Cure Stomach Ulcers and Pain Fast With This Powerful Nutrient
Georges Halpern, today a physician, oenophile and gourmand, back in 1960 was diagnosed with peptic ulcer. In that time conventional medicine still didn`t have appropriate treatments for this type of health condition.
“I was smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day, sleeping and eating erratically, and drinking bad wine,” he says. “My boss was a morphine addict, I was going through a divorce, and then I got drafted to fight in Algeria. You put all that together, of course you wind up with an ulcer.”
He suffered an intense pain which occurred 4 hours after each meal. In order to relieve the pain, he swallowed spoonful after spoonful of bismuth subnitrate, an antacid which back then was used as a common treatment for digestive problems. This treatment was later found as very dangerous. Also, he received therapy of series of injections containing vitamin C and iron, another therapy which was later found as toxic.
“People were just trying everything,” he says. “Doctors didn’t understand what causes ulcers, and there was no standard treatment.”
Luckily, there has been a dramatic improvement in medicine in the past 40 years. In the 1980s and 90s scientists discovered that peptic ulcers are caused by bacteria called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) and can be successfully treated with antibiotics. However, these medications have side effects, including diarrhea, gas, and yeast infections. Moreover, in almost 10 percent of the cases antibiotics do not completely destroy the bacteria. This is when patients are given prescribed and over-the-counter antacids which only relieve the pain, but do not act on the root cause of the condition.
Halpbern is now on the medical faculty at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong as well as at the University of California, and he claims that there is another, different way, to efficiently treat peptic ulcers. He recommends using zinc carnosine supplement which has been used in Japan for more than 10 years, and it recently became available here.
In almost two-thirds of cases zinc carnosine has successfully treated peptic ulcers. In combination with antibiotics, it intensifies their effectiveness.
“It hasn’t caught on here because it doesn’t have the juggernaut dollars the drug industry brings to promoting its products—plain and simple” says naturopathic physician Jonathan Goodman, of the University of Bridgeport’s College of Naturopathic Medicine in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
You and your belly
It is very important for you to know what usually happens in your gut.
Normally, the stomach produces gastric acid that helps break down food and protects the GI tract from infection. This acid is very strong and therefore there is a lining consisting of thin layer of mucus which protects the stomach and the duodenum from the strong effects of the acid.
The problem occurs when this protective layer is damaged in certain places, usually by the presence of H. pylori. These bacteria are normal habitants in the digestive system in half the population and generally it is harmless. However, there are cases when it gets out of control and starts to damage the protective layer, leaving the stomach or duodenal lining exposed to the acid.
Genetics may also be the key factor, as well as some people happen to be exposed to extremely virulent strains of H. pylori.
How does zinc carnosine work?
It covers the stomach and duodenal walls, protecting the ulcer from stomach acid so it can heal. Furthermore, it has been proved that this supplement has the ability to repair the walls of the mucosal layer and also to inhibit the growth of H. pylori, which is why it is used in combination with antibiotics.
Zinc carnosine may not provide you with immediate pain relief, as conventional antacids do, but it acts on the root cause of the condition, and therefore it can have long-lasting effects.
Treatment choices
First of all, you need a proper diagnosis in order to be sure that you have peptic ulcer. The most common symptom is a repeated burning pain which usually occurs in the area between the belly button and the breastbone, and it often appears after eating. However, there are other digestive disorders which, such as heartburn, acid reflux and even stomach cancer, which can give similar symptoms and therefore you will need a precise diagnosis. You can undergo endoscopy in case of an ulcer.
In addition, Halpern and Goodman say that peptic ulcer should not be treated without antibiotics and they recommend using a combination of both, antibiotics and zinc carnosine supplements. In this case, each compound will improve the effectiveness of the other.
However, if you choose non-antibiotic therapy, you should use zinc carnosine alone for a period of eight weeks. Also, you will need an integrative doctor to supervise your treatment.
No matter which option you will choose, the standard dosage of zinc carnosine is 75 milligrams a day.