit better than any of the healing
on going on the pharmaceuticals. So excellent, excellent type of
(20:27):
product cabbage. So if people don't want to do that.
We do also sell pills and have some supplements that
we do it for you in other words, get more concentrated.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
If concentrated cabbage.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yes, yes, So that's one of the big things along
those lines.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And then licorice.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I like licorice.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, licorice has been shown to be one of the
best types of.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Product about licorice, black licorice.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
So licorice is one of the very best things that
you should take. And one of the things that you
should avoid at all costs that I really want to
emphasize is peppermint.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And spearmint to avoid them. To avoid them if you
have gourd.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Now, one of the things is that if you don't
have gourd and you take peppermint and spearmint, it kind
of settles the stomach. But if you do have gourd
and you took peppermint or spearmint, it kicks it up
really really badly. So no peppermint, no spearmint. That's like
a big, big no no. And then liquorice root. Now,
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one of the things that you have to watch out
for with liquorice root is it lowers potassium levels, so
you can get too low of potassium if you take
too much liquorice root. But they do have a form
of licorice root that has that portion out of it.
They shorten it to DGL and its acid is removed,
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so it's been taken out of it. With that in
which we sell in the office quite a bit for
our guard patients with really really good results, is we
get that into their system and that helps out.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And then the other thing.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Is actually stomach stomach what stomach eating stomach eating stomach? Oh,
from an animal, yes.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Not a human right, but we have glandular Stomach's one
thing that we sell. And to understand what goes on.
The hydrochloric acid is made by a cell in the
stomach called the priidal cells, and the priidal cells actually
make two different things. They make the hydrochloric acid, well,
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they actually make a couple of things. They make the
hydrochloric acid and then they also make the mucous lining
in the stomach, so no one really has too much
acid in their stomach. What happens is the pridal cells
have been damaged and the mucous lining in the stomach
has gone down, and so the feeling of the hydrochloric acid,
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it starts to become an issue for the stomach. So
the same thing that makes the protection also makes the
hydrochloric acid. So if you damage the priidal cells, then
that's one of the things that kicks up Kurt. So
if you take glandular stomach into which we sell at
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our office because most people aren't going to eat stomach.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Is it called that though, stomach?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, we actually call it stomach, and it's glandular stomach,
and it goes in there and it heals up the
pridal cells, and as it does that, then you get
a full relief on your entire health.
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Okay, when we come back, let's talk more about the treatment.
Let's talk about herbals and vitamins. When we come back,
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who was covered from head to toe in excellent. They
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and he had had that since birth. And they had
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that he had parasites which they had never tested for
that right, And I said, now we're going to have
to kill these parasites and he's going to get worse
before he gets better because the toxins of the parasites
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Help with doctor Robert Pranther of Holistic Integration. Where we
get to the root cause of your health.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Is year.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well, we're talking today about God so we're talking about
the structure function approach to treatment of God, and we're
talking about foods to avoid and foods that help. Let's
talk about herbels, what rbals are helpful for God.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
We talked about licorice root, how helpful that was. And
in the form of the DGL where we have taken
out the portion that lowers the potassium level. Right, So
that's a really great way. But one of my favorites
is bill Berry.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Bill Berry.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Bill Berry.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
It has been shown to increase the gastric mucus without
raising up the hydrochloric app so one of the things
as you heal up the pridal cells, sometimes you can
get the hydrochloric acid healing quicker than the mucous lining
of the stomach. But bill Berry seems to really stimulate
the stomach the pridal cells to really kick up the
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mucosal lining, which is really really good and the results
are really quite amazing that they've been able to see.
It's probably one of the very best things that you
can take to get GERD under control and actually get
to the root of the problem and actually heal its.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Where we're talking about we carry at the office in
our natural pharmacy.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
So bill Berry is fantastic papaya. You can eat that
or put that into a supplement form and that is
very good. Yeah, very very excellent. Along those lines, Alvira
has also been proven to be extremely helpful. So one
of the things we have is different forms of alivier
that you can take. Alivira in a pure form can
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cause diarrhea, so we have a model alo here that
doesn't cause diarrhesse, but if you're constipated, we have super aloe,
which actually is a very concentrated aloe that really makes
you go. It works better than almost anything in the
entire world on making you go. But we also have
one that doesn't that's very good for healing up gourd catnip.
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You can take that in a herbal tea, but very
very good for gird Fenel is also excellent for gourd, ginger,
marshmallow roots, and then apple cider vinegar.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
We've been hearing a lot about that.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yes, and that can give you some immediate relief. So
if you're having an attack of good, instead of popping
a thumbs or alkacelser or something like that, you can
just take some apple side of vinegar and you can
get some immediate relief that way.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Is it best just to take that straight?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well, you can, but it's only like a tablespoon, so
you don't need very much.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Okay, but you can put.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
That tablespoon and some type of liquid and take it down.
Especially water is very helpful.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Okay, great, So we've talked about herbals. What about vitamins.
What vitamins are helpful for? God?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Vitamins have been shown to be very very important for gourd,
and vitamin deficiencies are one of the things that can
kick off gourd. Some of the vitamins that are known
to be low in people with gourd is vitamin A,
vitamin B six, vitamin C, and vitamin E.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Those are the ones that people are lower on on.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Lower on vitamin U, which we talked about is something
that is also low.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And then also glutathion.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
One of the things that really kicks up gourd is
free radical pathology. Free radicals are when the oxidative process
is going on and then you've got free electrons that
hit so free radicals can kick up cardiovascular disease. Also,
cancer very well linked to that, but it's also very
well linked to gourd because the free radicals damage the
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priidal cells, which causes a shift in how the stomach
is actually working. And the pridal cells are very sensitive
to free radicals. So the vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E,
and the gluedithion work directly on the free radicals and
can get some very good results. Some of the minerals
that are involved with gourd, a bismuth is absolutely excellent.
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One of the things is that God can be kicked
off by bacterial infections. Camplobacter Heliobacter are some of the
bacterial infections that can be underlying cause along those lines,
and we can do tests for that, so we can
do tests to see if you have that. And so bismuth.
You've heard of pepto bismo. The whole idea behind pepto
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bismo was for gourd, and they added the bismuth was
one of the things that they added into it. And
so the bismuth on that is to kill the heliobacter
in Camplobacter, it's one of the best things for that.
And it's pink and it's pink and then other things
that can be important along those lines are some of
the other minerals calcium, magnesium, and zinc can really play
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a very big role. If you are low on those,
then that can actually kick it up, especially zinc zinc deficiencies.
The pridle cells are extremely dependent upon high levels of
zinc to function. If you go low on zinc, which
is the most common mineral that you go low on,
then the pridle cells stop functioning as well, and then
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you start to get a decrease in the mucus lining.
