How Stomach Acid Fights Off Viruses Like COVID
00:00:00.000 | Stomach acid literally kills pathogens.
00:00:02.620 | So there was a study that was done in 2021, and it showed that people who are blocking
00:00:07.240 | stomach acid with these potent drugs called proton pump inhibitors, those people had a
00:00:13.120 | two to four fold increased risk of getting sick with COVID when they were exposed to
00:00:17.580 | the virus.
00:00:18.020 | Because normally when you have intact stomach acid, you swallow SARS-CoV-2, you can breathe
00:00:23.280 | it in, but you can also swallow it.
00:00:24.560 | And then that stomach acid unravels a viral protein and inactivates it.
00:00:28.800 | And it does it for all kinds of different viruses.
00:00:30.980 | It can protect you from polio virus and from different bacteria.
00:00:33.920 | And when I say protect lower incidence compared to not like I'm bulletproof, I have stomach
00:00:40.060 | acid, viruses can't make me sick.