Acid blocking drugs: a good or bad idea?

Ysd blocking drug with a good or bad idea is a bad lifestyle and food choices to meet ? Maybe it is a bad idea , but for this to pharmaceutical companies from advertising or from the U.S. is not going to stop .
Research some of those unresolved anemia , bone loss , depression , impaired detoxification , and other chronic problems may have been looking in the coming decades . Big Pharma ads do not mention it - see you all smiling fat man a plate of BBQ ribs over and takes that drug X has assured us not to worry because
Prescription and over the counter medications acid related upper gastrointestinal disorders have become the mainstay of therapy . As a nutritionist , I raised stomach acid blocking long -term effects to be concerned with . Depending on a low acid environment for absorption of many nutrients . It uses an acid- blocking drug, when I think of the three nutritional areas .

1 Materials - Due acid blocking drugs reduce mineral absorption is well documented and the underlying chemistry support the theory is sound . Freedom of calcium from food and calcium salt dissociation of the complexes are dependent on a low pH .

Long -term proton pump inhibitors for research ( AP) intake increases the risk of hip fracture in elderly women is identified . 13,556 hip fracture cases and 135,386 controls in one study , the risk of hip fracture in patients on long -term high-dose PPIs was increased and increased with duration of treatment . Even after just one year of PPI therapy found significant associations . [ 2-4 ]

Suppression of gastric acid also reduce the intestinal absorption of zinc and other minerals have been shown to . [5 ] zinc enzyme functions and is essential in the breakdown of amino acids . Inadequate mineral absorption results may be important for overall health .


2 Anemia - gastrointestinal blood loss was deleted once in patients with refractory blood loss , intestinal malabsorption to be investigated should be the next area [6 ] acid is essential for dietary iron absorption [7 ] . .

Hypochlorhydria also affects the absorption of vitamin B12 . This protein bound and is released in the presence of acid and pepsin . Thus, the increased pH of the stomach in patients with iron deficiency and anemia megaloblatic both are at risk . If you have a patient with unresolved anemia , they are taking acid blocking medication so do not ask .


3  Amino acid - Finally , acid secretion, protein and lipid digestion facility . Pepsinogen, the most potent protease ( an enzyme that breaks down proteins ) , under acidic conditions below a pH of 4 is activated . If hypochlorhydric patients may have impaired digestion of protein . The study was a decrease in muscle mass just to see if I saw , but modern research looking at the effect of individual amino acid level is low .

tryptophan, tyrosine, and phenylalanine in the blood, the less possible precipitating factor in depression may occur in patients hypochlorhydric . Such as amino acids, proteins and other detoxification functions of the building , it is also important to think about . In patients taking acid- blocking drug , they can get enough nutrients , because instead of a diagnosis of food for these nutrients are advised to test their absorption but not effectively can .

Performing a red blood cell mineral test you can identify the mineral status , methylmalonic acid ( MMA) , a functional test for B12 needs can be identified , a plasma amino acid test performed individual amino acid levels can show . In addition, dietary concerns , such as overgrowth of bacteria , acid -sensitive feedback regulation, hormonal effects , and increases the risk of intestinal infections, as are many others . [8 ]