So getting the zinc levels up is probably one of
the more common nutritional things that we do for gird
and find some really really good results along those lines.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
And then the calcium.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
If you use a calcium carbonate that's what they put
in the peptobismal, it works better than any of the
over the counter medicines. So calcium carbonate along with some
apple cider vinegar, if you combine those two, you can
get much much better temporary leaf than if you were
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taking some over the counter medicines without any negative side effects.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
So those are all, yeah, that's important without those side effects.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Right, and then the fatty acids Omega three and omega
six are also shown to be extremely important.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
What about what role does food allergies play in gourd?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Food allergies?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Every structure function office should be testing for food allergies
for gourd because that can be an underlying issue. And
if you can identify with the food allergies, that puts
a much less stress on the gut, on the stomach,
because the stomach will react if you're allergic to it.
And really it has been for many of our patients
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one of the big factors on getting GIRD under control.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
So we're talking about structure function care more of a
natural approach. Also, I know in chiropractic adjustments you're able
to adjust that highl hernia. So how does chiropractic adjustments
help gird?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
First off, as you said, there is a almost every
chiropractor has learned how to adjust a heidle hernia and
we are really good at that. And we got a
lot of people who come in say, my gird's acting up.
I need you to drop my turning it down because
I can feel it up. Most people can actually, once
they get used to it, can tell when it's popped up. Yes,
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And so we do the adjustment on that and people go, oh,
I feel.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
So much better.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Relief and just a big relief, and then as you
can drop that down, then you can really get quite
a bit. But then also the cervical spine and the
thoracic spine also can go into a misalignment and cause
damage to some of the nerves going to the stuff,
which can kick up gourd symptoms. I've had a patient
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who came in and their vegas nerve was under stress,
and they were also having heart palpitations, And they actually
came into our office for heart palpitations and then we
were talking to them and they also had gird symptoms.
So we did a neurological test on them and found
out that their vegas nerve was under extreme stress. So
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I did a check on their neck and extreme pain.
You know, that's not why they came in. They came
into a chiropractor for heart palpitations and talked about the gurd,
but they didn't think there was anything that could be
done for the neck. So we checked that, saw that
there was a real problem. Did the adjustment, and immediately
they said, you know, one they could tell a big difference.
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But immediately they said, wow, I can feel a difference
in my heartburn.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
M interesting and that's in a cervicle. The neck and
the upper.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Specifically has the biggest effect on the vegas nerve, and
if the vegas nerve isn't working right, then the stomach
isn't going to work right. Also, the heart knew that
there were several things that were being affected, so looking
at the nervous system. One of the things that we
talk about chiropractic and the importance of chiropractic is that
chiropractic isn't the bones. Everybody says, well, you're fixing the bones. No,
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we're actually fixing the nervous system. And the nervous system
controls everything, so you have to make sure that your
nervous system is working correctly and that could be a
big factor.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
In the GIRD.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
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Speaker 5 (39:16):
What role does gallbladder play in weight loss?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
You're not going to get the weight loss if you
don't have your gallbatter working night, if you are backed
up on your gallbladder. The toxins from the fats because
basically that's what goes into fat as toxins. It stores
it in fat cells and you start losing weight. All
those toxins go to the liver to be processed. If
the liver and the gallbladder, because it has to be
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both of those can't handle it, the body says, okay,
no more weight loss. I don't care what you do.
I don't care if you starve yourself. I'm not going
to put any more toxins into that poor liver. It
can't handle it. There's a swelling that occurs when that
gallbladder hits and if you're looking at your tummy saying
the more that I diet, the bigger you get, which
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can actually happen unless you know what to do with it.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
So what could be indicated by a loss of hair
on the eyebrow.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Gall bladder disease. Usually more women than men that they've
lost the hair along the eyebrow, and that is a
sign of gallbladder disease.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
I thought it was just aging and it's not.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Actually, oftentimes we get somebody's gallbladder working again. My eyebrows
grew back.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
So what other signs that could indicate gallbladder issues.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Very common thing that people come in with is I've
got right scalpula plaine T four through T eight. The
thoracics actually will go flat and then shift over to
the right, and then the rhomboid muscle over on the
right scalpula will go into spasm when the gallbladder actually
becomes a problem, and you do that adjustment and people
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get immediate digestion relief. If you just work with the
gallbladder itself, you're not going to get that immediate relief
unless you get that adjustment. That's one of the things
that differentiates just from a lot of functional doctors as
we do both the structure and the functional. As I've
told many of my functional comrades, you need to get
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a good chiropractor in there to get the structural portion,
because you'll see your results increase by at least fifty percent.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Oh, I don't like this next one. What effect does
coffee have then the gall bladder?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Oh no, that's actually that's actually a good one because
now if you're having like a gallbladder attack at that time,
like you're really in pain, don't drink any coffee because
what the coffee does is it causes the gallbladder to squeeze,
So you don't want to take the coffee at that time.
But regular use of coffee, what it does is it
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stimulates the gallbladder to squeeze and it helps to eliminate it.
So they find actually having a moderate amount of coffee
is protective for gallbladder issues.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
I wasn't expecting you to say that.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Surprisingly, as long as you're not in a gallbladder attack situation,
don't drink it because squeezing the gallbladder at that time
isn't going to be good. But basically coffee is helpful.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
So this one interests me. Buckwheat Is buckwheat helpful for
the gall bladder?
Speaker 3 (42:10):
One thing is you replace the buckwheat for wheat, and
so you cut down on the allergies. Buckwheat's also high
in fiber. Putting buckwheat into your diet buckwheat pancakes, Chinese Koreans,
and Japanese buckwheat noodles.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
It's a really big thing.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
But buckwheat seems to have a healing power on the gallbladder.
And if you know, people say, well, what do I
replace wheat with buckwheat? Buckwheat seems to be a magic formula,
magic food for the gallbladder. I actually really love buckwheat,
the taste of it. M buckwheat pancakes. I would take
that over a regular pancake any day.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
What role does acupuncture play and helping the gall bladder naturally.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
I have people with a cute gallbladder where things are
really serious and I go in there and hit a
gallbladder point and we can get again immediate relief. So
for the acute cases, usually people will leave without gallbladder pain.
Acupuncture is one of the critical aspects I tell people,
you know, they say, I just want the nutritional my gallbladder.
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I don't want to do the chiropractical accupuncture. I said,
you're not going to get the same results, and so
I said, okay, let's just do a quick session on
that and show you and you don't have to pay
me a few and they always do because it's like,
oh that.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
That was immediate, take care of it.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Yeah, I mean it's not taking care of it because
you also have to do the supplements and all that
type of thing. Yeah, but that but yeah, the pain's gone.
