[JustSayNoToNannies]

Many times, heartburn and reflux are due to too little acid in the stomach.

I don't mean to be argumentative nor scientistic - but do you know if there's research to support that statement?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“do you know if there’s research to support that statement?”

I don’t know of any, but I haven’t looked into it. American doc gave me Prevacid, Chinese herb doc, rice wine vinegar. I think the thing that really helped was changing my diet. Tilting the bed made all the difference in the world as far as the “night chokes.” Hasn’t happened once since I did that.

[goodwithagun]

I have never researched it but my homeopathic doc suggested it and it works. As far as medical research goes, if their pills actually worked I wouldn't need to keep buying them. The pills do not cure the problem they simply mask the symptoms. A large bottle of Bragg's real apple cider vinegar with the mother is less than five bucks at vitacost.com and lasts me six months.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

While I was in residency training in medical school in the early 80s, an Australian physician named Dr. Barry Marshall did some pioneering work on acid reflux. He discovered that an organism called helicobacter pylori (initially called campylobacter) causes a chronic low-level inflammation of your stomach lining, and is responsible, or at least a major factor, for producing many of the symptoms of acid reflux.

There are over 16,000 articles supporting the fact that suppressing stomach acid does not treat the problem. It only treats the symptoms. And one of the explanations for this is that when you suppress the amount of acid in your stomach, you decrease your body’s ability to kill the helicobacter bacteria. So it actually makes your condition worse and perpetuates the problem.

Of course now we have treatments such as antibiotics that are designed to eradicate that organism. However, I’ve found that it’s virtually never necessary to use antibiotics, and I’ll share several simple, effective strategies to eliminate the helicobacter without the use of drugs - Dr. Mercola. Link