How to determine stomach acidity?

Digestion is a complex process of mechanical and chemical processing of food products entering the body, breaking down large complex food molecules into small ones that allow the body to easily absorb nutrients and meet the needs of organs for nutrition and energy.

Through the esophagus, small pieces of food enter the stomach, where they mix with gastric juice containing hydrochloric acid and enzymes that break down proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. Under the influence of acid and enzymes, food turns into a mushy substance and from the stomach enters the duodenum, where the process of breaking down and processing the food mass by enzymes of the gallbladder, pancreas, and liver. Finally, 95% of nutrients are broken down, absorbed, and assimilated in the small intestine.

What affects the production of gastric juice and hydrochloric acid?

• The appearance and smell of food
• Irritation of the receptors of the oral cavity and pharynx (hot and bitter spices)
• Irritation of the receptors of the stomach and duodenum

What does stomach acidity do?

• Activates the gastric enzyme — pepsinogen, necessary for the digestion and breakdown of proteins
• Digests and breaks down food
• Kills microbes that enter the stomach with food
• Hydrochloric acid and enzymes help break down food and turn it into a liquid state. The amount of hydrochloric acid produced is regulated by the nervous system and hormones that are produced in the walls of the stomach and duodenum. Excessive amounts or low levels of hydrochloric acid in gastric juice can cause complications and problems with digestion.

Increased acidity

• Aggressively affects and irritates the mucous membrane of the esophagus, stomach and duodenum
• Causes the appearance of microcracks, erosion, stomach ulcers
• Nutrients quickly burn out and do not have time to reach the intestines, the body does not receive the necessary nutrition and energy
• Regeneration of cells of the gastric mucosa and atrophy is disrupted
• The function of the pancreas is disrupted due to the need to intensively produce alkaline enzymes
• Causes the development of gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, stomach ulcers, pancreatitis

Low acidity

• Disrupts protein digestion, since some enzymes remain inactive
• Insufficiently breaks down nutrients, which causes fermentation and rotting of food in the intestines
• Causes bloating, heaviness in the stomach, a feeling of fullness, bad taste and smell in the mouth, belching, flatulence, constipation
• Increases the risk of developing infections, atrophy, stomach cancer, excessive bacterial growth in the stomach and small intestine, frequent fungal diseases
• Worsens the digestion of food and the absorption of nutrients, the body does not receive the necessary nutrition and energy

Symptoms of high acidity

Heartburn, sour belching, aching pain or burning in the epigastric region after eating, white coating on the tongue, intestinal colic, metallic taste in the mouth

Symptoms of low acidity

Bloating, heaviness in the stomach, feeling of fullness, bad taste and smell in the mouth, rotten belching, heartburn, flatulence, constipation, rumbling in the stomach

Since some symptoms of gastritis with high and low acidity are similar, it is necessary to undergo a medical examination to determine the acidity level, and to maintain and regulate the normal level of stomach acidity, it is recommended to take a preventive course of multicomponent peptide bioregulators HyperacideTIDE PLUS forte or LowacidTIDE PLUS forte.

HyperacideTIDE PLUS is a peptide bioregulator for the prevention of gastritis with high acidity, restores the cells of the gastric mucosa, helps to neutralize the acid of gastric juice, form a protective barrier and prevent gastric juice from entering the esophagus, accelerate the healing of the gastric mucosa, and prevent diseases such as gastritis, gastric ulcers, gastric polyps, gastric cancer, and Helicobacter Pylori bacteria. HyperacideTIDE PLUS is a peptide bioregulator for the prevention of gastritis with high acidity, restores the cells of the gastric mucosa, helps to neutralize the acid of gastric juice, form a protective barrier and prevent gastric juice from entering the esophagus, accelerate the healing of the gastric mucosa, and prevent diseases such as gastritis, gastric ulcers, gastric polyps, gastric cancer, and Helicobacter Pylori bacteria.

The basis of the bioregulator is a therapeutic concentration of short bioactive peptides of animal origin obtained from stomach tissue cells, promotes the restoration of gastric mucosa cells, their functional activity — trophism and secretion. The bioregulator contains nutrients that regulate the processes of food digestion and secretion of mucosal cells:

• L-Arginine is an amino acid that plays an important role in the urea formation cycle (neutralization of protein waste), exhibits prebiotic properties

• Common sage herb extract (lat. Marrubium vulgare) has many healing properties: choleretic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, sedative, astringent, antiarrhythmic, hypotensive, antibacterial properties

• Vitamin B12 is necessary for the production of digestive enzymes and the transport of essential nutrients to cells

• Vitamin B6 helps the body absorb carbohydrates, proteins, fats

• Thiamine improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, normalizing the acidity of gastric juice, helps digestion, is necessary for the tone of the muscles of the digestive tract, helps to normalize the impaired secretion of the salivary and gastric glands and balances the altered evacuation function of the stomach

• Folic acid improves the functioning of the intestines and liver, preventing its fatty infiltration, normalizes the production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, normalizes appetite

LowacidTIDE PLUS — a peptide bioregulator for the prevention of gastritis with low acidity restores the cells of the gastric mucosa tissue, normalizes the acidity level, promotes better breakdown, digestion and absorption of food, eliminates symptoms of heaviness in the stomach and helps prevent impaired absorption of nutrients, intestinal peristalsis, esophageal motility, atrophy and stomach cancer. The basis of the bioregulator is a complex of physiologically active low-molecular natural peptides of natural origin obtained from the cells of the gastric mucosa and selectively acting on the cells of the gastric mucosa. Natural peptides help to accelerate the recovery and metabolic processes in the gastric mucosa and stimulate protein synthesis. Peptides are natural metabolites of the body and therefore are completely safe.

The bioregulator contains nutrients that regulate the processes of food digestion and secretion of mucous membrane cells:

• L-Arginine — promotes the synthesis of nitric oxide, an important factor in protecting the mucous membrane of the gastroduodenal zone. Arginine deficiency can cause constipation, liver disease and slow healing of damage to the epithelial cover

• Dry extract of common hop flowers (lat. Humulus Lupulus) has a calming effect, stimulates appetite and activates digestion

• Thiamine plays an important role in carbohydrate metabolism processes, in the conversion of glucose into other sugars. Thiamine is used for gastric ulcers, chronic gastritis, enterocolitis, in the complex therapy of liver cirrhosis and hepatitis due to its ability to normalize the acidity of gastric juice, the motor function of the stomach and intestines

• Vitamin B6 helps to normalize the metabolism and absorption of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, normalizes cholesterol metabolism

To enhance the therapeutic effect, it is recommended to combine natural peptide bioregulators LowacidTIDE PLUS forte/ HyperacidTIDE PLUS forte with FlatuTIDE PLUS for the prevention and relief of bloating and increased gas formation, DuodenumTIDE PLUS for the duodenum, MicrofloraTIDE PLUS is a natural Prebiotic to support and feed intestinal microflora.