Re: Alkaline Diet & Achalasia -Notan-

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Wow, Notan, these are comparisons! I think this is the best answer I've ever read regarding this subject. I think it says it all.

Would you mind me quoting this one on the German and/or Dutch board, as there are a few members questioning acupuncture etc. over on those boards as well?

Love,

Isabella

Re: Alkaline Diet & Achalasia

Jan wrote:> ... I > keep coming across numerous books that indicate that an alkalinizing > diet may yield relief if not a cure. ...I have a thought game for you. It starts out ridiculous.If your arm was cut off by a chain saw what diet would you use to "cure it?" Okey that is a ridiculous question. In achalasia we don't lose a limb.If you had spinal nerve damage or brain damage, what diet would you use to cure it? Maybe this is ridiculous too. That may have more traumatic neural damage than in achalasia.If you had a branch of the vagus nerve to your stomach cut by a surgeon to reduce acid production, and wanted to undo it, what diet would you use? Is this ridiculous too? No one cut the branches of the vagus never to our esophagi.Some of the the neural connections from the vagus nerve to the esophagus are damaged, destroyed and missing in achalasia. How is a diet

going to heal that?Doctors are in the patient business. Surgeons are in the surgery business. Pharmaceutical companies are in the drug business. And, authors are in the book business. Take the advice of all of them with plenty of salt. Do your home work. Educate yourself and be careful not to be indoctrinated. And when it comes to books consider that, it is a lot harder to get into legal trouble by telling people in print how to make their own snake oil than it is by selling snake oil, but it can make you a lot of money. With snake oil salesmen of all types, from politics, religion to stock market gurus, some of the people we love and respect are going to be the true believers telling us how good it is. Some authors tell the truth. I will let you decide about your authors. I just suggest you stay open to the idea that what you read may not be on the

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Isabella Arnold wrote:

Would

you mind me quoting this one

Feel free to use as you wish.

notan