In Defense of Stomach Acid
There are many logical fallacies in the health and wellness world, many the result of seeing the body as a machine made of independent parts, rather than complex, interdependent, and communicative. We see cooking fat clog a kitchen sink and assume that our arteries must become clogged by saturated fat. When we get heartburn, we assume we must have too much stomach acid – after all, it’s burning, and acid is corrosive, right? Not exactly.