So acupuncture absolutely critical.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
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listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert Prather
of Holistic Integration, where our mission is restoring hope to
our patients. Well, we're talking about GOURD today and GIRD
stands for again.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Castro esophageal reflux.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
That's a test. Yes, I liked I like saying that.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
I know, I know, it's kind of an interesting huh.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
And it's much more than burping.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
It is.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
So we were talking about the structure function approach and
what we do for GIRD and help. So we were
talking about how chiropractic adjustments help. Let's talk about what
role acupuncture plays and helping gird.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Oh, that is a real big, key area.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
We had several patients who we were having you know
that really it was the acupuncture that they could tell
immediately the difference on the gird and so one they
could tell that that night that they didn't have the
reflux at all, right after the acupuncture and when they
had that scoped again to see how it's doing, really
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really got the healing up. So some people with the acupuncture,
you can get some really really amazing results with Kurt
and people ask, well, how does that work? You know,
how does acupuncture work? And acupuncture works through the electromagnetic
energy the body, and the electromagnetic energy is involved in healing.
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So if you would have a cut and you put
acupuncture needles around it, the cut will heal twice as
fast and without a scar. And you can even have
an old surgical scar or injury scar and it could
be there twenty years and you can put needles in
it and the scar will disappear.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
So what acupuncture does is you can hit different points
and stimulate a healing that it would normally not occur
and we can direct it to anything in the internal area.
A matter of fact, acupuncture has been proved to be
more effective for infertility than even IVF treatments in virtuo
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fertilization for pregnancy, so it's an excellent tool to really
speed up healing and to improve the symptoms of the
body and for gird It's one of the things that
have been proven to be extremely effective.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
And I know we've helped many a women get pregnant
using acupunction acupuncture.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
That's a good way, YEA good to have that.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Well, let's talk about diathermy. In fact, there was a
patient this week came into our office because of our
show on gullbladder and started diathermy. I think she had
even just one treatment on treatment with the diathermy unit.
Tell us more about that, because she's had some great
results after that.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
For surely, she was having some pains and we were
putting around some supplements and it takes a while for
that to work, and she was needing some immediate relief.
So we recommended diathermy for her, put her on that
and after she got done one, she felt immediately better.
But then also she passed a whole bunch of gallstones.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
Yeah, very very effective and something that we use quite
a bit for our gird patients. And people really say, wow,
that makes an amazing difference.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
And how does the diathermy work.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Again, the diathermy works through a magnet and it increases
blood flow and lymphatic flow and anything that works better
along those lines. Then it really really helps that. So
what it does is it gets the liver detoxing because
it increases circulation, and it also helps to get the
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gallbladder because the gallbladder opens its up and relaxes with
the magnets, and then it helps to push that through.
So healing, increase and function, all those types of things
are absolutely wonderful with a diathermic. People just swear by it.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Yeah, I love doing my diathermy.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
I yes, I actually if I start to get some
a little bit of liver tenderness, I get right on
that diathermy because I know I need to get that
detox and get that moving.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yeah, and it opens up that congestion. Well, let's talk
about lifestyle changes that help gird symptoms.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
One of the things is that you need to lose weight.
People who are obese are much much more likely to
have GURD issues, so getting your weight down is extremely
important for that. Quit smoking. Smoking is one of the
things that can kick up gourd because of the free
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radical pathology. Remember we talked about that, right, So.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
That increases the free radicals exactly.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
So smoking is a real big no no really, if
you have GURD, if you cut out all alcohol, you're
much much better off. Matter of fact, too much alcohol
lowers many of the vitamins and minerals in the body,
which are exactly in correlation to developing GIRD. Lowers your
vitamin A, it lowers your vitamin B six, lowers your
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vitamin C, its lowers your glutathion, it increases your free radicals.
So alcohol can be a real big issue along those lines.
So getting that under control. One of the things is
how you sleep. So some of the things that you
can do is lay down on your left side left
side instead of on your back.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
That helps a lot of people with GIRD issues.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Why is that.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Because of where your stomach is, it keeps it from
popping back up, so it kind of it helps to
drain and keep the contents of your stomach instead of
up towards the top down towards the bottom.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
So you're saying that's sleeping on your left side. And
I know when I was pregnant, I hear this from
pregnant women. They do better on their left side. If
that's part of that, that.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Is exactly one of the big reasons because it takes
the pressure off the stomach. And then the other thing
is that you might have to sleep on an incline.
Bet so that would be another thing that you need
to do. Exercise. Exercise is a very important part. If
you can get some regular exercise, that helps everything to
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work better. So getting your daily exercise, doing you aerobic exercise,
you're anaerobic.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
Well, I'm sure poor posture because you're pushing down in
that diaphragm.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
And yeah, exactly exactly one of the whole things with
the forward head tilt, just getting in that position, you
can feel that that puts more pressure on the stomach.
You want to wear looser clothing. You don't want real
tight clothes right around there that can actually kick that
up too.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
So no more girdles.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yeah, girdles are really there. Bred Yeah, you know exactly
what I was thinking. Yes, girdles and girds go together.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Well, let's talk about diagnostic tests. What diagnostic tests should
be done.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
For gird well.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Good thorough blood tests find out if we have some
liver problems, some issues along those lines gallbladder, those show
up all in the blood test, so that we know
where we should be concentrating on because the blood tests
can show all that up. Stoolkit is also excellent along
those lines where we find out on the GI because
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that shows up how you're absorbing your food, tells us
if you have two high fatty material then your gallbladder's
not working correctly.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
It shows up.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
You can even tell how your hydrochloric acid is, how
your pancreas is working. All those types of things can
influence that. So blood work, GI stoolkit hair analysis is
important because it shows up the minerals and how they're
balancing out the system. So that is a very important
aspect of checking. And then also we send out people
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to the GI specialists because we want to get and
have them go down the throat find out exactly what's
going on and see if the esophagus is actually doing
okay and how far the burning has occurred. Also getting
the samples make sure there's no barretts that's developing. So
the normal the barrets, that's the abnormal cells on the esophagus.
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It could could be precancerous, so checking to see if
that's going on. So the normal diagnostics along those lines
along with the structure function diagnostics, making sure that we've
got all that under control. You also might need to
do some neurological checks. One of the things that we
can have some indications is if the vagus nerve is
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an issue, we can test on that, find out and
then get that under control. You also might need to
do some tests to find out if you have some
bacterial infections in the stomach. So the hpylori and the
canflow vecter tests can also be very important tests too.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
So GURUD is not something, I mean something to take seriously.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
Yes, one of the things that you can develop is
if the stomach's not working correctly, then that can create
food allergies which can lead to autoimmune diseases. And then
also you can start to develop some pernicious anemia oh
over long term, yes, which is something that can lead
to a lot of health issues, including cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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So we need to In other words, you're not supposed
to be kicking up bile and hydrochloric acid into your esophagus, okay,
and you need to take care of it.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
So doctor, pray through. We have about thirty seconds. I
want to just make sure you get to say how
you want to wrap up on this gird.
