The latest news shows what I've told patients for a long time. If you take medicine to turn off the acid in your stomach it will definitely show up somewhere down the line (so to speak). Now research is showing that the strongest drugs (Prilosec, Nexium, Protonix) cause overgrowth of bacteria in the intestinal tract that can lead to peritonitis and death. So, that goofy guy in the commercial who says he can eat all the barbecue he wants now that he's taking "the little purple pill" may be slowly killing himself. It's bad enough that he's eating food that his body is telling him to avoid, but to take a drug that may produce subtle lethal side effects......... that's just dumb.
Unfortunately that's juts the way people have been encouraged to look at drug treatment. The foods, drink and behaviors that we've been conditioned to "love" are really just thinly veiled addictions that have been created by constant exposure to food additives and flavor enhancers. Can you imagine just how many chemicals we're going to be slugging down if we don't start listening to our body's signals.
