Are you taking an acid suppressing drug to help control your heartburn such as Nexium, Prilosec, Prevacid, or Protonix? These drugs are called Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs). Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) are medications that reduce stomach acid secretion to control symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). I mentioned in the previous post Five Reasons Why You Need Stomach […]
In the previous post- Five Reasons Why You Need Stomach Acid, we discussed why stomach acid is vitally necessary and that gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is usually due to having too little stomach acid rather than not enough. The physiological problem behind GERD is due to the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) relaxing at the wrong […]
You just finished a nice meal and here it goes again-that all too familiar feeling of a volcanic eruption about to happen. You try to drink some water but it feels like something is stuck in your throat. On top of that, you can’t stop burping and you really aren’t interested in reliving the meal […]
