Acid reflux is a miserable condition. Maybe Larry had it.
Seen in the image above, in 1982 Lawn Chair Larry decided he had had enough of truck driving, and that it was time to retire. Some of us might envision a log cabin, horses, or a sandy beach. Larry took to the skies. He filled a bunch of weather balloons with helium, tied them to a lawn chair and floated up and away from his San Pedro, California home. He ascended to 16,000 feet and finally drifted into the controlled airspace of Long Beach Airport and was forced to land.
The pencil-pushers couldn’t figure out what violation to fine him with because his aircraft didn’t fit any standard definition, so they gave him a $4500 slap on the wrist and made him promise never to fly a lawn chair onto an airport runway ever again. But maybe they missed the point. Maybe he had acid reflux and he was playing with all that helium to find a cure for himself.
I wonder…
Helium
Helium (He#2) is a colorless odorless gas that is called a noble gas because it has its nose up in the air and doesn’t easily bond with other elements or compounds. Apparently the nobles (King, Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, etc.) in history didn’t easily bond with other elements in society so various gases
were named after them. Yikes!
Helium is named after Helios, the Sun because it was first detected using spectrographic analysis on the Sun. It was an unknown element until 1868. Considering that it is the second most basic element in the Universe (having two protons), and considering it is thought to comprise about 24% of the Universe (for example, suns are generally made up of 75% hydrogen and 24% helium) it was discovered surprisingly late in the history of chemistry, being about the 63rd element to be isolated.
To put that in perspective, we isolated yttrium (Y#39), the second-worst named element on the periodic table, 100 years before helium. I mean come on, people! The Sun! It was right there…
As a cheerful end to the story of helium, it is used in party balloons, and who hasn’t inhaled one and sounded like a Disney character for a few minutes? I’m sure Lawn Chair Larry did.
But in fact the story doesn’t end here. It begins here.
Acid Reflux
Acid reflux is, as we have established, a miserable condition. Also called acidity, GERD, gastroesophageal reflux, pyrosis or plain old indigestion, it is thought to happen when stomach acids force their way up through the esophageal valve of the stomach into the lower esophagus, burning the organ tissue wall and causing pain.
I am going to propose in the sections that follow that this is at best an oversimplification and at worst wrong.
At best, if it is a mechanical process, fine. Then it is a circular argument like every other medical condition. The problem with this approach is that the name that describes the condition (acid reflux) cannot also be the cause of the condition (acid reflux). Acid reflux doesn’t cause acid reflux any more than a rainy day causes rain. Acid reflux cannot both be the symptom and the thing causing itself. At best, there is some underlying process that we are failing to quantify.
At worst, the idea of stomach acids being the cause of acidity is simply wrong. Besides the fact that acidity doesn’t only happen in the esophagus, stomach acids are not the only acids in the body. The human body depends upon quite a number of acids to function normally. Look at the biochemistry:
The stomach produces hydrochloric acid to digest food. Proteins are made of amino acids (the building blocks of all life). We use fatty acids to maintain our cell membranes and produce various hormones. Our muscles use lactic acid as an energy source. Our own DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid) are acids.
So to pick hydrochloric acid merely because it is in the stomach, and nearby to the esophagus, is a bit of a caught-you-redhanded, 20th century mentality. So passé.
There is an acid that we are missing in this consideration. Carbonic acid.
Carbon Dioxide
As you know, we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide gas (CO2). Oxygen is good for us, CO2 is poison. By contrast oxygen is poison for plants and CO2 is good for them. Plants produce oxygen, we produce CO2. It is a normal, healthy cycle. As an aside, CO2 is also good for politicians looking to offset their overspending by charging you a carbon tax. But I digress…
We are most familiar with CO2 best in its drinkable form as carbonation in water, pop and beer.
So, you know what CO2 is. And you know that our lungs filter it out of our bloodstreams.
I’m going to pose a question. I may not have met you personally but I am willing to bet that you have never asked yourself this before. If CO2 carbonates water, and if our bloodstreams have CO2 in them, then why is our blood not carbonated?