Speaker 3 (53:43):
Certainly most people don't seek help for the gourd. There
is answers, and when people have tried, there hasn't really
been some good answers, but there are so seeking a
good structure function doctor for your girt, and get some
answers and get that fixed.
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Okay, very informative. I learn more about gird.
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Than than you ever wanted to know.
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Hi, I'm Lisa Praither and welcome to the Voice of
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to healthcare. We're talking today about GIRD, the subject of gourd.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
That just sounds terrible.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
When I told some of that we were doing a
show on GIRD. Well, what is God?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
God stands for gastro esophageal reflux.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, so it's g e r D and we just
say GIRD.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We say God is the easiest way instead of saying
gastro esophageal reflux.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It doesn't quite have the same thing GERD.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Just kind of like, uh, yeah, GIRD doesn't sound pretty.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
No, no, and it's not. Yeah, And if you think
about what that means, is it the word kind of
self explains it. So your stomach, gastro it's with that esophagus,
So your stomach content goes up your esophagus and it
refluxes it kind of like burps out.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I was yeah, just kind of giving some real illustrations
along those lines, just to kind of get that feel
of what that feels like.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm just thinking I haven't you don't burnt much?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No, okay, I try to keep my stomach healthy.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yes, you do. Well, what are the symptoms of gird.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, it's the heartburn, so you got that burning sensation.
That burning sensation is the acid that's going along the
esophagus because you're not supposed to have acid up there, okay,
and it can even go all the way up to
I was just talking to a patient who came in
for gard. Women are more commonly haveit than men.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Really, yeah, men?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Women?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They don't have quite the stomach musculature that men do,
so it's much easier. Oh and pregnancy kind of pregnancy
kind of ruins a lot of things in your body.
And there was kind of a pushing up on the study.
It's all worth it, Yeah, that's what she keeps saying.
It is, I know, but women are more likely to
(02:19):
get it than men. But thirty percent of everyone gets
GIRD in America, so it's a very common type of problem.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So when do you know you have gurn?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, I still explaining the suthing.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Okay, I'll let you do that, right, but it.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Comes up and I sent her in to get her scoped,
you know, because of their symptoms. Yes, and they went
down and she had lesions on her larynx and her esophagus.
So it had gone all the way up to the
vocal cords, the burning on the hydrochloric acid, and then
all along the esophagus.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And you said she burned her vocal cords all.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The way up to the vocal cords, and the vocal
cords were damaged.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So does it burn because of the acid?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The acid?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What you're doing is you're putting acid up through the
esophagus where it's not really supposed to be going. So
that's what they talk about the heartburn. You can have
sort of like a feeling of a lump in the throat.
You can get the bial or hydrochloric acid taste up
in your mouth, you can have difficulty swallowing because you've
(03:18):
damaged the larynx, and then you can Sometimes it's not
as bad if you've got it during the day, but
if you start getting it at night, then you can
really get into some problems. So it could be worse
at night, and that's more advanced gird. That's when you
don't have things in your stomach, but you're still having
the hydrochloric acid coming up. So it's coming up at
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a continual type of basis.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And why is it worse Why it's gird worse at nighttime?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, it's more dangerous because it can not only one,
you're not up, you're laying down, so it goes up higher.
It can set in the esophagus longer, and then it
can also go into the lungs and start to burn
the lungs and then you can start to have it
could become a lot more dangerous at that point.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, So this, I mean, this is a serious problem.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yes, all people, a serious problem.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So what are the main causes of gourd?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, there is a lot of different speculations, but just
you know, and there's a lot of things that can
kick it off. But what happens is your stomach. You
have a sphincter, lower esophageal sphincter that keeps the stomach
content from going back up into the esophagus. So it's
supposed to be a one way trip down and then
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not be able to come back up. But the sphincter
can become weakened through a lot of things. It can
be nutrition, it could be injury. One of the things
that kicks off that's very common is something called a
hyatal hernia. That's where your stomach goes up through the diaphragm.
And when it goes up through the diaphragm, then it
(04:55):
can have sort of a bulge there and it can
squeeze the stomach and cause it the content to go
through the sphincter. And then the sphincter is supposed to
be below the diaphragm, not above the diaphragm. If it's
above the diaphgm, then it stretches out. It's like, oh,
you've got the end of a balloon and there's a
little constriction on that. If you bring it up and
(05:16):
put pressure on it, then that opening actually opens and
kind of stretches out. So hidel hernias are a big
cause of that. Also, one of the things that we
find is gallbladder disease coolycystitis inflammation in the gallbladder and
bile material can go over into the stomach. And if
(05:36):
it does that, in other words, if you're getting things
that aren't supposed to be in the different places. So
if you get bile over the stomach, stomach goes into
spasm and then you start to get the hydrochloric in
some of the bile coming up into the esophagus, and
then you start to get some burning because it's not
supposed to be there. So things are getting into the
wrong place at the wrong time, and things don't work
(06:00):
well when that's going in the wrong direction, going in
the wrong direction. It's supposed to be going down, not up,
uh huh.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So you're seeing the hyadal hernia is.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
One of the things that really kicks that off if
you have the and that's one of the reasons women
have a more likely chance of having it because they
don't have as big of a muscle of a diaphragm
as men. So and then also pregnancy has a tendency
to push the stomach up because there's a real and
(06:29):
can kind of open up that little diaphragmatic opening that
the esophagus goes through.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Does it help to strengthen that diaphragm.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It does, It does get through the deep breathing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Also, if you have shallow breathing where you're not using
your diaphragm muscle and keeping that strengthened up. So if
you're not using it, you start to lose it and
the diaphragm starts to become weaker, and then it's much
easier to develop the heidle hernia.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, and I know you had just the Heytle hernia,
and we're going to talk about tree. Sure, not yet,
but now is gurd dangerous?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Gurd is dangerous. There are we talked about one thing.
If that gets into the lungs, it can kick off
infections and other issues. But also the burning into the
esophagus can cause something called Barret's esophagitis, where it destroys
the cell lining and then the cells that grow in
place are not the same. There's more smaller cells, they're
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not the strong epithelial cells. Esophagus is going to should
develop that can develop into esophageal cancer. So it is
something there more and more about, right that can develop
into a cancer. And also if it's coming up at night,
it can cause some lung disease.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So when should a person seek medical help.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You should start to seek medical help when you start
to have this on a continual basis. Now, there are
over the counter types of medicines that you can do
control it, but one of the things is oftentimes they
can make it worse. So it can solve the symptoms
immediately but actually make it worse long term. So if
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it's a continual type of thing, you should go on
ahead and seek some help. So if you have you know,
more than three times a week, and then if you
have it for longer than six weeks, you should seek
professional help.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's like a long time.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, if that goes on, then you're going to need
some type of help to get that under control, because
it's not going to get on. In other words, it's
not going to get better at that point.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You're saying three times a week up to six weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Up to six weeks, well, yes, now I would probably
seek help sooner, right, But then it's according to all
the literature, that's when they said, hey, you've got something
that is a disease process. It's not a temporary type
of thing. It's not something that you ate wrong. This
is a continual process that's going to eventually cause some
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problems and you need to seek some professor help.
