Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101-1 | Keep Stomach Acid in Its Place!

10 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube lecture by Aaron Hartman, MD (uploaded Feb 10, 2025) explains risks of mislocated stomach acid—esophagitis and sequelae such as Schottky's ring, Barrett's esophagus, and potential progression to esophageal adenocarcinoma—and emphasizes preventing acid exposure to the esophagus by preserving lower esophageal sphincter tone and using lifestyle measures (chewing slowly, avoiding large meals, not eating before bed, appropriate portion sizes).

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Sometimes you can get something called a Schottzky's ring, and eventually Barrett's can become adenocarcinoma, the esophagus, which is cancer. So the whole point being, keep stomach acid where it belongs and not where it shouldn't be. And that's by maintaining a nice tightness to that lower esophageal sphincter, making sure your stomach acid is adequate, chewing mindfully, slowly, not eating your food as quickly as possible, making sure you're eating the right amount of food, not too much, not eating close to bedtime, and all these other things that you can do. But esophagitis is very, very common. We see it a lot. And then all of a sudden, you get put on an acid suppressor, and that leads to a whole host of other problems.