CO2 gas in dissolved form makes carbonic acid (H2CO3). This is in our blood, so why is our blood not at least lightly carbonated? In fact our blood is not acidic at all, it is alkaline.
The answer appears to be helium gas.
Gases in Air
Breathable air is not 100% oxygen. If it were, lighting a match would explode the entire atmosphere; all plants would die; and spiders, dragon flies and snakes would be many times larger and probably, eat us.
In fact the constituents of air are as follows:
Nitrogen 78%
Oxygen 20.9%
Argon 0.934%
CO₂ 0.042%
Neon 0.0018%
Helium 0.0005%
Methane 0.0002%
Krypton 0.0001%
Hydrogen 0.00005%
Xenon 0.000008%
Radon varies
It is not the O2 or the CO2 that we are interested in here, but the helium. Breathable air contains 0.0005% helium. That means if you took one thousand breaths, five of them would average out to be 100% helium. At 6 breaths per minute it would take you under 3 hours to breathe one thousand breaths. Comparatively, that is a lot of helium to inhale.
Along with the other gases we inhale, this helium dissolves in our bloodstreams and plays two major biological roles.
1. Helium buffers carbonic acid in the blood stream to prevent acidity. If it weren’t for this, our blood would be lightly carbonated.
2. Helium facilitates the delivery of blood flow to dense organ tissues in the heart and kidneys.
These roles are not understood in our present biochemistry so I should acknowledge that I am making a controversial statement. In fact, by putting this into print I am contradicting almost every book and article about helium chemistry ever written. I am not the only one though. Some of the most advanced researchers in that field are starting to suspect what I have observed in a clinical setting for years now: that helium plays major biological roles.
Take for example this article: “The Role of Helium Gas in Medicine“, Berganza, Zhang, 2013.
As an aside, castles are heavier than all of the above gases, which is why castles in the air don’t float. But they ought to, if you want my opinion.
Helium Worms
Our metabolism of helium is intended to take care of itself. We breathe. Air has 0.0005% helium. That trace quantity dissolves in the bloodstream and buffers our bloodborne H2CO3. We don’t notice this happening, it is autonomous.
However there are some microorganisms that do notice it happening. There is a range of parasites small enough to live in the bloodstream that are not generally recognized by modern science. We switch here from the science of biochemistry to the science of parasitology and tread upon another discovery of mine. In fact that exact discovery isn’t mine. People have been noticing microscopic worms in a live blood analysis for years. Here’s an article I put up in 2023 with a video of some of these squirmy wormies swimming around in the bloodstream.
We know about the worms, but the distinction that I would like to see more (any?) people making is that of what element the worms are metabolizing. All worms have metabolisms based on different elements. Helium is an element. Some worms metabolize helium. Due to its trace level in the body, only a microscopic worm could find a sufficient quantity to survive on. And they do.
Everyone has helium worms. They are vectored from spider bites, raw shellfish, jellyfish stings and cow manure. They may also be inherited maternally, and you can certainly pick them up from a blood transfusion, which may explain why some people develop acidity and acid reflux after receiving someone else’s blood. These worms steal some of our helium to stay alive and that reduces the amount we have to buffer our carbonic acid.
This colony (or probably, colonies) of worms can live diffused throughout the bloodstream or collect in a particular organ tissue location, like termites burrowing into a tree. Wherever they are, the result is acidity. When this happens in an organ tissue like the esophagus, we blame it on stomach acids because they are nearby. When it happens in some other organ like the kidneys, liver or lungs, the organ simply hurts and we don’t have a name for that type of acidity.
When helium worms are overpopulated in the entire bloodstream, we might feel this acidity head to toe and call it fibromyalgia, or polymyalgic rheumatica. (I will add that some parasite or virus unbalancing our arsenic [As#33] metabolism is also a major contributor to fibromyalgia—health is rarely a one-dimensional issue.)