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Speaker 1 (13:36):
Well, we're talking today about GOURD and GIRD again stands
for gasroesophageal reflux. Okay, g e r D. And let's
talk about structure function care. How effective is that for GIRD?
That type of care very good.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And one of the things that I always like to
do is differentiate between disease care and structure function care
so people have a good understanding. When you're dealing with
a disease care model for the god, you're usually thinking
about pharmaceuticals. There are surgical cases that you know that
they do do, but everybody says that should be a
(14:13):
last resort. But pharmaceutically, it's one of the most popular
pharmaceuticals out there is for Yeah. In other words, it's
a really big seller, and pharmaceutical companies make a ton
of money billions.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I haven't seen that commercial yet for the pharmaceuticals for gourd.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Well, when you're talking about god, you're talking about tagament, pepsid,
and xantec. Those types of drugs are very very common
along those lines, and those are huge sellers. So what
they do is they advertise for you know.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
For heartburn.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Okay, okay, so but yes, there are very big sellers
and disease care. What you're trying to do is to
help with the symptoms. The idea on taking a pharmaceutical
for the gourd is you want to get it under
control because what they do is they suppress the hydrochloric
(15:13):
acid production. And when you suppress the hydrochloric acid production,
it gives your hopefully your esophagus a chance to heal.
So the ulcers are cleared up, and then you go
off of it, and then the gourd doesn't continue, and
then you get better, So that's the idea behind it. However,
you can't stay on those very long because they damage
(15:35):
the stomach over a period of time, and over a
period of time makes it there's more damage to the
stomach than there was before and you get more gourd.
So it helps with the symptoms but makes the problem worse.
So what we're trying to do with structure function care
is you try to get to the underlying cause. So
(15:57):
with disease care, you're not interested in the cause. You're
interest in getting the symptoms under control for a short
period of time so that you can heal up and
hopefully just get over it. So that's the disease care model.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
With gourd. With the structure function what.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
We're doing is we're trying to find out why the
gourd has occurred in the first place, solve the problem
so that you don't have the issue. One of the
things that is very true if I was to take
the pharmaceuticals and I have absolutely no gourd and took
it for six weeks and then tried to well, actually,
(16:33):
if I took it longer than six weeks, six weeks
is about the max you should ever take any of
those pharmaceuticals that's it. After that it starts to cause damage.
And if I took it for like three months and
tried to go off of any of those medicines, even
though I'd never had a problem before, I would have gourd.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So it doesn't sound like that is a.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Good permanent solution.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You can do pharmaceuticals over the counter and then also
prescription and if it's a temporary problem and you're good,
then great. But you're only supposed to be on a
pharmaceutical for four to six weeks, and then after that
you are supposed to be off of it because the
problems outweigh the benefits at that point. Okay, So what
(17:20):
we do with structure function we actually try to fix
the problem and get to the root.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Of the cause.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Okay, well, let's talk about what foods should be avoided
with gourd ah.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
And one of the things that you want to do
is you want to eat at early dinner because you
do not want to be eating late because again, when
you're laying down, it makes it much much worse. So
you should at least eat about five or six if
you're going about four hours before you go to bed.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So that's about four hours before you go to bed.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Now, the things that kick up gourd is alcohol, chocolate, coffee,
and especially decaffeinated coffee, faty meals. And the reason faty
meals are a big problem is because it stimulates the gallbladder. Remember,
the gallbladder is one of the things that can kick
off girt. So faty meals, milk, orange juice, spicy foods
(18:17):
also is something that stimulates GIRT. And all those things
stimulate the gallbladder. So one of the things we oftentimes
find with people is high bilirubin levels in their blood test.
That's a sign that they have some gallbladder issues. And
getting the gallbladder solved oftentimes solves the gard. Sugar, tea,
tomatoes and tomato products, and then you want to also
(18:41):
avoid carbonated drinks. And then the big thing with a
sugar is I always love to talk about fiber, you know,
and fiber is the good guys, So high fiber diet
actually helps girt out a lot. Yeah, low sugar, high fiber. Yeah, right,
So those are the big things the foods that you
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want to avoid with gourd.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Okay, so what foods help with gird symptoms?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
A big things with gourd is again what I talked
about was fiber, and then some of the other things
that are really good along those lines is cabbage and
green vegetables. Cabbage has the highest concentrate of something we
call vitamin you vitamin vitamin I know, methyl methiony is
(19:32):
also another name for that, and that's something that they
sell in tablets, but cabbage is basically the root.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Of that, So that's the vitamin U.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That's the vitamin U. So cabbage is excellent for healing
up goerd and healing up the stomach. So that's one
of the big things that you're looking for on that
to kind of get that under control. Also, one thing
that has been shown to help that out is the
juice of potatoes, So a juice potato actually also is
(20:03):
something that helps out with kurt. And the best way
to take cabbage is to have cabbage juice. And they
found that cabbage juice, if you drink that down, that
the healing rate on the cabbage juice was every bit
actually a little bit better than any of the healing
on going on the pharmaceuticals. So excellent, excellent type of
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product cabbage. So if people don't want to do that.
We do also sell pills and have some supplements that
we do it for you in other words, get more concentrated.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
If concentrated cabbage.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yes, yes, So that's one of the big things along
those lines.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And then licorice.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I like licorice.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, licorice has been shown to be one of the
best types of.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Product about licorice, black licorice.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
So licorice is one of the very best things that
you should take. And one of the things that you
should avoid at all costs that I really want to
emphasize is peppermint.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
And spearmint to avoid them. To avoid them if you
have gourd.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Now, one of the things is that if you don't
have gourd and you take peppermint and spearmint, it kind
of settles the stomach. But if you do have gourd
and you took peppermint or spearmint, it kicks it up
really really badly. So no peppermint, no spearmint. That's like
a big, big no no. And then liquorice root. Now,
(21:33):
one of the things that you have to watch out
for with liquorice root is it lowers potassium levels, so
you can get too low of potassium if you take
too much liquorice root. But they do have a form
of licorice root that has that portion out of it.
They shorten it to DGL and its acid is removed,
(21:55):
so it's been taken out of it. With that in
which we sell in the office quite a bit for
our guard patients with really really good results, is we
get that into their system and that helps out.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And then the other thing.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Is actually stomach stomach what stomach eating stomach eating stomach? Oh,
from an animal, yes.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Not a human right, but we have glandular Stomach's one
thing that we sell. And to understand what goes on.
