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Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by Michael Cecil
One thing I have to add. If you, the patient, takes over the counter stomach meds, like Tums, or Mylanta, in time your stomach will become alkaline, and not acidic as it should be.
I once had this happen to me, I was so bound up a week went by without a movement. My uncle wrote to me in email and told me to get a can of Cambell's tomato juice, no other brand, and drink it down within a hour. I did this ant it cured the problem. Now I take vinegar to help with acid production,
Originally posted by miniatus
.. only one thing didn't disolve very quickly and that was a unisom gel cap, it seemed to take a while .. but did eventually disolve to the point it leaked the contents..
Originally posted by DevolutionEvolvd
reply to post by Michael Cecil
Out of all your hits...what about your misses? Just curious.
Originally posted by Michael Cecil
People like the above respondent are editors of newspapers, are busy-body nurses with a Master's Degree in Nursing, and other such nitwits who consider themselves as having been appointed by God Himself to 'protect' people from receiving any information which might 'rock the pharmaceutical-medical boat'.
Originally posted by Michael Cecil
Originally posted by Kailassa
There are some idiots practicing medicine, and it always pays to double check things.
I had a doctor refuse to precribe B12 injections for (medically dignosed) perniceous anaemia, because, "if you eat a balanced diet you get all the vitamins you need.)
He must have missed the class where it was explained perniceous anaemia is an absorbtion problem, and a person with it does not produce intrinsic factor, and therefore cannot absorb B12 through the digestive system.
(Except from raw liver, which contains intrinsic factor too.)
Just a question: Have you ever been able to find a definition for "intrinsic factor"?
I have looked for this several times and have to deduce that it has SOMETHING to do with stomach acid itself.
But I have not been able to find any documentation for this.
It is referred to as a "substance" which is secreted by the stomach; but I have never seen it specifically defined as hydrochloric acid.
It seems to be an attempt to keep secret privileged medical information for the purpose of protecting the profession of orthodox medicine.
This is not something that I can prove; I just have my suspicions.
Michael Cecil