Helium Viruses
In the same way that a helium worm can steal our–shall we say–nutritional helium, a helium virus can do the same thing. This is probably another unusual assertion that I am making in this article: that a virus has a metabolism that is based on an element. This may be something well known in the field of virology but I don’t think so and I’ve never heard it from any virologist. I guess all the money is in vaccines. But I digress again…
Some species of viruses (helium viruses) are adapted to soak up our bloodborne helium. When they do, similar to the deficiency created by a parasite (a helium worm), we feel the effects of this as localized acidity. This can happen in all of the same locations that it can with a parasite.
For this condition, technically it doesn’t matter whether it is a parasite or a virus stealing your helium since your symptom will be the same: acidity. There is only a set amount of helium in breathable air, you can’t get more. (And please don’t try to get more from a balloon, you will suffocate if the pure helium replaces your oxygen). So if something steals your helium, you may notice the deficiency quite quickly.
I suppose theoretically some helium-loving bacteria could do the same thing as a virus. Just understand that perhaps the most obvious bacterial culprit, Helicobacter Pilori, is not named after helium but after its helical shape. H.pylori is not a helium loving bacteria. Like viruses, we do not categorize bacteria by the element they metabolize, though I think we need to start doing so if we want to understand them.
Treatment Paradoxes
Now I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right.
If only we could eliminate the helium worms and the helium viruses, the human race wouldn’t need to deal with acidity or acid reflux anymore. I agree with you.
For this to happen, there are a few major hurdles that will need to be overcome in the next few decades.
Hurdles:
1. There is no medication to treat a helium worm
2. There is no medication to treat a helium virus
3. Helium isn’t even the conversation we are having
4. Finding these microorganisms is next to impossible
5. The solution to finding them–muscle testing–is not widely used or understood in this context
6. The solution to treating them–frequency therapy–isn’t used or understood either
In short, if we don’t understand that the problem stems from a parasite or virus unbalancing our helium, we won’t be in a position to quantify what the solution needs to be. Then, the paradox is that if we do realize it, we can’t do anything about it because there are no medicines to kill these microorganisms. Using resonant frequency to target them has its own multi-layered set of complexities, but it represents the only comprehensive solution and is the future of human healthcare.
So having read this article, now that you understand my proposed root cause of acid reflux, we’re back to square one. There is no widely available solution, so we might as well call it acid reflux.
For us to arrive at a solution for everyone, we need to start having a conversation about this issue.
The Conversation
Whether you realize it or not, the core question in trying to make a symptom go away is that of whether the symptom is caused by a parasite or a virus.
Understanding the chemistry of the symptom is more simple. In the above example, helium chemistry is at the root of acid reflux. There are only 96 elements that play a biological role and anyone can count to 96.
There are millions of sub-types of parasites and probably, millions of types of viruses. If we categorize all of these by their chemistry, we can narrow every question down to two parts: given the element that is being unbalanced in this equation, is a parasite doing it or a virus?
Thus once we know the element at the root of a given medical condition, the conversation (parasite or virus) is always the same. In some cases a third factor may apply (parasite, virus or bacteria), but more often than not the bacteria is excreted by the parasite and thus can be overlooked.
In a clinical setting, I have been observing for several months now that the symptom of acidity tends to resolve, partly or fully, with resonant frequency. Because my particular specialty is in using resonant frequency on parasites (not viruses), my working theory is that helium worms (not helium viruses) tend, more often than not, to cause acid reflux. There are exceptions to this because a virus can certainly do the same thing, and these exceptions would be the cases where parasites were treated but the core symptom persisted.
I will leave you with a page from my (unpublished) Book 4: Muscle Testing for Metal Toxicity. Pardon the blue lines, they are from the publishing software and mean that the book is still under construction.and 2 years late…
It would be a simple matter for someone with acidity to get muscle tested to see if something was interrupting their helium metabolism.
This is a better place to start than floating away on a helium balloon…
Larry
As a cheerful end to the story of Larry, he appealed his $4500 fine and got it reduced to $1500. He did a tour of the talk shows and his lawn chair was eventually donated to the Smithsonian Institute, where you can visit it today. His story may have been the inspiration for the 2009 Pixar movie Up. However nobody knows what happened to the helium balloons.