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and the cause of the overrun of h. pylori is LOW STOMACH ACID. When the acid is low, which is in most of us; in fact there really is no such thing as HIGH stomach acid, bad bacteria can flourish. When this happens, the bad bacteria causes bloat which opens the sphincter at the top of the stomach, allowing acid to come into the esophagus making people believe they have high stomach acid.

Big pharma is as wicked as it gets as the biggest selling drug annually is antacids.

It is a good idea, if you do not have an ulcer (yet) to supplement with HCl to replace stomach acid. This will help break down your food and RE nourish you (because your nutrients can then breakdown and absorb)

As a recent patient for Stage 3 Stomach Cancer, I might chime in.

I had no ulcer symptoms. While stomach cancer is less frequently found in the west than is colon cancer there are still about 27,000 cases a year as I understand it. It was a major cause of elderly cancer death in the early 20th century in the west but has declined at a rate of 1.5% per year the last decade. Smoked and cured meats are as much a factor as h. pylori in the minds of most researchers although a solid causal relationship is not yet found.

I was not a big antacid user and had no symptoms until I began experiencing some anemia which I did not get diagnosed as early as I should have — I thought it was just age and not enough cardio. Tell your doctor everything you experience and don’t think you know it all. This tumor was probably inside and growing for over ten years.

Gastric cancer can easily spread to the abdominal cavity and easily jump over to the LIVER, the PANCREAS, the spleen and 25 +/- lymph nodes in the abdomen.

Four chemical cocktail of infusion chemo, followed by full stomach and related lymph node removals, followed by another course of chemo leaves me alive and tumor free, for now but few are that fortunate. Side effects with such strong chemo are extensive and various but I am alive and active in my 70s.