A healthy stomach will give you lots of energy and a zest for life!

In this article, we’ll discuss why people suffer from bloat and how to get rid of related symptoms like abdominal cramps, acid reflux, burping, belching, nausea, gas, diarrhea, and constipation. For good!

And later I’ll share with you simple and cheap home remedies for stomach bloat and low stomach acid, even if you’ve battled these painful symptoms for years.

A healthy stomach is essential for overall well being. It helps to take time out to eat meals slowly, chew food thoroughly, relax while you digest food in order to fully absorb nutrients, and eliminate waste daily. 

A healthy stomach also plays an important role in the production of hormones and enzymes that are necessary for proper digestion. Maintaining a healthy stomach requires a balanced diet, regular movement such as stretching or light exercise, and avoiding unhealthy habits like smoking or excessive alcohol consumption. 

Symptoms of an unhealthy stomach may include stomach bloating, abdominal cramps, acid reflux, burping, belching, nausea, gas, diarrhea, and constipation. Taking action to heal an unhealthy stomach is vitally important. Unaddressed, these issues cause more serious complications over the long term.

Don’t just mask your symptoms with medications that cover the effects. You must identify the underlying root cause, and take steps to heal it. 

This may include changing your diet, and taking the right kinds of supplements. Taking probiotics can also help restore balance to the gut microbiome, which is essential for maintaining a healthy stomach.

Stomach bloat is an uncomfortable condition that can cause abdominal discomfort and a feeling of fullness. It can dramatically affect your digestion, absorption of nutrients, energy levels, and overall health.

Factors such as an unhealthy diet, food intolerances or allergies, dehydration, stress levels and other medical conditions can contribute to stomach bloating.

Bloat is often caused by eating too much or too quickly, or eating foods you’re allergic to, such as gluten. It’s also caused by eating fried, high-sugar, or chemical-laden foods, drinking carbonated beverages, and taking certain medications. 

To reduce stomach bloat, it’s important to understand these causes and eliminate them one by one over time, so you can gauge the effect of each change you make.

In addition to dietary and lifestyle choices, other medical conditions such as constipation, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) can contribute to stomach bloating.

One often overlooked cause of stomach bloat is low stomach acid, which can lead to an overgrowth of bacteria in the digestive tract. Low stomach acid also affects digestion, preventing proper absorption of nutrients from food. To alleviate low stomach acid, diet and lifestyle changes as well as natural supplements may help to boost levels of stomach acid and reduce symptoms of bloating.

Over-the-counter medications for acid reflux actually exacerbate the problem of low stomach acid.

Contrary to popular belief, over-the-counter medications for acid reflux do not provide a cure. In fact, they can actually exacerbate the problem of low stomach acid. This is because these medications reduce the amount of stomach acid which is necessary to properly break down food and absorb nutrients. 

As a result, individuals with low stomach acid are left with a host of uncomfortable symptoms that include more bloating, gas and indigestion. Stomach bloat and unbalanced stomach acid can be downright painful. 

It can cause heartburn and seriously damage the lining of your esophagus.

Fortunately, there are home remedies that are quite effective in decreasing stomach bloat and rebalancing stomach acid. 

These remedies range from consuming ginger and lemon, to drinking apple cider vinegar, and taking good probiotics. These are but a few of the natural ways you can reduce your symptoms and rebalance your stomach acid for the long term.

Home Remedies for Stomach Bloat and Unbalanced Stomach Acidity

While there are many different causes of stomach bloat, or other symptoms of low stomach acidity, here are 3 simple home remedies that can help:

1. Grate a lemon into a glass of water and drink ASAP to soothe the stomach.
2. Eat raw ginger root with honey before bed to calm your stomach and keep it feeling balanced throughout the night.
3. Drink chamomile tea with honey as a soothing remedy that helps to soothe stomach upsets.

These are easy and quick, but the key is to make them part of your daily routine. 

One clinical study reports success within 2 weeks, simply by changing the intake of pH foods:

…a carbohydrate-free diet and/or highly hypoglycidal [low blood sugar] diet that is enriched with acid pH foods [ie. lemon and tomato] appears to lead to a decrease in the pH of the gastric contents, thus inhibiting the further production of hydrochloric acid with a reduction or disappearance of heartburn symptoms that are typical of gastroesophageal diseases. – Nutrition journal

References: 

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000265.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29729504/