This is a YouTube video titled "Should Acid Blockers Be Taken Long-Term?" containing a conversation recorded in December 2019 between Ask AI Mark and Dr. Mark Hyman. They discuss the widespread use and potential risks of acid blockers, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle changes in functional medicine to prevent and treat disease and promote healthy aging.
You mentioned these acid blockers because they're given out like candy. You can buy them in the drugstore. They're over the counter now. And people think they're safe and fine. I remember when I went to medical school, they just came out and we were told by the drug reps, these are very strong drugs. They completely shut down acid in the stomach. You never want to give them more than six weeks. And now people are on them for six decades. And what they do is pretty frightening. Literally, they will help your heartburn. But the side effects, which are not really side effects, they're effects. We just don't like them, so we call them side effects, are bloating and diarrhea and distension, all the SIBO symptoms. And by the way, they cause osteoporosis and pneumonia and prevent B12 absorption and zinc absorption and mineral magnesium absorption.
So, they're not exactly the safest thing in the world. I just have to say this, Mark, is that this is the concern we all have for medicine when we've been unplugged. and this is the issue, is that we have pharmaceutical companies that provide medications to our patients to support sick lifestyle that perpetuates disease.
Yeah, love those advertisements on TV where they're like, don't worry, eat your sausage and peppers and don't worry, just take this Prevacid for a little sec, take the purple pill, it's ridiculous.
It is, and so that, but on the functional medicine side, here's where the hard work is. changing the lifestyle to make it a healthy lifestyle so people can, you know, be healthy, prevent disease. If they do get sick, then we help them change lifestyle because that can impact disease more than anything else. And then for people who are well or have gotten better, we can use lifestyle to optimize their, their, their, their aging. And again, using a term, I've heard you use age young, you know, and that's, that's part of what we do here at the Ultra Wellness, the whole spectrum, prevent, treat, and then help people optimize and age young.
