January 21, 2011
Acid Reflux Cough
If you have to clear your throat a lot during the day, you may have acid reflux cough.
I found there are several different types of coughs. One of the best ways to identify acid reflux cough from other coughs is by duration of the cough suffered by the patient.
According to studies done on acid reflux cough in children with chronic coughing, the coughing is less frequent than non reflux coughing.
Cough specialists have discovered that chronic coughing lasts longer than 8 weeks. Amazingly people who have had chronic coughing for many years can be cured by identifying and removing the root cause.
Acid reflux cough originates in the diaphragm and throat area, but not all coughing arises from the chest. Some types of coughing can originate from problems in other parts of the body.
If your cough lasts less than 8 weeks, it’s defined as acute rather than chronic and odds are it’s due to one of many viruses. It’s not unusual for the cough to persist even after the virus has gone.
If your acid reflux cough becomes chronic (lasting longer than 8 weeks) an X-ray will help determine if it really is an acid reflux cough or a cough triggered by something else.
Acid reflux happens to be the most common cause of chronic cough. Acid reflux cough may seem to suddenly appear for no real reason, but there is always an underlying development of factors leading up to it.
An acid reflux cough usually persists through the day and calms down and goes away in the evening and at bedtime hours. Apparently the Lower Esophageal Sphincter (LES), which is a valve at the bottom of your throat closes at night and then in the morning opens back up to release intestinal gases (burps).
The worst thing you can do if you suffer from an acid reflux cough is to eat a large meal late at night. It’s best to eat 3 hours before sleeping or at least a good hour and a half before. It seems acid reflux coughing is satisfied by constant eating, which ultimately causes further indigestion and more acid reflux.
Blocking stomach acid production calms the acid reflux cough for about 50% of the people, at least while they are taking the medicine . . . but it’s not a cure.
The other 50% most likely have a stomach acid deficiency, which can also cause acid reflux symptoms simply because food builds up and places pressure on the diaphragm and Lower Esophageal Sphincter (LES).
Leading experts agree the nutritional approach is a natural way to target the real cause of acid reflux cough for long term results, without drugs or drug side effects.
You were born to heal,
Todd M. Faass
Health Advocate
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January 6, 2011
Symptoms of Acid Reflux Disease
Acid reflux symptoms are your body/mind’s attempt to communicate with you to help prevent a possible disease from happening.
When you allow a state of stress, discomfort and dis-ease to consume your every waking moment it’s only because you stopped reading the writing on the wall.
Taking drugs to cover-up your body/mind’s signs and symptoms is no different than white-washing over that writing on the wall. The writing appeared upon this “proverbial wall” so you would take heed and pay attention to a message.
Symptoms of acid reflux disease are the same as clues to help you find the cause of your suffering. Think of that Intelligent Design which is your miraculous “biological you” and its having a communication issue with the distracted “worldly you.”
The worldly you is the part of you that’s kept distracted by all the clamor and clatter your 5 senses are constantly picking up from your “outer” environment. The symptoms of your acid reflux are a cry for help, a plea for you to pay attention to the goings on “within” you.
. . . So you’re too busy to listen to your own body/mind trying to tell you not to eat so late at night, trying to tell you certain foods don’t mix well, trying to tell you it’s on your side.
When you pop antacids to relieve your acid reflux symptoms you are telling your body/mind to shut-up. This isn’t a healthy relationship to have with your miraculous healing self.
It’s exactly this type of bad behavior that leads to your acid reflux symptoms getting worse until it’s a problem or disease.
If you had a crying baby would you put duct-tape over its mouth or would you care for it and find out why it is crying?
Silly question isn’t it?
Of course you would care for the child and if it didn’t cry out you would have never known it was time to change its diaper, feed it or just give the child some genuine love.
Overcoming your symptoms of acid reflux is easy when you use this same genuine care.
Acid reflux symptoms are your body/minds way of crying out to you and popping antacids and other chemicals to hide those symptoms is like duct-taping the crying baby.
Why are we taught to be so insensitive to our own needs?
It’s been said before that if you can’t love yourself first you can’t offer love to another. This is “the secret of the miraculous power of healing” . . . it’s called love thyself. It’s the best way to get to know you!
As you already know, you can only give what you already have . . .
Acid reflux symptoms are a cry for love. When you love someone you are willing to listen to them, right?
So why ignore your acid reflux symptoms? Why would you want to neglect the cry for help? Your inner intelligence is what keeps your 60,000,000,000 cells in the harmonious concert we call life, all it needs is your love and attention . . .
Obviously the cause of your dis-ease is the same cause of your acid reflux symptoms.
The cause of any disease is rooted in your losing touch with your inner own healing voice . . .
So be willing to listen to your own inner healer and perhaps one day you will be able to do more than help heal yourself of acid reflux symptoms and disease . . . perhaps someday you will help remind someone else they have the power to choose healing too.
