The REAL Cause of a Constant Phlegmy (Mucus) Throat

so today we're going to talk about excuse me one second jeez chronic phlegm in the back of your throat so to really figure this problem out you want to think like an engineer not as a medical professional because when you do research on this you're going to quickly find out that it's all about again suppressing the symptoms and even classifying these conditions based on their symptoms so it it makes this symptom sound like a disease and unfortunately they're not going deep enough into the root causes of these issues and then also letting you know what

are the more common causes to these symptoms so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take one symptom chronic mucus generation in your throat and just trace it back to the most likely cause now with this chronic mucus production you can have a post nasal drip you can have chronic coughing more at night than during the day which i'm going to cover why that is you can definitely have hoarseness or a scratchy throat you can also experience the sensation like a lump in your throat or something stuck in your throat you're not sure

what it is or even a sore throat when you really don't have an infection so to take an engineering point of view they're going to look at a cause and effect relationship they're going to really look at the logic behind this problem instead of just taking this tip of the iceberg symptom and then matching a medication for it to suppress it now you could have an allergy you could have a virus in your sinuses producing this mucus but a more likely cause would be something related to two other symptoms which i'm going to get to

the root cause but one would be gerd which stands for gastroesophageal reflux disease where you have acid coming up through this valve at the top of the stomach and it's coming up through your esophagus or this other condition called lpr that stands for laryngopharyngeal reflux and so really the basic difference between gerd okay and lpr because they're both very similar the valve is not closing and so we're getting acid that comes up with gerd into the esophagus but with lpr we're getting acid that comes up higher into the vocal cords into the back of the

throat and each one of these conditions is classified as a certain condition that's treated directly usually with antacids and other medications that suppress acid in your stomach now if you have mucus in your throat you want to ask yourself if you have all these other symptoms that are related to that so with gerd you would have heartburn you would have belching you would have regurgitation you could have excess mucus throat irritation you can have a lump in your throat difficulty breathing because when there's acid that comes up through your throat your ability to get oxygen

dramatically decreases so you'll have difficulty swallowing sometimes post nasal drip with that and it's worse when you're lying down at night because that valve again is not closing correctly and you may have food allergies which i'll talk more about that and then with this other condition called lpr you're going to get a lot of those symptoms but you also may have like a metallic taste in your mouth and more irritation in your vocal cords like hoarseness when you're trying to talk now before i go deeper into the root cause of these issues i want to

just talk first about some of the treatments which can even cause the condition and aggravate the condition even more for example antacids a big side effect would be constipation even acid reflux and then you have these other medications that are work a little bit differently they're called ppis protein pump inhibitors so they basically stop the enzymes that are producing um acid and they also have side effects of constipation gas risk for stroke risk of getting c diff which is an infection because it's a pathogen palpitations and even high blood pressure then you have another side

effect called hypergastronemia now what is that that is too much gastrin which is going to cause too much acid in your stomach so here you are trying to get rid of your acid by taking a solution that's giving you more acid doesn't make sense at all another problem with these treatments is that they will remove acid and now you're going to have a difficult time absorbing minerals like calcium and magnesium so now we have a problem with bones muscles and the list goes on and on and on but of course there's other solutions too you

can get a surgery you can tighten this valve even more but there are some slight minor complications like inability to belch anymore or burp increase gas in your digestive system a greater need for more antacids and those ppis that i just talked about so ultimately the optimum solution to something should not give you a bigger problem than you started out with right so let's talk about the most likely cause of this valve not closing giving you this gerd or lpr not too much acid it would be an acid deficiency low hydrochloric acid when the acid

or concentration of acid in your stomach is lower the valve um doesn't close that properly in fact it can open up but when the acid starts increasing when you start digesting things like proteins the top of the valve should close very very nice and tight if everything is working correctly so the root cause of this valve not closing is basically you don't have enough acid in your stomach and that is the underlying reason and because you have acid reflux you're thinking wow i have too much acid i need to get rid of this acid so

i'll take an antacid or or i will do something to reduce the acid but the root cause is actually you don't have enough acid now hydrochloric acid in your stomach is a very important fluid um for many different things especially within your immune system one of the purposes of this very strong acid which should be between one and three is to kill pathogens believe it or not your stomach is very sterile okay nothing can live because that acid is so strong and this is one of the barriers that your body puts up in the immune

system because if we can kill pathogens that come from our food into the stomach and prevent them from going down to the rest of the tract we have a very good defense against these pathogens but if we have weak acid in the stomach pathogens can escape and get into the system and create all sorts of problems in the lower part of the digestive system and even in the small intestine you can get what's called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and that occurs because you didn't kill the microbes at the stomach level another very important purpose of

