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Your stomach pH acid level should be 1.0 to 3.0 so that it can properly digest or break apart meat into it amino acids. Any thing that disturbs these pH levels also affects the absorption of amino acids in your stomach.
Here's how the stomach creates the acid to digest protein. The main digestive enzyme that breaks apart meat is call pepsin. There are certain stomach lining cells called "chief cells" that secrete pepsinogen. This pepsinogen is converted to pepsin with the help of HCl or stomach acid.
As your stomach acid pH increases, the amount of pepsin you create decreases. When your stomach pH is higher than 5.0, no pepsin is created. You have difficulty digesting protein.
Antacids and pharmaceutical drugs increase stomach pH and decrease the creation of pepsin.
HCl is secreted from stomach lining cells called "parietal cells." These cells have a way of secreting HCl acid through a so called "proton pump." Many drugs are designed to shut down these "proton pumps", which result in less stomach acid. Less stomach acid creates less pepsin.
Less pepsin in the stomach digests less protein in the stomach. And, any meat or protein source you eat does not breakdown into specific absorbable amino acids that you need to prevent depression.
The amino acids tryptophan, phenylalanine, tyrosine and other amino acids are needed to produce the neurotransmitters "serotonin and "norepinephrine." Neurotransmitters are chemical impulses that brain cells uses to communicate between each other. Lack of these neurotransmitters has been associated with depression and other emotional illness.
Antidepressant drugs, such as Prozac, Serzone, or Zoloft raise the level of serotonin giving you a feeling of well-being.
In Doctor Jonathan V. Wright, who wrote, "Why Stomach Acid Is Good For You", practice, he found that when he tested and found people who had low blood levels of amino acids and had depression, taking amino acids help relieve depression in 50% of his cases. Ant depressive drugs have a history of 50% effectiveness.
What all this means is, if you have depression, you can experiment with a self-cure by taking digestive enzymes, which contain HCl acid and pepsin, during meals. In addition, if you are taking antacids or heartburn drugs, back off from using them but consult with your doctor before doing this. This will help you digest and breakdown protein in their individual amino acids.
The result of this is to provide your intestines with absorbable amino acids that will help to cure and prevent depression.
Rudy Silva is a natural nutritionist and has a degree in Physics degree from San Jose State University. To learn more about an excellent heartburn and acid reflux ebook go to: http://www.heartburn-relief.for--you.com
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