You were born to heal,
Todd M. Faass
Health Advocate
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December 21, 2010
Symptoms Of Acid Reflux In Women
The symptoms of acid reflux in women are the same as the acid reflux symptoms for men. One outstanding difference is women tend to be more susceptible to nutritional deficiencies than men. This is most likely due to the fact that they can grow babies and men obviously do not.
The more nutrient deficient you are the more likely you’ll suffer from acid reflux, which is a double edge sword for women because suffering from acid reflux means you’re not absorbing enough nutrients from your food.
What many woman don’t understand about their acid reflux symptoms is that sometimes it’s because of a lack of stomach acid rather than an over production of it.
A woman’s body needs specific nutrients like calcium, vitamin D, folic acid, vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, magnesium, potassium, and fiber. Just as important, if not more so are the 72 trace minerals that help make nutrient absorption possible.
If you’re a woman and you suffer from acid reflux triggered from a stomach acid deficiency, you most likely are also suffering from a mineral deficiency as well.
Fortunately, you can get plenty of minerals and nutrients from following a Mediterranean-style diet. Not only do woman who eat a Mediterranean -style diet have less deficiencies and therefore less health problems like acid reflux, they actually live longer too. At least that’s what articles published in the British Medical Journal and the Archives of Internal Medicine show.
At the University of Athens, Greece, their medical school did a study with more than 70,000 women who didn’t have any major diseases like heart disease, stroke and cancer. All of them were over 60 years old and data was taken concerning their lifestyles and diets for 8 years.
Bottom line is a Mediterranean diet was linked to a significant reduction in mortality.
I challenge any woman to increase here quality of life by eating more naturally, like Mediterranean woman do and I’m sure you’ll find your acid reflux problems disappearing once and for all.
What does one have to do with the other? Based on my personal research, eating healthy naturally cures acid reflux in men and woman. The Standard American Diet (SAD) is a “sad” joke played upon the American people. I hope to soon publish the Healthy American Diet, which will be an improved version of the Atkins diet-stay tuned!
A focus on raw fruits, vegetables, legumes, low-fat dairy products, low intake of red meat, low intake of refined grains, and avoidance of fried foods meets the wide variety of nutrient needs for people suffering from acid reflux, whether a man or a woman.
Acid reflux caused from a stomach acid deficiency is a nutritional imbalance just as an acid reflux from an over-production of stomach acid is- both can be cured by eating a healthier more intelligent diet.
You were born to heal,
Todd M. Faass
Health Advocate
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December 16, 2010
Natural Cures for Acid Reflux Symptoms
Natural cures for acid reflux are safe, effective and have zero adverse affects, unlike the artificial acid reflux drugs so readily available today.
If all these expensive, patent-protected acid reflux drugs are so good for you then why do they have so many brands and why is acid reflux-related disease still so common?
Natural cures for acid reflux don?t need fancy labels and multi-million dollar research patents and they work with the natural curing processes already within your own body.
If the government sponsored the spending of billions of dollars promoting safe, affordable and effective natural acid reflux cures through the mainstream media like they do drugs, there wouldn?t be a acid reflux health problem in America like there is.
We have a big challenge before us all these days. People need to rise up and make a stand against government protected medicine and other big businesses that only have their share holder?s interests as their only concern.
It?s just not good for big business to promote natural cures for acid reflux or any other dis-ease Americans suffer from . . .there?s just too much money to be taken yet.
Controlling foods that cause acid reflux with government subsidies is another problem. Subsidies take your tax dollars and make acid reflux triggering foods cheaper and acid reflux curing foods more expensive.
If you?ve been paying attention lately now the special interest groups are lobbying for a Trojan horse food bill called S.510.
This will cost Americans billions in tax dollars and skyrocket the cost of natural cures found in fruits, vegetables and nuts, that are already ridiculously too expensive.
Acid reflux isn?t caused from paying attention to the corrupt activities of a greedy government administration or big business; even though they may want you to think that. Perhaps they want you to think that way for the same reasons they are trying to stop you from using natural cures for anything, not just acid reflux . . . to keep you chemically and emotionally dependent on their unnatural products and services.
Natural cures help us understand what Western medicine doesn?t want you to know; that your body uses food as medicine and that these natural laws are intelligible facts that reveal our amazing inner connection to the natural cures world.
Funny how just talking about acid reflux and natural cures can lead to a political and scientific revolution, but that?s how bad things have become. If our country?s health is in shambles and people of all ages are being told they need socialized medicine to afford to take their pills, then perhaps whoever is in charge of passing out natural cures better get darn busy.
Sadly, it?s illegal for you or me to sell a natural cure in the U.S. and if you advertise a natural cure the big government protection agencies will accuse you of selling drugs without a license. Hard to believe that something as simple as an apple can cure your acid reflux and is a proven natural cure, but did you know that according to U.S. drug laws ONLY a patented drug can claim to prevent, treat or cure acid reflux, or any dos-ease?
So cherish this Freedom information, do your own research and share what you find. I may not be able to make a living offering you natural apples to cure your acid reflux, but as far as I know I can still inform you about natural cures for acid reflux and other health issues drugs can?t cure.
You were born to heal,
Todd M. Faass?
Health Advocate
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