this hydrochloric acid is to break down proteins to break down proteins fully okay so if you don't have enough acid in your stomach you'll get incomplete protein digestion and start to create stress in the other parts of the digestive system because they have to produce more enzymes and they have to do different things lower in the tract and that throws off your whole digestion now if you compound this with inflammation okay in the gut and you have something called leaky gut syndrome these proteins go right into the little holes where you have leaky gut and

your immune system starts creating antibodies against these proteins and that's the start of autoimmune diseases that's the start of an allergy and then the third reason why we need this hydrochloric acid in our stomach is in your ability to absorb minerals okay so without that ph the minerals don't travel into the body that well so this is one of the underlying reasons why people are anemic or they have mineral deficiencies they cannot absorb minerals calcium magnesium potassium zinc iodine all these minerals but also this strong ph triggers things in your pancreas to release certain enzymes

as well as in your gallbladder to release bile so without this concentrated hydrochloric acid in the stomach being at what ph should be for the entire digestive system starts to go downhill real fast and on top of everything else the sensing mechanism doesn't allow that that valve to close tightly and then the acid starts regurgitating you may even get regurgitation of the bile up into the stomach and both hydrochloric acid and bile can then regurgitate up through the esophagus up into your throat and this irritates the back of the throat and puts you in a

constant state of mucous protection that mucus is trying to be formed an attempt to protect against the strong acid that is dissolving your tissues so what i'm talking about is the most likely root cause of this mucous production this chronic irritation your throat that makes you cough so now that we know that the solution is very simple because we don't want to necessarily suppress the symptom we want to fix the root cause we want to now increase the amount of acid in the stomach and by the way you're going to have to figure out with

help of your doctor how you can start to wean off some of these antacids and if you're not interested just ask them this one question what are the long-term effects what are the chronic effects of taking antacids over a period of time and what's really behind these problems and um you know i'm sure you'll be curious to find out what they say but it'll probably be something along the lines of well it's just stress it's just genetics and as we age most people just have these problems but the way to get your acid back is

to take um something to start building up the hydrochloric acid and the best remedy is betaine hydrochloride okay betaine hydrochloride and you'd want to take between three to four to even five to six even seven right before you eat okay so that's what i would recommend now here's the problem with certain types of people that take this if you have an ulcer because this condition has gone on too far or if you have gastritis there's inflammation in the stomach and you take betaine hydrochloride it's going to make it worse because the tissues are inflamed in

which case you're going to have to heal the lining of your stomach first which could take anywhere between two to three months okay before you start adding more acid to the system but you need to understand the mechanism here you need to know that ultimately you want to acidify the stomach and get it back to normal so if that is the case and you have an ulcer or you have gastritis you can watch that video i will put that link down below you could probably benefit greatly by taking zinc carnosine if you don't have an

ulcer taking betaine hydrochloride can greatly greatly help you in addition to that there's other things you need to do because the foods that you're eating probably are not helping you and the biggest offender for this problem is grains okay grains now what's wild is that if you look this up they will tell you to consume grains to improve your acid reflux but in reality you're going to find that makes a lot worse there's a lot of things in grains that are inflammatory okay that create sensitivity allergies autoimmune conditions even lower your immune system and dump

a lot of omega-6 fatty acids into the system a typical grain has like 20 or more times the omega-6 than it does the omega-3 which are anti-inflammatory so you're basically dumping a lot of inflammation in your system when you consume grains and consume animal products that were fed a lot of heavy grains versus grass-fed brass finished animal products so i'm just trying to get you to think with this and think outside the box and see if you can start to sort out your own diet and what you need to change now it's essential also to

do intermittent fasting and not follow the well just have uh five or six small meals through the day no no no you don't want to do that you want to do intermittent fasting because the more that you do intermittent fasting when you fast a period of time at least 16 17 18 hours by skipping your breakfast you can now give your digestive system a chance to rest and heal and recover because it's not constantly being triggered by foods now another big cause of this entire problem and i'm talking about low stomach acids and a lack

of bile salts okay which can inhibit your ability to digest fats is a vegan diet okay when someone's a vegan many times they consume a lot of grains and a lot of foods that tear up their digestive system and they don't consume a lot of animal fats and because they're not consuming a lot of animal proteins they might not have the triggering of this hydrochloric acid so the combination of all these inflammatory foods and also the missing nutrients that are in a vegan diet can create havoc on your digestive system now that being said there

is a correct way to do a vegan diet so i'm not opposed of doing it correctly but i am opposed to doing it with all the different fake meats and the soy protein isolates and the grains and the sugar etc etc now i hope there are some good takeaways from this video but i think the next most important video for you to watch would be on hydrochloric acid check it out i put it right here you