The hydrochloric acid is made by a cell in the
stomach called the priidal cells, and the priidal cells actually
make two different things. They make the hydrochloric acid, well,
(22:38):
they actually make a couple of things. They make the
hydrochloric acid and then they also make the mucous lining
in the stomach, so no one really has too much
acid in their stomach. What happens is the pridal cells
have been damaged and the mucous lining in the stomach
has gone down, and so the feeling of the hydrochloric acid,
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it starts to become an issue for the stomach. So
the same thing that makes the protection also makes the
hydrochloric acid. So if you damage the priidal cells, then
that's one of the things that kicks up Kurt. So
if you take glandular stomach into which we sell at
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our office because most people aren't going to eat stomach.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Is it called that though, stomach?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, we actually call it stomach, and it's glandular stomach,
and it goes in there and it heals up the
pridal cells, and as it does that, then you get
a full relief on your entire health.
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to come. We took a look at him, We did
the diagnostics, We did a stool sample and found out
that he had parasites which they had never tested for
that right, And I said, now we're going to have
to kill these parasites and he's going to get worse
before he gets better because the toxins of the parasites
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were going to be released. And so I said, hang
with me. But in six months we had him absolutely
clear and he never got excellent again.
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I'm Lisa Pther, and you're listening to the Voice of
Help with doctor Robert Pranther of Holistic Integration. Where we
get to the root cause of your health.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Is year.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well, we're talking today about God so we're talking about
the structure function approach to treatment of God, and we're
talking about foods to avoid and foods that help. Let's
talk about herbels, what rbals are helpful for God.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
We talked about licorice root, how helpful that was. And
in the form of the DGL where we have taken
out the portion that lowers the potassium level. Right, So
that's a really great way. But one of my favorites
is bill Berry.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Bill Berry.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Bill Berry.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
It has been shown to increase the gastric mucus without
raising up the hydrochloric app so one of the things
as you heal up the pridal cells, sometimes you can
get the hydrochloric acid healing quicker than the mucous lining
of the stomach. But bill Berry seems to really stimulate
the stomach the pridal cells to really kick up the
(30:15):
mucosal lining, which is really really good and the results
are really quite amazing that they've been able to see.
It's probably one of the very best things that you
can take to get GERD under control and actually get
to the root of the problem and actually heal its.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Where we're talking about we carry at the office in
our natural pharmacy.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
So bill Berry is fantastic papaya. You can eat that
or put that into a supplement form and that is
very good. Yeah, very very excellent. Along those lines, Alvira
has also been proven to be extremely helpful. So one
of the things we have is different forms of alivier
that you can take. Alivira in a pure form can
(30:57):
cause diarrhea, so we have a model alo here that
doesn't cause diarrhesse, but if you're constipated, we have super aloe,
which actually is a very concentrated aloe that really makes
you go. It works better than almost anything in the
entire world on making you go. But we also have
one that doesn't that's very good for healing up gourd catnip.
(31:21):
You can take that in a herbal tea, but very
very good for gird Fenel is also excellent for gourd, ginger,
marshmallow roots, and then apple cider vinegar.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
We've been hearing a lot about that.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yes, and that can give you some immediate relief. So
if you're having an attack of good, instead of popping
a thumbs or alkacelser or something like that, you can
just take some apple side of vinegar and you can
get some immediate relief that way.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Is it best just to take that straight?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well, you can, but it's only like a tablespoon, so
you don't need very much.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Okay, but you can put.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
That tablespoon and some type of liquid and take it down.
Especially water is very helpful.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Okay, great, So we've talked about herbals. What about vitamins.
What vitamins are helpful for? God?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Vitamins have been shown to be very very important for gourd,
and vitamin deficiencies are one of the things that can
kick off gourd. Some of the vitamins that are known
to be low in people with gourd is vitamin A,
vitamin B six, vitamin C, and vitamin E.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Those are the ones that people are lower on on.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Lower on vitamin U, which we talked about is something
that is also low.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And then also glutathion.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
One of the things that really kicks up gourd is
free radical pathology. Free radicals are when the oxidative process
is going on and then you've got free electrons that
hit so free radicals can kick up cardiovascular disease. Also,
cancer very well linked to that, but it's also very
well linked to gourd because the free radicals damage the
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priidal cells, which causes a shift in how the stomach
is actually working. And the pridal cells are very sensitive
to free radicals. So the vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E,
and the gluedithion work directly on the free radicals and
can get some very good results. Some of the minerals
that are involved with gourd, a bismuth is absolutely excellent.
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One of the things is that God can be kicked
off by bacterial infections. Camplobacter Heliobacter are some of the
bacterial infections that can be underlying cause along those lines,
and we can do tests for that, so we can
do tests to see if you have that. And so bismuth.
You've heard of pepto bismo. The whole idea behind pepto
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bismo was for gourd, and they added the bismuth was
one of the things that they added into it. And
so the bismuth on that is to kill the heliobacter
in Camplobacter, it's one of the best things for that.
And it's pink and it's pink and then other things
that can be important along those lines are some of
the other minerals calcium, magnesium, and zinc can really play
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a very big role. If you are low on those,
then that can actually kick it up, especially zinc zinc deficiencies.
The pridle cells are extremely dependent upon high levels of
zinc to function. If you go low on zinc, which
is the most common mineral that you go low on,
then the pridle cells stop functioning as well, and then
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you start to get a decrease in the mucus lining.
So getting the zinc levels up is probably one of
the more common nutritional things that we do for gird
and find some really really good results along those lines.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
And then the calcium.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
If you use a calcium carbonate that's what they put
in the peptobismal, it works better than any of the
over the counter medicines. So calcium carbonate along with some
apple cider vinegar, if you combine those two, you can
get much much better temporary leaf than if you were
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taking some over the counter medicines without any negative side effects.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
So those are all, yeah, that's important without those side effects.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Right, and then the fatty acids Omega three and omega
six are also shown to be extremely important.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
What about what role does food allergies play in gourd?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Food allergies?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Every structure function office should be testing for food allergies
for gourd because that can be an underlying issue. And
if you can identify with the food allergies, that puts
a much less stress on the gut, on the stomach,
because the stomach will react if you're allergic to it.
And really it has been for many of our patients
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one of the big factors on getting GIRD under control.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
So we're talking about structure function care more of a
natural approach. Also, I know in chiropractic adjustments you're able
to adjust that highl hernia. So how does chiropractic adjustments
help gird?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
First off, as you said, there is a almost every
chiropractor has learned how to adjust a heidle hernia and
we are really good at that. And we got a
lot of people who come in say, my gird's acting up.
I need you to drop my turning it down because
I can feel it up. Most people can actually, once
they get used to it, can tell when it's popped up. Yes,
(36:39):
And so we do the adjustment on that and people go, oh,
I feel.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
So much better.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Relief and just a big relief, and then as you
can drop that down, then you can really get quite
a bit. But then also the cervical spine and the
thoracic spine also can go into a misalignment and cause
damage to some of the nerves going to the stuff,
which can kick up gourd symptoms. I've had a patient
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who came in and their vegas nerve was under stress,
and they were also having heart palpitations, And they actually
came into our office for heart palpitations and then we
were talking to them and they also had gird symptoms.
