Should i drink apple cider vinegar with baking soda and water before or after meals for LPR?
LPR is laryngopharyngeal reflux. The answer is NO. Baking soda and vinegar have opposing pH values and will cancel each other out. GERD or LPR are the acronyms that were made up to make this condition look like a disease so doctors can prescribe antacids. The original idea of antacids was to provide a short term temporary relief for acid indigestion. If you have an ulcer, the doctors use 2 antibiotics and an antacid to cure it in about 10 days or less. That is the only time anyone should take antacids. The reason you get LPR or GERD is due to the LACK OF HYDROCHLORIC ACID. ALL meat eating animals make HCL in their stomachs. Plant eating animals do not. The primary function of HCL is to sanitize the chyme in the stomach and to break down proteins for proper digestion. Most Americans are deficient in HCL because the food they are eating has very little nutrient value and uses up the HCL, leaving them deficient. As we age, we also produce less and less. Most older people are simply starvi
