Medications for heartburn are dangerous to health

Doctors warn that the pills taken by millions of people from heartburn cause long-term adverse health effects. In particular, increased risk of cancer and heart disease.

Chronic heartburn can turn a person's life in a never-ending torment. Every meal becomes an occasion to stress, because you expect the effects of a severe, steady pain. It is accompanied by the penetration of the upper valve acid stomach into the esophagus. Since heartburn is often the result of excess weight, the number of victims of this disorder are constantly increasing.

That's why the results are so high sales of medicines for heartburn, included in the class of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), which bring immediate relief of symptoms. The prevalence of these drugs affects. Only in the United Kingdom, whose population is slightly more than 60 million people last year were issued 43 million (!) Recipes for data pills.

PPIs take an hour before a meal. Drugs block the enzymes that produce the gastric juice, so that it becomes 10% of the usual rules. Alas, this is interference in the normal operation of the body, as it turns out, is not without consequences. The researchers found that regular use of the data tablets from heartburn   for a year or more increases the risk of a variety of ailments from infections, cancer and heart disease to a dangerous shortage of some essential minerals and vitamins.

It was found that in humans, sitting on the IPP, there is a very low level of magnesium, which is needed for the "construction" of bones, as well as the normal operation of the nerves and muscles (that's why with a shortage of magnesium are often observed muscle spasms). But above all, the heart needs magnesium, it allows to control blood pressure and blood sugar levels.

Inadequate secretion of gastric juice (a consequence of receiving IPP) does not allow the blood to absorb magnesium from food, and especially green vegetables, where it most. As a result, there are side effects such as extreme fatigue and weakness, seizures, loss of appetite, arrhythmia. Grows the danger of falling. Therefore, even though pills for heartburn   and help us in the fight against unpleasant disorder, long body taking them will cost much more expensive.

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