So we did a neurological test on them and found
out that their vegas nerve was under extreme stress. So
(37:28):
I did a check on their neck and extreme pain.
You know, that's not why they came in. They came
into a chiropractor for heart palpitations and talked about the gurd,
but they didn't think there was anything that could be
done for the neck. So we checked that, saw that
there was a real problem. Did the adjustment, and immediately
they said, you know, one they could tell a big difference.
(37:50):
But immediately they said, wow, I can feel a difference
in my heartburn.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
M interesting and that's in a cervicle. The neck and
the upper.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Specifically has the biggest effect on the vegas nerve, and
if the vegas nerve isn't working right, then the stomach
isn't going to work right. Also, the heart knew that
there were several things that were being affected, so looking
at the nervous system. One of the things that we
talk about chiropractic and the importance of chiropractic is that
chiropractic isn't the bones. Everybody says, well, you're fixing the bones. No,
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we're actually fixing the nervous system. And the nervous system
controls everything, so you have to make sure that your
nervous system is working correctly and that could be a
big factor.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
In the GIRD.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
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Speaker 5 (39:16):
What role does gallbladder play in weight loss?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
You're not going to get the weight loss if you
don't have your gallbatter working night, if you are backed
up on your gallbladder. The toxins from the fats because
basically that's what goes into fat as toxins. It stores
it in fat cells and you start losing weight. All
those toxins go to the liver to be processed. If
the liver and the gallbladder, because it has to be
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both of those can't handle it, the body says, okay,
no more weight loss. I don't care what you do.
I don't care if you starve yourself. I'm not going
to put any more toxins into that poor liver. It
can't handle it. There's a swelling that occurs when that
gallbladder hits and if you're looking at your tummy saying
the more that I diet, the bigger you get, which
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can actually happen unless you know what to do with it.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
So what could be indicated by a loss of hair
on the eyebrow.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Gall bladder disease. Usually more women than men that they've
lost the hair along the eyebrow, and that is a
sign of gallbladder disease.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
I thought it was just aging and it's not.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Actually, oftentimes we get somebody's gallbladder working again. My eyebrows
grew back.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
So what other signs that could indicate gallbladder issues.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Very common thing that people come in with is I've
got right scalpula plaine T four through T eight. The
thoracics actually will go flat and then shift over to
the right, and then the rhomboid muscle over on the
right scalpula will go into spasm when the gallbladder actually
becomes a problem, and you do that adjustment and people
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get immediate digestion relief. If you just work with the
gallbladder itself, you're not going to get that immediate relief
unless you get that adjustment. That's one of the things
that differentiates just from a lot of functional doctors as
we do both the structure and the functional. As I've
told many of my functional comrades, you need to get
(41:08):
a good chiropractor in there to get the structural portion,
because you'll see your results increase by at least fifty percent.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Oh, I don't like this next one. What effect does
coffee have then the gall bladder?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Oh no, that's actually that's actually a good one because
now if you're having like a gallbladder attack at that time,
like you're really in pain, don't drink any coffee because
what the coffee does is it causes the gallbladder to squeeze,
So you don't want to take the coffee at that time.
But regular use of coffee, what it does is it
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stimulates the gallbladder to squeeze and it helps to eliminate it.
So they find actually having a moderate amount of coffee
is protective for gallbladder issues.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
I wasn't expecting you to say that.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Surprisingly, as long as you're not in a gallbladder attack situation,
don't drink it because squeezing the gallbladder at that time
isn't going to be good. But basically coffee is helpful.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
So this one interests me. Buckwheat Is buckwheat helpful for
the gall bladder?
Speaker 3 (42:10):
One thing is you replace the buckwheat for wheat, and
so you cut down on the allergies. Buckwheat's also high
in fiber. Putting buckwheat into your diet buckwheat pancakes, Chinese Koreans,
and Japanese buckwheat noodles.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
It's a really big thing.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
But buckwheat seems to have a healing power on the gallbladder.
And if you know, people say, well, what do I
replace wheat with buckwheat? Buckwheat seems to be a magic formula,
magic food for the gallbladder. I actually really love buckwheat,
the taste of it. M buckwheat pancakes. I would take
that over a regular pancake any day.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
What role does acupuncture play and helping the gall bladder naturally.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
I have people with a cute gallbladder where things are
really serious and I go in there and hit a
gallbladder point and we can get again immediate relief. So
for the acute cases, usually people will leave without gallbladder pain.
Acupuncture is one of the critical aspects I tell people,
you know, they say, I just want the nutritional my gallbladder.
(43:10):
I don't want to do the chiropractical accupuncture. I said,
you're not going to get the same results, and so
I said, okay, let's just do a quick session on
that and show you and you don't have to pay
me a few and they always do because it's like,
oh that.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
That was immediate, take care of it.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Yeah, I mean it's not taking care of it because
you also have to do the supplements and all that
type of thing. Yeah, but that but yeah, the pain's gone.
So acupuncture absolutely critical.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Schedule your appointment at Holistic Integration three one seven eight
four eight eighty forty eight. That's three one seven eight
four eight eighty forty eight, or learn more on our
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listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert Prather
of Holistic Integration, where our mission is restoring hope to
our patients. Well, we're talking about GOURD today and GIRD
stands for again.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Castro esophageal reflux.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
That's a test. Yes, I liked I like saying that.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
I know, I know, it's kind of an interesting huh.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
And it's much more than burping.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
It is.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
So we were talking about the structure function approach and
what we do for GIRD and help. So we were
talking about how chiropractic adjustments help. Let's talk about what
role acupuncture plays and helping gird.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Oh, that is a real big, key area.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
We had several patients who we were having you know
that really it was the acupuncture that they could tell
immediately the difference on the gird and so one they
could tell that that night that they didn't have the
reflux at all, right after the acupuncture and when they
had that scoped again to see how it's doing, really
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really got the healing up. So some people with the acupuncture,
you can get some really really amazing results with Kurt
and people ask, well, how does that work? You know,
how does acupuncture work? And acupuncture works through the electromagnetic
energy the body, and the electromagnetic energy is involved in healing.
(45:32):
So if you would have a cut and you put
acupuncture needles around it, the cut will heal twice as
fast and without a scar. And you can even have
an old surgical scar or injury scar and it could
be there twenty years and you can put needles in
it and the scar will disappear.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
So what acupuncture does is you can hit different points
and stimulate a healing that it would normally not occur
and we can direct it to anything in the internal area.
