Episode 0049: Our Health: Acid Reflux

{5 minutes with Mike is sponsored by SpeakPublishing International’s Newest Book Dirty Negroes. The stakes are much higher now and the pain grows deeper. Roman Chase continues to search for more answers about his deceased father and kingpin T-Dubb. The web of secrets grow deeper, and the cost of drugs becomes an increasingly expensive habit to be addicted too. Roman’s life is spiraling out of control with the added peer pressures of his friends. Is this the life that T-Dubb a.k.a. Roman Watson wanted for his son? Or is this a mirror of things to come for Roman Chase as he seeks to find himself and his true identity in the business his father built. This is book #2 in the Hood Boys Series.  {Available for FREE today exclusively on amazon kindle unlimited program. } :60 This is My Struggle With Acid Reflux At the sprie age of fourteen, a tingling, burning sensation had occurred down my throat. It went from my throat to my stomach and back. Well, this was my first introduction to acid-reflux. It’s a disease that millions of Americans like myself suffer from on a daily basis. Some have minor bouts of acid-reflux. Others, like me, it was a little more acute. The acid bothered me so bad that I went from Tums, Malox, Ranitidine all  the way to Prilosec for at least five to seven years as an adult. At the time I had no idea about the side effects, I just knew it helped me feel better, and I only had to take it once a day. Well--here’s my story. :90 Always search for a natural substitue… One day out of the blue a panic ensued at the age of twenty-five. I being a young healthy male woke up in a deep sweat and my heart racing as fast as a ‘bullet train’ at least in my mind. Lord knows I thought I was having a heart-attack. Couldn’t be. I was just playing full-court basketball a day or so before. Well, I was rushed in an ambulance to the hospital, and the doctors did as many test as they deemed necessary for my heart. They found nothing. My heart was normal, an ‘athlete’s’ heart they said. Over the years this issue had ensued and robbed me of some nights and put me into a state of perpetual fear of death and the unknown. It wasn’t till I started doing some research till I realized that this little purple pill was to true burglar. It was a great way to eat all I wanted without the acidic side effects. But prilosec, which has a class action lawsuit against it, was taking my essential minerals from my body. I had to take magnesium supplements, coq10 and eat alot of bananas. The verdict was in, prilosec was doing more harm than good. Not to mention the devastating effect it can do to your kidneys and bones over time. Before I was taking prilosec, I could eat chocolate like nobody's business. While taking Prilosec I could not eat chocolate or any caffeinated beverages. My life felt like it was in a stalemate at many times. I was always living with the thought of another panic attack ensuing. Needless to say, I decided to take some real actions. I tried to ditch prilosec a few times, but after a few ‘acid attacks’ I went running back to the box of pills. This time in October 2018 was different. I did my research and realized that even if I had an internal acid attack, that I would have to fight the battle for my life. I would have to change my diet a little, eat better foods and give my body a chance to heal from prilosec. Most importantly my body needed to be naturally alkaline. Studies have shown that the majority of cancers and diseases in the human body occur because the body is too acidic. Prilosec did not make my body alkaline. No--it just delayed the acid in the gut and prevented it from pumping the way it