{"id":29458,"date":"2019-06-30T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eternahealthfood.com\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T18:03:14","slug":"stomach-acid-is-important-for-digestion-and-nutrient-assimilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/weekly-health-tips\/stomach-acid-is-important-for-digestion-and-nutrient-assimilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Stomach Acid is Important for Digestion and Nutrient Assimilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Stomach acid is important for digestion and nutrient assimilation. Having too little stomach acid can cause just as many problems (if not more) than having too much.\u00a0\u00a0 Symptoms like\u00a0constipation, diarrhea, undigested food in stool, acid reflux, gas, bloating, indigestion, belching, skin problems or\u00a0acne, and chronic nutrient deficiencies\u00a0can be related to\u00a0Hypochlorhydria (low stomach acid). In more extreme cases, symptoms like hair loss, brittle nails, dry skin, adrenal fatigue and even autoimmune disease can occur.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Test for low HCl is the baking soda test:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mix 1\/4 teaspoon of\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/wellnessmama.com\/go\/bakingsoda\/\">baking soda<\/a><\/u>\u00a0in\u00a0 4-6 ounces of cold water first thing in the morning before eating or drinking anything.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Drink the baking soda solution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Time how long it takes you to belch. Time up to five minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If you have not belched within five minutes stop timing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In theory, if your stomach is producing adequate amounts of stomach acid you\u2019ll likely belch within two to three minutes. Early and repeated belching may be due to excessive stomach acid (but don\u2019t confuse these burps with small little burps from swallowing air when drinking the solution). Any belching after 3 minutes indicates a low acid level.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know? Stomach acid is important for digestion and nutrient assimilation. Having too little stomach acid can cause just as many problems (if not more) than having too much.\u00a0\u00a0 Symptoms like\u00a0constipation, diarrhea, undigested food in stool, acid reflux, gas, bloating, indigestion, belching, skin problems or\u00a0acne, and chronic nutrient deficiencies\u00a0can be related to\u00a0Hypochlorhydria (low stomach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}