A matter of fact, acupuncture has been proved to be
more effective for infertility than even IVF treatments in virtuo
(46:13):
fertilization for pregnancy, so it's an excellent tool to really
speed up healing and to improve the symptoms of the
body and for gird It's one of the things that
have been proven to be extremely effective.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
And I know we've helped many a women get pregnant
using acupunction acupuncture.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
That's a good way, YEA good to have that.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Well, let's talk about diathermy. In fact, there was a
patient this week came into our office because of our
show on gullbladder and started diathermy. I think she had
even just one treatment on treatment with the diathermy unit.
Tell us more about that, because she's had some great
results after that.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
For surely, she was having some pains and we were
putting around some supplements and it takes a while for
that to work, and she was needing some immediate relief.
So we recommended diathermy for her, put her on that
and after she got done one, she felt immediately better.
But then also she passed a whole bunch of gallstones.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
Yeah, very very effective and something that we use quite
a bit for our gird patients. And people really say, wow,
that makes an amazing difference.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
And how does the diathermy work.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Again, the diathermy works through a magnet and it increases
blood flow and lymphatic flow and anything that works better
along those lines. Then it really really helps that. So
what it does is it gets the liver detoxing because
it increases circulation, and it also helps to get the
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gallbladder because the gallbladder opens its up and relaxes with
the magnets, and then it helps to push that through.
So healing, increase and function, all those types of things
are absolutely wonderful with a diathermic. People just swear by it.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Yeah, I love doing my diathermy.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
I yes, I actually if I start to get some
a little bit of liver tenderness, I get right on
that diathermy because I know I need to get that
detox and get that moving.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yeah, and it opens up that congestion. Well, let's talk
about lifestyle changes that help gird symptoms.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
One of the things is that you need to lose weight.
People who are obese are much much more likely to
have GURD issues, so getting your weight down is extremely
important for that. Quit smoking. Smoking is one of the
things that can kick up gourd because of the free
(48:47):
radical pathology. Remember we talked about that, right, So.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
That increases the free radicals exactly.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
So smoking is a real big no no really, if
you have GURD, if you cut out all alcohol, you're
much much better off. Matter of fact, too much alcohol
lowers many of the vitamins and minerals in the body,
which are exactly in correlation to developing GIRD. Lowers your
vitamin A, it lowers your vitamin B six, lowers your
(49:15):
vitamin C, its lowers your glutathion, it increases your free radicals.
So alcohol can be a real big issue along those lines.
So getting that under control. One of the things is
how you sleep. So some of the things that you
can do is lay down on your left side left
side instead of on your back.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
That helps a lot of people with GIRD issues.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Why is that.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Because of where your stomach is, it keeps it from
popping back up, so it kind of it helps to
drain and keep the contents of your stomach instead of
up towards the top down towards the bottom.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
So you're saying that's sleeping on your left side. And
I know when I was pregnant, I hear this from
pregnant women. They do better on their left side. If
that's part of that, that.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Is exactly one of the big reasons because it takes
the pressure off the stomach. And then the other thing
is that you might have to sleep on an incline.
Bet so that would be another thing that you need
to do. Exercise. Exercise is a very important part. If
you can get some regular exercise, that helps everything to
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work better. So getting your daily exercise, doing you aerobic exercise,
you're anaerobic.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
Well, I'm sure poor posture because you're pushing down in
that diaphragm.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
And yeah, exactly exactly one of the whole things with
the forward head tilt, just getting in that position, you
can feel that that puts more pressure on the stomach.
You want to wear looser clothing. You don't want real
tight clothes right around there that can actually kick that
up too.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
So no more girdles.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yeah, girdles are really there. Bred Yeah, you know exactly
what I was thinking. Yes, girdles and girds go together.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Well, let's talk about diagnostic tests. What diagnostic tests should
be done.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
For gird well.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Good thorough blood tests find out if we have some
liver problems, some issues along those lines gallbladder, those show
up all in the blood test, so that we know
where we should be concentrating on because the blood tests
can show all that up. Stoolkit is also excellent along
those lines where we find out on the GI because
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that shows up how you're absorbing your food, tells us
if you have two high fatty material then your gallbladder's
not working correctly.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
It shows up.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
You can even tell how your hydrochloric acid is, how
your pancreas is working. All those types of things can
influence that. So blood work, GI stoolkit hair analysis is
important because it shows up the minerals and how they're
balancing out the system. So that is a very important
aspect of checking. And then also we send out people
(51:57):
to the GI specialists because we want to get and
have them go down the throat find out exactly what's
going on and see if the esophagus is actually doing
okay and how far the burning has occurred. Also getting
the samples make sure there's no barretts that's developing. So
the normal the barrets, that's the abnormal cells on the esophagus.
(52:19):
It could could be precancerous, so checking to see if
that's going on. So the normal diagnostics along those lines
along with the structure function diagnostics, making sure that we've
got all that under control. You also might need to
do some neurological checks. One of the things that we
can have some indications is if the vagus nerve is
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an issue, we can test on that, find out and
then get that under control. You also might need to
do some tests to find out if you have some
bacterial infections in the stomach. So the hpylori and the
canflow vecter tests can also be very important tests too.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
So GURUD is not something, I mean something to take seriously.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
Yes, one of the things that you can develop is
if the stomach's not working correctly, then that can create
food allergies which can lead to autoimmune diseases. And then
also you can start to develop some pernicious anemia oh
over long term, yes, which is something that can lead
to a lot of health issues, including cancer and cardiovascular disease.
(53:26):
So we need to In other words, you're not supposed
to be kicking up bile and hydrochloric acid into your esophagus, okay,
and you need to take care of it.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
So doctor, pray through. We have about thirty seconds. I
want to just make sure you get to say how
you want to wrap up on this gird.
Speaker 3 (53:43):
Certainly most people don't seek help for the gourd. There
is answers, and when people have tried, there hasn't really
been some good answers, but there are so seeking a
good structure function doctor for your girt, and get some
answers and get that fixed.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
Okay, very informative. I learn more about gird.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Than than you ever wanted to know.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
Thank you, Thank you, Bye bye. Holistic Integration is located
at eighty nine oh two North Meridian Street on the
north side of Indianapolis, just south of the I four
sixty five loop. If we can help you to achieve
better health, we'd love to hear from you. Connect with
(54:28):
our office at three one seven eight four eight eighty
forty eight. That's three one seven eight four eight eighty
forty eight. Join us again next week or anytime on
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Charlie is America's hardest working grassroots activist who has your inside scoop on the biggest news of the day and what's really going on behind the headlines. The founder of Turning Point USA and one of social media's most engaged personalities, Charlie is on the front lines of America’s culture war, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of students on over 3,500 college and high school campuses across the country, bringing you your daily dose of clarity in a sea of chaos all from his signature no-holds-barred, unapologetically conservative, freedom-loving point of view. You can also watch Charlie Kirk on Salem News Channel